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RE WARY, a town of Hindostan, province of Delhi, and 
district of Namoul. It is possessed by a native chief, one 
of the numerous British tributaries. Lat. 28. 13. N. long. 
76. 42. E. 
REWE, a village of England, in Devonshire ; 5 miles 
north-east of Exeter. 
To REWO'RD, v. ai To repeat in the same words. 
Bring me to the test, 
And I the matter will reword; which madness 
Would gambol from. Shakspeare. 
REY, a river of England, in the county of Wilts, which 
joins the Thames at Cricklade. 
REY. See Rea. 
- REY, one of the Pearl islands, in the bay of Panama; 20 
miles long from north to south, and 10 or 11 wide, and 
about 20 miles distant from the continent of Panama. 
It has a good port, and is surrounded with other isles. Lat. 
8. N. Long. 79. 46. W. 
REY, a river of Paraguay, which enters the Plata. 
REY, a small island of Chili, at the mouth of the river 
Valdivia. 
REYDE, a fortress of the Netherlands, in the province of 
Groningen, at the entrance of the arm of the sea called the 
Dollart. It is situated near the extremity of a projecting 
point of land, opposite to Embden ; 7 miles east-south-east 
of Delfzyl. 
REYDON, a village of England, in Suffolk; 2 miles north¬ 
west of Southwold. 
REYES, a city of New Granada, in the province of Santa 
Martha. It is now reduced and poor. The climate is hot 
and unhealthy ; 72 miles south of Santa Martha. Lat. 10. 
6. N. Long. 73. 50. W. 
REYES, a city of the Caraccas, in the province of Vene¬ 
zuela. The inhabitants carry on a lucrative trade in cocoa, 
tobacco, and in neat cattle; 40 miles south-south-west from 
Caraccas. Lat. 9. 57. N. Long. 67. 19. W.—It is also the 
name of several other inconsiderable settlements in different 
parts of South America. 
REYES, a small island near the coast of Patagonia, at 
the entrance of Port Desire. Lat. 47. 50. S. 
REYES, a river of the province of South America, in 
Tucuman, which runs east for many leagues. 
REYHER (Samuel), an eminent German mathematician, 
was born at Schleusingen, in Saxony, in the year 1635. 
He received the early part of his education under his father, 
and then pursued his mathematical studies at the university 
of Leipsic. He next went to Leyden, and studied the alge¬ 
bra of Vieta under the celebrated James Golius, with whom 
he contracted an intimate friendship. On his return to Leip¬ 
sic, he obtained so high a reputation in teaching the 
mathematics, that he was nominated preceptor to the young 
prince of Gotha, the eldest son of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha. 
In 1665 he accepted an invitation to fill the mathematical 
chair at the university of Kiel, and having first paid a visit 
to Leyden, he was there admitted to the degree of doctor in 
civil law. In a few years afterwards he was appointed pro¬ 
fessor extraordinary of civil law, in 1683 professor in ordinary 
of the Institutes, and in ] 692 professor of the code of Jus¬ 
tinian. He died in 1714, in the 80th year of his age. He 
translated the works of Euclid into the German language, 
illustrating the geometrical with algebraical demonstra¬ 
tions wherever they would admit of it; and he published, 
among many other works, a learned work, entitled “ Mathesis 
Biblica;” and a very curious “Dissertation concerning the 
Inscription on the Cross of Jesus Christ, and the Hour of his 
Crucifixion.” Moreri. 
REYMERSTONE, a village of England, in Norfolk; 6 
miles south-east of Dereham. 
REYN, Jan de, or Rheni, called also Lang Jan, was an 
artist of very considerable merit, a disciple, and skilful 
imitator of Vandyke, to whom he was so much attached 
that he followed him to London, and remained some time 
with him. He was born at Dunkirk in 1610; and he so 
REY 
effectually benefited by the instructions of Vandyke, that 
his pictures are frequently sold for those of that master. 
But as he, in general, painted history more than portrait, he 
has a freer line in composition, though not so correct a one 
as his master. His works are scarce, though he lived to the 
age of 68, but their apparent scarcity is possibly owing to so 
many of them being imputed to Vandyke. Among the 
works which are indisputably his, are mentioned the Baptism 
of Totila, which is in a church at Dunkirk; and a grand 
altar-piece in the parish church of St. Martin, at Bergues, 
representing Herodias bringing the head of St. John to 
Herod. He died in 1678. 
REYNA (Cassiodorus de), celebrated for being the first 
translator of the whole bible into the Spanish language, and 
on this account he is noticed, though we have no particulars 
concerning his life. To his translation he introduced notes 
explanatory and critical. The place where this version was 
printed is not mentioned in the title-page, though from some 
typographical marks, it may be ascertained pretty correctly 
that it was at Basil; and as the author was probably a Pro¬ 
testant, he thought proper to conceal his name, that it might 
not prevent his work from being received among the Spa¬ 
nish Catholics, and it has only his initials R. C. to a Latin 
preface, recommending it to the kings, princes, and nobles of 
Europe, and particularly of the Roman empire. The date 
is 1569, and it. is entitled “ La Biblia, que es, Los Sacros 
Libros del Vieio y Nuevo Testamento. Transladada en 
Espagnol.” The first edition of this version is now very 
scarce. Moreri. 
REYNARDS, a tribe of Indians in North America, who 
reside in three villages, the first situated on the western side 
of the Mississippi, six miles above the rapids of Rock river; 
the second about twelve miles behind the lead mines; and 
the third on Turkey river, half a league from its entrance. 
They hunt on both sides of the Mississippi, from the river 
Jowa, and occasionally employ themselves in agriculture, 
raising a great quantity of corn, beans, and melons, the 
former of these articles in such abundance, as to sell many 
hundred bushels per annum. This tribe is supposed to con¬ 
sist of 1750 souls, among whom are 400 warriors. 
REYNEAU (Charles Rene), an eminent French mathe¬ 
matician, was bom at Brissac, in the province of Anjou, in 
in the year 1656. At the age of twenty, he took up his resi¬ 
dence in the house belonging to the congregation of the 
Oratory at Paris, without any intention of entering into the 
community. His object was to enjoy the advantages in 
study which that celebrated order afforded for improvement 
in literature. In a short time, however, a change took 
place in his mind, and he became a member of the house. 
He became strongly attached to the science of geometry, and 
in 1683 he was appointed to a mathematical professorship 
at Angiers; this post he retained 22 years with extraordinary 
reputation. In this situation he undertook to reduce into one 
body, for the use of his scholars, the principal theories 
scattered through the writings of Descartes, Leibnitz, Ber- 
nouilli, the Leipsic Acts, the Memoirs of the Paris Academy 
of Sciences, and other works. The fruit of this undertaking, 
entitled “ The Analysis demonstrated, &c.” he pubished at 
Paris in the year 1708, in two vols. 4to. He assumed this 
title for his work because it contained demonstrations of 
several methods of analysis which had not been demonstrated 
by the authors of them, or, at least, not with sufficient per¬ 
spicuity and exactness. By supplying what was left un¬ 
done by other persons, he rendered so signal a service to 
mathematical students, that it became a maxim, at least in 
France, that to follow father Reyneau was the best way to 
make much progress in mathematics. Hence he was es¬ 
teemed the Euclid of the sublime geometry. His great work 
was reprinted in 1738. In the year 1714 he drew up an 
elementary work on the subject, under the title of “ The 
Science of Calculation, &c.” which was most favourably 
received. This came out in one volume, and he had pre¬ 
pared materials for a second, which did not make its appear¬ 
ance till after the author’s death. In 1716 the Royal Aca- 
