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to God; but, on the contrary, an abominable crime, that 
might, notwitliftanding, have proceeded from a miflaken 
principle of religion. 
JEPHUN'NAH, [Heb. one that beholds.] A man’s 
name. 
JERAA'DO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Tu¬ 
nis, remarkable only for the ruins of an aqueduct, cit¬ 
terns, &c. twenty-fix miles fouth of Tunis. 
JERAAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : forty leagues welt of Zareng. 
JER'AMEEL, [Hebrew ] The name of a man. 
JE'RAH, [Heb. a mouth.] A map’s name. 
JERAHMEEL'ITE, f A defcendant of Jerahmeel. 
JERBO'A, [ See Dipus, vol. v. p. 853. 
JERBOSA'JA, a town of Africa, in the country of 
Quoja. 
jER'DECKER, a river of Hindooltan, which runs into 
the Burhampooter River twenty-eight miles foutlr-weft 
of Rangamatty. 
JE'RE MOUN'TAlNS, mountains of United America, 
the Tennaifee government. 
jE'RED, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JERE'JA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Fonia. 
JEREMA'I, [ Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JER'EMEEL, [Heb. the mercy of God.] A man’s 
name, 
JEREMI'AH. This divine writer was of the race of 
the prielts, the fon of Hilkiah of Anathoth, of the tribe 
of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when 
very young, about the 13th year of Jofiah, and continued 
in the dilcharge of it about forty years. He was not car¬ 
ried captive to Babylon with the other Jews, but re¬ 
mained in Judea to lament the defolation of his country. 
He was afterwards a prifoner in Egypt with his dilciple 
Baruch, where it is fuppofed he died in a very advanced 
age. Some of the Chviftian fathers tell us he was Itoned 
to death by the Jews, for preaching againft their idolatry ; 
and fome fay he was put to death by Pharaoh Hophrah, 
becaufe of his prophecy .againft him. Part of the prophecy 
of Jeremiah relates to the time after the captivity of II- 
rael, and before that of Judah, from the firft chapter to 
the 44th; and part of it was in the time of the latter cap¬ 
tivity, from the 44th chapter to the end. The prophet 
lays open the fins of Judah with great freedom and bold- 
nefs, and reminds them of the fevere judgments which 
had befallen the ten tribes for the lame offences. He paf- 
.fionately laments their misfortune, and recommends a 
fipeedy reformation to them. Afterwards he predicts the 
grievous calamities that were approaching, particularly 
the feventy.years captivity in Chaldea. He likewife fore- 
■tels their deliveranceand happy return, and the recompence 
which Babylon, Moab, and other enemies of the Jews, 
ffiould meet with in due time. There are likewife feveral 
intimations in this prophecy concerning the kingdom of 
the Meffiah ; alfo many remarkable vifions, and types, 
and hiftorical paflages, relating to thole times. The 5id 
chapter does not belong to the prophecy of Jeremiah, 
which probably was added by Ezra, and contains a nar¬ 
rative of the taking of Jerufalem, and of what happened 
during the captivity of the Jew's, to the death cf Jechonias. 
St.Jercme has obferved upon this prophet, that his ftyle 
. is more eafy than that of Ifaiah and Hofea; that he retains 
foinething of the rufticity of the village where he was 
born; but that he. is very learned and majeftic, and equal 
to thofe two prophets in the fenfe of his prophecy. 
JEREMI'E, a jurifdiftion, town, and cape, within the 
bite or bay of Leogane, and on the fouthern peninlula of 
the illand of St. Domingo. This is the welternmoft iu- 
rildi&ion of the illand, contains two. parilhes, and is cele¬ 
brated for the excellency of its foil, but particularly for 
the culture of coffee. Its exports from January 1, 1789, 
to December 31, of the fame year, were as follow: 14101b. 
white fugar, 147,7601b. brown fugar, 5,440,646'lb. coffee, 
54,7B6II1. cotton, 5981b. indigo; and various articles to the 
■.vaiue'.of 197,000 livres. The exportation-duty on tkefe 
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prod unions amounted to 13,318 dollars fix cents. The 
town Hands on the weft fide of the bay and at the mouth of 
a brook, a league fouth by weft of Point Jeremie, eleven 
due north of Port a Piment on the fouth fide of the pe- 
ninfula, and nearly eight leagues eaft of Cape Dame Marie; 
Point Jeremie lies in lat. 18. 41. 30. N. Ion. 76. 32. W. from 
Paris. 
