712 JAY 
IAX AR'TES, now Sir or Sii/on, a river of Sogdiana, 
miftaken by Alexander for the Tanais. It falls into the 
eaft of the Cafpian lea. 
JAXT, or YaXt, a river of Germany, which runs into 
the Neckar near Wimpfen. 
JAXT'BERG, or Yatxberg, a town of Germany, in 
Franconia, and bilhopric of Wurzburg: thirty-one miles 
fouth.of Wurzburg, and fix fouth of Mergentheim. 
JAY, f. [named from his cry. Skinner.'] A bird. See 
Corvus. —I am highly delighted to fee the jay or the 
thruih hopping about my walks. Spectator. 
Admires th ejay, the infeed’s gilded wings. 
Or hears the hawk, when Philomela fings. Pope. 
JAY (Guy-Michaal le), a learned advocate of the parli¬ 
ament of Paris, who flourilhed in the feventeenth century. 
He was profoundly (killed in the oriental languages, and 
formed the noble defign, when the copies of the Polyglott 
of Antwerp were becoming fcarce, of publilhing a fimilar 
work, on a larger plan, and at his own expence. This 
defign he was enabled to carry into execution, though 
with the ruin of his fortune. He might have been reim- 
burfed his expences, however, and all'o received an ample 
compenfation for his labours, if he would have permitted 
it to appear under the name of cardinal Richlieu, who 
was jealous of the reputation which cardinal Ximenes had 
acquired by patronifing the famous Spanifii Polyglott; 
but M. le Jay chofe to referve to himfelf all the glory of 
the undertaking. Being now poor and a widower, he 
embraced the ecclefiaftical life, and obtained the fmall 
deanery of Vezelay, in the Nivernois. The income arif- 
ing from this benefice, and the inadequate fums which he 
received from the fale of his work, were his only means 
of fubfillence till fome years afterwards, when cardinal 
Mazarine made him a prefentof nineteen thoufand livres. 
The king, likewife as a reward of his zeal and difinterefted- 
nefs, granted him letters of nobility, and a brevet of coun- 
fellor of Hate. He died in the year 1675, but at what age 
we are not informed. The Polyglott of M. lejay is in ten 
very large folio volumes, which w'ere publilhed at differ¬ 
ent periods from 1628 to 164.5, It is a beautiful work in 
point of typography,, but is too bulky to be ufed with 
■convenience. This edition of the Bible contains the Sy¬ 
riac and the Arabic verfions, with their Latin tranflations 
and the Hebrew Samaritan text of the Pentateuch, with 
the Samaritan tranflatiort. of the fame in Samaritan cha¬ 
racters, which are not in the Polyglott of Ximenes. It 
is a curious circumftance, that, notwithftanding all the la¬ 
bour and expence which M. le Jay had bellowed on this 
work, he fhouid, in his general preface, make ufe of lan¬ 
guage, from which readers who concur with him in opi¬ 
nion mull pronounce his undertaking to have been at 
lead entirely ufelefs. For he there maintains, that of all 
the Bibles we ought at prefent to receive only the anci¬ 
ent Latin tranflation, which alone, he concludes, we ought 
to confult when we meet with any difficulties. If, as fa¬ 
ther Simon-pertinently remarks, this was M. le Jay’s per- 
fuafion, he certainly was to blame in ruining himfelf by 
printing a Bible containing fo many different texts ; he 
ought only to have printed the vulgate editiqn, which, 
acccording to him, is the true original by which we 
ought to regulate the Hebrew text. The high price at 
which this work v/as offered for fale in England, induced 
Walton to form his ficheme of pu-blifhing a Polyglott Bi¬ 
ble which, though lels beautiful, is more complete and 
commodious than our author’s. 
JAY, a townlhip in Cumberland county, diltri£t of 
Maine, lately incorporated ; and thus named in honour 
of John Jay, governor of the Hate of New York. 
JAY’s VAL'LEY, a fettlement in the town of Katt- 
Ikill, date of New York, formerly called Minor Kill. This 
name was changed in honour of the prefent governor of 
New York. 
