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Ceuta, and defeated the garrifon whicli had tallied out 



againft liim. But a nocturnal furprife ot the Moors in 

 the trenches broke up the liege, and Ripperda, who fled in 

 his fhirt to Tetuan, was raeeived fo coldly at the court 

 of Morocco, that he meditated an efcape to fome other 

 country. He was Hopped by the emperor, and fully expected 

 to pay the forfeit of his life, on account of his fuccefs ; 

 but he pleaded his caufe with fo much effect, that he was, 

 after a fhort impriiuninent, fet at liberty. He now formed 

 a new project, which was a confolidation of different re- 

 ligions, efpecially the Mahometan and Jewifli, which he 

 endeavoured to render compatible by admitting the pro- 

 phetic character of Mahomet, and inculcating the expecta- 

 tion of a future Mefliah. He made fome converts to his 

 opinions ; but at length became fufpcdted of difhoneft mo- 

 tives, and was obliged to retire. His projecting ipirit 

 continued to the lafl, and he advanced confiderable fums 

 to Theodore for his attempts on the crown of Corlica. 

 He died at Tetuan, in 1737. Univerfal Hiltory. Gen. 

 Biog. 



RIPPERS, in the Wire-works, are the people who 

 attend in the mills, take the prepared ftuall rods of iron, 

 and work at the barrels where they are drawn into wire. 



RIPP1N, or Rupulam, in Geography, a town of Hun- 

 gary ; eight miles N.N. E. of Leopoldltadt. 



RIPPINICA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 25 

 miles N. of Wladiflaw. 



RIPPLE, in Agriculture, a flight fcratch or tear, fome- 

 times applied to very flight ploughings, hence called rip- 

 plings. 



Ripple, in Rural Economy, an implement of the comb 

 kind, conitruCled with feveral upright triangular prongs, 

 fet near together in a itrong piece of wood, for the purpofe 

 of rippling flax and hemp. 



RlPPLING, in Sea Language, a broken and interrupted 

 noife, produced by a current on or near the fea-coaft. 



Rippling of Flax, in Rural Economy, the operation of 

 taking off the feed from the flax by drawing it through 

 a ripple or large comb. See Flax, and Ripple. 

 RIPPON, in Geography. See Ripon. 

 RIPRAPPS, a narrow flioal in the Englifh channel, 

 between Folkflone and Boulogne, S.W. and N.E. about 

 10 miles ; with a ftrong bottom, and at a low fpring-tide 

 not covered above 14 feet with the fea. 



RIPRESA, ItaL, the fame as reprife In French, and 

 repeat in Englifh ; which fee. 



RIPSA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Suder- 

 manland ; 13 miles N. of Nykoping. 



R1PTON, a townfhip of America, in the county of 

 Addifon and Hate of Vermont; containing 15 inhabitants. 

 RIQUEV1LI.E. See Richknvjik. 

 R1QUEURIA, in Botany, a name in the Flora Peru- 

 viana, deftined to commemorate Lewis Riqueur, apothe- 

 cary to king Philip V. of Spain. De Thcis. 



RIS, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Puy-de-D6me, near the Allies ; nine miles N. 

 of Thiers. 



RISACO, a town of Dalmatia, in the bay of Cataro ; 

 20 miles N.N.W. of Ragufa. — Alfo, a river of Iflria, 

 which runs into the gulf of Triefte, about three miles from 

 Capo d' Iflria. 



R1SARD, Francis, in Biography, a French mathema- 

 tical writer in the eighteenth century, publifhed feveral 

 elteemed elementary works for the inllruction of the young 

 in thefcicnccs. He was a native of Neufchatcau, in Lor- 

 r.iin, and was made profeilor of philofophy in the college 

 of Beauvais; he died at Paris in the year 1778. His pro- 



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du&ions confift of « Elements of the Mathematics," m 

 4to., ot which the author publilhed an abridgment, in 

 8vo. ; " A Treatile on the Sphere," in 8vo. ; " A Trea- 

 dle on Gnomonica," in 8vo. ; " Tables of Sines," in 8vo. • 

 " Rectilinear Trigonometry," 8vo. ; « Elements of Geol 

 metry," in ato. ; and " Inftitutiones Pniloiophica-," m 

 2 vols. 



RISBOROUGH, or Piunce's Rlsborough, in Geo- 

 graphy, a market-town and panfh in the fecond divilion of 

 the three hundreds of Aylefbury, county of Buckingham, 

 England, is fituated at the diltanceof 5 miles S.W. from Wen- 

 dover, and 37 N.W. from London. The right of holding a 

 market was granted to the inhabitants by king Henry III., 

 who, at the fame time, beflowed upon the townlmen many 

 privileges. The market day is Saturday, weekly ; befides 

 which there is an annual fair on the 6th of May. The 

 manor here was anciently vetted in the families of Gifford 

 and Humet ; but having fubl'equently become veiled in the 

 crown, it was granted to Richard, earl of Cornwall, and 

 king of the Romans, who died in 1272. It was afterwards 

 the property of Edward the black prince, who is faid " to 

 have had a palace here, fuppofed to have flood within the 

 fate of a fpacious moat, now dry, which is in a field ad- 

 joining the church-yard." In the reign of Henry V. this 

 manor was affigned to his queen, Catharine, in dower. 

 Charles I. fold it to certain citizens of London, who, in 

 1637, conveyed it to the family of the Chibnalls ; one of 

 whom gave a confiderable fum of money to the parifh to 

 fupply clothing annually to 24 poor women. Since the 

 Chibnalls, it has been occupied fucceflively by the families 

 of Abraham, Adeane, Pelham, Panton, and Grub, the 

 prefent pofleffors. According to the parliamentary returns 

 of 181 1, this parifh contains 324 houfes, and 1644 '"ha- 

 bitants. 



Adjoining to Prince's Rifborough is the village of Monk's 

 Rifborough, at which place, it is faid, there was for- 

 merly a cell of Benedictine monks, fubjeC"t to the monaftery 

 of Chnlt-church, in Hampfhire. The church here is a 

 handfome building, in the later pointed ftyle of archi- 

 tecture, and contains many monuments. Lyfons's Magna 

 Britannia, vol. i. Bucks, 4to. 



RISBY, a town of Sweden, in the province of Fin- 

 land, near the gulf of Bothnia; 32 miles N. of Biorne- 

 borg. 



RISCHEBACH, a river of Saxony, which runs into 

 the Elbe, near Wittenberg. 



RISCHIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Rako- 

 nitz ; 30 miles S.E. of Rakonitz. 



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

 Cur,; fix miles S. of Nogaro. 



RISC US, among the Romans, fometimes fignifies a 

 chelt or trunk covered with fkins ; fometimes it is ufed for 

 a hamper, made of twigs or rullies to hold lint; and fome- 

 times for a hollow place in the wall of a houfe, ufed like- 

 wife for holding lint, or the like. 



, a town ot Sweden, in 



RISEBERGA, in Geography, a town ( 

 he province of Skonc; 28 miles N. of Lun 



RISENBURG, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Oberland ; 12 miles E. of Marienwerder. 



RISENK1 RCH, a town of Prufiia, in the province of 

 Oberland ; 14 miles E. of Marienwerder. 



R1SENT1TO, in the Italian Mtiftc, a briik, lively, or 

 cxpreflive manner of playing. 



RIS HI, in f/inJoo Mythology, is a general name for 



ancient fages or faints. Confiderable difficulty occurs in 



determining, witli any exactitude, who they were, whether 



they had any lullorical exittence, or arc merely the crca- 



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