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Warbeck, who had many adherents in Ireland, in confe- 

 quence of which the king gave tliem this motto, which is Hill 

 ufed, " Intafta manet Waterfordia." In the reign of 

 James I., Waterford appears to have become turbulent iu 

 confequence of its attachment to the Roman Catholic reli- 

 gion, and in confequence was deprived of many privileges, 

 but thefe were rellored by Charles I. In the civil war, 

 Waterford was on the fide of the Catholics, and a meeting 

 of the popifll clergy was held there by the pope's nuncio in 

 1646. It was belieged by Cromwell without fuccefs ; but 

 was afterwards taken by Ireton. It has been already men- 

 tioned that Waterford was built by the Danes ; it was at lirll 

 called Portlargie, from lalrge, a thigh ; the courfe of the 

 river Suir, near tliis place, refembling that part of the 

 human body. The Engli(h gave it its prefent nanie, 

 as it is faid, from a ford in St. John's river, which empties 

 itfelf into the Suir. The city chiefly faces the north and 

 eaft, which, though feemingly a fituation not fo defirable, 

 being expofed to the chilhng blafts of thefe winds, yet the 

 heahhinefs of it makes amends for the bleaknefs of the ex- 

 pofure. A further advantage is its noble iituation, near the 

 confluence of three large and navigable rivers, the Suir, the 

 Nore, and the Barrow, by which inland commodities may 

 be fupplied at a very inconliderable expence of carriage, 

 from the very centre of the ifland, and from feven different 

 counties wafhed by thefe rivers, and other counties adjacent 

 to them. Over the river Suir, a fine wooden bridge has been 

 erefted within a few years, to facilitate the communication 

 with other places. A very flourilhing commerce with Eng- 

 land and other countries is the happy confequence of fuch a 

 fituation. Its exports of beef, butter, hides, tallow, pork, 

 and corn, are confiderable. The number of large hogs 

 weekly flaughtcred during the feafon exceeds 3000 on an 

 average. The quantity of butter annually exported exceeds 

 80,000 cafks. 



This city is alfo largely concerned in the Newfoundland 

 trade. The population is fuppofed to exceed 40,000, and 

 it ranks as the fourth town of Ireland in extent, and the fifth 

 in commercial importance. Packet-boats are eftabhflied be- 

 tween this port and Milford Haven, for the convenient inter- 

 courfe of the fouth of Ireland with England. This city 

 fends one member to the united parliament, eledled by the 

 freemen and freeholders. This eleftion is free, and, to the 

 honour of the elefiors, fir John Newport, one of the moil 

 fteady friends of Ireland, has been repeatedly returned. 

 The cathedral of Waterford, adorned with an elegant fteeple, 

 is a fine ftrufture. There is alfo a very fuperb Catholic 

 chapel, with feveral other places of worfhip. The other 

 public edifices are conftrufted with much elegance, and 

 effentially contribute to ornament the city. It is, however, 

 of more confequence to obferve, that its numerous charitable 

 inftitutions are well condudled, and liberally fupported. Its 

 houfe of induftry may ferve as a model for others. Its 

 fever hofpital was the firft in Ireland, and nearly the firll in 

 the united kingdom, and has been carried on with uniform 

 fuccefs. Without any wifh to take from the merit of other 

 worthy individuals, much of this praife is due to the exer- 

 tions of the Society of Friends, who are numerous in Water- 

 ford. This city is 74^ Irifh miles S.S.W. from Dublin. 

 Smith's Waterford. Carhfle's Ditlionary. Wakefield, 



&c. 



