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and variegated on the sides with pretty numerous and mo* 
derately large oval white spots, while the fins and tail are 
bright scarlet; the skin seemingly destitute of scales and 
perfectly smooth. * 
Specimens of this fish have been occasionally thrown on 
the British coasts, one of which is described under the article 
Opah. A dried specimen of this fish may be seen in the 
British Museum. 
7. Zeus quadratus.—-Grey dory, with transverse dusky or 
a cinereous body, and even tail. This fish, found in the sea 
that washes the coast of Jamaica, is described by sir Hans 
Sloane, as five inches long and four broad in the middle, 
narrowing from thence gradually to the head and tail; mouth 
small, but with rows of small, sharp teeth; tongue round 
and cartilaginous; pupil large and black, in a white circle; 
seven fins; tail almost square; whole body clothed with 
grey or ash-coloured scales, having three or four transverse 
black lines; with a very crooked line from head to tail. 
ZEUTZHEINN, a small town of Germany, duchy of Nas¬ 
sau, near Hadamar, on the Dietz. 
ZEUXIS, a celebrated ancient paintar, who is said to have 
been a native of Heraclea, either in Greece or Magna Graecia, 
and to have commenced the practice of his art in the fourth 
year of the 95th Olympiad, B. C. 397. According to Quin¬ 
tilian, he is the first artist who understood the proper ma¬ 
nagement of lights and shades, and to have excelled in co¬ 
louring ; but ambitious of imitating the strength and grandeur 
of Homer’s manner, he is charged with giving unsuitable 
bulk to the heads and massiveness to the limbs of his figures. 
Notwithstanding these alleged imperfections, he attained 
distinguished excellence; and in the prosecution of it he 
was attentive even to the minutest circumstance. Many in¬ 
stances occur in his history to this purpose. In his picture 
of Helen, executed for the Crotonians, as an ornament for 
their temple of Juno, he determined to combine every qua¬ 
lity that might constitute a perfect beauty;-and with this 
view he selected five of the handsomest females of Crotona, 
and transferred to his picture, from their naked charms, an 
assemblage of all that were most perfect in their kind. This 
figure has been extolled as the finest specimen of art existing; 
and under it the painter, not unconscious of his merit, 
inscribed the lines of Homer, in which Priam expresses his 
admiration of the beauty of the real Helen. Every one who 
saw it, before it was placed in the temple, paid the painter a 
fee, which, added to the liberal recompence of the Croto¬ 
nians, amply repaid him for his skill and labour. This en¬ 
abled him to gratify his vanity by making presents of his 
pictures, for which no adequate price could be given. To 
such a degree was he enriched by his art, that he was able to 
indulge his vanity by appearing at the Olympic games with 
his name embroidered in golden letters upon his mantle. 
Such were the failings of a man, who rendered his name il¬ 
lustrious bv the supereminent exercise of his art. Among 
his most famous performances are enumerated—a Jupiter on 
his throne, with the other gods standing round;—a Hercules 
in his-cradle, strangling the serpents, Alcmena and Amphi¬ 
tryon witnessing the exploit with terror;—a Penelope, with 
an expression conformable to her character;—a Cupid 
crowned with roses, for the temple of Venus at Athens;—a 
Marsyas bound, afterwards placed in the temple of Concord 
at Rome;—and a group of Centaurs. The time of his death 
is not known; but as to the manner of it, the following whim¬ 
sical anecdote is recorded: after having painted an old wo¬ 
man, whilst he was attentively surveying it, he was seized 
with such a violent fit of laughter, that he died on the spot. 
Pliny Hint. Nat. Gen. Biog. 
ZEYA, a small river of Germany, in Lower Austria, which 
falls into the March ; 8 miles east of Zistersdorf. 
ZEYL, a town of Germany, in Bavarian Franconia, on 
the Maine; 17 miles west-by-north of Bamberg. Popula¬ 
tion 1100. 
ZEYRING, Upper, a small town of the Austrian states, 
in Styria; 6 miles north-west of Judenburg. Population 
1000. 
