mports also the running of one ship against another. This happens sometimes by the violence of the wind, and sometimes by the carelessness of the people on board, to ships in the same convey, and to ships in port by means of others coming in. The damages occasioned by running foul are of the nature of those in which both parties must bear a share. They are usually made to fall half upon the sufferer, and half upon the vessel which did the injury; but in cases where it is evidently the fault of the master of the vessel, he alone must bear the damage.

**FOUCHENGE,** a town of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, twenty-five miles north of Herat. Long. 76° 29'. E. Lat. 34° 50'. N.

**FOUL ISLANDS,** a cluster of small islands in the Indian Sea, near the north coast of the island of Flores. Long. 121° 22'. E. Lat. 8° 9'. S.