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detriment of any fair of older date in the vicinity : the 

 market-day is Monday, and here are now two fairs yearly, 

 for horfes, cattle, fheep, coarfe linen, homefpun cloth, &c. 

 This town has the privilege, by grant of 1 1 Henry VII. to 

 keep the (landards of weights and meafures for the county. 

 In the return of the year 1811, the population of Upping- 

 ham was ftated to be 1484, inhabiting 292 houfes. — Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. xii. Rutlandfhire. 



UPRIGHT, in /trchitedure, a reprefentation or draught 

 of the front of a building ; called alfo an elevation, or ortho- 

 graphy. 



Upright, in Heraldry, is ufed in refpeft of fhell-filhes, 

 as crevices, &c. when (landing ereft in a coat. Inafmuch 

 as they want fins, they cannot, according to Guillim, be 

 properly faid to be hauriar.l; that being a term appropriated 

 to fcaly fifhes. 



Upright, in Sea Language, the pofition of a fhip when 

 (he neither inclines to one fide nor to the other. Hence any 

 thing is faid to be upright when fquare with, or perpendicu- 

 lar to the keel. 



Ab the (hip when building lies with a declivity for the 

 purpofe of launching, it is evident that every thing within 

 her intended to be upright when a-float, mud be fet fqiiare 

 from the^nclination of the (hip. 



Upright, Cape, in Geography, a cape on the E. end of 

 Gore ifland, in the North Pacific ocean. N. lat. 60° 30'. 

 W. long. 172° 13'. — Alfo, a cape in the ftraits of Magel- 

 lan. S. lat. 53=6'. W. long. 75° 38'. 



Upright Bay, a bay near the weftern extremity of the 

 Straits of Magellan. S. lat. 53° 8'. W. long. 75° 35'. 



Upright Bent-Grafs, in Agriculture, a fort of this kind 

 of grafs, which is found, by the trials made .it Woburn 

 under the direftion of the duke of Bedford, to aftbrd at the 

 time the feed is ripe, on a foil of the boggy fort, upwards 

 of 7486 pounds weight of grafs upon the acre, which, 

 when dry, weighed more than 2713 pounds, and which loft 

 in the operation of drying about 4772 pounds. The quan- 

 tity of nutritive matter that is afforded by it, is about 175 

 pounds on the fame fpace of land. See Aguostis StriBa. 



It fcems not to he a grafs of any great value to the 

 farmer. 



Upright Perennial Broom-Grafs, a fort of this kind of 

 grafs, which has been found, at the time of flowering, on a 

 rich fandy foil, to produce 12,931, and rather more, pounds 

 of grafs on the acre, which weighed when dry about 5819 

 pounds, and wliich loft in drying 71 12 pounds and rathet 

 more. It is a grafs that affords nutritive matter about yyy 

 pounds on thi- fame fpace of ground. See Bkomu.s Ereffus. 



Upright Goofe-Grafs, a noxious weed of the perennial 

 kind, often met with in meadows and wet paftures, in dif- 

 ferent diftrifts and parts of the country. 



Upright Mat-Grafs, a kind of grafs, which, at the time 

 the feed is ripe, is found to produce, on the acre, 6125 ten 

 pounds, wliich weighs in the dry (late 2450 4, and which 

 lofcs in drying 3675 6 pounds. It affords 215 5 10 pounds 

 of nutritive matter on the fame fpace. See Nardus Sirifla. 



Upright Sea-Lyme Grafs, a fort of grafs, that, at the 

 time the feed is ripe, produces from the acre of clayey loam 

 foil 43,560 poiMids, which weigh when dry 24,502 8, and 

 which lofes by drying 18,957 8 pounds. The quantity 

 of nutritive matter afforded by the fame fpace of land, is 

 3403 pounds and rather more. See Elymu-s /Irenarius. 



Upright Screw Cheefe-Prefs. See Winding Screw 

 Cheefe-Prefs. 



