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1 7 19, the Englifh again took pofTeffion of the place, but re- 

 linquifhed it after raifing contributions; 12 miles N.N.W. 

 of Tuy. N. lat. 42° 14'. W. long. 8° 43'. 



VIGOER, a town of Norway, in the province of Ber- 

 gen ; 25 miles E. of Bergen. 



VIGOLO, a town of the duchy of Piacenza ; 15 miles 

 S. of Piacenza. 



VIGOLZANO, a town of the duchy of Piacenza ; 

 8 miles S. of Piacenza. 



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

 Po ; 14 miles S.S.W. of Turin. 



VIGORETZKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government 

 of Olonetz ; 20 miles E. of Povenetz. 



VIGOROSO, or VlGOROSAMENTE, in the Italian Muftc, 

 is ufed to direft a performer to fing or play with vigour, 

 ftrength, and firmnefs. 



VIGTEN, m Geography, an ifland in the North fea, 

 near the coaft of Norway. N. lat. 64° 55'. E. long. 

 11° 10'. 



VIGULONE, a town of the duchy of Parma ; 15 miles 

 S.S.W. of Parma. 



VIHELY, a town of Hungary ; 10 miles N.E. of 

 Patak. 



VIHIERS, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftrift, in the department of the Mayne and Loire ; 20 

 miles S. of Angers. N. lat. 4.7° 9'. W. long. 27'. 



VIJ.\R, a town of Spain, in the province of Grenada ; 

 13 miles N.E. of Almeria. 



VIJAYA, in Hindoo Mythology, is the name of a grand- 

 daughter of Brahma, her father being Dakfha. The name 

 Vijaya, like Sarvajaya, means •viSorious or all-conquering, 

 and is given to Parvati in fome of her martial charaaers. 

 In fome books it is related, that in the procefs of churning 

 the ocean, as defcribed in our article Kurmavatara, a 

 flower or plant was produced, called Vijaya, or ever vic- 

 torious, which Siva kept for his own ufe. 



UJIBO, in Geography, a town of South America, in the 

 jurifdiftion of Guayaquil. 



VIKA, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia ; 6 miles S.E. 

 of Fahlun. 



VIKRAMA, or ViKRAMADlTYA, in Biography, a cele- 

 brated aftronomer and legiflator of the Hindoos. The era 

 named after him, corrupted into Bickermajit or Beeker- 

 majeet, is in very extenfive ufe in the Eaft, both among 

 Hindoos and Mahometans ; thougli the latter, of courfe, 

 generally among themfelves adopt that of the Hegira. In 

 the ninth volume of the Afiatic Refearches is a learned 

 elfay by Mr. Wilford on the era named after this celebrated 

 aftronomer, who was a monarch alfo. His capital was 

 Ougein, under which article we have given fome account of 

 that very interefting city, and fome notice of its royal 

 patron, and his era. 



VILAINE, in Geography, a river of France, which 

 rifcs near Ernee, in the department of the Mayenne, paffes 

 by Vitre, Chateaubourg, Renncs, Redon, Rieux, la Roche 

 Bernard, &c. and runs into the Atlantis, 9 miles below the 

 laft town. 



VILAINES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Cote d'Or ; 8 miles S. of ChatiUon fur Seine. 



VILAR de Belle, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Aude ; 12 miles S. of Carcatfonne. 



VILASAR, a town of Spain, on the fouth coaft of 

 Catalonia ; 2 miles W. of Matara. 



VILASK, a town of Hungary ; 8 miles N. of Libeten. 



VILBEL, a town of Germany, in the county of Hanau- 

 Munzenourg, on the Nidda ; 4 miles N. of Franckfort on 

 the Maine. 



VILBESTRE, a town of Spain, in the prorince of 

 Leon ; 43 miles S. of Salamanca. 



VILCABAMBA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of 



Cufco ; 60 miles N.N.W. of Cufco Alfo, a town of 



Peru ; 70 miles S.S.E. of Cufco Alfo, a town of South 



America, in the province of Quito ; 15 miles S. of Loxa. 



VILCAS CUAMAN, or Bilcas, a town of Peru, 

 and principal place of a jurifdiftion of the fame name, in the 

 biftiopric of Guamanga. The air is temperate, and the foil 

 produces corn and fruit, and feeds abundance of cattle. 

 The Indians are induftiious, and employed in manufaflures 

 of different kinds of ftuff. 



VILEMERITZ, a town of Croatia; 6 miles S. of 

 Sluin. 



VILEPATTY, a town of the ifland of Ceylon; 12 

 miles W.N.W. of Trinkamaly. 



VILEVO, a town of Sclavonia ; 34 miles N.W. of 

 Efzek. 



VILFA, in Botany, an arbitrary name of Adanfon's, in 

 his Fam. des Plantes, v. 2. 495, adopted by Mr. Kunth, 

 in Humboldt's Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. v. i. 137. We can- 

 not account for this adoption, there being nothing to recom- 

 mend the name. Happily the genus which it defignates is 

 Mr. Brown's Sporobolus. See that article. 



VILILLA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the pro- 

 vince of Aragon, on the left fide of the Ebro ; 27 miles 

 S.E. of Saragofla. 



VILKIOT, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Smaland ; 23 miles N.W. of Calmar. 



VILL, Villa. See Village. 



VILLA, a town of Etruria ; 13 miles S.S.E. of Pon- 



tremoli Alfo, a town of South America, in the province 



of Paraguay ; 90 miles E. of Affumption. — Alfo, a fmall 

 ifland in the Atlantic, near the coaft of Brafil. S. lat. 

 20° 9'. 



Villa, La, a town of New Grenada, on the Madalcna ; 

 16 miles N. of Neyba — Alfo, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Veragua, fituated on the river Veragua, with a 

 harbour fit to receive veffels of forty tons. 



Villa Bella, a town of Brafil, in the government of 

 Matto Gron"o. 



Villa Boa, a town of Brafil, and capital of the govern- 

 ment of Goyas ; 450 miles N.W. of Rio Janeiro. S. lat. 

 17°. W. long. 51° 24'. 



Villa Boim, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo ; 4 miles 

 S.W. of Elvas. 



Villa Bona, a town of Spain, in Guipufcoa, on the 

 Orio ; 6 miles from Tolofa. 



Villa do Carmo, a town of Brafil, in the government of 

 Minas Geraes ; 20 miles E.N.E. of Villa Rica. S. iat. 

 20° 20'. W. long. 44° 30'. 



Villa Cham, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Beira ; 1 1 miles E. of Coimbra. 



Villa Chan, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Entre Duero e Minho ; 5 miles N.W. of Barcelos. 



Villa Clara, a town of the ifland of Cuba ; 20 miles 

 N.W. of Spiritu Santo. 



Villa de Conde, a fea-port town of Portugal, in the pro- 

 vince of Entre Duero e Minho, fituated on the N. fide of 

 the river Aue ; 9 miles E.S.E. of Barcelos. N. lat. 

 41=23'. E. long. 8° 21'. 



Villa Diego, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, on the 

 Pifuerga ; 8 miles N.N.W. of Burgos. 



Villa Pallet, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Stura ; 5 miles N.N.W. of Coni. 



Villa Fauftini, in jincient Geography, a town of Great 

 Britain, in the fifth Iter of the route of Antonine, between 



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