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final conclufiott was that the Gothic was the mother of all 
the languages of the Teutonic ftera. Such was the ardour 
with which he purfued this vein of inveftigation, that, 
having beard of fome villages in Frifeland in which 
the ancient Saxon was preferved in its purity, he went 
and refided in that quarter for two years. Returning 
thence into Holland, he met with the manufcript of the 
four evangelifts in filver Gothic letters, thence called 
the filver manufcript . This he fet about explaining, and 
publilhed it, with a gloflary ; adding a correfted ver- 
iion of the fame in the Anglo-Saxon, with the notes of 
Dr. Thomas Marlhall. He returned to England in 1674., 
and pafled fome time at Oxford. In Auguft 1677, 
he accepted an invitation from his nephew Dr. Ifaac 
Voffius, canon of Windfor, to relide in his houfe, where 
he died the November following, at the age of eighty-eight. 
He was interred in St. George’s chapel, where a table with 
an infcription marks his tomb. He bequeathed all his 
manufcripts and collections to the public library of Ox¬ 
ford. The works of this learned man are, 1. De PiCtura 
Veterum, 1635, 4to ; and 1694, folio, Rotterdam ; alfo an 
Englilh tranflation, entitled The Painting of the Ancients, 
1638. 2. Obfervationes in Willeromi Francicam Para- 
phras in Cantici Canticorum, Amlt. 1655, 8vo. 3. Seve¬ 
ral Letters in the collection of the Epiltles of Ger. John 
Voffius. 4. Glojfarium Gothicum , in five languages, com- 
prifed in 9 vols. which bilhop Fell caufed to be tranfcri- 
bed for the prefs. 5. An Etymologicum Anglicanum (probably 
a part of this) was publilhed from his papers by the rever¬ 
end Edward Lyed, folio, 1743. 
JUNIUS, the fictitious name of an unknown but highly 
eminent writer on political topics in England. His cele¬ 
brated Letters, which appeared in 1769, have been univer- 
fally read. They are not lefs diltinguilhed for able re¬ 
mark, keen inveCtive, and polilhed latire, than for their 
extraordinary beauties of compofition. He was oppofed 
by our noted lexicographer Johnfon, who, neverthelefs, 
quotes Junius repeatedly in his Dictionary of the Englilh 
Language, and conlidered him a ItriCtly claflical writer. 
JU'NIUS, a military townlhip of North America, in 
New York Itate, bounded north by Galen, and fouth by 
Romulus. 
JUNK, /. [probably an Indian word.] A fmall Ihip of 
China.—America, which has now but junks and canoes, 
abounded then in tall Ihips. Bacon's New Atalantis .— Pieces 
of old cable.—I reprefented my want of junk. Haivkef- 
tuortk's Voyages. 
JUNK, a river of Guinea, which runs into the Atlan¬ 
tic in lat. 6. 5. N. Ion. 10. 5. W. 
JUN'KER (Chriftian), a learned writer, was born at 
Drefden in 1668. He ltudied at Leipfic ; and, after hav¬ 
ing occupied the place of co-reCtor at Schleulingen, he 
was appointed, in 1707, firll reCtor and librarian at Eife- 
nach, and hiltoriographer to the prince of Saxony of the 
Emeftine line. In the year 1711 he was made a member 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and in 1713 
director of the gymnafium at Altenburgh ; but, having 
lolt his wife, he was lb alfeCted by this event, that he died 
there, five days after, in the month of June, 1714- He 
was a learned and diligent teacher, and an enemy to every 
thing that bore the leaft relemblance to pedantry. Of his 
literary talents he gave a fufficient proof by the many 
works which he publilhed, and particularly by his Geo¬ 
graphy of the Middle Ages, which appeared at Jena in 
1712, in a large quarto volume. It is a ufefttl and well- 
written produCIion, which had been long wifned for, but 
never before attempted by any writer. It is divided into 
two parts, and the whole is concluded with a ufeful index 
of all the countries, towns, villages, forells, rivers, and 
mountains, known in the middle ages. It is illultrated 
with teftimonies from the bell writers, which difplay great 
knowledge of the hiftory of thofe periods. Though the 
author publilhed this work as an imperfeCt Iketch, it will 
be found of great utility to the lovers of hiftory and geo¬ 
graphy. His principal works, bolides the. above, are ; 
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2. Vita D. Mart. Lutheri & fuccefluum Evangelicse Refor- 
mationis, &c. numeris cxlv. atque Iconibus aliquot ra- 
rilfimis confirmata & illuftrata. Franco!’. & Lipf. 1699. 
