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Mizen-topfail and topgallant yards have hoops like the 

 former let on their outer ends, but no eye-bolts. 



Driver-yards have a fheave-hole cut through their outer 

 end, and a hoop and eye-bolt. 



The main and fore yards of large (hip3 are fometimes 

 made of two trees ; they have each tree lined, long enough 

 to fcarf four feet beyond the firft quarter, next the middle, 

 or flings, which is in all five-eighths the length of the yard, 

 adding four feet. The fcarfs line itraight, from each quar- 

 ter next the middle to one-fourth the fubftance at the quar- 

 ter next the butt, and three-fourths at the quarter next the 

 middle, and haunches to about three inches at the butt. 

 Each tree is then fawn 33 before direfted, and completed 

 thus : the fcarf and haunches are trimmed ftraight, and out 

 of winding on the infide, and a line ftruck along the 

 middle, and a chain-coak fet off, each about two feet 

 four inches long, and one-third the diameter broad ; and 

 the butts fquared acrofs and down the fides. The coaks 

 are raifed one inch and a quarter at the butt, and funk 

 to the fame on the other fide of the middle, towards the 

 arm ; the other half is then canted thereon, fet ftraight 

 and out of winding, and fayed as the ma/?/, (which fee, and 

 the Plate of Majls, ) and bolted together fore and aft through 

 the middle, in the butt of every coak ; the heads are to be 

 driven from the thinneft part of the fcarf, and clenched on 

 a ring, and the haunches nailed. 



The yard is then completed as before direfted, and the 

 fcarfs caulked their length and hooped ; one hoop over the 

 butt of each fcarf, one in the middle of each haunch, and 

 one over every bolt : then a fifh of fir, two inches thick, 

 and the fame length and breadth as the fquare on the aft- 

 lide, is fayed and nailed clofe over all the hoops. 



Another method of fcarfing yards together made of two 

 trees, which is the ftrongeft, and takes lefs trees than the 

 former, is by providing two trees that will hold the dia- 

 meter beyond the fifties, and fcarf together fimilar to the 

 former. Then the deficiency of the diameter towards the 

 middle is made good by long fifties of fir, from four to fix 

 inches thick, as the fize of the yard may require, extending 

 two feet in length at each end beyond the long fquare on the 

 aft-fide, and each of fufficient breadth to form the eight- 

 fquare on the outfide. The inner furfaces of the fiflies are 

 coaked and fayed clofe upon the yard, the coak extending 

 near the whole length. The yard is then fiiiiftied as before 

 direfted,and hooped and bolted, as in the Plateoi Majl-making, 

 Y ARD-^rm is thathalf of the yard which is on either fide the 

 maft, when it lies athwart the ftiip. See the preceding article. 

 Yards alfo denote places belonging to the navy, where 

 the ftiips of war, &c. are laid up in harbour. See DocK- 

 Tards. 



YARDLEY, in Geography, a village of Worcefterftiire, 

 which, according to the population return of the year 181 1, 

 contained 191 8 inhabitants, including 121 families employed 

 in manufaftures, and 453 houfes ; 7 miles S.E. of Bir- 

 mingham. 



YARE, a river of England, in the county of Norfolk, 

 which rifes about five miles N. from New Buckenham, 

 pafles by the city of Norwich, and runs into the German 

 ocean near Yarmouth. 



Yake. See Segovia Nueva. 



Yare, among Sailors, implies as much as, nimble, ready, 

 quick, expeditious. Hence, to be yare at the helm, as fome 

 iay, fignifies to fet a frefli man at the helm. 

 YARECA, in Geography. See Jareca. 

 YAREE, a town of Burmah ; 40 miles S.W. of Ava. 

 YARENSK, a town of Ruflia, in the province of 



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Uftiug, on the Vitchegda ; 92 miles N.E. of Uftiug. N 

 lat. 62°. E. long. 47° 50'. 



