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one rea^s mufic more readily and with more facility, or 

 gives it more meaning, than this performer. The beauty 

 of his tone, the precifion of his exccutioa, the richncfs of 

 his embouchure, however extraordinary, merit ftill Icfs 

 praife than his perfonal qualities, which endear liim to all his 

 acquaintance." Laborde. 



RAUMO, in Geography, a fca-port town of Sweden, 

 in the province of Fuiland, on the E. coait of the gulf of 

 Bothnia ; 50 miles N. of Abo. 



RAUNPIKED, in Rural Economy, a provincial word 

 ufed to fignify ihig-headed, among trees, as an old over- 

 grown oak, having the Humps of the boughs (landing 

 out. 



RAURAH, in Geography, a town of Thibet ; 26 miles 

 N.ofJemlah. N.lat. 3i°2'. E. long. 81'^ 40'. 



RAURAVA, a Sanfcrit word tweamng dreadful, and a 

 name of one of the Hindoo hells; they reckoning twenty- 

 one of thefe receptacles for finners. Naraka is called Maha- 

 raurava, or moft dreadful. 



RAURIS, in Geography, a town of the archbifhopric of 

 Salzburg ; 32 miles 8. of Salzburg. 



RAUSCHENBERG, a town of Heflej 4 miles N. of 

 Marburg. N. lat. 50° 53'. E. long. 8° 53'. 



RAUSHENBERG, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Culmbach ; 7 miles N.N.E. of Neulladt. 



RAUSNITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 

 Brunn ; 10 miles E. of Brunn, 



RAUTA Lambi, a town of Sweden, in the government 

 of Kuopio ; 27 miles S.W. of Kuopio. 



RAUTENBURG, a town of Pruffian Lithuania; 27 

 miles W. of Tilfit. — Alfo, a town of Pruflia, in the pro- 

 vince of Samland ; 36 miles N.E. of Koniglberg. 



RAUTERN, a town of Auftria ; 6 miles W.N.W. of 

 Drofendorf. 



RAUTIO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Ulea ; ^6 miles S. of Brahcftad. 



RAUTPOUR, a town of Hindooltan, in Allahabad; 

 18 miles N.N.W. of Corah. 



RAUTY Dungaree, a town of Hindooilan, in Gu- 

 zerat, on the coaft ; 50 miles S.W. of Noanagur. 



^AVTV-Aluinmy, or Rauty-muddum, Jlone-mummy, a name 

 given by the people of the Eall Indies to a kind of foilile 

 fubftance, much valued for its medicinal virtues. It is of 

 the nature of the feienites, and is found upon the high rocks, 

 and fuppofed to be generated of the dew which tails from 

 the heavens ; but this is an idle opinion, and the formation 

 of it is evidently the fame with that of the European rhom- 

 boidal feienites. They beat it to powder, and after boil- 

 ing it in milk, they give it in cafes of the venereal kind. 

 In a common clap, they give half a fcruple, night and 

 morning. 



RAUVEE, in Geography, a river of Afia, which rifes on 

 the borders of Thibet, and joins the Chunaub in the country 

 of Lahore, 28 miles N.E. of Moultan. The Rauvee is the 

 " Hydraotes" of Alexander, and though it is reprefented as 

 a noble river, it is fomewhat inferior in bulk to the Chunaub. 

 Its fources are in the mountains near Nagorkote, a famous 

 place of Hindoo worlhip ; and it enters the plains ne^ar Shah- 

 pour (called alfo Rajapour), from whence the famous canal 

 of Shah Nahr was drawn to Lahore, 48I common cofles in 

 length. The fpace between the Rauvee and Chunaub, at 

 their entry on the plains, is about 54 geographical miles ; and 

 they gradually approach each other during a courfe of 170 

 miles. The junftion ot the Rauvee with the Chunaub 

 (or rather the Chunaub and Behut colleftively) is effefted 

 nearly midway between Toulumba and Moultan. The Ayin 

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and Chunaub, and that of the Rauvee with the Chunaub ; 

 but thisdiltancc mult be applied to the courfe of the river^ 

 not to the road by land. When thefe three rivers are united' 

 they form a llream equal to the Indus itfelf, at the place of 

 confluence ; which is from 20 to 30 miles below Moultan. 

