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pfq., wlio erefted a large manfion on the brow of the hill. 

 Pains-hill is now the feat of the earl of Carhanipton. At 

 Walton is a very long bridge over the Thames. In the 

 church is a large collly monument by Roubiliac, to the me- 

 mory of Richard, vifcount Shannon, who died in 1740, and 

 who was at that time field-marlfial in the army, and com- 

 mander-in-chief in Ireland. William Lilly, the allrologer, 

 was buried in the chancel of this church ; and in other parts 

 were interred the following pcrfons : Jerome Wefton, earl 

 of Portland, who died in 1662 ; fir Jacob Edwards, bart., 

 and his lady ; Henry Skrine, efq., author of a tour in Wales, 

 &c. Several of the Rodney family were buried in the 

 church. In the chancel is a brafs-plate engraved with the 

 figures of a man on the back of a iiag, and faid to comme- 

 morate the following perfon and fatt : — John Selwyn, a 

 keeper in Oatlands park, was particularly neted for his 

 ftrength, agility, &c. One day when hunting a ftag in the 

 faid park, in the prcfence of queen Elizabeth, he fprang 

 from his horfe's back on that of the deer, and there pre- 

 ferved his feat, till the animal had reached a fpot near her 

 majefty, when Selwyn plunged his fword into the throat ot 

 the deer, and killed him on tlie fpot. — See Antiquarian Re- 

 pertory, vol. i. 1807. For an account of Oailands, Sec. fee 

 Weybridge. Hiilory and Antiquities of Surrey, by the 

 Rev. Owen Manning and William Bray, efq., three vols. fol. 



WALTUNGI, a fmall ifiand on the E. fide of the gulf 

 of Bothnia. N. lat. 65° 34. E. long. 25°. 



WALTWIESE, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Mofelle ; 7 miles N.W. of Sar Louis. 



WALTZ, in Biography, a German bale finger, with a 

 courfe figure, and a Itill coarfer voice, whom Handel, when 

 abandoned by all the great fingers who had performed in the 

 operas which he compofed for the Royal Academy, was 

 obliged to employ in the place of Montagnana. It has been 

 faid, that Waltz was originally Handel's cook. He fre- 

 quently fung in chorufes and comic entertainments at Drury 

 Lane, in our own memory ; and, as an aftor, had a great 

 deal of broad humour. He played a little on the violoncello, 

 and ufei to divert the band in the mufic-room under the 

 ilage when not wanted in the orcheftra, with accompanying 

 himfelf in ridiculous and fatirical fongs. 



Waltz, the name of a riotous German dance, of modern 

 invention ; of which the definition has not yet had admifiion 

 in any mufical lexicon. The tune is gay, and always in 

 triple time. All our great performers on keyed infirumcnts 

 have compofed and publiflied tunes of this ki;;d. The verb 

 vialtzen, whence this word is derived, imphes to roll, wallow, 

 welter, tumble down, or roll in the dirt or mire. 



What analogy there may be between thefe acceptations 

 and the dance, we pretend not to fay ; but having feen 

 it performed by a feleft party of foreigners, we could not 

 help reflecting how uneafy an Englidi mother would be to 

 fee her daughter fo familiarly treated, and Hill more to wit- 

 nefs the obliging manner in which the freedom is returned 

 by the females. 



WALUWE, in Geography, a town on the S.E. coaft 

 of Ceylon ; 40 miles S. of Yale. 



WALWARNO, a river of England, which runs into 

 the Lee, in the county of Cheder. 



WAMAR, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, near 

 the W. coaft of Aroo. S. lat. 5° 30'. E. long. 134° 57'. 



WAMIiA, a town of Spain, anciently called Gertica ; 

 6 miles N. of Valladolid. — Alfo, a province of the kingdom 

 of An/.iko, S.E. of Pombo. 



WAMBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 

 iiigingralz ; 20 miles E.S.E. of Konigingratz. 



WAMBRE, a river of Africa, in the kingdom of An- 



ziko, which runs into the Bancaro, 25 miles N.E. of Con- 

 cabella. 



WAMBULA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Abo; 48 miles S.S.E. of Biorneborg. 



WAMMELOF, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Schonen ; 25 miles S.E. of Lund. 



WAMPACH, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Forefts ; 6 miles E.N.E. of Houfalife. 



WAMPOOL, or Wampui,, a river of England, in Cum- 

 berland, which runs into the Eden, at its mouth. 



WAMPU, a town of China, fituated on the river be- 

 tween Macao and Canton, where velfels of different nations 

 lie to take in their lading ; not being allowed to go up 

 higher. The air is faid to be unwholefome ; 7 miles S. of 

 Canton. 



WAMPUM, a fort of fliells, feveral of which, being 

 ftrung upon threads, are ufed as money among the Indians. 



It is formed of the infide of the clam-fticU, a large fea- 

 fhell bearing fome refemblance to that of a fcallop, which 

 is found on the coafts of New England and Virginia. This 

 (hell is made into fmall cylinders of about one quarter of an 

 inch long, and a fifth of an inch over, and being bored as 

 beads, is ftrung in great numbers upon long ftrings. In 

 this ftate it palfes among the Indians in their ufual com- 

 merce, as filver and gold among us ; but being loofe it is 

 not fo current. 



It is both white and black or purple ; and the meaneft is 

 in fingle ftrings, of which the white goes at five (hillings a 

 fathom, and the black at ten ; or by number, the white fix 

 a penny, the lilack at three. The next in value to thefe 

 fingle ftrings, is that which is wove into bracelets of about 

 three-quarters of a yard long, black and white, in (tripes, 

 and fix pieces in a row, the warp coiififting of leather 

 thongs, and the woof of thread , thefe the gentlewomen 

 among them wear, wound twice or oftener about their 

 wrifts. 



The moft valuable of all is that woven into girdles or 

 belts. Thefe are compofed of many rows, and the black 

 and white pieces woven into fquares or other figures. Thefe 

 girdles are fometimes worn as their richell ornaments ; but 

 tiiey are oftener ufed in their great payments, and make 

 their nobleft prefcnts, and are laid up as their treafure. 

 Grew's Mufaeum, p. 370. 



WAMWaLO, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Guzerat ; 55 miles W. of Noanagur. 



WAN.'\, a town of Sweden, in the province of Tavaft- 

 land ; 5 miles S.E. of Tavallhus. 



WANASPATUCKET, a river of Rhode ifland, which 

 runs into Providence river. 



WANDA, a town of Algiers, in the province of Tre- 

 mc9en ; 35 miles S.W. of Treme9en. 



WANDASS. See WiNDAss. 



WANDECHY, in Geography, a town of Bootan ; 4 

 miles N.W. of Tadafudon. N. lat. if ^2'. E. long. Sy" 



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WANDERSLEBEN, a town of Saxony, in the pnn- 



cipality of Altcnburg ; 9 miles S.W. of Erfurt. 



WANDESBECK, a town of the circle of HoUlcin ; 

 3 miles N.E. of Hamburg. 



WANDIPOUR, a town of Bootan, defended by a ci- 

 tadel, and confidered as a place of great ftrength j 15 miles 

 E. of Tan"afndon. N. lat. 27^ 50'. E. long. 89' 47'. 



WANDIWASH, a town of Hindooftan, ui the Carna- 

 tic , taken by the Britifli troops in 1760; 38 miles N.N.W. 

 of Pondicherry. N. lat. i 2* 3 1'. E. long. 79^^ 46'. 



WANDLACKEN, a town of PrulTia, in the province 

 of Natancrn ; 4 miles E. of Gerdavcn. 



WANULE, 



