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On the fouth fide of the court are, the dining-hall for the 

 beys in the head-malter's houfe, and three fchools for dif- 

 ferent clafles ; the well tide is occupied by the great fchool, 

 and that on the north by the French and writing fchools. 

 The head-mafler's houfe is placed at the eallern end of the 

 fouth front ; and between it and the fchools is a range of 

 building, divided into fmall apartments, appropriated to the 

 ufe of the (Indents. About fixty boys are thus accommo- 

 dated ; the remainder lodge with the other mafter, or at 

 boarding-houfes in the town. This building was defigned 

 and eredted by Henry Hakewill, efq., architect. 



The church of Rugby is not worthy of notice, but the 

 church-yard is remarkable for various eccentric infcriptions. 

 The market-day here is Saturday, weekly ; and fairs are 

 held on the 17th February, 31ft March, 15th May, 7th July, 

 2lft AuguSt, Monday before the 29th of September, 22d No- 

 vember, and 10th December. No manufacture of any im- 

 portance is carried on in this town, but it has acquired a fmall 

 trade for the fupply of the adjacent country, iince the 

 formation of the Oxford canal, which pailes about a mile to 

 the northward, and forms a branch of the fyitem of inland 

 navigation, which connects all the principal rivers and towns 

 in England. 



Adjoining to Rugby, on its north-eallern fide, is an emi- 

 nence called Caftle mount, from the circumftance of its 

 having been formerly the icite of a caitle. Dugdale is of 

 opinion that tins fortreis was one of thofe erefted in king 

 Stephen's time, when he was threatened with invafion by 

 the emprefs Maud, whole crown he had ufurped. It was 

 mofl probably demolished by order of king Henry II. in 

 the third year <:t his reign. The only veltiges of it now 

 vilible are parts of the moat and fome embankments. 



According to the parliamentary returns for 1S11, Rugby 

 panSh contains 335 houfes, and 1805 inhabitants, of whom 

 nearly 1000 reiide in the town. The Antiquities of War- 

 wickshire, &c. by William Dugdale, fol. London, 1657. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. 1814, by I.N. 

 Brewer. 



RUGEL, a town of Baden, near the Rhine; 10 miles 

 N.N.W. of Fnburg. 



RUGEN, an ifland in the Baltic, feparatcd from the 

 coall of Pomerania, by a ilrait not above a mile wide ; about 

 60 miles in circumference, without including the indentations 

 of the coall. Its name is laid to be derived from the Rugi, 

 who tirft inhabited the Pomeranian coall beyond the Oder, 

 but afterwards removed on this fide of that river, taking up 

 their chief refidence in the country called after their name. 

 On the deceafe of the lall prince of Rugen, duke War- 

 tifiav XI., in 147S, Rugen became united with Pomerania. 

 In 1 168 it was fubdued by Waldemar I., king of Den- 

 mark, its temple was demolifhed, the pagan worfhip fup- 

 prefTed, and Chrillianity eflablilhed. There the divines of 

 Rugen became vaiTals to the crown of Denmark. At the 

 treaty of Wellphalia, Rugen was added to Sweden, as a 

 particular principality. At the peace of Rofchild in 1658, 

 and alio at that ■>{ Copenhagen in 1C160, Denmark ceded to 

 Sweden the whole iurifdi&ion, civil and ecclefialtical, which 

 it had previoufly exercifed over certain lands in the princi- 

 pality of Rugen. This ifiand is not only encompauedb] 

 the fea, but lo penetrated by it, that feveral other illands 

 and peninfulas are thus formed. The foil is fruitful, parti- 

 cularly 111 all kinds of j;rain, lo that tome thoufands of 

 lalls arc annually fhipped olT for Stralfund. It breeds like- 

 wife large docks of cattle, and vields a large quantity of 

 fifil ; but Pomerania fupplies it with fuel. The nobility are 

 numerous, and invelhil with considerable privileges. The 



prefident of the provincial tribunal, who mull be a native, 

 and a nobleman, is the prefeft or governor, and he is alTilled 

 in the administration by a fecretary and purveyor. Rugen 

 contains 27 parishes, and 21,240 inhabitants. Its capital 

 is Bergen. N. lat. 54 30'. E. long. 13 30'. 



