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as if they were really painted ; and which the painters fre- 

 quently imitate in painting wainfcots, &c. 

 Marble is generally full of fuch veins. 

 Lapis lazuli has veins like gold. Ovid, fpeaking of the 

 metamorphofis of men into ftones, fays — " Qua; modo vena 

 fuit, fub eodem nomine manfit." 



Veins, in ftones, are often a defeft, proceeding ufually 

 from an inequality in their confiftence, as to hard and 

 foft : which makes the ftone crack, and fliiver in thofe 

 parts. 



VEJOURS, or Viewers, Vlfires, in Lanu, are perfons 

 fent, by the court, to take a view of any place in queftion, 

 for the better decilion of the right. 



It is alfo ufed for thofe fent to view fuch as effoin them- 

 felves de malo leSi, whether, in truth, they be fuch as that 

 they cannot appear, or whether they counterfeit. 



VEIRAS,in Geography, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo ; 

 15 miles N.N.E. of Eilremos. 



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

 lake of Leman : 9 miles E. of Seiflel. 



VEISENBERG, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 of Revel, on the coaft of the gulf of Finland ; 56 miles E. 

 of Revel. N. lat. 59° 22'. E. long. 26° 14'. 



VEISENSHTEIN, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 of Revel ; 32 miles S.E. of Revel. 



VEIT, St., a town of Germamy, in the circle of Bavaria, 

 and archbifhopric of Salzburg, near the Salza ; 28 miles S. 



of Salzburg Alfo, a fea-port town of Iftria, called alfo 



Flume, fituated near the gulf of Venice, on a narrow plain, 

 which yields good grapes, figs, and other fruits. The har- 

 bour is formed by the Fiumara. For the convenience of e.x- 

 portation and importation, the emperor Charles VI. caufed 

 an highway to be made from this place to Carlftadt, in 

 Croatia. A fugar-houfe has alfo been founded here. St. 

 Veit is exempt from taxes and contributions ; 3 miles S.E. 



of Triefte. N. lat. 45° 46'. E. long. 14° 42' Alfo, a 



town of Germany, fomctimes called St. We'tt, in the duchy 

 of Stiria ; 3 miles S.E. of Pettau. — Alfo, a town of Ger- 

 many, in the duchy of Carinthia, fituated on the river Glan ; 



8 miles N. of Clagenfurt Alfo, a town of Germany, in 



the archduchy of Auftria ; 5 miles W. of Vienna. — Alfo, 

 a town of Germany, in the archduchy of Auftria ; 1 1 miles 

 W.S.W. of Freuftadt. 



VEITA, a fmaU ifland in the Mediterranean, near the 

 eafl coaft of Tunis. N. lat. 35° i'. E. long. 1 1° 12'. 

 VEITH, St. See St. Ve\th. 



VEITSBERG, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 

 Neuftadt ; 3 miles N-E. of Weyda. 



VEITSHOCHHEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurz- 

 burg, on the Mayne ; 20 miles S.W. of Schweinfurt. 



VEL, in Ancient Geography, a town in the interior of 

 Africa, and one of thofe which were fubjugated by Cor- 

 nelius Balbus. Pliny. 



VELA, in Geography, a rocky fhoal in the Spanifh Main. 

 N. lat. 15'= 16'. W. long. 75°. 



Vela, Cape de la, a cape on the N. coaft of South 

 America. N. lat. 11" 50'. W. long. 71° 46'. 



VELABORI, in Ancient Geography, a people who in- 

 habited the territory on the weftern coaft of Hibernia, S. of 

 the Gangani. Ptolemy. 



VELACH, in Geography, a town of the duchy of Ca- 

 rinthia, at the union of the Campach and Moll ; 1 1 miles 

 N.N.W. of Saxenburg. 



VELAGA, in Botany, Gsrtn. v. I. 245. t. 133, a 

 name of Adanfon's, adopted by Gaertner, and belonging to 

 the genus now called Pterospermum ; fee that article, 

 under which it ftiould be cited as a fynoiiym. 



