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convents, a commandery of the Teutonic order, and thlr- 
teen churches. The principarbufinefs carried on is po- 
liihing cryftals and precious, ftones: thirty-four miles 
I'outh-fouth-eult of Srrafbiirg, and thirty nortli-north-eaft 
of B.ile. Lat. 48. 2. N. Ion. 35. 34. E. Ferro. 
FRI'BURG, or Freyburg, called Frihurgm Uchland, 
to difHnguilh it from Frihurg in the BriJ'gau, a town of 
SwilTerland, and capital of a canton to wliich it gives 
name, built in 1179, by Berthold IV. duke of Zahringen, 
whofe uncle, Berthold III. had built a town of the fame 
name, in the Brifgau, and whofe fon, Berthold V. was 
the founder of Bern. Thefe princes, who are vicars of 
the empire in the provinces of the ancient kingdom of 
Burgundy, had great difficulty to fupport an auiliority 
always difputed by the grand vafl'als. In fadt, they pof- 
felfed only that part of the kingdom which lay to the 
weft of Mount Jura; and the circumftance of their being 
ftrangers made the nobility obey them with reludlance. 
It was therefore political wifdom in them to ftrengthen 
the part of the common people, to ferve as a counterpoife 
to the unruly ambition of the nobility. Thefe dukes 
gave their new towns charters, or bulls, on the model of 
the city of Cologne. Thus a great number of families 
of the inferior nobility and neighbouring inhabitants, 
went with joy to eftablifti themfelves in an afylum, which 
protedled them againft the tyranny of the greater barons, 
Berthold IV. granted to this F'riburg the fame privileges 
that his uncle had granted to Friburg in the Brifgau. 
After the houfe of Zahringen became extindl, by the 
death of Berthold V. in 1218, the two towns of Bern and 
I'riburg met with a different fate. Bern made an impor¬ 
tant ftep towards independence, in putting itfelf under 
tlie immediate protedtion of the empire. Friburg came 
under the power of count Ulrich, of Kiburg, who had 
tnarried the filter of the laft duke of Zahringen, without 
impeachment or derogation of their privileges. From 
the family of Kiburg it came into the pofft-ffion of the 
count of Flablburg, who was called to the empire, and 
became chief of the houfe of Aliftria, to which family 
it continued its attachment till the year 1449, when it put 
itfelf under the ptotedlion of the duke of Savoy, with 
refervation of its privileges and immunities. In 1481, it 
joined the grand confederacy, and became one of the 
cantons of SwilTerland. The length of the whole can¬ 
ton is about forty miles, and its breadth about twenty. 
It is almoft furrounded by the canton of Bern, except a 
narrow part which touches the lake of Neufchatel. The 
north-weft part of the country is more level than the reft, 
and produces abundance of corn and fruit ; the other 
parts are mountainous, but contain good paftures, which 
feed great herds of cattle. The cheefe made in this can¬ 
ton, particularly in the bailiwick of Gruyeres, is the belt 
produced in SwilTerland, and great quantities are exported 
to [*'ranee and other countries. In Tome places they cul¬ 
tivate vineyards and make wine. There are leyeral me¬ 
dicinal ipiings. The principal rivers are the Sanen, the 
Senfen, and the Broye, or Bruw. The inhabitants are 
Roman Catholics, under the bilhop of Laufanne, in num¬ 
ber 72,800, v/hich are divided into feven towns, and 103 
parilhes. The language of the inhabitants in the town 
of Friburg is principally German ; in the reft of the can¬ 
ton, partly German and partly Patois, which is a mixture 
of German and French. The town of Friburg is fituated 
on the Sanen, and almoft furrounded by it. Part of it is 
built on an elevated rock, pact of it in a deep valley, 
and towards the weft it occupies a fmall plain. The 
ftreets are irregular, fteep, clean, and tolerably wide; 
the houfes are well built, and fome of them handfome; 
there are feveral churches and convents. It is furround¬ 
ed with wails, towers, and lharp rocks. Friburg con¬ 
tains Ibme manufaifures, but none that are important. 
