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The Numbers re-exported in the same year, of those species | a hospital, with an establishment for the employment of of which the Custom-House Returns have been given, their poor and the care of orphans. Fürth has also a townhall, a grammar and a superior civic school, twenty elementary and Sunday schools, an hospital, theatre, &c. The market-place, a large open area, occupies the tongue of land formed by the confluence of the Rednitz and Pregnitz. Independently of a brisk transit trade, Fürth is the residence of a number of small manufacturers, whose productions are looking-glasses, chandeliers, glass, sealingwax, pocket-books, pencils, needles, spectacles, cabinet work, turnery, false gold leaf (Leon-gold), clocks, jewellery. saddles and harness, locks, &c. Some cottons, caps, and stockings are also woven. There is an annual fair at Michaelmas, which lasts fourteen days.

Countries to which exported.

Bear.

Marten.

Musquash.

Russia

331

Prussia

85

Germany
Holland

8,753

5,106

6,507

207

351 50,425

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FU'SELI, HENRY, was the second son of John Caspar Fuessli, a portrait and landscape painter, and author of 'Lives of the Helvetic Painters.' He was born at Zürich in Switzerland, 7th February, 1741. The elder Fuessli gave his son a classical education, and brought him up for th church. He accordingly entered the Caroline College at Zürich, where he subsequently took his degree of Master of Arts. He entered into holy orders in 1761; but having written a pamphlet, in conjunction with Lavater, in which the conduct of an unjust magistrate was exposed, his friends deemed it prudent to oblige him to travel for a while, in order to avoid the vengeance of the disgraced magistrate's family, who still retained considerable power. After travelling in Germany, he came to England, partly it appears as an agent for the purpose of establishing some regular 168,378 plan of literary communication between that country and 98,558 his native place. Sir Andrew Mitchell, the British minister at the court of Prussia, furnished him with introductions. FÜRSTENBERG, a principality under the sovereignties Among others, he became acquainted with Mr. Millar of the king of Würtemberg and grand-duke of Baden, consist (afterwards succeeded by Mr. Cadell) and Mr. Johnson, ing of several mostly isolated bailiwicks on the rivers Danube, two eminent publishers; and he supported himself for Wutach, and Kinzig, the majority of which are situated in some time by translating from German, French, and Itathe Würtemberg circle of the Danube and the Baden circle lian into English, and from English into German. The of the Lake. They have an area of about 787 squareLetters' of Lady M. W. Montagu were among the works mues, nd a population of about 92,000; and comprise 18 he translated into German. In 1765 he published a transtowns and 4 market villages, besides 195 villages, hamlets, lation of Winckelmann's Reflexions on the Painting &c. The principality is mountainous, and produces timber, and Sculpture of the Antients.' In the following year cattle, iron, copper, silver, &c. In the upland districts, in he set out as travelling tutor to Lord Chewton, the eldest the western region of the Black Forest, the inhabitants are son of Earl Waldegrave; but he soon threw up his charge employed in making articles of wood, particularly wooden in displeasure. About this time he became acquainted clocks. The prince's residence is Donau-Eschingen, where with Sir Joshua Reynolds, to whom he showed some he has his chancery and public offices. He is also pos- of his drawings. Reynolds recommended him to devote sessed of several seignioralities in Bohemia; and his yearly himself entirely to painting, and he followed the advice. income is estimated at from 500,000 to 600,000 guilders, from about 46,000l. to 55,000%. sterling. Donau-Eschingen, in 48° 56 N. lat. and 8° 31′ E. long., is situated at the confluence of the three streams whose united waters form the Danube. It contains about 400 houses and 3100 inha bitants. The palace, high church, archivarium, public offices, and riding-house and stables are handsome modern buildings: the town has also a gymnasium, and a very ex tensive establishment belonging to the prince, in which great quantities of beer and brandy are made.

