WAN 



WANDLE, a river of England, in the county of Sur- 

 Tey, which runs into the Thames, below Wandfworth. 



WANDO, a river of Soutli Carolina, which runs into 

 the Alhlev, N. lat. 33° 50'. W. long. 79° 58'. 



WANDSU, in Zoology, the name of a fpecies of mon- 

 key found in the ifland oV Ceylon. It is all over of a fine 

 deep black ; but has a long white beard hanging from its 



chin. 



WANDSWORTH, or Wandlesworth, in Geogra- 

 phy, a village in the weilcrn divifion of Brixton hundred, in 

 the county of Surrey, England, is fituated on the banks of 

 the fmall river Wandle (which falls into the Thames in this 

 parifh), at the dillance of fix miles S.W. from St. Paul's 

 cathedral, London. The parifli, according to the popula- 

 tion return of the year 181 1, contained 905 houfes, and 

 5644 inhabitants, of whom 620 families were employed in 

 various trades and manufaftures. Aubrey, in his "Antiqui- 

 ties of Surrey," mentions a manufafture of brafs plates for 

 frying-pans, kettles, and other culinary vefTels, which was 

 eftabhfhed here by Dutchmen who kept it a myftery : the 

 houfes where this bufinefs was carried on bore the name of 

 frying-pan houfes. Towards the clofe of the 17th century, 

 when great numbers of French Proteftants fled from the 

 perfecution which prevailed in the reign of Louis XIV., 

 many of them fettled at Wandfworth, and eftabhihed a 

 French church, which is now ufed as a meeting-houfe for 

 Methodifts. Among thefe refugees was a confiderable number 

 of hatters, who introduced their manufafture at this place 

 with great fuccefs. Though diminilhed in its extent,' the 

 manufafture ftill exifts. The art of dyeing cloth has been 

 praftifed here above a century, and is now carried on to a 

 confiderable extent : as is alio cahco-printing, of which here 

 are two extenfive manufaftories. Here are alfo eftablifh- 

 ments for printing kerfeymeres, for bolting cloth, and for 

 whitening and preffing fluffs : hkewife iron-mills, oil and 

 white-lead mills, vinegar works, and diftilleries. Wandf- 

 worth church, which itands nearly in the centre of the vil- 

 lage, is a brick ftrufture, and confifts of a nave, chancel, 

 and two aifles : at the well end is a fquare tower, built in 

 the year 1630. In 1780 the greater part of the church was 

 rebuilt, at the expence of about 3500/. The Quakers have 

 a meeting-houfe and two fchools in this parifh. Among the 

 benefaftions to the poor of Wandfworth is 500/. bequeathed 

 by Henry Smith, alderman of I,ondon, who was born here 

 about 1540, died in 1627, when he was buried in the 

 church. He alfo left large eftates, real and perfonal, to be 

 allotted to the poor of various parifhes, according to the 

 difcretion of his executors. In this diftribution the county 

 of Surrey has been principally regarded. 



Garrett, a hamlet within this parifh, appears to have been 

 about two centuries ago a fingle houfe, called the Garvett. 

 It now contains about fiftyioufes, and is well-known as the 

 fcene of a mock eleftion on the meeting of every new par- 

 liament : when feveral noted characters m low hfe appear as 

 candidates, being furnilhed with clothes and equipages by 

 the publicans, who derive confiderable profits from the 

 crowds of people who alfemble on fuch occafions. — Lyfons's 

 Environs of London, vol. i. 1796. 



WANFRIED, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of HelTe Rhinfels, on the Werra ; 13 miles W. of MuDiau- 

 fen. N. lat. 51° 12'. E. long. 10° 14'. 



WANG, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric of Frey- 

 fing ; 20 miles S. of Weilhaim. — Alfo, a town of Auflria ; 

 12 miles S. of Ips. 



W Anc-Tooth, a term fometimes applied to the jaw-tooth 

 of an animal. 



