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Dan from the name of their tribe. Now before this time 
the river Jordan was well known ; nor does it appear to 
have been called by any other name. We may, perhaps, 
therefore, with more reafon, derive Jordan from to 
defcend,- by reafon of the full and rapid courfe of this ri¬ 
ver. The Jordan from Cefarea Phiiippi runs about fifty 
leagues, til! it difcharges itfelf into the Dead Sea. In its 
courfe it forms the lake Semechon, five or fix leagues dif- 
tant from its fpring. From thence it enters, and pall'es 
through, the lake of Tiberias. It overflows its banks 
about the time of the barley-harveft, or the fealt of the 
paffoven Its banks are covered with rufhes, reeds, wil¬ 
lows, and other trees. Travellers obferve that lions, dur¬ 
ing the fummer, hide in the trees and reeds along the ri¬ 
ver, and are forced from thence when the river fwells: 
Jeremiah alludes to this, where he compares the enemies’ 
marching to attack Jerufalem and Babylon to lions which 
come up from the fwelling or inundation of Jordan. Jer. 
lix. 19. Zechariah reprefents the princes of Judah afflifl- 
ed at their diftance from Jerufalem, under the fimile of 
lions roaring when they fee the pride of Jordan fnoiled. 
Zech. xi. 3. Maundrel fays, that the river Jordan was, 
when he law it, about fixty feet wide, and iqjapkl that a 
man could not fwim againtt it. On both fides of the Jor- 
dan a great plain extends from the Dead Sea. Jofcphus 
fays, this plain is 1200 furlongs in length and 600 wide; 
extremely dry in fummer, and unwholefome by reafon of 
the exceffive heat. The Jordan only may be faid to have 
any moifture; the reft is a wildernefs. 
Little Jordan is the Jordan neareft to its fpring, and 
before it receives the waters of thofe fprings and rivulets 
which enlarge it. Jolephus fays that the marfhes of the 
lake Semechon extend to the delicious plain of Daphne, 
the fountains whereof feed Little Jordan, and convey it 
into Great Jordan below the temple of the golden ox, or 
golden calf. It isC lmet’s opinion, that, inlteadof Daphne, 
we (hould read Dan ; and that Dan ihould be placed much 
nearer to the lake Semechon than generally it is. 
JOR/DAN, a river of United America, in the diftritft 
of Main, which runs into the fea feven miles weft of New 
Briftol. 
JOR/DAN, a town of South Carolina: ten miles eaft 
of Queenhorough. 
JORDA'NO. See Giordano. 
JOR'DEN, or Jordan, f. [from the Sax. jjop, Jlercus, 
and ben, nceptaculum .] A pot.—The copper pot can boil 
milk, heat porridge, hold fmall-beer, or, in cafe of necefi- 
lity, ferve for a jorden. Swift. 
JORE, a village and mountain in the Cherokee coun¬ 
try. The mountain is faid to be the higheft in the Che¬ 
rokee country, and through which the Tenneflee river 
forces its waters The Indian village, called Jore, isfitu- 
ated in a beautiful lawn, many thoufand feet higher than 
the adjacent country. Here is a little grove of the Ca- 
fine Yapon, called by the Indians the beloved tree. They 
are very careful to keep this tree pruned and cultivated, 
and drink a very ftrong infufion of the leaves, buds, and 
tender branches, of this plant. It is venerated by the 
Creeks, and all the fouthern maritime nations of Indians. 
JOR'GA, a town of Afiatic Georgia, in ti,ie proyince 
of Kaket: eighty-five miles fouth-eaft of Teflis. 
JOR'GE GRE'GO, a iinail ifland near the coaftof Bra- 
fil. Lat. 23. 20. S. 
JOR'GEN, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Ber¬ 
gen: thirty-three miles fouth-weft of Romfdal. 
JOR'GENAW, a town of Pruftij, in Natangen : twenty- 
two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Konigfberg. 
JOR'GENBURG, a town of Auftria : fourteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Steyr. 
JOR'GENTHAL, a town of Bohemia, in Leitmeritz : 
fix miles north-eaft of Kamnitz. 
JOR'GENTHAL, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Oberiand : fix miles fouth-weft of Leibftadt. 
