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vigour. We have very recently heard, from what we be- 

 lieve to be good authority, that they are again becoming 

 more aftive ; and, though the military talents of the pacha 

 of Egypt may reftrain them at the preR'nt moment, we fhall 

 not be at all fiirpriled, aniidH the many revolutions of the 

 Eaft, if they fliould re-cilablifh their power in Arabia ; and 

 concur, witli other caufcs, to overthrow the tottering fabric 

 of Turkidi empire in this part of the world. Niebuhr's 

 Travels, vol. ii. Waring's Tour to Sheeraz. Legh's 

 Narrative of a Journey in Egypt, and the Country beyond 

 the Catarafts.- Ah Bey's Travels in Morocco, &c. 2 vcls. 

 1816. Kinncir's Geog. Mem. of Perfia. Edinb. Rev. 

 No. liv. 



AVAHAL, a river which branches off from the Rhine at 

 Schencken Schans, joins the Meufe firlt at the fmall illand 

 of Voorn, feparates from that river, and wafhes the north 

 fide of the ifland of Conimelwaert, and joins the Meufe again 

 at Worcum, when both rivers form one llreani, fometimes 

 called Mcrwe, and fometimes Meufe. See Saiialis. 



WAHE. SeeWA. 



WAHLBO, a town of Sweden, in Geftricia ; 4 miles 

 S.W. of Gefle. 



WAHLBOMIA, in Botany, named by Thunbcrg, in 

 honour of his countryman, Dr. John Guftavus Wahlbom, 

 of whom he fpeaks as an ardent botanift, and celebrated 

 phylician. — Thunb. Aft. Holm, for 1790. 215. t. 9. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 1244. Lamarck lUullr. t. 485. 

 Poiret in Lam. Dift. v. 8. 782. — Clafs and order, Poly- 

 andria Telragynia. Nat. Ord. Sent'tcojiz, Linn. Rofncet, 

 JufT. Ditleniacea, De CandoUe. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx of four leaves. Petals four. Fruit 

 oblong. Styles permanent. IVil/ilenow. 



I. W. indica. Thunb. as above. Willd. n. i. — The 

 only fpecies, found by Thunbcrg in the ifland of Java, near 

 Batavia, flowering in January. AJhnib, with round alter- 

 nate branches, covered with hoary pubefcence. Leaves 

 alternate, (lalked, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, ferrated, three 

 or four inches long ; entire at the bafe ; paler, but fcarcely 

 downy, beneath. Flnnvers fomewhat umbellate, or cymofc, 

 near the ends of the branches, on downy Italks. Calyx ex- 

 ternally downy. Petals yellowifh, deciduous. Stamens 

 brown, with yellow anthers. Pericarps four, beaked with 

 the permanent_^j/i?x. 



We have mentioned already that Willdenow was inclined 

 to fink this genus in Tetrackha ; fee the end of that 

 article. Profed'or De CandoUe has aftually done fo, in his 

 Sy(l. Nat. V. 1. 403, where the plant in queftion ftands 

 under the following n.ime and charafter. 



T. IVahlbomia. " Leaves eUiptical, pointed ; ferrated 

 towards the end ; downy beneath, like the footitalks ; fur- 

 nifhed with ftipulas at the bafe ? Panicle of four or five 

 flowers. Segments of the calyx four, externally downy." 

 — The author doubts whether this plant be even fpecilically 

 dillinft from his T. AJfa, defcribed in the fame place, the 

 AJfa indica of Houttuyn, of which we have already fpoken 

 likewife at the conclufion of Tetracera. 



WAHLIS, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the county of Hcnncberg ; 5 miles N.W. of Smal- 

 kalden. 



WAHLSTADT, i. e. The Field of Battle, a town of 

 Silefia, in the principality of Lignit/. ; near which, in the 

 year 1241, a moll bloody battle was foiight between duke 

 Henry II. and the Tartars, wherein the latter were vitto- 

 rious, and the duke (lain. In memory of this event the 

 place was built ; and the narrative of this engagement is 

 annually read to the people from the pulpit, in the Lutheran 

 •church ; 5 miles S.E. of Lignit/,. 