WANG A, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Eaft 



WAN 



Gothland ; 1 1 miles N.N.E. of Linkioping.— Alfo, a town 

 of Weil Gothland ; 46 miles E. of Uddevalla. 



WANGARA, or GuANGARA, a country of Africa, 

 watered by the Niger, which paffes through it from W. to 

 E. and is fuppofed foon after to lofe itfelf in a lake or the 

 fandy defert. This country is fubjeft to Bornou, to the S. 

 of which it lies. It was formerly, i. i\ about the i ith cen- 

 tury, fubjeft to the fovereign of Ghera, which was called 

 by the Arabians, according to the Arabian writers on the 

 eaftern part of the great central river, the Nile of the Ne- 

 groes. Wangara, denominated the land of gold, is repre- 

 fented as formed into a fpecies of ifland by branches of the 

 Nile, which furround it on all fides, and which overflowing 

 during the rainy feafons, laid wafte the whole country under 

 water. When the inundation fubfided, the inhabitants are 

 defcribed as rufhing with eagernefs, and digging up the earth, 

 in every part of which they found gold. Soon afterwards 

 the merchants arrived from every part of Africa, to ex- 

 change their commodities for this gold. The principal 

 cities of Wangara were Raghabid and Samagonda, fituated 

 on the fhore of large frefh-water lakes. In the time of Leo 

 Africanus, Ghera, mentioned under the name of Caro, no 

 longer held the fupremacy among the ilates of the Niger, 

 but had become fubjeft to the kmgdom of Tombuftoo, 

 founded A.D. 1 2 15. Wangara, or Guangara, had become 

 an independent kingdom, whofe fovereign maintained a con- 

 fiderable army ; and the gold, for which this region is fo 

 celebrated, is reprefented by Leo as found, not within itfelf, 

 but in mountains to the fouth. It appears that at a later 

 period the caravans traded to Wangara for gold. 



WANGEN, a town of Switzerland, and capital of a 

 baiUwick, in the canton of Berne; 20 miles S. of Berne. 

 — Alfo, a town of France, in the department of the Lower 

 Rhine ; 12 miles W. of Strafburg. — Alfo, a town of Ger- 

 many, on the Argen, lately imperial, till, in 1802, it was 

 given among the indemnities to the eleftor of Bavaria. Its 

 territory only included a few villages. The inhabitants are 

 Roman Catholics; 22 miles W. of Kempten. N. lat. 47° 

 43'. E. long. 10° 50'. 



WANGENDORFF, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 

 8 miles S.W. of Gnaa. 



WANGERIN, a town of Pomerania ; 20 miles N.E. of 

 Stargard. N. lat. 53° 38'. E. long. 15° 32'. 



WANGEROEG, an ifland in the German Ocean ; 

 about 12 miles in circumference ; 4 miles from the coafl of 

 Frielland. N. lat. 53° 44'. E. long. 7° 45'. 



WANGEROW, a town of Pomerania ; 12 miles S.E. 

 of New Stettin. 



WANGWELL, a fmall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 

 near the S. coafl of Waygoo. S. lat. 0° 23'. E. long. 



'3'° 35'- 



WANHOM, in the Materia Medlca, a name by which 

 Kxmpfer has called the plant, of which the great galangal 

 of the fhops is the root. 



WANJEW, in Geography, a town of Poland, in the pa- 

 latinate of Bielf!<, near tlie conflux of the Narew and the 

 Wanjewka ; 24 miles N.N.W. of Bielfl-c. 



WANJEWKA, a river of Poland, which runs into the 

 Narew, near Wanjew, in the palatinate of Bielfk. 



WANKANER, a town of Hindooflan, in Guzerat ; 

 45 miles N. of Junagur. 



WANKAREY, a town of Hindoofl;an, in the country 

 of Vifiapour ; 6 miles W. of Poonah. 



WANLASS, in Hunting. See Wixdass. 



WANNAS, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Weft 

 Bothnia; 22 miles N.W. of Um'^a. 



WAN-NASH-REESE, a lofty rugged mount.iin of 



Algiers, 



