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Hate of population, it is polfible that its navigation may 
a'fo be made to interlock with that of the Patowmac ; 
and through that to communicate by a ftiort portage with 
the Ohio. 
JAMES TOW-N, formerly the metropolis of Virginia, 
and county-town of James City county. In 1777 it had 
but one family. The church and other buildings' are 
mouldering to ruins. It rs the olc'eft town in the fettle- 
ments formed by the Englilh in North America. It is 
fituated on a peninfula, on the north Side of James’s river, 
thirty-two miles from Point Comfort, at the mouth of 
the river in Chelapeak Bay. It is eight miles fouth-louth- 
weft of Williamlburgh, and lxxty-eight fouth-ealt by eall 
of Richmond. Lat. 37. 9. N. 
JAMES’s TOWN, in the i 11 and of Barbadoes, in the 
Weft Indies, is fituated in St. James’s parifh, on the weft 
f;de of the illand. 
JAWES-TOWN, a borough and fair-town of Ireland, 
in the county of Leitrim, and province of Connaught; 
fituated five miles north-weft of Carrick on Shannon, 
and feventy-three north-weft of Dublin. Lat. 53.44. N. 
Ion. 8. 15. W. 
JAM'ESONE (George), an excellent painter, juftly 
termed the Vandyke of Scotland, was the fon of Andrew 
Jamefone, an architeft; and was bom at Aberdeen in 
3586. He ftudied under Rubens at Antwerp; and, af¬ 
ter his return, applied with indefatigable induftry to por¬ 
traits in oil, though he fometimes praftifed in miniature, 
and aifo in hiftpry and landfcape. His largeft portraits 
were fomewhat lefs than life. His excellence is faid to 
confift in delicacy and foftnefs, with a clear and beauti¬ 
ful colouring; his fliades not charged, but helped by 
varnifh, with little appearance of the pencil. When king 
Charles I. vifited Scotland in 1633, the magiftrates of 
Edinburgh, knowing his majefty’s tafte, employed this ar- 
tift to make drawings of the Scottifli monarchs ; with 
which the king was fo pleafed, that, inquiring for the 
painter, he fat to him, and rewarded him with a diamond¬ 
ring from his own finger. It is oblervable, that Jame¬ 
fone always drew himfelf with his hat on, either in imi¬ 
tation of his rnafter Rubens, or on having been indulged 
in that liberty by the king when he fat to him. Many of 
Jamefone’s works are in both the colleges of Aberdeen; 
and the Sybils there, he is faid to have drawn from living 
beauties in that city. His belt works are from the year 
1630 to his death, which happened at Edinburgh in 1644. 
JAM'ETZ, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Ste- 
nay : two leagues and half fouth-eaft of Stenay, and one 
and three quarters fouth of Montmedy. 
JA'MEZ, or Yam, a town of Africa, in the kingdom 
of Fonia. 
JAM'JA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Blek- 
ingen : nine miles eall Carlfcrona. 
IAM'IDyE, certain prophets among the Greeks, de- 
fcended from Iamus, a fon of Apollo, who received the 
gift of prophecy from his father, which’ remained among 
his pofterity. Panfanias. 
JA/MIN, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAM'INITE, f. A defcendant of Jamin. 
JAMTECH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JAM'MA GO'BA. See Phytolacca. 
JAM'MING,yi The aft of inclofing any thing between 
two bodies fo as to render it immoveable. 
JAM'NEY, a town of Bohemia, in Chrudim: feventeen 
miles north-eaft of Lcutmifchl. 
[AM'NIA, the name of a place. 1 Mac. 
JAM'NING, a mountain of Germany, in Upper Car- 
rfiola : three miles fouth of Retmanfdorf. 
JAM ; NITE,y.' A native of Jamnia, an inhabitant of 
Jamnia. 2 Mac. 
JAM'NITZ, a town of Moravia, in Znaym: nine miles 
weft of Budwiz. 
JAMOUR 7 , a river of Africa, in the country of Benin, 
©thenvife called Camarones. 
J A N 
JATvI'SIO, a towm of Sweden, in the province of Blek- 
ingen : thirty-two miles weft of Carlfcrona. 
