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 AFT ( 36 ) A G A earth ; divided from Europe on die N. by the Medi- AFTER-MATH, in hufbandry, dgnifies the grafs which terranean fca ; from America on the W. by the At- fprings or grows up after mowing. lantic ocean ; from the countries towards die fouth- AFTER-PAINS, in midwifery, pains in the groin, <bc. pole, by the Great South-fea ; from the ifland of after child-birth. See Midwifery, title. AfterMadagafcar in the E. by the Mozambique channel ; pains. and from Alia alfo on the E. by the Red-fea. It is AFTER-SWARMS, in the management of bees, are alfo joined to Afia by a narrow neck of land betwixt thofe which leave the hive fome time after the fird has the Mediterranean and Red-fea, called the ijihmus of fwarmed. See Apis. Suez : Hence Africa is a peninfula fomewhat refem- AFTO, in botany. See Erysimum. bling a pyramid, whofe bafe from Tangier to the ifthmus AGA, in the Turkilh language, fignifies a great lord or of Suez is about 2.000 miles; its perpendicular, from commander. Hence the Aga of the janiffaries is the the vertex at the cape of Good Hope to Buria, 3600 commander in chief of that corps; as the general of miles; and from cape Verd, to cape Guard a Fui, it the horfe is denominated fpahiclar aga. See Janisis 3500. The'fituation of this quarter on the globe saries, and Spahi. is betwixt 35. o. S. and.36. o. N. lat. and betwixt AGADES, or Agdes, a people or kingdom of Africa, 17. 35. W. and 53. 21. E. long. Hence it lies, lying on the northern bank of the river Niger, betwixt for the mod: part, within the- tropics ; by which the kingdoms of Cano on the E. and Tombut on the means, in many places, the heat is almotl infupporta- W. with that of Zaara on the N. ble. Along the coafts, it is in general reckoned abun- Agades, or Andegast, the capital city of the laid dantly fruitful, and its produce excellent. The Ro- kingdom. mans very jultly confidered Africa as the patria fc- Agades, is alfo the Moorilh name for the town of Sanra rum, for there is no other place breeds the number ta-Cruz, in the the kingdom of Sus. or the variety. In this quarter there are feveral defarts, AG AG, or Argaga, a kingdom of Africa, dependent feme of them of vait extent, covered with fand, by on the kingdom of Monomotapa. Which whole caravans have been fometimes fmothered. AGAI, in commerce. See Agio. The principal rivers are the Nile and the Niger, the Agai, is alfo the name of a people of Ethiopia, inhabifirft of which difembogues itfelf into the Mediterranean, ting near the fource of the Nile, and profefiing a kind after traverfing Abyffinia, Nubia, and Egypt; and the of Chridanity. laft into the Atlantic ocean, by a weftern courfe from AGALLOCHA, in botany, the trivial name of the exUpper Ethiopia. Geographers are not yet agreed a- ccecaria. See Excoecaria. bout the fources of either of thefe rivers ; according to AGALMATA, in antiquity, a term originally ufed for fome, their fources are not far didant from each other. any kind of ornaments in a temple, but afterwards for There are fome mountains in Africa remarkably high, the datues only. particularly in Abyffinia and Barbary, in which lad is AGANIPPIDES, in ancient poetry, a defignation given the famous mount Atlas, which feparates Barbary from to the mufes, from a fountain of mount Helicon called Biledulgerid. The prevailing religions here, are Ma- Aganippe. hometanifm and Paganifm: Chridianity only takes AGAPAu, or Agapes, in church-hidory, certain loveplace among the Abyffinians and European fettlements. feads kept by the ancient Chridians, as a token of The government in Africa is in general defpotic, and brotherly charity and mutual benevolence. However innocent the original intention of thele the inhabitants black. In the divifion, geographers have gone varioudy to work; we lhall confine our- fedivals might have been, abufes in time got footing them, and gave great occafion to fcandal; fo that felves to the more general, wz. Egypt, Barbary, init became neceffary to forbid the kifs of charity beGuiney, Congo, Capfraria, Abyssinia, Nubia, and Nigritia, with the idands that furround tween different fexes, as well as to have any beds or couches in the place where they affembled. it; for which, fee thefe articles. Africa, is alfo a confiderable fea-port town of Barba- AGAPETiE, in church-hidory, a kind of nuns among the primitive Chridians, who attended on and ferved ry, about feventy miles S of Tunis. Africa, Afrique, is likewife a fmall tov/n of France, the clergy. At fird there was nothing fcandalous in thofe fofituated in the province of Gafcony, and ^generality of cieties, though they gave great offence afterwards, Montauban. AFRICAN company, a fociety of merchants, edablidied and were wholly abolijhed by tbe council of Lateran, by King Charles II. for trading to Africa; which in II39trade is now laid open to all his majedy’s fubjedts, AGARENI, a name ufed by fome writers for the Arabs, as being defeended from Agar, or Hagar, Abrapaying 10 per cent, for maintaining the forts, AFSAGERS, perfons appointed by the burgo-maders ham’s hand-maid. of Amderdam, to prefide over the public fales made AGARICO-/a^ar, in botany, a fynonime of the agaricus alneus, or alder-agaric. in that city. AFT, in the fea-language, the fame with abaft. See Agar i c o-pylorus, a fynonime of the boletus verficolor. See Boletus. Abaft. AFTER-BIRTH, in midwifery. See Midwifery, and AGARICUS, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia fungi. Of this genus there are 28 fpecies, 24 of which ^ecundines. are