Freatt, or Freits. See FREATS.

FRIEYBERG, or FRIEDBERG, a town in the circle of Upper Saxony, containing upwards of 60,000 people. There are mines of copper, tin, lead, and silver, in its vicinity, which afford employment to a considerable number of workmen, and produce an annual revenue of more than 10,000 rix dollars. The princes of the house of Saxony are usually buried here, where there is also an academy for the study of mineralogy, instituted in the year 1765, and reckoned the most famous for that science of any in Germany. It is situated on a branch of the Muldau, 19 miles south-west of Dresden, in N. Lat. 51. and W. Long. 13. 18.