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the citadel and cathedral. The beer brewed here is the 

 chief article of trade, and is exported in great quantities ; 

 14 miles E. of Leipfic. N. lat. 51° 19'. E. long. 1 2° 42'. 



WUSEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Erme- 

 land, on the Paflar^ ; 25 miles W. of Heilfberg. 



WUSHUTEE, or Meech, a general term applied to 

 all that country of the province of Mekran in Perfia, lying 

 to the weftward, and on the parallel of Punjgoor or Panger, 

 and forming the northern boundary of the Sandy Defert. 

 It is reprefented to be a mountainous diftrift, producing in 

 fome of its villages grain, fufRcient for the confumption of 

 tlie few wandering (hepherds wlio inhabit them. Water is 

 plentiful, except in April, May, and June ; dates are alfo 

 produced, and camels, flieep, and goats, are procurable, but 

 not in great number. The people are rather a fmall delicate 

 race : their arms are, a match-lock, fword, and (liield ; and 

 each village has its own chief, who fettles difputes that arife 

 among the inhabitants. 



WUSLACH, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Ermeland ; 10 miles E. of Heiifberg. 



WUSTENSAXEN, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cipality of Wur/burg ; 5 miles N. of Bifchofshcim. 



WUSTERHAUSEN, a town of the Middle Mark 



of Brandenburg; 11 miles S.S.E. of Berlin. — Alfo, a 



town of the Middle Mark of Brandenburg, on the Doflc ; 



. 36 miles N.W. of Berlin. N. lat. 52° 53'. E. long. 12° 31'. 



WUSTEPvSDORF, a town of Aullria ; 9 miles S.W. 

 of Laab. 



WUSTHAL, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 

 Lower Rhine ; 4 miles N. of Rothenbach. 



WUSTRO, a town of Weftphalia, in the principality 

 of Luneburg Zelle, on the Jetze and the Dumme ; 40 

 miles S.E. of Luneburg. 



WUTACH, a river of Germany, which crofles the 

 county of Stuhlingen, and runs into the Fvhinc, 10 miles 

 below Lauifenburg. 



WUTTOOR, a town of Hindooftan, in Dovvlatabad ; 

 6 miles E. of Junere. 



WUTZKOW, a town of Hinder Pomerania : it is the 

 laft poft ftage bordering on Poland ; 30 miles E. of Stolpe. 



WYACONDA, a river of Louifiana, which runs into 

 the Miffiffippi, N. lat. 39° 46'. W. long. 91° 48'. 



WYALUSING, a townlhip of Pennfylvania, in the 

 county of Luzerne, with 576 inliabitants ; 320 miles N. of 

 Washington. 



■Wyalusing Creek, a river of Pennfylvania, which runs 

 into the E. branch of the Sufquehanna, N. lat. 41° 40'. 

 W. long. 76° 20'. 



WYANDOT, a town of North America, belonging to 

 the United States : a tribe of Indians called Wyandots in- 

 habit the neighbourhood ; 6 miles S. of Sandulky. 



WYASTON, a village in the hundred of Appletree, 

 Derbylhire, England, fituated 3 miles from Afhborne, and 

 137 from London. In the year 181 1 it contained 16 

 houles, and 69 inhabitants. 



WYAT, Si>- Thomas, in Biography, an Englifh poet, 

 was the fon of Henry Wyat, efq. of Allington-callle in Kent, 

 and born m 1503. Having finifhed his education at Cam- 

 bridge and Oxford, he travelled, as an envoy, into various 

 parts of Europe, and acquired the favour of Henry VIII. 

 whofe good will was of very {hort duration ; for either from 

 a fufpicion of his connection with Ann Boleyn, or the ill 

 offices of Bonner, he was for fome time imprifoned. After 

 his liberation he retired to his caftle of AUington, and 

 - being employed to condudl the ambafTador of Charles V. 

