. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ault under thechapel of the Foundling ,.^ CORAN, or Alcoran. Scc-Alcoran. CORAX, in ornithplogy/tlie trivial name of afpe-cies of CoRvus. ^ . ,; ^^.^ ^ ,- CORANICH, among the Scotch and ,\liecu-fiom of finging at funerals, anciently prevalent in thofecountries, and Hill praftifed in fcveral p,arts. Of thiscuftom Mr Pennant gives the following account. Ihad not the fortu
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ault under thechapel of the Foundling ,.^ CORAN, or Alcoran. Scc-Alcoran. CORAX, in ornithplogy/tlie trivial name of afpe-cies of CoRvus. ^ . ,; ^^.^ ^ ,- CORANICH, among the Scotch and ,\liecu-fiom of finging at funerals, anciently prevalent in thofecountries, and Hill praftifed in fcveral p,arts. Of thiscuftom Mr Pennant gives the following account. Ihad not the fortune to be prefent at-any in NorthBritain : but formerly afTifled at one in the font]) ofIreland, where it was performed in the fdhefs of hor-ror. The cries are called by the Iridi the uhgahne andhiillulu; two words \ery exprelhve of the fonnduttieredon thefe occafions ; and being of Celtic flock, etymo-logifls would fwear to be the origin of the ofthe Greeks and tilalatus of the Latins. Virgil is veryfond of ufmg the lall whenever any of his females arediflrefled ; as are others of the Roman poets, and ge-nerally on occafions fimilar to this. It was my fortune 10 ^ C OKA].LIXi:$. \<\\(
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