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Waldeck, Hohtn, a town of Bavaria, and capital of a 

 lordfhip, formerly belonging to the princes of Waldeck, 

 but which, in the year 1734, fell to theeleaorof Bavana; 

 30 miles S.S.E. of Munich. 



WALDEN, Saffron. See Saffron-Walden. 



Walden, a town of America, in the ftate of Vermont 

 and county of Caledonia, containing 455 inhabitants ; 40 

 miles N. of Rutland. 



Walden'^ IJland, a fmall idand in the North fea. N. 

 lat. 80° 37'. E. long. 18° 10'. 



WALDENBERG, a town of Weftphalia, in the bi- 

 Ikopric of HildeHieim ; 13 miles S.E. of Hildefheim. 



WALDENBRUCK, a town of Wurtemberg ; 8 miles 

 S. of Stuttgart. 



WALDENBURG, a town of Germany, in the prm- 

 cipahty of Hohenlohe ; 6 miles E. of Ohringen. — Alfo, a 

 town of Saxony, in the lordfhip of Schonburg, on the 

 Mulda. The old town of Waldenburg, which lies direftly 

 fronting Waldenburg, on the other fide of the Mulda, is 

 famous for its brown and white earthen-ware, which confifts 

 of veflels for laboratories and apothecaries' (hops, together 

 •with pots of feveral kinds, fuch as pitchers, drinking vef- 

 fels, &c. Here is likewife a confiderable linen manufac- 

 ture. It is a lordfhip, invefted in the houfe of Schonburg, 

 called Schonburg-Waldenburg ; 44 miles W. of Drefden. 

 N. lat. 50° 48'. E. long. 12° 21'. — Alfo, a town of Swit- 

 zerland, and capital of a bailiwick, in die canton of Bale ; 

 15 miles S. of Bale. — Alfo, a town and citadel of the 

 duchy of Weftphalia ; 6 miles N. of Olpe. 



Waldenburg, or IVallenburg, a town of Silefia, in the 

 principality of Schweidnitz ; 8 miles S.W. of Schweid- 

 nitz. N. lat. 50'=' 35'. E. long. 16° 5'. 



WALDENFELS, a town of Auftria ; 3 miles N.W. 

 of Freyftatt. 



Waldenfels, or Wallenfells, a town of Bavaiia, in the 

 bifhopric of Bamberg ; 34 miles N.E. of Bamberg. 



WALDENGELOCH, a town of Wurtemberg; 5 

 miles N.N.E. of Gochfheim. 



WALDENSES. See Vaudois. 



WALDERSDORF, a town of Saxony, in the circle 

 of Erzgebirg ; i mile N.N.W. of Freyberg. 



WALDHAUSEN, a town of Auftria; 4 miles 

 E.S.E. of Zwetl. 



WAXDHAUSER, a town of Saxony, in the Vogt- 

 land ; I mile N.W. of Plauen. 



WALDHEIM, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 

 Leipfic, on theZfchopa; 25 miles S.E. of Leipfic. N. 

 lat.5i°4'. E. long. 12° 51'. 



WALDKAPPEL. See Cappel. 



WALD KIRCH, a town of the Brifgau, on the El- 

 fach ; 6 miles N. of Friburg. N. lat. 48° 7'. E. long. 8°. 



WALDKIRCHEN, a town of Bavaria, in the bi- 

 fhopric of PafTau ; 10 miles N.N.E. of PafTau — Alfo, a 

 town of Auftria ; 7 miles N.W. of Efferding. 



WALDMICHELBACH, a town of Heffe Darm- 

 ftadt ; 8 miles N.E. of Heidelberg. 



WALDMUNCHEN, a town of Bavaria ; 30 miles 

 N.E. of Ratifbon. 



WALDNEUKIRCHEN, atownof Auftria; 6miles 

 S.W. of Steyr. 



WALDOBOROUGH, a fea-port town of America, 

 in the diftriA of Maine, and county of Lincoln, containing 

 ;i6o inhabitants ; 50 miles N.E. of Portland. N. lat. 44° 2'. 

