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pointment to the Lucafian profefforthip produced, he was 

 induced, for the honour of his country, to retort to tlie 

 charge of Lalande, the French allronomer, who, in his Ufc 

 of Condorcet, afTerts, that in 1766 there was no iirll-rate 

 analyft in England. In order to repel this accufation, he 

 takes occafion, in a letter to Dr. Mafltelyne, to mention with 

 refpeft the writings of feveral celebrated Britidi mathema- 

 ticians, two of whom were hving in 1764, and then to take 

 notice of his own difcoveries, many of which had been pub- 

 lifhed before that year ; it ftiould be remembered, that tliis 

 account was not publiihed by himielf. It is not without 

 reafon that he intimates the neglett with which his writings 

 were treated ; the faft is certain, and it was owing 

 partly to the abftrufenefs of the fubjeAs, but principally to 

 the perplexed ftyle and manner in which they are difcuffcd. 

 His principal works, befides thofe that have been mentioned, 

 are " Meditationes Algebraics," 1770 ; " Proprietates Al- 

 gebraicarum Curvarum," 1772 ; and " Meditationes Ana- 

 lytic*," 1773, 1774, I77S> 1776- His papers in the Phi- 

 lofophical Tranfadlions may be found in vols. hii. liv. Iv. 

 Ixix. Ixxvi. Ixxvii. Ixxviii. Ixxix. Ixxxi. Ixxxiv. For thefe 

 communications he was honoured with fir Godfrey Copley's 

 medal. Nichols's Anecd. of the i8th century. Gen. 



Waring, in Geography, a town of Virginia ; 15 miles 

 E.S.E. of Port Royal. 



WARINGSTOWN, a town of the county of Down, 

 Ireland, about 3 miles from Lurgan, where the linen 

 manufafture is extenfively carried on ; 67 miles N. from 

 Dubhn. 



W A RISE, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Mofellc ; 4 miles S. of Boulay. 



WARKA, a town of the duchy of Warfaw. In 165(^1, 

 the Poles were defeated here by the Swedes ; 30 miles S. of 

 Warfaw. 



WARKALLEN, a towni of PrufTian Lithuania; 4 

 miles N. of Gumbinnen. 



WARKULLEN, a mountain of Sweden, in the 

 province of Well Gothland, from which may be feen 23 

 lakes, great and fmall. 



WARKWORTH, a market-town in the eaft divifion 

 of Morpeth ward, and county of Northumberland, England, 

 is fituated on the banks of the river Coquet, dillant 7 miles 

 S.E. from Alnwick, and 305 miles N. by W. from London. 

 It confifts chiefly of one principal llreet ; and in the popu- 

 lation return of tlie year i8ii is ilated to contain 108 

 houfes, and 5(^)8 inhabitants ; the latter are moRly employed 

 in taking and curing falmon. A weekly market is held on 

 Thurfdays ; and three fairs annually. Warkworth is a 

 borough by ancient prefcription, and is governed by a mayor 

 chofen by tlie free burgelTes. In the centre of the town is 

 the market-place, having a (lone crofs inclofed in a fpacious 

 area. The church exhibits fome remains of ancient archi- 

 tecture, and has a fpire one hundred feet in heiglit. Adjoin- 

 ing to the church was formerly a cell for two Benedidtine 

 monks from Durham, for whofe maintenance here Nicholas 

 de Farniiam, bilhop of Durham, who died A.D. 1257, ap- 

 propriated the church of Braiikeilon, which was confirmed 

 by Walter de Kirkham, his fuccelTor. Over the Co(iuct is 

 a Hone bridge of three arches ; on the middle of it is a pillar, 

 and at its fouth end an ancient tower. At the fouth end of 

 the town is Warkworth cadle, the ancient refidence of the 

 earls of Northumberland : in Leland's time it was, he fays, 

 " Well mcnteyned ;" but in 1672 its timber and lead were 

 granted to one of their agents, and the principal parts of it 

 unroofed. It contains witliiu its moat above five acres. 