FÜRTH (in Latin records Trajectum or Furthum), a circle in the Bavarian province of the Retzat, comprising a few small parishes and the town of the same name, which is situated in a fertile plain and at the confluence of the Rednitz and Pregnitz; about four miles north-west of Nuremberg, in 49° 28' N. lat. and 11° 1' E. long. It contains about 1240 houses, and 13,850 inhabitants, of whom upwards of 11,000 are Lutherans and 3550 Jews. The site was originally a Villa Regia,' or royal domain and mansion, in which many of the German nobles assembled in 907 in council with the emperor Lewis. The bishops of Bamberg enjoyed it by gift from the emperor Henry II.; and it afterwards became part of the Margraviate of Ansbach, in conjunction with which it was annexed to the crown of Bavaria in 1803. There are three churches, one of which is Roman Catholic, a splendid synagogue, and three minor places for Jewish worship; the high church contains one of the oldest and largest organs in Germany. The Jews have a sort of university here called a Talmud school, where their learned men and rabbis are educated, two printing-houses, three minor schools, a lay and ecclesiastical court of justice, and P. C., No. 661.

In 1770 he went to Italy, at which time he altered his name to Fuseli, to suit the Italian pronunciation, and this form he retained after his return to England. In 1778 he visited Zürich on his way back to England. On his return he was engaged by Alderman Boydell, with other artists, to paint pictures for the Alderman's Shakspeare Gallery About the same period he edited the English edition of Lavater's work on physiognomy, and assisted Cowper in his translation of Homer, with remarks and corrections. In 1788 he married Miss Sophia Rawlins, of Bath Eaton, and subsequently was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, with a view, it is said by his biographer, to the pension allotted by that body to the widows of its deceased members. In 1790 he was elected Royal Academician. In 1799 he completed a number of pictures, designed from the works of Milton, to form a Milton Gallery, the idea of which was suggested by the Shakspeare Gallery; but he realized nothing by their exhibition. In the same year he was elected Professor of Painting to the Royal Academy, and, in 1803, Keeper. His edition of Pilkington's 'Lives of the Painters' was brought out in 1805. Canova, upon his visit to England, was much struck with Fuseli's works; and on the sculptor's return to Rome, at his recommendation Fuseli was elected a member of the first class in the Academy of St. Luke's. Fuseli died April 15, 1825, and was buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral.

In the earlier portion of his life Fuseli was very suscep tible of the passion of love, and appears to have formed many attachments. He was in like manner favoured with the affections of more ladies than one; but, until he met with the lady whom he married, a curious perversity seems VOL. XI.-E

to have prevented any of the more serious attachments from | did more than supply money to Gutenberg, who had made being mutual. Among others, Miss Wollstonecraft avowed attempts with movable metal types at Strasburg, before he a passion for him, which was not returned. He was short removed to Mayence in 1444-1445. Fust entered into in stature, but robust, with strongly marked features, and partnership with him; but soon after, in consequence of a an energetic countenance. Hariow's portrait, in little, is law suit, the partnership was dissolved, and the whole of esteemed the best likeness of him extant, as it is perhaps Gutenberg's printing apparatus fell into Fust's hands, the best picture Harlow ever produced. Fuseli had great who ultimately, with the assistance of Peter Schoeffer, facility in learning languages. He said that he could think made the invention useful to the world. The Latin Bible and write with equal ease in French, Italian, and English, in folio, commonly called the Mazarine Bible, executed but with most power in German. His English writings between 1450 and 1455, if it was not by Gutenberg, is are in a style not purely idiomatic, but they are full of supposed to be the earliest production of their press. nerve and originality of expression. His lectures contain (if we except some of his remarks upon contemporaries, which were sometimes all but unavoidably modified by personal feelings), some of the best criticism on the fine arts in the language. Though singularly abrupt and irritable in temper, he made and retained many friendships which were only broken by death. Lavater, Bonnycastle, and Johnson (the publisher), were among the oldest of his friends, and he survived them all. Many curious anecdotes are told of the freedom and quaintness with which he passed his strictures on all persons in matters of art, lite

rature, or manners.

The books with dates which bear the joint names of Fust and Schoeffer are: 1. The Latin Psalter of 1457, in large folio; the type of the size used in the great service books of the Romish Church. At the end is this subscription

"Adiuuentione artificiosa imprimendi ac caracterizandi
absque calami alla exaratione sic effigiatus. Et ad euse-
biam dei industrie est consummatus per Johannem fust
Ciuem Maguntinum. Et Petrum Schoffer de Gernszheim.
Anno dni Millesimo CCCC.LVII. In vigilia As-
sumptionis."

