it is difficult to conjecture; but we cannot help withing that the experiment had been tried. Soon after Mr Pitt found himself again establish. ed in power, he bent all his endeavours to form a third coalition of the continental powers against France, a measure which Mr F. condemned, from the defpair which he entertained of its fuccefs. His predictions, in the prefent cafe, unfortunately received almost inftant completion; for the war, which began on the 8th October 1805 was terminated, in lefs than two months, by the total difcomfiture of the allies. The health of Pitt was at this time declining, and the force of his disease, was probably augmented by disappointment and chagrin at the immediate failure of a scheme, from which he had formed considerable expectations. He died on the 23d January 1806; and, like Arif tides, who had been Treasurer of confederated Greece, during the lavifhment of a long and expenfive war, he did not leave money, fufficient to pay his debts, or the expenfes of his funeral both of which were discharged by the nation. When the propofal was made in parliament for Hehowing this laft mark of respect, the most di tinguished me mbars of either party embraced the opportunity of pronouncing his eulogium and we fully expected that among thefe Mr F. would have food confpic noufly forward, as no fairer occafion could offer for the unreftrained indulgence of a heroic nobleness and generofity of nature, than that of honouring with full applaufe the memory of an illustrious rival "whom fate had laid where all muft lye." We remembered the striking and affecting enthufiafm, with which chines, when banished through the influence of Demofthenes, proclaimed the praife of that patriotic orator, We remembered the fentiment of Johnfon" that no man ever outlived an enemy, whom he did not then with to have made a friend"; and the illuf tration of this fentiment in the pathetic lines of Scaliger, lamenting the death of Erasmus, before their literary controverty was concluded. With thefe recollections, and the belief that, in candour, magnanimity, and tenderness Mr F. was fuperior to fchines or Scaliger, we expected that he would have exceded both, in the eloquent qverflowings of his fenfibility, at a moment when From zeal or rivalry no more we dread, For English vengeance wars not with the dead. In thefe expectations we were mortifyingly difappointed. His encomiums were cold, penuripus, and uncordial. The awful and impreffive vacancy on the oppofite bench did not feem for a moment to awaken any foftnefs or folemnity of feeling, or to fufpend the remembrance of party intereft and his anxiety to qualify and correct his praife, made it appear, as proceeding more from a prudent concellion to the public fentiment, than from the generous impulfe of his own; et magis in Speciem verbis adornata, quam ut penitusi fentire crederetur. Immediately after this event, Mr F. and Lord Grenville, with their respective friends, were calJed into office, the former again holding the feals * of Foreign fecretary, and much was expected by their friends from an adminiftration fupported by fuch a weight of fenatorial talents, and family in Auence, As Mr F. had strongly and uniformly recommended peace, it was natural that he should lofe no time in accomplishing his favourite object. He accordingly feized a fingular occafion, fufpected by fome to have been thrown in his way, by the fubtlety and fhrewdness of Talleyrand, to engage in a private correspondence with that minifter, which gradually terminated in a public negociation. The abolition of the flave trade was another object, for which he had ftrenuously contended, and to this he enjoyed the pleasure of obtaining the full and final confent of Parliament. So far was he, however, from fucceeding in his pacific measures, that within a few weeks after hie acceffion to office, he found himself constrained to extend hoftilities to Pruffia, who had taken forcible poffeffion of Hanover; and, in the course of the negociation at Paris, he had the mortification to difcover that France was not actuated by that defire of peace, and that readiness to treat on fair and equal terms, for which he had always given her credit. But though he faw the negoci ation affume a hopeless afpect, he was not defimed to outlive its actual rupture. In the middle of June, he made his last appearance in parliament, being immediately after confined by an ailment of a droplical nature, the progrefs of which was too rapid for medical aid to refift. Towards the end of August, he was with difficulty removed to the villa of the Duke of De vonfhire, at Chifwic, where, after undergoing repeated operations, he breathed his last on the 13th September, having lived exactly 57 years and 8 months. His laft words, addreffed to his nephew and others, who were around him, are reported to have been, 44 die happy, but I pity you"; as thofe of Pitt were, “ Oh my country!"