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Algiers, generally covered with fnow, fuppofed to have 

 been anciently called Zalacus ; 45 miles S. of Shcrfhell. 



WANNOUGAH, a mountain of Algiers ; 100 miles 

 W. of Conllantina. 



WANO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Tavaft- 

 land ; 4 miles S.E. of Tavallhus. 



WANOOAETTEE, a fmall illand in the Pacific Ocean ; 

 10 miles W.N.W. of Wateehoo. 



WANO R A, a fmaU ifland on the W. fide of the gulf of 

 Bothnia. N. lat. 64° 32'. E. long. 21° 14'. 



WANQUI, a country of Africa, on the Gold coaft. 



WANSAWAR, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 

 2J miles N. of Junagur. 



WANSBECK. See AVen-sbeck. 



WANSEN, a town of Silefia, in the principahty of 

 Brieg ; 10 miles S.S.W. of Ohlau. 



WANSINGAR, a fmall idand on the W. fide of the 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 5'. E. long. 18*32'. 



WANSLEBEN, John-Michael, in Biography, the (on 

 of a Lutheran miniftcr at Erfurt, in Thuringia, was born 

 in 1635 ; and having ftudied philofophy and theology at 

 Konigfljerg, he acquired a knowledge of the Ethiopic lan- 

 guage under the inftniftion of Ludolf, by whom he was 

 fent to London to publifh his Ethiopic dictionary in 1661 ; 

 and he was alfo employed by Caftell in compiling his " Lexi- 

 con Heptaglotton." Upon his return to Germany, Ernell, 

 duke of Saxe-Gothn, engaged him to vifit Abyffinia, for llie 

 purpofe of acquainting himfelf with the language and natu- 

 ral hiftory of that country ; but having reached Cairo in 

 1663, he was prevented from proceeding to AbyfTniia, as it 

 is thought, by his own mifcondiift, and embarking at Alex- 

 andria in 1665, he arrived in Italy ; and in the following 

 year abandoned Lulhcranifm, and entered into the Domini- 

 can order. Upon his being introduced to Colbert at Paris, 

 in 1670, he was engaged to make a vifit to Abyfiinia, and 

 to bring home all the manufcripts whicli he could purchafe. 

 During his refidence of twenty months in Egypt, he tranf- 

 mitted for the Royal Library at Paris 334 manufcripts, 

 Arabian, Perfian, and Turkifli. But not being able to 

 enter Abyflinia, he went to Conilantinople, and from thence 

 in 1676 he was recalled to France, on account of his irregu- 

 lar conduft. Being at length reduced to want, he gained a 

 mere fubfillence by ferving the village church of Bouron as 

 vicar, where he died at the age of fifty-eiglit, in the year 

 1693. His principal publications are, " The Liturgy of 

 Diofcorus, Patriarch of Alexandria," Lond. 1662 ; " An 

 Account of the prefcnt State of Egypt, in Italian," 1671 ; 

 " Nouvelle Relation en forme de Journal d'un Voyage fait 

 en Egypte au 1672 et 1673;" " Hilloire de I'Eglifed'Alex- 

 andria," if>77 ; whieli is faid to contain a more accurate ca- 

 talogue of the patriarchs of Alexandria than that of Ludolf 

 communicated to the Jefuits of Antwerp. Moreri. 



WANSTA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Schoncn ; 25 miles E. of Lund. 



WANSTEAD, a village and parifh in the hundred 

 of Becontree and county of Effex, England, is fituated 

 eight miles N.E. from St. Paul's cathedral, London. The 

 old parifli-church was repaired and enlarged in the early 

 part of tlie lalt century, principally at the cxpence of the 

 firll earlTylney ; but being flill found fmall and incommo- 

 dious, it was pulled down, and a new church ercfted on a 

 larger fcale, nearly adjoining to the old Icite. The firll 

 ftone of the prcfent ftruClure was laid July i3lh, 1787 : it 

 was finiflied in 1790, and confecratcd .Func 24th in that year. 

