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is ilccoialcd with a raii,qe of handfome buildings. By means 

 ot a bridge acrofs the Yare a commumcation is maintained 

 with the county of Suffolk, which ilretches up the weft 

 bank of the river. As a fafhionable watering-place, Yar- 

 mouth is well provided with every accommodation, and con- 

 fequently much frequented. On the beach a bathmg-houfe 

 was erefted in 1759, commanding a fine view of the roads 

 and (hipping ; and in 1778 a neat theatre was opened. Op- 

 pofite to Yarmouth, and for about two miles north and 

 fouth of the town, the coaft is nearly a level common, ele- 

 vated only from two to three yards above high-water mark. 

 From the edge of the common down to the water is a 

 gentle flope of fine fand, intermixed with loofe pebbles called 

 fhingles ; and as the tides rife but about fix feet, the fpace 

 brought under water is only a few yards. From high- water 

 mark to the turf of the common the fands abound with 

 marine plants, fome of them rare and curious, of which 

 an account is given by Mr. Dawfon Turner in the 

 Hiftorical Guide to Great Yarmoutli, i2mo. 1806. — 

 Beauties of England and Wales, Norfolk, by J. Britton, 

 F.S.A. 8vo. Lond. 1809. 



Yarmouth, South, a fea-port, borough, and market- 

 town, in the S.W. half hundred of Weft Medina liberty, in 

 the Ifle of Wight, and county of Southampton, or Hamp- 

 fliire, England, is fituated at the entrance of the little river 

 Yare, on the N.W. coaft of the ifland, 10 miles W. from 

 Newport, and 97 S.W. from London. The town, which 

 is governed by a mayor, twelve burgefles, a fteward, a 

 town-clerk, &c. was incorporated by James I., and fends 

 two members to parliament. In 181 1 the houfes in the 

 borough and parifh were 88, and the inhabitants 427. A 

 market is held here on Saturday, and two fairs annually. 

 Yarmouth is built on a bank (loping to the fea, and feems 

 to have been formerly much larger than it is at prefent. The 

 church is fituated in the middle of the town. The market- 

 houfe has over it the town-hall. Here was a caftle, built 

 by Henry VIH. on the fcite of an ancient church, which 

 had been deftroyed by the French. This fortrefs is defended 

 by fome pieces of cannon, and a fmall garrifon. Between 

 Yarmouth and Lymington a packet fails daily. — Beauties 

 of England and Wales, Hampfhire, by J. Britton and 

 E.W. Brayley, 8vo. Lond. 1808. 



Yarmouth, a fea-port town of MalFachufetts, in Barn- 

 ftaple bay ; jo miles S.E. of Boiton. N. lat. 41- 42'. 

 W. long. 70° 10'. 



Yarmouth, a town on the weft coaft of Nova Scotia ; 

 35 miles W. of Shelburn. 



Yarmouth, North, a town of America, in the diftriA 

 of Maine, and county of Cumberland, with 3295 inhabitants ; 

 9 miles N.E. of Portland. N. lat. 43^ 45'. W. long. 

 70° 8'. 



YARMUC, or Yarun, a town of Faleftine, in the dif- 

 trift of Saphet, on a river of the fame name, which runs 

 into the lake of Tiberias, chiefly inhabited by Chriftians ; 

 24 miles S.E. of Saphet. 



Yarmuc, a river of Syria, anciently called Marjyas, 

 which runs into the Orontes, near Apamea. In 636 a 

 battle was fought on the banks of the river, between the 

 Chriftians and the Saracens, in which the former were 

 defeated. 



YARN, denotes fpun wool. See Wool, and Wooi.len 

 ManufaBure. 



Yarn, Marling. See Marking. 



Yarn, in Rope-Making, is fpun from hemp, and is called 

 twenty -five, twenty, and eighteen thread yarn, which differs 

 only in the finenefs ; the twenty-five being finer than tlie 

 twenty, &c. It is thus diftinguilhed, becaufe either 



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twenty-five, twenty, or eighteen threads a hook, make 

 a rope of three inches in circumference, and fo in propor- 



tion. 