VELAINE, in Geography, a town of France, in the dtf. 

 partment of the Meurte ; 6 miles E.N.E. of Nancy. 



VELAM, a town uf Hindooftan, in the country of the 

 Nayrs ; 34 miles E. of Calicut. 



VELAMEN, is ufed, by fome Surgeons, for the bag, fldn, 

 or bladder, of an impofthume, or fwelling. 



VELAMENTUM BoMByciNUM, a name which fome 

 anatomifts give to the velvet membrane, or inner lliin of the 

 inteftines. 



VELANGOODY, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Marawar ; 7 miles W. of Trumian. 



VELANI, in Botany and the Arts, fometimes called 

 Valonia, a name given by the modern Greeks to the acorns 

 of a fpecies of oak, (fee QuERCOs JEg'dops, and Quercus 

 Infedoria,) denominated the " Velanida." The tree grows 

 on the weftern coaft of Natoha, in the iflaiids of the ."irchi- 

 pelago, in thofe of Corfu and Cephalonia, and throughout 

 aU Greece. For an account of the galls of this oak, we 

 refer to the article Galls. The Orientals take care to 

 gather the galls at the precife time which experience has 

 proved to be moft favourable, or in which the excrefcence 

 has acquired its full fize and weight. For this purpofe, 

 they vifit the hills and mountains that are covered with oaks. 

 The firft galls that are picked up are laid apart ; thefe are 

 known in the Eaft under the name of " Yerli," and diftin- 

 guiflied in trade by the terms of " black galls" and " green 

 galls." Thofe which have efcaped the firft fearches, and 

 which are gathered a httle later, called " white galls," are 

 of a very inferior quality. The galls of the environs of 

 Moful and Tocat, and in general thofe which come from the 

 eaftern part of Turkey, are lefs efteemed than thofe of the 

 environs of Aleppo, Smyrna, Magnefia, KarahifTar, Diar- 

 bekir, and the whole interior of Natolia. The former are 

 fold at Smyrna and at Aleppo two or three piaftres \eh per 

 quintal than the others. The inhabitants negleft to gather 

 the acorns, which ferve as food for the vvjld boars and 

 goats ; the latter contribute very much to render the oak 

 fmall and ftunted, by devouring, with its fruit, a part of its 

 fohage and young boughs. 



The diplopepis which produces thefe galls has a body of 

 a fawn-colour, with the antennas dark, and the upper part 

 of the abdomen of a fliining brown. It is fometimes found, 

 under its latter form, in the infide of the galls which are not 

 yet pierced. On the fame oak are found other galls in great 

 numbers, which the inhabitants negleft to gather, becaufe 

 they are not fit for dyeing. 



The velani, or valonia, is gathered in the autumn, and 

 dried under iheds, which proteft it from rain, and is in a 

 proper ftate for ftiipping about the beginning of March : 

 that which is gathered on the mountains is preferred to that 

 of the valleys. There is alfo a difference with refpeft to its 

 age or fize ; the fmall and young is taken from the trees 

 before it has attained its full growth, and is reckoned better 

 than the large, or that which remains till it is full grown. 

 Thofe of the beft quality are nfually fent to England, and 

 the inferior to Ancona and Triefte. This gall is ufed for 

 dyeing and tanning, and in Turkey a confiderable quantity 

 is confumed for the latter purpofe. 



The quantity (hipped annually from the different Turkilh 

 ports may be calculated at from 4000 to 5000 tons. It 

 is fent to feveral places in Europe ; particularly London, 

 Liverpool, Leghorn, Triefte, Ancona, and Genoa. The 

 nut, or kernel, of the valonia is not reckoned of any value, 

 and is fometimes picked out to fave freight and charges. 

 The lofs in weight thus occafioned, together with garbhng, 

 (that is, freeing it from dirt, ftones, &c.) is from 10 to 25 

 per cent., according to the quality of the article, and the 



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