JER'EMOTH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JER'EMY, a man’s name. 
JEREMYSQUAM', an ifiand of the American States, in 
Lincoln.county, di ft lift of Maine, which, wfith Folly Illand, 
form the mouth of Sheepfcott river in Wifcaffet Bay. 
JERF, a towm of Norwegian Lapland : 200 miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Wardhuys. 
JER'GUER, or Jerouer, J. An officer of the cuftom» 
houfe who fuperintends the waiters. Phillips. 
JERI'AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JERIBA'I, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JER'ICHO, an ancient town of Afia, in Paleftine; for¬ 
merly celebrated for the number of palm-trees growing 
near it, and on that account called the City of Palms: 
many palms are yet growing there, though the town now 
confifts of only a iquare tower, furrounded with huts, or 
tents, of the Arabians : about live miles from the river 
Jordan, and eighteen north-eaft of Jerufalem. 
JER'ICHO, a town of Germany, in Lower Saxony, 
fituated on the Elbe: thirty-two miles north-north-eaft of 
Magdeburg. 
JER'ICHO, a townlbip of the American States, in 
Chittenden county, Vermont, lies fouth-eaft of Ellex, and 
north-eaft of Willilton, and feparated from the latter by 
Onion river: it contains 381 inhabitants. 
JER'ICHO, a poll-town of New York, fituated in Ti¬ 
oga county, between Chenengo river and the eaft branch 
of Sufquehannah. 
JERI'EL, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JERI'JAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JE'RIM, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen, 
the feat of a dola, containing about 2000 houfes : eighty 
miles north-eaft of Mocha. Lat. 14. 17. N. Ion. 44. 22. E. 
Greenwich. 
JER'IMOTH, [Heb.-eminences.] A man’s name. 
JER'IOTH, [Hebrew.] The na,me of a man. 
To JERK, v.a. [gep.eccan, Sax.] To Itrike with a 
quick fmart.blow ; to lalh. It is foinetimes written j-trA ; 
Ballings heavy, dry, obtufe, 
Only dulnefs can produce ; 
While a little gentle jerking 
Sets the fpirits all a-woiking. Swift. 
To JERK, v. n. Toftrike up ; to accoft eagerly.. This 
feems to be the meaning in this place, but is mere caut : 
Nor blulh, Ibould he lbme, grave acquaintance meet ; 
But, proud of being known, will jerk and greet. Dryd.cn. 
JERK, f A fmart quick laffi.—Wit is not the jerk 
or fling of an epigram, nor the feeming contradiction of 
a poor antithefis; neither is it fo much the morality of a 
grave fentence, affefted by'Lucan, but more Iparingly uled 
by Virgil. Dryden. —A fudden fpring ; a quick, jolt’that 
fhocks or Harts.—Lobfters ule their tails as fins, where¬ 
with they commonly fwim backwards by jerks, or fprings, 
reaching ten yards at once. Grew. 
Well run Tawney, the abbot’s churl; 
His jade gave him a jerk, 
As he would have his rider hurl 
His hood after the kirk. Ben j or,Jon. 
JERK'IN, J. [cyp.telkin, Sax.] A jacket; a ffi’ort coat; 
a dole waiftcoat.—Unlefs we fiiould expefl that nature 
ffiould make jerkins and (lockings grow out of the ground, 
what could ihe do better than afford us wool ? More. 
Then (trip thee of thy carnal jerkin, 
And give thy outward fellow a firking. Hudibras. 
JER'KJN, 
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