 Rennell. 



RAUWOLFIA, in Botany, was fo named by Plumier, 

 in memory of Leonard Rauwolf, a native of Augfburg, 

 and a pupil of Rondelet. He failed from Marfcilles, in 

 '573' f""" 'I"-' Levant, and performed a laborious and dan- 

 gerous journey through Syria, Mefopotamia, Paleitine and 

 Egypt ; of which he has left an account m German, full of 

 ciirious information relative to medical and other rare plants, 

 with feveral wooden cuts. He died phyfician to the Aullrian 

 army, at Hatvany, in Hungary, in i6o6, according to 

 Dryander,^ Bibl. Banks, v. 395, though Hallcr fays 

 1^96. The latter writer mentions his being obliged 

 to quit his country on account of his religion, which 

 was Proteftant. His fplendid herbarium, once the pro- 

 perty of queen Chriilina, and of Ifaac VofTius, is preferved 

 in the univerfity of Leyden. From it Groiiovius compofed 

 his F/ora Orienla/is.— Linn. Gen. 115. Schreb. 160. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. I. 12 1 7. Mart. Mill. Dia. V. 4. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. V. 2. 64. Juff. 148. Plum. Gen. ig. t. 40. La- 

 marck lUuilr. t. 172. Gaertn. t. 52 — Clafs and order, 

 Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Contortic, Linn. Apo- 

 cinea, Jufl. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, minute, with five feg- 

 ments, permanent. Cor. of one petal, falver-lhaped ; tube cy- 

 hndrical, globular at the bafe ; limb in five deep.roundilh, emar- 

 ginate, oblique fegments. Stam. Filaments five, ftiorter than 

 the tube ; anthers ereft, fimple, acute. Pijl. Germen roundiih ; 

 ftyle very (hort ; ftigma capitate. Peric. Berry nearly glo- 

 bofe, marked with a furrow along one fide, of one celL 

 Seeds two, convex at the bafe, tapering at the fummit, com. 

 prefTed, divided, more or lefs completely, into two cells. 



Efl. Ch. Corolla oblique, falver-fhaped. Stamens included. 

 Berry globofe, with two feeds, each of two cells. 



I. R. nitida. Shining Rauwolfia. Linn. Sp. PI. 303. 

 Hort. ChfF. 75. t. 9. Willd. n. i. Ait. n. i. (R. tetra- 

 phylla anguftifolia ; Plum. Ic. 232. t. 236. f. I.) — Leaves 

 in fours, lanceolate, pointed, very fmooth and fhining. 

 Flowers axillary or terminal, cymofe. — Native of moun- 

 tainous woods in the Well Indies. KJhrub about twelve 

 feet high, ereft, very faiooth and Ihining, abounding with 

 vifcid milk. Leaves four together at each joint of the 

 branches, fpreading, on Ibort ftalks, lanceolate, with a blunt 

 point, entire, unequal in fize, from two to five inches, or 

 more, with one rib, and many fine tranfverfe parallel veins. 

 Flowers Imall, white, inodorous, in axillary, rarely termi- 

 nal, ftalkcd cymes, (horter than the leaves. Fruit, according 

 to Jacquin, at firfl yellow, then purpli(h-bbck, thrice the 

 fize of a pea, milky. Linnaeus tells us his figure in the 

 Hortus Cliffortianus was drawn by Ehret, from a plant in 

 the Chelfea garden ; fo that this Rauwolfia mud have 

 flowered under Miller's care, in the year 1736. In Ait. H. 

 Kew. a later date is given. The corolla in the figure juH 

 mentioned is more concave in the limb, as well as more 

 notched, than Plumier reprefents it, 



2. R. glabra. Smooth Rauwolfia. Cavan. Ic. v. 3, 

 50. t. 297. Willd. n. 2. — Leaves alternate, ovato-lanceo- 

 Jate, fmooth. Cymes oppofite to the leaves, of few flowers. 

 Native of New Spain. The whole plant is fmooth. 

 Stem flinibliy, a yard high, with phant, round, leafy branches. 

 Leaves fcattercd, rounded at the bafe, rather pointed, fingle- 

 ribbed, two or three inches long, on fliortifh footjlaihs. 

 Ekwers fmall, white, about four together, in fmall cymes or 



clufters, 



