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fundings m any part of the channel, and often on both 
Tides; whilft afliore, foundings are hardly found a boat’s 
length from the main.” This place was firlt furrounded 
with walls in the year 1514, by El Guri fultan of Egypt, 
to protedt it from the Portuguefe; the walls are now in 
a llate of decay. The revenue ariiing from the cultoms 
is fhared between the fultan and the Iheriife ; upon which 
account the kiaja and the vifier always attend [together, 
when goods are examined. The dues of cuftom are fixed 
at to per cent, upon die value of the goods, eftimated ar¬ 
bitrarily by the cuftom-houfe officers; fo that they may 
be confidered as equal, in reality, to 12 or 15 per cent. 
The Englifli, however, are particularly favoured, even 
more than the fubjefts of the fultan; they pay only 8 per 
cent, and are fuffered to difcharge this in goods, whereas 
all others muff produce money. The circumjacent coun¬ 
try affords nothing but tait'-almonds for an object of traf¬ 
fic; of thefe, indeed, the Englifli carry five hundred thou- 
fand weight a-year to India. Balm of Mecca is alfo 
brought hither from the neighbourhood of Medina, as an 
article of exportation. The imports are greater, becaufe 
both Mecca and Medina are to be fupplied from this 
market. Large quantities of corn, rice, lentiles, fugar, 
oil, &c. are imported from Egypt, without which this 
part of Arabia, could not poflibly be inhabited. All 
goods from Europe come alfo by the way of Egypt; and 
on the other hand, tliofe which are brought hither from 
India pafs generally into Egypt. It is 170 miles fouth of 
Medina. Lat. 21.28. N. Ion. 39. 16. E. 
JID'LAPH, [Heb. one that diftils.] A man’s name. 
JIDOO'N, a country or diftrift of Alia, fituated on the 
eaft fide of the river Sinde, on the borders of Cachimere 
and Thibet. 
IJEBA'RIM, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
JIF'RAI, a town of Africa, on the river Gambia. 
JIG, /. Igiga, Ital. geige, Teutonic, a fiddle.] A light 
carelefs dance, or tune.—When Cyrus had overcome the 
Lydians, that were a warlike nation, inftead of their war¬ 
like mulic, he appointed to them certain lafcivious lays 
and loofe jigs-, by which he fo mollified and abated their 
courage, that they forgot their former fiercenefs. Spenfer, 
Another Phcebus, thy own Phoebus, reigns, 
Joys in my jigs, and dances in my chains. Pope. 
A ballad: 
Thd fleering Scots 
To England’s high difgrace have made this jig. Marlow. 
To JIG, v. 71. To dance carelefsly ; to dance. Ex- 
preifed in contempt.—As for the jigging part and figures 
of dances, I count that little. Locke. • 
JIG'-MAKER, f. One who dances or plays merrily.— 
Your only jig-maker! what fhould a man do but be merry ? 
Shakejpeare. —A ballad-maker.— Jig-makers and chroni¬ 
clers (hall pick fomething out of you. Dekker. 
JPGAT POINT, a cape of Hindooftan, forming the 
weftern extremity of Guzerat, where is a pagoda. Lat. 
22. 2-3. N. Ion. 68. 12. E. Greenwich. 
JIG'GER, /. One that jigs. A machine to hold on 
the cable when heaved into the fliip. 
JIG'GING, /. The aft of dancing in a carelefs manner. 
JIG'GUMBOB, f. [A cant word.] A trinket; a 
knick-knack; a flight contrivance in machinery: 
He rifled all his pokes and fobs 
Of gimcracks, whims, and jiggumbobs. Hudibras. 
JI'HON, a river of Afia, which rifes in the mountains 
of Little Thibet, pafles through Bukharia, Charafm, and 
empties itfelf partly in the Cafpian Sea, and partly into 
the lake Aral. 
JILGOU'N, a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : tw'enty-eight miles ealt of Aklerai. 
JILL, f. [from Julia.'] The name of a woman. A-doxy; 
a woman of ill fame. Scott. 