Waterford and Lismore, Bi/hnpric of. The firft of 

 thefe fees, which is confined to the eaftern part of the county 

 of Waterford, and is very fmall, was founded by the Oil- 

 men in the nth century; but that of Lifmore, which in- 

 cludes the greateft part of Waterford county, and a confi- 

 derable portion of Tipperary, was founded in the feventh 



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century. The union took place in 1536. The extent of 

 the union is, in Irifli miles, 39 by 29, and in Englifh 49 by 

 37. The number of Irifli acres 354,80c, wliich are divided 

 into 106 parifhes. Forty-four of thefe are impropriate, and 

 the reft form only 44 benefices, of which, wlien Dr. Beau- 

 fort pubhflied his account, only 30 had churches, and only 

 8 glebe-houfes. Many churches and glebe-houfes have been 

 built throughout Ireland within a few years. Beaufort. 



Waterford, a populous and compact incorporated poft- 

 village, in the S.E. corner of Half Moon, Sr.ratoga county, 

 on the W. bank of the Hudfon ; 10 miles N. of Albany. 

 It is the moft populous town in the county, and has the 

 greateft ftiare of trade. It is handfomely laid out, in 5 E. 

 and W. ftreets, interfefting at right angles. It has 190 

 houfes and ftores, 2 houfes of worfhip, and fome other 

 buildings, together with three fchools on the Lancafter plaa. 

 It is well iituated for a manufailuring town ; and in 1812 a 

 wharf, 320 yards long, was conftrudled, and a canal along 

 it to the channel of the Hudfon. 



Waterford, a town of the ftate of Vermont, in the 

 county of Caledonia, on the W. bank of the Connefti- 

 cut, formerly called Littleton, containing 12S9 inhabitants; 

 40 miles N. of Norwich. 



Wateuford, a poft-town in the diftridl of Maine, and 

 county of Oxford, containing 188 inhabitants ; qj miles 

 N. of York. 



Waterford, a poft-town of Virginia ; 20 miles N.W. 

 of Wafhington. 



Waterford, a town of Connefticut, in the county of 

 New London ; containing 2185 inhabitants. 



Waterford, or Le Bcuf, a poft-town of the ftate of 

 Pennfylvania, in the county of Erie, containing 162 inhabit- 

 ants ; 370 miles N.W. of Wafhington. 



Waterford, a townfhip of New Jerfey, in Gloucefter 

 county, containing 2105 inhabitants; 40 miles S. of Tren- 

 ton Alfo, a town of Ohio, in the county of AVafhingtOD, 



containing 701 inhabitants. 



WATERGUCHEE, or Waterquechie, a river of 

 Vermont, which runs into the Connefticut, N. lat. 43° 34'. 

 W. long. 72'= 18'. 



WATERING, in Gardening, the pratlice or means of 

 rendering feeds, plants, fhrubs, and trees, as well as garden- 

 grounds, properly and fuitably moift for the purpofe of their 

 better, more ready, and more healthy germination, growth, 

 and taking root, when fown, planted out, or fet, and after- 

 wards for continuing them in the neceflary ilates of vegeta- 

 tion, growth, and increafe, efpecially when the weather is 

 dry, hot, and parching. It is alfo occafionally ufeful in 

 preventing fome forts of fruit-trees from being dellroved by 

 the attacks of different forts of iiifeCls, as well as for the 

 clearing them of other kinds. Il i^ occafionally equally 

 effential for the feeds and plants in the full gronnj, as for 

 thofe in pots in it, and thofe in green-houfes, glafs-cafes, 

 hot-beds, hot-houfes, ftoves, and other fimilar fituations ; 

 fuch, for inftance, in the former kinds, as the feeds in drills, 

 beds, and other open places, different young plants in the 

 fame fituations, numerous others of the cutting, flip, off- 

 fet, and other fimilar kinds, which have been njwly pricked 

 out, planted, or traniplanted, not only at the time of firft 

 putting them out, but now and then afterwards, when dry 

 hot weather is prefent ; alfo in many kinds of newly-planted 

 young trees and fhrubs in the fpring and early autumnal 

 plantings ; and to all the plants which are in pots in the open 

 air, whether they may be of the more or Icfs hardy kind?, 

 during the droughty feafons of fpring, fummer, and early 

 autumn ; and in the latter defcription, to all the fine tender 



kinds 



