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remarkable either for ftrufture orembellifhments. Here are 

 fevei-al mceting-lioufcs for Diffenters ; and a frec-fchool 

 founded and endowed by Thomas Allen, a diftingiiifhed an- 

 tiquary and mathematician of the fixteenth century. The 

 late admiral lord Gardner was born at Uttoxeter, April 

 12, 1742 : he died in 18 10, and was buried in the abbey 

 church of Bath. — Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xiii. 

 1813. 



UTUGARI, in yinctent Geography, the name of a 

 people, who made part of the Huns. Ptolemy. 



UTUS, a river, whieh, according to Pliny, had its 

 fourcc in mount Hasmus, and watered Moefia. — Alfo, a 

 town of Datia Ripenfis. Anton. Itin. 



UTZHOF, in Geography, a town in the territory o 

 Dantzic ; 5 miles E. of Dantzic. 



UTZNACH, a town of Switzerland, and capital of a 

 bailiwick, which belongs to the cantons of Glaris and 

 Schwitz, formerly belonging to the counts of Toggeburg. 

 In the year 1469, it was fold to thofe two cantons, who 

 alternately appoint a baiUff, whofe office continues two 

 years. The inhabitants are Roman Catholics ; 23 miles 

 S.E. of Zurich. N. lat. 47° 8'. E. long. 8" 59'. 



UVA, a lake of Ruffia, in the government of Tobolflc, 

 about 28 miles in circumference; 68 miles S.E. of To- 

 bolflc. 



UvA, Grape. See Vine. 



lTv.\ Gruina, in the Materia Medica, the nanr.e of the 

 fruit of the great American vitis iJaa, or cranberries. 



UvA Lupina, "jjolf -berries , in Botany, a name given by 

 fome authors to the common water-elder, and by others to 

 the herba Paris, or herb true-love. 



UvA Marina, Sea-fide Grape, Uvette of the French. 

 See Ei'HKDRA. 



UvA Pajfa, in the Materia Medica, the dried fruit oF 

 the vine, of which two kinds were formerly mentioned in 

 our Pharmacopoeias, -viz. uvje pafls majores et minores, or 

 raifms and currants ; the latter is a variety of the former, or 

 the fruit of the vitis corinthiaca feu apyrena, of C. B. 

 The manner of preparing them is by immerfing them in a 

 folution of alkaline fait, and foap ley made boiUng hot, to 

 which is added fome ohve oil and a fmall quantity of com- 

 mon fait, and afterwards drying them in the (hade. Thefe 

 fruits are ufed as agreeable lubricating acefccnt fwcets, in 

 peftoral dccoAions, and for obtunding the acrimony of 

 other medicines, and rendering them grateful to the palate 

 and ilomach. They are dircAcd in the dccoftum hordei 

 compofitum, tinftura fennse, and tinftura cardamomi com- 

 pofita. 



UvA Querctit, in Natural Hiftory, a name given to certain 

 accidental produftions of the oak, a tree famous for pro- 

 ducing many fuch, befides its common fruit ; the beft ac- 

 count we have of this in particular is from Mr. Marchant. 

 He obfervcd a vail quantity of this produftion upon an oak 

 of about twelve feet high ; this tree had no acorns, but there 

 hung from almoft all the branches a great number of greyifh 

 threads, of two inches or more in length, and of a filky 

 flexible matter ; to feveral parts of thefe there were fixed 

 certain round berries, fometimes two or three, fometimes 

 ten or twelve on a thread ; thefe were of the fize of a half- 

 ripe red goofeberry, but they had no umbilicus, nor any 

 appearance of fibres ; they were hard and not hollow, but 

 tilled with a cottony matter, very clofely compafled. The 

 threads on which thefe berries were produced all grew out 

 of the ahe of the leaves, in the very places where the buds 

 of the rudiments of young branches {hould have come ; and 

 over thefe filaments there were often a few fmall leave), of 

 the regular (hapc of the oak-leaf. 



It is generally aflerted, that there are eggs of infects 

 lodged in all thefe extraordinary produftions of the oak, 

 which are fuppofed to be produced by a wrong derivation 

 of the juices, occafioned by the puniiure of the fly which 

 leaves thofe eggs ; but the moll accurate fearch could not 

 difcovcr the leaft appearance of any animal remains in any 

 part of thefe produdlions, neither in the berries, nor in the 

 threads that fupport them. 



There is another fpecies of this remarkable produftion, 

 differing from the former, by not having the long threads 

 on which the berries of that are fupported : this, nowever, 

 has been confounded by the generality of naturalifts under 

 the fame name, and of this Mr. Marchant has given an 

 equally accurate defcription. In the month of Oftober he 

 obferved a young oak of about fix feet high, in a coppice- 

 wood, in a very flourifhing condition, very full of branches 

 and leaves, but without fruit. The young branches of this 

 oak were loaded with clufters of red berries, of the (hape 

 and fize of common red goofeberries ; they ftood principally 

 at or near the extremities of the branches, and were of a 

 very poUfhcd and fhining furface, and of a fpongy and 

 tender fubflance. They Hood in chillers of three, four, and 

 five together, and each grew immediately to the branch, 

 without any pedicle ; they had fome appearance of fibres, 

 but not the leaft mark of an umbilicus, as in the regidar 

 fruits. On opening thefe berries, they were found full of 

 mucilaginous and vifcous juice, of a red colour, tolerably 

 fluid, and having fome fibres intermingled with it ; the tafte 

 of this juice was acrid, and its fmell difagrceable, and like 

 that of rotten wood ; but there appeared not in thefe, any 

 more than in the other fpecies, any the Icafl. appearance of 

 any thing belonging to an animal, no egg, no worm, no fly, 

 nor indeed any foreign body of any fort whatever, 



Thefe berries, though fo large and fucculent, are but of 

 a very (hort duration ; for Mr. Marchant going three day» 

 after he had feen them in the greatell perfedlion, to gather 

 fome of them, with intent to try their juice on different 

 liquors, found they were all become flaccid and withered ; 

 and returning again three days after this, they were fo en- 

 tirely perifhed and gone, that there remained only a few 

 reftiges of thin fliins on the places where they had been fixed 

 to the tree, and fome few fallen ones among the bufhes that 

 grew under the tree ; and upon inquiring of the people who 

 lived thereabout, to know whether thefe berries were a re- 

 gular annual produftion of the tree, they told him that they 

 never remembered to have feen any tiling of the kind 

 before. 



It may not be eafy, perhaps, to account regularly for thefe 

 fortuitous produftions, for they feem merely of the nature 

 of monfters among animals ; and it may be allowed no im- 

 probable conjefture in regard to them, that the roots of 

 thefe fmall trees having taken in more nourifhment than they 

 could circulate, when it came to load the tender extremities 

 of the young branches, may have made its way through 

 their laxer texture, and being retained yet in fome of tlicir 

 membranes, may have fwcllcd out more and more, by the 

 addition of frcfh matter, and finally have been matured by 

 the fun's heat into thefe feemingly regular produftions. 

 Mem. Acad. Par. 1692. 



UvA Urji, in Botany, the name of a fpecies of arbutus, 

 (fee Akbutus, n. 9.) with trailing ftalks, and entire leaves, 

 called in Englifh bear's luhorlleberry. Tliis plant is found 

 on the fnowy hills of Auftria and Styria, but more plenti- 

 fully on the Swcdifli hills : it is alfo a native of the High- 

 lands of Scotland, and is now cultivated in fome of our 

 gardens. The leaves of this plant have a bitterifh aftringcnl 

 tafte, without any remarkable fmell. Infufions of tbini in 

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