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men of eminence, and which fo materially lefl'ens the plea- 

 fures and comforts of focial life. 



He was a believer in Chriftianity from an examination of 

 its principles and the deepeft conviction. The purity of its 

 doctrines, and the excellence of its precepts, were a frequent 

 topic of his converfation ; its practical influence upon his 

 conduct through life he often acknowledged, and cherifhed 

 with a fervent hope the animating profpects it affords. His 

 writings, in numerous places, bear teftimony to his Chriftian 

 virtues ; and in a manufcript letter, written a fhort time 

 previous to his fatal illnefs, and now before the writer of 

 this imperfect fketch, he candidly declares that he had " ?.c- 

 quired and received nothing from the world which he fo 

 highly prized as the religious principles he received from his 

 parents." It is peculiarly gratifying to obferve a man fo 

 diltinguifhed in a profeihon in which, by the illiberal, re- 

 ligious fcepticifm is fuppofed to abound, directing his talents 

 to the maintenance of genuine piety, and the enforcing of 

 Chriftian virtue. To inculcate thofe principles which flow 

 from the fource of all truth and purity, and to impart them 

 as a legacy to his children, was an object dear to his heart, 

 and which he never failed to promote by conftant exhortation 

 and the powerful influence of his own example. 



There is one particular circumftance in the character of 

 Dr. Rufh, which we cannot permit to be pafled over with- 

 out obfervation ; we allude to the union, fo eminently con- 

 fpicuous in him, of the eminent practitioner, and the able 

 and voluminous writer. But our limits will not allow us to 

 enlarge. The materials of the above biographical article 

 have been extracted from the American Medical and Philo- 

 fophical Regifter, conducted by Dr. Hofack and Dr. 

 Francis, of New York; July, 1813. 

 Rush, in Botany. See Juncus. 



Rufhes always indicate a dcepifh rich foil, and they thrive 

 moft in land that is too wet and cold for mod other plants. 

 It has been obferved that plants of the rufh kind may be 

 eafily removed by preventing the ftagnation of moiihire 

 near the furface by judicious under or furface draining, 

 and the application of fubftances of the faline or calcareous 

 kinds, as afhes, lime, drift from the roads, and other fimilar 

 materials. Thefe are bell made ufe of in a dry feafon in either 

 the autumn or fpring, but the latter is probably the belt ; 

 as thefe abforbent materials will thereby be made ufe of at 

 the time fuch plants begin to fhoot and eftablifh themfelves, 

 and when there will be the leaf! danger of their operation 

 being leflened or prevented by too great a degree of moifture. 

 It has been ftated by Mr. Kent, that in naturally coarfe 

 meadows, or fuch as become fo in confequence of rufhes 

 growing upon them before they have been rendered fuffi- 

 ciently dry by draining, it forms a great improvement to 

 apply a thin coat of fand evenly over the furface of them in 

 the proportion of from twenty to thirty common loads. By 

 this means the fward is rendered much finer, and a much 

 better fort of herbage brought up, white clover being pre- 

 dominant in moit cafes. And there is ftill another method, 

 that, in particular fituations, may be more eafy and conve- 

 nient, and which has been found to quickly deftroy plants 

 of this coarfe kind by bringing up thofe of a finer defcrip- 

 tion. It is a mode that may, at firft, feem lingular to thofe 

 who have not feen its fudden and aftonifhing effects. It is 

 that of conducting water over the furface of fuch ground ; 

 but in this intention it (hould not be fuffered to have the leafl 

 degree of ftagnation, but be conveyed off with as much ex- 

 pedition as poffible, by fuitable drains being made. Frequent 

 cutting over while in their young growth has alfo been 

 found ufeful in destroying them. 



Another method of deftroying rufhes is to fork them up 



clean by the roots in July, and after having let them lie a 

 fortnight or three weeks to dry, lay them in heaps and burn 

 them gently, and the afhes which thefe afford will be tolerable 

 manure for the land ; but, in order to prevent their growing 

 again, and to make the paiture good, the land fhould be 

 drained; otherwife there will be no deftroying them entirely ; 

 but after it is well drained, if the roots are annually drawn 

 up, and the ground kept duly rolled, they may be fub- 

 dued. Miller. 



Rush, Flowering, or Water Glad'iole. See BuTOMUS. 



Rush, Lejfer Flowering. See Scheuchzeria. 



Rush, Round, Black-beaded, Marjh, or Bog. See Schoe- 

 NUS. 



Rush, Sweet. See Acorus. 



RvsuGra/s. See Scirpus. 



Rushes, Petrified. What is ufually called by this name 

 is a kind of foflile coral. But we have in England, alfo, 

 another not uncommon fubftance, frequently called by the 

 fame name : this is an incruitation of fparry matter, in the 

 form of a itony cruft on the outfides of real rufhes 1 though, 

 in this cafe, it is no real petrifaction, but only a covering of 

 this flone-like matter. 



Incrultations and petrifactions are ufually confounded 

 together, and the generality of people do not attend to the 

 diftinction, which is, that in a real petrifaction, the Itony 

 matter penetrates the very fubftance of the body, as is the 

 cafe in the petrified wood of Ireland, and other places ; 

 whereas, in thefe incruflations the fubftance itfelf remains 

 unaltered within, and its outer part alone is covered with 

 the ftony fubltance ; this is the cafe with what is called the 

 petrified mofs at Scarborough, and in other parts of Eng- 

 land, and this is the cafe in regard to what we call fome- 

 times petrified rufhes. 



Rush, in Rural Economy, a term Signifying a tuft, clufter, 

 or a knot of plants of the corn or grafs kind. 



Rushes is alfo a term provincially applied to the wire 

 rufh. 



Rush, in Geography, a fifhing-town of the county of 

 Dublin, Ireland, well fituated for carrying on bufinefs to 

 advantage. The ling cured here, of which much is exported, 

 is celebrated for its fuperior flavour. It is fituated on a 

 point of land projecting into the Irifh fea ; iji miles N. 

 by E. from Dublin. 



Rush, The, a fand-bank near the E. coaft of Ireland, and 

 county of Wexford, about four miles long, and hardly one 

 broad ; a little to the fouth of Glafscarrick Point. 



RUSHA, a fmall ifland near the W. coaft of Scotland. 

 N. lat. 5S . W. long. 2° 20'. 



RUSHIN, or Castle Rushix. See Castle-towv. 



RUSHWORTH, John, in Biography, was born in or 

 about the year 1607, lomevvhere in the county of Northum- 

 berland. Of the early part of his education we have no 

 account. He was fome time a ftudent in the univerfity of 

 Oxford, after which he entered himfelf at Lincoln's Inn, 

 and was called to the bar. He was, however, more at- 

 tached to politics than to the purfuits of the profeffion, and 

 was almoft perpetually an attendant on the parliament, flar- 

 chamber, and other courts, taking notes, in fliort-hand, of 

 the proceedings at thofe places. In the troubles of that 

 period he attached himfelf to the parliamentarian and 

 prefbvterian parties, and in 1640 he was admitted an 

 affiftant clerk of the houfe of commons. He foon gained 

 the confidence of the houfe, and, during the king's re- 

 fidence at York, was employed to convey to him its ad- 

 dreffes and meflages, on which occafions he is faid, even at 

 that period, to have rode from London to that city in 24 

 hours. For thefe fervices he was recommended by the houfe 



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