Of this work, a German tranflation was publilhed at Nu¬ 
remberg in 1706, 8vo. 3. Vita Jobi Ludolphi, accedunt 
Epilt. aliquot clarilf. virorum, nec non Specimen Linguae 
Hottentotticse, Lipf. 1710, 8vo. 4. Principles of the Ec- 
clefiaftical Hiftory of the Old and New Teltament, Hamb. 
1710, 1716, 1720, 1727, 8vo. 5. Job Ludolph’s Theatre 
of the World, or View of the Hiftory of the feventeenth 
Century, after Ludolph’s death. Junker edited a third 
and fourth volume of this work, and continued the hif¬ 
tory from the year 1651 to 1675, Frank, on the Main, 
1713, 1718, folio. 6. Lineae primae Eruditionis univerlas 
Hiftoriae Philofophicas, Alten. 1714, 4to. This was his 
lalt work, to which his fucceflor C. F. Wilifch publilhed 
additions in 1715 from papers which Junker left behind 
him. Hirfching's Manual of eminent Perfons who died in the 
eighteenth Century. 
JUN'KERADT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Roer: fieven miles north of Gerolltein. 
JUNK'ET, f. [properly juncate.~] A fweetmeat.—You 
know, there want no junkets at the fealt. Shakefpeare. —A 
ltolen entertainment. 
To JUNK'ET, v. n. To feaft fecretly ; to make enter¬ 
tainments by Health.—Whatever good bits you can pilfer 
in the day, fave them to junket with your fellow-fervants 
at night. Swift. —To feaft.—Job’s children junketed and 
feafted together often, but the reckoning colt them dear 
at laft.—The apoftle would have no revelling or junketing. 
South. 
JUNK'ETING, f. The act of merry making. 
JUNKOWN'DA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Yani: twenty-two miles weft of Pifania, 
JUNKSEI'LON, Jan Sy'lan, or Junk Cey'lon, an 
ifland in the Eallern Indian Sea, fittiated on the ealt fide 
of the bay of Bengal, belonging to Siam, and governed by 
a viceroy from that court. It is about 40 miles long, and 
15 broad; and feparated from the continent of Malacca 
by a narrow ilthmus of land, about a mile in length, and 
half a mile in breadth : which ifthmus is covered only at 
high water, (the tide rifing on the fprings about ten feet.) 
and Ihuts up on the north part an excellent harbour, call¬ 
ed Popra, with good anchorage all round it, generally on 
a muddy bottom. The name, fays Capt. Forreft, is a cor¬ 
ruption from OojongSylan, (point or promontory of Sylan,) 
the louth point projecting a little way into the fea ; and 
probably the name was given to it before it became an 
ifland at high water, and before it was disjoined from the 
continent, as it is at prefent; the word oojong being a Ma¬ 
lay word fignifying point, and the inhabitants in general 
[peaking Malay ; from their intercourfe with that people, 
had it been confidered as an ifland, the word pulo, fignify¬ 
ing ifland in the fame tongue, a word of eafy pronuncia¬ 
tion, if once affixed to it would probably never have left 
it. Jan Sylan has no high hill upon it, but feveral of mo¬ 
derate height; and no confidsrable river; but creeks that 
run to the fea, generally through flat marlhes of mangrove 
trees, from plealant brooks in the interior parts; the inha¬ 
bitants keeping purpofely the ikirts of the ifland in a Hate 
of nature, probably to prevent invafion : and their veflels 
confifts only of 3 few prows, about the lize of Indiamen’s 
long-boats, and fmall canoes, that find their way up thefe 
creeks to the cultivated plains, abounding with rice-fields^ 
in the middle of the ifland. Beiides the harbour of Popra 
above mentioned, there is another capacious harbour on 
the fouth-weft part of the ifland, as the natives informed 
captain Forreft, but he never was in if. The place where 
fhips generally anchor is in a good road, well flieltered be¬ 
hind a fmall ifland, joined to the main ifland at low water. 
There are feventeen towns or villages, and the inhabitants 
of the whole ifland may be in number about 12,000 fouls. . 
They have a good many elephants, which they get from 
Mergui, but none wild ; no horfes; they have bullocks - 
and buffaloes for labour 3 wild hogs and deer 3 a few tame 
-goats 5. 