ZEYST, a village of the Netherlands, in the province of 
Z I E 
Utrecht, with a castle, and 1300 inhabitants; 11 miles north- 
east of Utrecht. 
ZEZERE, a considerable river in the centra! part of Por¬ 
tugal, which falls into the Tagus, near Tancos, to the west 
of Abrantes. 
ZHEHOL, or Gehol, a large village of Chinese Tartary, 
forming the hunting residence of the emperor of China during 
the summer months. The surrounding mountains are very 
high, some of them rising to the height of 15,000 feet. It 
consists merely of palaces of the grandees, mixed with a few 
miserable Tartar huts. The imperial gardens here possess un¬ 
common splendour and beauty, being varied with magnifi¬ 
cent woods, lawns, rocks, and hills, through which winds an 
extensive lake; 100 miles north of Pekin. 
ZIA, or Zea, the ancient Ceos, an island of the Greek ar¬ 
chipelago, in the group of the Cyclades, situated to the south¬ 
west of Negroponte, and about 10 miles from Cape Colonna 
(Sunium), the southern point of Attica. Its length is fifteen 
miles; its breadth eight. Its soil is fertile, and tolerably 
cultivated. Its products are vines, mulberries, figs, cotton, 
and corn. The inhabitants, almost all Greeks, are in num¬ 
ber about 6000. They are in general industrious, and appear 
to have retained several of the customs and good qualities of 
their ancestors. In ancient times, the island contained lour 
towns; at present it has only that of Zia, which, being situ¬ 
ated on the ascent of a mountain, the top of which is covered 
with wind-mills, presents a striking appearance from the sea. 
It is the see of a Greek bishop; has a large harbour; and is 
situated in Lat. 37. 30. N. long. 24. 24. E. 
ZIBIRIJOA, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Cinaloa. 
ZICALPA, a settlement of Quito, in the province of Rio- 
bamba. 
ZICAPUZALCO, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico. 
ZICAVO, a town of the island of Corsica, not far from 
the Taravo. Population 1200. 
ZICUICHI, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Valladolid. 
ZIEGELHAUSEN, a village of the west of Germany, in 
Baden; 5 miles east-north-east of Heidelberg. Population 
900. 
ZIEGELHAYN, a large village of Germany, in Saxony, 
and the county of Schonburg. 
ZIEGENHALS, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the bor¬ 
ders of Austrian Silesia, and 11 miles south of Neisse. Po¬ 
pulation 2000. 
Z1EGENHAYN, formerly a county in the west of Ger¬ 
many, now a province of the electorate of Hesse, lies be¬ 
tween Lower Hesse, Upper Hesse, and the province of Hers- 
feld. Its area is 220 square miles; its population 28,000, 
chiefly Calvinists. It is watered by the Schwalm; has ex¬ 
tensive forests; also some good tillage and pasture land. 
ZIEGENHAYN, a town of Germany, in Hesse-Cassel 
and the chief town of the county of the same name. It stands 
on the Schwalm, in the midst of marshes; contains 1100 in¬ 
habitants, is a place of some strength, and has a castle; 29 
miles south-by-west of Cassel. 
Z1EHL, or Thielle, a navigable river in the west of 
Switzerland, which rises in the Pays de Vaud, flows through 
the lakes of Neufchatel and Bienne, and joins the Aar. 
ZIELENZIEG, an inland town of Prussia, in the New 
Mark of Brandenburg, on a small river. It has 3100 inha¬ 
bitants, and considerable woollen and linen manufactures; 
22 miles east-north-east of Frankfort on Ihe Oder. 
ZIEMETSHAUSEN, a town of Bavarian Franconia, in 
the county of Oettingen-Wallerstein, on the Zusam. Popu¬ 
lation 1500. 
ZIENABAD, one of the names of the city of Boorhanpore. 
ZIERENBERG, a fortified town of Germany, near the 
river Warme; 9 miles west-north-west of Cassel. Popula¬ 
tion 1000. 
ZIEIIIA [so named by Dr. Smith, in memory of John 
Zier, fellow of the Linnean Society, an indefatigable botanist], 
in Botany, a genus of the class tetrandria, order monogynia, 
natural 
