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JA'HI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 
Natolia: fixteen miles north-north-eaftof Angura. 
JAHU'PICE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : forty-eight miles fouth-ealt of Braclaw. 
JAH'LEEL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'LEELITE,/ A defendant of Jahleel. 
JA'HMAI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'ZAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'ZEEL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAH'ZEELITE,/ A defcendant of Jahzeel. 
JAH'ZERAH, [Hebrew.] A.man’s name. 
JAHZI'EL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA1C ZA, a town of European Turkey, in Bofnia, with 
a cattle near the river Pliva:. twenty-fix miles fouth of 
Banjaluka, and twenty-five weft-north-welt of Serajo. 
JAIK. See Ural. 
JAIL, f. [geol, Fr.] A gaol; a prifon ; a place where 
criminals are confined. See Gaol. It is written either 
way ; but commonly by latter writers jail. —Adependant 
upon him paid fix thoufand pounds ready money, which, 
poor man, he lived to repent in a jail. Clarendon. 
He figh’d and turn’d his eyes, becaufe he knew 
’Twas b ut a larger jail he had in view. Dryden. 
JAIL-BIRD, f. One who has been in a jail. 
JAIL'ER,/. A gaoler; the keeper of a prifon.—Seek¬ 
ing many means to fpeak with her, and ever kept from 
it, a_s well becaule Hie fhunneth it, feeing and difdaining 
his mind, as becaufe of her jealous jailors. Sidney. 
Now Palamon, the pris’ner knight, 
Reftlefs for woe, arofe before the-light; 
And, with his jailor's leave, defired to breathe 
An air more welcome than the damp beneath. Dryden. 
JAIR, [Heb. my light. ] A man’s name. 
JAIR'ITE, f. A defcendant of Jair. 
JAI'RUS, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAK in JAK-'KO, a town of Africa, on the Ivory 
Coaft. 
JA'KA, a kingdom of Africa, 500 miles from the fea, 
with a capital of the fame name, on the fouth fide of the 
Senegal. 
JA'KA, a town and diftrift of Africa, on the Ivory 
Coaft. 
JA'KAN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'KEH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAKES, J. [Of uncertain etymology.] A houfe ofiof- 
fice.—I will tread this inbolted villain into mortar, and 
daub the walls oi jakes with him. Skakefpeare. 
Their fordid avarice rakes 
In excrements, and hires the very jakes. Dryden. 
JA'KIM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'KIN, a river of Africa, which feparates the coun¬ 
try of Ardra from Benin. 
JA'KIN, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Ardra, 
on the Slave Coaft, where the Englith and Dutch had 
factories, till they were driven away by the king of Da- 
homy.' 
JA'KOBSHAVN, a Danifh fettlement in Greenland. 
JAKOWI'ZINA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
©f Braclaw: thirty-fix miles north-north-weft of Braclaw. 
JA'LAC. See Ilak. 
JALALABAD', a town of Afia, in the country of Ca- 
bu], on the river Kameh : fixty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Cabul. 
JALAP, f. in botany and the materia medica, the root 
of a fpecies of Convolvulus, or bind-weed. See Convol¬ 
vulus, vol. v. p. 156. 
JAL'BACH, a town of Germany in the arch-duchy of 
Auftria: eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Laab. 
JA'LEA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 
Natolia : twelve miles fouth-weft of Adramiti. 
JALE'MUS,/ in antiquity, a kind of mournful fong, 
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ufed upon occafion of death, or any other affedting acci¬ 
dent. 
JA'LI, a town of the ifland of Borneo: feventy miles 
north of Negara. 
JALLAI'S, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Chollet: two leagues and a half north of Chollet, 
and four and a half weft of Vihiers. 
JALLIGNY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 1 
Le Donjon : five league fouth-eaft of Moulins, and three 
weft of Donjon. 
JALLINDAR', a town of Hindooftan, and capital of 
a diftrift of the fame name, in the country of Lahore ; 
thirty miles eaft of Lahore, and 224. north-weft of Delhi. 
Lat. 30. 50. N. Ion..74. 10. E. Greenwich. 
IAL'MENUS, a fon of Mars and Aftyoche, who went 
to the Trojan war, with thirty fhips, with his brother Af- 
calaphus. Homer. 
J ALOFF'S, a tribe of genuine negroes who inhabit the 
fouthern banks of the Senegal, as well as the country 
comprehended between this river and the Gambia. They 
are very black, handfome, of a fine ftature, and their fea¬ 
tures are not fo difagreeable as thofe of other nesu'oes. 
Some of them, particularly the women, have very regular 
features. They have the fame ideas of beauty with the 
Europeans ; for they are-fond of fine eyes, a finall mouth, 
thin lips, and a well-proportioned nofe ; they differ only 
with regard to the bafis of the piffure, a very black firming; 
colour being abfolutely necefiary to form a beauty ; their 
lkin is very fine and foft, and, abftrafting from colour, 
they have as beautiful women as are to be met with in 
any country in the world. Their females are lively, and 
extremely amorous; they are peculiarly fond of white 
men, whom they carefs with ardour, both to fatisfy them- 
felves, and in hopes of obtaining prefents. In their at¬ 
tachments, they meet with no reftraint from their huf- 
bands. But, though they offer their wives, daughters, 
and fifters, to ftrangers, and conceive their honour to be 
injured by a refufal, their jealoufy rifes to a high pitch 
when their wives tranfgrefs with men of their own nation. 
Thefe women, notwithftanding, have the tobacco-pipe 
perpetually m their mouths, and their lkin, when they 
are heated, has a difagreeable fmell, though it is not fo 
ltrong as that of other negroes. They love dancing to 
the found of the drum and calabalh. All their move¬ 
ments in thefe dances conlift of lafcivious and indecent 
poftures. They bathe often ; and file their teeth in 'or¬ 
der to render them more even. Molt of the young girls 
engrave figures of animais, flowers, &c. on their Ikins. 
Mr. Park relates the event of a religious war, which, 
as it difplays a generofity of ; chara&er very uncommon 
among favages, will afford pleafure to the minds of many 
of our readers. Almami Abdulkader, fovereign of a 
Mahomedan kingdom called Foota Torra, lent to Darnel, 
a king of the Jaloffs, an imperious meffage, commanding 
him and his. fubjefts to embrace inftantly the faith of the 
prophet. The ambaffador, having got admiffion to the 
prelence of Darnel, ordered fome Bulhreens (i. e. Maho¬ 
medan negroes) who accompanied him to- prefent the 
emblems of his million. Two knives were accordingly 
laid before the Jalorf prince, and the ambaffador explained 
himfelf as follows: 
“ With this knife (faid he) Abdulkader will condefcend 
to fliave the head of -Daniel, if Darnel will embrace the 
Mahomedan faith; and with this other knife,Abdulkader 
will cut the throat.of Darnel, if Darnel reful'es to embrace 
it. Take your choice.”—Darnel coolly told the-ambaffador 
that he had no choice to make : he neither chofe to have 
his head lhaved, nor his throat cut. And with this an- 
fwer the ambaffador was civilly difmiffed. 
Abdulkader took his meafures accordingly ; and with 
a powerful army invaded Darnel’s country. The inhabi¬ 
tant of the towns and villages filled up theirwells, de- 
- ftroyed 