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2. The Psalter of 1459; with some variations from the preceding, but in the same size and letter. 3. The 'Rationale Fuseli made the works of Michel Angelo his chief study. divinorum Officiorum' of Durand, 1459, fol. maj.; the first He also moulded his style much upon the model of the specimen of the smaller type of Fust and Schoeffer. 4 colossal statues on Monte Cavallo, at Rome. His colouring The Clementine Constitutions, 1460, fol. maj. 5. Joannis is low in tone, and overspread with a sickly, greenish, Balbi de Janua Catholicon, 1460, fol. maj. 6. The Latin leaden, or yellowish hue; his hand hasty, and not skilful. Vulgate Bible, 2 vols., 1462, fol. maj. Copies of this Bible He would sometimes work with his colours dry in the are oftener found printed upon vellum than on paper, but powder, rubbing them up with his brush. Probably from both are rare. 7. The German Bible, fol. maj. [Known a deficiency in his early study, his drawing was not so correct to have been printed in 1462, or thereabout.] Reprinted in as his ambition was daring. His anatomy sometimes 1465. 8. Bulla Papa Pii II.' Germ. 1463, fol. maj. 9. resembles the mechanical and coarse ostentation of an arti-Liber sextus Decretalium Bonifacii VIII. Pont. Max.' ficial myotomical model rather than the free, varying, and 1465, fol. maj.: a second, or at least a varying impression blended forms of nature. The proportions are frequently of this work appeared in the same year. 10. Cicero's Offiexaggerated, and the action violent and intemperate. In ces and Paradoxa,' 1465, sm. fol.: the first edition of his desire to display the naked figure, he often sacrifices Cicero with a date. 11. Cicero's Offices and Paradoxa, his better knowledge, and violates all rules of costume; 1466, sm. fol. Copies of this edition are more common and there is sometimes much that is extravagant and upon vellum than on paper: that of 1465 is very rare upon fantastical in his design. His figures set about the com- vellum. 12. Grammatica rhytmica,' 1466, fol. min. It monest occupations, straining every feature, finger, and consists of eleven leaves in the smallest fount of type of toe, with superfluous energy. His Hamlet breaking these printers, and is of extreme rarity; two or three copies from his attendants to follow the Ghost' is in a prepo only are known. terously contorted attitude, and he looks as though he would burst his clothes with convulsive cramps in all his muscles. In an illustration to Cowper's Poems, a gentleman is seated at a family breakfast table without a waistcoat and with his hat on; his legs, which are curiously crossed, seem naked till the slight border of the trowser is perceived. On the other hand, there is always life and action in his figures, some event going forward in the design. His people seem in earnest. In dreamy or terrible subjects he is often grand and impressive. His 'Nightmare' is imaginative and full of feeling. His 'Sin pursued by Death' is truly a fine picture. Death is fitly hideous, and the female is a ghastly mixture of spectral paleness and voluptuousness. Fuseli loved his art with a genuine affection, and the bold and original thoughts of his vigorous if not exalted mind were impressed upon the canvass without misgiving. He only wanted a better training of his hand, and a more temperate habit of thinking, to have made a great painter. As it is, he has helped to vindicate the supremacy of design (including invention) and expression over the inferior parts of the art, and has done much to advance a better taste in this country. (Knowles.)

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The following works without date, from the close resemblance of their typography, are assigned without scruple by our best bibliographers to the press of Fust and Schoeffer. 1. Bulla Cruciata sanctissimi Domini nostri Papæ contra Turcos,' fol. in six printed leaves. It has no place or name. The type is like the Durand. 2. Laus Virginis,' folio, nine leaves. The device of the shields in red, at the end, seen in so many of these printers' works, decidedly justifies its being placed as the production of Fust and Schoeffer's press. 3. S. Aurelii Augustini de Arte prædicandi Tractatus,' folio: supposed to have been printed about 1466. It consists of twenty-two leaves. 4. Ælius Donatus de Octo partibus Orationis,' 4to.; the type of the smaller size, resembling the Latin Bible of 1462 and the Cicero of 1465.