 W. long. 60° 16'. 



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' WALD RAN, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles S.W. of 

 Aigcn. 



WALDRAPP, in Ornithology, a name given by fome 

 to the wood-raven, or corvus fylvatkus of Gefner, a bird of 

 the fize of a hen, of a gloffy black, and adorned with a 

 creft on its head. 



WALDREICHS, in Geography, a town of Auftria, 

 near the Kamp ; 10 miles E. of Zwetl. 



WALDSAXEN, or Waldsach, a town of Bavaria, 

 formerly imperial, but pillaged and almoft deftroyed in the 

 wars of the HufTites and the Palatinate ; fince which it has 

 never recovered itfelf. Near it is a rich Ciftertian abbey, 

 founded in the year 1133, the abbots of which were form- 

 erly princes of the empire. In 1802, this abbey was given 

 to the king of Bavaria ; 4 miles S.S.W. of Egra. 



WALDSCHACH, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 

 14 miles S. of Gratz. 



WALDSCHMIDIA, in Botany, a name given to the 

 Menyanthes nymphaoides of Linnaeus, by Wiggers, in his 

 Prlmitlit Flora Holfaticti, 20 ; which, like Gmelin and a 

 few other botanifts, he confidered as a diftinft genus from 

 Menyanthes; fee that article and Villarsia. If, how- 

 ever, this opinion were correct, the name is foreftalled by 

 Limnanthemum, given to the fame fuppofed genus by Gme- 

 lin, near twenty years before, and liable to no exception. 

 JValilfchmhiia was intended to commemorate William Ulrick 

 Waldichmidt, formerly profefTor at Kiel, wlio wrote a trea- 

 tife on the fexes of plants, in which he is faid to have well 

 explained the ufe and phyfiology of the anthers. 



WALDSEE, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Baden ; 12 miles N.N.E. of Ravenfperg. — Alfo, a lake of 

 Stiria ; 6 miles E. of Schlaming. 



WALDSHUT, a town of tlie duchy of Baden, on 

 the Rhine ; 19 miles W. of Schaffhaufen. 



WALDSICH, a town of the county of Henneberg ; 

 4 miles N.N.E. of Salzungen. 



WALDSTADT, /'. e. The Forejl Towns, a name given 

 in Switzerland to the cantons of Lucern, LTri, Schwitz, 

 and Underwalden, probably on account of the quantity of 

 forefts found in them. 



WALDSTADTER See, or Lake of Lucern, or Lakt 

 of the Four Cantons, one of the largeft lakes of Switzer- 

 land, extending from Lucern to Altdorf, 20 miles in length. 

 Its figure is very irregular, and it is for the moft part fur- 

 rounded with high mountains. The river Renfs pafFes 

 through it. See Lale of Lucern and Lake. 



WALDSTEIN, a town of the duchy of Stiria; 12 

 miles N.W. of Gratz. 



WALDSTEINIA, in Botany, was fo named by the 

 late profefTor Willdenow, in compliment to a botanift of 

 great eminence, Francis von Waldilein, author of the Fhra 

 Hungarica. — " Willd. Nov. Aft. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Bcro- 

 lin. V. 2. 105." Sp. PI. V. 2. 1007. Ait. V. 3. 204. — 

 Clafs and order, Icofandria Digynia. Nat. Ord. Senticofe, 

 Linn. Rofacet, JufT. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx in ten fegments, the alternate ones 

 fmaller. Petals five. Styles club-fhaped, deciduous. Seeds 

 two, obovate, without awns. 



I. W. geotdes. Avens-like Waldfteinia. Willd. as above, 

 V. 2. 106. t. 4. f. I. Sp. PI. n. I. Ait. n. I. ♦' Waldft. 

 et Kitaib. Hung. v. 1. 79. t. 77." — ^Native of umbrageous 

 forefts in Hungary, from whence it was introduced into 

 Britain, by the late Mr. George Don, in 1 804. A hardy 

 perennial, flowering in June and July. yiiton. Stem 

 afcending, round, ilriated, rather hairy, the length of the 

 radical leaves, which are flalked, five-lobed, ribbed, fome- 

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