YARI, a town of Brafil, in the government of Para; 

 60 miles N.E. of Paru. 



YARIN, a word ufed by fome of the chemical writers 

 to exprefs the flos asris. 



YARKAN, Yarkand, Irken, or Tarkien, in Geogra- 

 phy, a town of Caftigar, or Little Bucharia, where the 

 grand khan of the Eluth Tartars chiefly refides. The town 

 is large, and well built of bricks dried in the fun. The 

 environs are fertile, and the palace of the khan large, but 

 not handfome. In 1400 this town was taken and plundered 

 by Timur Bee ; 90 miles S.E. of Caftigar. N. lat. «8° i «'. 

 E. long. 78° 49'. 



Yarkan, or Yarkand, fuggefted to be the Oechardes of 

 Ptolemy, a river of Afia, which paffes by the town of 

 Yarkan, and after a confiderable courfe runs into lake 

 Lop ; 100 miles S. of Tourfan. 



YARM, or Yarum, a market-town in the W. divifion 

 of the liberty of Langbaurgh, in the North Riding of the 

 county of York, England, is fituated on the banks of the 

 river Tees, 4 miles S. by W. from Stockton, 44 N.N.W. 

 from York, and 237 in the fame diredlion from London. In 

 181 1 the houfes in the town and parifti were 361, and the 

 inhabitants 143 1. Here is a neat modern church. A market 

 is held on Thurfday, and fairs on Thurfday before the 5th of 

 April, Holy Thurfday, 2d of Auguft, and 20th of OAober. 

 At Yarm was an hofpital, founded before 1 185 ; alfo a houfe 

 of Black friars, founded about 1271, by the family of 

 Brus or Bruce, both of which were fupprefled by 

 Henry VIII. Over the river Tees at this place is a hand- 

 fome ttone bridge, communicating with the county of Dur- 

 ham. The town, formerly more confiderable than at prefent, 

 ftill carries on a good trade by water, particularly in corn 

 and lead for the London market. In 1761 the town fuffered 

 feverely by an inundation of the river Tees. — Beauties of 

 England and Wales, Yorkftiire, by J. Bigland, 8vo. Lond. 

 1812. 



YARMOUTH, Great, an important fea-port, borough, 

 and market-town, in the hundred of Eatl Flegg, and county 

 of Norfolk, England, is fituated on the E. coaft of England, 

 near the mouth of the river Yare, whence it has its name, 

 22 miles E. from Norwich, and 124 N.E. from London. 

 The number of houfes in the parifti, according to the re- 

 turns of 181 1, was 3594, and the inhabitants were 17,977. 

 A market is held here on Saturday, and a fair in Eafter 

 week. The town, which fends two members to parliament, 

 was incorporated by James I. It is governed by a mayor, 

 recorder, 7 aldermen, 36 common-council-men, a town- 

 clerk, and other inferior officers. In former times, Yar- 

 mouth was a member of the Cinque Ports, and by ancient 

 cuftom appointed bailiff^s, who, in conjunftion with the ma- 

 giftrates of the town, hold a court there during the herring- 

 fair. The corporation poftefs alfo the privileges of courts 

 of admiralty and of record. Yarmouth is Angularly fituated 

 on a long, narrow, fandy peninfula, having on the E. the 

 German ocean, and on the W. the river Yare, which, after 

 pointing N.E. towards the fea, fuddenly bends round to 

 the S. parallel to the ftiore, and opens into the fea, two miles 

 below the town. The coaft near Yarmouth and fouthward 

 to Loweftoft is the moft eailerly part of Great Britain, 

 Yarmouth church lying in E. long. 1° 45' from Greenwich. 

 The firft mention of this town is in Domefday-book, 

 which renders it probable, that it had its beginning in the 

 early part of the Anglo-Saxon dynafty. When the fand- 

 bank, ou which it ftands, and which, thrown up by the fea, 

 G I impeded, 



