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miles in length, 



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from E. to W., and z$ in breadth. N.lat. 

 o" 2' to o'^ 30'. E. long. 130° 31' to 131° 40'. 



WAYNE, a town of America, in the diftriA of Maine, 

 and county of Kennebeck, containing 819 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in Greene county, con- 

 taining 588 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, 

 in Crawford county, containing 502 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Pennfylvania, in Mifflin county, containing 

 1501 inhabitants. — Alfo, a county of Pennfylvania, con- 

 taining 4125 inhabitants Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in 



the county of Adams, containing 9c i inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Ohio, in the county of Butler, containing 1 135 

 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in the county of 

 Columbiana, containing 377 iiiiiabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip 

 of Ohio, in JefFerfon county, containing 1 16 1 inhabitants. 

 — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Knox county, containing 

 478 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Montgo- 

 mery county, containing 431 inhabitants Alfo, a town- 

 fhip of Ohio, in Pickaway county, containing 742 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, in Scioto county, con- 

 taining 398 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Ohio, iu 

 Tufcarawa county, containing 191 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Ohio, in Warren county, containing 1862 in- 

 habitants — Alfo, a county of Kentucky, contaming 5393 

 inhabitants, of whom 226 are flaves; the town Monticilio 

 contains 37 perfons, including 4 flaves. — Alfo, a county of 

 North Carolina, containing 8687 inhabitants, 2756 being 

 (laves. — Alfo, a county of Georgia, containing 354 in- 

 habitants Alfo, a county of the Miffiflippi territory, con- 

 taining 1253 inhabitants, 262 bting flaves. — Alfo, a large 

 townfhip of New York, in the N.E. part of Steuben county, 

 15 miles E. of Bath, called Frederick's town till the year 

 1808: it has apoft-office called Rofcommon. The S. part is 

 hilly, but the central and other parts are arable and prd- 

 duftive. The timber is chiefly oak and walnut, ,ind fome 

 pine on the hills. Here are a congregation of Baptifts, and 

 a competent number of fchool-houfes. The fettlement 

 commenced about 1794, and the population is rapidly in - 

 creafing. In 1810, the number of people was 1025, and 

 that of lenatorial eleftors 57. 



WAYNESBOROUGH, a town of Georgia, contain- 

 ing 1 1 1 inhabitants. 



WAYS and Means, Committee of. See Supplies. 



WAYTE, in Geography, a rocky iflet in the ftraits of 

 Macaffar, near the weft coaft of Celebes. S. lat. 0° 40'. 

 E. long. 119" i8'. 



WAYTO, a townontheS.E. coaft of the ifle of Timor. 

 S. lat. 8° 39'. E. long. 126° 9'. 



WAY-WlSER, an inftrument for meafuring the road, 

 or diftance gone ; called alfo perambulator, and podometer, 

 or pedometer. 



Mr. LovcU Edgworlh communicated to the Tociety of 

 Arts, &c. an account of a way-wifer of his in nation ; 

 for which he obtained a filver medal. This machitie con- 

 fifts of a nave, formed of two round fiat pieces of wood, one 

 inch thick and eight inches in dianneter. In each of thefe 

 pieces there are cut eleven grooves, five-cightlis of an inch 

 wide and three-eighths deep ; and when the two pieces are 

 fcrewed together, they enclofe eleven fpokes, forming a 

 wheel of fpokes, without a rim : the circumference of the 

 wheel is exaftly one pole ; and the inllrument may be calily 

 taken to pieces, and put up in a fmall compafs. On each 

 of the fpokes there is driven a fcrril, to prevent them from 

 wearing out ; and in the centre of the nave, there is a fquare 

 hole to receive an axle. Into this hole there is inferted an 

 iron or brafs rod, which has the thread of a very fine fcrew 

 worked upon it from one end to the other ; upon this fcrew 



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hangs a nut which, as the rod turns round with the wheel, 

 advances or recedes towards or from the nave of the wheel. 

 The nut does this becaufeit is prevented from turning round 

 with the axle, by having its centre of gravity placed at fome 

 diftance below the rod, fo as always to hang perpendicularly- 

 like a plummet. Two fides of this fcrew are filed away- 

 flat, and have figures engraved upon them to fhew by the 

 progrefTive motion of the nut, how many circumvolutions 

 the wheel and its axle have made : on one fide the divifions 

 of miles, furlongs, and poles, are in a direft, and on the other 

 fide the fame divifions are placed in a retrograde order. 



If the perfon who ufes this machine places it at his right 

 fide, holding the axle loofely in his hands, and walks for- 

 ward, the wheel will revolve, and the nut advance from the 

 extremity of the rod towards the nave of the wheel. When 

 two miles have been meafured, the nut will have come clofe 

 to the wheel. B'jt to continue this meafurement, nothing 

 more is neceffary than to place the wheel at the left hand of 

 tlie operator ; and the nut will, as he continues his courfe, 

 recede from the axle-tree, till another fpace of two miles is 

 meafured. 



It appears from the conttruftion of this machine, that it 

 operates like circular compafTes ; and does not, like the 

 common-wheel way-wifer, meafure the furface of every ftone 

 and mole-hiU, &c. but pafFes over moft of the obftacles it 

 meets with, and meafures the chords only, inftead of the arcs 

 of any curved furfaces upon which it rolls. 



WAYWODE. See Waiwode. 



W£A.CHIN, in Botany, the name given by the Indians 

 of America to the maize, or Indian corn, which they culti- 

 vated for bread before we knew them. 



WEADINGSTEDE, in Geography, a town of the 

 duchy of Holftein ; 7 miles E. of Weflingburen. 



WEAK, or Easy Branch, in the Manege. See Ban- 

 quet, and Banquet -Z/n(r. 



WsAK-Land, in Agriculture, that which is of a light, thin, 

 open nature, and which is deficient in ftaple, or the quantity 

 of proper mouldy material. It is direftly contrary to that 

 of the cold watery kind, which often changes the nature and 

 quality of the produce, and retards vegetation in the early 

 fpring, or during wet feafons, as it forwaj-ds the growth of 

 the crops that are put upon it, but is frequently defeAive 

 in the amount of produce which is afforded. It is to be im- 

 proved by the ufe of proper earthy fubilances and manures, 

 according as the quality of it may be, and by keeping the 

 furface of it as much covered as poffible by fuitable green 

 crops, to prevent the too great expofure of it to the aftion 

 of the fun and w^inds. Such other means, of the fame kind, 

 as the nature, circumftances, and fituation of the land will 

 permit, may likewife be purfued. See Soil. 



WEAK-Pt:l/e. See Pulse. 



WEAKY, in Agriculture, a term ufed to fignify juicy, in 

 contradillinAion to that of dry or hufky, as applied to 

 different kinds of food. 



WEALD, or WEALD-Land, a name applied to a kind 

 of wild woody traft of ground of a ftiff heavy quahty in 

 fome fouthern diilridls, .as thofe of Kent, Suffex, &c. 



It is moflly ot a deep tenacious clayey, marly, and 

 loamy nature, but occafionally intermixed with earths of a 

 lighter .ind more open fort. The writer of the account of 

 the agriculture of the former of the above counties, ftates, 

 that the weald part of that diftrift was in ancient times an 

 immenfe wood or foreft, inhabited only by herds of deer and 

 hogs, and belonged wholly to the king. That by degrees 

 it became peopled, and interfpeifed with villages and towns; 

 and by plcce-meal, was, for the moft part, cleared of its 

 wood, and converted into tillage and paflure. There arc, 



however, 



