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country will require new loans, and a new debt will pro¬ 
bably be accumulated equal in amount to the prefenc. 
—How is this to be dilpofed of?—What are the funds 
by which it is to be difcharged ?” We (hail anlwer tlie 
foregoing queries by explaining tlie provifion for future 
debts, whicli was alfo pointed out by Dr. Price, and 
wliicli has been adopted by the legiflature. In 1792 it 
was enadlcd, that on all future loans a fum equal to one 
per cent, on the dock created by fuch loans Ihould be 
added to the finking-fund as a provifion for their gradual 
and fucceffive redemption. This appropriation of one 
per cent, on every loan at the aforefaid increafe of 5 per 
cent, amounts to tool, in 37 years, or at 4 per cent, in- 
terefl, in lefs than 42 ye..rs. Therefore, whatever ad¬ 
dition is tnade to the debt every year, if fucb a fund of 
one per cent, be regulaily and facredly allotted for its 
redemption, the total of tliat portion of debt muft in 37 
or 42 years be difcliarged. See National Debt, Re¬ 
venue, Stocks, and Taxes. 
FUN'DAMENT, yi \_Jupdamentmn, Lat.] The back 
part of the body,—They threw him on tlie bed, thriill; 
into h\s, fundament a red hot iron. Hume. 
FUNDAMEN'TAL, adj. fundamcntalis, 'Lz.t.'] Serv¬ 
ing for the foundation ; that upon whicli the red is built ; 
edential ; important; not merely accidental.—Gain ibme 
general and fundamental truths, both in philolophy, in 
religion, and in human life. IValts. 
Such we find they are, as can controul 
The fei vile aftions of our wav’ring foul. 
Can friglit, can alter, or can chain the will ; 
Their ills ail built on life, that fundamental \\\. Prior. 
FUNDAMEN'TAL, f. Leading propofition; impor- 
tant and elFential part which is tlie groundwork of the 
red.—It is a very jud reproach, that there Ihould be fo 
much violence iind hatred in religious matters among men 
wlio agree in all fundamentals, and only differ in fome ce¬ 
remonies, or mere fpeculative points. Swift. 
FUNDAMEN'TALLY, adv. Elfentially; originally. 
—As virtue is feated fundamentally in the intellect:, I'o per- 
fpetffively in the fancy ; fo that virtue is the force of 
reafon, in the condu6t of our aflions and padions to a 
good end. Grew. 
FUNDAMEN'TALNESS, yi The date of being fun¬ 
damental, Scott. 
FUNDAMEN'TALS, in mufic. See the article 
Music. 
FLINDA'ON, a town of Portugal, in tlie province of 
Beira : tw'enty-two miles wed of Alfayates. 
FUN'DI, in ancient geograpliy, a town of Latiiini, 
iiearCajeta, on tlie Appian road, at the bottom of a bay 
called Lacus Fundanus, or Bay of Fundi. It enjoyed all 
the privileges of Roman citizens, e.xceptthe right of fuf- 
frage and of magidracy. Now Fondi, a city of Naples, 
on the confines of the pope’s dominions. Lat, 41. 35. N. 
Ion. 14. 20. E. 
FUNDI'BLE, \_ Jundo, I.at. to pour out.] Capable 
of being poured. Johnfon. Not muck ufed. 
FUN'DO, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Moldavia ; forty-four miles wed-north-wed of Birlat. 
FUN'DUS,y. [Latin.} A bottom, the lowed part, a 
cavity. Scott. 
