REM 



animal or other fubflance, and has often been found adher- 

 ing to the lldcs of iTiips and the bodies of fliarks, &c. 



Linnxus enumerates two Ipecies of the cchcneis ; the rc- 

 mora and neucrates : the former has a forked tail, and 

 eighteen llrix on the head ; the latter has an entire tail, 

 which is longer tlian tluit of the former, twenty-four ftrise, 

 a larger body, and (harper fins. They are b-)th inhabitants 

 of the Indian ocean. The remora is much talked of by the 

 ancients, who, as we find from Pliny, lib. ix. cap. 25. 

 lib. xxxi. cap. 31. unanimouily believed it had the force to 

 itop a veflel in full fail, or a whale in fwimmin^ ; and hence 

 called it remora, c rcmorcindo. (See TElian's Hilt, de Animal. 

 lib. ii. cap. 17. Plutarch. Sympof. lib. ii.) Bat Mr. 

 Catefby obferves, that even feveral of thofe fi2\es together 

 can do no more than (liells or corals, and other foulnelies of 

 the fame bulk, which make a Ihip fail fomewhat the (lower. 

 And in the fame manner only they may be fome fmall hin- 

 drance to a whale. The author lall mentioned alTurea us he 

 has taken five of them off the body of a (liark. Vide Phil. 

 Tranf. N'438. p. 113. 



Remoha, among Surgeons, is alfo an inllrumciit ufcd for 

 fetting broken bones. 



ReAiora Muliani, in Natural Hyiory, a name given by 

 fome to the genus of (hells called concha venerea, and porcel- 

 lana. See Porcklain Shell. 



REMOTION, Remotio, in Rhetoric, the fame with 

 what is otherwife called metajlajis. 



REMOVAL of the Poor. See Pooit. 



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

 department of the Vofges ; 5 miles E. of Neufch.ateau. 



PvEMOVING Objiniaions to Tillage, the means of remov- 

 ing Hones and any other fubftances that may be in the way of 

 the plough. 



The operations which are to be performed in thefe inten- 

 tions are of feveral different kinds, as tiie removing of varioas 

 forts and ftates of ftony matters, both from above and 

 below the lurface of the lands ; the eradicating and dellroy- 

 iijg different kinds of woody materials of the tree, root, and 

 plant forts, the taking away of the fuperabundant wetnefs ; 

 the deftruftion of many aquatic vegetables, and fome others. 

 Sec Land, Stone, Till,\ge, and Wood. 



REMOULIN, in the Manege, is ufed to denote a ftar 

 upon a horfc's forehead. 



REMOULINS, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Gard, and chief place of a canton, 

 in thediftrift of Uzes ; 7 miles S.E. of Uzcs. The place 

 contains 905, and the canton 4758 inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 13 J kiliomctres, in 8 communes. 



REMOUNT, in Il^ar. To remount the cavalry, or dra- 

 goons, is to furmdl them with frelh horfes, in lieu of fuch 

 as have been killed or difabled in the fcrvice. 



REMPHAN, in Antiquity, the Egyptian name for the 

 planet Saturn. Some think that remphan was the moon, 

 othcis Mercury and Mars, and others the fun. See 

 Chiun. 



REMPLY, in Heraldry, fomething///t'^ up. The term 

 is chiefly ufed to denote, that the chief is quite filled up 

 with a fquare piece of another colour, leaving only a bor- 

 dure of the proper colour of the chief about the faid piece. 



REMPORETTY, in Geography, a town of Hindoo- 

 ftan ; 30 miles N. E. of Travancore. 



REMS, a river of Wurtemberg, which runs into the 

 Neckar, 4 miles N.W. of Waiblingen. 



REMSA, or Remissam, a town of Saxony, in the 

 lordihip of Schonburg ; 2 miles N.N.E. of Glauchau. 



REMSCHEIDT, a town of the duchy of Berg; 2 

 miles S.W. of Lennep. 



REN 



REMSEN, a town(hip of America, in Oneida county, 

 New York, E. of Leyden and adjoining it. 



RLMUNGOL, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Morbihan ; 7 miles S. of Pontivy. 



REMURIA, among the Romans, a fellival inftituted in 

 honour of Remus by his brother Romulus. See Lkmuuia. 



REMUZAL, in Geography, a town of France, in t.he 

 department of the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in 

 the diilria of Nyons ; 6 miles N.E. of Nyons. The plaae 

 contains 514, and the canton 3724 inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 2725 kiliomctres, in 17 communes. 



REMY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Oi(e ; 6 miles N. of Clermont. 



REN, a town of Rullia, in the government of Nov- 

 gorod ; 16 miles S.E. of Ulliuzna. 



RENAISON, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Rhone and Loire ; 6 miles W. of Roanne. 



RENAIX, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in tlie diilridt of 

 Audenaerde. The place contains 9499, and the canton 

 14,683 inhabitants, on a territory of 70 kiliometres, in 6 

 communes. 



RENALIS, Renal, m Anatomy, an epithet applied to 

 the parts belonging to the kidney ; as to the artery and vein 

 of the organ, alfo called emulgent, of v.'hich the former comes 

 from the aorta, the latter joins the inferior vena cava ; fee 

 Artery and Vein : to the plexus of nerves derived 

 principally from the ganglia of the great fympathetic ; fee 

 Nerve : and to the fmall bodies placed above the kidnies, 

 called the renal cnpfules. See alfo Kidney. 



Renalis Lapis, m Natural Hijlory, the name given 

 by many authors to a fort of fiderochitum, or crullated 

 ferruginous body of that kind, containing a nucleus of a 

 different matter from that of the crults. It is found about 

 Prague, and in fome other places, lying near the furface in 

 ftrata of a yellow clay. Its ufual bignefs is that of a ripe 

 peach, and its cruds arc of a dulky ferruginous brown co- 

 lour : and its internal nucleus of a pale yellowifh-green, com- 

 pofed of a marley earth, and u(ually of a kidney-like 

 Ihape, whence its name. 



RENASSAU, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Dowlatabad; 1 14 miles N.W. of Hydrabad. N. lat. iS** 

 30'. E. long. 79^ 10'. 



RENATHIA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Cara- 

 mania ; 10 miles S.W. of Satalia. 



RENAU d'Elisagauay, Bernard, in Biography, a dif- 

 tinguifiied engineer and naval archited, was born in the pro- 

 vince of Beam, in the year 1652. He was at an early age 

 inltrufted in the mathematical fciences, and was obferved 

 not to read a great deal, but to think moll profoundly, and 

 as he advanced in years, he was capable of thinking upon 

 the moft abftrufe fubjefts, as well in the midll of company, 

 as in the clofet. One of the firll books that attracted his 

 attention was Malebranche's «' Refearche de la Verite," 

 and, it is faid, it made fuch an impreilion upon him, that 

 nothing could efface it through the whole of life. It gav^ 

 him a full convidion of the truths of religion, and preferved 

 his morals pure and uncorrupted. In 1679 he was placed 

 with the count de Vermandois, admiral of France, as his 

 inltruftor in naval affairs. When, by the royal command, 

 conferences were held to determine upon a plan for bring- 

 ing to perfetfion the conlbruftion of vefl'els, Renau was 

 called upon for his opinion ; and at length the fyftems of 

 Du Cuefne and that of Renau were alone left for con- 

 fidcratioii, and to the honour of Renau, then young and 

 almolt unknown, his plan was adopted, and he himferf was 

 fent to Breft and the other ports to put it in execution. 



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