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REIKEVIG, a fea-port town of Iceland, confifting of 

 about 60 or 70 hoiifes, ftaiiding in two rows of nearly equal 

 length, at riglit angles to each other, the high ftreet being 

 encumbered with rock. Among the rocks, which on every 

 fide furround the town, arc fcattered wretched hovels, a little 

 raifed above the level of the ground. The adjacent country 

 much refembles the fummit of fome of the higliell moun- 

 tains in Scotland, being compofcd of fragments of rocks, 

 and prefenting only a few patches ot alpine vegetation. 

 Almoll all the houles of Rcikevig are of Norwegian con- 

 ftruftion, and inhabited by Danes. The vvomeji of this 

 town are pruicipally employed in the operation of drying 

 filh. On the little jiland of Akarve, near this town, are bred 

 eider ducks in great numbers. About fix miles to the fouth 

 of Reikevig is an immenfe bed of lava, extending a length 

 of 2 J miles, and having its black and defolate furface broken 

 into mafies and fragments, which render it difficult and 

 dangerous to traverle it, efpecialiy where quantities of the 

 " trichoftomum" conceal the hollow parts from view. The 

 breadth of this remarkable current varies from two to ten 

 miles ; and its hideouily fliattered afpcift is fuppoied to have 

 refnlted from the expanfive force of clallic fluids which 

 cfcaped during the cooling of the lava. Moil of the pro- 

 duce of the Icelanders is brought to Reikevig ; and the in- 

 habitants of the interior of the country take back, in ex- 

 change for their tallow and (kins, the dried heads of the 

 cod-iilb, aild fuch filh as are injured by the rain and not lit 

 for exportation. Thefe form the principal article of their 

 food, and are eaten raw, with the addition of butter, &c. 

 Bilhop Videlinus in this place has a library of 5 or 600 

 volumes. The author of the work now cited (tates ttie 

 height of Hecla at about 5000 feet, and the population of 

 Iceland at about 48,000 perfons, who, from the rigour and 

 inltability of their climate, can never rely on their native 

 produce even for the necellary articles of lubfiRence. The 

 principal articles of export are dried iifb, (efpecialiy cod of 

 afuperlor quality,) mutton, lamb, beef, butter, tallow, train- 

 oil, coarfe woollen cloth, the il<ins of Iheep, lambs and foxes, 

 eider-down and fathers; and their ciiief importations arc 

 timber, fifhing tackle, various implements of tin, tobacco, 

 bread, (pirituous liquors, lalt, linen, &c. A large propor- 

 tion of their tood confifls of ii(h, butter, a:.d various pre- 

 parations of milk. Hooker's Journal of a Tour in Iceland 

 in 1809. 



REILLANE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Lower Alps ; 7 miles S. of Forcalquier. 



REIMBURSEMENT, in Commerce, the ad of repay- 

 ing or returning what monies a perfon had received, by way 

 of advance, &c. or what another had difburfed or paid for 

 him. A perfon who gives a bill of exchange in payment, is 

 to reimburfe it, if it come to be protelled, for want of being 

 accepted or paid. 



REIMBURSING is alfo ufed for paying the price a 

 comiiioditv colls its owner. 



REIMS, or RuEiMs, in Geography, one of the mod 

 ancient and celebrated cities of France, and principal place 

 of a diftrift, in the department of the Marne, feated on the 

 Veile. Before the revolution this city was the fee of an 

 archbiibop, who was the tirit duke and peer of Frar;ee, and 

 always crowned the king. In this place was the abbey of 

 the Benediftines of St. Remy, the noblelt of that order in 

 the kingdom of France; and on the altar of its church, 

 under which St. Remigius was buried, was kept the holy 

 vial, which, as tradition reports, was, in the year 496, at 

 ,the baptifm ot Clovis by biftiop Remigius, brought from 

 heaven by a dove in deference to the prayer of that faint ; 

 the crowd obllrudting his palTage to tJie font with the ufual 



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oil. Tlie univerfity of Reims was founded in I3r47, and in 

 the following year authorifcd by the parliament of Paris. 

