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noticed to be the moft. abundant plant in fucli rich im- 

 proved paftures ; but that it has feldom been feen in lands 

 remarkable for inducing the rot among Iheep. See Rot, 

 Sheep, and White Clover. 



White, Troy. See T ROY-lf^hite. 

 White Varnl/h, and Vitriol. See the fubftantives. 

 White Vitriol, in Mineralogy, a natural fait or ore of 

 zinc. ( See Zinc, and Zinx Ores.) This ore is a fulphate of 

 that metal, but is frequently combined with a fmall portion 

 of manganefe. It is fuppofed to be formed naturally by 

 the decompofition of blende or fulphuret of zinc. 

 W\UT:i>WaJhing, Roughcajl. See Wash /or, &c. 

 White Water, a difeafe in Sheep, of the dangerous fl.0- 

 machic kind. It is faid to be caufed by their feeding on 

 rich fucculent food in cold frofty feafons, or at other times, 

 and by many other fuch caufes ; and is probably an affeftion 

 of the inflammatory kind. 



It is remarked in the Gloucefter Report on Agriculture, 

 that the white water is a deftruftive diforder on the Cotf- 

 wolds ; ufually comes on with rapidity, and fometimes ter- 

 minates with death in three hours. It is fuppofed to be 

 owing to their licking up the white froft on their green 

 food in fpring and autumn. Folding at night on bare 

 ground, giving them dry meat in the morning, and keeping 

 them from the turnips till the froft is gone, is the obvious 

 mode of prevention, if the foregoing caufe be well founded. 

 If, however, the diforder be owing to gorging themfelves 

 with watery food, fuch as turnips, it is probable that to 

 keep them moving, without fuffering them to reft long, nor 

 fwell with what they have eaten, will carry off the begin- 

 ning complaint ; and even if the white froft has been the oc- 

 cafion, this is the beft remedy that reafoning fuggefts ; and 

 it is faid to be the praftice of the (hepherds in Northumber- 

 land, in the management of fheep under this complaint. 



It is probable that fpeedy evacuation, both by bleeding 

 and purging, may be found ufeful in this difeafe, and after- 

 wards the ufe of ftomachic remedies. 



It is found to chiefly attack the young healthy (heep. See 

 Water, Red and Black. 



White IFater-Lily, in Gardening, a moft beautiful plant 

 of this country, which is capable of being propagated in 

 artificial and ornamental pieces of water in gardens and plea- 

 fure-grounds, merely by tranfplanting the bulbous roots of 

 it in the winter feafon. It is perennial in its nature. 



White IVax is yellow wax blanched, and purified by 

 the fun and dew. See Wax. 



White upon White, in the Porcelain Manufadory, a name 

 given by the Englifh merchants to a particular china-ware, 

 which is formed of three different white fubftances, the body 

 being of one, the flowers of another, and the varnilh which 

 covers thefe of a third. See Hoache. 



White Wine is that of a clear, bright, tranfparent colour, 

 bordering on white. It is thus called to diftinguifh it from 

 the red wines, or clarets. 



The generality of white wines are made from white 

 grapes ; though there are fome from black ones, only the 

 fldns are carefully kept from tinging them. See Wine. 



Whites, the popular name of a diforder incident to 

 women. See Fluor yllhus. 



White, in Geography, a county of Weft Tennaflee, with 

 4028 inhabitants, including 283 flaves. 



White Bay, a bay on the eaft coaft of Newfoundland. 



N. lat. 50° 10'. W. long. 56' 25' Alfo, a bay on the 



eaft coaft of Kerguelen's Land, fouth of Point Pringle, fo 

 called from fome white fpots of land or rocks. In the 



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bottom are feveral fmaller bays or coves. S. lat. 47'^ 53'. 

 E. long. 69° 15'. 



White Bear Lake, a lake of North America, faid to 

 be the moft northerly of thofe lakes which fupply the 

 Miffiftippi. It is about 60 miles in circumference. N. lat. 

 46° 50'. W. long. 95° 30'. 



White Cliff', or Culver Cliff, a cape of the eaft coaft of 

 the Ifle of Wight. North of it is a bay called White Cliff 

 Bay. N. lat. 50° 39'. W. long. 0° 56'. 



White Deer, a townftiip of Pennfylvania, in North Cum- 

 berland county, on the Sufquehanna, with 1132 in- 

 habitants. 



White Flag Bay, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland 

 of St. Chriftopher ; 2 miles N. of Sandy Point. 



White Head, a cape of Ireland, on the coaft of Antrim, 

 at the entrance into Belfaft Lough, a little to the fouth of 

 Black Head. 



White Hills, a fifliing-town of Scotland, in the county 

 of Bamff, fituated in a creek ; 2 miles N. of Bamff. 



VflinE-Hor/e Vale, a vale of Berkfliire, fo called from 

 the figure of a horfe in a galloping pofture, cut in the fide 

 of a chalky hill, as is fuppofed in memory of a great viftory 

 gained by Alfred over the Danes in the year 871. The 

 fcouring the horfe is an annual feftival, and celebrated by 

 rural games. On the top of the hill is a large Roman in- 

 trenchment, called Uffington caftle, or Woolfton caftle. 

 There is likewife another camp in the neighbourhood, with 

 the burial place of the Danifh chief, inclofed by ftones fet 

 on edge, a cromlech, and feveral barrows. 



White Horfes, cliffs on the fouth coaft of Jamaica ; 20 

 miles E.S.E. of Kingfton. 



'WHlTE-Houfe Bay, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland 

 of St. Chriftopher, a little to the north of Guana Point. 



White Inlet, or Boca de Ratones, an inlet on the eaft 

 coaft of Eaft Florida. N. lat. 26°. W. long. 80° 20'. 



White I/land, an ifland in the South Pacific ocean, near 

 the eaft coaft of New Zealand, north of Cape Run-away. 



S. lat. 37° 31'. W. long. 182° 36' Alfo, a fmall ifland 



in the Atlantic, near the S.E. coaft of Nova Scotia. N. 

 lat. 44° 55'. W. long. 61° 56'. 



White Ifland, or Burnt Ifland, a fmall ifland in the 

 Arabian Gulf, near the coaft of Adel. N. lat. li^ 8'. 

 E. long. 64° 55'. 

 White, Ifle of. See IJle o/" Wight. 

 White Keys River, a river of Africa, which runs iiite 

 the Indian fea, S. lat. 30° 35'. 



White Mountains, mountains of New Hampftiire, pecu- 

 liarly applied to the higheft part of a ridge, which extends 

 N.E. and S.W. : the whole circumference at leaft fifty 

 miles. The height of thefe mountains above an adjacent 

 meadow is reckoned, from obfervations made by the Rev. 

 Mr. Cutler, of Ipfwich, in 1784, to be about 55OO feet> 

 and the meadow 3500 feet above the level of the lea. The 

 fnow and ice cover them nine or ten months in the year, 

 during which time they exhibit that bright appearance from 

 which they are denominated the White Mountains. From 

 this fumrait, in clear weather, is exhibited a view extending 

 fixty or feventy miles in every direftion : although they are 

 more than feventy miles within land, they are feen many 

 leagues off at fea, and appear hke an exceedingly bright 

 cloud in the horizon. Thefe immenfe heights, being co- 

 pioufly repleniflied with water, afford a variety of cafcades. 

 Three of the largeft rivers in New England receive a great 

 part of their waters from thefe mountains. Amanoofuck 

 and Ifrael rivers, two principal branches of the Connefticut, 

 fall from their weftern fides. Peabody river, a branch of 

 the Ansorifcogen, falls from the north-eaft fide, and almoft. 



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