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originally a chieftain or petty prince of Denmark : the king 

 of that country having in vain endeavoured by force to fub- 

 due his fmall territory, lulled him into fecurity by a treaty 

 which he never intended to keep, and then falling perfidi- 

 oufly upon him, killed his brother and many of his officers, 

 and obliged him to take refuge in Scandinavia. Rollo here 

 collected a body of troops, whom he farther attached to his 

 caufe by a pretended vifion which predicted the certainty 

 of future fuccefs ; and then he made a bold attempt upon 

 England, in the latter end of Alfred's reign. The order 

 introduced by that prince having completely foiled the de- 

 figns of the adventui't r, he directed his enterprifes to France ; 

 and failing up the Seine, committed great ravages, and ob- 

 tained poffeffion of the city of Rouen. He proved himfelf 

 fo formidable an enemy to Charles the Simple, at that time 

 king of France, that lie was glad to make a treaty with Rollo, 

 by which he gave him his daughter in marriage , with that 

 part of Neuili'ia called Normandy, for her dower, on the con- 

 dition that- Rollo mould do homage for his territory, and 

 embrace the Chriftian religion. Rollo very readily fub- 

 mitted to the ceremony of baptifm, in which he had Robert 

 duke of France for his fponfor, whofe name he afTumed. 

 In governing the dukedom which he had gained by his 

 fword, the Dane fhewed nothing of the barbarian. He di- 

 vided the land among his followers upon the feudal tenure, 

 eilabhihed magiltracies in the different diftridts, and took 

 care that law and juftice were exnclly adminiftered. He 

 feverely punifhed robbery ; treated his French fubjeefs with 

 mildnefs and equity ; founded bifhoprics and religious houfes ; 

 and atled, in all refpefts, like an enlightened fovereign. 

 Such was the reputation of his government, that the country 

 fhortly recovered its population and wealth, and many of his 

 roving countrymen fettled in Normandy, and became ufeful 

 and regular fubjetts. To him is attributed the inflitution 

 of the exchequer, or ambulatory parliament, which, at a 

 later period, became itationary at Rouen. He died, worn 

 out with the cares of government, in 932, having, five 

 years before this, abdicated his throne in favour of his fon 

 William. 



Rollo, in Geography, an ifland in the North fea, near the 

 coaft of Lapland. N. lat. 68 3 15'. 



Rollo's Head, a cape on the W. coaft of the ifland of 

 Dominica ; three miles S. of Prince Rupert's Hand. 



ROLLOCK, Robert, in Biography, a learned Scotch 

 divine, was born near Stirling in the year 1556. He itu- 

 died the daffies and belles-lettres under Thomas Buchanan, 

 who has been characterifed by Spotfwood as learned and 

 wife, and a ftrong defender of the church's rights, and who 

 then kept a fchool of coufiderable reputation. From Bu- 

 chanan's fchool Rollock went to the univernty of St. An- 

 drew's, where he went through a courfe of philofophy, and, 

 having greatly diftinguifhed himfelf, he took his degree, and 

 was made regent of his college. In 1580 the magiftrates of 

 Edinburgh obtained permiffion of the king, James VI., to 

 build a college, which being accomplished, Mr. Rollock was, 

 in 15S3, chofen the principal, and nrit theological profefl'or. 

 His high character, though not thirty years of age, brought 

 numerous Undents to the new univernty. His reputation 

 extended to foreign countries, where he was greatly re- 

 fpetted by the reformed churches. He died in the year 1598, 

 when he had only reached his forty-third year. He was 

 author of many works, among which are the following : 

 " In feleftos aliquot Pfalmos Davidis Commentarius ;'' 

 " In Danielem Prophetam Commentarius ;" " In Epiltolam 

 fee. Sanctum Johannem Comment." He publifhed com- 

 mentaries on fome of the other epiftles ; alfo " Analyfis 

 Logica in Epiftolam ad Hebneos." 



