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confecrated to Apollo. Here the Cimbri were defeated by 

 the Romans, under Marius and Catullus. After the decline 

 of the Roman empire, it became a republic, and from that 

 ftate it fell under the dukes of Milan ; and, laftly, it was 

 given as a marriage portion to Amadeujs III., duke of 

 Savoy. See Vercelli. 



VERCELLI, or Verceil, in Geography, a town of 

 Piedmont, and, under the French dynafty, the capital of 

 the department of Sejia ; which fee. It is fituated at the 

 junftion of the Cerva with the Sefia, and was anciently 

 called Vei-cellae. It is the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of the 

 archbilhop of Milan. There are two churches which are 

 called cathedral, and twelve others, two abbeys, nineteen 

 convents of both fexes, three provoftiliips, two priories, 

 three poor-houfes, and five hofpitals ; the inhabitants are 

 about 20,000. In 1800, the French took Vercelli from 

 the Auftrians, with confiderable ilores ; 30 miles S.W. of 

 Milan. N. lat. 4;° 22'. E. long. 8° 26'. 



VERCHATURSKY Gory, mountains which divide 

 European and Afiatic Ruffia, extending almoft. north and 

 fouth to a great length, and about 40 miles in breadth. 

 They are covered with wood, firs, larch, birch, &c. 



VERCHEN, a town of Anterior Pomerania ; 6 miles 

 S.W. of Demniin. 



VERCHES, Les, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Mayne and Loire ; 10 miles S.W. of Saumur. 



VERCHIERE, a town of Canada, on the right bank 

 of the St. Lawj-ence. N. lat. 45° 47'. W. long. 73° 9'. 



VERCHODVERSKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the go- 

 vernment of Viatka ; 40 miles N. of Viatka. 



VERCHOIANSKOI, an oftrog of Ruffia, in the 

 government of Irkutlk, on the Yana. N. lat. 65" 40'. E. 

 long. 130° 14'. 



VERCHOKIZILSKOI, a fort of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Upha, at the union of the Kizil and Ural ; 

 40 miles S. of Verchouralflc. 



VERCHOLEN.sk, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutllc, on the Lena; 120 miles N. of Irkutflc. 

 N. lat. 54°. E. long. 105° 34'. 



VERCHOTOMSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Kolivau ; 32 miles N.N.W. of Mungatzkoi. 



VERCHOTURA, a town of Ruffia, in the province 

 of Ekaterinburg, near the river Tura. This was the firft 

 town which the Ruffians built in Siberia. It has four 

 churches and two convents, befides chapels ; and is the fee 

 of a bifhop. Verchotura is fituated on a rifing ground, 

 and fortrfied with pallifadoes and a ditch, and defended by 

 a garrifon under a commandant. The adjacent country is 

 inhabited by a people called Voguhtz, who live on fruits in 

 huts among the woods, employing therafelves in hunting 

 and fhoo-ting, without agriculture. In the beginning of 

 the 1 8th century, they were many of them converted to 

 Chriftianity, and now mix probably with the reft of the 

 people; 120 miles N. of Ekaterinburg. N. lat. 58° 45'. 

 E. long. 60"^ 14'. 



VERCHOVAGSKOI, a town of Ruffia, m the go- 

 vernment of Vologda, on the Vaga ; 48 miles S. of Vielfl'C. 



VERCHOURALSK, a town of Ruffia, m the govern- 

 ment of'Upha, on the Ural; 120 miles S.E. of Upha. 

 N. lat. 53^ 36'. E. long. 59^ 14'. 



VERD, or Verde, Cape, a cape on the weft coaft of 

 Africa. N. lat. 14^ 48'. W. long. 17° 31'. 



