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2. R. gymiwrhi%a. Linn. Sp. PI. 634. (Mangium cel- 

 fum ; Rumph. Amboin. v. 3. 102. t. 68.) —Leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, entire. Root lying upon the ground. — Found 

 in many parts of the Eall Indies, and in the iflands of the 

 South leas. — A middling-fi/.ed tree with a lofty, erect Irani, 

 covered with a thick brown-red barh. Leaves on (talks, 

 fmooth, fcattered, fometimes heaped together at the top. 

 Flowers folitary, fcattered, red, having ufually from ten to 

 thirteen petals and twice as many ftamens. 



The bark of this tree is ufeful in dyeing a rufous or 

 chefnut colour, which may eafily be changed into a fine per- 

 manent black, as Loureiro informs us. 



3. R. Candel. Linn. Sp. PL 634. (Tsierou-Candel ; 

 Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 6. 63. t. 35.) — Leaves obtufe. 

 Flower-ftalks in forked pairs, longer than the leaf. Fruit 

 awl-lhaped. Native of the F.aft Indies in {hallow fait water. 

 A tree about feven feet high. Leaves oppofite, on (hort 

 (talks, rather long, with round edges. Flowers compofed 

 of five or fix thick, reflexed, white, (lightly fragrant petals. 

 Fruit very like that of the following fpecies. 



4. R. Mangle. Mangrove-tree. Linn. Sp. PI. 684. 

 Jacq. Amer. 141. t. 89. Browne Jam. 211. — Leaves 

 poiuted. Fruit flender-club-fhaped. Found in moilt fitua- 

 tions, both in the Eait and Welt Indies. A tree about 

 fifty feet high, with white wood, and a rully-colourediari. 

 Leaves ovate, ribbed, entire, (hining, coriaceous, dotted be- 

 neath. Stalks axillary, folitary, two or three-flowered, (lightly 

 triangular. Flowers white, having moillv eight petals. 



Jacquin and Browne each give an elaborate and curious 

 defcription of the fruit of this tree and the mode in which 

 the feed germinates. From it's growing ufually near the 

 fea, the lower branches frequently become a lupport to the 

 American ovfter, and this cirenmltance doubtlefs gave rife 

 to an ancient fabulous opinion, that fhellfifh fometimes grew 

 on tree6, like fruit. 



5. R. cylindriea. Linn. Sp. PI. 635. (Cari-Candel ; 

 Rheede Hort. Malab. v. 6. 59. t. 33.) — Fruit cylindrical, 

 obtufe. — Native of fait marines in Malabar. This fpecies 

 is clofely allied to gvmnorhiza, of which indeed Giertner 

 contiders it to be a variety. It is rather taller, and not fo 

 much branched. Leaves much fmaller, and on (horter 

 (talks. Fruit green when young, but afterwards reddifli-blue. 



R. cornieulata. See jEgiCERAS. 



R. cafeolaris. See Sons Kit ati. \. 



We dare not venture to adopt R. fexangula of Loureiro, 

 without further information than is furnifhed by that author 

 refpe&ing it. 



RHIZUS, in /Indent Geography, a port of Cappadocia, 

 near Trebizond, between the town of Pitiufa and the pro- 

 montory of Athena?. Ptolemy. 



RHO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the depart- 

 ment of the Olona ; eight miles W. of Milan. 



RHOARA, in /Indent Geography, a town of Alia, in 

 Parthia, between Cafipraca and Semina. Ptolemy. 



RHOA8, a river of the Colchide, according to Pliny. 



RHOBASCI, a people of Scythia, on this fide of the 

 Imaus, placed by Ptolemy near the molt eafterly fources of 

 the river Rha. 



RHOBODUNUM, a town of Germany, upon the 

 banks of the Danube, between Phelicia and Andupcdum. 

 Ptolemy. 



RHOBOGDIUM, a promontory placed by Ptolemy in 

 the northern part of Hibernia. 



RHOBONDA, a town of Africa, in Mauritania 

 C;efarienfis, between Tupufuptus and Aufum. Ptolemy. 



