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field.— Alfo, a pod-town of New York, on tlie eafl fide 

 of lake George ; 6 miles S. of Ticonderoga.— Alfo, a 

 townfhip of New York, in Richmond county, in Staten 

 ifland. At its fouthern extremity in the S.W. is a ferry 

 of three-quarters of a mile to Amboy, in New Jerfey. It 

 has one church near the centre, and well cultivated land. 

 The whole population in 1810 was 1444, and the number 



of eleaors 139 Alfo, a town of Vermont, in the county 



of Orleans, containing 149 inhabitants — Alfo, a town of 

 New Jerfey, in the county of Effex, containing 2152 mha- 

 bitants ; 8 miles W. of Elizabethtown. 



WESTFORD, a town of Vermont, in Chittenden 

 county, containing 866 inhabitants. — Alfo, a poft-town of 

 Maffachufetts, in the county of Middlefex, containing 1330 

 inhabitants ; z8 miles N.W. of Bofton.— Alfo, a townfhip 

 of New York, in Otfego county ; 8 miles S.E. of Coo- 

 perftown, erefted in 1808 from the N.W. part of Worcef- 

 ter. Its furface is broken by hills and valleys, but has much 

 rich mould in the valleys. The hills are adapted to 

 grazing, and it has many trafts of meadow land. Its tim- 

 ber confifts of maple, beech, a(h, elm, bafs-wood, and 

 pine ; and the whole is irrigated abundantly by fprings and 

 brooks. In 1810 the whole population confifted of 1215 

 perfons, and the number of eleftors was 73, and that of 

 taxable inhabitants 177. 



WESTGATE Bay, a bay of the Thames, on the coaft 

 of Kent, W. of Margate. 



WEST GREENWICH, a town of Rhode ifland, in 

 the county of Kent, with 1619 inhabitants. 



WESTHAM, a town of Virginia; 4 miles N.W. of 

 Richmond. 



WESTHAMPTON, a poft-town of New York, in 

 the fouth-eaft part of Long ifland. — Alfo, a townfliip of 

 Mafl"achufetts, in the county of Hampftiire, containing 793 

 inhabitants ; 7 miles W. of Northampton. 



WEST HANOVER, a townfliip of Pennfylvania, in 

 the county of Dauphin, containing 2461 inhabitants. 



WESTHAVEN, a townfliip of Connedicut ; 3 miles 

 W. S.W. of Newhaven. 



WESTHOFEN, a town of Franee, in the department 

 of Mont Tonnerre ; 5 miles N.N.W. of Worms. — Alfo, 

 a town of France, in the department of the Lower Rhine ; 

 12 miles W. of Strafburg. ■ 



WESTHOVEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 Mark, at the foot of a mountain near the Roer ; once the 

 domain of the celebrated Witikind, and poflefled of confi- 

 derable privileges ; 4 miles S.W. of Schwiert. — Alfo, a 

 town of Vermont, in the county of Rutland, containing 

 679 inhabitants. 



WESTING, in Navigation, the fame with departure. 

 WESTLAND, in Geography, a town of Ohio, in the 

 county of Guernfey, with 250 inhabitants. 



WESTMAES, a town of the ifland of Beyerland ; 12 

 miles W. of Dort. 



WESTM AN, or Westmonia, an ifland in the North fea, 

 near the coaft of Iceland. N. lat. 63° 20'. W. long. 20° 28'. 



The Weftman iflands fuffered very much about the com- 

 mencement of the feventeenth century, by the piracies of 

 the Algerines ; almoft their whole population being deftroyed 

 or carried into captivity. In 1627 a large body of Algerine 

 pirates landed on various parts of the fouthern coaft of Ice- 

 land ; and not fatisfied with the booty they obtained, mur- 

 dered between forty and fifty of the inhabitants, and carried 

 off nearly four hundred prifoners of both fexes. Thefe un- 

 fortunate captives, transported to Algiers, were expofed 

 there to fo much wretchednefs, that nine years afterwards, 

 when the king of Denmark olstained their liberty by ran- 



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fom, only thirty-feven out of the whole number were found 

 to be furviving ; of thefe, thirteen fucceeded in reaching 

 their native land. A prieft named Olaus Egilfon, a captive, 

 and releafed in 1629, left a MS. relation of this event, which 

 has been fince publiflied in Danifli. 



