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lliat the young merchants and city apprentices were fre- 

 quently feduced from thcu- counting- houfcs and fhops by 

 thefe morning amufcments, they were prohibited, arid the 

 doors opened at fix o'clock in the evening. The perform- 

 ance, however, did not begin till eight o'clock, but was 

 ended at ten. 



It was intended to rival Vauxhall, and was little injured 

 by bad weather ; as the company, at fuch times, had a fafe 

 and pleafant retreat into the rotunda, and as few went thither 

 but in carriages. 



Its fucccls as an evening's amufemcnt remained undimi- 

 niflied more than 40 years. It was ruined by the late hours 

 to which it was gradually brought by fine folks, who, at 

 length, never came thither till pall ten o'clock, when the 

 niufical pcrforniances were over, and fobcr people ufed to 

 return liome before eleven o'clock to their fupper, which 

 enabled them and their fervants to go to bed, and rife, at 

 their accullomed time. 



But, at Icngtli, perfons of rank and fafhion made a dc- 

 baucli of this innocent amufement, and went to it and de- 

 parted from it as late as at a mafquerade. Tliis precluded 

 all that had any thing to do themfelves, or any employment 

 for their fervants in the morning, and fo much refined the 

 company, that at midnight there had been feldom fufficient 

 money received at the entrance, to cover the expences of the 

 lamps, the terms of admiifion being only 3^., for which, be- 

 fides a good concert by the bell performers in London, the 

 company was furnilhed with excellent rolls, butter, and tea. 

 In the year 1803 it was fliut up, and only ufed occafionally for 

 a mafquerade, a feltival, or an exhibition of fire-works. But 

 fince the period jult-mentioned, the building has been pulled 

 down, and the materials fold piecemeal, as was the cafe at 

 Cannons, the fplendid manfion of the duke of Chandois, (or 

 Pala^^%o, as it would have been called in Italy,) and the 

 ground is now (1809) of no other utility than occafionally 

 to drill and exereile the Chelfea volunteers. 



RANES, in Gtvgraphy, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Orne ; 10 miles S.W. of Argentan. 



RANESTAD, a town of Sweden, in Angermannland ; 

 50 miles N.N. E. of Hernofand. 



RANFORCE Ring. See Reinforced /?/V 



RANG, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 

 vince of Skonen ; 11 miles S.S.W. of Lund. 



RANGA, in Him/00 Mythology, one of the many names 

 of Siva, the perfonification, according to the Hindoo my- 

 thologifts, of the deftruftive or changing form of the deity. 

 (See Siva.) The epithet Sri, meaning holy, or divine, or 

 blefled, prefixed, has given this name to the capital of My- 

 fore ; Sri Ranga-pattan being the city of the blelfed Ranga, 

 altered by Europeans to Seringapatam. See Sri. 



RANGALORE, in Geography, a town and fortrefs 

 of Hindooftan, in the circar of Cicacole ; 38 miles W. of 

 Cicacole. 



RANGAMATTY, a circar of Bengal, bounded on the 

 N. by Bootan and AlTam, on the E. and S. by AfTam, and 

 on the W. by Baharbund, Bettrebund, and GooUah ; about 

 40 miles long, and from 10 to 40 broad. Rangamatty, the 

 capital, is 128 miles N.N.E. of Moorfhedabad, and has a 

 celebrated pagoda. N. lat. 26° 8'. E. long. 90° 6'. 



RANGANJA, a town of Bengal; 15 miles N.E. of 

 Chittigong. 



PvANGAPALEAM, a town of Hindooftan, in Coim- 

 betore ; eight miles N.N.E. of Daraporum. 



RANGAPILLA, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car- 

 natic ; fix miles N.E. of Pondicherry. 



RANGASUNDRUM, a town of Hindooftan; 15 

 miles W. of Tinevelly. 



RANGE, in Gunnery, the path of the ball, or the line 

 It defcribes from the mouth of the piece to the pomt where 

 it lodges. The flight of a (hot isdillinguifhed, by artillery, 

 men, into three different ranges, of which the firll is called 

 t\\c point-blank, the fecond ihc ranitom-Jliot, and the third the 

 ricochet, or rolling and bounding fliot. The firft, or point- 

 blank, is to fuppofe a piece flood upon a level plain, and laid 

 level, then the diftancc between the piece and the point 

 where the (hot touches the ground firit, is called the point~ 

 blank range of that piece ; but as the fame piece ranges more- 

 or lefs, according to a greater or lefs charge, the point-blank 

 range is to be undcrflood to be that, when the piece is loaded 

 with that charge which is commonly ufed in adlion. 



This range is much lefs than the greateft range, or ran- 

 dom-(hot ; but the piece cannot be levelled, or, as it is ge- 

 nerally expreOed, /iw'n/ci'/ at an objetl intended to be bat- 

 tered, if that objedt is not within the diftance of the point- 

 blank range ; for beyond that the (hot is vurf uncertain, 

 therefore rarely ufed in the fea-fervice, and on land only 

 when the fhot cannot fail of doing great execution in the 

 place on which it falls. 



In ricochet firing, the piece is only elevated from three 

 to fix degrees, and loaded with a fmall charge, in order that 

 the ball may be bounded, and roll along the infide of the pa- 

 rapet. The (hot, thus difcharged, goes rolling and bound- 

 ing, killing and maiming, or deftroying all it meets in its 

 courfe, and creates much more diforder by going thus (low- 

 ly, than if thrown from tiie piece with greater violence. 

 See Cannon, Gun, and Projectile. 



Range of a Projectile, Amplitude nf the. See Ampli- 

 tude. 



Range, Point-blank. See Foisr-blank. 



Range, in a Ship, denotes a fufficient length of the cable, 

 drawn up on the deck, before the anchor is call loofe from 

 tlie bow, to let it fink to tlie bottom, without being inter- 

 rupted, that the flukes may be forced the deeper into the 

 ground, by the additional weight which the anchor acquires 

 in finking. For this reafon, the range, which is drawn up 

 out of the tire, ought to be equal in length to the depth of 

 the water, where the (hip anchors. 



RANGER, a fworn officer of the foreft, whofe bufinefs 

 it is to walk daily through his charge, to drive back the 

 deer out of the purlieus or difafforefted places into the 

 foreft lands ; and to prefent all trefpad'es done in his baili- 

 wick at the next court held for the foreft. 

 ' The ranger is made by the king's letters, and has a fee 

 paid yearly out of the exchequer, and certain fee-deer. In 

 the Charta de Forefta mention is made of twelve kinds of 

 rangers. It is now principally a honorary and finecure em- 

 ployment ; but the holders fomctimes likewife receive pay. 



RANGES, in Ship Building, horned pieces of oak, like 

 belaying cleats, but much larger, bolted to the infide of a 

 (hip, in the waiil, for belaying the tacks and (heets. Alfo 

 thofe pieces of plank fixed between the ports, with femi- 

 circular holes in them for keepint^ ihot in. 



RANGIFER, in Zoology, .rv-iriety of the Cervus Ta- 

 randus ; which fee. 



RANGING, in Jl^ar, the difpofing of troops in a con- 

 dition proper for engagement, or for marching. 



In Building, the lide of a work that runs llraight, without 

 breaking into angles, is faid to range, or run range. 



Ranging out a canal, denotes determining or fetting out 

 on the ground the lines which are to be occupied by its 

 middle and fides. 



R ANGLE, in Falconry, is when gravel is given a hawk 

 to bring her to her ftomach. 



RANGOON, in Geography, a fea-port town of the 

 3 F 2 BirmaQ 



