R Y M 



R Y O 



in popifh times, was reckoned to be a very facred place ; 16 

 miles W. of Aarhuys. 



Rye, a townfhip of New Hampfhire, in America, on the 

 fea-coalt of Rockingham county, oppoiite the ifie of Shoals, 

 and 8 miles S. of Portfmouth : incorporated in 1719, and 

 containing 1020 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of New 

 York, in Welt Cheller county, in Long Ifland found ; 36 

 miles N.E. of New York city. — Alfo, a townfhip in Cum- 

 berland county, Pennfylvania, containing 1356 inhabitants. 

 — Alfo, a townfhip in Cumberland. 



RYECHUNGA, a town of Bengal; 13 miles N.W. 

 of Beyhar. 



RYEGATE. See Reygate. 



Ryegate, the fouth-ealternmoft townfhip of Caledonia 

 county, in the ftate of Vermont, feparatcd from Bath in 

 New Hampfhire by Conncfticut river; containing 812 in- 

 habitants. 



RYELAND Sheep, a breed of fine-woolled fheep, ori- 

 ginally met with in the greatefl perfection in a dillrict of 

 Herefordfhire, termed the Ryelands. See Sheep. 



RYER, Andrew du sieuk de Malezais, in Biography, 

 was born at Marcigni, in Burgundy. Little is known of 

 his hiftory, but he became gentleman in ordinary of the 

 king's bed-chamber, and knight of the Holy Sepulchre. He 

 refided a confiderable time at Conflantinople in the king's 

 fervice, and was conful for the French nation in Egypt, 

 from which opportunities he derived a knowledge of the 

 Arabic, Turkifh, and other Oriental languages. He died 

 in France, about the middle of the 17th century. His 

 chief works as a literary man are, " A Turkifh Grammar ;" 

 " A French Tranflation of the Koran," and another of the 

 " Guliltan" of Saadi. His verfion of the Koran is in no 

 great eftimation, as he is faid to have mixed the reveries of 

 Mohammedan commentators with the original text. 



Ryer, Peter du, a dramatic and mifcellaneous writer, 

 was born of a good family at Paris, in 1605. ^ e procured 

 a place of fecretary to the king in 1626, which his poverty 

 obliged him to fell, and he afterwards ferved in the 

 fame capacity Cxfar, duke of Vendome. In order to fup- 

 port his family he employed his pen in profe and verfe. 

 He compofed nineteen pieces for the theatre, which were 

 fuccefsful at the time of their appearance. Two or three 

 of his tragedies obtained the applaufe of maturer criticifm. 

 His " Alcyonec" fo mHch delighted queen Chriflina, that 

 fhe had it read to her three times in one day. His " Scae- 

 vole" dill keeps its place on the flage. Du Ryer was ad- 

 mitted into the French Academy in 1646. A fhort time 

 before his death he obtained the office of hiitoriographer 

 royal, with a penfion. He died in 1658. 



RYES, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diltridt of Bayeux. The place contains 650, and the canton 

 10,510 inhabitants, on a territory of 1475 kiliometres, in 29 

 communes. 



RYEWATER, a river of the county of Kildare, Ire- 

 land, which paffing by Carton, falls into the Lifley, near 

 Leixlip. 



RYKOWICZA, a town of Lithuania, in the palati- 

 nate of Brzefc ; 25 miles S.E. of Brzefc. 



RYKSDALER, in Commerce. See Rixdollar. 



RYKSORT, a Dauilh Qlver coin, reckoned at twenty- 

 four (hillings. See Rixdoi.i. \k. 



RYMABAD, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in 

 Mvfore; 15 miles E.S.E. of Chinna Ballabarum. 



RYMAROW. See RomerstadV. 



RYME. See Rhyme. 



RYMENAUT, in Geography, a town of France, in the 



department of the Two Nethes, fitiidted on the Dyle ; five 

 miles E. of Malines. 



RYMER, Thomas, in Biography, a critic and anti- 

 quary, was born in the north of England, and educated at 

 the grammar-fchool of Northallerton. He was admitted a 

 fcholar at Cambridge, then became a member of Gray's 

 Inn, and at length was appointed hiitoriographer to king 

 William, in place of Mr. Shadwell. He wrote " A View 

 of the Tragedies of the lad Age," and afterwards pub- 

 Iifhed a tragedy named " Edgar." For the office of a critic 

 he was certainly not well qualified, for he wanted candour ; 

 nor is his judgment much to be relied on, as he could con- 

 demn Shakfpeare with fuch rigid feverity. His tragedy 

 will fliew, that his talents for poetry were by no means 

 equal to thofe whofe poems he has publicly cenfured. Bat 

 though he has no title to the appellation of poet or critic, 

 as an antiquarian and hiftorian his memory will long be pre- 

 ferved. His " Fcedera," which is a collection of all the 

 public tranfaCtions, treatifes, &C. of the kings of England 

 with foreign princes, is efteemed one of our molt authentic 

 and valuable records, and is oftener referred to by the belt 

 Englifh hifloriane than perhaps any other book in the lan- 

 guage. It was publifhed at London in the beginning of 

 the laft century, in 17 vols, folio. Three volumes more 

 were added by Sanderfon after Rymer's death. The whole 

 were reprinted at the Hague, in 10 vols. 1739. They 

 were abridged by Rapiu in French, and inferted in 

 Le Clerc's Bibliotheque, a tranflation of which was made 

 by Mr. Stephen Whatley, and printed in one vol. folio. &c. 

 4 vols. 8vo. 173 1, under the title of Ada Regia. Mr. 

 Rymer died the 14th of December I 713, and was buried in 

 the parifh church of St. Clement's Danes. Some fpeci- 

 mens of his poetry are preferved in the ririt volume of 

 Mr. Nichols's Select Collection of Miscellaneous Poems, 

 1780. 



RYNABAD, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 35 miles 

 S.E. of Moorley. 



RYNCHOPS, the Siimmcr, in Ornithology, a genus of 

 birds of the order Anferes, of which the generic character 

 is, that the bill is tlraight, the upper mandible is much 

 fhorter than the 1 under, the latter truncated at the apex ; 

 the tail is forked and fhorter than the wings, noftrils linear, 

 and the back toe fmall. 



Species. 



Nigra ; Black Skimmer, or Cut-water. The fpecific 

 charadter is blaekifli, beneath white ; bill red at the bale ; the 

 lower mandible grooved ; the front and chin are white ; wings 

 with a tranfverfe white band ; the two middle tail-feathers 

 are black, the next edged with white ; the legs are red, 

 3iid it is about twenty inches long. It is found in divers 

 parts of Afia and America. This bird is ever on the wing, 

 fweeping the furface of the water, dipping its hill, or at 

 leaft its under mandible, to feoop out the (mailer fifties, on 

 which it feeds. In ftormy weather it frequents the (hop . 

 and is contented with oylters, and Other Ihcll-lilh. There 

 is a variety of a tawny colour, with a black bill. 



RYNNTO, in Geography, a fmall iftand in the gulf of 

 Bothnia, near the coait of Finland. N. lat. 6o° 37'. E. 

 long. 2 1 46'. 



RYNOORT, a town of Holland, 011 the Rhine ; Seven 

 miles E. of Leyden. 



RYOTS, the modern name by which the renters of land 

 are diltinguifhed in Hmduollan. In every part of India, 

 where the native Hindoo princes retain dominion, thefc 

 Ryots hold their pollcflion by a leafe, which may be con- 

 lidered as perpetual, and at a rate fixed by ancient lurveys 

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