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that of fix months in the temperate climate in which he 

 ' writes. Perhaps, it is faid, no part of the globe would ex- 

 perience fo much benefit from the ufe of fteam as a rice 

 : country. 



The writer having, by fubftituting copper tubes for thofe 

 'of tin, which were at firft employed, but tinned to prevent 

 'mifchief, atlaft fucceeded in getting them fufficiently tight, 

 [proceeded better in his trials : the fteamed rice remained 

 ifree from duft, and it is fuppofed that fteam may be ren- 

 idered very ferviceable in feparating the hulk from the grain 

 in that cafe, as well as in barley, &c. ; nay, that it may be 

 'extended to flax, and many other articles. 



The attention of the writer more lately has been particu- 

 larly attrafted, by finding fome grain that had been fteamed 

 :i.j grow, when fown, in repeated trials ; and from the 

 very flourifhing ftate of what is come up, and his own ob- 

 servations, he is led to think that the blight in wheat might 

 ibe materially prevented by having it fteamed before it is 

 ifown. It was afterwards difcovered that the flourilhing 

 (condition of the wheat fown after fteaming furprifed every 

 •one who faw it ; and it is thought to be an objed; worthy of 

 Iconfidcration. 



' It was found, on taking a certain quantity of wheat that 

 ihad been fteamed, and of fuch as had not, and fending them 

 to the mill, that there was an increafe of nearly five per 

 'cent, in the bread produced from the wheat that was 



I ifteamed : but it is not certainly known if this difference 

 would have arifen, if the latter had been dried in the fun or 

 an oven, as fometimes praftifed there, but which is trouble- 

 fomc. The beft bread made there is, it is faid, from a mix- 

 ture of fine American flour and ifland wheat ; ard the 

 iwriter has no doubt, that if a baker was to make ufe of 

 llleam, he might, in the proportion of wheat in the quar- 

 Itern loaf, fave from five to ten per cent. 

 ' The writer intends to try the advantages to be gained by 

 fteaming feeds to be fent to foreign countries. Bifcuit, he 

 is convinced, may be kept any length of time by it ; but 

 from its fize, the operation of fteaming it is confiderably 

 (more difficult than grain. Wheat provided in any way, in 



i general, it is faid, gets better and more free from the weevil 



|by fteaming. See the Paper. 



; The weevil, too, is faid to be very injurious and deftruftive 



Ito the wheat and Indian corn in America, fo that the means 

 of preventing it muft be of great utility and confequence. 



; WEFERLINGEN, in Geography, a town of Weft- 



^phalia, in the principality of Halberftadt, infulated in the 

 duchy of Magdeburg ; 25 miles N. of Halberftadt. 



, WEFT, a kind of web, or thing woven ; as, a lueft or 



'trefs of hair. See Web, Hair, Tissue, &c. 



j Weft, or Woof, the crofs-threads of cloth. See 



I Weaving. 



I WEGELEBEN, in Geography, a town of Weftphalia, 



iin the principality of Halberftadt ; 5 miles N. of Quedling- 



iburg. 



' WEGERSDORF, a town of Pruffia, in Oberland ; 3 



ImilesS. of Salfeldt. 



: WEGG's Island, a fmall ifland in Hudfon's Bay. N, 



1 lat. 63° 20'. W. long. 90° 25'. 



I Wegg'j Lake, a lake of North America. N. lat. 50° 



! 25'. W. long. 92° 25'. 



I WEGGIS, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of 



I Lucerne, and capital of a bailiwick, fituated on the north 



I fide of the Lake of Lucerne ; 7 miles E. of Lucerne. 



I WEGSTADEL, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 



j Leitmeritz ; 10 miles S.E. of Leitmeritz. 



j WEGSTAID, or Vegestaid, a town of the biftiopric 

 of Paflau, infulated in Auftria ; 12 miles E. of Paffau. 



