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Hone ; it coiifills of a centre, with two wings, conne&ed 

 by colonRades. A {"mail villa in this neighbourhood, at 

 Hare-ftreet, is the refidence of Humphrey Repton, efq., 

 diitinguilhed for his tafte and talents as a landfcape-gardener. 

 He is alfo author of two or three elegant volumes on pic- 

 turefque fcenery, and the principles 01 tafte, as difplayed 

 in the embellishment of parks and gentlemen's manfions. 

 His fon, John Adey Repton, is alfo juftly celebrated for 

 his intimate knowledge of the principles and hiilory of the 

 ancient architecture of England. Four miles to the calt- 

 ward is the village of Brentwood, or Burnt-wood, which 

 was anciently a market -town ; but this privilege is now loft. 

 Its former importance, however, may be conjectured from 

 the fadt of the county allizes having been held here for 

 many years. The remains of the town-hall and prifon are 

 [till difcernible in the main ilreet, which ftretches itfelf 

 along the Harwich road, and abounds with inns and 

 public houfes for the accommodation of travellers. Here 

 is a grammar-fchool, founded in 1537 by fir Anthony 

 Brown. Camden fuppofed the Roman ftation of Ciefaro- 

 magus to have been fituatcd at or near Brentwood ; but 

 this opinion is not fupported by any facts, or even pro- 

 bability. 



Five miles weftward from Romford is Wanilead-Houfe, 

 the feat of William Pole Tilney Long Wellefley, efq., M.P., 

 who acquired it bv marriage with Mifs Tilney Long, eldeft 

 daughter and co-heireis of the late fir James Tilney Long. 

 It is a very fpacious and magnificent building, meafuring 

 260 feet in front, and nearly So feet in depth. In the 

 centre of the principal front is a grand portico, fupported 

 on fix Corinthian columns, and having on each fide a flight 

 of ftepsj and 111 the tympanum the arms of the Tilney 

 family, finely fculptured. The houfe is divided into two 

 [lories, the uppermoll of which contains the ball-room and 

 principal apartments. Several of the rooms contain a col- 

 lection of fine paintings by eminent artiils. The gardens 

 and pleafure-grounds were laid out by Richard Child, pre- 

 .;. tally to the erection cf the houfe; but latterly great .1- 

 1 ions and improvements have been made in the former, 

 under the direction of Mr. Repton, who has very properly 

 revived part of an old and almoft exploded faihion, in de- 

 corating the lawn immediately adjoining the houfe with 

 Rowers, beautiful Shrubs, &c. to regale and "delight the 

 fenfes of feeing and fmelling." At the fplendid manfion of 

 Longleat, Wiltshire, this has been adopted on a large fcale, 

 ami with lingular beauty. (See Warminster.) Oppo- 

 site the back front is an eafy afcent, through an agreeable 

 villa, to the river Roding, which is formed into canals, and 

 has near it a curious grotto, conftrufted by the fecond earl 

 Tilney, at an expence of 200c/., exclufive of its coftly ma- 

 terials. Within the park, on its fouthern fide, a tefiellated 

 Roman pavement was difcovered in the year 1735. It was 

 about 20 feet long, and was conje&ured by Mr. Lethieullier 

 to have been the pavement of a banquetting-room. In the, 

 centre was the figure of a man, and around him a great va- 

 riety of ornaments. The Hiftory and Antiquities of the 

 County of ESTex, by Philip Morant, M.A., 2 vols, folio, 

 Lond. 1767. Lyfons's Environs of London, 4to. 1796. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. v. by John Britton 

 and E. W. Brayley, 8vo. Lond. 1803. 



ROMHILD, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 Htnneberg ; eight miles S.E. of Meinungen. N. lat. 50 

 26'. E. long. io° 42'. 



ROMI, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the province of 

 Diarbekir ; 45 miles S. of Kerkifith. 