Verd, or Verde IJJands, Cape, illands of Africa, in the 

 Atlantic, deriving their name from the cape oppofite to 

 which they are fituated, and difcovered by the Portuguefe in 

 ) 446. They are fo called, as fome fay, from a green plant, 

 called Sargoflo, refembling water-creftes, and bearing fruit 



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like a goofeberry, which is found floating near them, and 

 in fuch abundance as to impede the progrefs of veffels in 

 their courfe. They are ufually reckoned ten in number, 

 and including rocks, they amount to fourteen. The two 

 largeft are St. Jago or Yago in the /outh-eaft and St. An- 

 thony in the north-weft. Four of thefe iflands are fituated 

 towards the eaft, viz. Santiago, Mayo, Bonavifta, and 

 Salt ille ; four towards the north-weft, viz. St. Nicholas, 

 St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and St. Anthony ; and two are 

 fomewhat detached towards the fouth, -ufz. Brava and 

 Fuego. ( See each ifland refpeftively. ) Thefe iflands arc 

 generally mountainous ; fome of them are barren and un- 

 mhabited ; others are produftive of rice, bananas, oranges, 

 cotton, and fugar ; and it is faid the goats produce thrice a 

 year, and the vines twice ; they abound with poultry and 

 rabbits, and turtles are plentiful on the Ihores. The air is 

 hot and infalubrious, rain being very rare ; but a north-eaft 

 breeze commonly rifes before four in the afternoon. The 

 manufafture of leather and fait conftitute the chief richea. 

 Many of them have been furniflred by their proprietors with 

 cows, goats, hogs, afles, mules, &c. Thefe iflands are 

 fituate about 390 miles W. of Cape Verd, and between 15° 

 and i8°of N. lat. 



VERDACHELON, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 Carnatic ; 20 miles S.W. of Trivady. 



VERDAPETTY, a town of Hindooftan, in the pro- 

 vince of Madura ; 22 miles S. of Madura. 



VERDE, Cape, a mountainous cape on the coaft of 



Peru. S. lat. 6° 20' Alfo, a cape on the coaft of Genoa. 



N. lat. 43^ 50'. E. long. 7° 50'. 



Verde, or Green IJland, an ifland on the north coaft of 

 South America, at the mouth of the river S. Martha. 



Verde IJland, or Verde Key, one of the fmall Bahamas. 

 N. lat. 22° 54'. W. long. 75° 26'. 



VERDEGREASE, VerdIGREASE, Verdegris, or Ver- 

 digris, a kind of ruft of copper, formed from the corrofion 

 of copper by a fermented vegetable, and into a blueiflt -green 

 fubftance, of great ufe among painters for a green colour. 



The word is formed from the Latin, viride arii : it is alfo 

 caUed terugo. Others call it the Jtonver, and others the 

 •vitriolic fait oj copper ; though, in reality, it is rather the 

 proper fubftance of the metal. 



The greateft quantities of verdigris have been manufac- 

 tured at Montpellier, the \vines of Languedoc being very 

 proper for this preparation ; and it has been exported thence' 

 in cakes, each weighing about twenty-five pounds. The 

 following procefs for making it is defcribed by M. Monet, 

 of the Royal Society of Montpellier, and is publiftied in 

 the Memoirs of the Academy for the years 1750, and 1753. 

 Vine-ilalks, well dried in the fun, are fteeped during eight 

 days in ftrong wine, and afterwards drained. They are 

 then put into earthen pots, and wine is poured upon them ; 

 the pots are carefully covered ; the wine undergoes the 

 acetous fermentation, which in fummer is finilhed in leven or 

 eight days, but requires longer time in winter, although the 

 operation is always performed in cellars. When the fer- 

 mentation is fufficiently advanced, which may be known by 

 obferving the inner furface of the lids of the pots, wliich 

 during the procels of the fermentation is co;rlinually wetted 

 by the moiilure of the rifing vapours, the ftalks ai-e then to 

 be taken out of the pots : thefe ftalks are by this method 

 impregnated with the acid of the wine, and the remaining 

 hquor is brrt a very weak vinegar. Tlie ftalks are to be 

 drained during fome tmie in bafl<ets, and layws of them are 

 to be put into earthen pots with plates of Swedifli copper, 

 fo difpofed, that each plate fliall rell upon and be covered 

 with layers of ftalks. The pots are to be covered with lids, 

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