Yarn, Spun, on board a Ship. See Spun. 



YARNALLS, in Geography, a town of Pennfylvania ; 

 20 miles E. of Sanbury. 



YAROVOI, a town of RufGa, in the government of 

 Tobolik, on the Irtifch ; 52 miles N. of Tobolik. 



YARRA. See Jarra. 



YAJIRINGLES, or YAv^ninGLY.- Blades, a kind of 

 reel, or inftrument, with which hanks of yarn are wound on 

 to clues, or balls. 



YARROW, in Botany. (See Achillea.) Perhaps 

 this old Englifh name originated in the Spanilh Terha, or 

 Terva, an herb ; our Common Achillea Millefolium having 

 been formerly called, in that language, Mllhoyas Terva, or 

 Thoufand-leaved Herb, a tranllation of its Latin appeUa- 

 tion. 



The leaves and flowers of the common yarrow, or achll- 

 lea millefolium of Linnjeus, which is in flower en our ditch- 

 banks, and in dry paftures, the greateft part of the fummcr, 

 are greatly recommended by fome of the German phyficians, 

 as mild corroborants, vulneraries, and antifpafmodics, in 

 diarrhoeas, hemorrhages, hypochondriacal, and other dif- 

 orders. They promife, fays Dr. Lewis, by their fenfible 

 qualities, to be of no inconfiderable aftivity. They have 

 an agreeable, though weak, aromatic fmell, and a bitterifh, 

 roughi{h, fomewhat pungent tafte. The leaves, having the 

 greateft bitteriihnefs and aufterity, are chiefly direfted for 

 medicinal ufe ; the flowers have the ftrongeft and moft 

 fubtile fmell, are remarkably acrid, and promife to be of the 

 greateft efficacy, if the plant has any fuch efficacy, as an 

 anodyne or antifpafmodic. The virtue of both leaves and 

 flowers is extrafted by watery and fpirituous menftrua ; 

 the aftringency moft perfeftly by the former ; their aro- 

 matic warmth and pungency by the latter ; and both of 

 them equally by a mixture of the two. The flowers, dif- 

 tilled with water, yield a penetrating e(renti2l oil, poffefTmg 

 the flavour of the milfoil in perfeftion ; in confiftence fome- 

 what thick and tenacious ; in colour very variable, from a 

 greenilh-yellow to a deep green and blueifh-green, and fine 

 blue, which differences depend in a great meafure on the 

 foil in which the plant is produced ; the flowers gathered 

 from moift frefh grounds yielding generally a blue oil, and 

 thofe coUetfted from dry commons a green one, with a 

 greater or lefs admixture of yellow. The extract obtained 

 by infpiffating the yellowilh tinfture made in rectified 

 fpirit, is more agreeable in fmell than the flowers, of a 

 moderately warm penetrating tafte, fomewhat like that of 

 camphor, but much milder, accompanied with a (light bit- 

 teriihnefs and fubaftringency. The achlllea ptarmlca of 

 LinnsEus, czWeA fneezewort, or lajlard pclUtory, is perennial, 

 grows wild on heaths, and in moift (hady grounds, and is 

 found in flower from June to the end of fummcr. The 

 roots of this plant have a hot biting tafte, approaching to 

 that of pelhtory of Spain, with which they nearly agree in 

 their pharmaceutic properties, and for which they have 

 been fometimes fubftituted in the (hops. They are by 

 fome recommended internally as a warm ttimulant and 

 nttenuant ; but their principal ufe is as a mallicatory and 

 fternutatorv. Lewis. 



Yarrovv, in Agriculture, a plant of the herbage kind, 

 which is common but ufeful in the pafture-ficld in many 

 cafes. It has long ago been noticed, by the writer of the 

 " Effays on Rural Affairs," as valuable for cultivation m 

 grafs-laiids in difi'erent forts of (oil. It fuccecds on moift 

 loams, but is moft proper for dry burning gravels, fands, 



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