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y. Practical Harmony, or Examples in Uluftration of the 

 Treatife on Chords, 1776. 



6. He was engaged, in 1779, as editor of a memoir on 

 the mufic of the Chinefe, by the abbe Amiot, miffionary 

 at Pekin. The learned abbe has enriched this memoir with 

 a great number of notes, obfervations, and a copious index. 

 See Chinese Mufic. 



All this profound writer's treatifes are built upon the 

 principles of Rameau, but Rameau fublimed. The abbe's 

 favourite difcovery and fyftematic principle is the triple pro- 

 greflion, upon which he endeavours to prove that the mufi- 

 cal fy items of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinefe were 

 founded. By triple progreffion is meant a feries of perfect 

 fifths, fo that the word temperament equally difturbs his 

 fyftem and his temper. It is to be feared that the good 

 abbe in this particular, and in his principles in general, is too 

 rigid and inflexible a theorift for the fanciful melody, and li- 

 centious modulation of modern compofers. 



The French are always to have champions, tint bommt 

 arm'e, to combat the mufic and mufical writers of all other 

 countries. At the beginning of the laft century, Bonnet 

 was the redoubted champion of the votaries of Lulli in the 

 middle of that century. The abbe Rouflier, with lefs 

 fury, but more intelligence, threw down the gauntlet for 

 Rameau and his bade fondamentale ; and at the end of the 

 century, the abbe Faitu, the moll valourous and invincible 

 of them all, has not only bid defiance to the enemies of 

 Lulli and Rameau, but tQ the whole univerfe : a perfect 

 Drawcanfir, that fpares nor friend nor foe, who dares be of 

 a different opinio-n from himfelf. 



ROUSS1LLON, in Geography, a province of France be- 

 fore the revolution, once belonging to Spain, bounded on the 

 N. by Languedoc, on the E. by the Mediterranean, on the S. 

 by Catalonia,"and on the W. by the Pyrenees, about 1 8 leagues 

 in length, and 12 in breadth, and confiding ot land that is 

 generally fertile. Its principal rivers are the Tet and the 

 Tech, and its capital is Perpignan. It now torms the de- 

 partment of the Eaflern Pyrenees. 



Roussillon, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Vienne ; 

 9 miles S. of Vienne. The place contains 963, and the 

 canton 11,107 inhabitants, on a territory of 225 kiliometres, 

 in 21 communes. — Alfo, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Saone and Loire ; 9 miles N.N.W. of Autun. 



ROUSSIN, in the Manege, is a Itrong well-knit, well- 

 flowed horfe, fuch as are commonly brought into France 

 from Germany and Holland. 



ROUSSING, in Sea Language, is the act of pulling to- 

 gether upon a cable, hawfer, &c. without the affiftance of 

 tackles, capfterns, &c. It is particularly ufed in the exer- 

 cife of removing a fhip from one place to another, by means 

 of ropes and anchors. 



ROUT, Route, a public road, highway, or courfe ; 

 efpecially that which military forces take. 



The word is French, route, formed from the Latin rupta, 

 or ruta ; or the French roux, an old word for horfe ; or 

 rather from the old Celtic rout, road. 



Sanfon and Ogilby have made maps of the routs and poft- 

 roads of France and England. Soldiers are prohibited 

 going out of their routs. Routs are frequently cut in parks, 

 forefts, &c. both for ornament, and for the conveniencies of 

 hunting. 



Some ufe route for a path cut acrofs a wood ; in oppofi- 

 tion to iuay, which is a great road. 



Rout, in Navigation. See Course. 



Rout is alfo ufed for the defeat and flight of an army. 



Rout, in Law, is an affembly or combination of three or 



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more perfons, upon a common quarrel, going forcibly to 

 commit an unlawful aft : fuch as breaking down fences 

 upon a right claimed of common, or of way, though they* 

 do not actually perform it. 



If they go, ride, or move forwards, after their meeting, 

 thus making fome advances towards the execution of their 

 purpofe, it is a rout, though they do not put their purpofe 

 in execution ; if they do, it is a riot. 



A rout, therefore, feems to be an unlawful aiiembly ; 

 and a riot the diforderly fact committed thereby. 



Two things, however, there are in common to rout, riot, 

 and unlawful affembly ; the one, that there be at lead three 

 perfons together ; the other, that, being together, they 

 difturb the peace, either by words, fhew of arms, turbulent 

 geilure, or actual violence. 



For the punifhment incurred by routs, &c. fee Riot. 



Rout of Wolves, among Hunters, denotes a herd of thofe 

 wild beafts. 



ROUTIER, in Navigation. See Waggoner. 



ROUTOT, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diftrict of Pontaudemer ; nine miles E. of it. The place 

 contains 1169, and the canton 14,721 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of no kiliometres, in 21 communes. 



ROUTOU, a town of Thibet; 255 miles E.N.E. of 

 Latac. 



ROUVRAY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Cote d'Or ; 1 1 miles S. W. of Semur en Auxois. 



ROUVRE, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Upper Marne ; 15 miles S.W. of Langres. 



ROUVRES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Vofges ; four miles W. of Mirecourt. 



ROUVROY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Somme ; 15 miles E. of Peronne. 



ROU-WADDE. See Ruad. 



ROUX, Cape, a cape of Africa, on the coaft of Tunis. 

 N. lat. 37° 10'. E. long. 8° 22'. 



ROUXIERE, La, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Lower Loire ; eight miles N.E. of Ancenis. 



ROU Y, a town of France, in the department of Nievre ; 

 15 miles E. of Nevers. 



ROW, a town of Scotland, in the county of Dumbar- 

 ton ; nine miles W. of Dumbarton. — Alfo, a town of Hin- 

 doollan, in Bahar ; 20 miles S. of Bahar. N. lat. 24 55'. 

 E. long. 85 52'. 



Row-Culture, in Agriculture, that method in which the 

 crops are fown in rows or drills, and afterwards cultivated 

 according to that fyllem. See Drill Hufbandry. 



This fort of cultivation is commonly divided into the 

 narrow and diitant kinds, the former comprifing all forts of 

 grain, and fome other kinds of crops, which are fown in 

 rows at not more than fix, eight, ten, and twelve inches 

 apart ; the latter, all thofe which have large fpaces or inter- 

 vals between the rows, as from a foot to a foot and a half, 

 two feet and more, fuch as beans, peas, turnips, cabbages, 

 beets, potatoes, carrots, parfneps, and many others. They 

 all require to be wrought between fuitable tools, fuch as 

 hoes and ploughs, at different times, while they are growing 

 upon the ground. 



Row-Galley, a long, low, flat-built veflel, furnifhed fome- 

 times with a deck, and navigated with fails and oars, parti- 

 cularly in the Mediterranean. 



ROW AH, in Geography, a town of Hindooitan, in Bahar; 

 eight miles N.W. of Bettiah. 



ROWALE, or Kowale, a town of the duchy of 

 Warfaw ; 36 miles S. of Wladiflaw. 



ROWAN, a county of America, and one of the mod 



populous 



