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off and are reduced into a clear palte, which is (craped off 

 from the hands with a knife, and laid on a clean leaf, in the 

 fhade, to dry. De Laet, in his notes on Marcgrave's Na- 

 tural Hiflory of Bralil, mentions two kinds of roucou, or 

 annotto ; one of a permanent crimlon colour, uicd as a 

 fucus, and another which gives a colour inclining more to 

 that of faffron. This lall, which is our annotto, he fup- 

 pofes to be a mixture of the firlt fort with certain refinous 

 matters, and with the juice of the root of the tree. See 

 Annotto. 



ROUELLE, in Geography, a river of France, which 

 rifes near Le Quelnoy, and runs into the Scheldt, at Valen- 

 ciennes. 



ROUEN, a city of France, and capital of the department 

 of the Lower Seine, fituated on the Seine ; before the revo- 

 lution the capital of Normandy, and the fee of an archbifhop ; 

 13 polls S,W. of Amiens. The place contains 87,000, and 

 its fix cantons 87,000 inhabitants, on a territory of 15 kilio- 

 metres, in one commune. Rouen is large and commercial, 

 has feveral manufactures, particularly ot cotton, and con- 

 tains 36 parim churches. In the market-place is a llatue of 

 the celebrated maid of Orleans, who was burnt here by the 

 Englifli for a witch. In 1117, when the French were de- 

 feated by the Englilh in a battle fought here, the city be- 

 longed to the king of England, as a part of Normandy ; 

 but in the year 1204, it was furrendered to the king of 

 France. In 1418, Henrv V. of England commenced a iiege 

 which laded five months ; the inhabitants defending the city 

 with perfevering tirmnefs and ardour, and enduring the moll 

 fevere hardfhips ; but they were at lall obliged to furrender, 

 on condition of paying 34^,000 crowns of gold, and taking 

 an oath of allegiance to the conqueror, who entered on the 

 19th of January 1419. N. lat. 49 26'. E. long. 1° 10'. 



Rouen, in Agriculture, a term made ufe of to fignify 

 after-grafs, or the hay made from this fort of grafs. It is 

 fometimes written Rotuet. See After-Gio/s. 



This fort of preferved grafs is now found by many farmers, 

 in different diflndls, to be of vail utility and advantage in the 

 fpring feafon for the fupport of fome part of their flore- 

 fheep (lock, as that of the ewes during the lambing-time, and 

 thofe other fheep which are to be kept in good condition. 

 In the county of Norfolk, Mr. Bevan has a high opinion of 

 the great value and ufe of this kind of grafs, fometimes prc- 

 ferving the quantity of twenty-eight or thirty acres of it in 

 an excellent Hate for the ewes and lambs in the early fpring. 

 And near Swaffham, in the fame county, Mr. Mafon is in 

 the practice of keeping grafs of this nature from the end of 

 July, and not turning at all into it until early in the fpring 

 of the following year, when the fattening bullocks and (hecp, 

 which have had hay during the winter, are put into it. 

 The old grafs is fuund to nurfe up a great bite of young 

 growth, and both together carry on the bullocks 111 a very 

 favourable manner ; it is alfo excellent tor fheep ; nothing 

 at fuch a feafon is fuppoicd to equal it. At Burnham, on 

 an expofed piece of thirteen acres of this (ort of grafs, open 

 to the fea, and the north-call wind, which Mr. Overman kept 

 from Midfummer, ten (eon- and Gxteen ewes and their 

 lambs were turned in on the 27th of March, and it kepi 

 them w«ll a whole month. It is afferted, that they would 

 have been ball Itarved without it ; but that by means of it 

 they were fully fupportcd, to the furprife of many who faw 

 them feeding. This piece was fully lathed \n every part. 



The fame fyftcm of practice is alfo found equally uh-ful 

 and important in the county of Eflex. Mr. Kite her, of this 

 diltridl, is in the habit of laying up a pallure of this fort 01 

 fpring food for his fheep, finding it of fuch aftonifhiug ufe, 

 that he is determined not to be without io great a rcfourcc. 



