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WHITSTABLE, in Geography. In 1811, the panfli 

 contu.nc<l 235 houfcs, and 1249 perfons ; v,^. 616 males, 



and 67,% females. r -d r . 



WILLIAMSBOROUGH, a townflup of Burlington 



county, in New Jerfey, having 619 nihabitants. 



WILTSHIRE. In 18 1 1, this county contained 37^478 

 houfes, and 193.828 perfons; vi^. 91,560 males (including 

 the local mUitia 1662), and 102,268 females : 22,657 

 familics being- employed in agriculture, and 14,857 m trade, 

 manufadures, or handicraft. 



WIMBLEDON. In iSii, the panfh contained 293 

 houfes, and 1914 perfons; Wa. 891 males, and 1023 



females. „ , . . , c /-■ 



WINDHAM, a town of Maine, m the county ot Cum- 

 berland, containing 161 3 inhabitants. 



WINTERTON, in Lincolnfhire. In 181 1, the parilh 

 contained 179 houfes, and 821 perfons; vl%. 379 males, 

 and 442 females. 



WiNTEKTON, in Norfolk. In 181 1, the pariih con- 

 tained 112 houfes, and 494 perfons; -vh. 254 males, and 

 240 females. 



WITCHCRAFT. Add — Dr. Henry More pub- 

 lilhed a curious traft, entitled " Antidotes againfl Atheifm," 

 ill which he undertakes to prove the being of a God from 

 the exiilence of witches, and the power which they poffefs. 

 See his biographical article. 



WITHERITE, col. 2, 1. 9, add— The known re- 

 pofitories of this fubftance are very limited ; but it has been 

 obferved by Mr. Aikin, in great abundance, in the lower 

 part of a lead-mine in Shropfhire, where it occurs in irre- 

 gular mafles, which weigh from forty to two or three hun- 

 dred pounds, imbedded in heavy fpar. The miners call 

 this fubllance " yellow fpar ;" not that this is its real colour 

 by day-hght, but its tranfparency is fo confiderable, that if 

 a lighted candle be placed behind a mafs of it, the whole 

 will glow with a yellowifh light, by which circumftance 

 the miners diflinguifli it from " heavy fpar." This latter 

 from the loofenefs of its texture, being in large mafles 

 quite opaque. The colour of the witherite is white, with 

 the llightcll poffible, if any, tinge of yellow ; its frafture is 

 hard, itriated, approaching to liraight foliated ; it is for the 

 moll part maffive. Mr. Aikin obferved only one fpecimen 

 that prefented any indications of a regular cryftalline form. 

 In other particulars it agrees with the ufual defcription of 

 this fubftance. 100 parts of this witherite yields, 



Carbonate of barytes 



of ftrontites - 



Sulphate of barytes 

 Silcx ... 



Alumine and oxyd of iron 



96.3 

 I.I 



0.9 

 0.5 

 0.25 



99.05 

 Lofs 0.95 



Tranf. of Geolog. See. vol. iv. pt. 2. 



WITTENA-GEMOTE, 1. 14 from the bottom, r. 

 concionatores. 



WODANIUM, in Chewijry, the name of a metal 

 recently difcovered by Lampadius. This metal was ob- 

 tained from a fpecies of pyrites, named by Brcilhaupt 

 Wodan-kies, or wodan pyrites, formed at Topfchau, in 

 Hungary, and which had hitherto been confidered as an 

 ore ot cobalt. The fpecific gravity of this mineral is 5.192. 

 Its luilre is metallic. Its colour dark tin-white, palling 



w o o 



into grey or brown. Hitherto it has only occurred maf- 

 five, and in that ftate it is full of cavities. Its fradlure is 

 uneven. It is brittle and eafily frangible, and in hardnefs 

 furpafles fluor fpar, but is inferior to apatite. This mineral 

 contains about 20 per cent, of the new metal united with 

 fulphur, arfenic, iron, and nickel. 



Wodanium has a bronze-yellow colour fimilar to that 

 of cobalt glance, and its fpecific gravity is 11.470. It is 

 malleable. Its frafture is hackly ; it has the hardnefs of 

 fluor fpar, and is ilrongly attrafted by the magnet. It is | 

 not taniKhed by expolure to the atmofphere at common 

 temperatures, but when heated it is converted into a black ' 

 oxyd. 



The folution of this metal in acids is colourlefs ; or at 

 leall has only a flight wine-yellow tinge. Its hydrated 

 carbonate is likewife white. The hydrate of it precipitated 

 by caullic ammonia is indigo blue. 



Neither the alkaline phofphates nor arfeniates occafion 

 any precipitate when dropped into a faturated folution of 

 this metal in an acid, neither is any precipitate produced by 

 the infufion of nut-galls. A plate of zinc throws down a 

 black metallic powder from the folution of this metal in 

 muriatic acid. Pruffiate of potafh throws down a pearl- 

 grey precipitate, &c. 



Nitric acid diflblves with facility both the metal and its 

 oxyd, and the folution yields colourlefs needle-form cryftals, 

 which readily diffolve in water. 



Such at prefent is all we know of this metal, and the 

 ore containing it. The name <wotlaiiium has been given 

 from the old Saxon divinity, Wodan. 



WOODFORD, in Geography, a village in a parifh of the 

 fame name, in the hundred of Becontree, and county of Eflex. 

 In 181 1, the parifh was returned as containing 310 houfes, 

 and 2056 inhabitants ; viz. 1051 males, and 1005 females. 

 It is fituated on Epping Foreil, in the vicinity of Waltham- 

 ftow, Wanftead, Layton, &c. which contain a confiderable 

 number of well-built houfes, admirably adapted for the 

 country -refidence of the citizens of London. 



WOODVILLE, in Biography. Add— Dr. WoodviUe, 

 always anxious for the promotion of fcience, and no lefs 

 difpofed to ferve the friends whom he eileemed, favoured 

 the editor with feveral botanical articles for the Cyclopsjdia. 



WOOLCOTT, in Geography, a townfhip of Orleans 

 county, in Vermont, having i 24 inhabitants. 



WOOLLETT, William, in Biography,3.\erY emment 

 engraver, was born at Maidilonc, in Kent, Aug. 27, 1735, 

 and educated in his native town. In early life he exhibited 

 fpecimcns of his graphic talents, which being feen by Mr. 

 Tinney, an engraver, occafioncd his being taken by him as 

 an apprentice. His advancement in his profeflion was very 

 rapid, and fo diftinguiflied, that he contributed in a very 

 high degree to the perfeftion of landfcape-engraving. He 

 was alfo fingularly fuccefsful in the exercife of his art on 

 hiftorical fubjects and portraits. So eftablilhed and fo per- 

 manent has been his fame, that the bell impreflions of his 

 prints, particularly thofe of " Niobe" and " Phaeton," 

 " Cebadon and Amelia," " Cnyx and Alcyone," " The 

 Fifliery," " Vandyke's Portrait of Rubens," " The Death 

 of General Wolfe," and " The Battle of the Boyne," 

 whenever they occur in coUedlions, are very highly appre- 

 ciated. 



The world was deprived of this eminent artift at the age 

 of 50. His death, which occurred at his houfe in Upper 

 Charlotte-ftreet, Rathbone-place, May 23, 1783, was an- 

 nounced to the public with the following tribute of refpeft 

 to his memory. " To fay he was the flril artiil in his 

 profeHion would be giving him his leaft praife, for he was 



a good 