ROLPACH, in Geography, a town of Thibet, capital 

 of a diftrict ; 150 miles N. of Fyzabad. N. lat. 29 21'. E. 

 long. 82° 5'. 



ROLSHUGARDE, a town of Norway; 46 miles 

 S.S.E. of Drontheim. 



ROM, an ifland in the North fea, near the coaft of North 

 Jutland, about eight miles long and two wide. N. lat. 

 yjV. E.long. 8° 31'. 



Rom, a town of France, in the department of the Vi- 

 enne ; 10 miles S. of Lufignan. 



ROMA, an ifland in the Ealt Indian fea ; about 20 miles 

 long, and from 6 to 11 broad. S. lat. 7 12'. E. long. 

 ij- 12'. 



ROMAGNA, a late province of Italy, bounded on the 

 N. by the Ferrarefe, on the E. by the Adriatic, on the 

 S. by the duchy of Urbino and Tuicany, and on the W, 

 by Bologna ; about 45 miles long and 30 broad. This 

 country, which was part of the ancient Flaminia, fell, in 

 the fifth century, under the dominion of the Oftrogoths ; 

 whofe king, Theodoric, after having taken the city of Ra- 

 venna, in the year 493, made it the place of his uiual refi- 

 dence. In the following century, the Goths, being driven 

 out by Belifarius and Narfes, generals of the emperors of 

 the Ealt, Ravenna became the refidence of the emperor's 

 exarch, till the Lombards made themfelves matters of it, and 

 difpofleffed the lait exarch. In the year 755, Pepin, king 

 of the Franks, having compelled Iltulphus, king of the Lom- 

 bards, to cede the whole exarchate, conferred it on the fee of 

 Rome. It now forms the departments of the Amone or La- 

 mone, and the Rubicon, in the kingdom of Italy, being fur- 

 rendered by the pope in 1797. See Exarch, and Ra- 

 venna. 



ROMAGNANO, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Gogna, on the Sella ; 15 miles N.N.W. of Novara. 



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

 of the Mayne and Loire ; 6 miles W. of Chollet. 



Romagne fous les Cotes, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Meufe ; 9 miles N.W. of Eftain. 



ROMAGNO, a town of Italy, in the Feltrin ; 6 miles 

 N.E. of Feltri. — Alfo, a town of the ifland of Sardinia; 

 12 miles N.N.E. of Saflari. 



ROMAHIE', a town of the Arabian Irac, on the 

 Euphrates; 1 00 miles S. of Bagdad. N. lat. 31 40'. E. 

 long. 44- 15'. 



ROMAIN, in Hujbandry, the name of a plant, culti- 

 vated in the fields, in many parts of the world, particularly 

 in France, and called, by our farmers, French vetches, or 

 French tares. It is an annual plant, but a very quick 

 grower, and is extremely good food for cattle, particularly 

 for horfes : they let thefe creatures feed on it all the former 

 part of the fummer, and then cut it for hay in Augutt or 

 September. Its fhort continuance in the ground makes it 

 lefs valuable than faint-foin and clover ; but it has this ad- 

 vantage over them, that it will grow on poor ground. 



Romain, Cape, in Geography, a cape on the fouth coaft 

 of Madagafcar. S. lat. 35 38'. E. long. 49" 29'. 



Romain, St., a town of France, in the department of 

 the Charente ; 3 miles N.W. of Aubeterre. — Alfo, a town 

 of France, in the department of the Lower Seine, and chief 

 place of a canton, in the diftrii5t of La Havre ; 7 miles E. 

 of Montivilliers. The place contains 1200, and the canton 

 I 1,569 inhabitants, on a territory of 155 kiliometres, in 28 

 communes. 



Romain d' Allan, St., a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Drome ; 15 miles N.NAV. of Romans. 



Romain en JareJ?, St., a town of France, in the depart - 

 9 ment 



