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WELL-Hole, in Building, is the hole left in a floor, for a charter from king John. In July 1758, it is ftated that 



the ttairs to come up through. See Stairs. about eight hundred dwelling-houfes, befid'es outhoufes' &c 



WELL-i?oom, of a Boat, denotes the place m the bottom were confumed by fire. A new town has been raifed' and 



■where the water lies, between the ciehng and the platform now affumes a much more refpeftable appearance than be 



of the ft.TTi-nieets, from whence it is thrown out into the fore the conflagration. The church is a fpacious edifice' 



fea with a fcoop. Falconer. having at its weft end a tower, furmounted by a fpire • the' 



WT.\.i.-lVater. See Water. '"oofs of the aifles, chancel, and chantry chapel, are decorated 



WELL AND, in Geography, s. user oi England, which with various carved work ; and on each fide of the chancel are 



paffes by Stamford, Market Deeping, Spalding, &c. and three ftalls fimilar to thofe in cathedral choirs : the eaftern 



empties itfelf into the German fea, in what is called " The window is richly ornamented with tracery, and'fculpture in 



ftone. This church had a guild to the honour of the Bleflbd 



Warti," between the counties of Lincoln and Norfolk. — 

 Alfo, a river of Canada, which runs into the Niagara, be- 

 tween lake Erie and lake Ontario. 



WELLE CoKONDE, Sandy Cinnamon, a name given by 

 the Ceylonefe to a fpecies of cinnamon, which feels hard 

 and gritty between the teeth, as if it were f i ' " 

 of fand, though in reality there is no fand among it 



The bark of this tree comes off very eafily : but it is not 

 fo fit to roll up into quills as the right cinnamon, for it is 

 more rigid and ftubborn, and apt to burft open. It is of a 

 Iharp but bitterilh tafte. The roots of all the cinnamon 

 trees yield more or lefs camphor, but this as fmall a quan- 



. tity as any of them. Phil. Tranf. N° 409. 



•■ WELLES, in Geography. See Wells. 



Virgin ; the revenues of which fraternity were, in the fecond 

 year of Edward VI., appropriated to the eredion and en- 

 dowment of a free grammar-fchool. Here are alfo a large 

 iich feels hard charity-ichool, and two meeting-houfes for the public wor- 

 uU of particles ihip of Independent DifTenters. A weekly market is held 

 on Wednefdays ; and three fairs annually. The chief fource 

 of traffic is corn, the market for which is greatly improved 

 by the decay of that of Higham-Ferrers, at four miles dif- 

 tance. Here is alfo a confiderable manufafture of lace ; as 

 alfo of tammies, harrateens, and other worfted fluffs. ' In 

 the population return of the year 1811, the inhabitants of 

 this parifh are enumerated as 3999, occupying 749 houfes. 

 About lialf a mile north-weft of the town, in an open field, is 



WELLESCHIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of a chalybeate fpring, called Red-well, formerly much cele 

 ._l:_ :,,. o -f T>..j..„:r, brated for its medicinal virtues: in the year 1626, king 



Charles and his queen reiided here a whole feafon, for the be- 



nefit of drinking the water, pure from the fource Beauties 



of England and Wales, vol. xi. Northamptonfliire ; by the 

 Rev. J. Evans, and J. Britton, F.S.A. Bridges's Hiftory 

 of Northamptonfliire, 2 vols. fol. 1791. 



WELLINGTON, a large marbt-town in the hundred 



Bechin ; 10 miles S. of Budweifs 



WELLESMITZA, a town of Servia, on the Danube; 

 10 miles S.E. of Orfova. 



