URN 



U*ns of another kind were thofc which they called lachry- 

 males, or the tear-urns : thefe were contrived to receive the 

 tears of the friends of the deceafed, which were afterwards 

 mingled with the afhes of the burnt corpfe. Thefe were 

 made of various materials, and of various (hapes and fizes, 

 according to the fancy of particular people. Phil. Tranf. 

 N* 285. 



Urns, Fa/es, &c. in Ornamental Gardening, objefts ufed 

 for the purpofe of beauty in fome cafes of this fort of gar- 

 dening. It has been obferved by Mr. Loudon, in his work 

 on farming and improving country refidences, that thefe are 

 materials which fliould be introduced with caution ; and 

 that none of the others require fo much tafte and judgment 

 to manage them with propriety as urns, ftatues, bufts, mo- 

 numents, and infcriplions. The introduftion of ftatues, 

 except among works of the moft artificial kind, is feldom 

 or ever, it is faid, to be allowed; as when they ob- 

 trude themfelves among natural beauties, they always 

 difturb the train of ideas that ought to be excited in the 

 mind, and in general deftroy the charafter of the fcenery. 

 In the fame way, urns, bufts, monuments, and other fuch 

 figures, in flower-gardens, are, it is thought, quite mif- 

 placed, as may be felt in many fuch, by any pcrfon capable 

 of attending to his own mind, and who undcrftands the prin- 

 ciples of tafte. The obvious intention of fuch appendages 

 is, it is fuppofed, to recal to mind the virtues, qualities, or 

 aftions of thofe for whom they were erefted. Now, it is 

 faid, this requires time, feclufion, and undifturbed attention, 

 which muft either render all the flowers and other decora- 

 tions of the ornamental garden of no eff"eft ; or, if they have 

 effcdl, it can only be to interrupt the train of ideas excited 

 by the other. As the garden, and the produftions of na- 

 ture in it, are what are intended to intereft the Ipeftator, it 

 is plain, the writer thinks, that the others (hould not be in- 

 troduced. This reafoning, while on the one hand it fliews 

 the abfurdity of fuch a praftice, on the other, it is faid, 

 direfts that urns, monuments, and fuch like figures, fhould 

 only be placed in folitary and unfrequented parts, where the 

 mind is naturally led to contemplate, and where the remem- 

 brance of the virtvies of great men, or the worth of relations 

 now no more, afford proper fubjefts of contemplation. 

 But ^ven in places apparently folitary, or fecluded, thefe 

 have been introduced in fo afteded or improper a manner, 

 as to furnilh reafon, it is faid, for the greateft caution in 

 future. 



Though ftatues may fometimes come in well in fublime 

 produAions of architefture, they can feldom raifc any 

 fubhme emotion, when they become principal in any fcenery, 

 as when they are ufed among trees, flowers, or in (lirub- 

 bcries. If placed among fuch fcenery to be admired as 

 works of art, as fine pieces of fculpture, they will never, it 

 is faid, fufficiently intereft any but fuch contrafted con- 

 noifl^eurs as would not enjoy the other objeds, and would 

 much diftraft the attention of men of true tafte, as is the cale 

 with thofe in many places. 



Infcriptions, merely as fuch, it is faid, are in general def- 

 picable refources, and only indicate conceit and want of 

 mind. If the infcription be appofite, we are nuich better 

 pleafed to feel or recollect the coincidence on reading, it is 

 faid, than to be told it by others ; if it be foreign, or far 

 fetched, it argues a grofs defeft in thofe who placed it 

 there, and ferves to excite ridicule ; if it be merely a 

 whim or fancy, as where an urn or feat in a pleafurc- 

 ground exhibits in large letters fomething trifling, it is 

 difgufting. 



Urn, Urna, was alfo a Roman meafure for liquid things ; 



U R Q 



containing about three gallons and a half of Englifti wine 

 meafure. 



The urn was half the amphora, and four times the 

 congius. 



UROCRITERIUM, or Urocrisia, compounded of 

 ii(ov, urine, and xfnn^ioi, criterion, mark, fign, a cajiing of 

 water, or giving judgment on difeafes by the fight of water. 

 See Urine. 



Hence, alfo, uromancy, urofcopy, &c. 



UROGALLUS Major, in Ornithology. See Tetrao, 

 and alfo Cock of the Mountain, and Grouse. 



Urogallus Minor. See Tetrao, and alfo Grouse. 



UROMASTIX, in Zoology, a name ufed by fome au- 

 thors for that fort of hzard called cordylus. 



UROPIGIUM, in Ornithology, or rump, is that part of 

 birds which is furnilhed with two glands, fecreting a fattifli 

 liquor from an orifice in each, and which the birds exprefs 

 with their bills, in order to oil the difcompofed parts of their 

 feathers. 



UROS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Italy, in Ligu- 

 ria, W. of Cariftum. 



UROSPERMUM, in Botany, from otfa, a tail, and 

 o-TEf/ia, feed, a name which originated with Scopoli, and is 

 retained by .Juffieu for the Arnopogon of recent authors ; 

 fee that genus, defcribed at length, at the end of our article 

 Tragopogon. 



UROTAL, in Mythology, a name given among the Ara- 

 bians to Dionyfius, or Bacchus, under which appellation 

 they worftiipped the fun. See Voffius de Idol. 1. I. c. 8. 



UROTCHITSCHE Tasciiti, in Geography, a moun- 

 tain of RufGa, on the north coaft of the fea of Aral. N. 

 lat. 45° 30'. E. long. 60° 14'. 



UROV, a river of RufGa, which runs into the Argunia, 

 near Urovka. 



UROVKA, a town of Ruffia, on the Argunia, on the 

 borders of China; 120 miles E. of Stretenflf. 



VROW-FiSH, in Ichthyology, the name of a frefh-water 

 fifh of the malacoftomous, or, as we call it, the leather- 

 mouthed kind, caught in the lakes and rivers of Germany, 

 and efteemed a very delicate fifli. 



It is fomething like the Englifli rudd or finfcale, but its 

 body is fomewhat longer, in proportion to its breadth ; its 

 back is brown, and its belly yellow ; the belly-fins near the 

 anus are a httle reddifli, but all the reft are brown ; the fcales 

 are large and filvery, and the irifes of the eyes have each, in 

 their lower part, a blood-coloured fpot ; the tail is forked ; 

 and its ufua! fize is about feven or eight inches, though it is 

 fometimes caught confiderably larger. Willughby's Hift. 

 Pifc. p. 253. 



URPANUS, in Ancient Geography, a confiderable river 

 of Pannonia, which difcharged itfelf into the Danube. 



URPHA, in Geography. See OuRFA. 



URQUHART, aparifliin the fliire of Elgin, Scotland, 

 is fituated on the coaft of the Moray Firth, between the 

 rivers Loffie and Spey, and extends about four miles in 

 length, and three in breadth ; but contains no creek or land- 

 ing place of any knid. The north-weft part is flat, and the 

 foil fandy, rifing only a few feet above the level of the fea ; 

 and probably has been formerly inundated, as there are evi- 

 dent marks of the fea having receded from the coaft. The 

 remainder of the parifli is more elevated, and of an unequal 

 furface : the air is mild and falubrious ; the roads are in ex- 

 cellent repair ; and the church is in good condition. The 

 loch of Cotts, which is about a mile in circuit, contains pike 

 only ; it is frequented in winter by a great number of fwans ; 

 and in the fpring and autumn by vaft flocks of wild fowls. 



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