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With an exception or two, the whole of Fust and Schoeffer's productions are in the collection at the British Museum.

Fust, whose name appears with Schoeffer's for the last time in 1466, is supposed to have died in that, or at latest in the next year, of the plague, at Paris. Schoeffer continued to print in his own name for a long time.

(Panzer, Annal. Typogr., vol. ii., p. 111-117; Bibliot Spenceriana, passim; Biogr. Universelle, tom. xvi. p. 205; Peignot, Variétés, Notices, et Raretés Bibliographiques, 8vo. Par. 1822, p. 78.)

FUSION. The different temperatures at which certain solids are rendered fluid have been already mentioned. [FREEZING POINTS.] In addition it may be merely remarked that fusion is sometimes used with the prefix of watery, and at other times igneous. Watery fusion is that FUSTIAN, à description of cotton fabrics similar in the which occurs when a salt, such as sulphate of soda for ex-mode of their manufacture to velvet, having in addition to ample, containing much water of crystallization fuses or melts in its water by exposure to a moderate heat; it may afterwards undergo igneous fusion by exposure to a much higher temperature.

FUST, or FAUST, JOHN, an opulent citizen of Mayence, a goldsmith by trade, whose name appears as one of the inventors of the art of printing, in the manner in which that art is effected by movable metal types. Gutenberg and Schoeffer were the two others. Schoeffer, by inventing the puncheon, is supposed to have given completion to the discovery. It is not however quite certain that Fust

the warp and weft common to all woven goods, a pile consisting of other threads doubled under the weft, and 'thrown in' at intervals so close together that when the goods are finished the interlacing of the warp and weft are concealed by them. [VELVET.] While in the loom the pile forms a series of loops, which are afterwards cut and sheared. The cutting is performed by running a knife through each series of loops as they occur in the weft; this gives an uneven and hairy appearance to the cloth, which is afterwards remedied first by the shearing process, and afterwards by singeing and brushing, which latter operations are re

peated until the fustian has acquired a smooth and polished appearance. The shearing of fustians is a separate art; and several hundred persons are engaged in it in the town of Manchester alone. Until lately the operations were conducted by hand, but the aid of machinery has now been obtained, and instead of the tedious operation of cutting open only one set of loops at once, a series of knives are brought to act together and continuously, until the whole piece is finished, by which means the work is not only done more quickly, but is also better performed than when its excellence depended upon the uniform precision of the human hand.

Various kinds of fustians are made, and are known by dif ferent names, according to their form and fineness. The best kinds are known as cotton velvet and velveteen; besides these there are beaverteens, moleskin, corduroy, and cords. Different patterns are produced by different dispositions of the pile threads. Fustians are woven both in the handloom and with the power-loom; they are made of different widths, some pieces being 18 and others 27 inches wide: a piece of velveteen of medium quality, 90 yards long and 18 inches wide, weighs about 24 or 25 lbs. The yarn for the warp is made of New Orleans cotton, or of Upland Georgia and Brazil cotton mixed, of the fineness of 32 hanks to the pound; the weft and pile are usually spun from Upland mixed with East India cotton, and the yarn is commonly of the fineness of 24 hanks to the pound. [COTTON SPINNING.]

FUSTIC. This name appears to be derived from fustet, the French name of a yellow dye-wood, the produce of Venetian sumach. A wood similar in colour and uses, but larger in size, having been subsequently imported from the New World, had the same name applied to it with the addition of old, while the other, being smaller, is called young fustic; but these, so far from being the produce of the same tree at different ages, do not even belong to the same genus.

Young Fustic, or, as it is sometimes called, Zante Fustic, is the produce of Rhus Cotinus (tribe Anacardiaceae), a native of Italy, the south of France, and of Greece; much of it is exported from Patras in the Morea; and it also extends into Asia. It is supposed to be the Cotinus of Pliny, being still called Scotino near Valcimara, in the Apennines, where it is cultivated on account of its uses in tanning. The root and the wood of this shrub are both imported, deprived of their bark, and employed for dyeing a yellow colour approaching to orange, upon wool or cottons, prepared either with alum or the nitro-muriate of tin with the addition of tartar. The colour is a beautiful bright yellow, and permanent when proper mordaunts are employed. Only small quantities of this kind of fustic are imported.

