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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    as the ant. Salajfi, the Inhabitants of this Couniry. It lies alo. the Foot of the Alps, which run alo. the W. Side of it, and is parted fr. the Vercelleje on the E. Side by the r. Doria. ’Twas abt. 400 yrs. ago aconfid. Country of Italy under its own Marquiffes. Charlemagne eretted it h Sufa into 2 Mar- quifates. But it now belongs to the Duke of Savoy. JUREA City, Cap. of the preceding, went amo. ant. Authors by Names of Eporredia, Eporadia, Eporedia. ’Tis ftrongly fit. on the Dorea, over which it has a ftately Stone Bridge of but 1 large Arch, 31 m. N. of Turin, 25 S. fr. Aofte, 30 W. fr. Vercelli, E. Ion. 7. 50. lat 45. 18. Tis well fortified, and has a (tout Caftle fuppos’d built 100 yrs. bef. Xt. But ’tis now neither fo large, populous, nor opu¬ lent, as formerly, having fcarce 6000 People, the greateft Part of ’em very poor.— ’Twas taken by the Fr. King in 1704, after a bloody and refolute Defence; but in September 1706, after the memorable Defeat of the French before Tu¬ rinthe Duke, lAc. retook it. The Country abt. it is fam’d for making a fine Sort of Cheefe. JUSTINOPLE. See ISTRIA Capo de. JUTLAND Proper, or N. Jutland, [Slejwick being call’d S. Jutland,] Denmark, is the moll N. Part of the Continent, and was the Country of the ant. Jutes, who affifted their Neighbours the Angles in the Conqueft of Britain. In the Opinion of Learned Men it was ant. inhab. by Men of gi¬ gantic Stature, in their Language call’d Kempers, which oc- cafion’d the Romans (wanting the Letter K) to call them, and the Nation from them, Cimbri, whence the whole Country, together with Slejwick h Holjlein, was named Cimbrica Cher- fonefus : i. e. the Peninfula of the Cimbri. It has the N. Sea on W. and N.; on N. E. the Categate or Schager-Raak; E. the Lejfer Belt, or Middlefort Sound, and the Baltick ; S. the Du. of Slejwick, from which feparated by a conceived Line from Ripen City to Colding. The whole of this Country (for the D. of Holjlein has joint Domin. in Part of Slejwick) be¬ longs to the K. of Denmark, and is divided into 4 Diocefes, of Ripen to S. Arhufen to E. Wilurg in Mid. and Aalburg to N. Which faid 4 Sub-Generals fee for their fev. Specials. The Soil of N. Jutland is not very fruitful; but they’ve Corn enough for themfelves, and abound in Cattle, which they fell lean in Germany and the Netherlands, where they thrive extremely. IXWORTH, Suffolk, 73 m. fr. London, a Thoroughfare betw. Bury and Yarmouth, had a Priory, & Rom. Coins have been here dug up. Market Friday; h it has 2 annual Fairs. IZDOGAS, Ifadagas, in Hajcora Prov. Morocco Kgd. was built by the Nat. Africans on Top of a high Hill, furro. by 4 others, betw. which and the Rivers at Bottom grow vail Numbers of excel. Fruit-trees of all Sorts, aro. whofe Bo¬ dies twine ftately Vines of black Grapes fr. their Size call’d Hens Eggs. . The Town’s only Defence is its Situation and Number of Inhabitants of abt. 1000 Families, moftly Mer¬ chants and Artificers, amo. ’em Jews. ’Tis well fupply’d with Water fr. fev. Canals thro’ it, and has its Judges fpirit. and temporal. The People are polite, hofpitable, and lefs jealous than moll in thole hot Climes. The Women are fair & handfome, genteely, fome richly, drelt. They traffick with other Countries in Cattle, Grain, Fruit, Butter, Oil, wh. are here very plentiful, as is Honey, wh. exceeds for Talle & Beauty, h becomes as hard as Loaf-fugar if kept a Year. K ABYLES, a People mention'd in divers of the African Articles, £sV. — Previous to the perufing this very ttfeful Article, it might be fit to revife that the like one of the BEDOUINS. For from the Dou-wars of the Bedoweens, as fays Dr. Shaw, we afeend to the Dajhkras of the Kabyles, which confilt of a Number of Gurbies, as the Don-wars do of Hhymas. Thefe Gurbies are gen. raifed either with Hur¬ dles, daub’d over with Mud, or built out of Materials of fome adja. Ruins, or with fquare Cakes of Clay bak’d in the Sun. The Roofs are cover’d with Straw or Turf, fup- ported by Reeds, or Branches of Trees. There’s rarely more than 1 Chamber in the largeft of’em, tho’ it ferves for Kit¬ chen, Dining-room, Bedchamber; befides 1 Corner referv’d for their Foies, Calves, Kids. Thefe Hovels being always fix’d are undoubtedly what the Antiens call’d Magalia. Ac¬ cording to Virgil [zEn. i. 425] Miratur molem jEneus, Maga¬ lia quondam, therefore, Carthage itfelf, before the Time of Dido, was nothing but one of thefe Dajhkras. See CAR¬ THAGE, p. 281. The Kabyles, from their Situation and Language (for all the reft of the Country fpeak Arabic) feem the only People of Barbary who can l?ear any near Relation r a b to the ant. Africans. The Africans who retir’d co the Moua-“ tains/ and there formed themfelves into Kabyleah, or Clans, may be fuppofed