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to finiih his claflical ftudies, and afterwards to the feminary 

 of Autun, where, during two years' refidence, he compofed 

 the chief part of the chants which at prefent are adopted 

 almoft throughout the diocefe. 



At twenty-two years old he went into orders at Beaune. 

 In 1669, as foon as he was admitted into prieft's orders, 

 he compofed a mafs, which he carried to Paris and prefented 

 to M. d'Auvergne, mafter of the king's band. This able 

 profefTor encouraged him to purfue compofition, and made 

 him compofe under his own eye a motet for the Concert 

 Spirituel. 



It was at this period that the abb6 Roze began to make 

 himfelf known ; and this motet procured him the place of 

 maitre de cliapelle of the cathedral of Angers, which he 

 retained five years. 



In 1775 he was appointed to the Holy Innocents, and 

 from that time he has continued to furnifh the Concert 

 Spirituel with motets ; and though his ityle is modern, he 

 lias never deviated from the grandeur and folemnity befitting 

 facrcd mufic. t 



The abbe Roze is one ef the bed finging matters, in point 

 of taile, at Paris. 



He has publifhed a fyftem of harmony, or accompani- 

 ment, in which he modeftly pretends to no more than to aflift 

 the ftudents in harmony with methodical elementary prin- 

 ciples, fo clear, that children of eight years old (hall find 

 no difficulty in them. It often happens that able com- 

 pofers are unable to teach children the firft elements of 

 mufic for want of a well digefted method. This the abbe 

 Roze's fyftem will be found, with refpeft to accompaniment. 

 He has traced the chords from the fundamental bafe or 

 key-note, through all the combinations of harmony allow- 

 able by ancient rules in one key. Laborde, 1788. 



ROZESTVEN, in Geography, a town of Ruffia ; 32 

 miles S. of Petersburg. N. lat. 52 20'. E. long. 29 50'. 

 ROZESTVENSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Tobolfk ; 16 miles S.E. of Kemlkoi. — Alfo, a 

 town of Ruffia, in the government of Archangel, on the 

 Pinega ; 4 miles S.E. of Pineg. 



ROZETT, Cape, a cape on the weftern coaft. of 

 France. N. lat. 49° 28'. W. long. 2°. 



ROZIER, Francis, in Biography, an eminent writer in 

 economics, was born at Lyons in 1734. His father, who 

 was engaged in commerce, dying while he was young, and 

 ■without property, he entered into the ecclefiaitical order, 

 though his tafte led him to agricultural and botanical pur- 

 fuits. He obtained the place of direftor of the fchool of 

 Lyons. In this fituation he joined La Tourette in pub- 

 lifhing, in 1766, " Elementary Demonftrations of Botany," 

 a work that pafied through many editions. In 177 1 we 

 find him at Paris, where he began to publifh the " Journal 

 de Phyfique et d'Hiftoire Naturelle," which was conducted 

 a confiderable time with great reputation. In this work he 

 gave clear and interefting accounts of all new difcoveries 

 in phyfics, chemillry, and natural hiftory. Through the 

 recommendation of the king of Poland, he was prefented 

 to a valuable priory, when, being completely at his cafe, 

 he turned his attention to his favourite project 'of drawing 

 up a complete body of fural economy. He now pur- 

 chafed a domain at Beziers, in the fined part of France, 

 and engaged actively in country labours, and at the fame 

 time employed himfelf in the abridgment of the great 

 works from which his compilation was to be formed. This 

 was at length finifhed, under the title of " Cours d'Agri- 

 culturc," in 10 vols. 4to., of which the lad did not appear 

 till after the author's death. In 1788 he went to Lyons, 

 and was admitted a member of the academy, while the 

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government gave him the dirc&ion of the nurfcry ground 

 of the Generality. On the unfortunate revolution, jtozier 

 was one of its earlieft partizans, but without ever entering 

 into its excefles. He was, however, one of its victims ; in 

 September 1793, during the fiege of Lyons, a bomb falling 

 upon his bed, buried his body in the ruins of his houfe. 

 He was author, likewife, of feveral treatifes on the method 

 of making wines, and diftilling brandy, on the culture of 

 turnip and cole-leed, on oil-mills, and other machinery. 



Rozier, Cape, in Geography, a cape on the coaft; of 

 Canada, in the gulf of St. Lawrence ; 9 miles W. of cape 

 Gafpe. 



ROZIERES. See Rosifres. 



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

 Seine and Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift 

 of Coulommiers. The place contains 1507, and the canton. 

 13,199 inhabitants, on a territory of 3125 kiliometres, in 

 28 communes. 



Rozoy en Thurache, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Aifne ; 21 miles N.E. of Laon. 



ROZVALINA, Totagai, a town of Ruffian Tartaiy, 

 near lake Kargaldzin. N. lat. 52° 44'. E. long. 68° 54'. 



RSESCHOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia ; 

 70 miles W. of Lemberg. 



RUA, La, a town of Spain, in Galicia ; 25 miles N.E. 

 of Orenfe. 



RUAD, Rouad, or Rou-Waddt, an ifland of the 

 Mediterranean, anciently celebrated under the name of 

 Aradus or Arad. N. lat. 34 42'. E. long. 35 57'. 

 See Arad. 



RUADOK, or Rhiwaedog, a village of North Wales, 

 in the county of Merioneth, where a battle was fought 

 between the Welfh, under Llywarch Hen and the Saxons ; 

 2 miles E. of Bala. 



RUALGO, a town of Italy, in the Cadorin ; 4 miles 

 S. of Cadora. 



RUANEL, a town of Ceylon ; 38 miles S.S.W. of 

 Candy. 



RUARUS, Martin, in Biography, was born at Krem. 

 pen, in Holftein, about the year 1587, and being defigned 

 for a Lutheran miniiter, he was educated in the principles 

 profefled by the difciples of Luther. But at Altdorf he 

 became a convert to the Socinian doftrine, as taught in a 

 private manner by profedbr Sonerus. When he was re- 

 proached and threatened by his family for deferting the 

 principles of his forefathers, he judified his conduft, and 

 defended the caufe of free inquiry in matters of religion. 

 Of his fincerity no doubt could be entertained, as he fub- 

 mitted to the lofs of his patrimony rather than make a 

 facrifice of what he confidcred to be truth. He travelled 

 over the greater part of Europe, and acquired refpedt and 

 efteem wherever he went, by his great learning and excellent 

 moral character. He was offered fituations of trud and 

 honour in England and Silefia, but declined them all. At 

 length he became principal of the college of Racow in 

 Poland; after which, about the year 1635, he became 

 pallor to the Socinian church at Dantzic. In the year 

 1646, Calixtus ufed all his endeavours to bring him back 

 to his original principles, but without efteft. Ho dud at 

 Dantzic in 1657, at the age of 70. He wrote notes on 

 the catechifm of the Socinian churches in Poland, which 

 were added to the addition of that work printed in 1665. 

 Two volumes of his letters, each containing one hundred, 

 were publilhed after his death at Amllcrdam. They are 

 faid to be curious and intcrefting, not only as they throw 

 light on the hiftory of Socinunifm, but as they furnidi the 

 reader with valuable literary anecdotes. Among the author's 

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