post-town of Maryland, and capital of the county of Frederick, North America. It is pleasantly situated on Carroll's Creek, a branch of the Monocacy. The town is regularly laid out and well built, and contains a court-house, a jail, a bank, a market-house, an academy, and seven places of public worship. Frederick enjoys an extensive trade with the surrounding country, and transports great quantities of wheat and flour to Baltimore. It is distant forty-four miles north-north-west of Washington, and forty-five west of Baltimore. The population in 1830 amounted to 4427.

Fredericksburgh, a post-town of Virginia, in North America, and capital of a county. It is situated on the south-west side of the Rappahannock, about a hundred and ten miles from its mouth, and fifty-seven miles south-west of Washington. It is regularly laid out, well built, and contains eight public buildings and four churches. It is a great depot for grain, flour, and tobacco, and numerous flour mills are situated in the vicinity of the town. Being in the centre of a fertile and well-cultivated country, it is flourishing and healthy. The population in 1830 was 3307.

Fredericksbam, one of the circles into which the province of Finland is divided. It extends over 798 square miles, and contains 25,029 inhabitants. It is on the Gulf of Bothnia, and generally a level district. The chief town has the same name, is built on an isthmus between the mouths of two rivers, is fortified, and contains 1270 inhabitants, who carry on foreign trade. Long. 26.58. E. Lat. 60.35. N.

Fredericksstad, a strongly fortified city of Norway, in the province of Aggerhusen and bailiwick of Mos. It stands at the mouth of the river Glommen. It contains 420 houses, with 2352 inhabitants, who carry on an extensive trade in deals and in other timber, and are extensively employed in the fisheries.