-founds of awful fignificance to every furviving Briton! The public anxiety, for some time previous to the death of Mr F. was ftrongly evinced, by the numerous enquiries about his fituation, which were hourly made; and attentively answered by Lady Elizabeth Fofter, who watched over his last moments. He was buried on the 10th October, with a magnificent attendance of illustrious mourners in a vault of Westminster Abbey, adjoining to that, where the ashes of his celebrated rival répofe. This ftriking circumftance, which finally clofes, and drops the curtain on the short, but interefting history of these exalted statesmen, naturally leads the mind into a train of folemn, moralizing, and inftructive reflections. This, however, having already tranfgrefled our limits, we fhall not indulge: but leaving the reader to follow it out for himfelf, we shall conclude our memoir, with a character of its fubject, from the able and elegant pen of Sir James Macintosh. " "Mr Fox united, in a most remarkable degree, the feemingly repugnant characters of the mildeft of men, and the moft vehement of orators. In private life he was gentley modeft, placable, kind, of fimple manners; and, fo averte from parade and dogmatifm, as to be not only unoftentatious, but even fomewhat inactive, in converfation. His fuperiority was never felt but in the inftruction which he imparted, or in the attention which his generous preference usually directed to the more obfcure members of the company. The fimplicity of his manners was far from excluding that per plicity of a child: no human being was ever more free from any taint of malignity, vanity, or falfehood." From thefe qualities of his public and private character, it probably arose, that no Englifh Statefman ever preferved, during fo long a period of adv rfe fortunes, fo many affectionate friends, and fo many zealous adherents. The union of ardour in public fentiment, with mildness in focial manners, was in Mr Fox a hereditary quality." The fame fafcinating power over the attachment of all who came within his fphere, is faid to have belonged to his father; and thofe who know the furvivors of another generation, will feel that this quality is not yet extinct in the race. Perhaps nothing can more strongly prove the deep impreffion made by this part of Mr Fox's character, than the words of Mr Burke, who, in Jan. 797, 6 years after all intercourse between them la ceafed, speaking to a perfon honoured with fome degree of Mr Fox's friendship, faid, "To be fure he is a man made to be loved!" and these emphatical words were uttered with a fervour of manner which left no doubt of their fincerity. fect urbanity and amenity which flowed ftill more from the minefs of his nature, than from fmi liar intercourfe with the most polish 1 fociety in Europe. His converfation, where it was not repreffed by modefty or indolence, was delightful. The pleafantry perhaps of no man of wit had fo unlaboured an appearance. It feemed rather to escape from his mind than to be produced by it. He had lived on the most intimate terms with all his contemporaries, diftinguished by wit, polite. nefs, or philofophy, or learning, or the talents of public life. In the courfe of thirty years he had known almost every man in Europe whofe intercourfe could ftrengthen or enlighten or polifh the mind. His own literature was various and elegant. In claffical erudition, which by the cuftom of England is more particularly called learning, he was inferior to few profeffed scholars. Like all men of genius, he delighted to take refuge in poetry, from the vulgarity and irritation of bufinefs. His own verfes were eafy and pleafing, and might have claimed no low place among thofe which the French call Vers de focieté. The poetical character of