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the fee of a birtiop ; near k is a medicinal fpring, and a little 

 below the bilhop's palace is a fpring which fupplies the aque- 

 dua of Nifmes; 12 miles N. of Nifmes. N. lat. 44° 1'. 

 E. long. 4° 30'. 



UzEs, called alfo Rumanians or Polootzes, in Jncient 

 Geography, are mentioned both by Herodotus and Strabo. 

 At the period when hiftory records their aftivity as a nation, 

 (A.D. 883,) that is, when, in conjunftion with the Kha- 

 zares, they drove the Petfchenegrans from their homefteads, 

 they had already extended themfelvewrpVom Alhava toward 

 the mountains of Kitzig-tag, as far as the nether Volga. 

 They now took the countries of the expelled Petfchenegrans 

 into pofleflion, and one of their ftems feized the occupancy 

 of the original abodes of the Khazares (fee Khazares), on 

 the weftern fide of the Volga and the Cafpian as far as Der- 

 bent. In the eleventh century, they fpread into the eaftern 

 parts of Europe. They wrelled from the Petfchenegrans 

 almoft all which they had hitherto pofTefied in that quarter 

 of the globe, particularly the Krim, the countries between 

 the Don and the Dnieper, with Moldavia and Walachia. 

 After they had continued their ravages for a long time in 

 Bulgaria, Thrace, Tranfylvania, and Hungary, and were in a 

 great meafure brought to ruin, they at laft fettled in Hun- 

 gary. Towards the end of the eleventh century, they cap- 

 tured the north-eaftern part of the Kuban from the Ruf- 

 fians, who were at that time torn to pieces by inteftine 

 dilTentions. In the former half of the thirteenth century, 

 they loft by the Tfhingifes, Moldavia, Valachia, and the Krim. 

 In the year 1392, the Kumanians were numbered among the 

 nations which belong to the ftate of Hungary ; but from 



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that time they ceafe to be an hiftorical nation. The Petf- 

 chenegrans above mentioned, named by themfelves Kengar or 

 Kengli, were a powerful wandering nation on the rivers 

 Volga and Ural. They became firft known in Europe by 

 their marches into the Khazarian empire in 839, and by 

 their wars in 867 with the Slavonians, a little time before 

 made tributary to the Khazares. Driven from their feats by 

 the Uzes and Khazares, they made themfelves matters of the 

 country between the Don and the Dniefter, and expelled 

 thence the Hungarians fubjeft to the Khazares. In the ele- 

 venth century, they migrated towards Moravia, Bulgaria, 

 and Thrace, and eftabhihed themfelves, after committing 

 frequent ravages, in the countries of the Eaft Romans in 

 Dardania and the leiTer Scythia. At the clofe of the twelfth 

 century, they pofTetred a part of Tranfylvania, and about 

 that time they gradually vanifhed out of hiftory. Tooke's 

 Ruffia, vol. i. 



UZETTE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Gironde ; 6 miles W. of Bazas. 



UZIFIR, Uzi'FAR, or UziFUR, in Chemijlry, a name 

 which fome authors give to cinnabar. 



UZITA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Propria, 

 S. of Adrumetum. Ptolemy. 



UZKUND, in G^o^^ra/Z^. See Urkend. 



UZMEY, a diftriA of Dagheftan, fituated between 

 two fmall rivers, extending about 60 verfts along the 

 Cafpian, and about the fame diftance in breadth. See Da- 

 gestan. 



UZNEK, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adir- 

 beitzaii ; 10 miles S. of Selmas. 



w. 



w 



w 



A letter peculiar to the northern languages and 

 J people ; as the Englifti, Dutch, Pohfti, and others 

 of Teutonic and Sclavonic original. 



The form and the found of nu are excluded from all the 

 languages derived from the Latin ; though it is not impro- 

 bable, fays Dr. Johnfon, that by our w is expreffed the 

 found of the Roman v, and Eolic f. However, the iv is 

 fometimes admitted into the French, Italian, &c. in proper 

 names, and other terms borrowed from the languages in 

 which it is originally ufed. 



In Englifti, the co is ufually a confonant ; and as fiich, 

 may go before all the vowels, except u ; as in luant, lueapon, 

 winter, ivorld, &c. 



If it be a confonant, its found is uniform. Some gram- 

 marians have doubted whether nv ever be a confonant ; 

 and not rather, as it is called, a double u or ou, as water may 

 be refolved into ouater : but letters of the fame found are 

 always reckoned confonants in other alphabets ; and it may 

 be obferved, fays Dr. Johnfon, that w follows a vowel 

 9 



W A A 



without any hiatus or difficulty of utterance, as frojlj 

 winter. 



It is fometimes alfo a vowel ; and, as fuch, follows any 

 of the vowels a, e, ; and .unites with them into a kind of 

 double vowel, or diphthong ; as in law, ewe, fow, &c. 

 The Englifh w is founded as in Latin u, in quantum, fuadeo, 

 lingua. Its found is commonly hke the grofs, or full u, 

 rapidly pronounced. In French, the found of the w 

 does not differ from that of the fingle u, or rather ou. 

 See U. 



WA, or Wahe, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 the province of Schonen ; 4 miles N. of Chriftianftadt. 



WAACKH AUSEN, a town of the duchy of Bremen, 

 on a moor, near the river Hamme ; the houfes of which are 

 built of ftone, fand, and turf. On the Hamme's overflow- 

 ing its banks, whole diftrifts on this moor, with the oaks 

 growing thereon, (though, to fpeak more properly, their 

 roots only run along the furface, ) the firs, elders, barns, and 

 ovens, are raifed by the water to the height of ten or twelve 



feet. 



