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Fyzoola Khan, one of the sons of Aly Mohammed, was ceded 
•the territory of Rampoor, of which an account has been 
given under that article. Previous to this conquest, the 
' country was in a very flourishing state, and each of the'large 
towns was enriched by the residence of one or more of the 
Rohilla chiefs, all of whom lived in an hospitable and 
.princely style, and gave every protection and encouragement 
to the farmers, in consequence of .which the land revenue 
alone amounted to a million sterling; but after it came into 
possession of the nabob of Oude, it rapidly decreased, and 
in the coarse of 20 years was reduced to about £400,000. 
Fortunately for the inhabitants, the whole of ancient 
Rohilcund was ceded to the British, in 1801, and is now 
governed by a civil establishment of officers, stationed at 
Bareily, and is said to be yearly improving. It must, 
however, be allowed that the superior class of natives, especi¬ 
ally the Rohillas, are by no means satisfied with the British 
courts of justice, nor the system of their police. The former 
reduces them to an equality with their inferiors, and the 
latter savours too much of espionage; in consequence of 
which, a few years ago a serious disturbance took place at 
Bareily, in which many lives were lost. 
ROHINI, the Sanskrit name of a star, supposed to be that 
designated on our globes by a Tauri. In mythology it is 
an asterism that furnishes more poetical allusion than any 
other in the zodiac. Rohini is one of the sixty daughters of 
Daksha, and one of the twenty-seven espoused by Soma, or 
the moon; the lunar regent being male among the Hindoos, 
as it is with some European mythologists, Rohini was the 
favourite consort of the fickle Sonia. In one of their 
terrestrial journies, arriving at the ' southern mountain 
Sahyadri, they unwarily entered the forest of Gauri, or 
Parvati, where some men, having formerly surprised Malia- 
deva caressing that goddess, they were punished by a change 
of their sex, and the forest had retained a power of effecting 
a like change on all males who should enter it. Soma, or 
Chandra, instantly becoming a female, (Chandri,) was so 
afflicted and ashamed, that she hastened far to the w y est, 
sending Rohini to her seat in the sky, and concealed herself 
in a mountain, afterwards named Somagiri, where she per¬ 
formed acts of the most rigorous devotion. Darkness 
then covered the world each night, the fruits of the earth 
were destroyed, and the universe was in such dismay, that 
the Devas, or divinities, with Brahma at their head, im¬ 
plored the assistance of Mahadeva, who, placing Chandri 
on his head, she became male again. Mahadeva, in statues 
and pictures, is usually seen with the moon on his head and 
forehead, and one of his names is Chandra-sekra, or moon- 
croho'ned. Another fable states that she was visited in her 
retreat by Surya, or the sun, from which conjuction arose a 
numerous progeny. Mahadeva is: the sun; and this sol- 
lunarian progeny is, perhaps, vegetation. 
These fables, „taken from the Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. 
are related by Mr, Wilford, from Puranic authority; and 
were thus explained to him by an ingenious Pandit. To 
the inhabitant of the countries near the source of the Kali, 
or Nile, the moon, being in the mansion of Rohini, or the 
Pleiades, seemed to vanish behind the southern mountains. 
Now when the moon is in opposition to the sun, it is the 
god Chandra; in conjunction, the gooddess Chandri. The 
moon is believed, by Hindoo naturalists, to have a power¬ 
ful influence on vegetation, especially on certain plants, and, 
above all, on the Somalata,.-. or moon-plant. This mode of 
interpretation, Mr. Wilford adds, may serve as a clue to the 
intricate labyrinth of the Puranas, which contain all the 
history, physiology, and science of the Indians and Egyp¬ 
tians, disguised under similar fables. 
ROHITSCH, a small town of the Austrian states, in Styria, 
with a much frequented mineral spring; 21 miles east of 
Gilley. 
ROHNSTOCK, a village of Austrian Silesia, in the 
government of Reichenbach; 2 miles from Jauer, with a 
beautiful castle belonging to the count of Hochberg. 