WELLFLEET, a townfiiip of Maffachufetts, in the 

 county of Barnftaple, containing 1402 inhabitants, with a 

 large harbour near Cape Cod. The inhabitants own 25 

 veffels, from 30 to 100 tuns, employed in the whale, cod. 



mackarel, and oyfter fiftiiiig ; 60 miles by water S.E. of of Kingftjury Weft, and county of Somerfet, England, is 



Bofton. fituated on the borders of Devonftiire, at the diftanceof'20 



Wellfleet Bay, a bay of the ftate of Maffachufetts, mih-s W.S.W. from Somerton, and 149 miles in the fame 



on the E. fide of Cape OA Bay. bearing from London. The earlieft hiftorical account of it 



WELLIA Tagera, H. M. in Botany, a filiquous plant comments with the reign of Alfred, who beftowed the ma- 



of Malabar, with a pejitapetalous flower, and long flat pods, nor on Affer, who had been tutor to feveral of his children 



with tranfverfe partitions between the contained feeds. It and was afterwards advanred to the fee of Sherborne and 



grows to the ordinary height of a man, with a ftem as big as died poflelfed of that dignity, in the year 88?. After his 



a man's arm, and is tranfplanted into gardens only on account death, the king granted the manor to the firft bifliop of 



of its beauty. It is an evergreen. 



All the parts of this plant, the root excepted, are exhi- 

 bited, with an addition of cummin, white fugar, and milk, 

 againft a virulent gonorrhoea. The leaves boiled in cow's 

 milk, or ufed in baths, expel the gout. The bark, tritu- 

 rated with fugar and water, is proper for the diabetes. Tlie 

 bark of the root, and green faffron mixed with milk, give 

 relief under the nodous gout, called by the Malabariaiis fo- 

 nida badda. Raii Hift. Plant. 



WELLIBALDSBURG.St., inGra^ra/>;?iy,atownand 

 citadel of Bavaria, in the bifhopric of Aichftat, near Aich- 

 rtat 



Wells, for the fupport of the epifcopal honours of him^felf 

 and his fucceflbrs. It continued annexed to that fee, till 

 the reign of Edward VI., when it became the property of 

 the duke of Somerf-t by purchafe from bifliop Barlow. 

 The town coi.fills of four ftreets, the principal of which, 

 called the High-ftreet, is very wide and fpacious ; the 

 houfes are in general well built and commodious. It 

 is a place of confiderable trade: the chief articles manufac- 

 tured here are, ferges, druggets, and pottery. A weekly 

 market, on Thurfdays, is well fuppHed with all kinds of pro- 

 vifions ; and two fairs are annually held. According to the 

 population return of the year 181 1, the parifli contained 



WELLIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Konig- 755 houfes, and 3874 inhabitants, of whom 565 families 

 ■ -^ -' ■- >ir ~c to: were ftated to be employed in trade and manufafture. The 



church is a fpacious ftruAure, confifting of a nave, chancel, 

 two aifles, and two fmall chapels. At the weft end is a 

 fine embattled tower, a hundred feet in height, decorated 

 with twelve pinnacles of excellent workmanfliip. In the 

 fouth chapel is a magnificent tomb in honour of fir John 

 Popham, lord chief juftice of England, in the reign of queen 

 Elizabeth. On the table of this monument are the effigies 

 of fir John and his lady, under an arched canopy, richly 

 ornamented with the family arms, rofes, paintings, and obe- 

 liflvf. The whole is fupported by eight columns of black 

 marble, five feet high, with Corinthian capitals, green and 

 gilt. Sir John was a munificent patron to Wellington : 



among 



ingratz ; 16 miles S.W. of Biezow. 



WELLINGBOROUGH, a market-town in the hun- 

 dred of Hamfordlhoe, and county of Northampton, England, 

 is principally fituated on a red fand-ftone rock, of which 

 material tlie houfes are generally built. The town is dif- 

 pofed along the flope of a hill, nearly a mile to the north of 

 the river Nen, 11 miles N.E. by E. from the county-town, 

 and 68 miles N.N.W. from London. It appears to have 

 been of fome note in the Saxon times, when a great part 

 of it was deftroycd by the Danes. After the Norman Con- 

 queft, it occurs among the numerous poffeffions annexed to 

 the abbey of Croyland, in Lincolnfhire ; and at the fuit of 

 the monks of that houfe, was coiilUtUted a market-town, by 



