Volume 1

A universal geographical dictionary; or, grand gazetter. Of general, special, antient and modern geography: including a comprehensive view of the various countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of the British dominions and settlements throughout the world ... / by Andrew Brice.

  • Andrew Brice
Date:
1759
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Credit: A universal geographical dictionary; or, grand gazetter. Of general, special, antient and modern geography: including a comprehensive view of the various countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of the British dominions and settlements throughout the world ... / by Andrew Brice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    j U L A, f v ,« it : • , > ^ » ft# being the Birth-place of Ulyffes, the Soft of Laertes. [Hence //£<*««.] It had a Town of the fame Name fiti accord, to Homer, at the Foot of Mt. thought the Fame with Virgil's Mt. Neritus, iEn. iii. v. 270. P. Mela ffciftakes Mount Neritus for another IJland here. ITSCHOA. See ITZEHO. ITRUREA, mention’d Luke iii. i. a Country, and Te- frarchy in Galilee in Herod's Time, lying on the E. of the Courfe of Jordan, is thought to have taken Name fr. Jetur, i of the Sons of Ijhmael (Gen. xx. 25.) who fettled in thefe Parts, & whofe Pofterity was driven out or fubdued by thofe Amorites over whom reigned Og. It was therefore much the fame with Bajkan. ITZEHO, or Itfchoa, in Holjlein, on the Stosr, 4 m. E. <5f Wilfer, 20. S. W. of Renjlurgh, 32 N. W. of Hamburg, 40 S. W. of Kiel, 10N.E. of Gluchftat, E. Ion. 9. 8. lat. 54. 40. is a fmall Town at Foot of a Mount, defended by an old Caille, & has fome Trade by its River, which abt. 7 m. below falls into the Elbe. The new Town efpec. is well built, entirely furrounded with the Stoer, navig. and aboun¬ ding with Fi(h. ’Tis reckon’d in the 3d Clals of Holjlein s Towns, is gov. by 2 Burgomafters, and has 2 Churches, 1 in each Town. Here’s a Lutheran Nunnery, a Retreat for Ladies, but without the Vows and Ufages of Popilh Con¬ sents. The Road hence to Renjberg is thro’ a charming Country, and all the Way hence to Hamburg is lined with Villages, Farms, &c. in a fertile Soil, diverfify’d with Plats of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Flax, Millet, Peafe, &c. 1VAH. See AVA. JUBO Kingdom and River are reckon’d the N. Bounda¬ ries of Zanquebar, and feated juft on t’other Side the Line, in 1 Degree N. lat. JUCATAN, See YUCATAN, as rightly ’tis pronounced. JUDEA. See CANAAN, See. JUDENBURG, in up. Styria, Aujlria, fit. on the Mur, 50 m. W. of Gratz, 90 S. W. of Vienna, E. Ion. 15. 8. lat. 47. 20. is a hand-fonts well-built Town, in a Country for 2 leag. down the River pleafant and fruitful. The ant. Dukes of Styria had here a Palace and fine Caftle. Here are 2 great Fairs, on Afcenfion and Sr. Urfulas Days. There’s a Paffage to Gratz by the Mur, but the Road to it by the Mountains is neareft by half. It has 5 Gates and a Poftern. Here’s a Hofpital, Nunnery, and good Town-houfe. ’Tis govern’d by a Burgomafter, a Judge, and a Council. But all Criminal Cafes are try’d at Gratz, tho’ Sentence is exe¬ cuted here on a Scaffold in the Town-houfe. Here’s a Bridge over the River to a Church and Suburb. JUDENSTADT, or Jews Town. See PRAGUE. JUDOIGNE, in Aujl. Brabant, fit. on the little River Geete, abt. 6 m. from Tirlemont to S. 11 from Louvain to S. E. 15 from Namur toN. j E. Ion. 4. 55. lat. 50.45. is an ant.Town, having a Hofpital and Nunnery, but the Church is without the Town. The Battle of Ramillies (which now noted Village is but 6 m. to S.) was fought near this Place; for which fee RAMILLIES. IVER, in Bucks, near Uxbridge and the Coin, has Fairs June 29. and Ang. 1. and a Charity School. JUGORA, Jugorfi, Jugra, Juhorf/ii, Prov. in E. Muf- covy, is boun. S. W. by Mezzen, N. by the N. Ocean, E. by Petzora Prov. S. by Ujling & Permia. ’Tis large, & div. by the Polar Circle into i Parts, the far biggeft on this Side. The Situat. is cold enough to make it barren, fo that being uncultivated ’tis over-run with Forefts or cover’d w. Lakes & Bogs. It has many Rivers, the chief Fitza, Goloebmtza, Golobeica, Ottna, Oymitza, Peitza, Peizitza, Voloinga, Indega ; all flowing N. into the Gulph of Teefca. Several others S. take different Courfes, fome into the Dwina, others into Lakes. In the Middle is the Territory of Vaconitza Volojl, which has here & there a great Village ; and on S. are the Jugorian Mountains, ever covered w. Ice & Snow. Le Brun fays the Jaegorians (as he calls the People) fed on the raw Guts and Garbage of Animals. Chief Towns are Jugoria, Plovouica, Waafgorta, Sec. not worth mentioning. JUGORA, the faid Cap. of the preceding, ftands on a {mail Bay of its Name on the N. Coaft, in 68 lat. between the I flan d of Condenois W. and Gulph of Petzerjkaia N. E. ©v. agt. it, abt. 20 leag, off fr. the Land, lies Colgoya Ifland. IVFCA, or Ivifas. SeeYVICA. FVIMGO, Bucks, 55 m. from London, ftands amo. Woods, in a Nook that runs in between Bedford/hire &c Hartford/, had a Nunnery, and has