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your hawk will leave the stand, and, delighted to be. on the wing,will be very obedient. It is not convenient, for the first or secondtime, to shew your hawk a large fowl; for it frequently happens,that they escape from the hawk, and she, not recovering them,rakes after them: this gives the falconer trouble, and frequentlyoccasions the loss of the hawk. But if she happen to pursue afowl, and being unable to recover it, give it over, and come inagain directly, then cast out a sealed duck: and if she stoop andtruss it across the wings, permit her to take her pleasure, reward-ing her also with the heart, brains, tongue, ami liver. But if youhave not a quick duck, take her down with a dry lure, and let herplume, a pullet and teed upon it. By this means a hawk will learnto give over a fowl that rakes out, and, on hearing the falconer’slure, will make back again, and know the better how to hold inthe head.

FALERII, in ancient geography, a town and territory of Etru-ria, on the W. or right side of the Tiber . The territory was fa-mous for its rich pasture; hence the gramen Faliscum in authors.

EALEKN US AGJ’.R, a district at the foot of mount Massicusin Campania ; famous for its generous wines; now called MonteMassico.

FALEZIN, a to.vn of European Turkey, in Walachia , on theI’ruth. Lon. 20. 40. E. Lat. 45. 15. N.

FALIN, a river of Chinese Tartary, which runs into the sea ofJapan.

FALISCI, the people of Falerii, called JEqui, by Virgil, be-cause they afforded supplemental laws to the Xll Tables.

FALKEN'AU, a town of Bohemia , in the circle of Saatz, onthe Eger; 66 miles W. of Prague .

FALKENBEKG, a sea-port town of Sweden , in the provinceof Halland, on the Scaggerac, 52 miles N. of Ilelsingborg.

FALKENBURG, a town of Germany, in Brandenburg , sixmiles E. of Dramburg .

FALKENHAM, or FALKINGI1AM, a town of Lincoln-shire, 18 miles W. by S. ot Boston .

FALK. ENSTEIN, a town of Germany ', in the department ofMont Tonnerre ; 24 miles W. of Worms.

FALKIA, a genus of the trigynia order, and hexandria class ofplants. Calyx bell-shaped, five-cleft; corolla bell-shaped; stig-mas orbicular, peltate; seeds four-arilied. There is but one spe-cies, viz. F. repens, creeping Falkia.

FALKIRK, a town of Scotland , in Stirlingshire, chiefly sup-ported by great fairs for black cattle from the Highlands; 24,000bead being annually sold there, it is 8 miles S. E. of Stirling ,and 24 W. of Edinburgh .

FALKLAND, a town of Scotland, in Fifeshire , 15 miles N.of Edinburgh .

Falkland Islands , a range of islands, at the utmost extremityof South America, not far irom the Straits of Magellan . Theywere discovered by Sir Richard Hawkins in 1594. The soil isbad, and the shores are beaten by perpetual storms. Lon. be-tween 50° and 56° VV. Lat. from 51° to 53“ S.

Falkland Sound, a strait which separates the two largest ofthe Falkland islands.

FALKOP1NG, a town of Sweden in W. Gothland; 56 milesE. of Uddervalla.

FALL, in the sea-language, that part of the rope of a tackle,which is hauled upon. Also when a ship is under sail, and keepsnot so near the wind as she should do, they say she falls off; orwhen a ship is not flush, hut hath r.sings of some parts of hei decksmore than others, it is called falls.

Fall, the name ot a measure of length used in Scotland , con-taining six ells.

Fall or Man, in sacred history, that awful event by whichsin and death were introduced into the world. See Theology.

FALLACY, in philosophy, false appearance. The Epicu-reans deny 1 hat there is any such thing as a fallacy of the senses.According to them, all cur sensations and perceptions, both ofsense and phantasy, are true ; whence they make sense the pri-mary criterion of truth..-The Cartesians, on the other hand,maintain, that we should suspect as false, or utmost as dubious,every thing that presents itself to us by means only of the externalsenses, because they frequently deceive us; and that our senses,as being fallacious, were never given us by nature for the discoveryof truth, or the contemplation of the principles of things; but only

for pointing out to us what things are convenient or hurtful to ourbodies. The P< ripatetics keep a middle course. They say, thatif a sensible object be taken in its common or gener. I view, thesense cannot be deceived about it; but that it tiie object lie takenunder its specific view, the sense may be mistaken about it, frontthe want of the dispositions nece-saiy to a just sens.,lion, a.-> a dis-order in the organ, or any thing uncommon in the medium: thus,in some disorders of the eye, ad effects appear yellow ; a stick inwater appears broken or crooked, &c.

