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wliich the Arabian phyficians have called that drug ; and 

 even this ud pofTibly was only a contraftion of the ortho- 

 graphy of the word keud ; which feems to have been the 

 original name of this drug among the Arabs. 



Udo, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the ifland of 

 Niphon ; 60 miles W.N.W of .ledo.— Alfo, a town of 

 Japan, in the idand of Ximo. N. lat. 32° 7,0'. E. long. 

 132° 30'. 



UDON, in jincieni Geography, a river of Afiatic Sar- 

 matia ; the mouth of which, according to Ptolemy, was 

 in the Cafpian i'ca, between that of Alontas and that of 



Rha. 



UDRIGILL Head, in Geography, a cape of Scotland, 

 on the W. coaft of the county of Rofs. N. lat. 57° 54'. 

 W. long. 5° 31'. 



UDSI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 15 

 miles S.W. of Meaco. 



UDSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Irkutfk, on the Uda ; 1 100 miles E.N.E. of Irkutllc. N. 

 lat. 55° i6'. E. long. 135° 50'. 



UDSTEIN, a fmall iiland near the coaft of Norway ; 

 9 miles N.W. of Stavanger. 



UDUAR, a town of the ifland of Ceylon ; 26 miles 

 S.S.E. of Columbo. 



UDVARHELY, a town of Tranfylvania ; 22 miles 

 N.E. of Schefliurg. N. lat. 46° 30'. E. long. 24° 54'. 



UDUMNAEVSKOI, a fort of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutfl-: ; 88 miles S.W. of Nertchinflc. 



UDURA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Hifpania 

 Citerior, belonging to the Taccetani. Ptolemy. 



VEA, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Segeftan ; 52 miles'N. of Zareng. 



VEADAR, ill Chronology, the thirteenth month of the 

 Jewifli eccleliaftical year, anfwering commonly to our 

 March : this month was intercalated, to prevent the be- 

 ginning of Nifan from being removed to the end of 

 February. 



VEAGUES, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Cher ; 6 miles S.W. of Sancerre. 



VEAL Town, a town of New Jerfey ; 14 miles 

 N.N.W. of New Brunfwick. 



VEAS, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville, on 

 the Odier ; 8 miles N.N.E. of Gibraleon. 



VEASCIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, 

 aUied to the Romans : it was attacked by the Gauls on 

 their departure from Rome, but they were furprifed and 

 routed by Camilhis. PluUirch fays, that the Gauls, on 

 leaving Rome, encamped eight miles from this town in 

 Latium. 



VEBRON, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Lozere ; 6 miles S. of Florae. 



VECCHIjOrazio, in ^io^ra/i/jy, born at Milan, and many 

 years maeftro di capella at Mantua, gained great reputation, 

 not only as an able mufician, but a poet. His numerous can- 

 zonets for three and four voices, publiflied at Milan and 

 Venice, from 1580 to 1 61 3, were reprinted and fung all 

 over Europe. Our countryman, Peacham, who had re- 

 ceived inftruftions in mufic from this compofer, during his 

 refidence in Italy, fpeaks of him in the following manner : 

 " I bring you now mine own mafter, Horatio Vecchi, of 

 Modena, who, befide goodnefs of aire, was moft pleafing of 

 all other for his conceipt and variety, wherewith all his 

 works are fingularly beautified, as well his madrigals of five 

 and fix parts, as thofe his canzonets, printed at Norimberge." 

 (Complete Gentleman, p. 102.) He then inftances and 

 points out the beauties of feveral of his compofitions, that 

 were moft in favour during that time. Befides fecular mufic, 

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Vecchi compofed two books of facred fongs, in five, fix, 

 feven, and eight parts ; maffes of fix and eight voices ; and 

 four-part lamentations. 



Vecchi has been erroneoufly fuppofed by many of his 

 countrymen the inventor of the burletta or comic opera in 

 Italy ; and it was the opinion of the learned Muratori {La 

 Perfetta Poefia, lib. iii. cap. 4.), that a mufical drama or 

 farce, called Anfiparnafo, written and fet by the celebrated 

 Orazio Vecchi, and afted and printed at Venice, 1597, was 

 the origin of the Opera Buffa ; which fee. 



VECCHI A, PiETRO, born at Venice m 160J, was a 

 painter, educated in the fchool of Paduanino, but more au 

 imitator of Giorgione and Pordenone j and fome of his 

 piftures have been miftaken for works of thofe mafters. 

 Sandrardt relates a ftory of his having been deceived by a 

 pifture of Vecchia, which he miftook for one by Giorgione. 

 From this talent of imitating others, the doge and fenate of 

 Venice employed him to copy the ancient works in mofaic 

 which are preferved in the church of St. Marc. And in 

 that church are alfo two original and very able piftures by 

 him, reprefenting the Crucifixion, and Chriil driving the 

 money-changers from the temple. His colouring is rich 

 and warm, and his execution free and full, but fome- 

 times apt to be incorreft. He died in 1678, aged feventy- 

 three. 



VECELLI, TiziANo. See Titian. 



Vecelli, Oraxio, fon of Titian, born at Venice in 

 1540, praftifed the art of painting under his father's 

 tuition, but became diilinguifhed only as a painter of por- 

 traits, fome of which were efteemed as little inferior to 

 thofe of his father. He died in the fame year with his 

 father, 1576. 



Vecelli, Marco, called Marco da Tiziano, was the 

 nephew and difciple of Titian, and born at Venice in 1545. 

 He appears to have been regarded by his great inftruftor 

 with peculiar favour, and certainly his talent gave him the 

 faireft claim to fuch diftinftion ; for he approached the 

 neareft to Titian, both in colour and compofition, of all his 

 difciples, and has left feveral original works, very defervedly 

 efteemed, m the Palazzo di San Marco. He alfo executed 

 feveral confiderable works for the churches in Venice, 

 Trevigi, and in the Friuli. He died in 161 1, leaving 

 a fon, known by the name of II Tizianello, who ob- 

 tained much repute by his paintings, but they are in 

 a loofe and mannered ftyle ; his bcft produftions are his 

 portraits. 



VECHT, in Geography, a river which rifes in the 

 bifliopric of Munfter, about fix miles N.E. of Coesfeld, 

 croftes Bcntheim and OverifFel, and runs into the Zuyder 

 See at Gelmuyden. — Alfo, a river which paiTes by Utrecht, 

 and runs into the Zuyder See at Muyden. 



VECHTA, a town and fortrefs of Germany, in the 

 bifliopric of Munfter ; 60 miles N.E. of Munfter. N. lat. 

 52° 43'. E. long. 8° 18'. 



VECS, a town of Tranfylvania ; 16 miles E.S.E. of 

 Biftriz. 



VECTIS, in Ancient Geography, an ifland of the Britifli 

 ocean, S. of the Portus Magnus, or Great Haven, accordir>g 

 to Ptolemy and Pliny. 



Vectis, in Mechanics, one of the powers, more ufually 

 called the /ever ; which fee. 



Vectis, Heterodromus. See Heterodromus. 



VECTOR, m AJlronomy, a fine fuppofed to be drawn 

 from any planet moving round a centre, or the focus of an 

 ellipfis, to that centre, or focus. 



This, by fome writers of the new aftronomy, is called 

 veHor, or radius -ueBor, becaufe it is that line by which the 



planet 



