QUKSTIS, ST. 



RADNOBSHIRK. 



i paruh ehureh, erecUd in 1819 ; Roman Outbotto chapel, 

 TM M UM wtiMdral of the Jioccw of rioyne u<i ROM ; a 

 i Mthdi*t chapel; National aobool*; a club-room ; a 

 liUnry Moiety; a public library; and reading-room*. It hai atao a 

 markrt-ttooM, a tvnr bonitjd, dkfMtuary, and bridewell. The pier, 

 reeled in IMS, form a fine promenade, commanding a Tie* of the 

 maj-nifiorat harbour. The harbour of Cove is 3 mile* long by 3 mile* 

 broad, with an entrance 3 mile* long and 1 mile wide. It contain. Spike 

 Wand, on which are artillery barracks and a depot for convict* ; the 

 mall uland of Huwlbowlin, with the ordnanoe depot, and near it 

 Kocky IiUnd, with two powder-magazine* out out of the rook. 

 Staamrn ply daily in summer between QueenMown and Cork. Tha 

 Royal Yacht Club of Cork hold* iU annual regatta iu the hurbour. 

 Petto iminni are bald weekly. A market U held on Saturday. 

 N', 8T. f ABITE.] 



QUERCY, LK, a district in France, which formed part of Ouienne. 

 w** bounded N. by Limoiuin. E. by Auvorgne and Kouergue, S. by 

 Languedoc, and W. by Aganai* and Perigord. It wu divided into 

 Upper Qnerey, which comprehended the chief town Cuhors, Oourdon, 

 Figrac, and other place* ; and Lower Queroy, in which, were Montau- 

 ban, Moiatae, and other town*. 



Le Qnerey took its name from the Cadurci, a Celtic tribe, who 

 inhabited it It belonged successively to the Visigoths and the 

 Frank*. It wa erected into a county by Charlemagne ; subsequently 

 it wan held by the count* of Touloiwe and by the English, from whom 

 It was taken by Charles V. It is now inclnded in the department* of 

 Lot and of Tarn-et-Oflronne. 



QUERKTARO. [MEXICO.] 



ijl'KKIMBA ISLANDS. [MOZAMBIQUE COAST.] 



QITE8ALTENANGO. [GUATEMALA.] 



QUKSNOY. LE. [Noan.] 



QCESTEMBKKT. [MoRBiiux.] 



QUETTAH. [AlMUnMAV.1 



QUIBERON. [MOHBIIIAX] 



gCILlMANE. [MOZAMBIQUE COAST.] 



QUILLAX. [AtiDE.] 



QUILLEBCEUF. [Enau; SEISK-INFERIKURE.] 



QUILOA (pronounced Keel-wa) is a town built on an inland of the 

 name name on the east coast of Africa, in 8 41' S. lat., 39 47' E. long. 

 This ialand is about six miles long from north to south, and the strait 

 between it and the main forms a secure harbour capable of receiving 

 the largest vessels. Quiloa was a large town when the Portuguese 

 first visited these countries, and the king held the sovereignty of 

 Sofala, Mozambique, and the intervening ports. In 1505 it was taken 

 by Francisco de Almeida, after a desperate resistance on the part of 

 the inhabitants, which induced him to burn the town. At a later 

 period the Portuguese erected a fort, but the bad climate soon obliged i 

 them to abandon it Quiloa is now subject to the Imam of Muscat, 

 under whom the town seems to have recovered a certain degree of i 

 prosperity, and to have been rebuilt Mr. M'Gregor, in his ' Com- j 



mercul Statistic*,' says that the town is represented to be large and 

 well built ; the house* are of stone, two or three stories high, and 

 have terraced roofs; the street* are narrow. The trade of Quiloa is 

 of little importance. It is carried on by the Arab* of Muscat, who 

 import piece goods, sugar, wrack, spices, 4c., and receive in return 

 slave* and elephant*' teeth. (M'Gregor, ' Commercial Statistics.') Part 

 of the walls of the city still remain in a tolerably perfect state. The 

 fort, which *till exists, and i* garrisoned by the Arabs, is a substantial 

 bnililiug of stone, and is capable of containing a numerous garrison. 

 The harbour, one of the finest on the coast, consists of a wide bnsin, 

 from which several arms run a considerable distance inland. 



QUILON. [HINDUSTAN.]' 



QUIMPER and QUIMI'ERLE. [FiNUJTiRE.] 



QOINCY. [ILLISOB; MASSACHUSETTS; PESKSTLVANIA.] 



QUINTE, BAY OF. [CASADA.] 



QUINTIN. [C6TES-DO-NOBD.] 



QUISSAC. [GABD.] 



QUITO, the capital of the republic of Ecuador, South Amei 

 ituated in 13" 27' S. lat, 78 48' W. long., at an elevation of 

 feet above the level of the sea: population, about 40,000. 