EALLAFAJ EEA, one of the Friendly islands.

FALLING SICKNESS, the same with epilepsy. See Me-dicine.

Falling-star, in meteorology, a phautomeuon that is fre-quently seen, and which lias been usually supposed to depend onthe electric fluid. Others conceive that they are rather to be at-tributed to falling stones. It is observable that when their appear-ance is frequent they have all the same direction; and it lias beenremarked that they are the forerunners of a westerly wind in ourcountry. See Meteor.

FALLOPIAN TUBES , two canals of a tortuous figure, butapproaching to a conic form, joined to the fundus of the uterus,one on each side. See Anatomy.

FALLOPIUS , Gabriel, a celebrated physician and anatomist,born at Modena , in 1523, and descended ot a noble family. Hemade several discoveries in anatomy, one of which was that of thetubes, called from him the Fallopian lubes. He travelled throughthe greatest part of Europe ; was made professor of anatomy atPisa , in 1548, and at Padua in 1551, wiiere he died in 1562, aged39. II is writings, which are numerous, were first printed sepa-rately, and afterwards coll, cled under the title of “ Opera genumaomnia, tarn practica quam theoretics, in ties Toinos distributa.”They were printed at Venice in 1585, and in I6t)6; at Frankfortin 1600, cum operum appendice; and in 1600, in tolio.

FALLOWING, in agriculture, is the mode of preparing land,by ploughing it a considerable time before it is ploughed tor seed.Lands are laid fallow either during the summer, or during the win-ter, according to the nature ot the sod, and the judgement of thecultivator. Very able arguments have been alleged as well for, asagainst summer fallows, by skliul agricuitqrtsts. Botli summerand winter fallows, however, are occasionally useful on differentsoils, Tlieadvantages to be derived tiBin tallowing are: 1. By re-peatedly turning sods over, much curhi.u.c acid, or fixed air, isproduced in a fluid stale, unich remains muted with tl e vegetablerecrements, or with volatile alkali, ir calcareous eailli. 2. Theparts of the soil become better incorporated, and thus reciprocallymeliorated; so that they may afford more uniform nourishmentto the roots of plants. 3. The pulverized soil is more easily pene-trable, and thus exposes a greater surface of its cavities to the ve-getable absorbents. 4. AM unprofitable plants, or weeds, beingthus eradicated, or continually ploughed under the soil, white yetyoung, a considerable proportion of vegetable nutriment will bereserved, and farther increased, by the saccharine and mucilagi-nous matter of the young vegetables buried by the plough. Lastly,some plants, during their herbaceous state, do not exhaust theground on which they grow, before the seed-stems arise; as tur-nips, for instance, w hen pulled up, and carried away tor the pur-pose of feeding cattle, or sheep, on other grounds. r I his benefitappears to arise from the soil being shaded by the thick foliage ofthose vegetables, and consequently meliorated; for its nutritiousproperties cannot have suffered by evaporation so much, as if theland had been exposed to the scorching influence of the sun. J)r.Darwin, when treating on this subject, justly observes, that, thougha summer fallow may be of advantage to a poor soil, which hasnothing to lose, yet it must be injurious to a rich one, which hasnothing to gain. A fallow-cleansing machine was invented by aMr. Aaron Ogden, a smith , at Ashton-under-Line, near Manches-ter. It consists of two large rollers, armed with iron spikes, towhich the inventor prefixed a harrow so constructed, that it maybe set to go to any depth in a furrow, without weighting; and willpulverize the soil, raise the roots, or weeds, to the surface, and atthe same time not be obstructed by their accumulation, though itshould raise as many weeds as would load a cart within the shortspace of five yards. There are several other pieces of machinerybelonging to "this implement; but as they are intricate, we referthe reader to the 3d vol. of the work, entitled “ Museum Rusti-9 cam