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was difcovercd ; a piece of mifconduct which nothing but a 

 want ot accuracy in the ule of the level can lead to. The 

 mifcarriage, in this cafe, was not owing to a want of ele- 

 vation in the fourcc, but to adepreffion of the channel at the 

 foot of the lleep ; the head of the valley (if fuch it may be 

 called) being lower than the top of the precipice at the 

 given point. This (hews the neceffity of tracing the entire 

 channel with fufficient accuracy before any other cxpence is 

 incurred. The mode of doing which has been (hewn 

 above. 



It is likewife further flated, that in the cafe of Kirby the 

 channel is raifed fomewhat by a bridge-like mound of earth 

 thrown acrofs the crown of the valley. And that the fame 

 mound ferves the purpofe of conducting another rill acrofs 

 the fame difficult pafs ; from whence the Kirby rill takes an 

 eaftward, the rill of Welburn (applied principally to the 

 watering of pafture grounds) a weft ward direftion. 



Alfo in regard to the expence, it is ftated that the firft 

 coft of the Kirby rill was not altogether one hundred pounds. 

 The dillance about ten miles, watering (befides the town of 

 Kirby) two villages and a line of cultivated waterlefs up- 

 land country about four miles in length. Befides the firft 

 coft, which was raifed by fubfeription, a fuperintendant had 

 ten pounds a-year for keeping it in repair and free from 

 obflruttions ; which yearly falary is paid by the contri- 

 butions of the perfons benefited ; each being rated agreeably 

 to the eftimated benefit received. 



It may be noticed, that from the vaft advantages that hare 

 been derived from the conftruftion of thefe forts of rivulets, 

 in thefe few cafc3 of upland dry fituations, the attention of 

 the land proprietor and farmer in other diftrifts where there 

 is a prevalent fcarcity of water, either for domeftic purpofes, 

 or the ufe of cattle llock, (hould be directed to the exe- 

 cution of them, on fuch cheap and beneficial plans as may 

 be the moft convenient in the particular fituations. See 



POSD. 



Thefe kinds of rills (hould, in all cafes where they are 

 capable of it, be turned to the purpofe of watering land, as 

 well as the ufes noticed above. 



R1LLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Maine and Loin- ; 9 miles E. of Bauge. 

 — Alfo, a river of France, which runs into the Seine, fix 

 miles below Quilbceuf. 



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

 Marne ; 6 miles S. of Reims. 



RILSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Kurfk, 

 on the Sem ; 52 miles W.S.W. of Kurlk. N. lat. 51° 30'. 

 E. long. 34 54'. 



RIM, in a watch or clock, the circumference or circular 

 part of a wheel. 



Rims, in Ship Building, cornpals-pieces of timber, which 

 form the quarter-galleries between the (tools. 



RlMS, a (kirting of elm-board round the upper fide of 

 (hips' tops. 



Rim, a caft-iron frame, in which the dropping-palls of 

 the capftan traverfe6, and palls, or counterafts the efforts of 

 the capftan. 



RIM A literally denotes a fiffureor chink. See Fissuiti:, 

 and Riiauades. 



Hence, it is applied to feveral parts of the body, that 

 bear a refemblance thereto ; as rima puilauti, filfura magna, 

 the fame with vulva : and rima laryngis, the aperture of 

 the larynx, called the glottis. 



Rima is alfo ufedfor a narrow aperture of a fmall cavity 

 under the fornix, opening into the infundibulum ; called alfo 

 the third ventricle of the brain. 



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Rima, in Geography, a river of Hungary, which runt 

 into the Theyfie, near Bolgar. 



RIMAC, a river of Peru, which panes by Lima, in a 

 valley to which it gives name, on which Lima is built, and 

 runs into the Pacific ocean, S. lat. iz°. 



RIMAGIONE, a town of Genoa; c miles S.S.W. of 

 Spezza. 



RIMASZOMBAT, a town of Hungary ; 14 miles 

 E.S.E. of Altfol. * J> * 



RIMBA, a province of Benguela, in Africa, on the 

 banks of the Morano. 



RIMBACH, a town of the duchy of Wurzburjr ; , 

 miles S. of Volckach. 



RIMBU, a town of Thibet ; 71 miles W. of Lafla. 

 N. lat. 30 35'. E. long. 89 50'. 



RIME, in Poetry. See Rhyme. 



Rime, in Rural Economy, a fort of hoary or white frofty 

 appearance, fometimes on the ground in the autumnal win- 

 ter and early fpring mornings. 



RIMENANT, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Two Nethes ; two miles E. of Ma- 

 lines. 



RIMERS are moveable bars to fupport the fluices and 

 over-falls in opening-weirs. 



RIMFORSA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 Weft Gothland ; 17 miles S. of Linkoping. 



RIMINI, a fea-port town of Italy, capital of the de- 

 partment of the Rubicon, late in the Romagna ; formerly 

 fituated on the fea,but the fea has for fome centuries receded 

 to a diftance. The harbour on the river Marechia, on which 

 the city is built, is now fo choaked up with fand, as ftarcely 

 to admit of fmall barks. This city was once very flourifliing, 

 but befides other calamities which have befallen it, it fuf- 

 fered extremely from an earthquake in 1671. It is the fee 

 of a bilhop, fuffragan of Ravenna. This is the ancient 

 Ariminum, the firft town of which Cxfar took pofleflion, 

 after palling the Rubicon. In the market-place there is a 

 kind of (tone pedeftal, with an infeription, declaring, that 

 upon it Cjefar had ftood and harangued his army ; but the 

 authenticity of this is not afcertained to the fatisfadtion of 

 antiquaries. Befides this fuggeftum of doubtful antiquity, 

 here is a triumphal arch, eredted to the emperor Auguftui, 

 and the remains of an amphitheatre. This city is faid to 

 have been built 500 years earlier than Rome ltfelf, and to 

 have been made a colony in the year of Rome 483. It de- 

 rived its name from the river Arminus, which waffled its 

 walls, and feparated the Via Flaminia from the Via ^Emilia. 

 Two councils were held here, one of orthodox biffiops, in 

 the year 358, and another in the following year, of Arinn 

 prelates. Vitalien, governor of the city for the emperor 

 Juffinian, defended it againft Vitiges, king of the Goths, 

 with fuch vigour, as to oblige the Goths to raife the fiege. 

 Some time after it became fubjeft to the Lombards ; but 

 when their laft king, Didier, was conquered and taken pri- 

 (oner by Charles the Great, Rimini returned to the alle- 

 giance of the weftern emperors. The liberality of Otho III. 

 conferred the dominion of it on the Malatefta family : at 

 lalt the Venetians gained poffeffion of it, and by a treaty with 

 pope Julius II. gave it to the holy fee. The harbour at Ri- 

 mini was formerly famous, being covered with marble, and 

 of fuch extent, as to contain a conliderable licet ; but its 

 mouth being filled up with fand, Bigifmond Pandolfo Mala- 

 tcll.i deftroyed it, and with the marble Hones, raifed out of 

 its ruins, built the Franeifean church, which is the fun ft in 

 Rimini ; 57 miles S.E. of Bologna. N. lat. 44° 4'. E. 

 long. 12° 38'. 



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