n goods is sometimes charged at a certain rate per cask, or other package, measure, or weight, especially when the factor is only employed to receive or deliver them.

**Factory** is a place where a considerable number of factors reside, to negotiate for their matters or employers. See Factor.

The most considerable factories belonging to the British are those established in the East Indies, Portugal, Turkey, &c. There are also English factories established at Hamburg, Petersburg, Dantzig, and in Holland; all endowed with certain privileges.

**Factum**, in arithmetic, the product of two quantities multiplied by each other.

**Facula**, in astronomy, certain bright and shining parts, which the modern astronomers have, by means of telescopes, observed upon or about the surface of the sun; they are but very seldom seen.—The word is pure Latin; being a diminutive of *fax*, "torch;" and supposed... posed to be here applied from their appearing and disappearing by turns.