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ROSSCHOCHA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into 

 the Indigirka, N. lat. 67 50'. E. long. 140 14'. 



ROSSDEOGHAN, a ("mall i(W on the W. coafl of 

 Ireland, in Kenmare river ; 10 miles N.E. of Lamb's 

 Head. 



ROSSDORF, a town of Bavaria; 12 miles N.E. of 

 Bamberg. — Alfo, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 Henneberg ; 10 miles N.W. of Meinungen. 



ROSSE, in Ichthyology, the name given by Bellonius to 

 that kind of cyprinus of Artedi, which we call the roach. 



ROSSEL, in Geography, a town of Pruflia, in the pro- 

 vince of Ermeland ; 50 miles S.S.E. of Kbnigfberg. N. 

 lat. 53 57'. E. long. 21 11'. 



ROSSELARE, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Lys ; 3 miles N. ot Grammont. 



ROSSENAW, a town of Auftria; 2 miles N.W. of 

 Zwetl. 



ROSSENBURG, a town of the margraviate of An- 

 fpach ; 8 miles N. of Anfpach. 



ROSSENDORF, a town of the margraviate of An- 

 fpach ; 2 miles N.W. of Cadolzburg. 



ROSSI, Gian-Vittokio, in Biography, an Italian man 

 of letters, was born of a good family at Rome, in 1577. 

 He was educated under the Jefuits of the Roman college, 

 where he joined the fludies of the law and philofophy to 

 that of polite literature, but being difappointed in his ex- 

 pectations with refpect to the firft of thefe purfuits, he 

 limited his attention to the lait. He became a member of 

 the academy degli Umorifti, of which he was one of the 

 moll zealous promoters, and gave fuch proofs of ability in 

 its exercifes, that feveral advantageous offers of employ- 

 ment were made to him. He, at length, accepted the poll 

 of fecretary to the cardinal Andrea Peretti, with whom he 

 refided twenty years. After the death of that prelate he 

 retired to a lolitary villa on mount Sant' Onofrio, where he 

 lived in tranquillity to himfelf, and engaged in his lludies, 

 till he died in 1647, at the age of 70. He was much 

 efteemed by the men of letters at Rome, as well as by many 

 perfons of rank, among whom was the cardinal Chigi, after- 

 wards pope Alexander VII. Rofli, who is better known 

 by his claffica] name, Erythreus, was author of feveral 

 works. His lirlt publication was a kind of fatire on the 

 corrupt manners of the Romans, entitled " Eudemix 

 Lib. X." He alfo publiftied two volumes of " Epitlles," 

 addrcfled to cardinal Chigi, under the name of Tyrrhenus, 

 and two others to different perfons ; alfo various dialogues 

 on moral topics, orations, and other tradls, which are all in 

 the Latin language. His chief work is entitled " Pinno- 

 theca lmaginnm illullrium Virorum," being eulogies or bio- 

 graphical ac.ounts of many learned men his contemporaries. 

 Gen Biog. 



Rossi, PASQUALE, called PafhuaSttO of Vicen%a, by long 

 practice after the bell Venetian and Roman pictures, ac- 

 quired, without a mailer, a contidcrable power of dclign and 

 colour. Few of bis public works remain ; one of the bell 

 is a St. Gregorio in the dome of Matelica. In galleries we 

 meet with his cabinet pictures rcprclcnting convocations, 

 gaming parties, concerts, and limilar capricci, highly elabo- 

 rate, and of Flemifh finilh. 



Rossi, I.i.mmi:, publiftied in 1666, at Perugia, in quarto, 

 a work entitled " Sillema Mulico," or Speculative Mulic, 

 explaining the moll celebrated lyllcm of the ancients in all 

 the genera. This is one of the eleareil and bell digelled 

 treatifes on harmonics that was produced in Italy during the 

 17th century. 