his mind was difplayed in his xtraordinary partiality for the poetry of the two mot poetical nations, or at leaft languages, of the Weft, thofe of the Greeks and of the Italians. He difliked political converfation, and never willingly took any part in it. To speak of him justly as an orator, would require a long effay. Every where natural, he carried into public fomething of that fimple and negligent exterior which belonged to him in private. When he began to speak, a common ob. ferver would have thought him aukward; and evena confummate judge could only have been'ftruck with the exquifite juftnefs of his ideas, and the tranfparent implicity of his manners. But no fooner had he spoken for fome time, than he was changed into another being. He forgot himfelf and every thing around him. He thought only of his fubject. His genius warmed and kind ed as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irrefiftib e eloquence fwept along their feelings and conviction.-He certainly poffeffed above all moderns that union of reafon, fimplicity, and vehemence, which formed the Prince of Orators. He was the most Demofthenean fpeaker fince Demoftheries. "I knew him," fays Mr Burke, in a pamphlet written after their unhappy difference, when he was nineteen; fince which time he has rifen by flow degrees, to be the moft brilliant and accomplished debater that the world ever faw." The quiet dig nity of a mind roused only by great objects, the ablence of petty buftle, the contempt of fhow, the abhorrence of intrigue, the plainnefs and down. rightnefs, and the thorough, good nature which diftinguished Mr Fox, feem to render him no very unfit reprefentative of that old English national character, which, if it ever. changed, we thould be fanguine indeed to expect to fee fucceeded by a better. The fimplicity of his character infpired, confidence, the ardour of his eloquence roufed enthufiafm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. "I admire," fays Mr Gibbon, "the powers a of fuperior man, as they are blended, his attractive character, with all the softness and fim Thefe few haft and honeft fentences are fketched in a temper too fober and ferious for unintenti onal exaggeration, and with too pious an affecti on for the memory of Mr Fox, to profane it by inter-mixture with the facetious brawls and wrangles of the day. His political conduct belongs to hifto ry. The measures which he fupported or oppofed, may divide the opinion of pofterity, as they have divided thofe of the prefent age. But he will most certainly command the unanimous reverence of future generations, by his pure fentiments towards the commonwealth, by his zeal for the civil and religious rights of all men, by his liberal principles favourable to mild government, to the unfettered exercife of the hunn faculties and the profeffed civilization of mankind; by his ardent love for a country, of which the well being and greatnefs were, indeed, infeparable from his own glory, and by his profound reverence for that free conftitution, which he was univerfally allowed to understand het. terthan any other man of his age, both in an exactly legal, and in a comprehensively philofophical fenfe, (2.) Fox, George, the founder of the fect of Quakers, was a fhoemaker in Nottingham. As he wrought at his trade, he used to meditate much on the fcriptures: which, with his folitary courfe of life, improving his natural melancholy, he began at length to fancy himself infpired; and in confequence thereof fet up for a preacher. He proposed but few articles of faith; infifting chiefly on moral virtue, 'mutual charity, the love of God, and a deep attention to the inward motions and fecret operations of the fpirit: he recommended a plain fimple worship, and a religion without ceremonies, making it a principal point to wait in profound filence the directions of the Holy Spirit. Pox met with much rough treatment for his zeal, was often imprisoned, and feveral times in danger of being killed. But in fpite of all difcouragements his 'fect prevailed much, and inany great men were drawn over to them; among whom were BARCLAY and PENN. He died in 1681. See QUAKERS. (3.) Fox, John, the martyrologift, was born at Bof on is by gins; which being baited, and a train made by drawing raw flesh acrofs in his ufual paths or haunts to the gin, it proves an inducement to