 This city contains 30,295 inhabitants, in the three parts into 

 which it is divided, and it has three correfponding cantons, 

 the firll containing 12,140, the fecond 10,107, and the third 

 10,874, in three, four, and five communes refpedively, on 

 a territory of 1 i7i kiliomctres. Rhcims carries on a con- 

 fiderable trade in wine, woollen and filk ItufiTs, and ginger- 

 bread. It has fevcral remains of Roman antiquities, par- 

 ticularly the three gates of the city, wliich itil! bear the 

 names of as many Pagan deities, wz. the Sun, Mars, and 

 Ceres. It was taken by the Englilh in the reign of Henry V 

 N. lat. 49° 15'. E. long. 4° 6'. 



REIN, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 9 miles N.W. 

 of Gratz.— Alio, a town of the fame duchy, on the river 

 Save ; 20 miles E. of Cillcy. 



Ka^-Beer, in Zoology. See CeRVUS Tarandus. 



REINDORFF, in Geography, a town of Bavaria; 4 

 miles S.S.W. of Bamberg. 



REINECCIUS, Reinier, in Biography, a learned Ger- 

 man, who flourilhcd in the i6th century, was a difciple of 

 Melanctlion, and taught the belles lettres in the univerfities 

 of Frankfort and Helmlladt till his death, in 1595. He is 

 known to the learned world by feveral works on liiilory and 

 genealogy, in which he was profoundly verfed. His chief 

 publications are, " Syntagma de Familiis Monarchiarum 

 trium priorum," 1574; '• Familia Regum .Judseorum ;" 

 * Chronicon Hierololymitanum ;" «' Hiiloria Oiientalis ;" 

 " Hiltoria Julia," three vols, folio ; " Methodus Legend! 

 Hiltoriam." 



REINECK, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Rhine and Mofelle, late capital of a 

 burgravate, deriving its name from it, and fituated between 

 the duchy of Juliers and eleftorate of Cologne, on the borders 

 of the Rhine; 14 miles N.N.W. of Coblentz. 



REINEN. See Rheine. 



REINERTZ, a town of Silefia, in the comte of Glatz, 

 on the borders of Bohemia ; famous for its manufaftures of 

 beautitul cloth and plufh, and excellent paper, equal to the 

 bell in Holland ; x I miles W. of Glatz. N. lat. 50° 14'. 

 E. long. 16^ 10'. 



REINFELDT, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 

 Pomerelia ; 12 miles S.W. of Dantzic. 



REINFORCE, in Gunnery, is that part of a gun next 

 to the breech, which is made itronger, to refift the force 

 of the powder. There are generally two reinforces in each 

 piece, called the firft and fecond reinforce : the fecond is 

 fomewhat fmaller than the firft, upon the fuppofition that 

 when the powder is inflamed and occupies a greater fpace, 

 its force is diminiihed, which is very abfurd. See Cannon. 



Reinforce Rings of a cannon, are flat mouldino-s like 

 iron hoops, placed at the breech-end of the firft and fecond 

 reinforce, projtdlmg beyond the reil of the metal about one- 

 fourth of an inch. See Cannon. 



REINFORCEMENT, in War, a fupply, or new pro- 

 vifion of men, arms, ammunition, &c. 



REINGUS, in Geography, a town of Auftria ; 32 miles 

 N.N.W. of Waidhoven. 



REINHARTSBRUNN, a town of Germany, in the 

 principality of Gotha ; 10 miles S.S.W. of Gotha. 

 ^ REINHARTZ, a town of Saxony ; two miles W. of 

 SchniiL-delberg. 



REINHEIM, a town of the principality of Hefle 

 Darmftadt ; 5 miles S,E. of Darmftadt. 



REINHOLD, Erasmus, in Biography, sn eminent 

 German mathematician, was born at Salfeldt, in Thuringia, 

 a province in Upper Saxony, in the year 1511. He was 



educated 



