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Aleppo," a valuable and interelting work, containing eipe- 

 cially fome important obfervations relative to the plague, 

 •which have been found ufeful in Europe, and poffibly have 

 tended to check the progrefs of that dreadful fcourge. 

 This work has been translated into different European laH- 

 guages. 



On his return to England, in 1759, he fixed his refidence 

 ifi the metropolis, and was elected phyfician to St. Thomas's 

 hofpital, a fituation which he held to the time of his death, 

 which occurred in 1770. The Royal Society were obliged 

 to Dr. Ruffell for feveral valuable communications, and he 

 prefented many important papers to the Medical Society. 



Russell, Patrick, brother of the preceding, and his 

 fucceflbr as phyfician to the Englilli faftory at Aleppo. 

 He publifhed a copious " Treatife on the Plague," having 

 had ample opportunities of treating that peftilential difeafe 

 during the years 1760, 1761, and 1762. In this work, 

 befides a journal of the progrefs, and a medical hiftory of 

 the plague, Dr. P. Ruffell has inferted a full difcuffion of 

 the Subjects of quarantine, lazarettoes, and of the police to 

 be adopted in times of peflilence. He likewife publilhed a 

 new edition of his brother's " Natural_Hiftory of Aleppo," 

 upon a very enlarged fcale. 



Russell, a myiterious character in London, about the 

 middle of the lafl century. He was regarded as a para- 

 fite among people of falhion ; feems to have been in Italy, 

 fung in good tafte, and compofed fome very elegant and 

 pleafing Englifli ballads : fuch as, " Can Love be con- 

 trolled by Advice ;" " At fetting Day andrifing Morn ;" 

 " Young Daphne, brightefl Creature ;" " If Truth can fix 

 thy wavering Mind ;" " Soft God of Sleep ;" " Sweet 

 were once the Joys I tailed ;" « To curb our Will," &c. 



Russell, in Geography, a county of Virginia, bounded 

 N. by Greenbriar, and S. by Lee county ; containing 

 6816 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip in Hampfhire county, 

 MafTachufetts ; 15 miles W. of Springfield; incorporated 

 in 1792, and containing 422 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town- 

 fhip in the county of Leeds, Upper Canada, lying to the 

 northward of Kitley. 



RUSSELLjE, Roselle, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Italy, in Etruria, S.E. of Popuionium and Vetulonii, 

 fituated on the right of Umbro, and at a f.nall diflance 

 from it. It engaged with fome other towns in fuccouring 

 the Latins againfl the Romans, according to the report of 

 Dionyfius HalicarnafTus. Pliny fays, it became a Roman 

 colony. Some veftiges of it appear at Rofelle. 



RUSSELLED, in Rural Economy, a term fignifying 

 withered or fhrivelled, as an apple. 



RUSSELSHEIM, in Geography, a town of Heffe- 

 Dermfladt, on the Maine ; 6 miles E. of Mentz. 



RUSSELVILLE, a town in Logan county, in the 

 fouthern part of Kentucky, in a populous part of the flate, 

 about 40 miles from Nafhville. 



RUSSET, a country word for a dark brown colour. 

 RUSSEY, Le, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in 

 the diflrift of St. Hippolyte ; 9 miles S. of it. The place 

 eontains 910, and the canton 5455 inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 240 kiliometres, in 22 communes. 



RUSSGANGENUM, in Natural Hiflory, a name given 

 by the people of the Eafl Indies to a yellow and brafs-like 

 foffile fubftance, found in many places there ; it refembles 

 the marcafites, only that on trial it is found to contain very 

 little fulphur : it is probably an ore of zinc. 