Dr. Sibthorp was of opinion that Rhamnus infectoria or oleoides, of which the berries are called French and Persian berries, yielded the fustic of commerce, and informs us that its yellow wood is called by the Greeks chrysoxylon. He also thought that it was the Lycium of Dioscorides, but this has been shown by Dr. Royle to be a species of Berberis, of which genus all the species have yellow wood.

Old Fustic, the 'bois jaune' of the French, is on the contrary the produce of a large tree, Morus tinctoria, dyer's mulberry, of the natural family of Urticeæ, a native of Tropical America and the West India Islands. The tree attains a height of 60 feet; the wood is yellow coloured, hard, and strong, but easily splintered, and is imported in the form of large logs or blocks. The yellow colour which it affords with an aluminous base, though durable, is not very bright. M. Chaptal discovered that glue, by precipitating its tannin, enabled its decoctions to dye yellow almost as bright as those of weld and quercitron bark. The fustic from Cuba is preferred, and fetches the highest price, varying from 107. to 12., while that from Jamaica or Columbia varies from 87. to 97. a ton. The tree is figured by Sloane, and noticed by Marcgrave and Piso. Browne describes it as a native of Jamaica, and deserving the attention of planters, as it is only propagated by birds, who are fond of its sweet roundish fruit.

Fustic is admitted into England at the nominal duty of three shillings per ton from British Possessions, and four shillings and six-pence from other countries. The annual import for each of the ten years, ending with 1836, was-1827, 4111 tons; 1828, 7597; 1829, 7364; 1830, 5111; 1831,

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FUSUS. [SIPHONOSTOMATA.] FUTTEHGHUR, a town in the district of Furruckabad distant 3 miles from the city of Furruckabad, on the western bank of the Ganges, in 27° 21′ N. lat. and 79° 30′ E. long. Futtehghur was formerly an important military station of the British government; but since the district has become more subject to the dominion of the law than it was when under the government of the nabob of Furruckabad, the number of the soldiers has been diminished, and is now quite inconsiderable. This town is the residence of the civil officers entrusted with the management of the conquered and ceded provinces, and several European merchants reside and carry on their business within its walls. During the dry season the Ganges is here reduced to two or three narrow channels winding slowly through a bed of sand, and at this time the town is hardly habitable because of the clouds of dust which are continually flying. The town contains an arsenal which is protected by a strong mud fort. The chief industry carried on within the town is the manufacture of tents, which are made of good materials and excellent workmanship. Futtehghur is distant 90 miles north-west from Lucknow, travelling distance.

FUTTIPORE, a town situated 19 miles south-west from the city of Agra, and within the province of that name, in 26° 6' N. lat. and 77° 34′ E. long. The walls by which it is surrounded are of great extent. The inclosed space appears for the most part to have been always unprovided with buildings. The stone of which the walls are formed is furnished by quarries in the neighbourhood, which have also supplied the materials for building the houses, which are not numerous. The town was inclosed and fortified by the Emperor Akbar, whose favourite residence it was. It contains an extensive tomb, also built by Akbar, in which several members of the imperial family were buried: the palace which he inhabited has long been in ruins, while a small house, which is said to have been the residence of his favourite minister, is still in good preservation. FUTURE. [TIME.]

FUZE, a short tube, made of well-seasoned beech, and fixed in the bore of a shell. It is filled with a composition, which, being fired by means of a small piece of quick-match inserted for the purpose, the shell is made to explode in consequence of the fire communicating with the powder with which it is charged. The length of a fuze is regulated by the intended range of the shell or by the intended time of its flight.

For the ingredients which enter into the composition, and for the manner of driving' the fuze, see Spearman's British Gunner.

