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R A M 



RAMEX, (/jww, abrancli,) ]u Sufg^iy, a rupture, or 

 hernia. See Hkkma. 



Ramkx Vartco/iis. See ClRSOCEi.E. 



RAMGAD, in Geography, a town of Hindoollan, in 

 Baliar ; lo miles W. of Bahar. 



RAMGARY, a town of Hlndooftan, in the country of 

 the Nayrs ; 19 miles W.N.W. of Palicaudchery. 



RAMGAUT, a town of Hiiidooftan, in the fubah of 

 Delhi ; 37 miles S.E. of Secundara. 



RAM-GETTER, in Ruml Economy, ? term applied by 

 the midland breeders to inch rams as are proper for getting 

 ram-flock, in contradiftinaion to inch as are fit only for 

 getting wedder-ftock. See Ram. 



RAMGONGA, in Geography, ■ a river of Afia, which 

 rifes in Thibet, and runs into the Ganges, 10 miles N. of 

 Canoge. 



RAMGOT, a town of Hindoollan, in Concan ; 25 



miles N. of Goa. 



RAMGUR, a circarof Bengal, bounded on the N. by 

 Bahar, on the N.E. by Curruckdeagh, on the S.E. by Pa- 

 chete, on the S. by Nagpour, and on the W. by Koonda 

 and Toree ; about 90 miles long, and 60 broad. — Alio, the 

 capital of this circar ; 175 miles W.N.W. of Calcutta. N. 

 lat. 23°4o'. E. long. 83° 42' — Alfo, a town of Hiiidoo- 

 ftan, in Dowlatabad; 35 miles S. of Neermul. N. lat. 

 18° 30'. E. long. 79^ 11'. — Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, 

 1:1 Malwa ; 8 miles S. of Ragoopour. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindoollan, in the fubah of Delhi ; 5 miles M. of Coel. 



Alfo, a town of Hindoollan, in Guzerat ; 50 miles E.S.E. 



of Sural Alfo, a town of Bengal; 13 miles N.W. of 



Midnapour. 



Ramgur. See Sesvah. 



RAMGURRA, a to\»n of Hindoollan, in the Myfore, 

 captured by the Englifh in 1791 ;' 42 miles N.E. ofSeringa- 

 patam. 



RAMHYTTE, a town of Sweden, in Wellmanland ; 

 36 miles from Stromfliolm. 



RAMI, in Hindoo Mythology, one of the many names of 

 the goddefs Parvatt ; which fee. Under this name fhe is faid 

 to be worfhipped at the fplendid temple on the ifland called 

 Ramiferam, between Ceylon and the cape named by us Co- 

 morin, but which fliould be called cape Kaumari, or Ku- 

 mari, another of the names of this goddefs, and meaning the 

 virgin. (On this point fee Lanka and Parvati. ) Sami 

 is the name of a tree or wood facred to Parvati, and Ihe is 

 fometimes called Sami Rami, and it has been upheld that this 

 is the origin of the Semiramis of the Greeks, ( See hereon 

 Af. Ref. Tol. iv. p. 382. vol. viii. p. 256. 8vo. ed. ) A.de- 

 fcription of the celebrated temple of Ramiferam will be 

 found under that article. See alfo Sami. 



RAMJAVENPOUR, in Geography, a fort of Bengal ; 

 27 miles S.S.W. of Burdwan. 



RAMIFICATION, the produftion of boughs or 

 branches, or of figures refembling branches. 



Ramifications, in Anatomy, are the divifions of the ar- 

 teries, veins, and nerves, arifing from fome common trunk. 



RAMIGRI, a word ufed by fome writers as a name for 

 colophony. 



RAMILLIES, in Geography, a village of France, in the 

 department of the Sambre and Meufe, at the fource of the 

 river Geete ; worthy of being recorded on account of a 

 battle fought here in the year 1706, between the allies com- 

 manded by the duke of Marlborough, and the French under 

 marfhal Villeroy. The confederates took the whole of the 

 enemy's baggage and artillery, and about 120 ftandards, 600 

 officers, and 6000 private foldiers : about 8000 were killed 



or wounded. The iofs of the allies did not exceed 3C00 

 mer. ; I 3 miles N. of Namur. 