JAY'NA, a canton, parilh, and river, on the fouth fide 
of the idand of St. Domingo. The rivers Nigua and Jay- 
tia are about four leagues apart; and between them lies 
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an extenfive and fertile plain, which was originally an 
abundant fource of riches to the colonids. The quantity 
of pure gold that was dug from its cavities, its fugar, co¬ 
coa, indigo, and other plantations; paid duties to a greater 
amount than thofe paid by all the'.Spanilh part of the ifland 
put together. It was in this territory, and on the river Jay- 
na, that the famous lump of gold wa3 found, which the Spa- 
niffi writers fay weighed 3600 Spaniffi dollars; without 
mentioning many others of aremarkable fize. The fettle- 
ments Gamboa, Guayabal, Bonaventura, and Cagnabola, 
which lad was formerly called the Whale, are very incon- 
fiderable; the whole employment of the people is breed- 
ing of cattle, or the walhing of gold fand. Indigo grows 
wild here. The river Jayna is not fordable; it is crolfed 
in canoes and Ikins at 250 fathoms from its mouth ; and 
the animals are obliged to fwim acrofs it. The coad ly¬ 
ing between Jayna and St. Domingo is of rock, almod 
perpendicular, in general from fix to fifteen feet high. 
Oppolite this coall are a number of Ihoals, each of about 
forty fathoms wide. Towards the fource of this river 
were the celebrated gold mines of St. Chridopher’s, near 
which Columbus erected the fort of that name. There 
are alfo rich filver-min.es- on this river. The edablilh- 
ments in the plain of St. Rofe, and thofe on the Jayna, 
ought to be looked upon as depending on the city of St. 
Domingo. They are reckoned to contain 2000 perfons ; 
for the mod part people of colour, free and (laves. 
JAYPOU'R, a town of Hindoodan, in the country of 
Orilfa : 400 miles fouth-fouth-wed of Patna, and 192 wed- 
fouth-welt of Cattack. Lat. 19.5.N. Ion. 82.48. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
JAYS'PIZ, a town of Moravia, in Znaym : twelve 
miles w'ed-fouth-wdt of Crumau. 
JA'ZAR, the name of a olace. 1 Mac. 
JA'ZER, [Heb. help.] A didrift in the land of IfraeL 
JAZI'EL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JA'ZIR, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
I'BACH, a river of Germany, in the Brilgau, which 
runs into the Elz near Simonfwald. 
IB'A LI, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Macedonia, fituated near Drino Nero : fixty miles- 
north-north-wed of Akrida. 
IBAMETA'RA, f. in botany. See Spondtas. 
I'BAR, or Hibar, a town of European Turkey, ire 
Servia : ten miles north of Novi-bafar. 
I'BAR, or Hibar, a river of European Turkey, which 
runs into the Morava twenty miles north of Precop. 
I'BAS, bilhop of Edeifa in the fifth century, and fa¬ 
mous in ecclefiaftical hidory on account of the oppofite 
decifions concerning his orthodoxy, pronounced by the 
fourth and fifth general councils. He was a Syrian by 
nation, ( and appears to have been defied to the fee of 
Edeifa about the year 436. While he was a'prelbyter of 
that church, he wrote a letter to one Maris,, a Perfian, 
concerning the council of Ephefus, and the condemnation 
of Nedorius, in which he was thought, not without rea- 
fon, to favour the Nedorian doctrine. Several years after 
he had been made bilhop of Edeifa, having for fome rea- 
fons excommunicated four prelbyters of his church, they 
revived againdhim the charge of Neflorianifm. In order 
to edablilh this charge, they accufed him of pronouncing 
an anathema againlt Cyril, hilhop of Alexandria, and 
branding him with herely; and of having laid in one of 
his public difcourfes, “I do not envy Jefus Chrilt his di¬ 
vinity, fince L can alfo become divine, as he is of the 
fame nature with myfelf.” The matter was inveftigated 
in two fynods held during the year 448, one at Tyre, and 
the other at Berytus, in which Ibas drenuoully denied 
that he had made ufe of any fuch expreffion concerning 
Chrilt, as his enemies pretended. With refpeft to the 
anathema which he had pronounced againlt Cyril, he re¬ 
minded his judges that it had been delivered before the 
peace had taken place between the ealtern bilhops and 
that prelate,, but maintained that fince that time a perfeft 
agreement had fubfilted between them. After hearing 
both parties, the judges pronounced Ibas not guilty of the 
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