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Whale F'tfh IJland, an ifland on the coaft of Guiana, at 

 the mouth of the river ElTequibo. 



Whale IJland, a fmall ifland in the North fea. N. lat. 

 69° 14'. W. long. 134°. — Alfo, a fmall ifland near the 

 north-weft coaft of Borneo. N. lat. 4° 10'. E. long. 

 112° 21'. 



Whale IJlands, fmall iflands in Portfmouth harbour. N. 

 lat. 50° 48'. W. long. 1° 5'. 



Whale Point, the fouth-eaft cape of an ifland in the ftraits 

 of Magellan ; 6 miles S.S.W. of Paffage Point. 



Whale Rock, an under-water rock at tlie entrance of the 

 Bay of Iflands, on which the Endeavour ftruck in 1769; 

 4 miles S.E. of Point Pocock. 



Whale Sound, a channel in the ftraits of Magellan, be- 

 tween an ifland and the coaft of Terra del Fuego. 



WHALFIRTH Voe, a bay on the weft coaft of the 

 ifland of Yell. N. lat. 60° 58'. W. long. 1° 25'. 



WHAME, in Natural Hijlory, the name given by the 

 people of fome parts of England to the burrel-fly, or wringle- 

 tail, a fpecies of bee-fly very troublefome to horfes. 



WHANG-HO, in Geography. See Hoang-ho. 



WHAPLODE, a townfhip of Lincolnftiire ; 2 miles S. 

 of Holbeach. 



WRAPPING'S Creek. See Wapping'j Cretk. 



WHARF, a perpendicular building of wood or ftone, 

 raifed on the fliore of a road or harbour, for the convenience 

 of landing or difcharging a vefTel, by means of cranes, 

 tackles, capfterns, 8:c. See Artificial Ports. 



The fee paid for the landing of goods on a wharf, or for 

 ftiipping them off, is called luharfage. And tjie perfon who 

 has the overfight or direftion of the wharf, receives wharfage, 

 &c. is called the •wharjinger. 



There are two legal denominations of wharfs, viz. legal 

 quays and fufferance wharfs. 



Legal quays are certain wharfs in all fca-ports, at which all 

 goods are required, by the i Eliz. c. 1 1., to be landed and 

 Ihipped (except at Hull) ; and they were fet out for that 

 purpofe by commifTion out of the court of exchequer, in the 

 reign of Charles II. and fubfequent princes. Others have 

 been legalized by aft of parliament ; as the London docks, 

 by 39 & 40 Geo. III. c. 47. ; Weft India docks, by 39 



6 40 Geo. III. c. 69. and 42 Geo. III. c. 113 ; Eail 

 India docks, by 43 Geo. III. c. 126. and 46 Geo. III. 

 C.113. (SeeDocKS.) Hull, by 14 Geo. III. c. 56. and 

 42 Geo. III. c. 191.; Milford, by 30 Geo. III. c. 55. ; 

 Briftol, by 48 Geo. III. c. 11. 



In fome ports, certain wharfs are deemed to be legal quays 

 by immemorial praftice, though not fet out by commif- 

 fion, or legalized by aft of parliament ; fuch as Chepftow, 

 Gloucefter, &c. 



Sufferance wharfs are places where certain goods may 

 be landed and fhipped ; fuch as hemp, flax, raff", and other 

 bulky goods ; likewife goods carried coaftwife, in Gi'eat 

 Britain, by fpecial fufferance granted by the crown for that 

 purpofe. 



The conftituting limits to the ports and legal quays is part 

 of the royal prerogative. Lord Hale's Treatife. Vide Har- 

 grave's Trafts. 



Wharf alfo, in a canal, denotes that wider part of it 

 where boats lie while loading or unloading. 



WHARFAGE, in Commerce, certain rates paid for land- 

 ing and fhipping goods from the quays. 



WHARFE, or Wherfe, in Geography, a ri\<€r of Eng- 

 land, in the county of York, which runs into the Oufe, 



7 miles btlow York. 



WHARFINGER, the proprietor or farmer of the 

 quays where goods are fhipped and landed. 