FYZABAD, a town in the kingdom of Oude, situated on the south side of the Goggra river, in 26° 47′ N. lat. and 82° 3' E. long., 2 miles west from Oude, the antient capital. In the reign of Shuja ud Dowlah, Fyzabad was made the capital, but the seat of government was transferred to Lucknow, in 1775, by his son and successor Azoph ud Dowlah. Shuja's palace is already in ruins. At the time just mentioned, the bankers and superior merchants accompanied the court to Lucknow, but the population is still numerous. The widow of Shuja ud Dowlah, known in history as the Bhow Begum, continued to reside in Fyzabad to the time of her death. She was possessed of great wealth, the amount of which, as is usual in the East, was much exaggerated. She wished to bequeath the whole of her property to the English government, but the offer was declined; and after providing for her other relations.

and dependants, the bulk of her fortune descended to her | landed property (jaghires) yielding 80,000l. per annum and
grandson Ghazi ud Deen, king of Oude. It required a
sum equal to about 680,000l. to provide for the payment of
the various legacies and pensions bequeathed by the Be-
gum's will, after which the king of Oude succeeded to

money to the amount of 270,000l., besides jewels, shawis,
and cattle, the value of which was very great, but was not
ascertained. Fyzabad is 78 miles east from Lucknow, tra
velling distance.

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[Leguminósæ]

Fábius Maximus, 151

Fábius Pictor, 152
Fable, 152

Fabretti, 152

Fabriáno [Maceráta]
Fabrícius, Caius, 153

Fabrícius, J. A., 153

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Farmers-General, 200

Farnaby, 201

Farnese, 201

Farnham, 202

Faro, 202

Faroe Islands, 202
Farquhar, 203
Farrant, 203
Farringdon, 203

Fars, or Farsistan [Persia]
Farthing [Money]
Farthingale, 204

Fasces Consul; Dictator]
Fascicle, 204

Fácia [Civil Architecture; Co- Fasciculária [Madrephyllica]

lumn]

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Fasciolária [Siphonostomata]

Fascines, 204

Fast, 204

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Fear, Cape [Carolina, North]
Fear, Cape, River [Carolina,
North]

Feast, or Festival, 213
February, 213

Fécamp, 213

Feciális, 213

Fécula, or Fæ cula [Starch]

Fecundation of Plants [Impreg-
nation of Plants]

Federation, 214
Fedor, Ivanovich, 215
Fedor, Alexeyewich, 215

Fee Simple [Estate]

Fee Tail [Estate]

Feeling [Touch]

Fanoe [Denmark, vol. ́viii., p. | Fees, 216

398]

Fanshawe, 195

Fantees, 195

Fehme, or Fehmgericht, 216

Felegyháza, 217

Felipe, San, 217

Farce [English Drama, vol. ix. Felis, Félidæ, 217

p. 417]

Faria e Sousa, 195

Farína [Starch]

Farm, 196

Felix I., II., III., 224
Felix V. [Amadeus VIII.]
Fellowship (in arithmetic), 224
Fellowship in a college). 294

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Feltre (Belluno]

Felucca, 225

Feme-sole [Wife]
Femern [Schleswig]
Feminine [Gender]
Fences, 225
Fenelon, 226
Fennec Fox]

Fennel [Fæniculum]
Fenton, 227

Fenugreek [Trigonella]
Feod [Feudal System]
Feodosia [Kaffa]
Feoffment, 227
Feræ, 228

Ferdinand I., II., III., of Aus-
tria, 228

Ferdinand I., II., III, IV., of
Naples, 229

Ferdinand I., II., III., IV., V.,
VI., VII., of Spain, 231
Ferdúsi [Firdusi]
Ferguson, James, 233
Ferguson, Adam, 234
Ferguson, Robert, 234
Fergusonite, 235
Ferishta, 235
Fermanagh, 235
Fermat, 236
Fermentation, 237

Fermo ed Ascoli, 238
Fermoy, 238

Fernandez, Joan, 238
Fernandez, Denis, 238
Fernandez, Navarrete, 238
Fernandez, Francisco, 239
Fernandez, Antonio, 239
Fernandez, Antonio [Tellez]
Fernandez, Juan, 239

Fernando Po, 239

Ferney [Ain]
Ferns, 239
Ferns [Filices]

