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was paid ill the other Leeward idaiids. This appKcatioii 

 fucceeded ; and an affembly was convened Feb. i. 1774, 

 which honourably complied v.i':h their engagement to the 

 crown. They afterwards paffed a grant of 400/. currency 

 per annum, as their proportion towards the falary of the 

 governor-general. Such was the price at which the Virgin 

 iflands purchafed the eftablifhment of a conftitutional legif- 

 lature. The chief and almoft the only ftaple produftions 

 of thefe iflands are fugar and cotton. Thefe iflands lie in 

 about N. lat. 18° 20'; and the paffage through them is fafe, 

 at W. by N. and W.N.W. as far as to the W. end of the 

 fourth ifland. Edwards's Hift. of the Weft Indies, vol. i. 



Virgin Rods, rocks in the Atlantic, 60 miles S.E. of 

 Cape Race, on the coaft of Newfoundland. N. lat. 46° 20'. 

 W. long. 50°. 



VIRGINAL, is a keyed mufical inftrument of one 

 ftring, jack, and quill to each note, like a fpinet ; but in 

 fhape refeinbhng the prefent fmall piano-forte. It has been 

 imagined to have been invented in England during the reign 

 of queen Elizabeth, and to have been thus denominated in 

 honour of that virgin princefs ; but we have here not only 

 a proof of its ufe in this kingdom before (he was queen, but 

 a drawing and defcription of it appeared in Lufciiuus's 

 Mufurgia, before flie was born. Dr Johnfon imagines that 

 this inftrument had its name from being chiefly cultivated 

 by young ladies. 



ViRGlKAL-^Sooi of Queen Elizabeth. See Quees Eliza- 

 beth, and Bird. 



ViKGlf! Ah- Book of Lady Ne-vil. See Bird. 



For the firft mufic that was printed for the virginal, fee 

 Parthenia. 



VIRGINALE Claustrum, in Anatomy, the fame as 

 hymen. 



VIRGINES, Las, Bay of, in Geography, a bay on the 

 coaft of New Albion, between Cape Colne and Point Zuniga. 



VIRGINEUS Morbus, the Firgin's difeafe; the grecn- 

 ficknefs, or chlorofis. 



VIRGIN-GORDA,in Geography. See Spanish-Towb. 



VIRGINIA, one of the United States of America, 

 fituated between 36° 30' and 40° 43' N. lat., and 1° 40' E. 

 and 6° 20' W. long, from Wafliington ; and bounded on 

 the N. by Maryland, Pennfylvania, and Ohio ; on the S. 

 by North Carolina and Tenneflee ; on the E. by Maryland 

 and the Atlantic ocean ; and on the W. by Kentucky and 

 Ohio. Its extent from N. to S. is 220 miles, and from E. 

 to W. 370 miles ; and its area about 64,000 fquare miles, or 

 40,960,000 acres. The number of inhabitants, deduced from 

 the cenfusof 18 10, and ftated by Mr. Melifli, is 974,622, as 

 in the following 



Topographical T\>ble. 



700 



1500 



Rocking- 



