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extent ; one of whick, under a promontory of the hill of 

 Saxaforth, penetrates at lead 300 feet under ground. In 

 general, the foil is tolerably fertile, even under the word 

 modes of culture ; and the paihire -grounds are moflly co- 

 vered with a rtiort tender heath, which affords excellent 

 feeding for (heep, of which about 7000 are kept here, with 

 about 2000 cows, and 1000 horfes. Hogs are alfo fed in 

 great numbers ; and rabbits are very abundant. Fiftiing is 

 an important branch of the induftry of the inhabitants, and 

 about eighty tons of cured tirti are annually exported. Unll 



abounds in iron-flone, and pofTefTes many large veins of Calyx of five leaves, fimple 



Ihaped, in iive equal fegments ; thofe of the radius fiTC, or 

 more, female, fmall, lanceolate. Slam. Filaments, in the 

 florets of the diflc, five, capillary ; anthers united into a pen- 

 tagonal tube, rather longer than the corolla. Ptjl. in the 

 fame florets imperfeft ; in thofe of the radius, Germen 

 ovate ; ftyle fimple ; ftigma cloven. Perk, none, except 

 the permanent calyx. Seeds in the circumference only, 

 ovate, abrupt, hard, without any feed-down, or crown. 

 Rccepl. naked, flat. 



Eir. Ch. Receptacle naked, flat. Seed-down none. 



jafper : rock-cryftals have fometimes been found, and free 

 ilone is abundant. The parifh-church, which was built in 

 1764, ftandsat a place called Balcalla, at the diftance of three 

 miles from the minillcr's refidence. Formerly there were 

 twenty-four chapels on the idand, the remains of which may 

 ftill be dillinftly traced. Unil conftitutes aparifh ofitfelf ; 

 and according to the return of the year 181 1, contains a 

 population of 2288, occupying 385 houfes. Here is no 

 poft-office ; the only office in Shetland is forty miles diftant 

 from hence : fo that, from its remote fituation, and its little in- 

 tercourfe, efpecially during winter, with the mother coun- 

 try, the inhabitants of Unft are frequently ftrangers, for 

 many weeks, to t!ie greatefl national occurrences. In this 

 ifland, the longeft day is nineteen hours fifteen minutes, and 

 confequently, the fhorteft day is four hours forty-five 



minutes Beauties of Scotland, vol. v. Shetland, 1808. 



Gazetteer of Scotland, 1806. Carlifle's Topographical 

 Diftionary of Scotland, 1813. 



UNSTRUT, a river which rifes four miles W. of Din- 

 gcllladt, in the territory of Eichsfeld, and joins the Saal, 

 about two miles N. of Naumburg. 



UNSUMMED, a term ufed by falconers for a hawk's 

 feathers before they have arrived at their full length. 



UNTERART, or Art, in Geography, a town of 

 Switzerla?id, in tlie canton of Schwitz, at the fouthern ex- 

 tremity of the lake of Zug ; 7 miles N. of Schwitz. 



UNTERBIRG, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland ; 

 1 mile S. of Plaucn. 



UNTERMDORFF, a town of Auftria ; 6 miles N. 

 of Aggfpach. 



UNTERSEE, a lake in the duchy of Carinthia ; 10 

 miles W. of Velach. 



UNTERSEEN, a town of the duchy of Holftein ; 

 5 miles N.W. of Pinnenbcrg. — Alfo, a town of Switzer- 

 land, in the canton of Berne, purchaf -d of the counts of 

 Hohenzollern. This town is lituated between the lakes of 

 Brientz and Thnn ; 26 miles S.E. of Berne. 



UNTOORAH, a town of Hindoollan, in Goondwana ; 

 60 miles W. of Nagpour. 



UNTZINA, a t,>wn of Walachia ; 30 miles N.E. of 

 Bucharell. 



UNUCA, in /tnc'tenl Geography, a town of Africa Pro- 

 pria, upon the route from Carthage to Cxfarea, between 

 Carthage and Sieihbra. Anton. Itin. 



UNlIN(iE, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Upland ; 2S mile:; E. of Upfal. 



