JAG 
gary and Bohemia) made a perpetual cefiion to king 
Frederic II. of the part of the principalities of Troppau 
and Jagerndorf lying on this fide of the Oppa, together 
with the diftrift of Katfcher formerly belonging to Mp- 
ravia. 
JAG'ERNDORF, or Karnowitz, a town of Silefia, 
and capital of a principality of the fame name, fituated 
on the Oppa, containing two churches and a convent: 
twelve miles north-weft of Troppau, ^.nd twenty weft of 
Ratibor. 
JA'GERSEURG, a town of Germany, in the Upper 
Rhine, and principality of Heffe Darmftadt: thirteen miles 
ibuth-fouth-weft of Darmftadt. 
7 b JAGG, v. a. [gagaw, flits or holes, Wellh.] To cut 
into indentures; to cut into teeth like thofe of a faw.— 
Some leaves are round, fome long, fome fquare, and many 
jagged on the fides. Bacon. 
JAGG,yi A protuberance or denticulation.—The figure 
of the leaves is divided into fo many jaggs or efcallops, 
and curioufly indented round the edges. Ray. 
JAG'GEDNESS, f. The ftate of being denticulated; 
unevennefs.—Firft draw rudely your leaves, making them 
plain, before you give them their veins or jaggednefs. 
Pcacham on Drawing. 
JAG'GERNAUTPORUM, or Cuckanara, a town of 
Hindooftan, in the circar of Rajamundry, celebrated for 
a grand pagoda, one of the principal objects of Hindoo 
veneration, and forming an excellent fea-mark for veflels 
failing in the Bay of Bengal; it is fituated a few miles to 
the eaft of Chilka lake : twenty-feven miles eaft of Raja- 
mundry. For the liiftory of the idol called Jaggernaut, 
fee the article Hindoostan, in this volume. 
JAG'GING,yi The aft of cutting with inequalities ; 
the inequality of the edge ; a denticulation. Bacon. 
JAG'GING-IRON,_/i An inftrument ufed by paftry- 
cooks'. 
JAG'GY, adj. Uneven; denticulated: 
His tow’ring creft was glorious to behold ; 
His (boulders and his fides were fcal’d with gold ; 
Three tongues he brandifli’d when he charg’d his foes ; 
His teeth ltood jaggy in three dreadful rows. Addifon. 
JAG'HAUS, a town of Germany, in the Tyrolefe: 
fourteen miles north-weft of Schwas. 
JAG'HIRE,yi [from the Perfia njaa, a place,and gherif- 
tun, to take.] An afiignment of the revenues of a diftrift 
to a fervant or dependant of government, who is hence 
called a jaghiredar. Jaghires are either mujhroot, condi¬ 
tional, or beiajhurt, unconditional; they are frequently al¬ 
lotted to perlons for their military fervices. 
JAGHIREDAR', f. The holder of a jaghire. 
JAGNE'VO, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Servia: eight miles fouth of Priftina. 
JA'GO (Richard), an ingenious poet, was vicar of 
Snitterfield in Warwickthire, and reftor of Kimcote in 
Leicefterfhire. He was the intimate friend and correfpon- 
dent of Shenftone, contemporary with him at Oxford, 
and, it is believed, his fchool-fellow; was of Univerfity 
College; took the degree of M.A. July 9, 1739; was 
author of feveral poems in the 4th and 5th volumes of 
Dodfley’s Poems; publi(hed a fermon, in 1755, on the 
Caufesof Impenitence confidered, preached May 4, 1755, 
at Harbury in Warwickthire, where he was vicar, on oc- 
cafion of a converfation faid to have palled betvteen one 
of the inhabitants and an apparition in the church-yard 
there; wrote Edge-hill, a poem, for which he obtained a 
large fubfcription in 1767; and was alfo author of Labour 
and Genius, 1768, 4to. of The Blackbirds, a beautiful 
elegy in the Adventurer; and of many other ingenious 
performances. He died May a8, 1781. 
JA'GO (St.) a river in the province of Chiametlan, in 
New Spain, which it is faid rifps in the lake Guadalajara, 
and empties into the North Pacific Ocean, by a mouth 
half a mile broad, and ten feet deep at low water. 
