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ANG NGEREMANIA, a province of the kingdom A of Sweden, bounded on the N. by Lapland and Angers. Bothnia, on the E. by the gulph of Bothnia and Medelpadia, and on the W. by Jemti and Herndel. It is full of rocks, mountains, and forefts; and there is one very high mountain called Scull. It has excellent ironworks, and lakes abounding with fish.

ANGERMOND, a town of the duchy of Berg, in Germany, on the E. fide of the Rhine, fubject to the Elector Palatine. E. Long. 6. 20. N. Lat. 51. 10. ANGERONA, in mythology, the name of a pagan deity whom the Romans prayed to for the cure of the quinzy; in Latin, angina. Pliny calls her the goddess of filence and calmness of mind, who banifhes all uneafiness and melancholy. She is reprefented with her mouth covered, to denote patience and refraining from complaints. Her ftatue was fet up, and sacrificed to, in the temple of the goddess Volupia, to fhow that a patient enduring of affliction leads to pleasure.

ANGERONALIA, in antiquity, folemn feafts held by the Romans the 21st of December, in honour of Angerona, or Angeronia, the goddess of patience and filence. Feftus and Julius Modeftus, quoted by Macrobius, Saturn. lib. i. cap. 10. derive the name from angina, "quinzy ;" and fuppofe the goddess to have been thus denominated, because the prefided over that disease. Others fuppofe it formed from anger, "grief, pain;" to intimate that the gave relief to thofe afflicted therewith. Others deduce it from angeo, "I prefs, I clofe," as being reputed the goddefs of filence, &c.

ANGERS, a great city of France, and capital of the duchy of Anjou, with a bishop's fee. It is feated a little above the place where the Sarte and the Loire lose themselves in the Maine. This laft river divides the city into two equal parts, called the High and the Low Town. There are twelve parishes in the city and four in the fuburbs, which contain upwards of 36,000 inhabitants. Befides these, there are eight chapters, and a great number of convents for both fexes. Its greatest extent is along the declivity of a hill, which reaches quite down to the river fide. The caftle was built by St Louis, about the middle of the 13th century. The walls, foffes, and numerous towers which yet fubfift, evince its former magnificence; and its fituation in the centre of the city, on a rock overhanging the river, conduces to give it an air of grandeur, though at prefent in decay. It was the principal refidence of the kings of Sicily, as dukes of Anjou, but is now in a state of total ruin. The cathedral of Angers is a venerable ftructure; and although it has unVOL. II. Part I.

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dergone many alterations in the course of ages fince its conftruction, yet the architecture is fingular and deferves attention. Here lies interred with her ancestors the renowned Margaret, daughter of René king of Sicily, and queen of Henry VI. of England. She expired, after her many intrepid, but ineffectual, efforts to replace her husband on the throne, in the year 1482, at the caftle of Dampierre in Anjou. Near the church of St Michael is the handfomeft square in the city, from whence runs a ftreet which has the name of the church. On one fide of this street is the town-house; which has a fine tower, with a clock, raised upon an arch, which ferves for a paffage into the great fquare. There are two large bridges, which keep up a communication between the two parts of the city; and in the lesser of these there is another fquare, which ferves for a market. The university of Angers was founded in 1398, and the academy of belles lettres in 1685. This laft confifts of thirty academicians. At the end of the fuburbs of Brefigny are the quarries of Angiers, fo famous for the fine flate which is got from thence. The pieces are of the thickness of a crown piece, and a foot fquare. All the houfes in Angers are covered with this flate, which has gained it the appellation of the Black city. The walls with which king John of England furrounded it in 1214 remain nearly entire, and are of very great circumference. W. Long. o. 30. N. Lat. 47. 28.

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