bring him to the place of deftruction. The fox is also a beaft of chafe, and is taken with greyhounds, tarriers, &c. See HUNTING. FOXALL, a town SE. of Ipfwich, Suffolk. FOXBROOK, a village in Staffordshire. One had better be laughed at for taking a foxcafe * FOXCASE. n..fox and cafe. A fox's skin.for a fox, than be defroyed by taking a live fox for a cafe. L'Etrange.. FOXCHASE. n. f. [fox and chase.] The pursuit of the fox with hounds. Pape. See the fame man, in vigour, in the gout; *FOXFISH. n.. \vulpecula pifcis.] A fish. FOXFORD, a town of Ireland, in Mayo county, feated on the May, 8 miles N. of Castlebar, and 112 NW. of Dublin. Eofton in Lincolnshire, in 1517. At 16 he wasentered a student of Brazen-nofe college, Oxford; and in 1543, he proceeded M. A. and was chofen fellow of Magdalen college. He difcovered an early genius for poetry, and wrote feveral Latin comedies, on Scriptural fubjects, which his fon affures us were written in an elegant ftyle. He now applied him. felf with uncommon affidity to divinity, parti eularly church hiftory; and, difcovering a pre. mature propenfity to the doctrine of reformation, he was expelled the college as an heretic. His iftrefs on this occafion was very great; but he foon found an afylum in the houfe of Sir Thomas Lucy of Warwickshire, who employed him as a tutor to his children. Here he married the daughter of a citizen of Coventry. Sir Tomas's children being grown up, after refiding a short time with bis wife's father, he came to London; where finding no immediate means of fubfiftence, he was reduced to the utmolt degree of want; bat as be was one day fitting in St Paul's church, emaciated with hunger, a ftranger accosted him familiarly, and, bidding him be of good cheer, put a fum of money into his hand; telling him at the Jame time, that in a few days new hopes were at hand. He was foon after taken into the family of the duchefs of Richmond, as tutor to the earl of Surrey's children. In this family he lived, at Ryegate in Surrey, during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII. the entire reign of Edward VI. and part of that of Q. Mary I: but at length, perfecuted by his implacable enemy Bp. Gardiner, he was obliged to feek refuge abroad. Bafil in Switzerland was the place of his retreat, where he fubfifted by correcting the prefs. On the death of Mary he returned to England; where he was graciously received by his former pupil the duke of Norfolk, who retained him in his family as long as he lived, and bequeathed him a penfion at his death. Mr fecretary Cecil alfo obtained for him the rectory of Shipton near Salisbury; and he might have had confiderable preferment, had he been willing to fubfcribe to the canons. He died in 1587, aged 70; and was buried in the chancel of St Giles's, Cripplegate. He was a man of great induftry, and confiderable learning; a zealous, but not a violent reformer; a nonconformift, but not an enemy to the church of England. He left two fous; one of whom was bred a devine, the other a phycifian. He wrote many pieces: but his principal work is, the Atts and Monuments of the Church, &c. commonly called Fox's Book of Martyrs. (1.) FOX-GLOVE. n. f. digitalis.] A plant." (2.) Fox GLOVE, in botany. See DIGITALIS. FOXHAM, a village NW. of Caine, Wilts, whofe chief ambition is to how his bravery in *FOXHUNTER. 7. f. [fox and bunter.] A man hunting foxes. A term of reproach used of country gentlemen.-The faxhunters went their way, and then out steals the fox. L'Efrange. (1.)FOX ISLAND, an Island in the Atlantic, on the W. coaft of Ireland; 7 miles E. of Slyme-Head. of 16 iflands fituated between the E. coaft of (2.) FOX ISLANDS, or LYSSIE OSTROVA, a group Kamtfchatka, and the W. coaft of America, Each fland has a particular name; but the general name, Fox Islands, is given to the whole group, on ac red foxes. They are called Life Oftrova, by the oun o their abounding with black, grey, and Ruffians. The drefs of the inhabitants confifts of a cap and a fur coat, which reaches down to the knee. Some of them wear common caps of a party coloured bird's fkin, upon which they leave part of the wings and tail. On the fore part of their hunting and fishing caps, they place a small board like a fkreen, adorned with the jaw bones of fea bears, and ornamented with glafs beads, which they receive in barter from