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Foot- veral large fliells, from the fifh named lijfer, are met
with upon Hones of ten or twelve tons weight along
the coaft. They are turned upon their faces and funk
into the Hones, as into a paHe, the Hone being raifed
all about them in fuch a manner as to cover the edge
of the (hell; “ a proof (fays Mr Bruce) that this Hone
muH fome time lately have been.foft or liquefied : for
had it been long ago, the fun and air would have worn
the furface of the (hell; but it feems perfectly entire,
and is fet in that hard brown rock as the Hone of a
ring is in a golden chafing.”—The water in this ifland
is very good.
The inhabitants of Foofiit are poor fifiiermen of a
fwarthy colour ; going naked, excepting only a rag
about their waifi. They have no bread but what they
procure in exchange for the fi(h they catch. What
they barter in this manner is caled feajan. But befides
this they catch another fpecies, which is flat, with a
long tail, and the (kin made ufe of for (hagreen, of
which the handles of knives and fwords are made.
There is a fmall town on the ifland, confifling of about
30 huts, built with faggots of bent grafs or fpartum,
Supported by a few Hicks, and thatched with grafs of
the fame kind of which they are built.
FOOT, a part of the body of moH animals whereon
the Hand, walk, &c. See Anatomy, n^ 63,
Foot, in the Latin and Greek poetry, a metre or
meafure, compofed of a certain number of long and
fliort fyllables.
Thefe feet are commonly reckoned 28: of which fome
are fimple, as confiHing of two or three fyllables, and
therefore called dl/fyllabic or trifyliable feet; others are
compound, confiHing of four fyllables, and are there¬
fore called tetrafyllabic feet.
The difiyllabic feet are four in number, viz. the pyr-
ihichius, fpondeus, iambus, and trocheus. See Pyr-
rhichius, &c.
The trifyllabic feet are eight in number, viz. the
daefylus, anapaeflus, tribrachys, moloffus, amphibra¬
chys, amphimacer, bacchius, and antibacchiits. See
Dactyl, &c.
The tetrafyllabic are in number 16, viz. the pro-
cleufmaticus, difpondeus, choriambus, antifpaflus, dii¬
ambus, dichoreus, ionicus a majore, ionicus a minore,
epicritus primus, epitritus fecundus, epitritus tertius,
epitritus quartus, paeon primus, paeon fecundus, paeon
tertius, and paeon quartus. See Procleusmaticus,
fee.
Foot is alfo a long meafure confiHing of 12 inches.
Geometricians divide the foot into to digits, and the
digit into 10 lines..
Foov-Halty the name of a particular diforder inci¬
dent to (heep. It takes its fource from an infeft,
which, when it comes to a certain maturity, refembles
a worm of two, three, or four inches in length. The
firfi appearance of the malady is, when the (heep gives
figns of being lame, which increafes to fo high a degree
as to prevent grazing; when, what wdth want of fuf-
ficient food and pain, the poor animal fuffers greatly,
and lingers till it dies a natural death, if not properly
attended to, by extra&ing the infedt or worm ; the
fooner the better, as it is very eafily performed.
As foon as the lamenefs is perceived, let the foot
that is lame be examined between the dofe of the
claws, and it will be found that in the (kin where the Foot
clofe feparates is a fmall hole (not natural), through Foi,t‘
which the infedt, when yet fmall, gets its entrance,
and by degrees has worked itftlf upwards along the
leg, between the outward (kin and bone, and obtains
its largefi magnitude. Proportionally it finds its nou-
riflnnent, and is left undiflurbed. This worm muH be
extradted by moving, the claws backward and forward
in contrary diredtions; and it will not be long before
the under part of the worm makes its appearance at
the above mentioned fmall hole, and continuing the
fame operation of moving the claws, the whole worm
will work itfelf oi’|; which is better than when at its
firfi appearance it fhould be drawnmut with danger of
breaking off, and part of it flrould remain in the
fheep’s leg, and by its rotting there may^be hurt¬
ful. This eafy and fimple operation will be found ef-
fedtual without any other kind of application whatever,
nature herfelf curing the channel which the worm had
made along the leg.
It is obferved, this malady is in fome years more
prevalent than in others, particularly in wet feafons
than in drier; more obferved to begin in fpring and
autumn than in fummer and winter; notwithfianding,
what with fnow, &c. (heep fuffer more by the wet in
winter than in any of the other feafons (pofiibly it is
not then the feafon for this fort of infedf). In high
healthy grounds, the (heep are lefs liable to it than in
low marihy and meadow grounds: from all which cir-
cumfiances it may be fuppofed, that this infedl, in its
firff Hate, has for its molt natural element either the
earth, water, or air ; and only gets accidentally be¬
tween the clofe of the claws of the (heep, and
finds there what is fufficient for its nouriihmcnt and
fecurity.
Foot Square, is the fame meafure both in breadth
and length, containing 144 fquare or fuperficial inches.
Cubic or Solid Foot, is the fame meafure in all the
three dimenfions, length, breadth, and depth or thick-
nefs, containing 1728 cubic inches.
Foot of a Horfe, in the manege, the extremity of
the leg, from the coronet to the lower part of the hoof.
FooT-Level, among artificers, an inffurument that
ferves as a foot-rule, a fquare, and a level. See Level,.
Rule, and Square.
FOOTE (Samuel, Efq;), the modern Ariffopha-
nes, was born at Truro, in Cornwall; and was defeended
from a very ancient family. His father was member
of parliament for Tiverton, in Devonftiire; and enjoyed
the poH of commiffioner of the prize office and fine-
contraft. His mother was heirefs of the Dinely and
Goodere families. In confequence of a fatal mifun-
derfianding between her two brothers, Sir John Dinely
Goodere, Bart, and Samuel Goodere, Efq; captain of
his majefly’s (hip the Ruby, which ended in the death
of both, a confiderable part of the Goodere effate*
which was better than 50001. per annum, defeended to
Mr Foote.
He was educated at WorceHer college, Oxford,
which owed its foundation to Sir Thomas Cookes
Winford, Bart, a fecond coufin of our author’s. On
leaving the univerfity, he commenced ffudenPof law in
the Temple ; but as the drynefs of this Hudy did not,
Xuit the livelinefa of his genius, he fooa relinquiihed it.