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WAHLWINKEL, a town of Saxony, in the princi- 

 pality of Gotha ; 4 miles S.W. of Gotha. 



WAHOE, one of the Sandwich iflands, 37 leagues to 

 the N. of Morotai, and about 30 from Owhyhee, nearly 

 40 miles long, from N.W. to S.E., and about half that 

 extent in breadth. It is the molt important ifland in the 

 group, on accourit of its fuperior fertility, and becaufe it 

 poirefTes the only fecurc harbour in thefe iflands. The ca- 

 pital of the ifland is Hanaroora, the refidence of the king. 

 Pearls and mother-of-pearl fliells are found here in great 

 abundance. 



WAHR, a river of Germany, which rifes near Fran- 

 kenau, in the principality of Hefle, and runs into the 

 Lahn near Kirchhayn. 



WAHREN, or Waarex, a town of the duchy of 

 Mecklenburg, fituated near the lake of Calpin ; 22 miles' 

 S.E. of Guftrow. N. lat. 53° 30'. E. long. 12° 39'. 



Wahren See, a lake of the Ucker Mark of Branden- 

 burg ; 1 1 miles W.N.W. of Prenzlow. 



WAHRENBRUCK, a town of Saxony; 2 miles 

 N.N.W. of Liebenwerda. 



WAHRIEN, a town of Mecklenburg, in the princi- 

 pality of Schwerin ; 14 miles N.E. of Schwerin. N. 

 lat. 53° 50'. E. long. 11° 38'. 



WAHTO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Abo ; 10 miles N. of Abo. 



WAIBLINGEN, a town of Wurtemberg. This 

 town was almoft deftroyed in the thirty years' war ; 

 7 miles E.N.E. of Stuttgart. N. lat. 48" 50'. E. 

 long. 9° 25'. 



WAICHMAR. SeeWECHMAR. 



WAIDENHOLZ, a town of Auftria ; 5 miles 

 W.N.W. of Efferding. 



WAIDERSFELDEN, a town of AuRria ; 1 2 miles 

 E. of Freyftatt. 



WAIDGUNGE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 30 

 miles E. of Allahabad. 



WAIDHAUSEN, a town of Bavaria ; i6 miles 

 N.N.E. of Nabburg. 



WAIDHOVEN, or Bavarian IVaidhoven, a town of 

 Auilria, on the river Ips ; 26 miles S.S.W. of Ips. N. lat. 

 47^^54'. E. long. 14^43'. 



Waidhoven, or B'nhmifch Waidhoven,^. town of Auftria, 

 on the river Taya ; 40 miles W. of Laab. N. lat. 48° 48'. 

 E. long. 15°. 



WAIDPOUR, a town of Bengal ; 25 miles N.N.W. of 

 Iflamabad. 



WAIF, or Wafe, a term primarily applied to ilolen 

 goods, which a thief, being either purfucd, i)r overburdened, 

 flies, and waives or throws away in his flight. 



The king's officer, or the bailiif of the lord within 

 whofe jurifdiftion fuch waifs or waif goods were left 

 (having by grant, or prefcription, the franchife of waif), 

 may feize the goods to Lis lord's ufe ; except the owner 

 come witii frcfli fuit after the felon, and fuc an appeal of 

 robbery within a year and a day, or give in evidence againft 

 him, and he be attainted. In which cafes, the owner (hall 

 have his goods again. 



Waived goods do alio not belong to the king, till feized 

 by fomebody for his ufe ; for if the party robbed can 

 fei/.e them tiril, though at the diftancc of twenty years, 

 the king (hall never have them. If the goods arc hid 

 by the thief, or left any where by him, fo that he had 

 them not about him when he fled, and therefore did not 

 throw them away in his flight ; thefe alfo arc not bona 

 luaiviata, but the owner may have them again when he 

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