ROVUMA 



ROWING 



gallery. Pop. 7560. The province has an area of 

 643 sq. m. and a pop. ( 1898 ) df 247,626. 



Roviima. a river of East Africa, rises on the 

 ast side of Lake Nyassa, flows eastward, and 

 enters the Indian Ocean, after a course of more 

 than 450 miles, a little north of Cape Delgado. 

 During the greater part of its length it forms the 

 boundary between the German and the Portuguese 

 Kast African possessions. It was first ascended 

 by Livingstone and Kirk in 1862. 



Row (pron. Roo ), a village of Dumbartonshire. 

 on the east shore of the Gare Loch, 2 miles NW. of 

 Helensburgh, which is included within the parish, 

 and with which it is connected by railway ( 1894). 

 The saintly John M'Leod Campbell (q.v. ) was 

 minister of Row from 1825 till his deposition for 

 alleged heresies in 1831. 



Row, JOHN, a Scottish Reformer, was born near 

 Stirling about 1525, studied at St Andrews, and in 

 1550 was sent by the Scottish clergy as their repre- 

 sentative to Rome. While in Italy he took the 

 degree of Doctor of Laws at Padua. In 1558 he 

 returned to Scotland, and next year abandoned 

 the Roman faith. In 1560 he aided in compiling 

 a Confession of Faith and the First Book of Disci- 

 pline, became minister of Perth, and sat in the 

 first General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 

 Four times moderator, he helped to prepare the 

 Second Book of Discipline, and died in 1580. His 

 third surviving son, JOHN Row, was born at Perth 

 in 1568, studied at Edinburgh, became minister of 

 Carnock in 1592, and died in 1646. He wrote a 

 dull and prolix but reliable History of the Kirk of 

 Scotland, which was at length printed by the Mail- 

 land Club (2 vols. 1842) and the Wodrow Society (ed. 

 by David Laing ). It extends from 1558 to 1637, but 

 was* continued to 1639 after the author's death by 

 his second son, JOHN Row (c. 1600), successively 

 rector of Perth grammar-school, minister at Aber- 

 deen, moderator of the provincial assiMiibly there 

 in 1644, and, by appointment of Monk's commission 

 of colonels, principal of King's College in 1651. 

 Like his father and grandfather a learned Hebraist, 

 he published in 1634 Hebraiae Lingua; Institutiones, 

 And in 1644 Chilias Hebraica sen Vocabularium. 



Rowan Tree, MOUNTAIN ASH, or QUICKEN 



TREK i /'/// aucuparia ; Sorbus aucuparia of 



Rowan (Pyrus aucuparia) in flower. 



many botanists), a tree belonging to the natural 

 order ROMCOB, abundant in Britain, especially in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, and in many parts of 

 continental Europe. It does not attain a great 



size, but is one of the most ornamental trees that 

 occur in British woodlands. The wood is valued 

 for its compactness and fine grain, and is capable 

 of taking a high polish. In the superstitions of 

 the Scottish Highlands, and also of the Lowlands, 

 a peculiar importance was assigned to the rowan 

 tree, a mere twig of which was supposed to have 

 great efficacy in scaling away evil spirits. The 

 fruit (Rowan berries) is sometimes used for pre- 

 serves. It has much acidity, and a peculiar bitter- 

 ness. In some parts of northern Europe the berries 

 are dried and ground into flour as a substitute for 

 \vheaten flour in times of scarcity of the latter. 

 By fermentation they yield an agreeable liqueur, 

 and by distillation a powerful spirit. In Russia a 

 tincture is formed of the ripe berries, which is 

 greatly esteemed as a stomachic. It is made by 

 tilling a cask two-thirds full with berries, which 

 have oeen carefully picked and cleaned. The cask 

 is then filled up with brandy, gin, or rum, and 

 allowed to stand in a cool cellar for twelve months, 

 when the liqueur is run off, and is found impreg- 

 nated with both the colour and the flavonr of the 

 fruit. The fruit of the rowan tree is generally red, 

 but there is a variety with yellow fruit, and a very 

 nearly allied species, P. americana, a native of 

 North America, has purple fruit. 



Rowe, NICHOLAS, dramatist and translator, a 

 contemporary and friend of Congreve, Pope, Addi- 

 son, and Steele, was the son of a serjeant-at-law, 

 and was l>orn at Little Barford, in Bedfordshire, 

 June 30, 1674. He was educated at Westminster 

 under Busby, and studied law in the Middle 

 Temple ; but early inheriting a small competency 

 by the death of his father, he devoted himself to 

 literature. Between 1700 and 1714 he produced 

 eight playg, of which three were long popular, and 

 deservedly: Tamerlane (1702), The Fair Penitent 

 (1703), and Jane Shore (1714.). The character of 

 Lothario in The Fair Penitent was the prototype of 

 Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa Harlotoe, and 

 indeed the name is still the proverbial synonym for 

 a fashionable rake. Rowe translated Lucan's Phar- 

 salia, and his work, says Dr Johnson, 'deserves 

 more notice than it obtains, and as it is more read 

 will be more esteemed.' His edition of Shake- 

 speare (7 vols. 1709-10) at least contributed to the 

 popularity of his author. Rowe's comedy, The 

 Bi'<fr(1705), lived only to be damned as it deserved. 

 Rowe, we are told, had no heart, yet his vivacity 

 and engaging manners procured him many friends 

 and several lucrative ofhces. The Duke of Queens- 

 l>erry made him his Under-secretary of State. In 

 1715 he succeeded Tate as poet-laureate ; and the 

 same year he was appointed one of the surveyors of 

 customs to the port of London ; the Prince of Wales 

 made him Clerk of his Council, and the Lord 

 Chancellor Parker secretary of Presentations in 

 Chancery. He died December 6, 1718, and was 

 buried in Westminster Abbey. 



Rowing. The oarsman sits with his face to 

 the stern of the Ixrnt, his feet planted flush against 

 his 'stretcher' or footboard, and the handle of his 

 oar in his hands, the loom of the oar resting in the 

 rowlock, the ' button ' being inside the thowl-pin. 

 He should sit upright, with a rigid back, and do 

 his work mainly with his back and legs, using 

 his arms as couplings between his body and the 

 oar-handle, and only bending them towards the 

 finish of his stroke. To row a stroke, swing 

 the body forward from the hips straight towards 

 the toes ; extend the arms rigidly, brace the 

 shoulders, and keep the head up. The hands 

 should be holding the oar-handle about .'{', inches 

 apart. The grasp should be with fingers and 

 not fist i.e. the lower knuckles of the hand 

 .should be very slightly bent, almost straight, the 



