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an air of grandeur:" — and " his works can never fall inio 

 negleA with the {Indent of poetry." Biog. Brit. John- 

 Ion's Lives of the Poets. Clarendon. Gen. Biog. 



Waller, in Rural Economy, a term applied to a perfon 

 employed in buildmg wall-fences, and other forts of walls, 

 as well as to a labourer engaged in manufafturing fait from 

 brine in falt-vvorks, who is fo called in confequence of 

 railing a bank or walling round the pit, by means of the 

 rubbifh colledled in long preparing fait. They both require 

 to be well experienced perfons. See Fence, Salt, and 

 Salt Brine Springs. 



Waller See, m Geography, a lake in the archbifhoprie 

 of Salzburg, of an oval form ; four miles long, and two 

 broad, where widelt ; 4 miles N. of Salzburg. 



WALLERIUS, Nicholas, in Biography, an eminent 

 Swedifliphilofopher and divine, wasborn inNenkain the year 

 1706, and completed his education at Upfal, whither he re- 

 moved in 1725. Having here dillinguifhed hinifelf by his pro- 

 ficiency in the Wolfian philofophy, he commenced, in 1 737, a 

 courfe of lectures on both philofophy and mathematics, which 

 employed, in confequence of the number of attendants, a 

 very confiderable portion of his time. In 1751 he took or- 

 ders ; in the following year he was honoured with the degree 

 of doftor in theology ; and in 1755 he was advanced to the 

 chair of the new theological profeiTorfhip, founded by Dr. 

 Kelfenius, bifhop of Weftcros, with a view of vindicating 

 the truth, and evincing the excellence of Chriflianity ; and 

 in, this fituation he gained univerfal efteem. He was alfo a 

 member of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, and of 

 the Academy at Upfal, the tranfaftions of which were en- 

 riched by feveral of his communications. His important and 

 ufeful life was terminated by a fever in Auguft 1 764. His prin- 

 cipal works are " Syltcma Metaphyficuni," 1 750, 4 vols. 

 8vo.; " Compendium Logic*," 1754, 8vo.; " Compendium 

 Metaphyfices," i755,8vo.; " PfychologiaEmpirica," 1755, 

 8vo.; " Pfychologia Rationalis," 1758, 8vo.; " Praeno- 

 tionum Theologicarum," fix parts, from 1756 to 1765, 

 8to. Gen. Biog. 



WALLERN, in Geography, a town of Auftria, on the 

 Inn ; 4 miles S. of Efferding. — Alfo, a town of Bohemia, 

 in the circle of Prachatitz ; 9 miles S.S.W. of Prachatitz. 

 WALLERSDORF, a town of PrufTia, in Natangen ; 

 18 miles S.W. of Brandenburg. 



WALLERSTEIN, a town of Germany, with a caftle 

 belonging to the counts of Oettingen, called Oettingcn Wal- 

 lerftein ; 4 miles N. of Nordlingen. 



WALLERSVILLE, a poft-towu of the ftate of 

 Georgia; 729 miles S. of Walhington. 



WALLETZ See, a lake of Brandenburg, in the 

 Ucker Mark ; i mile W. of New Angermunde. 



WALLEY, or Wallia, a town of Africa, with an 

 European fadtorv, in the kingdom of Yani. 



WALLHAUSEN, a town of the marggravate of 

 Anfpach ; 4 miles N. of Creillheim. 



WALLI, a kingdom of Africa, to the fovereign of 

 which Mr. Park paid cuftom in his journey. — Alfo, a fe- 

 cond river. 



WALLING of BricL. See Brick. 

 Walling, Lead. See L.EA'O-lVilling. 