UNXIA, in Botany, from ungo, iinxi, to anoint, becaufe 

 of its falve-like oclonr, and its external, as well as internal, 

 ufe as a fidorific — Linn. Supjil 56. Schreb. Gen. 554. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 2339. Mart. Mill. Did. v. 4. Jufl'. 

 186. Lamarck Illullr. t. 699. Ga;rtn. v. 2. 421. — Clafs 

 and Older, Syngenejia Polygam'ui-necejfaria. Nat. Ord. Com- 

 poftlre oppojilifoliie, l.mn. Corymbijera, .lulf. 



Gen. Cli. Common Calyx roundifh, of five ovate, nearly 

 equal, concave leaves, in a fimple row. Cor. compound, 

 radiated ; florets of the dillc live, or more, male, funnel- 



Obf. Schreber was led by the difagreement between the 

 defcription of this genus, and the place allotted to it by 

 Linnaeus in his fyftem, to make fome correftions, without 

 feeing the plant. The above, taken from the original fpe- 

 cimen, will be found nearer the truth. Unxia, in fact, 

 belongs, as truly as Calendula, to the order of Polygamia- 

 necejfaria, the florets of the diflc having no more of a gcr- 

 men than is neceffary to fcrve as a partial llalk. 



I. L'^. camphorata. Camphorated Balfam-weed. Linn. 



Suppl. 368. Willd. n. 1 Leaves lanceolate. Young 



branches downy. — Gathered by Dahlberg, in fandy fitua- 

 tions in Surinam, where it goes by the name of Camphcrl- 

 plant, being remarkable for a ftrong camphor-like fmell. A 

 watery decoftion of this herb, taken internally, is elleemcd 

 an excellent and powerful fudorific, in the obilinate lumbago 

 which prevails at Surinam. The dry plant, applied out- 

 wardly, is fuppofed ufeful in reftoring perfpiration. The 

 root is probably annual. Stem herbaceous, two feet high, 

 round, (lender, (Iriated, forked ; the young branches 

 fhaggy, with foft hairs. Leaves oppofite at each fork of 

 the item, fefiile, lanceolate, an inch and a half long, fparingly 

 toothed, five-ribbed, clothed on both fides with foft hoary" 

 hairs. Flowers from the forks of the item, moilly fohtary, 

 on hairy llalks of various lengths. Calyx the fize of a pea, 

 nearly fmooth. Corolla yellow. Seeds tumid, angular, half 

 the length of the calyx, of a pale grey. Lamarck's figure 

 is ttie only one extant of this genus, and is fufficiently ex- 

 preffive of the original fpecies here defcribed. Witii the 

 following we are unacquainted. 



2. U. hirfnta. Hairy Balfam-weed. Richard Acles dc 

 la Soc. d'Hilf. Nat.de Paris, v. i. 112. (not 105.) Willd. 

 n. 2. — " Leaves oblong, fomewhat heart-fhaped, hairy. 

 Stem villous." — Native of Cayenne. This is faid to be ex- 

 tremely hairy in every part. Leaves bluiitifh, iomewhat 

 ovate. Florets numerous. Root annual. 



Tile habit and characters of Unxia approach EtLin'A i 

 fee that article. 



UNZA, in Geography, a town of RufTia, in the govern- 

 ment of Koftrom ; and capital of a province on a river of 

 the fame name ; 92 miles E.N.E. of KoltrDin. N. lat. 57'' 

 56'. E. long. 44° 14'. — Alfo, a province of Ruffia, form- 

 ing a part, and the largell part, of the government of Kof- 

 trom, 160 miles in length, and from 80 to 112 in breadth ; 

 bounded on the north by the government of Vnhnnia, on the 

 eafl by 'the government of Viatka, on the foiitli by the go- 

 vernment of Nizegorod, and on the weif by the province of 

 Koflrom. — Alio, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the 

 Volga, near Jurev PovoUkoi, in tiie government of 

 Kollrom. 



VOAM-TCHIM HoTu.v, a town of Corca ; 642 

 miles E.N.E. of Peking. N. lat. 43° 3'. E. long. 

 129^44'. 



VOAN-TSUSEN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 

 in Pe-tciie-li ; 22 mihs N.N.W. of Sueu-hoa. 



VOARCHADUMIA, a Idnd of cabala, or enigmatic 



art relative to metals, which propofes the exaltation of gold 



3 H 2 by 