Ferrára, Legazione di, 239
Ferrara (town), 240
Ferrei and Ferrari, 240
Ferreira, Antonio, 240
Ferréras, 241
Ferret [Mastelidæ]
Ferro, or Hierro, 241
Ferrocyanic Acid, 241
Ferról, 241

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Fibulária [Echinidæ, vol. ix..

pp. 260, 261]

Ficédula [Beccafico, vol. iv., [..
125; Sylviada]
Fichte, 256

Fichtelgebirge, 257
Ficíno, 257

Ficoideæ [Mesembryacea

Fiction [Novel; Romance
Fictions (in law), 257
Ficus, 258

Fiddle [Violin]
Fidei Commiss, 259
Fideicommissum, 259
Fief [Feudal System]
Field of View [Telescope}
Fieldfare [Merulidæl
Field-Marshal, 259
Fielding, Henry, 260
Fíeri Fácias, 261

Fieschi [Doria]

Fiésole [Etruria; Florence]
Fife, 261

Fifeshire, 261

Fifteenth (in music), 267
Fifth (in music), 267
Fifth Monarchy Men, 267
Fig, 267

Figeac Lot]

Figueras [Catalonia, p. 362;
Figulus [Creeper, vol. viii., p
148]

Figurate Numbers [Numbe's
Figurate and Polygonal]
Figure (in geometry), 268
Figure of the Earth [Geodesy!
Figured Base, 268
Filament [Anther
Filangiéri, 268
Filária [Entozoa]
Filbert, 268

Filices [Gleicheniacea]
Fillet (in architecture), 269
Filter, 269

Fimbria (zoology) [Veneridæ

Fin [Fish]
Finále, 270

Finch [Bullfinch; Chaffinch :
Fringillida]

Finch [Nottingham, Lord]
Fine of Lands, 270

Fingal [Ossian]
Finger [Hand]
Finger-Board, 271
Fingering, 271
Finistère, 271
Finite, 273

Finland, 273

Finland, Gulf of [Baltic Sea

Finmark [Norway]

Fins, 275
Fir [Abies]
Firdúsi

Fire [Heat]

Fire-Arms Arms; Artillery}

Fire-Engine, 277

Fire-Escape, 279

Fire-Fly [Elaterida; Lampyris |

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Fisher, Bishop, 283

Fisheries, 284

Fishguard [Pembrokeshire]
Fissirostres, 289

Fissurella [Cervicobranchiata,
vol. vi., p. 443]
Fistula Lacrymális [Lacrymal
Organs, Diseases of]
Fistulána [Tubicolida; Clava-
gella, vol. vii., p. 241]
Fit [Syncope]
Fitzjames [Berwick, Duke of]
Firzstephen, 289
Fiúme, 289

Fixed Air [Carbonic Acid]
Flabellária [Pseudozoa]
Flabellína [Nudibranchiata]
Flaccus, C. Valérius, 289
Flag, 290

Flagellants, Flagellation, 290
Flágeolet, 291

Flamborough Head [Yorkshire]
Flame, 291

Flamen, Flámines, 291

Flamingo, 292

Flamininus, 295

VOL. X.

Flucerine, 327
Flue [House]
Fluellite, 327

Fluents [Fluxions]
Fluid, 327

Fluidity, 328

Fluoboric Acid Gas, 328 Fluor Spar, 328

Fluoric Acid [Hydrofluoric Acid]|

Fluorine, 328

Fluosilicic Acid, 329

Flushing, 329

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Flustra [Cellariæa, vol. vi., p. Formentéra [Balearic Islands]

401]

Flute, 329
Flute-Stop, 330
Flute, Flutings [Column]
Flux (in chemistry), 330
Fluxions, 330
Fly, 332

Fly Trap [Dionaea]
Fly-Wheel Wheels]
Flying Fish, 332
Fo, 333
Fo-hi, 333

Focksham, or Foczany [Moldavia]

Focus (Geometry) [Ellipse;
Hyperbola; Parabola]
Focus (Optics) [Lens; Mirror]
Fódia, 333