 WALLINGFOllD, in Geography, a very ancient bo- 

 rough and market-town in the hundred of Moreton, and 

 county of Berks, England, is fituated on the wellern banks 

 of the Tham-'S, at the dillance of 15 miles N-N.W. from 

 Reading, and 45 miles W. by N. from London. There are 

 reafons for fuppofuig it to have been a town in the time 

 of the Romans, though its ancient name is loit : the 



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prefent, wliether derived from the Britifh word Guallen, or 

 the Roman Vallum, owes its origin to the andent fortifica- 

 tion with which it was furrounded, and its ford over the 

 Thames. The earlieft mention of Wailingford in hiftory is 

 in the year 1006, when it was deftroyed by the Danes : it 

 appears to have been foon rebuilt, as Svvein, king of Den- 

 mark was there in 1013. In Edward the Confeffor's reign 

 it was a royal borough, and contained 276 houfes, the inha- 

 bitants of which owed perfonal fervice to the king. The 

 town was incorporated by king James I.; by whofe charter 

 the civil government is vetted in a mayor, five aldermen, a 

 town-clerk, and other officers, chofen out of the burgefies, 

 who are eighteen in number. Wailingford has fent meirf- 

 bers to parhament from the 23d year of Edward I.: the 

 right of eleftion is in the corporation, and iuliabitants pay- 

 ing fcot and lot. That eminent lawyer, fir V/illiam Black- 

 ftone, who had a feat here, now the property of his fon, re- 

 prefented this borough in parliament. Wailingford is a mar- 

 ket-town by prelcription : it appears by the Norman Sur- 

 vey, that in the reign of William Rufus the market was 

 held on Saturday ; it was afterwards changed to Sunday ; 

 and by a charter bearing date izi8, from that day to Mon- 

 day. Here are now two weekly markets, on Tuefday and 

 Friday, and four annual fairs. The market -houfe is a con- 

 venient ftrufture, having a town-hall, and feffions-houfe over 

 it. The town conCfts of two principal ftreets : its 

 population, in the return of the year 18 11, was ftated 

 to be 1901 ; the number of houfes 380. The chief 

 employment of the inhabitants is in agriculture and malt- 

 making ; of the latter article, i20,coo bulhels have been 

 annually made here. Leland fays, here were anciently 

 fourteen parifli-churches, and that in his time there were 

 perfons living, who could (hew the places where they ftood. 

 At prefent here are but three ; St. Mary's, St. Peter's, and 

 St. Leonard's : the two latter were nearly deftroyed in 

 1646, when the town, being garrifoned for the king, was 

 befieged for the parliament. St. Leonard's was repaired 

 and opened for divine fervice in 1704 : St. Peter's continued 

 in ruins till the prefent reign ; it was rebuilt principally by 

 the exertions of fir William Blackftone, who erefted the 

 fpire at his own expence ; the new church was finilhed in 

 1769, the fpire in 1777. St. Mary's, which is the princi- 

 pal church, has a tower furmounted by the figure of an 

 armed knight on horfeback. Here are alfo four meeting- 

 houfes for diffenters of different denominations ; a free- 

 fchool, founded by Walter Bigg, alderman of London, 

 in 1659 ; and an alms-houfe for fix women, endowed by 

 Mr. WiUiam Aungear and his fitter, about the year 1687. 

 Wallingford-bridge, which croffes the Thames, is a fub- 

 flantial ftone ftrufture, three hundred yards in length, and 

 confifts of nineteen arches : from its appearance, it feems 

 to vie with the oldeft fabric of the kind on the river, but 

 the time of its ereftion cannot be afcertained : the pointed 

 angular ftarlings on the upper fide are fo well conftruCted, 

 as to be able to refift the moft vij^ent floods ; and the whole 

 appears to be of immenfe ftrength. Near the river fide are 

 the mouldering ruins of the ancient cattle, which, in the 

 eftimation of former ages, was regarded as impregnable, but 

 they give no idea of that ftrength which regal armies be- 

 fieged in vain. Camden was of opinion that it was of Ro- 

 man origin ; and Mr. Gough adds, that " the outer work 

 of the cattle is evidently Roman, and in a fragment of the 

 wall at the entrance, the Hones are laid herring-bone fafhion, 

 juft as in the walls of Silchetter." Having been deftroyed 

 by the Saxons and Danes, the cattle was rebuilt and enlarged 

 by William the Conqueror, when we learn, from Domef- 



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