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oblong heap of eartli, like thofe over the cominon ^aves in 

 S ouf Englim church-yards. . ithout a ftone or ,nrcnpnon 

 of any kind ; and his body was carelefsly deP^^^^J f jf^^ 

 three or four feet beneath the furface. The part ot the 

 temple where it has been buried .s now converted into a 

 Greek church, dedicated to St. George; but as this build- 

 inR is occafionallv open and liable to the "^fufion of an.- 

 mi, who fometimes feek fuch retreats, Dr Clarke and 

 his con.panions, in their travels to Athens, obtained leare 



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to take tip the coffin, and to have it properly covered ; and 

 a Greek epitaph, compofed by Mr. Walpole in 1805, has 

 been infcribed on a large block of Pentelician marble from 

 the Parthenon, for recording the merits of the deceafed. 

 The completion of this buiinefs has been owing to the 

 exertions of lord Byron, and Dr. J. F. Lee, of St. John's 

 college, Cambridge. Clarke's Travels, vol. vi. 



TWIGGS, 1. 2, add — of whom 642 were (laves m i8ia 

 TWIST.and Twisting. See Manufacture o/Co«ofi. 



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VANDELLIUS, Vandel, in Ichthyology, a genus of 

 fifhes of the order Thoracici, confidercd by Dr. Vandelli of 

 Coimbra as nearly allied to the genus Trichiurus ; the 

 charafters of which are, body extremely long, fvvord-fhaped, 

 gill-membrane five or fix-rayed, and teeth fubulatc, thofe 

 ui front largeft. This fifli is the filvery vandel, with forked 

 tail, which occurs, very rarely, in the Mediterranean and 

 Atlantic feas, and fometimes near Lifbon. 



VANDER WEYDE, Roger, called Roger of Bruges, 

 in Biography, an hiflorical and portrait painter, was born 

 at Bruges about the year 1455, and became the difciple of 

 John Van Eyck, who, at a fliort period before his death, 

 difcovered to him the fecret of painting in oil. From this 

 time he dillinguidied himfelf by many grand compofitions 

 in a large fize, and was confidered as one of the firil Flemifh 

 artifts who improved the national tafte, divefting it in fome 

 degree of the Gothic, and manifefting grace in the airs of 

 his heads, as well as corrcftnefs in his defign. He painted 

 the portraits of feveral princes, and of many perfons of 

 eminence, and obtained a confiderable degree of fame 

 and fortune. His paintings in the town-hall of Bruges 

 have been much commended ; one of which is formed on 

 the fubjeft of Trajan's jultice, executed on one of his fol- 

 diers, on the complaint of a mother, whofe fon had been 

 murdered by him ; and that of another is Archambrant, 

 prince of Brabant, ftabbing his nephew, who was his next 

 heir, when he himfelf was near dying, for having ravifhed a 

 maid of that country. 



VAN UTRECHT, Adrian, was a native of Ant- 

 werp, where he was born in 1599, and learnt the art of 

 painting : at firft painting peacocks and other fowl for his 

 amufement, in which he fo much excelled that he was 

 encouraged to profecute this branch of his art. The fub- 

 jefts to which his attention was principally direfted were 

 fruit, birds, flowers, dead game, and objefts of dill life ; 

 imitating and copying nature, and diftinguithed by correft 

 drawing, and the colouring of nature. He was deemed 

 next to Sneydcn in that ftyle of any of the artifts in the 

 Liow Countries ; and though he was very induftrious, he 



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could not execute one half of the orders which he received. 

 His manner of pencilling was peculiarly delicate, and gives 

 an uncommon tranfparence to his colours. Moft; of his 

 works were engrofled by the king of Spain, fo that they 

 became fcarce, and they now produce very high prices. 

 This artiil died in 1 65 1, at the age of 52 years. 



VASSALBOROUGH. Add— containing 2063 in- 

 habitants. 



VATICAN. Add— The Vatican, defpoiled during 

 the French revolution, can again boaft of poffefTing the 

 Apollo, the Laocoon, the Antinous, and all thofe fine 

 examples of the exquifite tafte and delicate fentiment of 

 that refined people, the Greeks. The Transfiguration of 

 RafTaelle, the St. Jerome of Domenichino, and the St. Pe- 

 tronilla by Guercino, fince their return from Paris, have 

 been placed in a room by themfelves, but inconveniently 

 dark. 



VAUXHALL Bridge, a bridge over the Thames, 

 extending from Millbank to Smith's tea-gardens, which 

 nearly adjoin Vauxhall Gardens, and connefting the roads 

 branching from that fpot to Hyde Park Corner by a ftraight 

 road and ftreet acrols Tothill-fields to Eaton-ftreet, Pim- 

 lico, and Grofvcnor-place. This bridge, conftrufted by 

 Mr. J. Walker, confifts of nine arches of equal fpan in 

 fquares of caiViron, on piers of rufticatcd ftone, formed 

 of fragments, united by means of Parker's cement. The 

 total width is 809 feet, the fpan of the arches 78 feet, the 

 height 29 feet, and the clear breadth of the road-way 36 

 feet. The eftimated coft of this bridge was above 300,000/. 



VELOCIPEDE, Accelerator, or Sw'ift-lValker, a 

 machine originally invented by baron Charles de Drais, 

 mafter of the woods and forefts of his royal highnefs the 

 grand duke of Baden, who, in his account of its nature 

 and properties, fays, that on a well-maintained poll -road, 

 it will travel up hill as fall as an aftive man can walk ; that 

 on a plain, even after a heavy rain, it will move fix or feven 

 miles an hour ; that, when roads are dry and firm, it runs 

 on a plain at the rate of eight or nine miles an hour, which 

 is equal to a horfe's gallop ; and that on a defcent, its mo- 

 tion is equal to that of a horfe at full fpeed. This machine, 

 the theory of which is founded on the application of a 



wheel 



