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VINDICTA, ;imong the Romans, the prstor's rod or 

 fwitch, with which he touched a flave's head when he was 

 onfranchifed. 



VINDINATES, in Jnc'unt Geography, a people of 

 Italy, in Umbria. 



VINDINUM, a town of Gallia Lyonnenfis, belonging 

 to the Aulerci or Cenomani. Ptol. — Alfo, a town of Italy, 

 in Unnbria. 



VINDIUS or VlNN'lUS Mcins, one of the mod confi- 

 derable mountains in Hifpania Citerior, according to Pto- 

 lemy and Florus. The name is applicable to tlie chain of 

 mountains which, detaching itfelf from the Pyrenees, tra- 

 verfes Bifcay and the Afturias, and forms, at the entrance 

 of Galicia, two branches, one extending itfelf to Cape Fi- 

 niften-e, and the other, turning to the S., traverfes the coun- 

 try of the ancient Bracares. 



ViNDius Mom, a mountain of India, on this fide of the 

 Ganges. Ptol. It extends from the S.W. to the N.E., 

 S. of the country called Sandrabatis. ' 



VINDO, a river of Germany. See Vindelicia. 

 VINDOBONA, Vienna in Aujlna, a town of Superior 

 Pannonia, fix miles from Cetium, according to the tables of 

 Peutinger. It is marked in the Itinerary of Antonine upon 

 the route from Sirmium to Treves, between Motanum and 

 Comagenes. 



VINDOGLADIA, Vindugladia, or V'mdocladia, a 

 town of Great Britain, in the 1 2th Iter of Antonine, on 

 the route from Calkva to Uriconium, between Sorbiodunum 

 (Old Sarum) and Durnovaria (Dorchefter) ; fuppofed to 

 be near Cranburn. Dr. Stukeley traced the Roman road 

 all the way from Old Sarum, for 13 miles, to near Borof- 

 ton, where he places Vindocladia. 



VINDOMAGUS, one of two towns mentioned by Pto- 

 lemy, as belonging to the Volcac Arecomici : the other 

 being Nemaufus. Although the precife fituation of Vindo- 

 magus is not certainly known, the prefumption lies in favour 

 of Vigan, becaufe it affords many monuments of antiquity, 

 and has been mentioned under the name of Vicanus for 600 

 or 700 years. It is in the fame parallel with Nimes, and 

 only about half a degree differing in longitude, and corre- 

 fponds in a variety of refpefts to the place marked out by 

 Ptolemy. 



VINDOMIS, ViNDOMUM, or Vindomum, a town of 

 Great Britain, in the 12th Iter of Antonine, on the route 

 from Callcva to Uriconium, between Calleva (Silchelter) 

 and Venta Belgarum ( Wiiicheller). If Mr. Horfley has 

 rightly placed Calleva at Silchefter, it is probable that he 

 has fixed juftly on the fcite of Vindonis at Farnham. 



VINDOMORA, a town of Great Britain, in the ift 

 Iter of Antonine, on the route from the limit, vallum or 

 wall to Prxtorium (Broughton), between Corllopitum 

 (Cowbridge) and Vinovia (Binchefter). The fituation of 

 this place, fixed at Ebchefter, is evidently miftaken by Gale 

 and Camden, the former fixing it at Dolande, within lefs 

 than five miles of Cowbridge, and the other at Wall's-End, 

 which is altogether out of the way of this Iter, that pro- 

 ceeds from N. to S. along the famous military road called 

 Watling-ftrcet. See Hordcy's Brit. Rom. p. 396. 