to have been the leaft affe&ed with the In¬ novations brought in by conquering Invaders, whilft the No- mades were forced by Degrees to fubmit to Alterations. The chief Manufacture amo. the Kabyles is the making of Hykes (as they call Woollen Blankets) and Webs of Goats Hair for their Tents. Women alone are employ'd in it, as were An¬ dromache Penelope, who make no Ufe of Shuttle, but con¬ duct every Thread of the Woof with Fingers. A Hyke is ufually 6 yds. lo. & 5 or 6 f. br. ferving the Kabyle and Arab for a compleat Drefs by Day, and for Bed and Covering at Night. ’ Tis a loofe troublefome Kind of Garment, being freq. difconcerted, and falling upon the Ground, fo that the Wearer is continually obliged to tuck it up, and fold it anew abt. his Body. This Ihews the great Ufe there is for a Gir¬ dle in attending any aCtive Employment, & in Confequence thereof, the Force of the Scripture Injunction, alluding thereto, of having our Loins girded. Thus, Gird thyfelf he. Lukexvh. 8. See alfo Adis xii. 8. EpheJ. vi. 14. Rev. i. 13. and xv. 6. I. Pet. i. 13. II. Kings iv. 29. and ix. 1, (Ac. And HvrfpirctTcs join’d with uuctprlz, in Heb. xii. 1. i. e. Sin which is fo wellfitted to gird us in, is alfo well illullrated by the Fafhion and Manner of wearing thefe Garments. ’Tis'probable that the loofe folding Garment (fuppofe the Toga) of the Romans was of this Kind; for if the Dra¬ pery of their Statues is to inftruCl us, this is aClually no other than what thefe Arabs appear in when they are folded up in their Hykes. They join together, with Thread or a wooden Bodkin, the 2 upper Corners of this Garment, wh. being firft placed over 1 of their Shoulders, they fold the reft of it afterw. round their Bodies. The Burnoofe (as they call their Cloak or upper Garment) is of one Piece, fhap’d ftreight abt. the Neck, with a Cape for a Cover to the Head, and wide below like a Cloak. Some are /ringed round the Bottom. The Burnoofe without Cape feems anfwerable to the Roman Pallium, and with it to the Bardocucullus, being probably the fame with our Saviour’s Cloak, which (Job xix. 23.) was wove without Seam from Top to Bottom, and with the Cloaths of the Ifrcelites [Ex. xii. 34.) wherein they folded up their kneading Troughs, as the Kabyles, he. all do, to this Day, Things of like Burthen and incumbrance. Ex¬ cept the above Cape they go bare-headed all Year long, bin¬ ding their Temples only with a Fillet, to prevent their Hair from being troublefome. Some of thefe People wear under their Hykes a clofe-bodied Frock or Tunick with or without Sleeves. This no lefs than the Hyke is to be girded, elpec. when they are engaged in any Labour or Exercife, when they ufually throw off their Hykes and Burnoofes, and remain only in their Tunicks. Of this Kind probably was the Ha¬ bit which our Saviour might ftill be cloathed with, when he is faid to lay afide his Garments (Pallium Jc.iA Peplum, Joh. xiii. 4) and to take a Towel and gird himfelf; as was likewife the Fijhers Coat [which the Vulgate renders Tunica] Joh. xxi. 7. which St. Peter girded upon him, before he is enjoined to cafi his Garsnent about him. Now, the Hyke h Burnoofe being probably the proper Drefs or Habit of the E. Nations, as they continue now of the Kabyles, the laying’ em afide might be other Words only for being naked. Their Girdles are ufually of Worfted very artfully woven into a Variety of Figures, and made to wrap fev. times about their Bodies. One End, by being doubled h fown along the Edges, ferves them for a Purfe, agreeable to the Acceptation of the Word Z^rii in the H. Scripture, which in Mat. x. 9. Mar. vi. 8. we render a Purfe. The Arabs in gen. wear nothing but Woollen. There’s a Ceremony indeed in fome Dou-wars for the Man h Woman to wear each of them a Shirt at the Ce¬ lebration of their Nuptials; but then they are not afterw. to wafii or put ’em off as long as they laft. Neither are the Bedoweens,(Ac. accuftom’d to wear Drawers, a Habit which the Citizens of both Sexes conftantly appear in, efpec. at paying or repaying Vifits. The Virgins are diftinguiih’d fr. the Matrons in having theirs made of Needle-work, ftriped Silk or Linnet), juft as Tamer s Garment is deferib’d II. Sam. xiii. 18. When the Moorifio Women appear in Publick, they fold themfelves up fo Cloiely in their Hykes, that very little is to be feen of their Faces. But in Summer, in the Coun¬ try, they walk with lefs Refervednefs, and upon the Ap¬ proach of a Stranger let only their Veils fall ov. their Faces, as Rebekah may be fuppos’d to have done on .Sight of Ifaac, Gen. xxiv; 65. They all affett having their Hair hang down to the Ground, which they collect into one Lock, on the hinder Part of the Head, binding h plaiting (I. Pet. iii. 3.) it afterw. with Ribbons. Where Nature hath been lefs li¬ beral, the Defett is to be fupply’d by Art, & foreign Hai^ interwoven