ROHR, a market town of Germany, in Bavaria near the 
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river Laber. Actions were fought here on the 19th and 20th 
of April, 1809, between the French and Austrians; 16 miles 
south of Ratisbon, and 7 east-south-east of Abensberg. 
ROHRA, a village of Prussian Saxony, in the Henneberg; 
2 miles east of Meinungen. Population 1000. 
ROHRDACH, a village of Germany, in Baden ; 2 miles 
south of Heidelberg. Population 1000. 
ROHRDORF, a village of Germany, in Wirtemberg, 
county of Scheer-Trauchburg. Population 800. 
ROHRHEIM, or Great Rohrheim, a village of 
Germany; 13 miles south-south-west of Darmstadt, with 
1100 inhabitants. 
ROHR1A, s. [so named in honour of Julius von Rohr.] 
In botany, a genus of the class triandria, order monogynia. 
Generic Character.—Calyx: perianth one-leaved, bell-shaped, 
five-parted; segments ovate, concave, blunt, ciliate, coria¬ 
ceous ; the two inner ones a little longer. Corolla: petals 
five, upright, longer than the calyx, the two upper ones a 
little larger, the three lower smaller; claws narrow, wider at 
the b9.se, woolly within, under the laminae a little bent out¬ 
wards ; laminae ovate, erect, in [he larger petals bent inwards 
and cowled, in the smaller spread out and bluntish.—Sta¬ 
mina : filaments three, one between the two larger petals, 
and two by the side of them, united at bottom with their 
claws, filiform, longer than the corolla, woolly within; 
anthers roundish, erect, with the face turned inwards.— 
Pistil: germ turbinate, tomentose; style filiform, the length 
of the stamens, villose; stigmas three, revolute.— Essential 
Character. —Calyx bell-shaped, five-parted. Corolla five- 
petalled, unequal. Stigmas three, revolute. 
1. Rohria petioliflora.—This is a branching shrub. The 
leaves are alternate, petioled, oblong, acuminate, quite j 
entire, netted-veined. The petioles are floriferous. Flowers 
small, yellow, at the top of the petiole and base of the leaf, 
heaped into small very short four-flowered or five-flowered 
racemes.—Native of the woods of Guiana. 
ROHRKOPF, a mountain of the south-west of Germany, 
in the territory of Baden, and the Black Forest, 3750 feet, 
in height. 
ROHRSDORF BOBER, a village of Prussian Silesia, on 
the Bober, with 1600 inhabitants; 57 miles west-by-south 
of Breslau. 
ROHRSDORF, Gross, a large village of Saxony; 11 
miles north-east of Dresden, with 2000 inhabitants, em¬ 
ployed almost exclusively in the manufacture of linen 
and tape. 
ROl des Violons, or kingof the fiddlers. In France 
each profession, or incorporated company, had formerly a 
superior, who was dignified with the title of King. The, 
masons, carpenters, barbers, lawyers’clerks, cross-bow-men, 
the principal soldiers called ribauds, even the poets’, and 
many other orders of men, had their particular kings; but 
their exactions and tyranny, by degrees, occasioned the 
abolition of these phantoms of sovereignty. 
The minstrels, religious observers of ancient usages, were 
thi last to relinquish this precious relic of antiquity. The 
king at arms, and king -of the minstrels, were the only sur¬ 
viving monarchs of their calling. But the first has few 
tributaries, and his functions are only exercised occasionally;. 
the other, on the contrary, was always • in power, and pre¬ 
tended to exercise his empire over the whole realm. 
The history of the first kings of the minstrels is unknown ; 
it is only recorded that, after the decease of Constantine, the 
famous violin of the 17th century, the crown passed, in 
1630, to Dummoir L, then to Dummoir II., who relin¬ 
quished the crown by a voluntary abdication, occasioned by 
an anarchy, in 1685. Louis XIV. saw with indifference 
the extinction of this royalty, and declared that it was not 
his intention it should be restored. 
This monarchy had been long agitated by internal troubles,’ 
and civil and foreign wars. The dancing-masters, ori¬ 
ginally ineprporated with this company, had been 50 years 
soliciting its extinction ; indignant at being united with such 
vile artizans, who dishonoured their faculty by playing at 
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