Vox. X. No. 700. 
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JA'GO, a large river of South America, which rifes in 
the audience of Quito, in Peru It is navigable, waters 
a fertile country, and falls into the South Sea. 
JA'GO, a handfome and confiderable town of South 
America, capital of Chili, with a good harbour, and a 
bilhop’s fee, and a royal audience. It is feated on a large 
beautiful plain, abounding in all the neceflaries of life, at 
the foot of the Cordillera de los Andes, on the river Ma- 
pocho, which runs acrofs it from eaft to weft. It is fub- 
jeft to earthquakes. The inhabitants are native Ameri¬ 
cans and Spaniards. It contains forty thoufand inhabi¬ 
tants according to Raynal, and carries on a confiderable 
trade with Buenos Ayres by land, 354 leagues diftant. 
Although above forty leagues of the way are amid ft the 
fnows and precipices of the Cordilleras, yet it is found 
fafer and cheaper to fend goods by this road than by fea. 
Lat.33.40. S. Ion. 69. 35. W. 
JA'GO, the largeft, moll populous and fertile, of the 
Cape Verde iflands, on the coalt of Africa, and the refi- 
dence of the Portuguefe viceroy. It lies about thirteen 
miles eaftward from the ifland of Mayo, and abounds with 
high barren mountains. Its produce is fugar, cotton, wine, 
and fome excellent fruits. The animals are black cattle, 
horfes, afles, deer, goats, hogs, civet-cats, and fome very 
pretty green monkeys with black faces. This place is 
reprefented by fir George Staunton as liable to long and 
exceftive droughts, for which no philofophical caule can 
be afligned. When the embafly to China touched at it 
in the latter end of 1792, it was in a ftate of abfolute fa¬ 
mine. Little or no rain had fallen for about three years 
before. The rivers were almoft all entirely dry. The 
furfaceof the earth was, in general, naked of any herbage. 
The greateft part of the cattle had perithed, not lefs 
through drought than want of food. Of the inhabitants 
many had migrated, and many were famifhed to death. 
Nor was this calamity peculiar to St. Jago. All the iflands 
of Cape de Verde were faid to have experienced the fame 
long drought, and to be confequently in a ftate of fimilar 
defolation. Yet the frequent fhowers which were ob- 
ferved by the firft navigators who touched at St. Jaga, 
induced them to give to the ifland the name of Pluivalis ; 
and no change had been obferved in the fteady cur¬ 
rent of wind, blowing from the eaft, which is common 
to tropical climates. “ What were the uncommon cir- 
cumftances (fays fir George) that took place in the at- 
mofphere of that part of Africa to which the Cape de 
Verde iflands lie contiguous, or in the vaft expanfe of 
continent extending to the eaft behind it, and from which 
this direful effeft muft have proceeded, as they happened 
where no man of fcience exifted to obferve or to record 
them, will therefore remain unknown; nor is theory bold 
enough to fupply the place of obfervation. Whatever 
was the caufe which thus arrefted the bountiful hand of 
Nature, by drawing away the fources of fertility, it was 
obfervable, that fome few trees and plants perfevered to 
flourifti with a luxuriance, indicating that they ftill could 
extraft from the arid earth whatever portion of humidity 
it was neceflary to derive from thence for the purpofe of 
vegetable life, though it was denied to others.” 
Befides the trees of the palm kind, which are often 
found verdant amidft burning fands, nothing, for example, 
could be more rich in flavour, or abound more with 
milky though corrofive juice, than the Afclepias gigantea, 
(tee Asclepias,) growing plentifully, about feven feet 
high, without culture, indeed, but undifturbed, it being 
of no avail to cut it down in favour of plants that would 
be ufeful, but required the aid of more moifture from the 
atmofphere. The Iatropha curcas, or phyfic-nut tree, 
which the French Weft Indians, with fome propriety, call 
bois immortel, and plant, on that account, in the bounda¬ 
ries of their eftates, appeared as if its perpetuity was not 
to be affedted by any drought. Some indigo-plants were 
ftill cultivated with fuccefs .in (haded vales, together with 
a few cotton-flirubs. Throughout the country fome of 
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