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Z A R 
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fices, in particular the cathedral, the churches of Saints 
Grisogono, Catherina, Dominic, Dimitri, and Antony. 
These churches contain a number of good paintings. The 
public establishments are a gymnasium, a high normal school, 
the government offices, the courts of appeal, and an arch¬ 
bishop’s see for the kingdom of Dalmatia. The language of 
the middle and upper classes is Italian. The distilled water 
called ros solis, made at this place, is in high repute. Lat. 
44. 2. 25. N. long. 15. 9. 32. E. Population 8000. 
ZARA, a circle of Austrian Dalmatia. Its area is 2150 
square miles, with 105,000 inhabitants. 
ZARAGOC1LLA, a settlement of New Granada, in the 
province of Carthagena. 
ZARAGOZA, a city of New Granada, in the province of 
Antioquia, between the rivers Cauca and Magdalena, and on 
the shore of the Nechi. Its climate is so unhealthy, that its 
inhabitants are reduced to 200 housekeepers. 
ZARAKA, a small town of the Morea, with a lake now 
called Zaraka, anciently called Stymphatus. 
ZARAOUNIZA, a small town of Austrian Dalmatia, near 
Spalatro. 
ZARATA, a settlement of Peru, in the province of Lare- 
caxa, near the river Beni. 
ZARATA, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Santa Martha, on the Magdalena. Lat. 9. 46. N. 
ZARBE, a river of New Granada, in the province of Los 
Marquetones, which enters the Magdalena. 
ZARCA, a village of Lower Egypt, on the Nile; 10 miles 
south of Damietta. 
ZARCO, an inland town of European Turkey, in Thessaly, 
situated on the celebrated river Peneus, which is here in the 
middle of its course, and the vale of Tempe is nearly 30 
miles to the east; 16 miles west-by-north of Larissa. Po¬ 
pulation 5000. 
ZAREVO-KOKSCHAISK, an inland town of European 
Russia, in the government of Kazan, on the Little Koks- 
chaga; 100 miles west-north-west of Kazan. Population 
5000 
ZAREVO-SANTSCHURSK, a town of European Russia, 
in the government of Viatka, on the Kokschaga, with 3200 
inhabitants. 
ZARGECZ, a market town of Hungary, in the circle of 
Trentzin. 
ZARIPA, a river of the Caraccas, in the province of Ma¬ 
racaibo, which enters the Apure. 
ZARLINO (Giuseppe da Chioggia), maestro di capella 
of St. Mark’s church at Venice, and the most general, volu¬ 
minous, and celebrated theorist and writer on music in the 
Italian language during the 16th century, was born in 1540, 
and author of the following musical treatises, which, though 
separately printed, and at different periods, are generally 
bound up together in one thick folio volume :—“ Institution! 
Harmoniche,” Venice, 1558, 1562, 1573, and 1589; “ Di- 
mostrationi Harmon.” Ven 1571, and 1589; and “ Sop- 
plimenti Musicali,” Ven. 1588. We discover by these dates, 
that Zarlino first appeared as an author at the age of 18; 
and from that period till he had arrived at 49, he was conti¬ 
nually revising and augmenting his works. He died in 
1599. 
ZARISZYN, a town of European Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Saratov; 212 miles south-south-west of Saratov, and 
238 north-west of Astracan. Lat. 48. 42. 20. N. long. 44. 
28. E. Population 2300. 
ZARKI, a town of Poland ; 43 miles north-north-west of 
Cracow. Population 2300. 
ZARNATA, a small towm of Greece, in the Morea; 16 
miles south-west of Misitra, the antient Sparta. 
ZA'RNICII, s. A substance in which orpiment is found ; 
it approaches to the nature of orpiment, but without its lustre 
and foliated texture. The common kinds of zarnich are 
green and yellow. Hill. 
ZARNICH, the name of a genus of fossils, the characters 
of which are these: They are inflammable substances, not 
composed of plates or flakes, but of a plain, simple, and 
uniform structure, not flexile nor elastic, soluble in oil, and 
burning with a whitish flame, and noxious smell, like 
garlic 
ZARNOWIETZ, a town of Poland; 30 miles north of 
Cracow. Population 800. 
