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USQUEBAUGH, a ftrong, rich, compound liquor, 

 chiefly taken by way of dram ; its bafis being brandy, or a 

 more ordinary fpirit. 



The manner of making it is fomewhat various, and the 

 ingredients numerous. We (hall give a receipt, much com- 

 mended formerly, as a fpecimen. 



To two gallons of brandy, or fpirits, put a pound of 

 Spanifh liquorice, half a pound of raifins of the fun, four 

 ounces of currants, three of dates, diced ; tops of thyme, 

 baum, favory, and mint, and tops or flowers of rofemary, 

 of each two ounces ; cinnamon and mace bruifed, nutmegs, 

 anifeeds, and coriander-feeds, bruifed likewife, of each four 

 ounces ; citron, or lemon and orange-peel, fcraped, of each 

 an ounce : all thefe are to be left to infufe forty -eight hours 

 in a warm place, often (haking them together ; then fet 

 them in a cool place, for a week ; after which, the clear 

 liquor is to be decanted ofi^, and to it is to be put an equal 

 quantity of net white port-wine, and a gallon of canary. 

 The whole is finally to be fweetened with a proper quantity 

 of double refined fugar. 



USRENUS, in jincient Geography, a river of Afia, in 

 Syria, which had its fource in a branch of mount Amanus, 

 and by a fouth-weft courfe difcharged itfelf into a lake, near 

 the gulf called Iflicus. 



USSAC, in the Materia Medica of the Arabians, a name 

 given by Serapio to the gum ammoniacum of the Greek 

 writers. It feems no other than a falfe fpelling of the word 

 ajfac, which is the common name of the gum in Avicenna, 

 and other of the writers of that nation ; but this does not 

 feem to be the fame drug, which we call gum ammoniacum 

 at this time. 



USSARA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Mauritania Csefarienfis, fituated in the vicinity of LamiJa. 



USSASI, or UssASYE, in Botany. Rumph. Amboiii. 

 V. 3. 60. t. 33. Poiret in Lamarck DiA. v. 8. 261. 

 This is a tree found in Ceram, and fome other fpice iflands, 

 but not in Amboyna. Its ftature equals the Lemon-tree. 

 Branches oppofite, crofling each other in pairs ; quadrangular 

 when young. Leaves oppofite, ftalked, ovate, acute, en- 

 tire, fingle-ribbed, from four to fix or feven inches long, 

 and the breadth of three or four fingers, nearly fmooth, of 

 an acid, not unpleafant, flavour, like that of an unripe 

 grape. Fruit lateral, felTile, irregularly ovate, or fome- 

 what globular, green, various in fize, with a thin tough 

 Ikin, inclofing a watery acidulous grateful pulp, full of 

 numerous thin flat feeds, hke thofe of a cucumber, or 

 gourd. The fmaller-fruited variety, perhaps a diltinft 

 ipecies, has a firmer pulp, with only four or five feeds. 

 Both kinds raife the bafe of the Jlem, upon forked roots, 

 high out of the ground. Nothing is known of the parts of 

 the Jloiiier, nor indeed of the true llriifture of the /;•;/;'/, 

 by which thefe plants could be fcientifically defcribed or 

 claiTed. 



USSASSYR, in Geography, one of the Kurile iflands, 

 which lies 17 verlls from RaiTagu, and in length and breadtli 

 may be 25 verftr. each. It confids properly of two iflands 

 lying clofe together, compofed of confiderable rocks and 

 chffs. Opening to the fouth is a round bay, in the fliape 

 of a kettle encompafled with hills, where the ftrand is 

 fandy ; and along it, as well as on the fea-ihore, runs a 

 fource of almofl. hot water, and not far from it another. 

 Here too are fome fpouts^ running ilrong, and throwing 

 the water to a confiderable height in the air. In many 

 places are perceived chaps and chafms in the earth, 100 fa- 

 thoms in length, and fometimes more. Near the great 

 fpout the fl>ore is fteep and high, producing large lumps of 

 fulphur and falmiak, which partly fall down, and partly 



are collefted there. In other refpefts, the ifland is Kke 

 Rajfagu ; which fee. 



