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draw out the ftrength of it, and that of the foil, as foon as 

 it can be done, until the land is rendered quite barren and 

 incapable of affording any more produce without fome re- 

 fpite, is mod miferable, and deferves the highefl reprobation, 

 though not uncommon. 



It has been contended, that a well-feletted rotation of 

 crops is capable of doubling the fupport of the prefent po- 

 pulation, and of vaftly increafmg the wealth and refources 

 of the nation. Alfo, that having recourfe to proper modes 

 of cropping, may fometimes be highly beneficial in pre- 

 venting the ruft or mildew in wheat, as over-dunging imme- 

 diately for fuch crops is found to be productive of the dif- 

 eafe, while the application of it previoufly to fome fort of 

 fmothering crop, fuch as rape or cole in ftrong lands, and 

 potatoes on thofe that are light, is an almoft effectual 

 means of avoiding it. Some maintain that this difeafe feldom 

 or ever takes place in wheat crops after rape or cole, and 

 others affert the fame to be nearly the cafe in them after po- 

 tatoes. And that, as wheat after clover on light foils is lia- 

 ble to be affefted in this way, it may occaiionally be of im- 

 portance to take it before that crop fomewhat in this man- 

 ner, potatoes, wheat, clover, barley. 



Rotation of Crops., in Gardening, the introduction ©f 

 the mod proper and fuitable courfes of crops, for the pro- 

 duction of good garden vegetables of different kinds, and 

 for the keeping of the ground in the richeft and moil proper 

 condition for the cultivation and growth of them. This is 

 equally important and neceffary in the garden as in the field, 

 but it cannot, by any means, be fo fully and effectually ac- 

 complifhed in the former as fn the latter, on account of the 

 fmallnefs of the ufual limits of it, and the greatnefs of the 

 number of different articles which are required to be railed 

 and cultivated, as well as their more intimate relation to 

 each other. See Crops, Courfe of. 



In addition to what has been faid under the head above 

 alluded to, it may beobferved, that the management cf this 

 bufinefs may, in fome meafure, be effefted by a fuitable divi- 

 fion and arrangement of the cultivated culinary vegetables 

 into different claffes, as crops for the purpofe, as their na- 

 tures, habits, methods of culture, and difference in duration 

 and other circumflances may indicate. And by the appli- 

 cation of the manure which is ufed in fuch ftates, kinds, 

 and manners, as that it may go the fartheft, be confumed to 

 the greateft advantage in the raifing of the different forts of 

 vegetables in fucceffion, and produce them of the beft and 

 moft healthy kinds. 



Manure mould be applied in the firft inftance only for 

 thofe crops that are not injured in any way by it, but which 

 receive great benefit from its ufe, and cannot be grown well 

 without its being always employed in fuch ftates as are moft 

 favourable to them, according to their different natures, ha- 

 bits, and kinds, as the potatoe, cabbage, bean, celery, &c. 

 When thefe crops have taken up the more grofs parts, the 

 finer and more delicate vegetables may fucceed on the fame 

 land in their proper order, fo as to confume the remaining 

 parts of the manure in the moft advantageous ways, both 

 to the produce and the land. 



On this principle, the rotations fhould obvioufly begin 

 either with the potatoe, cabbage, bean, celery, or fome 

 other crop of a fimilar kind, well manured for ; and be fol- 

 lowed by thofe of the more delicate forts, in their moft 

 fuitable courfes, fo as not to be hurt in their growth or fla- 

 vour. The ufe of grafs feeds on well manured land may alfo 

 fometimes be had recourfe to by market gardeners, for lay- 

 ing down their lands in the view of refrefhing them, and foon 

 breaking them up again. 



By proper attention to the different circumftances which 



have been noticed above, and others of the fame nature that 

 may occur, different ufeful and advantageous rotations of 

 crops may be introduced into garden culture, and the art 

 be, in this way, very greatly improved. 



ROTATOR, in Anatomy, 2l name given to the oblique 

 mufcles of the eye, called alfo, from the direction of the 

 fibres, circulares, and from the effeft of their aftion, amatorii. 

 See Eve. 



ROTCHET, in Ichthyology, an Englifh name for the 

 fifh called by authors cuculus, and more frequently by us 

 the red gurnard. See Trigla Cuculus. 



ROTE, an old mufical inftrument, frequently mentioned 

 in the French Fabliaux, and fuppofed to mean the valle, 

 an inftrument played with a wheel, inltead of a bow. 



Rote, in Geography, a river of Germany, which runs 

 into the Itch, two miles N. of Coburg. 



ROTEBRO, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Upland ; 30 miles N.N.W. of Stockholm. 



ROTELE, in Ichthyology, a name by which fome call 

 the rutilus latior, or rubellus jlwuiatilis , more frequently 

 known by the name of the roach, a river-fifh, with red 

 belly-fins and tail. See Cyprixus Rutilus. 



ROTELSEE, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 4 miles E. ofKitzingen. 



ROTENB ACH, a town of the archduchy of Auftria ; 



9 miles N.W. of Schwanaftadt. 



ROTENBERG, a town of Auftria; 18 miles S.W. of 

 Freyftatt. 



ROTENBURG, a town of Switzerland, in the canton 



of Lucerne ; 4 miles N. of Lucerne Alfo, a town of 



Wurtemberg, on the N. fide of the Neckar, oppofite to 

 Ehingen; 21 miles S.W. of Stuttgart. N. lat. 48 32'. 

 E. long. 9 3'. — Alio, a town of Germany, in the county 

 of Verden, on the Wumme ; 12 miles N.N.E. of Ver- 

 den. N. lat. 53 8'. E. long. 9 24'. — Alfo, a town of 

 Germany, in the principality of Heffe, on the Fulda ; 25 

 miles S.S.E. of Caflel. N. lat. 51 1'. E. long. 9° 42'.— 

 Alfo, a town of Brandenburg, in the New Mark, on the 

 Oder; 12 miles E.S.E. of Croffen. N. lat. 52° 5'. E. 

 long. 15° 30'. — Alfo, a town of the duchy of Baden ; 14 

 miles E.S.E. of Spire. N. lat. 49 15'. E. long. 8° 48' — 

 Alfo, a town of the duchy of Magdeburg ; 40 miles S. of 

 Magdeburg. 



ROTENSTEIN, a town of the duchy of Carinthia ; 



10 miles S.W. of Saxenburg. 



ROTGANS, Luke, ia Biography, an eminent Dutch 

 poet, was born of a good family at Amfterdam, in 1645. 

 His education led him to the cultivation of polite literature, 

 which, for a time, he quitted to take up arms in defence of 

 his native country, when invaded by the French in 1672. 

 When his fervices were no longer required, he retired to a 

 villa between Amfterdam and Utrecht, where he refumed 

 with new vigour his favourite purfuits. When peace was 

 concluded between France and Holland, he paid a vifit to 

 Paris. He died of the fmall-pox in 17 10, in the 66th year 

 of his age. He was author of a number of poems, highly 

 efteemed in his own country. Of thefe, one is a " Life of 

 William III.," in eight books. His other pieces are moral 

 and mifcellaneous, which, with two tragedies, were printed, 

 in 1715, at Lewarden. 



ROTH, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Anfpach, at the union of the Roth and Rednitz, 

 containing an afvlum for thofe who have been guilty of man- 

 flaughter ; and manufactures of ftockings, Spanifh lace, 

 and fluffs; ij miles S. of Nuremberg. N. lat. 49 10'. 

 E. long. io° 59'. — Alfo, a river of Germany, formed from 

 two fprings, called the Ober and the Unter Roth, which 

 2 unite 