ZARUMA, orSARUMA, a town of Quito, in the province 
of Loxa. It was formerly very populous, being surrounded 
by rich mines, which have been worked without intermission 
from the time of their first discovery. They are now much 
exhausted; but the city still contains 6000 inhabitants. It 
is situated about 1600 yards above the level of the sea. The 
climate is hot and unhealthy; 30 miles north-west of Loxa. 
Lat. 3. 37. S. long. 79. 33. W. 
ZASH1VERSK, a place in the northern part of the go¬ 
vernment of Irkoutsk, in Asiatic Russia, consisting of 5 
Russian houses, and 21 colleges. Lat. 67. 30. N. long. 
138. 45. E. 
ZASMUCK, or Zasmuky, a town of Bohemia; 30 
miles east-south-east of Prague. Population 1000. 
ZATAS, a river of Portugal, which rises near Elvas, in the 
province of Alentejo, and falls into the Tagus, in Estrema- 
dura. 
ZATOR, a small town of Austrian Poland; 22 miles 
west-south-west of Cracow. 
ZAVALETA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Antioquia. 
Z AVATARELLO, a town of Italy, in the Sardinian states, 
with 1700 inhabitants; 18 miles east of Tortona. 
ZAURA, a river of Guiana, in the district of Surinam, 
which enters the Cuyuni. 
ZAWEH, a name given to a district of Korassan, in Persia, 
on the eastern coast of the Caspian.—There is a small town 
of the same name; 45 miles north-north-east of Askabad. 
ZAW1CHOST, a town of Poland, on Ihe Vistula; 10 
miles north-north-east of Sendomir. Population 900. 
ZAWIEH, a village of Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, on 
the Euphrates. 
ZAYTE, a river on the west side of the island of Celebes, 
which runs into the sea. Lat 0. 30. N. long. 120. 15. E. 
ZAY-UGORCZ, a market town of Hungary, in the county 
of Trentschin, with manufactures of woollens. 
ZAYULA, a town of Mexico, and capital of a jurisdiction 
of the same name. It has a magnificent convent; 245 miles 
west, with a slight elevation south, of Mexico. Lat. 19. 2. N. 
long. 103. 28. W. Population 500 families of Spaniards, 
mestizoes, and Indians.—There are two other insignificant 
settlements of the same name in Mexico. 
ZAYULTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the province 
of Oaxaca, containing 140 families. 
ZAZIVNOI, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Oufa, on the Oural; 68 miles west of Orenburg. 
ZBARAZ, a small town of Austrian Poland, on the bor¬ 
ders of Russia, and 40 miles north of Braeklaw. 
ZBRASLAWITZ, a small town of Bohemia; 10 miles 
south-west of Czaslaw. 
ZDECHOWITZ, a large village of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Beraun. 
ZDUNY, a town of Prussian Poland, on the borders of 
Silesia; 39 miles north-north-east of Breslau. In 1789 it 
suffered greatly from a fire. Population 3500. 
ZEA, s. A kind of corn. Chambers. 
ZEA [of Pliny, from the Gr. geia. of Dioscorides. Deriva¬ 
tion unknown], in Botany, a genus of the class monoecia, 
order triandria, natural order of gramina, graminere (Juss.) 
—Generic Character. Male flowers disposed in distinct loose 
spikes.—Calyx: glume two-flowered, two-valved ; valves 
ovate-oblong, ventricose, awnless, acuminate; outer a little 
longer. Corolla : glume two-valved ; valves oblong, awn¬ 
less almost the length of the calyx ; outer ventricose obtuse ; 
inner two-toothed at the tip. Nectary two-leaved ; leaflets 
fleshy, wider above, truncate, grooved at the top, very short. 
Stamina: filaments three, capillary. Anthers subprismatic, 
bifid, opening at the top. Females in a very close spike be¬ 
low the males, on the same plant, covered with leaves.—Ca¬ 
lyx : glume one-flowered, two-valved, permanent p valves 
roundish, thick, membranaceous at the edge, ciliate; outer 
thicker. 