VINDONISSA, the Ration of the 2 1 11 legion, accord- 

 ing to Tacitus, the pofition of which unites many Roman 

 ways. The diflance marked xxii in the Tlicodofian table, 

 with refpcft to Augulla Rauracorum, is more fuitable than 

 tftat of xxvii in the Itinerary of Antonine. VindonifTa is 

 named Viiido in a panegyric of Conftantine by Eumenes ; 

 and Caftruin Vindoiiidenfc in the notitia of the provinces 

 of Gaul lies in Maxima Sequanorum. This town had 

 been an cpifcopal fee ; but having been ruined towards the 

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end of the fixtji century, or the commencement of llic 

 feventh, this bifhopric became that of Condance, and 

 Mayence was recognifed as the metropolis, although Vindo- 

 nifla, included in the Sequanois, fhould have acknow- 

 ledged Befan^on under this dignity. The place which it 

 occupied upon the bank of the Rufs, near its junftion with 

 the Aar, is denominated Windifch. 



VINE, in Botany and Gardening. See ViTls. 

 It is faid that vines were firft planted about the rivers 

 Rhine, Maine, and Mofelle, and alfo in Hungary, and the 

 northern part of Gaul, abbut the year 276. But with rc- 

 fpe6t to the provinces of Gaul and Spain, which border on 

 the Mediterranean fea, as well as to Italy, many are of opi- 

 nion that vines grew fpontaneoufly there. Julius Csefar 

 found vines growing in Gallia Narbonnenfis, /. e. Languedoc 

 and Provence ; and Strabo remarks, that the faid province 

 produced all the kinds of fruit which Italy afforded. The 

 Phoenicians are faid in early times to have planted vines in the 

 ifles of the Mediterranean fea, as well as in feveral parts of 

 the continent both of Europe and Africa. It appears that 

 there were real vineyards in England in 1140 and 1230. 

 And. Com. vol. i. p. 16, and p. 81. 



Vine, Black. See Tournefortia Volubilis. 

 Vine, Climbing Jive-leaved, of Canada, a fpecies of Hc- 

 dera ; which fee. 



Vine, Spanifh Arbor, a fpecies of Jpomtea; which fee. 

 Vine, JVild, or White Fine. See Cissus Sicyoides, and 

 Acida. 



Vine, Culture of, in the Field or open Ground, in Rural 

 Ecmomy, the growth and management of it in fuch fitua- 

 tions for the ufe of the grapes in making wine. It would 

 feem probable that the cultivation of this plant might be 

 condufted with advantage in this intention, in many fituations 

 in the fouthern parts of this country ; efpecially as feme of 

 them are well known to be nearly within the vinous latitude, 

 which is found to extend between the twenty-fifth and fifty- 

 firft degree in the northern hemifphere : and, as in Germany, 

 it is found by experience, that all fuch vineyards as are 

 fituated within the latter of thefe limits, are capable of being 

 cultivated with confiderable profit ; though where they 

 flretch much beyond it, their fuccefs is extremely doubt- 

 ful. Proper cultivation and management are, therefore, 

 all which appear neceffary in raifing crops of this fort. 



In fpeakiiig of the means of eftablifhing vineyards in 

 this country, Mr. Speechly has remarked, in his ufeful 

 work on the fubjeft, that there are four things which ought 

 to be materially confidered ; namely, the fituation ; the 

 foil ; the kinds of vines which are the mod fit and proper 

 to be planted ; and the mode of their management. 



In regard to the firft, it is faid that an elevated fituation, 

 where there is a gentle declivity to the fouth or fouth-caft, 

 is efteemed preferable to low grounds, which are generally 

 fubjeft to damps and fpring-frofls, even at times when the 

 adjoining high grounds arc entirely free from both. Vine- 

 yards or grounds of this kind, too, (hould be well pro- 

 tefted and flieltercd to the north, as well as to the iiorth-wcft 

 and north-eaft. In a hilly country there are generally many 

 favourable fpots, where nature has given important advan- 

 tages, and which (hould be ftill further improved by art for 

 this purpofe. Plantations of foreft -trees, judicioufly formed, 

 would, it is fuppofed, contribute much to give w.Trmth and 

 flicker ; but thefe fhould not be placed too near the vine- 

 yards, fo as to confine the air, as that would prove very 

 injurious to them. 



In wine countries it is well known, that vineyards are 



often not only confined to gentle declivities, but that 



they are frequently formed on Hopes, on the fides of 



C c hills 