Foehr, or Foehrde, 333
Foeldvár [Tolna]
Foeniculum, 333
Fœtus, 333

Foetus (in botany), 335
Fóggia, 336

Foil (in gilding) [Gilding]
Foix, 336

Foix, Gaston, Count de, 336
Fokian [China, p. 80]

Foksham [Wallachia]

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Folárd, 337

Flat (in music), 302

Folcland [Bocland]

Flax, 302

Fólio, 337

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Fletcher, John, 309

Fletcher, Giles and Phineas, 309

Fletcher, Andrew, 309
Fleur de Lys, 310

Fleury, Cardinal, 310
Fleury, Abbé, 310
Flexure, Contrary, 311
Flibustier [Buccaneers]
Flinders, 311
Flint, 312

Flint [Flintshire]
Flint-Glass [Glass]
Flints, Liquor of, 312
Flintshire, 313
Flinty Slate, 319

Flodden Field [James IV.]
Flook [Anchor]
Flora, 319

Florence (province), 319
Florence (city), 320
Flores (Azores), 323

Flores (Indian Archipelago),

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Folkmote, 338

Fomalhaut [Piscis Australis]
Fomentations, 338
Fondi [Lavoro, Terra di]

Font, 338

Fontainebleau, 339
Fontaine, 339

Fontaine-l'Evêque [Hainault]
Fontána, 340

Fontarabia, or Fuente Rabia [Guipuzcoa]

Fontenay, 341
Fontenelle, 341

Fontenoy [Hainault]
Food, 342

Food, Preservation of septics]

Food of Labourers, 345
Fools, Feast of, 346
Fools' Parsley [thusa]
Foot [Measures]
Foot-Ball, 346
Foote, Samuel, 346
Foraminifera, 347
Forbes, Duncan, 348
Forbes James, 349
Forbin, Claude, 349
Force, 350

Formic Acid, 372
Formic Ether, 372
Formosa [Tai-wan]
Formósa, Rio, 372
Formósus, 372
Fornax, 373
Forskal, 373
Forster, J. R., 373
Forster, J. G., 374
Forster, G., 374
Forsterite, 374
Fort, Le [Lefort]
Fort Royal [Martinique?
Forte (in music), 374
Fortescue. 374
Forth, 374
Fortification, 375
Fortiguerra, 378
Fortis, 378

Fortunate Islands [Canave?!
Fortune, 378

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Fournier [Creeper, vol. viii., p. Frederick William, Duke of

148]

Fourth (in music), 390

Foveólia [Medusa]

Fowey [Cornwall]

[Anti-Fowling, 390

Forces, Impressed and Effective, 351

Forces, Parallelogram of, 351
Forcing, 351
Ford, 352

Ford, John, 353

Fordun, John de, 353
Fordwich [Kent]
Foreclosure [Mortgage]
Foreland, N. and S. [Kent]
Foreman [Jury]
Foreshortening, 353
Forest, 354

Forest Laws, 358

Fox, 390

Fox, Richard, 395
Fox, John, 395

Fox, George, 396

Fox, Charles James, 396

Fox Islands [Aleutian Islands]

Foxglove [Digitalis]
Foy, M. S., 399

Foyle, Lough, 400
Fracastóro, 400

Fractions, Common and Decimal, 401

Fractions, Continued, 402
Fractions, Vanishing, 403
Fracture, 403

Fracture (in mineralogy), 406
Fragaria [Strawberry]

Fraise, 406

Framlingham [Suffolk]
France, 406

France, Isle of [Mauritius]
Franche Comté, 441
Franchise, 442

Francis I., II., of France, 442, 444

Francis I.. II. of Germany 444

Brunswick, 466

Frederick I., II., III., IV.,

Kings of Denmark, 467

Frederica [Ribe]

Fredericksburg [Virginia]

Frederickshall [Christiania]

Frederickstadt [Christiania]
Fredericktown [Maryland]]
Fredro, 467

Free Bench, 467
Free School [School]
Free Will [Will]
Freedman [Slave]
Freehold, 468
Freestone [Sandstone]
Freezing, 468

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Freezing and Melting Points,468 Freiberg (in Erzgebirge circle),

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