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By the 26 Geo. III. c. 40. no goods entitled to draw- 

 back or bounty on exportation are to be (hipped in Great 

 Britam, but by wharfingers licenfed by the commiffioners of 

 the cuftoms ; and m docked lighters. And they are to give 

 bonds not to be concerned in illegally landing, relanding, or 

 (hipping goods. They are alfo liable to certain penalties at 

 connivmg or knowing of any fraudulent tranfaftion, or land- 

 ing goods at improper places and times, by i Eliz. c. 11., 

 and 13 & 14 Cha. II. c. 11. 



WHARTON, Henry, in Biography, an Enghfh divine 

 of the Eftabhfhed Church, was born in 1664, at Worftead, 

 in Norfolk, where his father was vicar ; and in his fixteenth 

 year admitted a penfioner of Gonville and Caius college at 

 Cambridge, where he afliduoufly purfued the ftudy of va- 

 rious branches of literature, and particularly of mathe- 

 matics, under Ifaac Newton, Lucafian profeffor. After 

 taking the degree of B.A. with great reputation, he a(rifted 

 Dr. Cave in his " Hiftoria Literaria," contributing almoft 

 the whole of the appendix of the three laft centuries. In 

 1687 he took orders, and his degree of M.A. in the follow- 

 ing year. He had various literary occupations, chiefly in 

 writing or editing treatifes againft Popery ; until he took 

 prieft's orders, when he was prefented firft to the vicarage 

 of Minfter in the ifle of Thanet, and in 1689 to the reftory of 

 Chartham. By the advice of Dr. Lloyd, bifhop of St. Afapb, 

 he undertook the work which gave fome celebrity to his 

 name, intitled " Anglia Sacra, five CoUeftio Hiftoriarum, 

 partim antiquitus, partim recefiter Scriptarum, de Archiepif- 

 copis et Epifcopis Anglia a prima Fidei Chriftians fuf- 

 ceptione ad Annum 1540," 2 vols. fol. London, 1691. 

 An additional part was publifhed after his death in 1695, 

 under the title of " Hiftoria de Epifcopis et Decanis Lon. 

 dinenfibus ; necnon de Epifcopis et Decanis Affavenfibus 

 (St. Afaph) ; a prima Sedis utriufque Fundatione ad An- 

 num IJ40," 8vo. The author's " Angha Sacra" was the 

 refult of great induftry and labour, and evinces the author's 

 zeal for the church to which he belonged ; but it is charge- 

 able with incorreftnefs. In 1692 he publifhed " A Defence 

 of Pluralities ;" in the following year he edited fome ancient 

 theological pieces ; and, under the name of Anthony Harmer, 

 publifhed " A Specimen of fome Errors and Defefts in the 

 Hiftory of the Reformation of the Church of England, by- 

 Gilbert Burnet, D.D.," a work which excited the indigna- 

 tion of the author, and caufed him to mention Wharton with 

 afperity in the introduftion to the third volume of that work. 

 The laft publication of Wharton was " The Hiftory of 

 the Troubles and Trial of Archbifhop Laud ;" to which 

 were added Laud's diary, and fome other pieces. He alfo 

 edited the Life of Cardinal Pole, by Bacatelli, together 

 with fome animndverfions on Strype's Memorials of Arch- 

 biftiop Cranmer. Although his conftitution was ftrong, he 

 clofed his life, in confequence of intenfe application, fome- 

 what prematurely, in March 1694-5, '" ^^^ 3'^ Y^^^ of ^» 

 age, leaving feveral MSS., fome of which were afterwards 

 printed, as alfo two volumes of fermons. He was interred 

 in Weftminfter-abbey. Biog. Brit. 



Wharton, Philip, Duke of, the fon of the marquis of 

 Wharton, who was a firm fupporter of the Revolution and 

 Hanover fucceflion, was born in 1 699 ; and after having 

 exhibited talents which commanded notice, when he was 

 13 or 14 years of age, in the courfe of his education under 

 domeftic tutors, contrafted a premature marriage with 

 the daughter of major-general Holmes, and thus difap- 

 pointed his father's views, and hailened his death in 1715. 

 In the beginning of 17 16, Philip fet out en his travels, pro- 

 pofing to finifh his education at Geneva ; but the young 

 marquis, having conti'afted a taft« for gaiety and expence, 

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