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VAUQUELIN, in Biography. See Iveteaux. 



VAUQUELINIA, in Botany, a genus dedicated by 

 M. Correa de Serra, now the Portuguefe minifter to the 

 United States of America, to the honour of the celebrated 

 French chemift M. Vauquelin, whofe difcoveries have been 

 extended to the vegetable kingdom. Humboldt and 

 Bonpland, Plantes equinoxiales, fafc. 6. De Theis 478. 

 We regret that we are furiiilhed with no further account of 

 this genus, nor with any of its charaAers. 



VAUS, in Geography, a river of Weft Florida, which 

 runs into the St. Mark, N. lat. 30° 10'. W. long. 

 84° 36'. 



VAUVENARGUES, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Mouths of the Rhone ; 6 miles E.N.E. of 

 Aix. 



VAUVERT, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Gard ; 9 miles S. of Nifmes. 



VAUVILLE, a fmall feaport-town of France, in the 

 department of the Channel, on a bay to which it gives 

 name ; 9 miles W. of Cherburg. N. lat. 49° 39'. W. 

 long. 1° 37'. 



VAUVILLE RS, a town of Frince, In the department 

 of the Upper Saone ; 1 2 miles N.W. of Luxeuil. 



VAUVINCOURT, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Meufe ; 5 miles N. of Bar-le-Duc. 



VAUX, La, a diftrift of Switzerland, in the Pays de 

 Vaud, between Laufanne and Vevay, which contains the 

 two pleafant little towns of Lutry and Cully, with the 

 villages of St. Saphorin and Corfier. This diftrift is en- 

 tirely hilly, rifmg abruptly from the lake ; above the vine- 

 yards are ricli meadows and a continued foreft. In the 

 church of St. Saphorin is an ancient Roman mile-ftone with 

 an infcription, which contains two circumftances often 

 queftioned ; 11/2. that the banks of the lake of Geneva, 

 which border this part of Switzerland, were comprifed 

 within a Roman province, even fo early as the time of 

 Claudius, and alfo that Aventicum was the chief town of 

 this part of Helvetia ; for tlie mile-ftones always referred to 

 the capital of the province in which they were placed, and 

 thediftance from St. Saphorin to Avenches is nearly 37,000 

 paces. The infcription is as follows : 



TI. CLAUDIUS. DRUSI. F. 



CiES. AUG. GERM. 



PONT. MAX. TBIB. POT. VII. 



IMP. .XII. P. P. COS. III. 



F. A. 



XX.XVII. 



VAUXHALL Gardens, a well-known place of public 

 amufement in the parilh of Lambeth and county of Surrey, 

 which belonged, in 1615, to Jane, widow of John Vaux, 

 between whofe two daughters the eftate was divided, and 

 paffed through various hands, till both moieties were pur- 

 chafed, about the middle of the laft centurj', by Jonathan 

 Tyers, efq. It does not appear at what time this place 

 was firft: opened for pubhc refort ; but we are led to con- 

 clude from a paper in the Speftator ( No. 388. 1, and another 

 in the Connoifleur (No. 68.), that it muft have been fo 

 appropriated in or before the time of queen Anne. Mr. 

 Tyers, who held the premifes on leafe many years before he 

 bought the eftate, opened the Spring Gardens, as they were 

 then denominated, in 1730, and expended large fums in 

 embellifhing them. After his death they fell into the pof- 

 feflion of feveral proprietors, of whom the principal is 

 Mr. Barratt. Thele gardens were, till of late years, opened 

 every evening during a great part of the fummer, for the 

 reception of company ; but they are now admitted only 



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tluve times a week. The entertainments confift of mufic, 

 vocal and inftnimental, illuminations, and fire-works, and 

 other exhibitions. See Lambeth and Tyers. 



VAUZ, in Geography, a town of Pennfylvania, on the 

 Sufquehanna ; 12 miles N.N.W. of Harriftjurg. 



VAYHINGEN, a town of Wurtemberg, on the Entz, 

 with a caftle. This town had formerly coiints of its own ; 

 1 1 miles N.W. of Stuttgard. N. lat. 48° 58'. E. long. 

 8° 59'. 



VAYLOOR, a town of Hindooftaa, in Baramaul ; 1 1 

 miles S.S.W. of Namacul. 



VAYPAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the province of 

 Madura ; 25 miles E. of Coilpetta. 



VAYRES, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Gironde; 3 miles S.W. of Liboume. 



VAYU, in Hindoo Mythology, is a name of the regent of 

 the winds, more commonly called Pavana ; which fee. Vayu 

 is the Eolus of the Eaft. One of the Puranas is named 

 after him, being called Vayu Purana. (See Purana. ) 

 Yah is another of his names. 



VAYVODE, or Vaivode. See Waywode. 



VAZABU, in the Materia Medica, a name by which 

 fome authors have called the acorus AJiaticus, or Afiatic 

 fweet-flag. 



VAZCUSE, in Geography, a river of Louifiani, which 

 runs into the Miflburi, N. lat. 38° 31'. W. long. 94*^ 5'. 



VAZUA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Pro- 

 pria, between the river Bagradas and the town of Thabrac?., 

 according to Ptolemy. 



UBALDI, GuiDO, in Biography, an eminent mathema- 

 tician of noble extraftion from a branch of the family of 

 Bourbon, ftudied under Condamine, and made early as well 

 as rapid proficiency. Mathematics and mechanics were his 

 favourite objefts ; but in the latter fcience he publifhed a 

 work, entitled " Mecanicorum Liber, in quo haec continen- 

 tur : — de Libra, Vedle, Trochlea, Axe in Peritrochio, 

 Cuneo, Cochlea," Venetiis, 1615, fol. In this work he 

 reduces all machines to the lever, applying the fame prin- 

 ciple with advantage to fome of the other mechanical powers, 

 and particularly to the pulley and its combinations. He 

 alfo explained the ftrufture of the fcrewof Archimedes, and 

 its application to the rife of water, in a treatife " De Cochlea, 

 Libri quatuor," Venet. 1 615, fol. He illuftrated the 

 principles and practice of pferfpective more fully and 

 clearly than otlier preceding writers had done, but with 

 needlefs prolixity, in his " PerfpeCliva, Libri fex," Pifauri, 

 1600, fol. His other works, mentioned by Kiiftner, are 

 " Guidi Ubaldi e Marchionibus Montes ( of the Marquifles 

 del Monte) in duos Archimedis jEquiponderantium Libros 

 Paraphrafis, fcholiis illuftrata," Pifauri, 1588, fol. ; " Pro- 

 blematum Aftronomicorum Libri feptem," Venet. 1508, 

 fol. The time of his birth and alfo of his death is unknown, 

 Montucla. 



UBAMBA, in Geography, a town of Brafil, near the 

 coaft of the Atlantic ; 80 miles S.W. of Rio Janeiro. 



UBARCO, Cape, a cape on the N.W. coaft of the 

 ifland of Ivi^a. N. lat. 39^ 5'. E. long. 1° 18'. 



UBATA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, S. of 

 Adrumetum. Ptolem.y. 



UBATUBA, in Geography, a river of Brafil, which runs 

 into the Atlantic, S. lat. 23° 20'. 



UBAYE, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Durance, near Embrun. 



UBEDA, a city of Spain, in the province of Jaen, con- 

 taining 10 parifties, 8 convents, and about 2900 inhabitants. 

 In 1233, Ubeda was taken from the Moors ; 3 miles E. of 

 Jaen. N. lat. 38'= 3'. W. long. 3° 31'. 



UBENITZ, 



