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B/HAUNDAL, a village of the island of Iceland, in the 
district of Sudland. 
RHAUNETI, in ancient geography, a town of Arabia 
Felix, on the Arabian gulf, between the town “ Phcenicum” 
and the extremity of this Chersonesius. Ptolemy. 
RHAURARIS, a river of Gallia Narbonensis, according 
to Strabo. This river is called “ Araurius” by Ptolemy, and 
Arauraris” by Pomponius Mela. 
RHAUZIUM, the metropolis of Dalmatia, according to 
Cedrenus and Curopalata. 
RHAW (George), a learned bookseller and musician of 
Wittemberg, born in 1494. In 1531 appeared his “ Enchi¬ 
ridion utriusqiie Musicse Practices, ex variis Musicorum 
Libris congestum,” in 8vo. Aud in 1538 he not only pub¬ 
lished “ Select Harmony for four Voices,” consisting of two 
Latin Passiones, the one by John Galliculus, and the other 
by Jacob Otrecht, with masses, lamentations of Jeremiah, 
and motets by John Walther, Lewis Senfels, Simon Cellarius, 
Benedict Dux, Eckel, Lemlin, Stoel, and Henry Isaac, to 
which Melancthon furnished him with a Latin preface; but 
in 1544 published, in oblong quarto, 123 German sacred 
•songs, of four and five parts, for the use of schools. Prefixed 
to the second part of this publication, containing ecclesi¬ 
astical hymns, set by sixteen different German composers, 
there is a print of the editor, Geo. Rhaw, Typographus, 
Wittemb. anno eetatis suse LIV. 
RHAYADER, or Rhayadergwy, a market town of 
Wales, in the county of Radnor. The name signifies literally 
the falls of the Wye, and is derived from the situation of the 
town near the descent of that river over a ledge of rocks. 
The fall was greatly diminished in 1780, by the building oL 
the present bridge, when the rocks were removed, and a freer 
passage opened for the water. The town consists of four 
streets, or two long ones intersecting each other at right 
angles. Near their intersection stands the town-hall, with 
the covered market underneath. This edifice was built by 
subscription in 1762. The church is a very respectable 
modern building, consisting of a nave and chancel. These 
were rebuilt in 1733, and the tower in 1783. A Presbyteri¬ 
an meeting-house has been erected on the site of the county 
jail. At the upper end of the town, near the parsonage 
house, is a newly built free school for boys. Rhayader 
formerly derived its chief importance from its castle, of which 
no vestige remains, except the fosse, which was excavated out 
of the solid rock. It was situated on a precipitous point of 
'land, which projects into the channel cf the river on the 
north of the town. In the neighbourhood of the town are 
several tumuli or barrows. A small manufactory of coarse 
cloth has been established here. In summer the coach for 
Aberystwyth passes this way twice a week, Rhayader is 
governed by a bailiff, chosen at a court leet. It has a voice 
in the election of the member of parliament for New Radnor. 
The great sessions were appointed by the act of union, to be 
held here alternately with New Radnor ; but by a subsequent 
act in the same reign/ they were removed to Presteigne. 
Market on Wednesday, well supplied. Population 446: 18 
miles north-west cf Radnor, and 177 west-north-west of 
London. 
RHAZES, a learned and distinguished Arabian physician, 
who flourished in Chorasan in the seventh century. For an 
account of his life and writings see the historical introduction 
to the article Pathology, vol. xix. pp. 18, 19. 
RHEA, a county of the United States, in East Tennessee. 
• Population 2504, including 214 slaves. The chief town is 
Washington. 
RHEA, one of the titles of Cybele, derived from yea, I 
flow, on account of that abundance of benefits which she 
.dispenses. 
