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Radnok, a finall plcafant town of America, in Delawatc 

 county, Pennfylvania. The place was originally called 

 "Amilel" by the Dutch, who began to build here. The 

 number of inhabitants is 925. 



Radnor, a town of South Carolina ; 10 miles S.W. of 

 "Edniondlbury. 



RADNORSHIRE, an inland county of South Wales, 

 is bounded on the north by the counties of Montgomery 

 and Salop, on the eait by the county of Hereford, and on 

 the fouth and well by the counties of Brecknock and Car- 

 digan. According to Mr. Clark, it contains 510 fquare 

 miles, or 346,000 acres, and is pohtically divided into fix 

 hundreds, and fifty paridies ; fonie of which are within the 

 diocefe of Hereford, and the remainder within that of St. 

 David's. The parliamentary returns of 18 1 1, ilate the num- 

 ber of its houfes at 4194, and of its inhabitants at 20,900. 

 It fends two members to parliament ; one for the county, 

 and one for tlie borough of New Radnor, with itscontri- 

 butary boroughs. The face of the country is extremely 

 mountainous and bleak in every part of it, but it is inter- 

 fered by fevcral valliea, which are watered by the Wye, the 

 Teme, the Lugg, the Ithan, the Eddow, and their refpecl- 

 ive fubfidiary ftreams. Thefe vallies afiord a confiderable 

 extent both of meadow and arable land ; efpecially the Vale 

 of Wye-Side, and the Vale of Radnor, fome portions of 

 which are very fertile, and have a good foil and a congenial 

 climature. In the other parts of the county, however, a 

 barren foil, and a chilly atmofphere, are the predominant 

 charafterillics. Nearly two-thirds of its whole extent being 

 either in a ftate of commonage, or lying whslly walte, agri- 

 culture has hitherto made little comparative progrefs here. 

 Cattle and (heep confequently conftitute the chief produce 

 of the county. The number of the latter is indeed very 

 great. Hence Radnorfliire is famed for its fupply of wool; 

 but notwithllanding this circumftance, fingular to fay, the 

 manufa&ure of woollen goods is totally difregarded. The 

 raw material is fold to the manufafturers of the north, by 

 whom the inhabitants of this county are in return furnifhed 

 with cloth. 



Radnorlhire contains three rsarket-towns ; Prefteigne, 

 Rhaiadar, and New- Radnor. The market at the laft, how- 

 ever, is only nominal. The county courts are held at Pref- 

 teigne, which is now the moll important and flourifliing town 

 in the county. (See Presteigne.) Thechief remain of anti- 

 quity within its limits is Offa's Dyke, which commencing at 

 thejriver Wye, near Hay, fkirts the counties of Radnor and 

 Hereford, and pafles into Montgomeryfhire at Pwll-y-P)'od, 

 a hkmlet on the road between Bifliop's-caftle and Newtown. 

 The only religious houfe in the county was the abbey of 

 Cwm Hir, founded in 1 143, for monks of the Ciftertian 

 order, by Cadwathelan-ap-Madoc, which, at the diflblution, 

 was valued at 28/. 17^. 41^. per annum. Of this monaftery a 

 confiderable part of the buildings is yet Handing, though in 

 a very ruinous and dilapidated condition. Leland, in his 

 Itinerary, (vol.v. p. 13.) fpeaks of its church as the longeil 

 in Wales, and informs us, that it was " fpoiled and defaced 

 by Owen Glendowr." The principal caftles in Radnorfhire 

 were thofe of Colewine, Tynbont, Aberhedow or Aber- 

 Edwy, Ewenlles, Radnor, Rhaiadar, and Pain's-caftle. 

 Several antiquaries, among whom are Camden, Gale, and 

 Ward, place the Roman ilation Magnos, or Magna, at Old 

 Radnor, as is mentioned above ; but Baxter contends that 

 it fhould be fixed at Ledbury, in Hcrefordlliire, and Harris 

 at Gaer, near Brecknock. In this county, particularly on 

 the fummit of Gwaftedin hill, are feveral of thofe coUettions 

 of ftones called in South Wales harneu, in North Wales, kar- 

 fiedheu, in Scotland, cairns, and in Ireland, duns. 



