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tury of a Roman legion, for the prefervation of which, ten 

 of the beft foldiers in the century were allotted ; and all 

 thofe, in the different centuries of a legion, ( ten centuries 

 compofing a cohort, and ten cohorts conftituting a legion, ) 

 formed a very choice body of men, which was called the 

 vexillation of that legion, and was fometimes feparated from 

 it, and fent upon particular fervices. The vexillation of a 

 legion was eqvial in number of men to a cohort, and had an 

 equal proportion allotted to it in the execution of all public 

 works. 



Vexillum, ill Botany. See STANDARD and Papilio- 

 naceous. 



VEXIN, in Geography, before the revolution a country 

 of France, fituated along the river Epte, which divided it 

 into two parts, calkd " Vexin Francois," and " Vexin 

 Normand." Tlie principal towns of the former are Pon- 

 toife, Chaumont, and Magny, included in the department 

 of the Oife. The capital of the latter was Gifors, in the 

 department of the Eure. 



VEXOE, a I'mall ifland of Denmark, near the north 

 coaft of the ifland of Laland. N. lat. 54° 58'. E. long. 

 11° 41'. 



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

 Higher Alps ; 12 miles \V. of Gap. 



VEZ DE Marban, a town of Spain, in the province of 

 Leon ; 8 miles N. of Toro. 



VEZEDERINA, a town of European Turkey, in 

 Bulgaria ; 36 miles S.E. of Viddin. 



VEZELAY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Yonne. Theodore Beza was a native of Vezelay ; 

 7 miles W. of Avallon. 



VEZELIZE, a town of France, and principal place of 

 a diftrid, in the department of the Meurte ; 12 miles S. of 

 Nancy. N. lat. 48' 30'. E. long. 6° 11'. 



VEZENOBRE, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Gard ; 6 miles S.S.E. of Alais. 



VEZ ERE, Le, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Dordogne, at Limeuil. 



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

 Yonne ; 4 miles N. of Tonnerre. 



VEZ INS, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Mayne and Loire; 7 miles N.E. of Collet. — Alfo, a town 

 of France, in the department of the Aveiron ; 6 miles S.W. 

 of Severac le Chateau. 



VEZIRKAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; 

 25 miles S.E. of Ifnik. 



VEZOUZE, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Meurte, about 3 miles below Luneville. 



VEZZ ANO PiETRoso, a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 

 1 3 miles S.E. of Corte. 



UFALE, a town of the ftate of Georgia, on the Oak- 

 fulkee. N. lat. 32° 55'. W. long. 85° 57'. 



UFENS, or OuFENS, in Ancient Geography, a river of 

 Italy, in New Latium, eail of the Pontine marfli, which 

 difcharged itftlf into the fca ; mentioned by Virgil and 

 Silius Italicus — Alfo, a river of GaUia Cifpadana, men- 

 tioned by Livy. 



UFFENHEIM, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the principality of Anfpach ; 1 8 miles S.S.E. of Wurzburg. 

 N. lat. 49^37'. E. long. 10^ 19'. 



UFFINIAC, a town of France, in the department of 

 the North Coafts ; 3 miles S.E. of S. Brieuc. 



UFFUGUM, ill Jlncient Geography, a pretty confiderable 

 town of Italy, in Biutium. Livy. 



UFHOLZ, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Upper Rhine; 17 miles S.S.W. of 

 Colmar. 



UFNAU, an ifland of Switzerland, in the lake of Zu- 

 rich ; about a mile in circumfcrcr.ee. 



UFTER Geften, a mountain of Switzerland, in the 

 canton of Bern ; 23 miles S. of Thun. 



UFVERSO, a fmall ifland in the Bahic, eaft of Aland. 

 N. lat. 60° 7'. E. long. 20° 20'. 



UGAB, a very ancient inftrument of the Hebrews, 

 mentioned bv Mofes before the deluge. Many wild con- 

 jeftures have been formed concerning this inftrument. It 

 has been conftrued into an organ by fome, who did not re- 

 colletl that organ was the generical name for inftruments of 

 all kinds ; and it is very improbable that a machine, fo 

 eomphcated as a modern organ of the moft fimple kind, 

 fliould have been invented before the deluge. Don Calmet, 

 whofe ideas concerning Hebrew inltruments are not always 

 happy, thinks the ugab was only a fyrinx, fimilar to Pan's 

 pipe ; for all the defcriptions tell us that the ugab was a 

 wind-inftrument with many pipes. See Syrinx. 



UGARA, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 the government of Sivas ; 7 miles W. of Tocat. 



UGENA, in Botany, fo named by Cavanilles, Ic. Plant. 

 V. 6. 73. /. 594, 595, is the fame genus of Filices, which 

 Willdenow, in his Sp. PI. -v. 77, has called Hydroglqffum, 

 from lou!^, <water, and ", Xij-j-a, a tongue, alluding to its damp 

 place of growth, and the tongue-like fliape of the fruftify- 

 ing parts of the frond. Cavanilles meant to commemorate 

 an excellent Spanifh draughtfman, employed to delineate 

 the new plants of the Madrid garden. Whether Willde- 

 now's authority may rellore Hydrogkjfum, we cannot here 

 venture to foretell ; but the genus in queftion is eftablifhed 

 by Swartz under the name of Lygodium, {fee that article) ; 

 and Mr. Brown has fanftioned this laft appellation, both in 

 his Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 162, and in y4it. Hort. Kew. 

 "D. 5. 497, which we prefume will decide the queftion. 



UGENTO, in Geography, a town of Naples, in the 

 province of Otranto ; 16 miles S.W. of Otranto. N. lat. 

 40° 12'. E. long. 77° 8'. 



UGERNUM, in Ancient Geography, or, as Strabo has 

 it, Gernum, a place which lay on the way from Nimes to 

 Aqua; Sextiae, or Aix. 



UGEST, in Geography, a town of the duchy of Warfaw, 

 in the palatinate of Rawa ; 6 miles S.E. of Rawa. 



UGGADE, in Ancient Geography, a place marked in 

 the Itinerary of Antonine between Rotomagus and Medio- 

 lanum Aulercorum, which is Evreux. 



UGGER-ZEHM, in Geography, a town of the duchy 

 of Courland, in the gulf of Riga; 33 miles E.N.E. of 

 Goldingen. 



UGGIATE, a town of Italy, in the department of the 

 Lario ; 5 miles W. of Como. 



UGGIONE, or Oggione, Marco da, .n Biography, 

 was a native of Oggione, in the Milanefe, and was born 

 about the year 1 480. He was one of the moft able fcholars 

 of Lionardo da Vinci. Avoiding the minute elaborate 

 finilh of his mufter's fmaller works, which was imitated by 

 his fellow pupils generally, and attaching himfelf to the 

 ftudy of the great principles of the art, he became a flcilful 

 painter in frefco. He muil have been greatly aided in his 

 progrefs, by having copied the moft renowned and the 

 greateft of Da Vinci's works, the Laft Supper, painted in 

 the refeftory of the Dominican convent at Milan. Ug- 

 gione's copy is of the fame fize as the original, near 30 feet 

 long, and was painted on canvas for the refeftory of the 

 Carthufians at Pavia, where it remained till the revolution, 

 when it was removed and fold to a rich grocer at Milan ; 

 and is lately brought to this country for pubhc exhibition, 

 and for fale. Lanzi fays of it, " that in meafure it com- 

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