LENTIGINES, spots of a yellowish colour, of the bignefs of a lentile feed, scattered over the face, neck, and hands. Freckles are either natural, or proceeding accidentilly from the jaundice or the action of the sun upon the part. Heat or a sudden change of the weather, will often caufe the skin to appear of a darker colour than natural; and thereby produce what is called tan, fumburn, and morphew, which seem to differ only in degree; and usuallly disappear in winter.

Persons of a fine complexion, and whose hair is red, are the moft subject to freckles, efpecially in thoſe parts which they expoſe to the air.

To remove freckles, put juice of lemons in a glafs phial, and mixing it with fugar and borax finely pow- dered, let it digeft eight days, and then ufe it. Hom- berg propofes bullocks gall mixed with alum, and, af- ter the alum has precipitated, expoſed three or four months to the fun in a clofe phial, as one of the beft remedies known for the removing of freckles.

PREDBERG. See Freyberg.

PREDERICA, a town of North America, in Georgia, feated at the mouth of the river Altamaha, lately built and fortified by General Oglethorpe. The ifland it flands upon is called St Simon's; and is about 13 miles in length, and 4 in breadth. W. Long. 81° 35' N. Lat. 31° 0'.