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LefTudden, or St. Bofwell, whence it is called St. Bofwell's 

 fair. It takes place on the 1 8th of July, and is the princi- 

 pal mart for fheep and lambs in the fouth of Scotland ; 

 but horfes, linen, and woollen cloths, are likewife fold in 

 confiderable quantities. The cultoms of this fair belong to 

 the duke of Buccleugh, and may be eftimated at about 50/. 

 per annum. Another great fair is held in the vicinity of 

 Kelfo. It is called St. James's fair, from the circumftance 

 of its being holden within the ancient parifh of that name, 

 which is now merged in the parifh of Kelfo. 



Antiquities. — The veftiges of ancient times ftill viiible in 

 Roxburghshire are numerous. Mutilated encampments, and 

 ruinated buildings of ltrength, are difcovered in a great va- 

 riety of iituations, and particularly in the high diltrict of 

 tie county. In the parifhes of Cavers, Hawick, and other?, 

 remnants may be traced of what is called the Cat-rail, which 

 is conjectured to have been a boundary rampart, iimilar to 

 the Wanfdike and Offa's dike in England ; but whether 

 erected by the Romans, Saxons, or Britons is uncertain ; 

 though Whitaker, in his Hiftory of Manchefter, contends 

 (trongly that it is of Britifh origin. In the parifh of Ro- 

 berton, near the fource of the Teviot, is a large fquare 

 encampment, which is (till denominated Africa, and in the 

 vicinity are feveral fmaller femi-circular intrenchments. 

 There are likewife encampments on the Eildon hills, on 

 Carberry hill, Sidehill, at Ancrum, and on the farm of 

 Flight, in the parifh of Clintwood. In the fame pariih are 

 likewife numerous fortifications, called Pitts' works, which 

 are of a circular form, and conftrudted of large flones. On 

 the farm of Millburn is afmall circle of nine upright Hones, 

 furrounded by a ditch, which is fuppofed to have been a 

 Druidical temple. Cairns appear in different parts of the 

 county. Of thefe, the moil remarkable is at Whifgills. 

 The quantity of (tones is immenfe, and they are moftly of a 

 very large fize. Near it is a large upright ltone, called the 

 " (landing done." This cairn is fituated in the centre of 

 an extenlive and deep mofs, where not a (tone is to be difco- 

 vered except thofe employed in its conftru&ion. Another 

 immenfe cairn is placed on an eminence between the parilhes 

 of Caftleftown and Canonby. It is eighty-fix yards long, 

 and conlifts of maffes of free-itone, of great magnitude. 

 A Handing (lone, thirteen feet in circumference, and feven 

 feet above ground, is fixed at the north end of it ; and there 

 are five other (mailer ones, forming, with the larger (tone, a 

 circle round the cairn forty-five yards in diameter. How 

 thefe enormous malles were originally collefted.. or for what 

 purpofe, it is very difficult to determine. At Milnholm, in 

 the pariih of Canonby, (lands an ancient crofs, formed of one 

 (lone, eight feet four inches high, on which are fculptured a 

 fword and fome ancient writing ; but the latter is fo much 

 mutilated, that it cannot be read. On the banks of the 

 Ale Water, near Ancrum, is a feries of caves, fome of 

 which (till preferve veftiges of fire-places, and holes for the 

 paffage of fmoke. Similar eaves are difcovered on the banks 

 of the Jed. 



Roxburghshire formerly abounded with towers, or petty 

 fortreffes, eredtcd by the border chieftains, for the defence 

 of the country from the incurfionsof the Englifh borderers. 

 Few of thefe, however, now remain ; indeed the only ones 

 entire are Delphi(lon.e tower, and another at Mofsburnford. 

 Of the larger caftles, the principal are Clintwood caftle, 

 Goldieland caftle, Gofsford caflle, and Roxburgh caftle, the 

 laft of which is mentioned under Roxburgh. In this 

 county are fituated the ruins of three monatteries, among 

 the moil important in Scotland, viz. Mehofe, Kelfo, and 

 Jedburgh abbies. See Melrose, Kelso, and Jedburgh. 