ROMIEU, M. of Montpellier, in Biography, publilhed 

 in 1743 and 1751, what he called «.' A New Difcovery of 



the grave Harmonics," meaning the third found, refulting 

 from the coincident vibrations of two acute Simultaneous 

 founds ; a phenomenon which Tartini had difcovered in 

 17 14, and upon which he afterivards built his fyllem, or 

 " Trattato di Mufica," publilhed in 1754. 



This difcovery of Tartini excited the envy, not only of 

 Romieu, but of d'Alembert, Serre of Geneva, the abbe 

 Rouffier, Laborde, &c. The full attempt was to rob him 

 of the honour of the difcovery, and then to depreciate his 

 explanations, and the confequences which he derived from the 

 phenomenon. But it appears to us, on the moll careful 

 and minute enquiry, that they have egregioufly failed in 

 both. With refpect to his difcovery, Tartini himfelf, and 

 his zealous difciple count Taxis, of Venice, have clearly 

 authenticated his title to it. (Rifpofta di Tartini alia 

 critica del di lui Tratt. di Muf. Ven. 1767 — et Rifpofta 

 di un Anonimo al Sig . Rondeau circa al fuo fentimento 

 in propofito d'ahcune propof. del Giuf. Tartini, Ven. 

 1769.) 



And the long extracts given from Romieu's laboured me- 

 moir on the fubjedt of his difcovery of the lerzo fuoito, by 

 Laborde, in his " Effai fur la Mufique," have fo much 

 puzzled the caufe, thar. he may be truly laid to " explain 

 the thing till all men doubt it," &c. 



Tartini himfelf, by his notation of each third found, pro- 

 duced, as is fuppofed, by the coincident vibrations of any 

 two limultaneous intervals, is clear and evident. Stilling- 

 fleet's commentary of Tartini's " Trattato di Mufica," and 

 Roufleau's analyfra of his fyftem, do jultice to his ingenuity 

 and profound harmonical knowledge, without concealing 

 his. defects. 



Perhaps we have no right to imagine ourfelves unpre- 

 judiced in this difcufiion ; having been fo long accultomed 

 to regard Tartini as a great practical mufician, and an ex- 

 quifite compofer, we may have been infenfibly inclined to 

 refpect his theory, and, indeed, whatever he has produced ; 

 for what more can fcience do for any mufician in the pradtice 

 of his art, than it his done for Tartini ? Has it taught his 

 mathematical opponents, of the old French fchool, tocom- 

 pofe elegant, graceful, fpirited, or fanciful mufic ? or 

 even informed them in what good mufic confills ? See Tar- 

 tini and Terzo Slono. 



Romieu, La, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Gers ; five miles E. of Condom. 



ROM1LLY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl of 

 Nogent fur Seine; nine miles E.N.E. of it. The 

 place contains 2175, and the canton 688S inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 267^ kiliometres, in 15 communes. 



ROMISHORN, a town of Switzerland, in the canton 

 of Zurich ; nine miles E.S.E. of Conllar.ce. 



ROMKALA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go- 

 vernment of Marafch, on the right bank of the Euphrates, 

 where the river Simeren joins it. This town has a cattle, 

 much ruined, which was the work of the Greek emperors, 

 and which is fr.uated at the N. end of a chain of moun- 

 tains over the river. It ftands on a path, feparated from 

 the mountains, to the fouth, by a deep folfee cut in the rock, 

 and originally intended, as it is faid, to be made fo deep that 

 it might be fupplied with water by the river Simeren, and 

 thus the place be infulated. On the W. fide is the afcent, 

 having four terraces cut in the rock, and fituated above one 

 another, each having a gate-way, and connected by fteps. 

 In the caftle are two churches ; 50 miles N. of Aleppo. 

 N. lat. 36 35'. E. long. 37° 45'. 



ROMKERA, a town of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour ; 

 28 miles N.E. of Poonah. 



ROMKINT, 