USSEL, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftrift, in the department of the Correze ; 32 miles E.N.E. 

 of Uzerches. N. lat. 45° 33'. E. long. 2° 23'. 



USSES, a river of France, which runs into the Rh6ne, 

 near Seiflel. 



USSETA, a town of the ftate of Georgia ; 160 miles 

 W.S.W. of Augufta. 



USSITERNA, a town of Servia ; 24 miles W. of 

 Piftrina. 



USSITZA, a town of Servia ; 32 miles W.N.W. of 

 Novibafar. 



USSON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Puy-de-Dome ; 16 miles W. of Ambert. — Alfo, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Vienne ; 12 miles N.E. of 

 Civray. 



USSORA, a river of Bofnia, which runs into the river 

 Bofna ; 32 miles N. of Serajo. 



USSUBUM, in Ancient Geogrjphy, a place marked in 

 the Itin. of Anton, on the route from Bourdeaux to Agen, 

 between Sarione and Fines. 



USSUI, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the iiland of 

 Niphon ; 86 miles N.W. of Jedo. 



USTAK, a town of Natolia ; 22 miles N. of 

 Karahifin. 



USTARITZ, a town of France, and principal place 

 of a diftrift, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees; 

 48 miles W. of Pau. N. lat. 43=" 23'. W. long. 

 I^ 23'. 



USTAYANTHO, a lake of New York, from which 

 the river Delaware takes its rife. 



USTCHOTZKOI, three iflands on the weft coaft of 

 Kamtfchatka. N. lat. 57° 10'. E. long. 156' 14'. 



U6TERIA, in Botany, fo named by Willdenow, in 

 honour of Dr. Paul Uiferi, of Zurich, member of feveral 

 learned academies, as well as of the legiflative body of his 

 own country, and well known by his very ufeful periodical 

 compilation, entitled Anna/en der Botanici, as well as by the 

 Alagazin fur die Botanik, edited by Romer and himfelf. 

 Thefe works extend to many odf avo volumes, and have been 

 eminently ferviceable to German readers, in making them 

 acquainted with fome of the moft valuable and expenfive 

 botanical publications of other countries, at a cheap rate ; 

 feveral of fuch works being copied entire in thefe volumes. 

 Willd. in Rom. and Ull. Mag. fafc. 8. 151, without a name. 

 Aft. Soc. Berol. v. 10. 52. t. 2. Schreb. Gen. 782. 

 WiUd. Sp. PI. V. I. iS. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. 4. Afzel. 

 Gen. PI. Gnineens. part i. i — 11, with a figure. — Ciafs 

 and order, Monamlria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Ruliiaceit, 

 Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. CaL Perianth inferior, of one leaf, four-cleft, 

 permanent ; the three inner fegments minute, clofe-prefled, 

 acute ; the outer one very large, petal-like, horizontal, 

 linear-lanceolate, very blunt. Cor. of one petal, falver- 

 fliaped, deciduous ; tube narrow, cylindrical, twice the 

 length of the longeft fegnient of the calyx : limb in four 

 deep, lanceolate, acute, unequal fegments, rather turned to 

 one fide. Stam. Filament folitary, fliort, tapering, inferted 

 into the m,irgin of the tube, between the two larger feg- 

 ments of the limb ; anther prominent, arrow-fliaped, vcrfa- 

 tile, of two oblong diverging cells. Pijl. Germen fuperior, 

 ovate-conical ; fl;yle thread-ftiaped, longer than the tube of 

 the corolla ; fligma quite fimple, flightly corrugated. Peric. 

 Capfule ovate -oblong, comprefled, with two furrows, two, 

 partly cloven, concave valves, and two cells, the partition 

 tranfverfe, double, from the infl?xed parallel margins of the 



valves, 



