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citing animadversion. Hence a considerable assemblage of 
enlightened foreigners, whose society gives animation to the 
city, and makes up for the monotony or prejudice so common 
in the conversation of the natives. The public amusements 
consist of theatrical representations, of concerts, and of reli¬ 
gious processions. The season of Lent is regularly preceded 
here, as in other Catholic cities, by a carnival, a scene of 
grotesque and puerile display exhibited chiefly in the long 
street called the Corso. It is then that theatres, great and 
small, are open; but they are far inferior to those of the 
French or British metropolis. Several differences in national 
manners are to be traced to the influence of the climate. To 
walk in the streets of Rome, or of any city in Italy, is quite 
unfashionable; a carriage of one kind or other, and a box at 
the opera, are indispensible even to those of the noblesse or 
gentry whose limited income denies them a comfortable meal. 
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perfection, which captivates the eye in the figures adorning 
the great work of Haiiy; yet they betray the hand of the 
master, who seized the peculiar character of the individual 
crystals which he represents, and which is often better 
preserved in these sketches than in better executed drawings. 
“ The student will always find a great deal of instruction in 
perusing the second edition of his Crystallographic, the 
result of more than twenty years continued and well directed 
exertions; but those who are already proficient in the science, 
will find pleasure in discovering in his writings that they have 
often been anticipated in their descriptions. It may be said 
with perfect propriety, that, however ingenious the views of 
Hairy may have been in regard to the property of cleavage, 
he could never have succeeded in establishing them as a 
general system, applicable to all crystallized minerals, had he 
not possessed the observations and drawings of Rome de ITsle. 
The evening parties in private houses are often very numerous, This great man met with all the opposition commonly 
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filling a suite of spacious apartments. Here is no luxury of 
the table, but music, conversation, dancing, and, for the more 
elderly part of the company, cards. It is the custom of all 
who can afford it, to pass in the country the month of May, 
or, at all events, that of October, the air of the Campagna 
being then purified by the rains of September. 
ROME, a township of the United States, in Oneida county. 
New York, which is pleasant and flourishing, containing a 
court-house, a goal, and an arsenal, and carrying on a con¬ 
siderable trade. Population 2000; 108 miles west-north¬ 
west of Albany. Lat. 43. 12. N. long. 75.27. W. 
ROME, a township of the United States, in Kennebeck 
county, Maine. _ Population 585. 
incidental to new ideas, or to a degree of accuracy which, in 
fact, is far beyond what had been customary before ; but the 
prejudices had worn off, when Hairy’s system appeared, 
which then earned the rewards both of its own merits and of 
Rome de l’lsle’s. Haiiy has always been candid enough to 
acknowledge every thing he owed to the latter ; he supplied 
the link which made Rome de l’lsle’s observations useful, by 
introducing general views in crystallography, founded upon 
geometrical processes, and by giving a particular name to 
every substance determined as a particular species. Rome 
de l’Isle was particularly regardless of the two great points, 
which, according to Linnaeus, like the thread of Ariadne, lead. 
us through the maze of the variety of nature,—the systematic 
ROME DE TARN, St., a small town in the south of disposition and denomination, of the species; although, In 
France, department of the Aveyron, near the Tam. In the his paper Des Caracteres Exterieurcs des Mineraux, he 
neighbourhood are mines of coal. Population 1500; 12 
miles south-west of Milhaud, and 28 south-east of Rhodez. 
ROME DE L’lSLE (John-Baptiste Louis), an eminent 
naturalist, was born in 1736, at Gray, in Franche-Comte. 
From his youth he applied himself to observations on natural 
history and mineralogy, and by his writings and discoveries 
acquired a reputation which has entitled him to a place among 
the successful votaries of these sciences. In 1766 he pub¬ 
lished a “ Letter to M. Bertrand, on Fresh-water Polypes.” 
