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others merely local, cannot be treated with advantage, or 

 even with impunity, by the fame fet of medicines, and ought 

 not to be confounded under the fame appellation ; but po- 

 pularly, the name of a difeafc is alone inquired for, and the 

 remedy is appropriated to the name. By difcarding the 

 term ringworm, or uniting with it the epithets puftular, ve- 

 ficular, or herpetic, pornginous, &c. this practical error 

 may be avoided. 



RINLING, or Ainling, in Geography, a town of Ba- 

 varia ; 8 miles N.N.W. of Aicha. 



RINNE, a river of Thuringia, which runs into the 

 Saale, two miles below Rudelftadt. 



RINOREA, in Botany, a name of uncertain derivation, 

 but probably beitowed on this genus by Aublet, from its 

 native appellation in Guiana. — Aubl. Guian. 235. Juff. 

 287. Lamarck Di£t. v. 6. 211. Illuftr. t. 134. — Clafs 

 and order, Pentandria Monogytria. Nat. Ord. Berberides, 

 Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, villous, 

 cloven into five, oblong, acute legments. Cor. Petals 

 ten, concave, ovate, oblong ; the five inner ones fmaller ; 

 all inferted below the germen. Slam. Filaments five, fliort, 

 inferted at the bafe of the outer petals ; anthers oblong, 

 two-celled, with two valves burfting from the bafe to the 

 top. Pi/l. Germen fuperior, roundifh, villous ; ftyle ob- 

 long, villous ; ftigma obtufe. Peric. unknown. 



Obf. Juffieu defcribes Rinorea as having five longer pe- 

 tals, each furnifhed with an inner one at its claw or bafe. 



EH. Ch. Calyx five-cleft. Petals ten, the five inner ones 

 fmaller. Style one Stigma one. 



I. R. gulanenfis. Aubl. Guian. t. 93. — Native of culti- 

 vated ground in Guiana, where it flowered in January. — A 

 tree fix or feven feet high, whofe trunk is branched very 

 thickly, to the very fummit, in a ftraight alternate man- 

 ner. Leaves alternate, (talked, ovate-oblong, acute, 

 toothed. Stipulas fliort, deciduous. Flowers white, in axil- 

 lary, terminal clufters, each placed on a fhort italk, which 

 is furnifhed with two fcales at its bafe. 



RINTELN, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the county of Schauenburg, fituated on the S. fide of the 

 Wefer. The univerfity of Stadthagen was removed to this 

 town in the year 162 1 ; its profeflors of divinity are Lu- 

 theran, but thofe of the other faculties are Calvinifts. The 

 town church belongs to the Lutherans ; the Calvinifts and 

 garrifons ufe the univerfity church for their fervice. The 

 ramparts, ditches, and bulwarks, that environ the town, 

 were begun in 1665, and finifhed in 1668. The inhabitants 

 are chiefly employed in agriculture, breeding of cattle, and 

 brewing; 9 miles S.S.E. of Minden. N. lat. 52 1 1'. 

 E. long. 9 8'. 



RINUCCINI, Ottavio, in Biography, an Italian 

 poet of Florence, who went into France in the fuite of 

 Mary of Medicis, queen to Henry IV. He was the in- 

 ventor of the mufical drama or opera, that is, of the man- 

 ner of writing or reprefenting comedies or tragedies in 

 mufic, to which the firft recitative was applied. (See Re- 

 citative.) Others give this invention to a Roman gen- 

 tleman of the name of Emilio del Cavaliere, who was more 

 properly the inventor of the facred drama or oratorio, in a 

 fimilar fpecies of mufic or recitative, fo nearly at the fame 

 time, that it is difficult to determine which was firft : both 

 had their beginning in 1600. See Cavaliere, and Ora- 

 torio. 



It is certain that Rinuccini was author of three lyric 

 pieces, " Daphne," " Euridice," and " Ariadne," which all 

 Italy applauded. Euridice, written for the nuptials of 

 Mary of Medicis, was firft performed with great fplendour 



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and magnificence at Florence, at the court and expence ot 

 the grand duke. 