Eminent Natives — Roxburghshire boalts to have been the 



birth-place of feveral characters diltinguifhed in the annals of 

 literature and military glory. Of thefe, the mod noted 

 were Thomfon, author of the Seafons ; Armftrong, author 

 of the " Giconomy of Love," and various mifcellaneous 

 poems ; Gavin Douglas, who tranflated feveral of the works 

 of the Latin poets into Scottifh verfe ; and general Elliot, 

 afterwards lord Heathfield, the gallant defender of Gibral- 

 tar, when it was attacked in 1786, by the combined powers 

 o( France and Spain. Beauties of Scotland, vol. ii. 1805. 

 Agricultural Survey of the Counties of Roxburgh and Sel- 

 kirk, by Robert Douglas, D.D., 8vo. 1800. 



ROXBURY, a pleafant town of America, in Norfolk 

 county, Mallachufetts ; 1 mile S.W. of Bofton. It is now 

 divided into three parifhes, and was fettled in 1630. The 

 three parilhes contain 3669 inhabitants. The firit of thefe 

 parifhes has been lately connected with Bofton harbour by a 

 canal. The famous John Eliot, called the apoltle of the 

 Indians, was the firll miniller who fettled in this place. He 

 tranflated the Bible, and other pious books, into the Indian 

 language ; and founded many religious locieties among the 

 Indians. Some few remain to this day. He died in 1670, after 

 being pallor 60 years. — Alfo, a townihip in the W. part of 

 Orange county, Vermont, cuutaining 361 inhabitants. — • 

 Alfo, a townihip of Morris county, New Jerfey, on Muf- 

 conecunk river, 25 miles from its confluence with the Dela- 

 ware, and 45 miles N. of Trenton ; containing 1563 inha- 

 bitants. Near it is a mineral fpring. — Alfo, a town in 

 Litchfield county, Connecticut, containing 1217 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a towulhip of Wafhington county, in the 

 itate of Ohio, containing 408 inhabitants. 



ROXCESTER. See Wroxeter. 



ROXEN, a lake of Sweden, in Eail Gothland ; 100 miles 

 W.S.W. of Stockholm. 



ROXO, Cape, a cape on the S.W. coaft: of Porto Rico. 

 N. lat. 1 8° 1'. W. long. 6f 50'.— Alfo, a cape of Spain, 

 on the coaft of Valencia. N. lat. 37' 53'. W. long. o° 50'. 

 — Alfo, the S.E. point of afmall ifland in the gulf of Mexi- 

 co, fituated before the mouth of the river Panuco. N. 

 at. 22 30'. W. long. 100° 11'. — Alfo, a cape on the W. 

 coaft of Africa. N. lat. 12° 15'. W. long. 16 ' 35'. 



ROY, Louis le, in Biography, a learned profellor, born 

 at Conftance, in Normandy, about the beginning of the 16th 

 century. After having itudied in Italy and other places, he 

 fettled at Paris, where, in 1570, he was appointed to the 

 profeilorfliip of Greek. After this he lludied the law four 

 years at Touloufe ; he frequented the bar at the parliament 

 of Paris, in which he exercifed fome kind of magiftracy. 

 He fometimes followed the armies ; and had vifited the 

 courts of the emperor, and king of England. His inatten- 

 tion to domeftic affairs reduced him at- laft to depend upon 

 the liberality of others for his daily fubliltence. He died at 

 an advanced age in the year 1571, leaving behind him, as 

 monuments of his learning, many works in the Latin and 

 French languages. In the former he gained confiderable 

 reputation, by an elegantly written life of the learned Bu- 

 dseus. He gave good tranflations into the French of the 

 works, or part of them, of Plato, Ariftotle, and Demof- 

 thenes, which he enriched with learned commentaries. 



Roy, Jllien-David le, an architect and antiquary, born 

 at Paris in 1728, was the fon of Julien le Roy, a celebrated 

 mcchanilt, who excelled particularly in the art of watch- 

 making, fo much fo, that his time-pieces acquired the fame 

 celebrity in France as thofe of Graham in England ; he 

 died at Paris in 1759, at tne a S e °^ 74' l eav ' n g f° ur f° ns » 

 of whom Julien, the fubjedt of this article, was educated for 

 the profeflion of an architect, in which he became eminent. 

 He is well known in the literary world by the following 



works ; 



