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known, that what the fovcreign receives from land varies 

 greatly in different parts of the country, and is regulated by 

 the fertility or barrennefs of the foil, the nature of the climate, 

 the abundance or fearcity of water, and many other obvious 

 circumflances. By the account given of it, Dr. Robertfon 

 [ines that, in fome diitriifts, it has been raifed beyond 

 its due proportion. One circumflance with refpedt to the 

 adminiitration of revenue in Bengal merits notice, as it re- 

 dounds to the honour of the emperor Akber, the wifdom 

 of whofe government has often been confpicuous. A 

 general and regular affeffment of revenue in Bengal was 

 formed in It is reign. All the lands were then valued, and 

 the rent of each inhabitant and of each village afcertained. 

 A regular gradation of accounts was eitablifhed. The 

 rents of the different inhabitants who lived in one neigh- 

 bourhood being collected together, formed the account of 

 a village ; the rents of feveral villages being next collected 

 into one view, formed the accounts of a larger portion of 

 land. The aggregate of thefe accounts exhibited the rent 

 of a diftridt, and the fum total of the rents of all the dif- 

 tridts in Bengal, formed the account of the revenue of the 

 whole province. From the reign of Akber to the govern- 

 ment ol Jaffeer Ali Cawn, A.D. 1757, the annual amount 

 of revenue, and the modes of levying it, continued with 

 little variation. But in order to raife the fum which lie 

 had llipulated to pay the Englifh on his elevation, lie departed 

 from the wife arrangements of Akber ; many new modes of 

 afieiiment were introduced, and exaftions multiplied. Ro- 

 bertfon's India. 



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

 ment of the Upper Saone ; 11 miles M. of Befancon. 



RYPOUR, a town of Hindooitan, in the circar of 

 Gohud ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Gwalior. — Alio, a town of 

 Hindooitan, in Bahar ; 24 miles S.S.E. of Bahar. 



RYPTICS, in Medicine. See Riiyi-tics. 



RYR, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Welt Goth- 

 land ; feven miles N.E. of Uddevalla. 



RYS, a lake of Denmark, in Norland. 



RYSAGON, in the Materia Mcdha, a name by which 

 fome authors have called the cajfumunar root. 



RYSBY, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the pro- 

 vince of Samland ; 10 miles N. of Calmar. 



RYSEMSEI1, a town of Norway; 48 miles E.N.E. 

 of Romfdal. 



RYSEN, or Ryssen, a town of Holland, in the de- 

 partment of Overyfiel, on the river Reggc ; 20 miles N.L 

 of Zutphen. 



RYSSADIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town and port 

 of Africa, in Mauritania Tingitana, on the coalt of the 

 Iberian ocean, between Seftiaria Extreriia and the promon- 

 tory Mefagonitvs, according to Ptolemy. It is named by 

 Antonine Rufarder Colonia, and Rufardir by Pliny, who 

 places it near the promontory " Solis." 



Ry.ssadium, a promontory of Africa, in the Interior 

 Libya, near the promontory Arfinarium, according to 

 Ptolemy. 



RYSSADIUS Mo.nn, a mountain of Africa, in the In- 

 terior Libya, in which Ptolemy places the fburce of the 

 river " Stachier." 



RYSWICK, in Geography, a large village in Holland, 

 fituated between the Hague and Delft, where the prince of 

 Orange had a palace ; and remarkable for a treaty con- 

 cluded here in 1697 between England, Germany, Holland, 

 France, and Spain; 30 miles S.W. of Amlterdam, and 

 two S.E. from the Hague. 



RYVES, Thomas, in Biography, born in the latter end 

 of the 1 6th century, and educated at Winchefter fchool, 

 from whence he was lent to Oxford. He became cele- 

 brated as a civilian in Doctors' Commons, and in the court 

 of Admiralty. At the accefiion of Charles I. he was 

 made king's advocate, and was knighted. He died in 

 1 65 1. He wrote feveral work-;, among which were " The 

 Vicar's Plea;" " Hiitona Navalis Antiqife ," " Hiitoria 

 Navalis Media." 



Ryves, Buuno, an Englilh divine, and near relation 

 of the preceding. At the reftoratioa of Charles II. he 

 had the deanery of Windlor conferred on him. He was 

 alfo fecretary to Gaiter king at arms. He was author 

 of " Mcrcurius Rufticus," or "The Country's Com- 

 plaint," and divers other works, which were popular in 

 their day. 



RYVORDEN, in Geography, a fmall bland in the 

 North fea, near the coail or Norway. N. lat. 59 27'. 



RZECZYCA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 

 of Minik, on the Dnieper; 140 miles S.E. of Minfk. N. 

 lat. 52" 10'. E. long. 31° 24'. 



RZEMIEN, a town of Poland, in die palatinate of 

 Sandomirz ; 36 miles S.S.W. of Saudomirz. 



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