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may have been ever fo young, or ever fo rough in fuch 

 parts : nor have they ever met with any perfons who could 

 be certain that they had feen any. How far feme breeds 

 of fheep, as thole of the Cheviot, may have their lambs 

 more readily or more eafily killed or deftroyed in this wa)', 

 or whether it may not be owing to the fhape of the udders 

 in their dams, which being more full and expofed in fuch 

 parts, is not by any means well known ; but far lefs injury 

 or expofure, in this or in any other way, will make that 

 breed of flieep lamb dead lambs, it is faid, than in the foreft, 

 or probably fome other breeds. 



But though this praftice may often be found prejudicial 

 in the more northern parts of the kingdom, in the fouthern 

 fheep diilrifts it may not unfrequently be had recourfe to 

 with very confiderable utility and advantage in different 

 refpefts. 



UDDEVALLA, in Geography, a fea-port town of 

 Sweden, in the province of Bahus, with a ftrong fort and 

 convenient harbour. The inhabitants carry on a con- 

 fiderable trade in iron, planks, and herrings ; their number 

 is about 9000 ; 205 miles W.S.W. of Stockholm. N. lat. 

 58° 21'. E. long. 11" 45'. 



UDEBODE, a town of the ifland of Ceylon ; 60 miles 

 S. of Candi. 



UDEGHERRY, a town of Hindooitan, in the Car- 

 natic ; 43 miles N.W. of Nellore. N. lat. 14° 43'. E. 

 long. 79° 16'. 



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

 Roer ; 7 miles S.S.E. of Cleves. 



UDERIPCONDA, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 

 20 miles N.W. of Anantpour. 



UDERWANGEN, a town of Prufiia, in Natangen ; 

 12 miles S.S.E. of Koniglberg. 



UDI, a town of Egypt ; 10 miles N. of Atfieh. 



UDJARMA, a town of the principality of Georgia, in 

 the province of Kaket ; 24 miles E. of Teflis. 



UDICA denotes the projefting part of a barge's 

 ftern, on which its name, &c. is printed. 



UDINA, or Udfne, in Geography, a town of Italy, and 

 capital of Friuli ; to which, on the decline of Acquileia, tlie 

 patriarch removed his feat. It has feveral churches, con- 

 vents, and hofpitals, a college for the ftvidy of law, and a 

 military academy : and it is faid to contain between 17,000 

 and 18,000 inhabitants; 35 miles N.W. of Triefte. N. 

 lat. 46° 10'. E.long. 13^ 14'. 



UDINE, Giovanni da, in Biography, was the cog- 

 nomen of an afiiftant of Raffaelle in the works of the 

 Vatican, whofe real name was Nanni. His family refided 

 at Udine, (where he was born in 1494,) and had there fol- 

 lowed the occupation of embroiderers with fo much excel- 

 lence, as at length almoft to have lofl their own name in that 

 of Ricamatori, by which Vafari often calls him. His father, 

 become rich, amufed himfelf with hunting ; and his fon 

 Giovanni found his fport, at a very early period of his life, 

 in drawing the animals, birds, &c. brought him from the 

 chafe. This indication of tafte for painting was encouraged, 

 and the youth was placed under the tuition of Giorgione, at 

 Venice, with whom he acquired a knowledge of colour and 

 chiaro-fcuro. About the time of the death of Giorgione 

 he went to Rome, and being furniihed by his proteftor, the 

 patriarch Grimani, with letters to count Baldaffare Caftig- 

 lione, he was introduced to Raffaelle, who admitted him 

 into his fcliool, and employed him in painting the grotefque 

 and ornamental acceffories of his larger works. The imagi- 

 nation of his mafter Raffaelle, and of himfelf, was led to the 

 iBtroduftion of this fpecies of ornament, by the difcovery of 

 the painted chambers in the baths of Titus, then recently 



opened, when Giovanni was employed in making defigns of 

 the beautiful ornaments in ftucco found there, and thence de- 

 nominated grotefque. In purfuing thefe ftudies, he dif- 

 covered the compofition of the ftucco upon or rather in 

 which they were painted ; and with the fame materials he, 

 by order of Raffaelle, prepared the walls and ceilings of the 

 Loggie, and painted upon it the beautiful feries of orna- 

 mental combinations of flowers, fruit, animals, vafes, Sec. 

 fince then fo much employed in adorning the dwellings of 

 the rich and great. This part of the work was entirely en- 

 trufted to Giovanni da Udine, under whofe direftions a 

 number of ingenious young men were employed ; and the 

 tafte and ability, the freedom and truth, without minutenefs, 

 with which the whole is managed, has ever fince been a 

 conltant fubjeft of praife and admiration. After the death 

 of Raffaelle, he wa8 employed by Clement VII., in conjunc- 

 tion with Pierino del Vaga, to ornament that part of the 

 Vatican called the Torre di Borgia. When he was com- 

 pelled to leave Rome by the facking of that city, he was 

 employed for a time at his native place, and afterwards was 

 engaged at Florence in adorning the palace of the Medici ; 

 and returning to Rome in the pontificate of Pius IV., left 

 in various places there mementos of his admirable ingenuity. 

 He died there, at the age of feventy, in 1564, and had the 

 honour to be buried in the church of La Rotonda, (the 

 Pantheon,') near the tomb of his renowned mafter: 



Udine, Martino da, called Pelegrino di San Daniello, 

 was born at the caftle of San Daniello, near Udine, about 

 the year 1480, and was adifciple of Giovanni Bellini. He 

 purfued the ftyle of that mafter in the many religious fub- 

 jefts he treated for altar-pieces at Udine and his native 

 place, where his works are principally to be found ; though 

 it is faid, in addition to his fame, that fomething of Gior- 

 gione's breadth may be difcovered in his latter produftions. 

 He died about 1545. 



UDINSK, NiZNEl, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in 

 the government of Irkutflv, lituated on the river Uda ; 

 260 miles N.W. of Irkutflf. N. lat. 54° 15'. E. long. 

 98° 50'. 



Udinsk, Verchnei, a town of Ruflia, in the government 

 of Irkutflc, on the Selenga ; 88 miles E. of Irkiitfk. N. 

 lat. 51'-" 50'. E.long. 107° 20'. 



UDINSKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Irkutflc, at the conflux of the Uda and the Angara ; 140 

 miles W.N.W. of Irkutfl<. N. lat. 54° 12'. E.long. 

 103° 14'. 



Udinska, Nov, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Irkutflv, on the Uda ; 24 miles S.E. of Udinflia. 



UDITTA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Pro-' 

 pria, between the Two Syrtcs. Ptolemy. 



UDNON, in Botany, the name by which Theophraftus 

 and Diofcorides have called the truffle commonly ufed at 

 table in their times ; but we find that they were not ac- 

 quainted with a better kind of truffle, which we cultivate at 

 prefent. 



This fmooth reddifli-coated truffle is common in Italy at 

 this time, and is efteemed of no value, and c.VJed the wild 

 truffle : the fort that is eaten there, and in all other parts 

 of Europe, is the blackifli and rough-coated kind. In 

 Africa they have a yet finer kind than our's : it has a white 

 coat, and is of the moft deHcious flavour. The Greeks 

 were alfo acquainted with this, and denominated it Cyre- 

 nean, as they did almoft all the things they had from 

 Africa : they alfo gave it the name m'lfy. 



UDO, in the Materia Mediea, a name given by the Por- 

 tuguefe to the lignum aloes. 



It feems only a corruption of the monofyllable ud, by 

 , 4 P 2 which 



