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cognizances belonging to the Molts, with other neighbour- 

 ing families. It was abandoned for the warmer and more 

 fertile fituation of Callleton by Robert Holt, efq. about 

 the year 1640." 



The townfliip of Caitleton derives its name from an an- 

 cient caitlc which formerly reared its embattled walls within 

 its limits, on a fpot where (till remains a lofty artificial 

 mound of earth called the keep. Dr. Whitaker fuppofes 

 that a callle Hood here anterior to the Norman conquelt, as 

 in a record in the Harkian collection, apparently part of an 

 inquilition taken alter the death of Thomas of Lancafti r, 

 " it is delcribed as the fcite of an ancient cattle long lince 

 gone to decay." A Defcription of the Country from thirty 

 to forty Miles round Manchester, by J. Aikin, M. D. 4X0. 

 London 1795. Whitaker's Hiltory and Antiquities of the 

 ancient 1'. nth of Whalley, &c. 4to. 1806. Beauties of 

 England and Wales, vol. ix. by John Bntton, F. S. A. 



Rochdale, a town of Pennfylvania, in Crawford county, 

 containing 401 inhabitants. 



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

 Upper Rhine; two miles S. of Delmont. — Alfo, a river of 

 America, which runs into lake Erie, N. hit. 42° 20'. W. 

 long. 82 D 53'. — Alfo, another which runs into the fame lake, 

 N.'lat. 41- '48'. W. long. 8 1° 25'. 



ROCHE, or Stony River, a river of America, which runs 

 into the MiHifippi, N. lat. 40° 50'. W. long. 91 42'. 



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

 Leman, and chief place of a canton, in the dittrict of 

 Bonneville; I 2 miles N.E. ot Annecy. The place contains 

 2447, and the canton 7685 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 ice kiliometres, in eight communes. The town is fituated 

 near the river Bonne, and is lo called from a rock near it, 

 and lies on the declivity of a hill, in a fertile country, di- 

 verliiied with arable lands and meadows. It is unrounded 

 by an ancient wall and defended with towers. The principal 

 occupations of its inhabitants are tanning of leather and 

 making of (hoes. It contains, betides a parifh church, fc- 

 veral religious houlcs. — Alfo, a town of France, in the 

 department of Mont Blanc ; 10 miles S.E. of Monftier. 



Roche, La, or Roche en Ardennes, or en Famine, a town 

 of France, in the department of the Sambre and Meuie, be- 

 longing to the duchy of Luxemburg : formerly a well for- 

 tified town, with a cattle commanding the town and ram- 

 parts, furrounded witli the waters of the river Ourte, which 

 panes through it. It is t he capital of a comte, called " the 

 comte of Ardennes," which comprehended 51 towns and 

 villages. In 1703 it fullered very much from tire; 28 miles 

 S. of Liege. N. lat. 50- 10'. E. long. 5" 33'. 



Roche I'Abeille, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Upper Vienne ; 6 miles N. of St. Yriax. 



Roche ties Arnauds, La, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Hi lie,- Alps; 6 miles W. of Gap. 



Roche Beaucourt, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 mentof th- Dordogne ; 1 .' railesS.W. of Nontron. 



Roche Bernard, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Morbihan, and chief placeof a canton, in the 

 diftrict of Vannes, fituated on the Vilaine ; 21 miles S.E. 

 ofVannes. The □ ici 1 intains 6272, and the canton 10,959 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 2 1 2~ kiliometres, in 8 com- 

 s. N. lat. 47^ 31'. W. in.. . .' 12'. 

 ROCHE . , , a town of France, in the department 



of the Doubs ; 5 miles N.E. of Befaucon. 



Roc 111°. Blanche, /.</, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Fuy de D6me ; 5 miles S. of Clermont. 



Roche Bonnet, a fmail iOand, near the W. coaft of 

 France, in the bay of Boure; Neuf. 



Roche Camllac, La, a towu of France, in the depart- 



men 

 Riberac 



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ment of the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftridl of Tulles ; 9 miles S.E. of Tulles. con- 



tains 375, and the canton 6845 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 232^ kiliometres, in 11 comm 



Roche Cbalait, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 nt of the Dordogne, on the Dronne ; 15 miles S.V 

 berac. 



Roche Darrien, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of th :rn Coafl , at 1 chief pla< d! anton, 

 in the diitricl if Lannion, fituated on the river ; 

 3 miles S. of Treguier. The place contains 1102, and the 

 canton 10,329 inhabitants, 011 a territory of 112J kilio- 

 metres, in 12 comm in . 



ROCHE Guyon, La, a town of France, in the d< ;>art- 

 ment of the Seine and Oile, on the Seine; 8 miles N.N.W. 

 of Mantes. 



Roche Melon, La, a mountain of Piedmont, near Suza, 

 fuppoiedtobethe highetl in Italy, and to be that from the 

 eminence of which Hannibal (hewed to his army the fertile- 

 country which he thus animated them to conquer. 



Roche Milky, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Nic\rc ; 12 miles S.E. of Moulins. 



Roche Reigner, La, a towa of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Upper Loire ; 12 mile., N. of Le Buy. 



Roche Serviere, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 dill.ict of Montaign ; 9 miles W.S.W. of Montaign. The 

 place contains 425, and the canton 4542 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 165 kiliometres, in 8 communes. 



Roche fur 2~on, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diltrict of Montaign, fituated on the Yon ; 30 miles N.W . 

 of Fontenay le Comte. The place contains 631, and the 

 canton 8515 inhabitants, on a territory of 275 kiliometres, 

 in J I communes. N. lat. 46 44'. W. long. 1 20'. 



Roche, Cape de la, a cape on the N. coaft of theitlai.d 

 of Hifpaniola. N. lat. 19° 42'. W. long. 70" 3,'. 



ROCHEA, in Botany, a genus of Decandolle's, in his 

 Plantes Grajfes, n. 103, dedicated to the memory of Daniel 

 de la Roche, a phyfician of Geneva, whole inaugural diller- 

 tation, printed at Leyden in 1766, contains descriptions and 

 plates of many plants of the natural order of Enfatm, and is 

 often cited by writers on the genera and lpecies ot that tribe. 



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ROCHECHOUART, in Geography, a town of France, 

 and principal place of a dittrict, 111 the department of the 

 Upper Vienne j 18 miles W.of Limoges. The place con- 

 tains 1440, and the canton 7872 inhabitants, on a territory 

 of 180 kiliometres, in 7 communes. 



ROCHEFOR'F, WlLI 1 LM de, in Biography, a modern 

 French writer, was bom in 1730, at Lyon . ' He had a 

 fmall employment in the (inane : but finding in himfelf a 

 greater love to i tters than to bufinefs, he went to Paris, and 

 devoted himfelf to poetry and Greek literature. Hecom- 

 pofed threi ti 1 th< Greek models, which had 



too n . and acomedy which was not 



iiihi ful. ! 1 profe he pub " Refutation 



du Syfteme de la Nature;" a " Critical Hiltory of the 

 Opinions of the Ancients concerning Happi .' and a 

 " Complete Tra of the Flays of Sophocles;" the 



hilt nam I wor] | ined him much credit In the elegance and 

 lidelit\ 1 t t he v* 1 (ion, and the judiciou note ■ anm xed to it. 

 He then undertook tl talk .1 ... .of 



I ton r's Iliad the preliminai v dif- 



courfi iuIc than the verfion 



itti If, w ch, ho . 1 , ' ! ,u Un- 



royal prci , 111 [781, in 4to. lie was a member ot the 



Academy 



