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firft examinations for his degree. This failure, however, 

 occafioned him to redouble his exertions, and he gave fuffi- 

 cient proofs of his acquirements in the following fpring, 

 161 1, when he was admitted to the degree of doftor. His 

 attachment to ftudy became very great ; and in 1622 he 

 was appointed to the profeiforfhip of medicine in the um- 

 verfity, an office which he continued to fill with great honour 

 during the remainder of his life. He died in the year 1655. 

 Riverius publifhed "The Inftitutes of Medicine," in five 

 books, in Latin, of which there are many editions, and 

 which mud be deemed a very refpeaable work for the time. 

 But his principal work, and that which has gained him cqn- 

 fiderable reputation, is a courfe of medicine, entitled 

 " Praxis Medica." The firft publication of this work 

 confided of a mere pra&ical treatife, without any patho- 

 logical difcuflion, as a fort of text-book, ufed in his lec- 

 tures. But finding that many editions of it were printed in 

 France and Holland, he enlarged and improved it, and it 

 was printed in this ftate at Pans in 1640, and a great num- 

 ber of editions have fubfequently appeared, as well as 

 tranflations into French and Englifh. It treats of moil of 

 the difeafes to which the body is fubject, in feventeen books, 

 in a clear ftyle ; but in many places he appears to have 

 borrowed copioufly from Sennertus. He publilhed alio a 

 work, entitled " Obfervationes Medicx et Curationes in- 

 fignes," which has been frequently reprinted, and is not 

 now without its value. Thefe works have been collefted, 

 and publilhed together, under the title of " Opera Medica 

 Univerfa." Eloy obferves, that a friar, Bernardin Chriftin, 

 who had been a pupil of Riverius, compiled fome fecrets of 

 chemiitry, which he publilhed with the name of Riverius ; 

 and although it has been clearly proved that he was not the 

 author of thefe papers, yet they have been frequently 

 printed, in the collections of his works, and feparately, 

 under the title of " Arcana Riverii." Eloy Did. Hid. de 

 la Med. 



RIVERS, Cape, in Geography, the N.W. point of the 

 ifland of Celebes. N. lat. i° 25'. E. long. 120° 30'. 



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

 Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diitrict of St. Mar- 

 cellin ; 14 miles N.W. of Grenoble. The place contains 

 1530, and the canton 12,019 inhabitants, on a territory 

 of 115 kiliometres, in 12 communes. 



RIVESALTES, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Eaftern Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in 

 the diftrift of Perpignan ; fix miles N.N.W. of Perpignan. 

 Tlie place contains 1986, and the canton 10,036 inhabitants, 

 on a territory of 422^ kiliometres, in i4communes. 



RIVET de la Grange, Anthony, in Biography, a 

 French Benedictine monk, was born at Confolens, a fmall 

 town belonging to the diocefe of Poiftiers, iii the year 1683. 

 Afterwards he was fent to ftudy philofophy under the 

 Jacobins, or Dominican monks at Poicliers, where he gave 

 the greateft fatisfa&ion by his application and proficiency. 

 At the age of 21, he became a noviciate in the abbey of 

 Marmoutier, and took the vows in the year 1705. After 

 completing his courfes of philofophy and divinity, he was 

 transferred to the abbey of St. Florence, at Saumur, where 

 his order was eftabhlhing a kind cf academy, confiding of 

 filch members as were moil diftinguifhed by their talents and 

 literature, for the purpofe of ftudying the fcriptures in 

 their original languages, the councils, the fathers, and the 

 hiftorians of the church, without being (hackled by the 

 trammels of the fchools. He undertook to write " A Lite- 

 rary Hidory of France," the plan of which he had already 

 conceived. However, before he became wholly occupied 

 on this work, he gave to the public, through the medium 



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of the Dutch prels, another favourite production, entitled 

 "The Necrology of Port-Royal in the Fields, &c. con- 

 taining hiilorical Eulogies ; with the Epitaphs of the 

 Founders and Benefactors of that Monaitery, &c." 1723, 

 4to., preceded by an hiftorical preface. In the year 1733 

 he publilhed the firft volume of his work under the title of 

 " The Literary Hiilory of France ; treating of the Origin 

 and Progrefs, of the Decline and the Revival, of Learning 

 among the Gauls and among the French ; of their refpe&ive 

 Talle and Genius tor Literature in each Age ; of their an- 

 cient Schools, and the Eftablifhment of Univerfities in 

 France ; of the principal Colleges ; of the Academies of 

 Sciences and Belles-Lettrcs, &c." in 4to. This was fol- 

 lowed, at different periods, by other volumes, till the author 

 had printed the ninth, which includes the fird years of the 

 twelfth century, when he died, towards the beginning of 

 1749, in the 66th year of his age. This work was after- 

 wards extended to twelve volumes. It has been compared, 

 and not uridefervedly, with the "Memoirs" of the learned 

 Tillemont, for accuracy of citation, and depth of refearch, 

 and it will be found to furnifn the reader with much inte- 

 reding matter, not only on the fubjecls mentioned in the 

 title, but alfo relating to the lives of the learned men who 

 flourirtied in the ages of which it treats. 



RlVET, in the Manege, is the extremity of the nail that 

 reds or leans upon the horn when you fhoe a horfe. 



Rivets, in Agriculture, a term fometimes applied to a 

 fort of bearded wheat. See Wheat. 



In Effex, throughout all the diftrict of the Roodings, 

 this fort of wheat is found very general, and to yield much 

 better crops on thefe heavy lands, than any common fort ; 

 but on the more light foils the Kentifh red is fuperior. 



RIVIERA, or Palese, in Geography, a town of Italy ; 

 five miles N. of Bellinzona. 



Riviera di Levante, a name given to that part of Genoa 

 which extends from the city of Genoa, included in it, to 

 Etruria. 



Riviera di Ponente, that part of the Genoefe territory 

 which extends weftward from the city of Genoa to France. 



Riviera, La, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Doubs ; 10 miles S. of Ornans. 



RIVIERE, Grande. See Grand River. 



Riviere Pelole, a town on the S. coaft of the ifland of 

 Martinico. 



Riviere Salee, a town on the S. coaft of the ifland of 

 Martinico. 



Riviere Mahaut, La, a town of the ifland of Gua- 

 daloupe, fituated in a bay to which it gives name. N. lat. 

 l6°27'. W. long. 61 ° 46'. 



Ri viere de Theyrargues, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Gard ; 14 miles N.N.W. of Uzes. 



RlVIERE de Thibowville, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Eure, 18 miles N.W. of Eure. 



RIVINA, in Botany, was fo named by Plumier, in ho- 

 nour of tiie great German fyltematic botanift ; fee RlVISUS. 

 Linnaeus at firft called the genus Rivin'm, which would have 

 been more correc/t, but he did not periift in the amendment, 

 nor has it prevailed. — Linn. Gen. 63. Schreb. 87. Wiild. 

 Sp. PI. v. 1. 694. Mart. Mill. Diet. v. 4. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. v. 1. 273. JuiT. 84. Plum. Gen. 47. t. 39. La- 

 marck Illuftr. t. 81. Gzrtn. t. 77. — Clafs and order, Te- 

 trandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Ho/eracea, Linn. jttri- 

 plices, .luff. See Piercea. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, coloured, permanent ; 

 of four obovate, obtule leaves. Cor. none, except the ca- 

 lyx be fo called. Stam. Filaments four or eight, (horter 

 than the calyx, approaclung each other in pairs, perma- 

 nent ; 