Westm AN , a town on theW. coaft of the ifland of Stromoe. 

 WEST MANCHESTER, a townfliip of Pennfylvania, 

 in the county of York, containing 978 inhabitants. 



WESTMANNL AND, or Westmania, a province of 

 Sweden, bounded on the north by Dalecarlia, on the eaft 

 by Upland, on the fouth by Sudermanland, Nericia, and 

 the Mxler lake, and on the W. by Warmeland ; about 1 10 

 miles in length, and 80 in breadth where wideft. The foil 

 is fertile, and confifts moftly of arable lands, with meadows, 

 paftures, and very fine woods in proportion ; and it is 

 reckoned the moft famous province in the kingdom for 

 mines. The iron trade carried on by the inhabitants of 

 Weftmannland, is the moft confiderable in all Sweden : the 

 quantity of iron exported annually from Wefteros, Ar- 

 boga, and Kioping, is very large. The fouth part of the 

 province chiefly confifts of arable and meadow lands, and 

 fupplies the inhabitants of the mine diftrifts with corn ; and 

 the northern parts abound in mine-works, and fine woods. 

 Weftmannland is well watered, both with rivers and lakes, 

 which yield a vaft plenty of fifli ; and the Maeler lake is a 

 great advantage to its commerce, as it opens a paflage from 

 this province to Stockholm. The chief fubfiftence of the 

 inhabitants is derived from agriculture and the mines, breed- 

 ing of cattle and fifliing. The wood, hammer-mills, &c. 

 alfo employ a great many hands. 



WEST MARLBOROUGH, a townfliip of Pennfyl- 

 vania, in the county of Chefter, containing 917 inhabitants. 



WESTMEATH, a county of Ireland, which formerly 

 was a part of the kingdom of Meath, but on the divifion 

 into counties was feparated from it, and both now form a 

 part of the province of Leinfter. It has Cavan on the N., 

 Meath on the E., the King's county on the S., Rofcom- 

 mon, from which it is feparated by the Shannon, and Long- 

 ford on the W. Its greateft extent from E. to W. is 33 

 Irifli (42 Enghfli) miles, and from N. to S. 27 Irifli (34 

 EngUfli) miles. Its area meafures 231,538 acres, or 361 

 fquare miles Irifli, equal to 371,979 acres, or 577 fquare 

 miles Enghih meafure. The number of pariflies is 62, of 

 which 2 1 have churches, and all but three are in the 

 diocefe of Meath. The population was computed by Dr. 

 Beaufort to be 69,000. No part of this country is embar- 

 rafled with mountains, but a great number of acres are ren- 

 dered unproduftive by large lakes and extenfive bogs ; yet 

 the convenience of fuel, the abundance of gravelly hills, and 

 the variety of profpefts which arife from thefe beautiful 

 lakes, and the undulating form of the furface, render it a 

 very pleafant and healthful country. The foil is in general 

 Ught, but in fome places deep and rich ; and though there is 

 more of it kept under grafs than employed in tillage, yet 

 the plough is by no means neglefted ; for after fupplying 

 the home confumption, the farmers of this county largely 

 contribute to the exportation of oats from Drogheda. The 

 Royal Canal from Dublin to Tarmonbury, on the Shan- 

 non, was to pafs through this county, and it has been car- 

 ried as far as MuUingar ; but the difficulties into which the 

 company has fallen make it doubtful when the original de- 

 fign will be completed. Wellmeath is remarkably well 

 watered. Befides the Shannon, which forms part of its 

 weftern boundary, the Inny and Brofna, two rivers of 

 confiderable extent, pafs through its lakes, and infulate the 

 greater part of it. The Inny rifes in the county of Cavan, 

 and firft enters Lough Shelin, which feparates that county 



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