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Radnor was creeled into an earldom by Charles 11., in 

 the perfon of John Robarts, lord Robarts of Truro, but 

 that title became extindl in 1757. It was revived, hovix-ver, 

 ip 1765, in the perfon of William Bouverie, baron Long- 

 ford, and vifcount Folkftone, whofe fon Jacob, now earl of 

 Radnor, enjoys his privileges. General View of the Agri- 

 culture of the County of Radnor, by John Clark, 410. 

 Skrinc's Tours in Wales. Camden's Britannia. Pennant's 

 Tour in Wales, 8vo. 



RADNOTH, a town of Tranfylvania, on the river 

 Maros ; 23 miles W. of Scherburg. 



RADOE, a fmall ifland in the North fea, near the coaft 

 of Norway. N. lat. 60^^ 35'. 



RADOFFIN, a town of Moravia, in the ciicle of Iglau ; 

 21 miles E. of Iglau. 



RADOLFZELL, or Ratoi.fzeil, or Zell, a town 

 of Germany, in Auilrian Swabia ; fituated on the Unterfee, 

 or lake of Lille; 10 miles N.W. of Conllance. 



RADOM, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of San- 

 domirz ; Jo miles N.N.W. of Sandomirz. 



RADOMISCHL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Prachatitz ; four miles N. of Strakonitz. 



RADOMISL, a town of Poland, in the palatinate o. 



Lublin ; 45 miles S. of Lublin Alfo, a town of Poland, 



in the palatinate of Kiev ; 56 miles N.W. of Kiev. 



RADOMSK, or Radomi.ski, a town of Poland, in the 

 palatinate of Siradia ; 32 miles S.E. of Siradia. 



RADONITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Saatz ; 13 miles W.S.W. of Saatz. 



RADOSCHITSCH, a town of Poland, in the pala- 

 tinate of Sandomirz ; 20 miles N.E. of Malogocz. 



RADOSKU, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 

 Culm; 10 miles W. of Lautenburg. 



RADSTADT, a town of the archbilhopric of Salz- 

 burg ; 36 miles S.S.E. of Salzburg. 



RADT vor dim Waldt, a town of the duchy of Berg, 

 where Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinifts, have, 

 each of them, a church ; 25 miles E. of DalTeldorp. 

 RADULA. See Raspatory. 



RADUNPOUR, or Radimpour, in Geography, a town 

 of Hindooftan, in the country of Agimere, on the river 

 Puddar, or Butlafs ; 1 7 1 miles N. of Surat. N. lat. 23° 58'. 

 E. long. 71^48'. 



RADZANOW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 30 

 miles N.E. of Ploczko. 



RADZIECZOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Belcz ; 24 miles W. of Belcz. 



RADZIEJOW, or Rodschowa, a town of Poland, 

 in the palatinate of Brzeftye ; 25 miles W. of Brzeftye. 



RADZIVILOW, a town of Lithuania; 50 miles 

 E.N.E. of Minlk. 



RADZYMIN, a town of the duchy of Warfaw; 12 

 miles N. of Warfaw. 



RAEMSDONCK, or Ramsdonck, a fmall but ftrong 

 place of Brabant ; three miles E. of Gertrudenberg. 



RAEPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Gohud, on the Jumnah ; 38 miles E.N.E. of Lahaar. 



RAERDORP, a town of HoUand ; five miles N.E. of 

 Amfterdira. 



R.3ilTVIK, a calcareous mountain of Sweden, the height 

 of which is eftimated by Bergman at 6000 feet above the 

 fea, obferving alfo, as a fingularity, that upon this moun- 

 tain, and that of Rodaberg, are found vaft blocks of reddifh 

 felfpar, mingled with quartz and brown mica. 



RAFAEL, Cape, a cape on the E. coaft of the ifland 

 of Hifpaniola. N. lat. 19° 2'. E. long. 69° 46'. 



Rafael, 5/.j a town of South America, in the province 



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