 The whole Hands on a rock, aud it3 walls were well guarded 



with towerc. The keep is fquare, with the angles canted 

 off, .ind having at thc]middle ot each lide a projetting turret, 

 femi-hexagon at its bafe, and of the fame heigiit as the reft 

 of the ftruflure. It contains a chapel, and a variety of 

 fpacious apartments, aud is finiflied with a lofty watch- 

 tower, commanding an almoll unbounded profpedl. Half a 

 mile above tlie calllc is tlie Hermitage of Warkworth, cele- 

 brated in 1 77 1, by the late bifhop of Uromore, in his ballad 

 of the " Hermit of Warkworth." It was only for one 

 pried or hermit, but its origin and foundation are uncertain. 

 The earl of Northumberland, in his grant to the lall hermit 

 in 1572, calls it " miii armitage, belded in a rock of Hone, 

 in my parke, in Iionour of the Holy Trinity." The mod 

 perfeft and curious part of it conliHs of a chapel, facrilly, 

 and veftibule, hewn out of a fine freellone-rock, twenty feet 

 high, and ovorfhudowed witli (hrubs and llately forell trees. 

 The chapel is about eighteen feet long, and feven feet broad 

 and high ; and executed with 'great neatnefs, in columns, 

 groins, and arches, in the old llyle. Parallel with the 

 chapel, live feet wide, and ilretching five feet round its weft 

 end, is the facrilly, lighted from the chapel with a window, 

 and having the remains of an altar in it, and over its door a 

 fliield, with inllruments of the Pafhon. Its well end com- 

 municates with the vellibule, in wliich are two fquare niches, 

 and from which has been a way into an apartment of ma- 

 fonry, having remains of a chimney. A ilaircafe led from 

 the chapel door to the top of the clilf, where were the her- 

 mit's houfe and garden. — Beauties of England and Wales, 

 vol. xii., Northumberland ; by the Rev. J. Hodgfon, 1813. 

 Hiftoi-y and Antiquities of Northumberland ; by Nicholfon 

 and Burn, 2 vols. 4to. 



WARLAX, a fmall ifland on the eatl fide of the gulf 

 of Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 18'. K. long. 2 1^^ 29'. 



WARLEY, a town(hip of the Weft Riding of York- 

 fhire ; 3 miles N.W. of Halifax. 



WARMBRUNN, a town of Sllefia, in the principality 

 of Jauer, celebrated for its warm baths ; 3 miles S.S.W. of 

 Hirfchberg. 



WARMELAND, a province of Sweden, bounded on 

 the north by Norway and the province of Dalecarlia ; on 

 the eatl by Wellmanland and Nericia ; on the fouth by the 

 Wenner Lake ; and on the well by Norway ; about 20O 

 miles in length from north to fouth, and 130 in breadth 

 from eaft to weft. This country is almoft every where 

 mountainous ; but the eaft and fouth parts are more level 

 and fertile than the weft and north parts. However, the 

 woods and mines of filver, lead, copper, and iron, with the 

 forges, founderies, &c. belonging to them, furni(h the in- 

 habitants of the latter with a great variety of employments. 

 In the year 172'), fome pure filver was found in an iron 

 mine not far from Philiplladt, and tiie memory of this ex- 

 traordinary circunillance has been preferved in fome medals 

 ftruck on the occafion. The chief occupation of the inha- 

 bitants is mining, fmelting, &c. together with filhing, and a 

 little agriculture. Their trade confifts moftly in maft.sj 

 planks, timbtr, the bark of birch-trees, &c. The chief 

 river in this provii.cc is the Clara, or Stor Elbe, in which 

 there is a very profitable falmon-filhery. The principal 

 lake, befides the Wenner, is the Fry-ken, which is eight 

 Swedifti miles in length, but narrow : it has commuiiicalioa 

 with the Wenner lake. 



WARMENSTEINACH, a town of Germany, in the 

 principality of Culmbach ; 9 miles E.N.E. of Bayreuth. 



WARMINSTER, a eonfidemble market-town, of an- 

 tiquity, in the hundred of the fame name, and the county > { 

 Wilts, England, is fituated near the wcftern confines of the 

 county, at the diftancc of 20 miles W.N.W. from Sahf- 



bury. 