The poetry of Rinuccini is truly lyrical, fmooth, po- 

 lifhed, and mellifluous. He died in 162 1, at Florence ; and 

 hi6 works were pubhlhed in 1622, in the fame city, in 4to. 

 by his fon, Pietro Francefco Rinuccini. The family is 

 noble, and was iublilting in 1770. 



RINVEEL PoiXT, in Geograp/jy, a cape of Ireland, in 

 the county of Galway, N. of Ballinakiel bay. N. lat. 53 

 41'. E. long. 9 58'. 



RINUM, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segeltan 

 or Seiitan ; 60 miles E.N.E. of Zareng. 



RIO de los Anzuelos, a river of Mexico, which runs inta 

 the Spanifh Main, N.lat. ii°io'. — R. dos Apojlolos, a river 

 of North America, which runs into the northern part of 

 the gulf of California. — R. de Bogota, a river of New Gra- 

 nada, which collects all the waters of the valley of Bogota, 

 the bottom of which valley, according to Humboldt, is no 

 lefs than 7460 feet above the levei ot the fea, and finds its 

 way through the mountains to the S.W. of the town of 

 Santa Fe. (See Bogota.) The perfett level of the 

 plain, its geological ftruclure, and the form of the rocks, 

 which refemble imall lilands in the middle of the Savannahs, 

 appeared to M. Humboldt to indicate the exiftence of an 

 ancient lake. If the fingle outlet of the river were to be 

 flopped, the valley would again be converted into a lake. 

 The river, where it leaves the valley, is about 144 feet 

 wide, half the breadth nearly of the Seine at Paris, be- 

 tween the Louvre and the Palace of the Arts. It then en- 

 ters into a narrow rocky channel, not more than 40 feet 

 wide, which appears, fays the fame intelligent and initruc- 

 tive traveller, to have been formed by an earthquake. 

 After running for a little way in this crevice, the river preci- 

 pitates itfelf, at two bounds, to the depth of 574 feet. After 

 this tremendous fall, it purfues its way to the Magdalena, 

 about 50 miles, ftill defcending with great rapidity, and at 

 the rate of 150 feet to a mile. Although this is not the 

 greateft fall in the globe, there is not probably any which, 

 from fo great a height, precipitates io large a body of water. 

 Bouguer makes the height between 1500 and 2000 feet ; 

 but he fpeaks only from the information of others who had 

 feen the fall, and pointed out to him fuch heights as they 

 thought might be nearly equal to it. The accompaniments 

 of this waterfall, upon which the effect fo much depends, 

 are an afiemblage of every thing that is fublime, beautiful, 

 and pidturefque. Independent, fays M. Humboldt, of 

 the height and the fize of the column of water, the figure of 

 the landfcape, and the afpeft of the rocks; the peculiar 

 character ftamped on theie great fcenes of nature is owing 

 to the luxuriant form of the trees and herbaceous plants, 

 their diltribution into groups, or into fcattered thickets, the 

 extent of the craggy precipice, and the frefhnefs of vegeta- 

 tion. Another feature in the character of this extraordi- 

 nary cataract: is probably quite peculiar to it : — the water 

 defcends from a cold region to a warm one. The plain of 

 Bogota, efpecially near the fall, is extremely fertile, and is 

 fuppofed to owe fome of its fruitfulnefs to the irrigation oc- 

 cafioned by the great quantity of water from the tall, which 

 is diffolved in the air, and afterwards precipitated. The 

 fine crops of wheat, the oak, the elm, and other plants, 

 recall to mind the vegetation of Europe. Looking down 

 from this terrace, one fees, with furprife, at the bottom, a 

 country producing the palm, the banana, and the fugar- 

 cane. This cannot arife from the difference of height*; as 

 it is known, that no very great change of temperatun can 

 be produced by a difference of level of 570 feet. M. Hum- 

 boldt fuggefts, that it is probably owing to the fhelter 



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