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of Hone, with ftronfj framed wood-work, in fomewhat the 

 above manner, there are many different contrivances calcu- 

 lated for different ufes, fuch as locks for fecuring large fifh, 

 places for taking and preferving thofe of the fmaller forts, 

 and different others. . See Dr. Anderfon's Treatife on the 

 Ereftion of Weirs, &c. where a full explanation of the 

 principles anc! manner of conftrufting them will be found. 



WEIS See, in Geography, a lake of the duchy of Carin- 

 thia ; lo miles N.W. of Velach. 



WEIS A, 3 town of Saxony, in the circle of Erzgebirg ; 

 ,3 miles S.S.W. of Wolkcnftein. 



WEISBRON. See Vesprin. 



WEISCHE Oppa, a river of Silefia, which runs N.E. 

 into the Schwartze Oppa. 



WEISCHEN>'ELD,a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric 

 of Bamberg ; 18 miles E.S.E. of Bamberg. N. lat. 49'' 

 49'. E. long. 1 1° 19'. 



WEISDORF, a town of Germany, in the principality 

 of Culmbacli ; 3 "liles E. of Munchberg. 



WEISEN, a town of PrufTia, in the province of Ober- 

 land ; 10 miles W.S.W. of Leibftadt. 



WEISENBAD, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 

 Erzgebirg ; 3 miles S.S.E. of Wolkenftein. 



WEISENBERG, a townfhip of Pennfylvania ; 60 miles 

 N. of Philadelphia. 



WEISENBERG, or Wossberk, a town of Lufatia ; 

 8 miles E. of Budiffen. N. lat. 51^ 12'. E. long. 

 14° 40'. 



WEISENBRUN, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric 

 of Bamberg ; 24 miles S. of Cronach. 



WEISENBURG, a town of Auftria ; 12 miles S.S.W. 

 of St. Polten. 



Weisenbukg. See Weissemburu. 



WEISENHORN, a town of the duchy of Baden, 

 fituated in a county to which it gives name, on the Roth ; 

 II miles S.E. of Ulm. N. lat. 48° 17'. E. long. 10" 8'. 



WEISENKIRCHEN, a town of Auftria; 11 miles 

 5.W. of TuUn. 



WEISFURT, a river of Silefia, which runs into the 

 Oder, 3 miles below Beuthen. 



WEISKIRCH, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Boleflaw ; 3 miles S.S.E. of Krottau. 



WEISKIRCHEN, or Hraxitze, a town of Moravia, 

 in the circle of Prerau ; 15 miles E.N.E. of Prerau. N. 

 lat. 49° 30'. E. long. 17*^43'. 



WEISMAYN, a town of Bavaria, in the bifhopric of 

 Bamberg ; 20 miles N.E. of Bamberg. N. lat. 50° 6'. 

 E. long. 11° 18'. 



WEISSE, Christian-Felix, \n Biography, a German 

 poet, was born in 1726, at Annaberg, in Saxony, and 

 educated, iirfl at the Gymnafuim of Altenburg, and after- 

 wards at Leipfic. The objefts to which his tafte moft 

 powerfully inclined him were poetry and the drama ; and 

 he and his friend Leffing concurred in tranflating for the 

 ftage from French and Englifh works, and afterwards in 

 furnifiiing original compofitions. He alfo contended with 

 his friend in lyric poetry. After completing his courfe of 

 education, he became private tutor in a family of diftinftion 

 at Leipfic, purfuing his dramatic and poetical career, and 

 gaining a great degree of popularity. He alfo edited the 

 Bibliotheque of Belles Lettres, when Nicholai furrendered 

 it. Although, in 1761, he obtained a place in the revenue 

 at Leipfic, he profecuted his employment as a writer for 

 the ilage ; and when he became the father of a family, he 

 direfted his attention to education, and publifhed feveral 

 pieces in this department: particularly, in 1772, a collec- 

 tion of fhort tales and moral maxims, which had a confider- 



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able circulation ; and in 1775 he revived a weekly publica- 