Rhea was, according to Diodorus Siculus, one of the 
eight great divinities of Egypt; the other seven being the 
Sun, Saturn or Chrouos, Jupiter, Juno, Vulcan, Vesta, and 
Mercury. Chronos, says this historian, having married Rhea 
became, according to some, the father of Osiris and Isis, and, 
according to others, of Jupiter and Juno. The children of 
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Rhea, by Saturn, .were, according to fabulous history, Vesta, 
Ceres, Juno, Pluto, Neptune, and Jupiter, the father of gods 
and men; but that god learning from an oracle delivered 
by Ccelus and Terra, that one of his children should dethrone 
him, devoured them as Rhea brought them forth, which 
threw her into extreme distress. So that when she was near 
her time of being delivered • of Jupiter, she consulted her 
parents to know in what manner she might rescue him from 
the cruelty of his father, and by their advice she secretly 
withdrew into Crete, where she was delivered, and presented 
Saturn with a stone, wrapped about with swaddling clothes, 
which he swallowed. Jupiter being grown up, rescued 
Ccelus from the chains with which Saturn had loaded him ; 
and Ccelus, in return for his service, gave him thunder, 
by which he became the sovereign of gods and men. 
Rhea was one of the names under which the earth was 
worshipped. 
Rhea Sylvia, was the mother of Remus and Romulus; 
and in order to give dignity to their origin, the fable reports 
that her uncle Amulius got into her cell, and her father Nu- 
mitor propagated the story that the twins she brought forth 
had been begotten by the god of war. 
Rhea, in Ornithology, a species of the strutbio or ostrich, 
the same bird with the nhan-clugaucu of the Brazils. See 
Struthio. 
RLIEBAN, in ancient geography, a river of Asia, in By- 
thynia. According to Arrian, the source of this river was on 
mount Olympus, and its mouth in the Euxine sea, near that 
of Psillis. 
RHECHIUS, a river of Greece, which discharged itself 
into the sea near Thessalonica. At the mouth of this rivgr 
Justinian erected a fort called “ Artemisa.” 
RHEDEN, or Rheeden, a small inland town of the Ne¬ 
therlands, in the province of Gelderland. Population 3400; 5 
miles west of Doesburg, and 6 east-north-east of Arnheim. 
RHEDONES, a people of Gaul, in Armorica, according 
to Caesar and Ptolemy. 
RHEEDIA, (so called in honour of Van Rheede.) in 
botany, a genus of the class polyandria, order mouogynia, 
natural order Gutitferae, ( Juss .) Generic Character.—■ 
Calyx none: Corolla: petals four, sessile, obovate, con¬ 
cave, spreading. Stamina, filaments numerous, thread¬ 
shaped, longer than the corolla; anthers oblong, Pistil: 
germen superior, ovate; style cylindrical, the length of 
the stamens; stigma funnel-shaped. Pericarp : berry ovate, 
thin, of one cell. Seeds three, very large, ovate-oblong, 
marched with simple or branched lines.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. —Petals four. Calyx none. Berry superior, with 
three seeds. 
1. Rheedia lateriflora.—Native of South America. A tree 
known only to Plunder, whose figure represents it with 
large, opposite, stalked, ovate, entire leaves; axillary tufts 
of numerous, rather small, flowers; and ovate pendulous 
fruit, about two inches long. Jussieu doubts whether the 
calyx be really wanting. 
RHEENEN, or Rhenen, an ancient town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in the province of Utrecht, situated on a declivity near 
the Rhine. Population 2200. Its environs contain pleasant 
walks, and from the neighbouring eminence of Hemetnberg, 
almost the only one in this flat country, is enjoyed a beauti¬ 
ful view; 14 miles west of Arnheim, and 22 south-east of 
Utrecht. 
RIJEGADORA, in ancient geography, a town of Asia, in 
Cappadocia. 
RHEGIANUM, a town of Lower Moesia, on the bank 
of the Danube. Ptolemy. 
RIJEGIAS, a town of Asia, in Syria; according to 
Ptolemy it was in Cyrrhestica, between Ariseria and Ruba. 
RHEGMA, a place of Asia, in Cilicia, at the mouth of 
the River Cydnus. Strabo. —Also, a town of Arabia' Felix, 
on the coast of the Persian gulf, in the country of the 
Anarites. Ptolemy . 
Rhegma, [pYiyvv/M, Gr. I break - ], a word used by the an¬ 
cients, for abscesses breaking inwardly. 
RHEIDT, 
