the exercise of a warm animated affection, or passion, for any thing.

ZELAND, the chief of the Danish islands, is situated at the entrance of the Baltic-sea, bounded by the Schagger-race-sea, on the north; by the Sound, which separates it from Schonen, on the east; by the Baltic-sea, on the south; and by the strait called the Great Belt, which separates it from the island of Funen, on the west; being of a round figure, near two hundred miles in circumference; the chief town is Copenhagen.

ZELAND, is also a province of the United Netherlands, consisting of eight islands, which lie in the mouth of the river Scheld, bounded by the province of Holland, from which they are separated by a narrow channel, on the north; by Brabant, on the east; by Flanders, from which they are separated by one of the branches of the Scheld, on the south; and by the German ocean, on the west.