RUSSI, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the depart- 

 ment of the Amona ; 8 miles N.E. of Faenza, 



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RUSSIA comprehends, in its mofl general acceptation, 

 the whole Ruffian empire ; but in a more limited fenfe, it 

 properly includes thofe principalities and provinces, which 

 for many pall ages, i. e. for about 130c or 1400 years, 

 have been inhabited by Ruffians. In this latter fenfe its 

 divillone are as follow: viz. l. Great Ruffia, to which the 

 name of Ruffia, in the flrktefl import, has been applied, 

 and which comprifes thofe large tracts of country, under 

 different denominations, that have, without interruption?, 

 compofed the Ruffian dominion, fuch as Mofcow, Vladimir, 

 Novgorod, &c. &c. 2. Little Ruffia, comprehending the 

 Ukraine, i. e. " the borders," or, in general, the three pre- 

 fent governments of Kief, Tchernigof, and Novgorod-Sie- 

 verfkoi ; long feparated from Ruffia, but again united to it 

 in the year 1654. 3. White Ruffia, formerly denoting the 

 prefent government of Smolenfk, to which have been added 

 the two governments of Polotfk and Mohilef, fometimes 

 called the White Ruffian territory.. 4. New Ruffia, denot- 

 ing the large tracts of country near the Ukraine, towards 

 Poland and the Turkifh dominion, viz. New Servia and the 

 province of St. Elizabeth, now belonging to the govern- 

 ment of Ekaterinoflaf. But the Ruffian empire, in a more 

 extended fenfe, includes not only the countries above- 

 mentioned, but other regions, added to it by conquells 

 and appropriations : fuch as, the kingdom of Kazan, the 

 kingdom of AJlrakhan, and the vail country of Siberia, 

 which fee refpectively : the provinces on the fliores of the 

 Baltic, captured from the Swedes by Peter I. and for ever 

 incorporated with the Ruffian empire by two treaties of 

 peace, viz. Livonia, Eflhonia, Finland, and Ingria, or the 

 prefent governments of Riga, Revel, Vyborg, and St. 

 Peterfburg : the countries taken from Poland, now the go- 

 vernments of Polotik and Mohilef, united to the empire by 

 Catharine II. : the territory annexed by her to Ruffia in the 

 peace concluded with the Turks in 1774 : the Krim aud the 

 Cuban, or the province of Taurida and the government of 

 Caucafus, united to the empire by that fovereign in 1783 : 

 the tributary iflands in the ealtern ocean, now added to 

 Ruffia : the countries that have more recently fubmitted to 

 the Ruffian Supremacy, viz. Kartuelia or Kartalinia, &c. : 

 the pofieffions in America, confifting partly of the iflands, 

 and parti;, if the continent of California, in which the prin- 

 cipal eHablimment is called Donalefk : and fome other coun- 

 tries, incorporated with the empire at various periods, as the 

 Kirghis-Kozaks, of the middle and little horde, who fub- 

 mitted themfelves in 173 1, and feveral others. From this 

 furvey it appears, that the amplitude of the Ruffian empire 

 is far greater than that of the largefl monarchy in ancient 

 or modern times. Of its extent the uriprcfs, in 1783, thus 

 expreffes herfelf: " Tiie Ruffian empire is dillinguifhed on 

 the globe by the extent of its territory, which reaches from 

 the eadern borders of K imtfchatka to beyond the river Duna, 

 which falls into the Baltic at Riga, compriiing within its 

 limits 165 degrees of longitude ; extending from the mouths 

 of the rivers Volga, Kuban, Don, and Dnieper, which fall 

 into the Cafpian, the Palus Mreotis, and the Euxine, as far 

 as the frozen ocean, over 32 of latitude." If we take 

 into the account fome iflands, which the emprefs has not 

 mentioned, the Ruffian empire, fays Mr. Tooke, according 

 to the newefl and bed charts, will be found to extend from 

 about the 43d to the 78th degree of N. latitude, and from 

 the 39th to the 215th degree of longitude, thns including 

 the iflands lying in the eaflern ocean. Without reckoning 

 the iflands, the empire extends in length above 9200 Englifli 

 miles, and in breadth 2400. The writer now cited gives 

 the following comparifon between the Roman empire, at 



the 