UPSAL, or Upsala, in Geography, a city of Sweden, 

 in the province of Upland, fituated on an open plain fertile 

 in grain and pafture, is a (mall but neat town, containing, 



fays Coxe, exclufively of the ftudenls, 3poo inliabitante^ 

 The ground plot is very regular : it is divided into two al- 

 moft equal parts by the rivulet Sala, and the ftreets are 

 formed at right angles from a central kind of fquare. Some 

 of the houfes are built with brick, and ftuccoed ; but they are 

 generally conftruftcd with trunks, fmoothed into the (hape 

 of planks, and painted red, and the roofs are covered with 

 turf. Each hoiife has a fmall court-yard or garden. Old 

 Upfala is a place of high antiquity, and is fuppofcd to have 

 ftood at a fmall diftance from the fcite of the pvefent town. 

 In times of Pagan fuperftition it was much celebrated as the 

 principal place of facrifice, and as the rcfidence of the high 

 prieft of Odin. New Upfala is anterior to the foundatioa 

 of Stockholm, and is faid to have been a fuburb of Old 

 Upfala, and to have rifen on its ruins. Upfala was formerly 

 the metropolis of Sweden, and the royal refidence. Its 

 ancient palace, begun in 1549, by Guftavus Vafa, and com- 

 pleted by his fon Eric, was a fpacious and magnificent edi- 

 fice until the year 1702, when great part of it was confumed 

 by fire. What remains of it commands, on account of its ele- 

 vated (ituation, a fine profpeft of the adjacent country; and 

 its principal front, which has been repaired, is covered with 

 a red ftucco. Many traces are ftill left of its ancient fplen- 

 dour. The few remaining apartments in the ruined wing 

 are ufed as a common gaol. Under it are three dungeous, 

 formerly appropriated to the confinement of ftate-prifoners, 

 the moil remarkable of whom was count Svante Sture, of 

 an ancient family, which before the eleftion of Guftavut 

 Vafa liad the faireft prctenfions to the throne. The extinc- 

 tion of this family was owing to the madnefs of Eric, who, 

 in the year 1 567, murdered both count Svante and his fon 

 Nicholas. After this frantic and cruel deed, he wandered 

 about the woods in a ftate of remorfe and diftraftion, until 

 at lengtli, being difcovered by his wife, her prefence reftored 

 him to a temporary poffeffion of his underdanding. How- 

 ever he foon relapfed, and his government became fo odious, 

 that in the following year he was depofed by his two bro- 

 thers, and John afcended the throne. 



Upfala is an archiepifcopal fee, and one of the moft an- 

 cient Chriftian eftabh(hments in Sweden. The firft bifhop 

 was Everinus, an Englifhman, who in 1026 vifited Sweden, 

 at the requeft of king Olaus Scotkonung, to affift in con- 

 verting the natives of Old Upfala to Chriftianity. His fuc- 

 ceffors in the fee refided for the moft part at Sigtuna, until 

 tlie year 11 20, when Nicholas Ulphfon fixed the refidence 

 at Old Upfala. The firft archbifliop was Stephen, a native 

 of Eaft Gothland, and he was elevated to that dignity in 

 1164, and died in 1185. Falke, who was confecrated ia 

 1267, firft transferred the refidence to New Upfala, in the 

 year 1273. The firft Proteftant archbilhop was Laurentius 

 Petri of the province of Nerike, who in conjunftion with 

 his brother Olaus Petri firft preached the reformed doftrines 

 to the Swedes, and tranflated the Bible into his native tongue. 

 He died' in 1570. In the facriftary of the cathedral are 

 fcveral ancient relics ; one of which is a log of wood, carved 

 into a figure that rudely rcfembles a human head, called the 

 image of Thor, formerly wor(hipped in thefe parts, and to 

 whom human facrificcs were offered at Old Upfahi. The 

 kings of Sweden were formerly crowned in this catliedral ; 

 but the laft fovercign who was ina'igur.itcd at Uplala was 

 Ulrica Elconora. Upfala is celebrated for its uiiiverfity, 

 which is the moft ancient in Sweden. In 1246 Birgcr Jarl 

 eftabli(hcd a fchool at this place, and in 1478 Steno Sture, 

 lawadminiftrator of Sweden, laid tlic firft foundation of the 

 univerfity ; the plan of which had been formed, but not 

 executed, by Eric of Pomerania ; its regulations being mo- 

 delled after lliofc of Paris. The inftitulioii was continued 



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