the Ruffians. At their feftivals and dancing parties, they ufe a much more fhowy fort of caps. They feed upon the fleth of all forts of fea animals, and generally eat it raw. But when they choose to drefs their victuals, they ufe a hollow ftone; having placed the fish or flesh therein, they cover The fox barks not when he would fteal the it with another, and close the interstices, with lime lamb. Shak. or clay. They then lay it horizontally upon two -These retreats are more like the dens of robbers, ftones, and light a fire under it. The provifion or holes of foxes, than the fortreffes of fair war intended for keeping is dried without falt in the riours. Locke. 2. By way of reproach, applied to open air. Their weapons confift of bows, arrows, a knave or cunning fellow. and dart; and for defence they ufe wooden fhields. The moft perfect equality reigns among thefe iflanders. They have neither cheifs nor fuperiors, neither laws nor punishments. They live together in families, and focieties of feveral families united, (4.) * Fox. n. f. fox, Saxon; vos, vosch, Dutch. 1. A wild animal of the canine kind, with sharp ears, and a bushy tail, remarkable for his cunning, living in holes, and preying upon fowls or fmall animals. (5.) Fox, in zoology. See CANIS, § I, N° xvi, 1 11. The fox is a great nuifance to the hufbandman, by taking away and deftroying his lambs, geele, poultry, &c. The common way to catch him (r.) FOZ, a town of France, in the dep. of the Mouths of the Rhone, 5 m. WNW. of Martigues, (2.) Foz, a town of France, in the dep. of Var, 4 miles NE. of Barjols. (3.) Foz, a town of Portugal, in the prov. of Alentejo, at the conflux of the Zatas and the Ta jo, 24 miles NE. of Lisbon. which form what they call a race, who, in cafe of an attack or defence, mutually help and fupport each other. The inhabitants of the fame island lway claim to be of the fame race; and evey perfon looks upon his ifland as a poffeffion, the property of which is common to all the individuals of the fame fociety. Feafts are very common among them, and more particularly when the inhabitants of one island are visited by thofe of the others. The men meet their guests beating drums, and preceded by the women, who fing and dance, At the conclufion of the dance, the hofts ferve up their beft provifions, and invite their guefts to partake of the feaft. They feed their children when very young with the coarfeft flefh, and for the most part raw. They are hardened to the cold when young, and thus they go barefooted through the winter without the leaft inconvenience, They feldom beat their dwellings; but when they are defirous of warming themfelves, they light a bundle of hay, and ftand over it; or fet fire to train-oil, which they pour into a hollow ftone. They have a good share of plain natural fenfe, but are rather flow of understanding. They feem cold and indifferent in moft of their actions; but let an injury or even a fufpicion of one roufe them from this phelgmatic ftate, and they become furious and inflexible, taking the moft violent revenge without any regard to the confequences. The leaft affliction prompts them to fuicide; the apprehenfion of even an uncertain evil often leads them to defpair. Lat between 52° and 55°N. FOXLEY, 2 villages: in Norfolk, SW. of Repham: in Wi'ts, near Malmfbury. FoxSHIP. n. /. [from fox.] The character or qualities of a fox; cunning; mifchievous art.Had't thou foxship To banish him that ftruck more blows for Rome * FOXTAIL. n. f. [alepecorus.] A plant. FOXTON, 3 English villages: 1. in Cambridgefhire: 2. in Durham: 3. in Leicestershire. ▾ FOXTRAP. n. f. [fox and trap. A gin or fnare to catch foxes.-Anfwer a queftion, at what hour of the night to fet a foxtrap. Tatler. (1 ) * FOY. n. s. \foi, Fr.] Faith; allegiance. An obfolete word. He Eafterland fubdued, and Denmark won, And of them both did foy and tribute raise. Fairy Queen. (1, 3) For. in geography. See FOWEY. (4.) Foy, Sr, a town of France, in the dep. of Lot and Garonne, 35 miles E. of Bourdeaux. Lon. o. 5 E. Lat. 44. 49. N. FOYE, a village in Herefordshire. (1.) FOYLE, a river of Ireland in Derry, which runs by Londonderry, into LOUGH FOYLE. 7 (2.) FOYLE, LOUGH, a large bay of Ireland; at the mouth of the Foyle (N° 1.) 