Rossi, MlCHAEL AnGBLO, a dilettante or gentleman- 

 performer on the violin, who, in the part of Apollo, in 



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1632, accompanied himfelf on that inftrument in a mufical 

 drama at Rome, entitled " II Ritorno di Angelica nell' In- 

 die," to the great delight of the audience. It appears that 

 Stradella, who fung in his own oratorio of St. John the 

 Baptiil at Rome, led the band, and accompanied his own 

 voice on the violin. 



Rossi. See Luigi. 



Rossi, la Pasqua, a female finger in the confervatorio 

 of the lncurabili at Venice in 1770, who performed in a 

 motet by Galuppi under his own direction, in a very fuperior 

 manner. Italian Tour. 



Rossi, Fkancesco di Puglia, an excellent mufical com- 

 pofer of the old fchool, who produced the following three 

 operas, that were much admired in their day : " Sejano mo- 

 derno della Tracia," 1636; "La pena degl' Occhi," 1688; 

 and " La Corilda, o l'Amor trionfante della Verdetta." 



ROSSIGLIONE, Alto, in Geography, a town of the 

 Ligurian republic ; 17 miles N.W. of Genoa. 



Rossiglione, Bajfo, a town of the Ligurian republic; 15 

 miles N.W. of Genoa. 



ROSSIGNOL, a confiderable lake of Nova Scotia, be- 

 tween Liverpool and Annapolis, faid by the Indians to be 

 the main fource of the Liverpool and Petit rivers. — Alfo, 

 a port on the S. coall of Nova Scotia, S.W. of Port de 

 l'Heve. 



Rossignol, in Ornithology. See Motacilla Lucinia and 

 Phanicurus. 



ROSSINA, in Geography, a town of the duchy of Par- 

 ma ; 14 miles S.S.E. of Parma. 



ROSSITA, a river of European Turkey, which runs 

 into the Jantra, near Nicop, in Bulgaria. 



ROSSITTEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province ot 

 Samland, on the Kuritfch Ncrung ; 18 miles N. of Ko- 

 nigfberg. 



ROSSITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Chru- 

 dim ; 8 miles N.N.W. of Chrudim. 



ROSSLA, a town of Germany, in the principality ot 

 Weimar; 6 miles N.E. of Weimar. 



ROSSLEBEN, or Ros.sf.l, a town of Saxony, in Thu- 

 ringia ; 3 miles N.N.E. of Wiehe. 



ROSSLYN, Earl of, in Biography. See WedDER- 



BVRNE. 



ROSSMORE, in Geography, an ifland in Kenmare river, 

 county of Kerry, Ireland, about 6 miles W. of Kenmare 

 town. 



ROSSO, Cape, a cape on the E. coafl of the ifland of 

 Metelin. N. lat. 39 18'. 



ROSSOCKEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 

 Oberland ; 25 miles S.W. of Ortelfburg. 



ROSSOMAKA, in Zoology. See Uitsis Gulo. 



ROSS-SHIRE, a county or diflrid of Scotland, in- 

 eluding the fmall difperfed county of Cromarty, which 

 united, form one fheriffdom, though feparated lieutenancies, 

 is fituated between 57 7' 40" and 58° 7' 20" north latitude. 

 It is one of the largell (hires in North Britain, and extends 

 about eighty miles in length, and feventy-eight in breadth. 

 The whole comprehends 3799 Britifh fquarc miles, of 

 which 562 are in the ifle of Lewis, and 344 in Cromarty. 

 Rofsfhire llretchcs acrofs the whole of Scotland, from the 

 northern to the weltern ocean, and has annexed to it, be- 

 lides the illes of Lewis, Barra, and Rona, the Suhlker-rock, 

 and the Flannan and Shauit illes, which will be found to 

 be noticed under their hefpi Site nan. . It is bounded on 

 the north by the county of Sutherland, on the call by 

 the Moray and Cromarty friths, on the fouth by the county 

 of Inverncfs, and on the well by the Atlantic o. - 



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