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The reft of the wool made ufe of is the produff of Devon, 
(hire and the neighbouring counties. Exeter likewife 
imports dying drugs, wines, and fruit, from Spain and 
Italy; linens from Germany; and hemp, iron, timber, 
and tallow, from the Baltic. It fends Ihips to the New¬ 
foundland and Greenland fifheries. It fupplies the coun¬ 
try round with coal, both from the northern collieries, 
and from Wales ; and it has an exportation of corn, efpe- 
ciaily oats, to London, Exeter was twice ravaged by the 
Danes. In the reign of Henry VII. it was befieged by 
Perkin Warbeck, but made fo brave a defence that he 
was compelled to raife the liege, and the king, in acknow¬ 
ledgment of the bravery of the citizens, prefented them 
with a jword which he himfelf wore, to be carried before 
the mayor in all corporate proceflions. The markets are 
on Wedneldays, Fridays, and Saturdays: fairs,'A(h-Wed- 
nefday, Whit-Monday, Angufl i, and December 6. 
An arm of the fea formerly flowed nearly up to the 
city walls, till in 1316, when Hugh Courtenay, earl ot 
Devon, in revenge for an affront, ruined the navigation, 
by conftrndting weirs and dams in the river ; but to re¬ 
medy it, in 1539, an adf of parliament palled for making a 
navigable canal, for the better conveyance of goods in 
barges to and from the city to Topfbam. This was car¬ 
ried into execution in 1581, but not completed till 1675 ; 
nor was it after all found fufficienr, til] the prefent haven 
was conftrudted in 1697, when it was rendered capable of 
bringing (hips of 150 tons quite up to the city quay. Above 
this quay, is a riling ground, called the Friers, open to 
the fouth and weft, from which the profpedt is both beau¬ 
tiful and extenfive. This city gives the title of earl to 
the noble family of the Cecils.- 
The fee of Exeter was once the mod wealthy in the 
kingdom ; but its revenues were (hamefully wafted by 
biftiop Voyfey, who alienated its lands. What little he 
left was fo much incumbered, that the fee lias nciter been 
able to recover its former value ; and fo fmall are its pre¬ 
fect revenues, that it has been found neceffary for the 
bilhop to hold forne other preferment for the better fup- 
port of his dignity and rank. This fee hath yielded to 
the nation three lord-chancellors, two lord-treafurers, one 
lord-preftdent of Wales, and one chancellor to the univer- 
ftty of Oxford. The diocefe contains the entire counties 
of Devonftiire and Cornwall, wherein are 604 parifties, 
whereof 239 are impropriate. It hath four archdeaconries, 
viz. of Cornwall, Exeter, Barnftaple, and Totnefs. The 
diocefe was formerly valued in the king’s books at 1556!. 
14s. 6d. but, fince biftiop Voyfey’s tiqie, it is lowered 
to 500I. and is computed to be worth annually 2700I. 
The clergy’s tenth is 1200I. 13s. 2^d. To the cathedral 
belong a biftiop, a dean, four archdeacons, a chancellor, 
a treafurer, achaptor, twenty-four prebendaries, and other 
inferior officers and fervants. 
Exeter is (eventy-eight miles fouth-weft of Briftol, 
thirty-one north-north-eaft of Dartmouth, forty-nine foutli- 
fouth-eaftof Barnftaple, forty-four north-eaft of Plymouth, 
.eighty-eight weft-fouth-weft of Salifbury, and 173 mea¬ 
sured miles from London. It has a long bridge over the 
Ex, with houfeson both, ffdes, with a church over a great 
part oLit, built about 1270 ; 'and another eredled in 1770, 
from the bottom of the principal ftreet of the city, which 
joins the old one at its fartheft extremity. It is the Ifca 
of Ptolomy and Antoninus. 
In the four charity-fchools, (which were firft inftituted 
in 1709, under the patronage of Offspring Bla'ckall, then 
lord biftiop of the diocefe,) an hundred children of each 
lex are clothed and educated ; the boys are infirudced in 
-reading, writing, and arithmetic ; the girls in reading, 
fewing, and knitting ; they are admitted at the age of 
feven, and continue in the fchool till twelve years old. 
Exeter has always been ranked as the metropolis of the 
weft of England, and Salilbury as the key or inlet of that 
peninfula of England. 