a Market Mondays, & a Fair Apr. 25. JULIAN ALPS, in the Grifons Country, are difting. into 3 Mountains about the Source of the Inn. The moft N. of the 3, which is prop. Mt. Julius, is fuppos’d fo nam’d from Julius or Augujlus Co.far, who aflum’d that Name after his Adoption. One or other of them is faid to have made * milit. Expedition ipto thefe Mountains, & left a Monument of 2 rough Stone Pillars, without Pedeftal or Chapiter; plan* ted in the Ground, each Side the main Road. _ JULIERS Duchy, in Wefphalia. Germ, lies between tho Maefe and Rhine, bounded on N. by Guelderland and Cleve S. by Luxemburg and Trier, E. by Berg D. and Cologne Eleft. W. by Liege Sc Limburg, & is abt. 60 m. lo. 30. br. fruitful in Catt.e, Corn, Hay, Wood, has Plenty of Deer, Fifti (Ac. yields Dyers Woad, & has an excel. Breed of Horfes, the 2 laft exported. This with Berg have been much con¬ tended for by the Electors of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Pa¬ latine ; but in 1741 ’twas yielded by the former tathe Prince of Sultzback, the pref. Eleft. Palatine, who now pofieffes it, Fr. being Guarantee. The chief Towns are Juliers Sc Duren, r I^HERS’ °r GULICK, City, ftands on the hither Roer, (which is very fubj. to overflow, but falls into the MatJ* at Roermoude, as the other Roer does into the Rhine at Duisburg and Roeroort) 13 m. N. E. of Aix la Chapelle, 19 N. W of Cologne, 39 E. of Maefricht, 66 N. of Trier, 84 E. of Bruf- fels •, E. Ion. 6. 46. lat. 50. 48. ’Tis much doubted whe¬ ther it had Name either from Julius or Julia Agrippina., ’Tis well fortified, has a Citadel ftrong as the beft Engineers iii Germany could make it, being 30 Years building, with a fpacious Piazza in it, with the Palace of the antient Dukes. The Streets are broad and regular, and Houfes neat; being of Brick. In the Suburb’s a Carthufian Monaftery JULIOPOLIS. See TARSUS. JULIS, in Ceos Ifland, was a famous City, and as well as Carthaa, has its Ruins yet remaining, which take up a whole Mountain, and are call’d by the modern Inhabitants Polis, i. e. City. Near it are feen the Ruins of a {lately Temple, with a great many Pieces of broken Pillars anti Statues of moft excel. Workmanfhip. The City Walls wer© Marble, and fome Pieces are ftill remaining above 12 f. lo. Strabo tells us, that the Athenians, having befieged this City, rais’d the Siege, upon Advice that the Inhabitants had refol- ved to murder all the Children under a cert. Age. that othef ufeful Perfons might not be imploy’d in looking after them. It was, accord, to the fame Author, the Birth-place of Si¬ monides, Bachylides, Erafiftratus, and Arijlo. The Oxford Maibles tell us. That Simonides, Son of Lcoprepis, invented a Sort of artificial Memory, whereof he fhew’d the Princi¬ ples at Athens; and add that he was defeended from another Simonides, a Poet no lefs renovvn’d. One of thefe 2 inven¬ ted thofe doleful Verfes, which were fung at Funerals, by the Latins called Nania. [Vid. Hor. 1. ii. Od. 1.] JULIUS HALL. See BRUNSWICK Wolfetnbuttk. JULPHA. See ZULPHA. IVOY, or CARIGNAN, in Fr. Luxemburg!, is a fmall Town on the Riv. Cbier, fit. near the Borders of Lorrain, 6 m. fr. Sedan to W. It was fortify’d, but the Walls are de- molifh'd. JURA, 1 of VV.IJlands of Scot!, feparated Ix.IJla by a Sound half m. br. 12. m. fr. Gigay, 24 m. lo. 7 br. belongs to the D. of Argyle, and makes Part of that Shire, is well inhabited on the E. Coaft, and abounds with Deer, Horfesj Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Fowl wild and tame. ’Tis reck. 1 of the moft healthful Places in Scotland, enjoying clear Air fr. Mid. of March to Michaelmas, Sc the Inhabitants are fo long- liv’d, that Mr. Martin fays, in his Time here was a Womari 140 yrs. old, who had all her Senfes perfeft to the laft, and a Man that kept 1 80 Chrfisnaffes in his own Houle. ’Tis noted for a medic. Well, good agt. the Stone & a naufeated Stomach, with lev. oth. Fountains of excellent Water, & Ri¬ vers that have very good Salmon. Lochtarbat-Bay, 4 m. f lo. 2 br. on the W. Side of it, has many little Iflands in it. The W. Shore has Coral and Coralline, and a Sore of white Pulfe. In mid. this Ifland are 4 very high Mounts, of which the 2 higheft are by Seamen call’d the Paps of Ju¬ ra. They’re cov. with Heath and fome Grafs, affording Paftufage. The Salmon in its River Nijfa, which receives all its Waters fr. the Well abovefaid, are reckon’d better than thofe of any other River. Between the N. End of Jura and Scarba is a danger. Gulph with an impetuous Current, not to be parallel’d abt. Great Britain ; yet the fmalleft Fifher-boat may crofs it at the laft Hour of the Tide of Flood or Tide of Ebb. Here's 1 Church, the Inhabi¬ tants all Proteftant, tho’ they talk Irijh, and did ’till lately wear the Highland Garb, prohibited now by Law. JURA Mount. See FRANCHE-COMPTE & JOUX> JURE A Marqulfate, in Piedmont, Italy, was artt. a confid. Part of Gallia Cijalpina. The Romans planted here a Colony, to be a kind of Barrier to Italy, when Jurea its Capital Was a Place of Strength’ and Note even in thofe Times, as well