RUGENWALDE, a town of Hinder Pomerania ; 20 

 miles N.E. of Cofshn. N. lat. 54° 33'. E. long. 16° 7'. 



RUGGA, a town of Africa, in Tunis, anciently called 

 " Carago ;" 40 miles S. of Cairoan. 



RUGGARD, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 

 Funen ; 10 miles W. of Odenfee. 



RUGGED Isle, a fmall ifland near the S. coail of Ire- 

 land, and county of Cork. N. lat. 51° 30'. W. long. 

 9 2'. 



Rugged Point, a cape on the N. coail of Cumbava. 

 S. lat. 8° 9'. E. long. 1 1 8° 58'. 



RUGGIOLA, a fort of SpaniSh (late, ferving in many 

 places in the room of tiles and brick. It is a flaky ilone of 

 the nature of fome of our grey Slates, and is cut out of a 

 mountain near Cordova ; a plate of this being well heated 

 on both Sides, will retaiii its warmth for twenty-four hours. 

 The people of Cornwall and fome parts of Yorkshire ufe 

 a ilone, which is of a talcky nature, to warm themfelves 

 when in bed, applying it at the feet of the bed. This they 

 call the warming ilone, from its ufe, and it will retain a 

 feniible heat fix or eight hours, after once moderately warm- 

 ing. Plot's Oxfordshire, p. 258. 



RUGLERSREUT, in Geography, a town of Saxony, 

 in the principality of Culmbach ; three miles N. of Gefrees. 

 RUGLES, a town of France, in the department of 

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

 Evreux ; 21 miles S. of Evreux. The place contains 1564, 

 and the canton 12,105 inhabitants, on a territory of 240 

 kiliometres, in 26 communes. 



RUGLEN. See Ruthekglen. 



RUGMAN, JonAs John, in Biography, a learned Ice- 

 lander, was born in 1636, and received his early education 

 at the fchool of Hulum. He afterwards fet out for Copen- 

 hagen, in order that he might enter himfelf at the university, 

 but Denmark and Sweden being, at that time, engaged in 

 war, he was made prifoner on the way, in 1658, and carried 

 to Gottenburg, where he was patronized by a perfon named 

 Brahe, who placed him at WiSlenborg fchool, whence he 

 was Cent to the academy of Upial, with a penlion from the 

 king. He became acquainted with Olof Verelius, the 

 Swedish hiftorian and antiquary, who, immediately after the 

 peace, fent him to Copenhagen, and thence to Iceland, for 

 the purpofe of collecting ancient manuferipts, a great num- 

 ber of which he brought to Sweden. He went again to 

 Copenhagen in 1665, and brought back with him a tranfeript 

 of Oluf TrygveSI'en's Hiitory, " Ex Codice Wormiano 

 Membranaceo." When the college of antiquities was elta- 

 blifhed at Upfal in 1667, he was one of the earlieft members, 

 but died in two years afterwards, at the age of 43. He was 

 author of many learned works, the title of which are given 

 in the General Biography. Among them may be mentioned 

 " Fragmenta quaedam Legum veterum colle&a ex diverfis 

 Scriptoribua et Hiftoriis, Lingua eadem ;" " Verfio Svetica 

 Hiftorias Veteria Iflandica Lingua Icripta: de Regibus Nor- 

 vagoium, qui vulgo Konuriga-Sagur nuncupantur." Gen. 

 Bi 



RUGOSUM, Folii'm, in Botanv. See 1.. \>. 

 RUGUPORUM, inGeograp! n of Handooftan, 



in Golconda ; 25 miles S.W . of W 



RUHELAND, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Blankenbun' ; five miles S.S.W. of Blankenburg. 



RUHLA, 