 It is built willi brick, and cafed with Portland Hone ; the 

 portico is of the Doric order : at the weft end is a cupola, 



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fupported by eight Ionic columns. The interior confiftg of 

 a nave, chancel, and two aides, feparated by columns of the 

 Corinthian order. In the chancel is a beautiful window of 

 ftained glafs, by Eginton of Birmingham, reprcfenting our 

 Saviour bearing the crofs, from the pitture at Magdalen col- 

 lege, Oxford : here is alfo a fuperb monument, with the effigy 

 of the deceafed in white marble, to the memory of fir Jofiah 

 Child, bart., who died in 1699. The population of the 

 parifh, as enumerated under the a>St of the year 181 1, was 

 210 ; the number of houfes 1 127. 



Wanllead-lioufe was defigned by Colin Campbell, in the 

 year 1715, and executed under his direction fcjr fir Richard 

 Child, who was afterwards advanced to the peerage by the 

 title of earl Tylney. This edifice occupies the fcite of an 

 ancient manfion, which, with the annexed demefne, had pre- 

 vioufly been pofFelfed fucceliively by fir William Mildmay, 

 George, marquis of Buckingham, king James I., Charles 

 Blount,earlofDevonniire, Robert Rich.'earl of Leicefter.and 

 his father Robert, lord Rich. The latter built the old houfe, 

 which was called Naked-hall-houfc, and in which queen Eb'- 

 zabeth and her court were funiptuoufly entertained in May 

 1578 for feveral days. Sir Richard Child, iinding this houfe 

 inadequate to his domeftic elhblifliment, employed Mr. 

 Campbell to build the prefcnt fplendid manfion. It confifts 

 of a centre with two uniform flanks or wings, and extends 

 about 260 feet in front by nearly 80 feet in depth. The 

 middle portion has a noble pediment, fupported by fix co- 

 lumns of the Corinthian order, whicli rell on a bold pro- 

 jecting bafement. This forms the entrance, by a doubl* 

 flight of fleps, to the great hall and faloon, the former of 

 which meafurcs 51 feet by 36, and 36 feet in height; and 

 the latter forms a cube of 30 feet. Thefe communicate 

 with a double fuite of ftate apartments, which extend along 

 the whole of both fronts, and are connected at the fouth 

 end by a grand ball-room, which is 64 feet by 24. In ftrid 

 accordance with the principal front, and imitative of the 

 ftyle of Italian villas, the arcliiteft has railed a (lone para- 

 pet, with a feries of detached obelill<s, to form two fides of 

 the entrance court, the third being bounded by a ha-ha. 

 The whole of this area lias lately been laid out as a rich par- 

 terre or flower-garden ; and executed from the defigns of 

 Mr. Repton. Of a flyle and charafter with the exterior 

 arcbitedture is the interior finifhings and furniture of the 

 houfe. Thus formed and thus embcllifhed, Wanllead-houfe 

 may be faid to vie with many foreign palaces, and to rank 

 with thofe Englifh manfions which proclaim the riches and 

 fplendour of the country. At liie commencement of the 

 prefent century, this houfe was the refidence of the royal 

 family of France ; and here alfo was the firft fplendid enter- 

 tainment given to congratulate the naarquis, now duke of 

 Wellington, on his return from his victorious campaigns in 

 Spain and Portugal. Wanftead-houfe, with its conti^ruous 

 property, and extenfive eilates in EfTex, Hants, AVilts, York- 

 ftiire, and Dorfetlhire, came into the pofFelTion of AVilliam 

 Wellefley Pole, efq., by marriage, in March 1812, witli 

 Catherine Tylney Long, daughter and heirefs of fir Jame» 

 Tylney Long, bart. — Beauties of England and Wales, vol. v. 

 EfTex. By J. Brittonand E. W. Brayley, 1803. Lyfons' 

 Environs of London, vol. iv. 4to, 1796. 



WANT, in Zoology, a name fometimes given to the 

 mole. 



WANTAGE, anciently Wanatixc, in Geography, a 

 market-town of confidcrable antiquity in the hundred of 

 the fame name, in the county of Berks, England, is fituated 

 on the (kirts of the prolilic vale of White-horfe, at the dif- 

 tancc of 10 miles S.W. from Abingdon, i(^ miles N.W. by 

 W. from Reading, and 59 miles in llic fame bc.iring from 



London. 