And at Ongar, Mr. Dyer (huts up grafs for the ufe of his 

 fheep, both ewes and lambs, in March and the following 

 month : it is found that the young grafs fhoots up with it 

 in an extraordinary manner, and that his. flock does better on 

 it than on turnips. Alfo at Gostield, Mr. Thurlow (huts 

 up a fpaee of grafs from the beginning of September to 

 the lambing-time, and finds it of very confiderable advantage 

 to his flock. 



ROVER. See Pirate. 



ROVERBELLA, in Geography, a town of Italy; 12 

 miles N.N.W. of Mantua. 



ROVEREDO, or Rovereitii, a town of the county 

 of Tyrol, with a flrong citadel, built by the lords of Caftel- 

 barco ; but in the year 1414. it was taken from them by the 

 Venetians, from whom Maximilian I. wreiled it again by the 

 fword, and incorporated it with the county of Tyrol. This 

 town has a manufacture of fine filk, and carries on a great 

 trade. The wme produced in this traft is called " Goccia 

 d'uro," or golden drops. On Sept. 4th, 1796, Roveredo 

 was taken by the French, after a battle in which the Au- 

 flrians loil 7000 prifoners, 25 pieces of cannon, 50 waggons, 

 and 7 ftandards ; 8 miles S.E. of Trent. N. lat. 45" 53'. 

 E. long. 1 1" 3'. 



ROUERGUE, a province of France before the revo- 

 lution, about 25 leagues in length, and 18 in breadth, bounded 

 on the E. and S. by Languedoc, on the W. by Quercy, 

 and on the N. by Auvergne. The land, though not very 

 fertile, produces much wood, and here are mines of copper, 

 iron, fulphur, vitriol, &c. The principal rivers are the 

 Tarn and the Lot. The capital city was Rhodez. It now 

 forms the department of the Aveyron. 



ROVERO, a town of Italy, in the Trevifan ; 9 miles 

 E. of Cifmone. 



ROVERSANO, a town of Italy, in the department of 

 the Rubicon ; 20 miles W. of Rimini. 



ROVERSCIO, Al, or Per Rover/do, Ital. in Mufn; 

 reverfed, inverted. See Rivolgimfxto, and Rivoltare. 



ROVES, in Ship-Building, fmall fquare pieces of iron with 

 a hole punched in the middle, through which the nail goes, 

 where it is clenched, and binds together the boards of pin- 

 naces, yawls, &c. 



ROVETTA, Don Giovanni Batista, in Biography, 

 a Venetian compofer, in great favour in the middle of the 

 17th century, vice maeftro di cappcllo ot St. Mark's ca- 

 thedral, and compofer of five or fix operas. He likewile 

 was author of Maflcs and Aladrigali a fci vo.-i concertati : in 

 fcorih^ one of them, we found the instrumental parts con- 

 lifted only of two violins, and a bafe, wholly different from 

 the voice-parts ; but, except an introduction or fymphony 

 to each movement, and fhort ritornels, they had little to do. 

 Tli 1 • madrigals were lull publifhedin 1C25. 



ROUEZ le Guillaume, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the de] artment of the Sarthe ; 3 miles S. of Sille. 



ROUFFACH, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Lower Rhine, and chief place ot a canton, in the dill rift 

 of Colmar. The place contains 3292, and the canton 1 1 ,SS? 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 1 I2;j kiliometies, in eight com- 

 munes. 



ROUFFIGNAC, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Dordogne; 9 mill . S.W. ofMontignac. 



ROUGE', a town of France, in the department of the 



Lower Loire, and chief place oi a canton, in the diftriot of 



Chateaubriant. The place contains 2134, and the canton 



7349 11 habitant*, on a territory of 160 kiliometres, in live 

 communes. 



Rouge, Cape, or Red Cape, a cape on the N. fide of 

 the ifland of St. Domingo ; four leagues W. of Point 



Ifabellica. 



