a town of Orleanois, in France, situated on the river Loire, about ten miles east of Tours, in 1° E. long. and 47° 25' N. lat.

AMBOYNA, an island of the East Indies, lying between the Molucca islands and those of Banda, in 126° E. long. and 3° 40' S. lat.

In this island, which is about seventy miles in circumference, the Dutch have a strong fort, garrisoned by seven or eight hundred men. What makes it the more remarkable, is the cruel usage and expulsion of the English factors by the Dutch, in the reign of K. James I.