JO'RI, a river of Afia, which runs into the Kur, on 
the borders of Georgia, in the province of Schirvan, 
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JOR'JAN, or Cor'can", a town of Perfia, and capital 
of a diftrict to which it gives name, on the weftern part 
of Chorafan, bordering on the Cafpian Sea, on the Abif- 
coun. It was anciently the capital of Hyrcania, and 
named Syringes. In the year 210 before Cbrift, Antio- 
chus took it by ftorm from Arfaces king of Parthia : no 
miles fouth-weft of Meftikl, and 300 north of Ifpahan. 
Lat: 36. 54. N. Ion. 54. 54. E. 
JO'RIM, [Heb. the exaltation of the Lord.] A man’s 
name. ) 
JOR'KOAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JOR'lvOW, a town of Bohemia, in Saatz: thirteen 
miles north of Saatz. Lat. 50. 28. ion. 13. 26. E. 
JORNAN'DES, a writer of hiftory of the Gothic na¬ 
tion, the ion of Wamuthe, an Alan, flouriihed in the time 
of the emperor Juftinian. He was a notary or fecretary 
of the Gothic kings in Italy, and was made biihop of Ra¬ 
venna. He wrote a work on the hiftory of the Goths, 
entitled De Rebus Geticis, compofed in the year 552. It is 
little more than an abridgment of a loft work on the fame 
fnbjecl, written in twelve books by Caifiodorus. He like- 
wile compofed a work called by Trithemus De Gejhs Ro- 
manorum, but more properly De Regnorum & Temporum 
Succ'JJione, fince it relates to other nations befides the Ro¬ 
mans. The account in this of Roman affairs is a mere 
tranlcript from Florus. His Gothic hiftory is annexed to 
the edition of Caftiodorus by Fornerius, at Paris. He is 
blamed for having afcribed to his countrymen all the ac¬ 
tions belonging to the Scythians, and for lupprefting fuch 
fa£ts as he thought difcreditable to them The work is, 
however, valuable as containing much information not 
elfewhere to be met with. VtJJii Hijl: Latin. 
JOROPOUR', a town of Bengal: thirty-eight miles 
north-north-eaft of Calcutta. 
JQR'RACH, a town of Arabia, in the province of 
Hedsjas : 188 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Mecca. 
JOR'SA, one of the fmailer Weftern Illands of Scot¬ 
land, between Scarba and Kerrera. 
JOR'TIN (John, D. D.), an eminent fcholar and di¬ 
vine, born in London in 1698, was the fon of Renatus 
Jortin, a native of Brittany, who came over as a refugee on 
the repeal of the Edift of Nantes. His mother was the 
daughter of an Engiilh clergyman. Renatus, who was a 
gentleman of the privy-chamber to king William, and fe¬ 
cretary to feveral admirals, was loft at fea with fir Clou- 
defley Shovel in 1707. Young Jortin received his fchcol- 
education at the Charter-houle, where he laid the foun¬ 
dation of an exact claftical tafte. In 1715 he was admit¬ 
ted a penfior.er of Jefus college, Cambridge, under the 
tuition of the learned Dr. Thirlby. He diftinguifhed 
himfelf by his talents and induitry ; and, fuch was the 
opinion entertained of his proficiency by his tutor, that 
when Pope, delirous of having extracts of the notes of 
Euftathius upon Homer’s Iliad to print with his tranflation, 
applied by a bookfeller to procure a young ftudent at Cam¬ 
bridge to execute the taik, Dr. Thirlby recommended 
Jortin. He performed the work to the apparent fatisfac- 
tion of the poet, who however did not think it worth 
while to make any peribnal enquiry after an obfcure coi- 
legian : he was at this time at the age of eighteen or nine¬ 
teen. He took the degree of B. A. in 1719, was eledted 
fellow of his college in 1721, and proceeded to the degree 
of M. A. in 1722. In that year he was one of the mode¬ 
rators at the deputations in the foph’s fchooi; and ap¬ 
peared as a writer by the publication of his Ltfus Foetid, 
a collection of a few Latin poems. By the belt judges of 
Latin poetry, thefe pieces have been pronounced fome of 
the moft elegant and truly-ciaiTical compofitions of the 
kind produced by a modern fcholar. They are not only 
pure and correct in didtion and profody, but difplay 
warmth of imagination and delicacy of fentiment. They 
have been feveral times reprinted, and retain their origi¬ 
nal reputation. 
Mr. Jortin received prieft’s orders in 1724, and in 1727 
he was ptefented by his college to the Vicarage of Swave- 
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