4 miles below Londonderry. It is 12 miles long and broad, and is well fheitered by land on all fides; the entrance not exceeding half a mile wide, having only one deep channel in the middle between fands and thallows. FOYN'S ISLAND, an island of Ireland, in the FOYNTON, a town of Suffex, W. of Pevenfy. FOZA, a district of the late Maritime Auftria, one of the 7 Communes in the Vicentino. FOZZANO, a town of France, in the island and dept. of Corfica, 4 miles N. of Sarzano. FRACAS, n.f. (French, pronounced Fraca,] a noife; a hurly burly. FRACASTOR, Jerome, a most eminent Italian poet and physician, born at Verona in 1482. Two fingularities are related of him: one is, that his lips adhered fo closely to each other when he came into the world, that a furgeon was obliged to divide them with his knife; the other, that his mother was killed with lightning, while he, though in her arms at the very moment, efcaped unhurt. He was eminently fkilled in the belles lettres, and in all arts and fciences. He was a poet, a philofopher, a phyfician, an aftronomer, and a mathematician. Pope Paul III. made ufe of his authority to remove the council of Trent to Boulogne, under the pretext of a contagious diftemper, which, as Fracaftor depofed, made it no longer fafe to continue at Trent. He was intimately acquainted with cardinal Bembus, Julius Scaliger, and all the great men of his time. He died of an apoplexy at Cafi near Verona, in 1553 and in 1559, the town of Verona erected a ftatue in honour of him. He was the author of many performances, both as a poet and a phyfician; and he was remarkably difinterefted in both these capacities: for he practifed without fees, and as a poet whofe ufual reward is glory, no man was ever more diffident about it. Owing to this diffidence, little of his poetry is extant in comparison of what he wrote; and all his Odes and Epigrams, which were read in MS. with admiration, yet being never printed, were loft. All that remains are his 13 books of " Siphilis, or of the French difeafe;" a book of Miscellaneous Poems; and two books of a poem, intitled, Jofeph, which he began towards the end of his life, but did not live to finish. He compofed also a poem, called Alcod five de cura canum venaticorum. His medical pieces are, De Sympathia & Antipathia; De contagione & contagiofis morbis ; De caufis criticorum dierum; De vini_temperatura: &c. His works, which are all in Latin, have been printed feparately and collectively. The best edition is that of Padua, 1735, in 2 vola 4to. FRACHES, in the glafs trade, are the flat iron pans into which the glafs veffels already formed are put when in the tower over the working furnace, but by means of which they are drawn out through the leers, that they may be taken gradually from the fire, and cool by degrees. *To FRACT. v. a. [fradus, Lat.] To break; to violate; to infringe. Found perhaps only in the following paffage. His days and times are past, Shak. (1.) * FRACTION. x. f. [fra&ion, Fr. fractio, La.. Latin.] 1. The act of breaking; the ftate of being broken.-The surface of the earth hath been broke, and the parts of it diflocated: several parcels of nature retain ftill the evident marks of frac tion and ruin., Burnet. 2. A broken part of an integral.-Pliny put a round number near the truth rather than a fraction. Arbuth. (2.) FRACTION, in arithmetic and algebra, a part or division of an unit or integer; or a number which stands to an unit in the relation of a part to its whole. The word literally imports a broken number. Fractions are ufually divided into decimal, fexagefimai, and vulgar. See ALGEBRA and ARITHMETIC. * FRACTIONAL. adj. [from fraction.] Be longing to a broken number; comprifing a broken number. We make a cypher the medium between increafing and decreasing numbers, commonly called abfolute or whole numbers, and negative or fractional numbers. Cocker's Arithmetick. (1.) * FRACTURE. n. S. [ fra&ura, Lat.] 1. Breach; feparation of continuous parts.-That may do it without any great fracture of the more ftable and fixed parts of nature, or the infringement of the laws thereof. Hale. 2. The feparation of a continuity of a bone in living bodies.