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viviparous flies ; the creature is always buzzing about the 

 places where meat is kept, and loves to depofit her youn^, 

 as the common blue flelh-fly does its eggs, on meat. Its 

 way of carrying its wings is the fame with that of the blue 

 fly, and its antennx are of the fame form. It at leaft equals 

 the blue fly in length, but its body is lefs thick, and is a 

 little bent at the hinder part ; its colour is grey ; its legs 

 are black ; its petty wings whitiih, and its reticular eyes 

 reddifh. 



There are, befide this fpecies, two other of the viviparous 

 flies, which are not uncommon. Both thefe, in a great mea- 

 fure, refemblc the former, but their bodies are ihorter, and, 

 in the whole, they much more than the other approach to 

 the form of the blue flefli-fly. They ari alio fmaller than 

 the former fpecies : the one of them, however, on the whole, 

 is not fo much fo, and, though fhorter, yet is much thicker 

 both in the corcelet and body. They are both, though 

 fmaller than that kind, yet tolerably large flies, and are 

 bigger than the common horfe-fly. 



On the leaves of ivy alfo there are often feen, about au- 

 tumn, two other fpecies of 'viviparous flies, which are eafily 

 diltinguiflied from all the others. Thofe of one of thefe 

 fpecies are larger than the great blue flelh-fly, and have a 

 fhorter and thicker body than that kind. The manner of 

 carrying the wings is alfo the fame in both ; but though 

 both have antennae of the battledore kind, yet they are 

 evidently diftinguifhed by this, that the extremities of the 

 one are lenticular, and thofe of the other prifmatic. Near 

 the origin of each wing thefe have a brownifli fpot, as have 

 thofe oviparous flies which ufually have ia their body only 

 two large eggs at a time, and which are produced of the 

 yellow worms, fo common in cow-dung. But thefe vivi- 

 parous ones differ from thofe flies, in that they are larger, 

 and of a deep, but dead brown ; whereas the others are 

 black, or nearly fo. 



The other fpecies is not much unlike this in form, 

 but is fmaller, being not more than of the bignefs of 

 the blue flefli-fly, and of a blueiih-black ; fo that it might 

 eafily be miftaken for one of the common flelli-flies, were 

 it not for the two brown fpots at the infertion of the 

 wings ; and both this and the former fpecies are plainly 

 diftinguifhed from the cow-dung fly before defcribed, by 

 their wanting the gold-coloured down which that has on 

 the fore-part of its head. Reaumur, Hift;. Infeft. vol. iv. 

 p. 405, feq. 



Vipers are diftinguiflied from fnakes, in that the latter lay 

 eggs in dunghills, to be hatched by the warmth of them ; but 

 the former are viviparous, that is, they keep their eggs 

 within their bellies, aud bring forth live vipers. 



In the PhilofopTiical Tranfaftions we have an account of 

 a viviparous fly of the oallrum or gad kind. Dr. Lifter 

 tells us, he opened- feveral females of this clafs, and found, 

 in each, two bags of live white worms. The hke is hinted 

 by Aldrovaiidus. Lifter even fufpefts, that all in this tribe 

 are, in fome meafiire, viviparous. 



ViviPAKOUs Slurp Fifcue Grafs, in Agriculture, a fort 

 which is found on the tops of high mountains, and which 

 is particularly worthy of the notice of the ftock-farmer, 

 as it is of a very nutritious quality for ftieep, and is faid to 

 abound in Spain, and to contribute in producing the fine 

 wool of that country. See Festuca and Grass. 



LT.IUM RAJAH Point, in Geography, a cape on the 

 north coaft of Sumatra. N. lat. 4° 58'. E. long. 96'' 31'. 



VIVO, ill ArchtteSure, the fhaft or fuft of a column. 



The term is alfo ufed, in a more particular fenfe, for the 

 naked of a column, or other part. 



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VIVOIN, in Geography, a town of France, in the de. 

 partment of the Sarte ; 14 miles N. of Le Mans. 



VIVONNE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Vier.ne ; 6 miles E. of Lufignan. 



VIVUM LiNUM. See Linum. 



VivuM Sulphur. See Sulphur. 



V'lX, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Vendee ; 6 miles S. of Fontenay le Comte. 



VIXEN, or FixEN, among Sport/men, denotes a fox's 

 cub. 



VIZ A, or BiziA, in Geography, a town of Romania; 

 50 miles W. of Adrianople. 



VIZAPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana ; i8 

 miles S.E. of Chandor. 



VIZARD, or VizoR. See Masque. 



VIZERABAD, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Lahore : 16 miles N. of Ameenabad. 



VIZERABY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Baglana 

 coiH-.try, celebrated for its hot fprings ; 20 miles N.E. of 

 Bafteen. 



VIZEROY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Ellore ; 10 miles N. of EUore. 



VIZIAMANGALUM, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Myfore ; 13 miles S.V/. of Erroad. 



VIZ I ANAGRAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir- 

 car of Cicacole ; 108 miles N.E. of Rajamundry. N. lat. 

 18° 5'. E. long. 83° 36'. 



VIZIANAGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Cicacole ; 33 miles W.S.W. of Ganjam. 



VIZIER. SeeVisiER. 



VIZILLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Ifcrc ; 7 miles S.S.E. of Grenoble. 



VIZINI, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Noto ; 20 

 miles N.W. of Syracufe. N. lat. 37° 2'. E. long. 14° 53'. 



UK, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Uda, 16 

 mili-s N. of Udinlk. 



UKDE, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen ; 

 8 miles S. of Abu-Arifch. 



UKELEY, a river of Brandenburgh, which runs into 

 the Rega, near Plate. 



UKENSKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Tobollk, at the conflux of the Irtifch and the Oby ; 196 

 miles N. of Tobollk. N. lat. ei'' 10'. E. long. 69° 14'. 



UKERATH, a town of the duchy of Berg. In 1796, 

 the Auftrians eftablilhed here a ftrong poft. 



UKIKITSCHA, a river of Ruflia, in the government 

 of Irkutfli, which runs into the Olenek, N. lat. 69° 20'. 

 E. long. 1 17^ 21'. 



UK INS KOI, a town of Ruflia, in the peninfula of 

 Kamtfchatka ; 80 miles N. of Niznei Kamtfchatlkoi. N. 

 lat. 57^55'. E. long. 160° 14'. — Alfo, a cape of Ruflia, 

 on the eaftern coaft of Kamtfchatka; 60 miles N.E. of 

 Udinflcoi. N. lat. 58° 36'. E. long. 162°. 



UKIPEN, a fmall illand in the North Pacific ocean, 

 fo called by the Ruffians, probably the fame with that called 

 Sledge ifland by Capt. Cook. N. lat. 64*^ 22'. E. long. 

 211°. 



UKKA3S, a town of Algiers ; 10 miles W. of Tipfa. 



UKLI KARAGAISKAIA, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in 

 the government of Upha ; ^6 miles W. of Troitfk. 



UKRAINE, a name given to a very fertile country, 

 fituated on both fides of the river Dnieper, and fo fertile, 

 that by the Poles it was always called the " Land of Milk 

 and Honey." It forms now a part of the Ruflian govern- 

 ment of Ekaterinoflav. See Cossacks. 



UKSA, a town of Ruflia, in the governmrnt of Viborg; 



44 miles 