RHOCAS, the watery eye. See Epiphora. 



RHODA, or Rhode, Rofas, in Aneient Geography, a 

 town ot Hilpaiia Anterior, belonging to the Indigetes, and 



N. of a fmall gulf. It is laid to have been built by the 

 Rhodians on the banks of a fmall river which flowed from 

 the Pyrenees, and called by Pomponitis Mela " Thicis." 

 But Cellarius conjectures that it was founded by the in- 

 habitants of Emporirr, who came thither from the town of 

 Rhodes, in the ifland of that name. — Alfo, a town of 

 Gallia Narbonnenlis, at the mouth and on the banks of the 

 Rhone, according to Plinv ; who adds, that it was built by 

 the Rhodians. St. Jerome intimates that the Rhone took 

 its name from this town. 



RHODANNUS, or Rodanm.s, a fmall river which 

 had its fource in the palatinate of Pomerania, and difcharged 

 itfelf into the Viltula at Dantzick. 



RHODANUS Fluvids. See Rhone. 



RHODE, a river of the European Sarmatia, in the 

 vicinity of the Axiaces. Pliny. 



Rhode JJland, in Geography, one of the United States 

 of America, fituated between 41 J 17' and 42 s N. lat. and 

 between 71° 6' and 71 52' W. long. Its north line is 29 

 miles long and its welt line 49. The coalt well of the bay 

 meafures 22 mil"s, the mouth of the bay 16, and the coalt 

 eaft of the bay 5, in all 43 ; while the greatelt width mea- 

 furcdon a parallel is 37 miles. Rhode ifland contains about 

 1580 fquare miles ; of which about 190 are water, and 

 about 90 are included in the iflands. It is bounded N. 

 and E. by the Maflachufetts, S. by the Atlantic, and W. 

 by Connecticut. It is divided, according to the following 

 itatement, into five counties and thirty. one townfhips. 



Counties. 



No. of 

 Towns. ( — 



Pojiulatn 



■■■ 



Chief Tuvns. 



1790. 1800. 1 8 10. 



Providence - 10 24,39' z 5'^54 5°>7^9 Providence. 



Newport - 7 14,300 14,845 16,294 Newport. 



Wafhington - 7 18,075 16,135 14,968 S. Kinglton, 



Kent ' - 4 8,848 8,487 9,834 Warwick. 



Briltol - 3 3,211 3,801 5,072 Brillol. 



Totals - 31 68,825 69,122 76,937 



This ftatc fends two reprefentatives to congrefs. The 

 tribe of Indians who inhabited Rhode ifland at the time of 

 its fettlement, was the Narraganfetts, who were a brave 

 and powerful people. The firit fettlement in this itate was 

 made by Roger Williams, ar.d a party of malecontents from 

 Maflachufetts, in 1635 ; and in 1643 a charter was obtained 

 for the whole colony by fir Henry Vane. The charter, on 

 which the prefent constitution is founded, was obtained of 

 Charles II. in 1663. In May 1789, Rhode ifland adopted 

 the federal conftitution. The inhabitants of this itate are 

 chiefly of Englifh defcent. Agreeably to the charter juil 

 mentioned, the legislature is compofed of a council of 12, 

 including the governor and deputy governor, all chofen 

 annually, and a houfe of reprefentatives, confilting of de- 

 puties from the leveral towns, chofen twice a-year. There 

 is one fupreme court, which fits twice a-year in each 

 county, and an inferior court of common pleas and general 

 feflions of the peace for each county, fitting alfo twice 

 a-year. The militia of this flate amount to between 7000 and 

 8000 men, organized and difciplined in a manner fimilar to 

 the relt of the New England militia. The fettlement of 

 Rhode ifland is faid to have originated in a religious difpute ; 

 and fome of its firit fettlers were exiles from the Maffa- 

 chufetts, on account of their religious opinions. The pre- 

 judice and animofity thus excited were never thoroughly re- 

 moved ; but they were long cherifhed by the defcendants 

 of the firit occupiers j and even to this day, there has never 

 been a congregational minilter fettled on the welt fide of the 

 4 bay. 