-Frac tures of thefcull are dangerous, not in confequence of the injury done to the cranium itself, but as the brain becomes affected. Sharp's Surg. (2.) FRACTURES. See SURGERY. *To FRACTURE. v. a. [from the noun.] To break a bone. The leg was dreffed and the fractured bones united together. Wileman. FRÆNUM, or FRENUM, BRIDLE, in anatomy, a name given to divers ligaments, from their office in retaining and curbing the motions of the parts they are fietted to: as, 1. FRÆNUM LINGUE, or Bridle of the Tongue, a membranous ligament, which ties the tongue to the os hyoides, larynx, fauces, and lower parts of the mouth. In fome fubjects the franum runs the whole length of the tongue to the very tip; in which cafes, if it were not cut, it would take away all poffibility of fpeech. See SURGERY, Ind. 2. FRÆNUM PENIS, a flender ligament, where by the prepuce is tied to the lower part of the glans of the penis. Nature varies in the make of this part; it being fo fhort in fome that unlefs divided it would not admit of perfect erection. There is a kind of little frænum, fattened to the lower part of the clitoris. FRAGA, a strong town of Spain in the kingdom of Arragon. It is fi uated among the mountains, having the river Cinca before it, whofe high banks are difficult of accets; and at its back a hill which cannot easily be approached with large cannon. Alphonfo VII, king of Arragon, and I of Caftile, was killed by the Moors in 1134, in befieging this town. It is 53 miles ESE. of Saragof, fa, and 30 S. of Balbaftio. Lon. o. 23. E. Lat. FRAGARIA VESCA, the cultivated strawberry. The principal varieties are, 1. FRAGARIA VESCA ALPINA, the Alpine, or monthly frawberry, having small oval leaves, finall flowers, and moderate-fized oblong, pointed fruit. 2. FRAGARIA V. CHILOENSIS, the Chili ftrawberry, with large, oval, thick hairy, leaves, large flowers, and very large firm fruit. 3. FRAGARIA V. MOSCHATA, the hautboy, or mufky ftrawberry, having oval, lanceolate, rough leaves, and large pale-red fruit. 4. FRAGARIA V. SYLVESTRIS, the wood ftrawberry, with oval fawed leaves, and small round fruit. 5. FRAGARIA V. VIRGINIENSIS, the Virginian fcarlet ftrawberry, with oblong oval fawed leaves and a roundish icarlet coloured fruit. All these varieties are hardy, ow, perennials, durable in root, but the leaves and fruit ftalks are renewed annually in fpring. They flower in May and June, and their fruit comes to perfection in June, July, and Auguft; the Alpine kind continuing till the begin ning of winter. They all profper in any common garden foil, producing abundant crops annually without much trouble. They increase exceeding. ly every fummer, both by off-fets or fuckers from the fides of the plants, and by runners or ftrings, all of thofe rooting and forming plants at every joint, each of which feparately planted bears a few fruit the following year, and bears in great per fection the fucceeding fummer. Thofe of the Alpine kind (N° 1.) will even bear fruit the fame year that they are formed. All the forts are commonly cultivated in kitchen gardens, in beds or borders of com non earth, in rows lengthwife 15 or 18 inches diftance; the plants the fame distance from one another in each row. Patches of the different forts, difpofed here and there in the fronts of the different compartments of the pleasure ground, will appear ornamental both in their flowers and fruit, and make an aggreeable variety. Strawberries, eaten either alone, or with fugar and cream, are univerfally esteemed a most delicious fruit. They are grateful, cooling, fubacid and juicy. Thongh taken in large quantities, they feldom difagree. They promote perfpiration, impart a violet fmell to the urine, and diffolve the tartareous incrustations on the teeth. People af flicted with the tone have found relief by using them very largely; and Hoffman fays, he has known confumptive people cured by them. The bark of the root is aftringent. Sheep and goats eat the plant: cows are not fond of it; hor fes and fwine refuse it. FRAGILE. adj. [fragile, Fr. fragilis, Lat.] 1. Brittle; easily fhapped or broken -The talk of ivy is tough and not fragile. Bacon.-A drỵ ftick will be eafily broken, when a green one will maintain a strong refiftance; and yet in the moist fubftance there is lefs reft than in what is drier and more fragile. Glanville. 2. Weak; uncertain; eafily doftroyed. Much oftentation, vain of fleshly arms, And fragile arms, much inftrument of war, Long in preparing, foon to nothing brought. Before mine eyes thon't fet. Milton. * FRAGILITY. n. f. {from fagie.] 1. Brit tlencs; cafinefs to be broken,- To make an in duration |