JI'LL-FLIRT,/ [a name of reproach to] A pertyoung 
'woman.—W a\\, jill-jlirt } you are very pert, Congreve. 
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JILLIFREE', a town on the northern bank of the ri¬ 
ver Gambia, oppofite to James’s ifland, where the Englifli 
had formerly a fmall fort. The kingdom of Barra, in 
which it is iituated, produces great plenty of the necefla- 
ries of life; but the chief trade of the inhabitants is in 
fait, which they carry up the river in canoes; and, in re¬ 
turn, bring down Indian corn, cotton cloths, elephants’ 
teeth, fmall quantities of gold dull, &c. “The number 
of canoes and people conttantly employed in this trade, 
make the king of Barra (fays Mr. Park) more formidable 
to Europeans than any other chieftain on the river, and 
have encouraged him to eltablilh thofe exorbitant duties, 
which traders of all nations are obliged to pay at entry, 
amounting nearly to 20I. on every veflel, great and final). 
Thefe duties, or cultoms, are generally collected in per- 
fon by the alcaid or governor of Jillifree, who is attended 
by a numerous train of noify and troublefome depen¬ 
dants; who, by their frequent intercourfe with the Eng¬ 
lifli, have acquired a fmattering of our language, and beg 
for every thing which they fancy with fuch earneltnefs, 
that traders, in order to get quit of them, are frequently 
obliged to grant their requelts.” Lat. 13. 16. Ion. 16.10, 
E. Greenwich. 
JILT, f. \_gilia, Iflandic, to intrap in an amour, Mr, 
Lye. Perhaps from giglot, by contraction ; or gillet, or 
gillot, the diminutive of gill, the ludicrous name of a wo¬ 
man ; alfo called jillet in Scotland.] A woman who gives 
her lover hopes, and deceives him : 
/Lvoid both courts and camps. 
Where dilatory fortune plays the jilt 
With the brave, noble; honelt, gallant, man. 
To throw lierfelf away on fools. Otway . 
A name of contempt for a woman : 
When love was all an eafy monarch’s care. 
Jilts rul’d the ftate, and llatefmen farces writ.- Pope. 
To JILT, v. a. To trick a man by flattering his love 
with hopes, and then leaving him for another.—Tell a • 
man, palfionately in love, that he is jilted-, bring witnelfes 
of the falfehood of his miltrefs; and three kind words of 
her’s fhall invalidate all their teftimonies. Locke. 
Tell who loves who. 
And who is jilted for another’s like. Dry den. 
7 b JILT, v. n. To play the jilt; to practife amorous 
deceits; 
She might have Iearn’d to cuckold, jilt, and lham, 
Had Covent-garden been at Surinam, Congreve. 
JIL'TING,yi The aft of deceiving a man in love. 
JIM, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
JIM'LAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JIM'MEL,, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Al¬ 
giers : thirty-three miles fouth-weft: of Conltantina. 
JIM'MELAH, a town of Africa, anciently GemeiJa. 
Near it are magnificent ruins, the remains of an amphi¬ 
theatre, &c. nine leagues fouth-fouth-weit of Conltantina- 
JIM'NA, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
JIM'NITE,'/. [from Jimna.~\ A defeendant of Jimna: 
To JIN'GLE, v.n. [A word made from jangle, or co¬ 
pied from the found intended to be exprelled.] To clink; 
to found with a kind of lharp rattle.—What Ihould the 
wars do with thefe jingling fools ? Shakejpeare. —Any 
clink, or fliarp rattle. It is ufed to exprefs the cor- 
refpondence of found in the efr’efts of rhyme.—Vulgar 
judges are nine parts in ten of all nations who call con¬ 
ceits and jingles wit. Dryden. —Any thing founding; a 
rattle; a bell.—If you plant where favages are, do not 
oniy entertain them with trifles and jingles, but ufe them 
juftly. Bacon. 
What crowds of thefe, impenitently bold. 
In founds and jingling fyliables grown old ! Pope, 
JING'LING,/. A clinking found; correfpondence of 
founds, 
JIN'NET 