A small portion of the city is built on level ground, and the remainder 

 on the declivity of a hill. The plain contains the great gqun- 

 opposite sides of which are the cathedral and the episcopal palace, 

 and on the other two sides the palace of the government and the 

 town-hall Four wide and straight but short streets branch off from 

 the angles of the square. The remainder of the town is very irregular, 

 being built on the lower declivities, which are furrowed by numerous 

 ravines, some of which are of considerable depth. The smaller streets 

 are unpaved, and after rain, which U very frequent, are almost impas- 

 sable. The greater part of the houses are built of sun-dried bricks ; and 

 in order that they may suffer less from the frequent earthquakes, they 

 are only one story high. The roofs are Bat, and are covered with the 

 leaves of the maguey (Agave Americana). The great elevation of 

 Quito, and its position near the equator, render the climate very mild 

 all the year round; much like our finest spring weather. The 

 mean annual temperature is 59 ; the maximum 79, the minimum 

 45 Fahr. The surrounding country wants trees, but the scenery is 

 very grand, as eleven snow-capped summits are visible from the town. 

 Quito is the Heat of the legislature and general government of the 

 republic, as well as of the provincial government of the department of 

 Ecuador. It has a university and two colleges for the instruction of 

 the clergy; a large establishment for the maintenance of orphans and 

 poor people ; and several convents, that of the Franciscans being a 

 large and very fine edifice. There are some manufactures of cotton, 

 coarse woollens, flannels, silk, and leather ; silver and gold are worked 

 rather extensively, and a large quantity of confectionary is made. 

 The town exports" a considerable amount of grain aud other agricul- 

 tural produce to central America. 



QUORNDON. [LEICESTERSHIRE.] 



QUORRA. [JOLIB.I.] 



R 



RAAR [Ausrnu; HIWGAHV.] 

 RABATT. [MAROOCO.] 



RAHBATO. [MALTA.] 



RACCONIGI. [Com.] 



RAIHJLIFFK. [LANCASHIRE ; NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.] 



RADFORD, Nottinehamshire, a suburb of Nottingham, and the 

 eat of a Poor-Law Union, in the parish of Radford. The population 

 <if the parish of Radford in 1851 was 12,687. The living is a vicarage 

 in the archdeaconry of Nottingham aud diocese of Lincoln. Radford 

 Poor- Law Union contain* four parishes, with an area of 7110 acres, 

 and a population in 1851 of 28,776. The village is noticed under 



NomXUHAMSIIIHE. 



RAIHCK and HALICK are two parallel chains or groups of coral 

 inland*, ^itnated in the Pacific between 5 30* and 12 N. lat., 167 

 and 17.! E. long. The chains extend nearly due north and south, 

 and are not much more than 100 miles from one another. Radick, 

 which i* tho riutern, consist* of group* of small islands, inclosed and 

 connected with one another by coral reefs rising several feet above tho 

 MrlereL The sea which separates the ingle groups U of great depth. 

 The chain of the Ralick Islands Is of the same character. The islands 

 are of tmall extent, low, but well wooded. The inhabitants seem to 

 belong to the Malay race, and have made some progress in civilisation, 

 having oommodiously-built house*, and boat* more than 30 feet long, 

 the sails of which are made of finely braided mat*, and managed with 

 considerable art Both group*, with the Purcaderes and Marshall's 

 Islands, are sometimes Included in one group as the Mulgrave Islands 



RADICOFANI. [StMA, Province ot] 



RADIPOLE. [DORSETSHIRE.] 



IIAUXOR, NEW, Radnorshire, a market-town and a municipal 

 nnd parliamentary borough, is situated on the Somergill, at the 

 southern te of Rodnor Forest, in 62* 12' N. lat, 3* 8* W. long. 



distant 8 miles W.S.W. from Presteigne, and 159 miles W.N.W. from 

 London. The population of the borough of New Radnor in 1851 was 

 2345. The borough, in conjunction with Presteigne, Knighton, 

 Rhayader, Knucklas, and Cefnllys, returns one member to the 

 Imperial Parliament The living is a rectory in the archdeaconry 

 and diocese of Hereford. New Radnor was formerly the capital of 

 the county. On a lofty eminence to the north-east of the town stood 

 the strong castle of the Mortimers, destroyed by Owen Glyndwr in 

 1401; on which occasion also he burned the town. The town was 

 formerly surrounded by walls pierced with four gates. The market 

 has been long discontinued, but several yearly fairs are held iu Old 

 Radnor, now a small village, called also Pen-y-Craig, or ' the summit 

 of a rock.' Old Radnor stands on an elevated situation, about two 

 miles S.E. from New Radnor. It was burned in 1216 by King John, 

 in revenge for an insurrection of Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, and 

 his son-in-law Reginald de Breos. 



RADNORSHIRE, a county of South Wales, lying between 52 2' 

 and 52 33' N. lat, 2 57' and 3 45' W. long., is bounded N. by Mont- 

 gomeryshire, E. by Shropshire and Herefordshire, S. by Brecknock- 

 shire, and W. by Brecknockshire and Cardiganshire. Its cr 

 length from east to west is 33 miles, from north to south 30 miles. 

 The area is 425 square miles, or 272,128 statute acres. The population 

 in 1841 was 25,458; in 1851 it was 24,716. 



Surface, ffydrography, <tc. Radnorshire is a mountainous county. 

 The mountains form massive groups of hills, rarely forming a continuous 

 chain. The highest and most connected range, that of Radnor Forest, 

 runs nearly east and west from the Herefordshire border to the Ithon, 

 and attains its greatest height, 2163 feet, between New Radnor and 

 Uanvihangel Rhydithon. This wild tract is supposed to have been 

 formerly covered with wood, although it now produces nothing but 

 moss and heath. It is the property of the crown. The hills in the 



