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equivalent in money to be given in lieu of them, and 14J. zd. 

 per man for holfters. 



YEOVIL, in Geography, a large and populous market- 

 town in the hundred of Stone, county of Somerfet, Eng- 

 land, is fituated on the confines of the county, at the dif- 

 tance of 9 miles S.S.E. from Somerton, and 122 miles 

 W.S.W. from London. It derives its name from the river 

 Yeo, which rifes near Sherborne, and pafFes this place under 

 a ftone bridge of three arches, feparating the counties of 

 oomerfet and Dorfet. The town of Yeovil confifts of 

 upwards of twenty ftreets and lanes ; many of the former 

 are of confiderable width : the houfes in general are re- 

 fpeftable, and many of them are built of ftone. Part of 

 he town is called the Borough, and is governed by a port- 

 reve and eleven burgefles, out of whom the portreve is an- 

 nually chofen. Here is a fpacious market-houfe, feventy 

 f:et in length, and twenty in breadth, fupported by ftone 

 pillars, in the centre of which are the remains of an ancient 

 crofs. A confiderable market is held on Fridays for corn, 

 cattle, pigs, butter, cheefe, and flax : here are alfo two 

 annual fairs. The woollen trade was formerly extenfive 

 here, but has decreafed : the chief bufinefs of the town is 

 the manufacture of leather gloves. In the return of the 

 year 181 1, the population of this parifh was eftimated at 

 41 18 ; the number of houfes at 459. The church, a large 

 ancient ftrufture, confifts of a nave, chancel, two aides, 

 and tranfept : the length of the whole is 146 feet ; the 

 breadth 50. At the weft end is a plain tower, ninety feet 

 high, with a ftone baluftrade at the top. DifTenters have 

 feveral meeting-houfes in the town. Here is an alms-houfe, 

 founded in the year 1476, by the Rev. Mr. Woburne, minor 

 canon of St. Paul's, London, and by him endowed with 

 confiderable landed property for the maintenance of a maf- 

 ter, two wardens, and twelve poor perfons of either fex. 

 He alfo built a chapel for the ufe of his poor, and ordained 



divine fervice to be performed in it every day CoUinfon's 



Hiftory of Somerfetftiire, vol. iii. Beauties of England 

 and Wales, vol. xiii. Somerfetfhire. 



YEOUNGBENZAH, a town of Birmah, on the 

 Irawaddy ; 36 miles N.N.W. of Rangoon. N. lat. 

 17° 30'. 



YEOU-TUN-OUEI, a town of Chinefe Tartary. N. 

 lat. 41° 8'. E. long. 121° 9'. 



YEOU-YU, one of the fmall iflands in the Chinefe 

 Archipelago ; 62 miles S.W. of Macao. 



YEOWAH, a town of Birmah ; 15 miles S. of Pe- 

 jongmew. 



YEPES, a town of Spain, in New Caftile ; 17 miles E. 

 of Toledo. 



YERAPATTA, a town of Hindooftan, inMyfore ; 8 

 miles S. of Dalmacherry. 



YERCO, a town of Thibet ; 90 miles S.E. of Lafla. 

 YE RE, a river of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Seine, which runs into the Englilh Channel, at Eu. 



YERGHIEN. See Yarkan. 

 - YERK, in Horfes, a term fignifying to ftrike out back- 

 wards. A horfe is faid to yerk, or ftrike with the hind 

 legs, when he flings and kicks with his whole hind quarters, 

 ftriking out the two hinder legs near together, and even to 

 their full extent. Horfes of this fort are very dangerous, 

 and fhould be parted with as foon as poffible, whether they 

 are of the farm or the faddle kind. 



YERKIE, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, on an illand 

 at the mouth of the Volga, where vefTels take their depar- 

 ture for the Cafpian fea. Here (hips formerly entered and 

 cleared, but the ifiand is now almoft overflowed, and the 



trade of the place much decayed fince 1747; 60 miles S. of 

 Aftrachan. 



YERMA. See Jermah. 

 YERMUK. See Yarmuc. 



YERTNAGOODAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 circarof Rajamundry ; 17 miles S.W. of Rajamundry. 

 YERVA-MORA, in Botany. See BosEA. 

 YERVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lower Seine; 12 mUes N.N.E. of 

 Caudebec. 



YESCOKING Creek, a river of North Carolina, which 

 runs into Pamlico found, N. lat. 35° 20'. W. lony. 

 76° 14'. ^ 



YESD. See Yezd. 



Yesd, a town of Perfia, in the province of Lariftan ; 40 

 miles N. of Lar. 



YESDECAST. See Jezdkast. 



YESID, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chufiftan, 

 or Kuziftan ; 18 miles N. of Toftar. 

 YEST. See Yeast. 



YETCHERADAW, in Geography, a town of Hindoo- 

 ftan, in Myfore ; 9 miles E. of Rydroog. 



YETEOPAUK, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Cicacole ; 15 miles S.W. of Coffimcotta. 



YETHAN, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 

 German fea, 10 miles N. of Aberdeen. 



YETHOLM, or Zet-ham, a market-town in the dif- 

 tri(5t of Kelfo, and ftiire of Roxburgh, Scotland, is fituated 

 nine miles S.E. from Kelfo, on the fmall river Bowmont, 

 which divides it into two parts, refpeftively named Town 

 Yetholm and Kirk Yetholm. A weekly market is held on 

 Wednefdays ; and two fairs annually. Many tinkers and 

 g^pfiesrefide in this town. The parifh extends about four 

 miles in length, and two in breadth ; and is bounded on the 

 eaft and fouth by the Enghfh border. The furface is hilly, 

 but the hills are covered with verdure, and paftured by a 

 rery confiderable number of ftieep. In the population re- 

 turn of the year 181 1, this parifh is ftated to contain 213 

 houfes, and 1138 inhabitants. King Robert III. granted 

 the barony of Yetholm in the fourteenth century to Archi- 

 bald Mac Dougal, whofe defcendant ftill enjoys it — Car- 

 lifle's Topographical DiAionary of Scotland, 1813. 



YETTUS, in Natural Hijlary, a name given by the 

 writers of the middle ages to a fpecies of marble of a deep 

 red, which was ufed by fome as a touch ftone. 



YEU, in Geography, a fmall and inCgnificant ifle, fituated 

 on the W. coaft of France. 



YEVA Charrum, in Natural Hilary, a name given by 

 the people of the Eaft Indies to a kind of litharge, which 

 is very common in that part of the world, and is faid to be 

 made partly from lead and partly from zinc. 



It is lefs heavy than our yellow litharge, and of a paler 

 colour. It is ufed as a cauftic in all the occafions of furgery 

 there. 



YEVERING, in Geography, a village of England, in the 

 county of Northumberland, where the Scots were defeated 

 in 1415, by fir Robert Humphrevil and the earl of Weft- 

 moreland. Near it is a mountain called Yevering Bell, be- 

 longing to thofe called Cheviot; 6 miles W.N.W. of 

 WooUer. 



YEULA, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana; 5 miles 

 E. of Bahbelgong. 



YEVRE LE Chateau, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Loiret; 6 miles S.E. of Pithiviers. 



YEW, or EuGH, in Botany. { See Ta.xus. ) De Thc.s 



traces thefe Engliih words, whofe antiquity cannot be 



° K 2 doubted. 



