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; ditches, as in the praftices of watering and draining of land, 



or othervidfe. 

 ! "WATER-lVorm, Reprodudion of, in Natural Hi/lory. See 

 i Reproduction, and IVafer-WoRM. See alfo Vermes. 

 i Water Key, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the bay of 

 ! Honduras, near the coaft of Mexico. N. lat. 17° 30'. W. 

 , long. 88° 40'. 



Water Key, a fmall ifland in the Spanifli Main, near the 

 [ Mofquito (hore. N. lat. 12° 15'. W. long. 82° 55'. 

 I Water Key, South, a fmall ifland in the bay of Hondu- 

 |ras. N. lat. 16- i<y. W. long. 88^ 45'. 

 I Water Point, a cape on the ealt coail of Java. S. lat. 

 17° 55'. E. long. 1 14° 33'. 



Water Sound, a ftrait of the North fca, between South 

 Ronaldfha and Barra, two of the Orkney iflands. 



WATERBOROUGH.atown in the diftria of Maine, 

 and county of York, containing 1395 inhabitants ; 15 miles 

 !N.W. of Wells. 



WATERBURY, a town of the ftate of Connefticut, 

 containing 2874 inhabitants ; 20 miles S.W. of Hartford. 



WATEREE, a river which rifes in the Allegany Moun- 

 , tains, then runs foutherly into South Carolina, and changing 

 |its name to Wateree ; after a courfe of about 120 miles, it 

 joins the Cangaree, and then takes the name of Santee. 

 ; WATERFORD, a maritime county of Ireland, in the 

 [province of Munftcr, having the county of Cork on the 

 'weft, the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny on the north, 

 the county of Wexford on the eaft, and St. George's Chan- 

 ,nel on the fouth. It extends from eaft to weft 40 Irifti, or 

 51 Englilh miles ; and from north to fouth 23 Irifti, or 29 

 [Englifti miles. Its breadth, however, varies much, and is 

 lin one part not more than fix miles. The area is ftated to 

 ibe 262,800 acres, or 410 fquare miles Iri(h, which are 

 iequal to 425,692 acres, or 665 fquare miles Englifli. Dr. 

 'Beaufort ftates the number of houfes to be 18,796 ; and 

 ithe number of inhabitants at leaft 1 10,000. The num- 

 ber of parifties is 74, in which there were 21 churches, 

 idivided between the fees of Waterford and Lifmore. Wa- 

 'terford returns four members to the imperial parliament, two 

 ifor the county, one for the city of Waterford, and one for 

 'the borough of Dungarvan. The county of Waterford is 

 lin general hilly, and the northern part is particularly rough 

 .and mountainous ; in the fouth and eaft the foil is rich and 

 'produftive. In the weft of the county, on the north of the 

 i£lackwater, there is a ridge called the Knockmekdo-wn moun- 

 itains, many parts of which are very high, though Mr. 

 Twifs is mittaken in calling them the higheft in Ireland. 

 ; The Commeragh mountains cover a great extent of country 

 [between Dungarvan and Clonmell. Thefe hills, except in 

 la few defolate and craggy fpots, afford pafture to fmall 

 'cows, which produce a great quantity of butter. In the 

 ■ eaftern part agriculture has been much improved, and the 

 ' farms are not furpafted in any part of Ireland. 



The river Blackwater flows through the weft of thio county 

 I into the bay of Youghal, and is navigable to Cappoquin. 

 I The banks of this river are peculiarly beautiful, efpecially 

 ; near Lifmore. The river Bride, which joins the Black- 

 ; water, paffes near the town of Tallow, and is fo far navi- 

 I gable for large boats. The gentle and majeftic Suir forms 

 t the northern boundary, dividing it from the counties of 

 1 Tipperary and Kilkenny, and running eaft till joined by the 

 I Barrow ; when, turning fouth, they form an eftuary, 9 

 j miles long, and 2 broad, which is the harbour of Water- 

 , ford. At Dunmore, near the extremity of this, on the 

 \ Waterford fide, a very line pier is building, for the protec- 

 j tion of the packets, and of fuch vcftels as may put into this 

 harbour. 



