a celebrated physician of Agrigentum, who first thought of lighting large fires, and purifying the air with perfumes, to put a stop to the pestilence that ravaged Athens, and which was attended with success. He lived about four hundred and seventy-three years before the Christian era.

a territory on the gold-coast of Guinea, in Africa, bordering on the Fanteen country. The Dutch have a fort here, called Fort Patience; and under it is a village, inhabited only by fishermen. The other inhabitants are addicted to husbandry, and sell their corn to other countries. There is plenty of game, which is very commodious for the Dutch factory. The people are very ignorant, and go naked like the rest of the negroes. This is called Little Acron; for Great Acron.