 tion, which Adelung had difcontinued, under the title of 

 the " Children's Friend." This work became afterwards 

 a quarterly publication, and between the years 1775 and 

 1782, paffed through five editions. From this popular 

 work Berquin derived the idea of his " Ami des Enfans," 

 and he was indebted to it for many of his materials. As 

 WeifTe's children grew to maturity and fettled in the world, 

 he altered the plan of his work, and continued it under t'.e 

 form of Letters ; and Berquin alfo followed him in his 

 " Ami des Adolefcentes." In 1790 the beautiful eftate of 

 Stotteritz near'Leipfic, which WeifTe inherited, placed his 

 family in affluent circumftances, and furnilhed him with a 

 pleafant refidence. Towards the latter part of his life he 

 contributed fhort fables and poetical tales to journals and 

 periodical publications, which were well received, and at 

 length doled his life with reputation, in December 1804. 

 His dramatic works, which were continued to five volumes, 

 are faid to have formed an epoch in the hiftory of the Ger- 

 man ftage, and both his trandations and original compofitions 

 were well received. Gen. Biog. 



Weisse, in Geography, a river of Pruffia, which runs 

 into the Rufs, 20 miles N.W. of Tilfit. 



WEISSEBERG, a mountain of Bohemia, celebrated 

 for the defeat of the eleflor-palatine, about 3 miles from 

 Prague. 



WEISSELBURG, a town of PrufTia, in the province 

 of Oberland ; 5 miles S. of Marienwerder. 



WEISSELMUNDA. See Weiciiselmonde. 



WEISSEMBURG,orKoRNWEissEMBURG,or/Kj(f^»!- 

 lurg, a town of France, and principal place of a diftrift in the 

 department of the Lower Rhine, fituated on the Lauter, 

 at the foot of the Vofges. This town was formerly impe- 

 rial, and was ceded to France by the peace of Ryfwick. 

 The fortifications were deftroyed by Louis XIV.; but 

 ftrong lines of defence are fixed from this town to the 

 Rhine, a little to the eaft of Lauterburg, on the S. fide 

 of the Lauter; 27 miles N. of Strafburg. N. lat. 49^-' 3'. 

 E. long. 8°. 



Weissemburg, a town of Bavaria, called Weijfemhurg near 

 the Nordgau. It contains two churches and a medicinal 

 fpring. WeifTemburg was an imperial town, till in 1802 it 

 was given to the cleftor of Bavaria ; 28 miles S.S.W. of 

 Nuremberg. N. lat. 48° 58'. E. long. io''55'. 



Weissemburg, or Alba Julia, or Carljburg, or Fejervar, 

 a town of Tranfylvania, capital of a county, and fee of the 

 bifhop of Tranfylvania, beautifully fituated on the Maros. 

 It was a long time the metropolis of Dacia, and the feat of 

 its monarchs, who had a palace here. It was likewife the 

 feat of a Roman legion. The name Alba Julia it owes to 

 Juha Augufta, mother of Marcus Aurelius. Charles VI. 

 named it Carlftjurg ; 90 miles N.E. of Temefvar. N. lat. 

 46° 16'. E. long. 24° 10'. 



WEISSEN See, a lake of Pruffia; 12 miles W. of 

 Lick. — Alfo, a lake of Bavaria, in the territory of Augf- 

 burg ; 2 miles S.W. of FuefTen. — Alfo, a lake of Carin- 

 thia ; 6 miles S. of Saxeiiburg. 



WEISSENAU, a princely abbey of Germany, in the 

 circle of Swabia. In 1802 it was given to the eleftor of 

 Bavaria ; 2 miles S. of Ravenfburg. 



WEISSENBACH, a town of the principality of 

 Culmbach ; 5 miles E. of Kirch Lamitz. — Alfo, a town of 

 Auilria ; 12 miles N. of Grein. — Alfo, a town of Auftria ; 

 9 miles W. of Freyftatt. 



WEISSENBERG, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in the 

 county of Northampton, containing 1046 inhabitants. 



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