Sixteen miles fouth-weft of Bern, and twenty-feven north- 
eaft of Laufanne. Lat. 46. 50. N. Ion. 24. 40. E. Ferro. 
FRi'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up- 
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per Bavaria: eighteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Burk- 
haufen, and fifteen fouth-fouth-eaft of Brannau. 
FRI'BURG, or Freyburg, a town of Germany, be¬ 
longing to the electorate of Saxony, in Thuringia : five 
miles north of Naumburg. 
FRI'BURG l’EVE'QJJE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftrict of Dieuze; two leagues and a half weft of 
Sarburg, and two eaft of Dieuze. 
FRl'BUS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Eln- 
bogen ; nine miles weft of Joachimfthal. 
FRICAN'DOES, jC [^fricandeau, Fr.J In cookery, a 
fort of Scotch collops. 
FRIG ASSE'E, yi [French.] A difh made by cutting 
chickens or other fmall things in pieces, and dreffing them 
with ftrong fauce : 
Oh, how would Homer praife their dancing dogs, 
Their (linking cheefe, and fricajfee of frogs! 
He’d raife no fables, fing no flagrant lye. 
Of boys with cullard choak’d at Newberry. King. 
To FRICASSE'E, v.a. [from the noun.] To drefs 
in fricaffee : 
Sir-loins and rumps of beef offend my eyes. 
Pleas’d with frogs fricaj'eed. Bramjlon. 
FRIG A'TION, yi [yrfcflttb, Lat. ] The aft of rubbing 
one thing againft another.—Gentle frication draweth forth 
the nouriflrment, by making the parts a little hungry, 
and heating them : i\\\% frication I wifli to be done in the 
morning. Bacon. 
FRICEN'TI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Gitra; the fee of a bi- 
ihop, united with Avellino ; twelve miles north-weft of 
Conza. 
FRIGHE, or Frische (James du), a learned French 
benediftine monk of the congregation of St. Maur, borrj 
at Sees in Normandy, in 1641. He had diligently applied 
to literature before he embraced the eccleliaftical life, 
which was at the age of twenty-two ; and his fubfequent 
improvement was fuch, that his fuperiors confidered him 
as a proper perfon to be feledted for fuperintending fome 
of the noble editions of the fathers which they fent into 
the world. They fixed upon him to publifh from col¬ 
lated manufcripls the works of St. Ambrofe, and alTo- 
ciated with him in this tafk father Nicholas de Nourri, 
known to the learned world by other valuable works. 
This edition of St. Ambrofe was publilhed at Paris, in 
two volumes, folio; the firft in 1686, and the fecond in 
1690 ; both enriched with notes, various readings, re- 
marks, &c. When this work was completed, father 
Friche was employed to prepare for the prefs a new edi¬ 
tion of the works of St. Gregory Nazianzen ; but he 
had fcarcely formed his plan, before his labours were ter¬ 
minated by his death, which took place at Paris in 1693, 
when about fifty-two years of age. He was alfo the au¬ 
thor of The Life of St. Aiiguftine, prefixed to the bene- 
diftine edition of the works of that father, in writing 
which he had availed himfelf of the affillance of father 
Hughes Vaillant. 
FRIG'TION, y. \^fri 6 lion,YT, JriBio, irom /r/co, Lat.] 
The aft of rubbing two bodies together.—Do not all bo¬ 
dies which abound with terreftrial parts, and efpecially 
with fulphureous ones, emit light as often as thofe parts 
are fufficiently agitated, whether the agitation be made 
by Ireat, friBion, percuflion, putrefaftion, or by any vital 
motion r Newton. —The refiftance in machines caufed by 
the motion of one body upon another. Medical rubbing 
with the flelh-bruffi, or cloths.— FriBions make the 
parts more flethy and full, as we fee both in men and in 
the currying of horfes; for that they draw a greater 
quantity of fpirits to the parts. Bacon. 
The phenomena arifing from the friflion of divers bo¬ 
dies, under dilferent circumftances, are very numerous 
and 