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WEHAX, Lill, and Stou, two fmall iflands on the E. 

 fide of the Gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 60° 4c'. E. lonir. 

 21° 7'. 



WEHEN, a town of the principality of Nalfau Saar- 

 bruck Ufingen; lomiles N.N.W. of Mentz. 



WEHLEN, or Wi aLAU, or Wehl-Stddtel, a town of 

 Saxony ; 5 miles S. of Pirna. 



WEHMALAIS, a town of Sweden, in the government 

 of Abo ; 20 miles N. of Abo. 



WEHNER, a town of Eaft Friefland ; 13 miles S. of 

 Emden. 



WEHR, a river of the duchy of Baden, which runs into 

 the Rhine, 4 miles W. of Seckingen. 



WEHRENDORF, a town of Weftphalia, in the 

 county of Ravenftjurg ; 5 miles W.S.W. of Vlothow. 



V\/'EHRENSEE, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 6 

 miles N. of Luttenberg. 



WEHRHEIM, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of Naflau Dillenburg ; 18 miles S.S.W. of DiUenburg. 



WEIBSTADT, a town of the duchy of Baden; 28 

 miles E.S.E. of Manheim. N. lat. 40° 17'. E. lomr. 

 8° 59'. ^ 



WEICHOLTZHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg ; 6 miles N.N.E. of Schweinfurt. 

 WEICHSEL. See Vistula. 



WEICHSELBURG, a town of Saxony, in the lord- 

 ftiip of Schonburg ; 14 miles N.N.W. of Waldenburg. 



Weichselburg, or IVeixelburg, a town of the duchy of 

 Carniola ; 28 miles W. of Landftrafs. N. lat. 46° 5'. E. 

 long. 14° 15'. 



WEICHSELMUNDE, a fort built to defend the city 

 of Dantzic, on the Viftula. In i 734 it was taken by the 

 Ruffians ; 4 miles N. of Dantzic. 



WEICHTERSBACH, or Wechterbach, a town of 

 Germany, in the county of Ifenburg, on the Kinzig ; 23 

 miles E. of Francfort on the Maine. 



WEICKERSBERG, or Weikersperg, a town of 

 Auftria ; 5 miles W. of Efferding. 



WEICKERSHEIM, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Hohenlohe, on the Tauber ; 23 miles N.N.E. 

 of Ohringen. N. lat. 49° 30'. E. long. 9° 58'. 



WEIDA, a river of Silefia, which rifes on the confines 

 of Poland, and joins the Oder, near Breflau. 



WEIDELBACH, a town of the principahty of An- 

 fpach ; 5 miles S.W. of Feuchtwang. 



WEIDEMBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Culmbach ; 7 miles E.S.E. of Bayreuth. 



WEIDEN, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 

 Sulftjach, on the Nab ; 17 miles N.E. of Sulfbach. N. lat. 

 49° 40'. E. long. 12° 3' — Alfo, a town of the bifliopric 

 of Bamberg ; 4 miles E. of Weifmain. 



WEIDENBACH, a town of Germany, in the marg- 

 gravate of Anfpach ; 5 miles S. S.E. of Anfpach. 



WEIDENBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Culmbach ; 7 miles E.S.E. of Bayreuth. N. lat. 

 49° 55'. E. long. 11° 46'. 



WEIDERAU, a town of Saxony, in the lordfliip of 

 Schonburg; 4 miles N.E. of Penig. 



WEIERN, a town of Bavaria ; 23 miles S.S.E. of 

 Munich. 



WEIF. See Waif. 



WEIGEL, Erhard, in Biography, a German mathe- ' 

 matician, was born at Weida, in Nordgau, in 1625, and 

 educated at Wenfiedel, whither his parents were obliged to 

 remove, on account of perfecution, when he was three years 

 old ; and afterwards at the Gymnafium of Haile, where he 

 enjoyed the advantage of being inftrufted in mathematics by 



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