JAMT'LAND, a province of Sweden, bordering on 
Norway, nearly of a circular form, about feventy miles 
in length, and fixty in breadth, annexed to the crown of 
Sweden by the treaty of Rofchild, in the year 1658. It 
is in general a mountainous country, but the hills differ 
extremely from each other in appearance. The weftern 
part of this province is over-run with vaft craggy rocks 
and high mountains, which lie on the frontiers of Nor¬ 
way ; and between thefe are deep valleys and rapid tor¬ 
rents. However, in fome fpots among the mountains, 
which are frequently covered with fnow, one meets with 
fine verdure, and plenty of nutritive paftures. In thefe 
parts the inhabitants houfe their cattle, even in fummer 
time ; and thus never fail of breeding fine cows, whole 
milk yields excellent butter ; and yet they purchafe beef 
and tallow from Norway. The eaftern part of Jamtland 
is a champaign country, watered with feveral lakes and 
rivers, which abound with fifn. And fucli is the fertility 
of fome fpots of laud in thefe parts, that in a good year, 
when the corn has not been nipt by the froft, the neigh¬ 
bouring provinces are fupplied with grain from hence. 
Barley is the grain that is moftly fown here l they alfo fow 
a confiderable quantity of rye, and fome wheat. This 
country produces oats of an extraordinary goodnels, and 
abounds in excelled! turnips. Sometimes, indeed, the 
feverity of the froft caufes a fcarcity of corn, and then 
the Jamtlanders are obliged to make bread of the pounded 
bark of trees; the rye-bread being referved for feftivals. 
In this province many hands are employed in extracting 
iron from a kind of iron-ore, refembling lrnall ftones, 
which are collefted in fenny places. Here are alfo alum- 
quarries, a white and porous calx, or chalky earth, fand- 
ftone, Hate, the lapis ollarius, fine rock-cryftals, lead-ore, 
two new-built copper-works, and a place where faltpetre 
is refined. That this country is very thinly inhabited, 
is evident from hence : that there are only fix places 
where divine fervice is performed every Sunday; that in 
fome churches it is celebrated every other Sunday, and in 
others only every third Sunday ; and that in all the reft 
the congregations affemble but three or four times in a 
year. There is not fo much as one town in Jamtland, 
and only eleven parilhes, in which forty-fix churches are 
erefted. In all thefe parilhes there are but feven hundred 
and feventeen chimneys. The inhabitants, for the molt 
part, fubfift by agriculture, grazing, hunting, and filliing. 
They alfo carry on a confiderable trade with the Norwe¬ 
gians, whom they fupply with falt-pans, fteel, and iron¬ 
ware, and a kind of leather, drelfed in a particular man¬ 
ner, fo as entirely to keep out the water; of which they 
make Ihoes, boots, and even jackets, that are proof againlt 
wet. Every peafant is obliged to contribute towards the 
fubfiftence of the foldiery; fo that this country maintains 
a regiment of foot, or, according to others, of dragoons, 
at the expence of 31,609 dollars, and a troop of liorfe,. 
the charge of which is 6210 dollars. 
JAMULMURAG 7 , a town of Hindooftan, in the cir~ 
car of Cuddapa : five miles north-eaft of Gandicotta. 
JA'MYN (Amadis), a celebrated French poet in the 
16th century. He is efteemed the rival of llonfard, who 
was his cotemporary and friend. He was fecretary and 
chamber-reader in ordinary to Charles IX. and died about- 
1585. He wrote, 1. Poetical Works, 2 vols. 3. Philo- 
fophical Difcourfes to Paficharis andRodanthe, with feven 
academical difcourfes. 3. A tranllation of the Iliad of 
Plomer, begun by Hugh Sabel, and finilhed by Jamyn ; 
with a tranllation into French verfe of the three firft books 
of the Odylfey. 
JA'NA, one of the names of Diana. 
JANAGUR 7 , a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Guzerat : 100 miles weft of Amedabad. Lat.- 23. 30. N. 
Ion. 70. 56. E. Greenwich. 
JAN'DLSPRUNN, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
duchy of Auftria ; eight miles north-weft of Aigen. 
JAN'DUN, 