KX'ETER, a poft-town of the American States, in 
Rockingham county, New-Hampfhire, and, next to Portf- 
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month, the moft confidenible fea-port in fhe ftate. li is 
litijated at the head of navigation on Swamfcot, or’Exeter 
river, a branch of the Pifcataqua, fifteen miles fouth-weft 
of Portfmouth, and a like diftance north-weft of New- 
bury-port, in Effex county, Maftacluifetts. The tide 
rifes eleven feet. It has a manufactory of coarfe linen 
cloth, fix faw mills, a fulling-mill, flitting-mill, paper- 
mill, fnuff-mill, two chocolate and ten grift mills, iron¬ 
works, and two printing-offices. The faddlery bufinefs 
is carried on here to a great extent. Ship-building is here 
a profitable bufinefs ; and veffels are employed in the 
Weft-lndia trade. The fituation of this place bids fair 
for extenfive population. The public edifices are two 
congregational churches, an elegant building appropriat¬ 
ed for the academy, a handfome and capacious court- 
hcufe, and a gaol. The public offices of the ftate are 
held here. Belides the celebrated Exeter academy, there 
are aii Elnglifh fchool, and fix or eight private fchools, 
chiefly for females. This townftiip is of an irregular 
figure, and about four miles fqnare. It was incorporated 
in 1638 ; prior to which, it had the name of Swamfcot 
Falls, from the falls of the river, which feparated the 
frefh from the tide water; where the body of the town 
is lituated ; chiefly on the weftern fide of the river. The 
number of inhabitants in 1790, was 1722. It lies fifty- 
four miles north of Bofton, and 402 north-eaft of Phila¬ 
delphia : lat.42. 59.N. Ion. 71. Phillips Exeter Aca¬ 
demy was founded and endowed by John Phillips, LL.D. 
of Exeter, and incorporated by act of affembly in 1781. 
It is a very refpedtable inftitntion, under the infpedtion 
of a board of truftees, and the immediate government 
and inftrudtion of a preceptor and ah affiftant. It has a 
fund of 15,0001. Here are commonly between fifty and (ixty 
ftudents. In 1794, a building was eredled, feventy-fix 
by thirty-fix feet ; which in point of convenience, and 
perhaps elegance, is exceeded by few buildings of the 
kind in the United States. 
EX'ETER, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Waftiington county, Rhode-Ifland, has North Kingfton 
on the eaft, and Voluntown, in Connedlicut, on the weft. 
The feveral branches of Wood river unite here, and take 
a fouth courfe between Hopkinton and Richmond. It 
contains, by the cenfusof 1796, 2495 inhabitants. 
EX'ETER, a townfhip of the American States, in Lu¬ 
zern county, Pennfylvania. 
EX'ETER, a town of the American States, in New 7 
Hanover county, in Wilmington diftridt, North Carolina ; 
fituated on the north eaft branch of Cape Fear, about 
thirty-fix miles north from Wilmington, and twent-y-two 
from the North river. 
To EXFO'LI ATE, v. n. [«.-and folium, Lat.J To ftiell 
off; feparate, as a corrupt bone from the found part. A 
term in furgery.—Our work went on fuccefsfully, the 
bone exfoliating from the edges. Wifcman . 
EXFOLIA'TION, J'. The procefs by which the cor¬ 
rupted part of a bone feparates from the found. — If the 
bone be dielfed, the fiefli will foon atife in that cut of 
the bone, and make exfoliation of what is neceffary, and 
incarn it. Wij'eman. 
EXFO'LI AT 1 VE, aclj. That which has the power of 
procuring exfoliation.—Drefs the bone with the milder 
exfoliatives, ’till the burnt bone is calf oft'. IVifeman. 
EXHA'LABLE, adj. That which may be evaporated 
or exhaled.—The fire may relolve forne of the more fpi- 
rituous and exkalable parts, whereof diifillation has (hewn 
me that alabafter is not deftiuite, into'vapours. Boyle. 
EXH ALA'TION, J. \_exhalatio. Lav.] The adl of ex¬ 
haling or lending,out in vapours; emiflion ; the ftate of 
evaporating or flying out in vapours ; evaporation. That 
which riles in vapours, and fometimes takes the form of 
meteors : 
No nat’ral exhalation- in.the fky, 
No ’fcape of nature, no diftemper’d day, 
But they would pluck away its nat’ral caufe. 
And call them meteors, prodigies, and fjgns. Shakefpeart. 
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