FUN'DY, a large bay in North America, which opens 
between the iflands in Penobfeot bay, in Lincoln county, 
Maine, and Cape Sable, the fouth-wedern point of Nova- 
Scotia. It extends about 200 miles in a iiorth-ead direc¬ 
tion ; and with Verte bay, which pudies into the land in 
a fouth-wed direction from the draits of Northumberland, 
forms a very narrow idlimiis, which unites Nova-Scotia 
to the continent; and where the divifion line runs between 
that province and New-Brunfwick. From its mouth up 
to Padamaquoddy bay, on its north-wed fide, lituated be¬ 
tween the province ofjNew-Brunfwick and the didridt of 
Maine, are a number of bays and iflands on both fides, 
FUN 
and thus far it contrafts its breadth gradually, Tt is 
tw'elve leagues acrofs from St. John’s, in New-Brunf- 
wick, to the Gut of Annapolis, in Nova-Scotia ; where 
the tides are rapid, and rile thirty feet. Above this it 
preferves nearly an equal breadth, until its waters are 
formed info two arms, by a peninfula, the vvedern point 
of which is called Cape Chi'ineclo. At the head of tlie 
north-eadern arm, called" C/iigneSo channel, which, with 
bay Verte forms the idhmiis, the tides rife fixty feet. In 
the Bafin of Minas, which is the ead arm or branch of 
this bay, the tides rife forty feet. Thefe tides are fo ra¬ 
pid as to overtake animals feeding on tlx lliore. 
FUNE'BRAL, and FUNEBROUS, adj. [funebris. Lat. 
mournful.] Belonging to a funeral, doleful, difmal, 
Scott. ■ Not much ujed. 
FU'NEN, or Fven, an ifland of Denmark, at the en¬ 
trance of the Baltic, nearly of an oval form, with fome 
irregularities, extending from north to foutli about thirty- 
five miles, ead to wed about tliiriy. It is a fertile and a 
pleafant ifland : mod of the Danilh nobifliy liave feats 
here. The fo 1 yields great crops of corn, fo that near 
100,000 barrels'are annually exported to Norway and 
Sweden, exclufive of tlie confuinption at home. The 
inhabitants keep a great number of bees, and w ith tlie 
honey produced make mead, which forms a confiderable 
article of trade, being fent fo every part of the kingdom. 
Here are feveral lakes and rivers, abounding in fifli, but 
none navigable ; great quaniities of cod, herrings, tur- 
bots-j and other fidi, are caught in the bays along the 
coad. Odenfee is the capital. Lat. 55. 7, to 55.‘42. N. 
Ion. 9. 40. to 10. 50. E. Greenwich. 
FU'NERAL, y. \_ funus, \: 6 .\. funera'tlles, Yx The fo- 
lemnization of a burial ; the payment of the lad honours 
to the dead ; obfequies.—He that had cad out many un¬ 
buried, had none to mourn for him, nor any folemn fu. 
nerals, nor fepulchre witli liis fa;hers. 2 Mac.v. 10. 
Here, under leave of Brutus, and the red. 
Come I to fpeak in Caefar’s funeral. Skakefpeare. 
Tlie pomp or proceffion with which the dead are carried. 
—You are fometimes defirous to fee a funeral pafs by in 
the dreet, Swft. —Burial ; interment : 
May he find hi? funeral 
I’*tli’ fands, when he before his day fliall fall. Denham. 
FU'NERAL, adj. Ufed at the ceremony of interring 
the dead ; 
Our indruments to melancholy bells. 
Our wedding clieer to a fad Junetal fead. Skakefpeare. 
Thy hands o’er towns \.\\ofuneral torch difplays. 
And forms a thoufand ills ten thoufand ways. Drydcn. 
FU'NERAL RITES, ceremonies, which ufually ac¬ 
company the interment of the dead.—Thefe rites dif¬ 
fered among the ancients, according to tlie genius and 
religion of different countries, The-fird people who 
feem to have paid any particular refpedt to their dead, 
were the poderity of Ham. The fird cultivators of ido. 
latrous wordiip and fuperditioii after the flood j they 
were alfo the fird who afferted the migration of the foul 
into all kinds of animals in earth, air, and fea, and its re¬ 
turn to the human body; which they fuppofed to be 
within the term of 3000 years. Hence proceeded the 
very great care in embalming of dead bodies, and the 
vad expence of providing maufoleums or repofitories 
for them. This alfo gave birth to thofe wonders of the 
world, the pyramids of Egypt, which were built to re¬ 
ceive the dead bodies of kings. Whenever a perfon 
died among the Egyptians, his parents and friends put 
on mournful habits, and abftained from all banquets and 
entertainments. This mourning laded from forty to 
feventy days, during which time they embalmed the 
body. See the article Egypt, vol. vi. p. 352. 
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