RAMING, a town of Aiillria ; j I miles S. of Steyr 



Alio, a town of Pcrfia, in the province of Irak ; 40 miles 

 E. ol Conlar. 



RAMINGAM, a town of Hindoollan, in Dowlatabad ; 

 10 miles N. of Oudighcr. 



RAM I NGSDORF, a town of Auftria ; two miles E. of 

 Ste 



ryr. 



RAMINGUE, in the Manege. A horfe gets this name 

 that is rellive, and refills or cleaves to the fpurs ; that is, 

 defends himfelf with malice againll the fpurs ; fometimes 

 doubles the reins, and frequently yerks to favour his difobc- 

 dience. See Ticklish and Doublk. 



RAMIS, Bartolomeo, in Biography, a Spaniard, the 

 firll modern who fuftained the necclTily of a temperament in 

 mufical inllruments, of which the tones arc fixed. He was 

 contemporary with Franchinus, and 111 1482 publifhcd a 

 work, entitled " De Muliea, Tradtatus, five Mufica prac- 

 tica." 



He feems to have converted Pietro Aaron to his opinion : 

 as that theorill manifellly exalts the charaftcr of Ramis on 

 all occafions at the expcncc of Franchinus. 



The Spaniard was attacked in a rough manner by Ni- 

 cholas Burtius, for differing from Guido in his divifion of 

 the monochord, in a tradl entitled " Mufices Opufcu- 

 lum cum Defenf. Guidonis Aretini advcrfus queiidam 

 Hifpanum veritatis prevaricator." Bonon. 1487. This 

 trad, printed in black letter, is in the Afhmol. Collect. 

 among the books of Ant. Wood. 



Burtius imagined the honour of Guido to be injured by the 

 Spaniard, as Guido ufed the Pythagorean proportions, and 

 had never thought of a temperament. Burtius, in his turn, 

 was handled very roughly by Spataro, the difciple of Ramis 

 (Joannes Spadarius Bononienfis, Mufices ac Bartolomii 

 Rami Paulo ejus Prxceptoris honella Defenfio in Nicol. 

 Burtij Parmenf. Opufc. Bologna, 1491.); and the venerable 

 Franchinus, finding himfelf very rudely handled in the dif- 

 putc by the favourers of temperament, in 1522, when he 

 was upwards of feventy years of age, took up the defence 

 of Pythagoras, as Fontenelle, at near a hundred, did of 

 Des Cartes. After this, the war became general, and 

 continued to rage with great violence for more than a cen- 

 tury, between the friends of tempered fcales, and the adhe- 

 rents to ancient proportions and equal harmony. 



RAM I SE RAM, in Geography, an ifland in the Indian fea, 

 between the ifland of Ceylon and the coafl of Coromandel ; to 

 which there is a paffage of about 12 or 14 leagues from the 

 ifland of Manaar, on the coafl of Ceylon. But the advantages 

 that might be derived from this fpeedy communication are in 

 a great meafure prevented by the numberlefs fhallows and 

 fand-banks, which every where interrupt the paffage, and 

 which are fo high, that many of them are dry except during 

 the monfoons. There is in particular a line of fand-banks, 

 which runs quite acrofs from Manaar to Ramiferam, denomi- 

 nated Adam's bridge, and alfo Rama's bridge, becaufe God 

 is faid to have come by this way into Ceylon. ( See Adam'j 

 Bridge and Maxaar.) From Rama, Ramiferam takes its 

 name, and it has a large temple dedicated to him. The 

 lliortncfs of the paffage from Ramiferam to Manaar is par- 

 ticularly ufeful on account of the fpeedy conveyance it af- 

 fords to people on bufinefs, and the communication of intelli- 

 gence. The meffengers who ufually go from Columbo to 

 Manaar, a diflance of 160 miles, in three days, take boat 

 here, and crofs over by Adam's bridge to Ramiferam, and 

 then proceed along the Coromandel coaft to Madras. An 



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