 from Falmouth to London he was feized with a fever, of 

 which he died at Shcrburn in 1541. In an elegy on his 



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death, his charafter was highly drawn in an encomium by 

 the earl of Surrey, with whom he was intimate, as his 

 fellow-labourer in polilhing Enghfh poetry ; though his 

 strains are faid to have been inferior to thofe of the earl of 

 Surrey. Mr. Warton diftinguifhcs him by the appellation 

 of the firll polifhed Englifh fatirift. His reputation was 

 high, and Leland publilhed a book of Latin verfes on his 

 death. His poems were printed with the editions of thofe 

 of Surrey in 1559 and 1565, and fince by Dr. Sewel, in 

 17 1 7. His verfinn of David's Pfalms is much commended 

 by Surrey and Leland ; but it is not extant. Warton's 

 Hift. of Eng. Poetry. Gen Biog. 



WYBERTON, in Geography, a village and parilh in the 

 wapentake of Kirton, Holland divii'ion of the county of 

 Lincoln ; 2 miles from Bofton, and I 15 from London. It 

 was returned in the year iSi i as containing 74houfes, occu- 

 pied by 353 perfons. 



WYBOLDSTON, a village in the hundred of Barford, 

 Bedfordshire, England, fituated 8 miles from Bigglefwade, 

 and 2 miles from St. Neot's. The population is not fepa- 

 rately returned, being included in the parilh of Eaton- 

 Socon. 



WYBORG. SeeViBORG. 



WYBUNBURY, or Wibbunbury, a village in the 

 hundred of Namptwich, county palatine of Chefter, is fitu- 

 ated on the borders of Staffordfhire, about 3 miles E. from 

 Namptwich. The church is a handfome ftrufture, and con- 

 tains a great variety of monuments and other fepulchral 

 memorials. A fchool was built here nearly two centuries 

 ago by fubfcription ; the endowments are but fmall, though 

 increafed by occafional donations : the fchool is for boys, 

 fome of whom are taught reading only, others reading, 

 writing, and arithmetic. The population return of the 

 year 181 1 ftates this village to contain 76 houfes, and 353 

 inhabitants. The parifh of Wybunbury is very extenfive, 



and comprehends eighteen townfhips Lyfons's Magna 



Britannia, vol. ii. Chefhire, 1810. 



WYCH-HousE, a houfe in which fait is boiled. (See 

 Salt. ) In the places where there are falt-fprings, and 

 falt-works are carried on at them, the work-houfe wliere 

 the fait is made is always called the wych-houfe ; and hence 

 we may naturally conclude that •wych was an old Britilh 

 word for fait, which is the more probable, as all the 

 towns in which fait is made end in ivych ; as Namptivych, 

 Droitivych, Middkiuych, &c. 



WYCHERLEY, William, in Biography, was born 

 at Cleve, in Shropshire, about the year 1640; and in France, 

 whither he went for his education, he conformed to the 

 Roman Catholic religion. Upon his return to England a 

 little while before the Reftoration, he entered, without ma- 

 triculation, as a gentleman-commoner at Queen's college, 

 Oxford, and leaving it without a degree, took chambers in 

 the Middle Temple. However, he abandoned the law, and 

 addifted himfclf to the compofition of comedies, the firll 

 of which was entitled " Love in a Wood, or St. James's 

 Park," which brought him into notice in 1672 ; fo that he 

 became a favourite of the duchefs of Cleveland, and of 

 ViUiers, the duke of Buckingham. He was alfo honoured 

 by the attention of the king, and by promifes of future pro- 

 motion. His majelly, however, was difpleafed by his mar- 

 riage with the countefs of Drogheda, and the connedlion 

 was unhappy. On occafion of her death, however, flie 

 fettled her whole eflate upon him, and his title being dif- 

 puted, he was involved in law expenccs and other incum- 

 brances, which occafioned his being committed to priion. 

 Having remained in prifon for feven years, he was liberated 

 by king James XL, who, delighted by feeing his comedy of 

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