He drew up descriptive catalogues of many rich collections 
of minerals and madrepores, of which the most distinguished 
was that of Davila, in 3 vols. 8vo. 1767. A work which 
he published in 1779 and 1781 bore the singular title of 
“ L’Action du feu Central banni de la Surface du Globe, etle 
Soleil retabli dans ses Droits.” In 1783 appeared the work 
by whichhe is best known, his “ Chrystallographie,” 4 vols. 
8vo. In this ingenious and elaborate performance the 
author gives a description of the forms proper to every sub¬ 
stance of the mineral kingdom in a saline, stony, and metallic 
combination, with figures of all the known crystals, arranged 
according to the number and disposition of their angles. 
He asserts (incorrectly certainly) that every species in the 
mineral kingdom always takes a polyhedral form, which is 
regular, constant, and peculiar to itself. His system has 
been attacked by several naturalists, but it cannot be denied 
to exhibit great industry and sagacity. He published besides, 
“Caracteres Exterieurs des Mineraux,” 8vo. 1784; 
“ Metrologie, ou Tables pour servir a l’lntelligence des Poids 
et des Mesures des Anciens, d’apres leur Rapport avec les 
Poids et les Mesures dela France,” 8vo., 1789. Rome bore 
a truly philosophical character in society: he died at Paris in 
1790. 
A writer in Dr. Brewster’s Encyclopaedia remarks, “ The 
great merits of Rpmede lisle in mineralogy are less generally 
has given principles for the determination of the latter, 
independent of chemical analysis, which will stand every 
attack, and remain one of the most valuable disquisitions on 
the subject ever proposed to the public, and which ought to 
be studied by every one who wishes to inform himself on 
this important subject.” 
ROMELSHAUSEN, a village of the west of Germany, in 
Wirtemberg, near Cronstadt. Population 1000. 
ROMELSOE, a cluster of small islands on the west side 
of the gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 64. 55. N. long. 21. E. 
ROMEN, or Romnt, a small town in the interior of 
European Russia, in the government of Poltava. It carries 
on a considerable trade in tobacco, raised in the neighbour¬ 
hood; also in foreign silk and cotton goods; 100 miles 
north-north-west of Poltava, and 112 east-south-east of 
Czernigov. 
RO'MEPENNY, or Ro'mescot. s. [pome-pasmj, and 
pome-fcocc, Sax.] Peter-pence; which see.—Besides the 
usual tribute of romescot, giving great alms, by the way. 
Milton. 
ROMERIGE, or Raumerige, a large district in the 
south of Norway, lying to the north of the town of Chris¬ 
tiania. It is divided into Upper and Lower. The former 
derives its chief wealth from its iron works; the latter from 
the cultivation of corn. 
ROMERSKIRCH, a large village of the grand duchy of 
the Lower Rhine, archbishopric of Cologne, with 1300 in¬ 
habitants. 
ROMERSTADT, a small town of the Austrian states, in 
Moravia; 27 miles north of Olmutz. Population 1000. 
ROMERSWAEL was formerly a town of the Netherlands, 
in the province of Zealand, situated on the island of South 
Beveland, on the east branch of the Scheldt. It was an ex¬ 
tensive place, but has long been under water, having been 
acknowledged than they deserve; particularly by the French no less than six times overflowed between 1551 and 1563. 
mineralogists. Modern mineralogists are often astonished at ROMESCAMPS, a small town in the north of France, 
the accuracy of the descriptions given by this author, even of 
such substances as were afterwards confounded with each 
other by Haiiy and those who copied him. In almost every 
page the power of observation is displayed in a remarkable 
degree, joined with good sense, correct reasoning, and a vast 
mineralogical erudition. His figures of crystals, indeed, are 
frequently far from affording the pleasing effect of geometrical 
department of the Oise, with manufactures of coarse woollen. 
Population 1100; 6 miles north-west of Grandvilliers. - 
ROMETTA, a small town in the east part of the island of 
Sicily, in the Val di Demona; 5 miles north-west of Messina. 
ROMFORD, a market town and parish in the liberty 
of Havering-atte-Bower, county of Essex, England, is 
situated at the distance of 17 miles south-west from the county 
town 