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Dr. Charles Smith pubhflicd " The ancient and prefent 

 State of the County and City of Waterford," in the year 

 V'^^xV^^"^'^ "'^^ reprinted in 1772. In this work, he ftates 

 the Menapu to have been inhabitants of this county and 

 Wexford in the time of Ptolemy, which Menapii he fup- 

 pofes to have been a colony from the Belgic Menapii, men- 

 tioned by Casfar. The Defii are ftated to have been a 

 powerful clan at the time of the Englifli invafion. Thefe 

 came from the county of Meath, and gave name to the ba- 

 ronies of Defies within and Defies without Drum, and their 

 defcendants are now called Dcafy. Though the power of 

 the Defii was aboliftied by the Englifli, yet, for many years 

 after, the O'Feolains, kings of the Defii, are occafionally 

 mentioned in the Irifti annals. Henry 1 1, in 1 177 made a grant 

 of the city of Waterford, with all the circumjacent province, 

 to Robert Le Poer, his marftial, from whom are defcended 

 not only the family of Le Poer, the head of which was 

 created, in 1535, earl of Tyrone, but alfo the feveral re- 

 fpeftable families of Power, fettled at Claftimore, Gurteen, 

 &c. By marriage, the eftates and honours of the Le Poers 

 came to the family of Beresford, the head of which is now 

 marquis of Waterford, and has a noble feat at Curraghmore, 

 in this county. In the civil war, Waterford had its ftiare of 

 difturbance, and Cromwell himfelf was engaged unfuccefs- 

 fully in the fiege of its capital. Dr. Smith's Topography 

 is ftill interefting to the reader, from the various information 

 he collefted refpefting the different families fettled, though 

 many of them are now extinft or removed. His natural hif- 

 tory is very defective, yet it is the beft hitherto publiflied. 

 He drew attention to the fiflieries, and to the Nymph bank, 

 yet even now, though employment is fo much wanted, the 

 filheries remain without encouragement. In his enumera- 

 tion of eminent men born in this county, we find the names 

 of Congreve the poet, and of Robert Boyle, who was bora 

 in the caftle of Lifmore. The duke of Devonftiire, as de- 

 fcendant of the eldeft branch of the Boyle family, poffeffes 

 the towns of Dungarvan, Lifmore, and Tallow, with a great 

 traft of land, which gives him a preponderating influence in 

 the county. Beaufort's Memoir of Ireland, &c. 



Waterford, a city and fea-port town on the fouth fide of 

 the river Suir, in Ireland, capital of the county of the fame 

 name. This river is embanked by a noble quay, extending 

 the whole length of the town, to which veffels of great bur- 

 den can come up, though the largeft ftiips generally lie a 

 few miles lower down. Like moft of the other fea-ports of 

 Ireland, it was originally built by the Oftmen or Danes ; 

 and is faid to have been founded A.D. 853, nearly at the 

 fame time as Dubhn and Limerick. Waterford feems to 

 have been the chief fettlement of this people, for we find 

 the kings of the Danes of Waterford often mentioned in 

 the old annals. Strongbow, foon after his landing in Ire- 

 land, took Waterford by affault in 1171, and in 1172 he 

 gave it up to king Henry II., v/ho landed at Waterford, 

 and received there the fubmiffion, not only of his Englifti 

 fubjefts, but alfo of many Irifli chiefs. King John alfo 

 landed at this city, and made it his refidence for fome 

 months. The fteady adherence of Waterford to the Eng- 

 lifti caufed it to be engaged in almoft conftant warfare with 

 its neighbours ; and in return it received many marks of 

 royal favour. Richard II. landed twice at Waterford. 

 When Simnel was crowned king by the earl of Kildare, the 

 lord deputy, the citizens of Waterford refufed to admit 

 him, adhering fteadily to Henry VII., in confequence of 

 which he addreffed a letter to them, thanking them for their 

 adherence, and giving them power to feize the rebels and 

 their effefts, and to employ the latter for their own advan- 

 tage. They behaved with the fame loyalty againft Perkin 



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