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intolerable; houses almost uninhabitable:—these form the 
charms of Rosetta, and Savary’s garden of Eden. The quay, 
however, is allowed to be a handsome object, and might be 
made noble. The baths are represented as horridly disgust¬ 
ing. Dr. Wittman, cited also by Crutwell, observes, that 
though it contains but few striking public edifices, Rosetta 
must be considered as a handsome place by those who have 
been accustomed to mud walls and sandy desarts; the 
mosques and their minarets, as well as their houses, built 
with bricks, plastered over and white-washed. The popula¬ 
tion he estimates at 8 or 10,000, but from the number of 
empty houses, it appeared capable of containing at least 
treble that number. In 1807, the British were defeated here, 
with considerable loss, by the Turks; 90 miles north-west 
of Cairo. Lat. 31. 24. N. long. 30. 40. E. Savarp. Son- 
nini. Niebuhr. 
ROSETTES, an ornamental bunch of ribbands, or cut 
leather, which was worn both by officers and soldiers in the 
British service, on the upper part of their cues. 
ROSETTES, are also two small bunches of ribbands that 
are attached to the loops by which the gorget of an officer is 
suspended upon his chest. The colour of the ribband must 
correspond with the facing of the uniform. The French use 
the same term. 
ROSETTI (Donato), an ingenious Italian mathemati¬ 
cian and natural philosopher in the 17th century, concerning 
the time of whose birth or death we have no information. 
He was a native of Leghorn, where he appears to have been 
educated, and was so successful in the cultivation of the 
sciences, that, at an early age, he become qualified to teach 
philosophy and the mathematics in different universities. 
While he was professor of logic at Pisa, he published a treatise 
relating to the system of the earth, which was received with 
great applause. It is entitled, “ Antignome fisico mathema- 
tiche con il nuovo Orbe e Systema terrestre.” This was fol¬ 
lowed by “Acollection ofphysico-mathematical Instructions,” 
“ A Treatise on the composition of Dutch glasses, and glass 
drops;” and “ A collection of physico-mathematical demon¬ 
strations,” of seven different propositions which he had un¬ 
dertaken to prove. In his “ Antignome,” he has advanced a 
singular opinion respecting the number of the senses, which 
is not undeserving of notice. Not satisfied with the commonly 
received number of five external senses, he wishes to make 
them amount to eleven, by considering the different modes in 
which we touch bodies as so many different senses, and en¬ 
deavouring to shew, that the perceptions arising from them 
cannot properly be ascribed to the sense of feeling in general. 
He maintains, for instance, that the sense by which we judge 
concerning the superficies of bodies, whether they are rough 
or smooth, ought to be distinguished from the sense by 
which we ascertain whether the same superficies be hard or 
soft, dry or moist; and that the sense by which we judge of 
the bodies which we feel, ought to be distinguished from that 
by which we form a judgment of their different shapes and 
conformations. He also maintains, that there is another 
sense, distinct from the preceding, by which, when we touch 
bodies, we form a comparative judgment of their relative 
magnitudes. He was the author of another treatise, entitled 
“Polista fedele,” intended to explain the inclination of 
bodies to unite at their poles, and various phenomena respect¬ 
ing their hardness, their elasticity in recovering their original 
forms after the removal of any extraneous force by which 
they may have been compressed, their extension, the causes 
which convert solids into fluids, &c. Rosetti was living at 
Pisa in the year 1678. Moreri. 
ROSEVILLE, a post village of the United States, in 
Delaware county. New York. 
ROSEWA'TER, s. Water distilled from roses. 
Attend him with a silver bason 
Full of rosewater. Shalcspeare. 
ROSEWAY PORT, a populous sea-port town on the 
south-east coast of Nova Scotia, north-east-by-east of Cape 
Negro and harbour. 
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ROSEWAY, a small island at the mouth of Port Wager, 
on the south-east coast of Nova Scotia. 
ROSHEIM, a small town in the north-east of France, in 
Alsace, on the river Mogel. It has a variety of manufac¬ 
tures on a small scale, viz. hardware, pottery and coarse 
woollens. Population 3400; 14 miles west-by-south of 
Strasburg. 
ROSIA, a cape of the United States, in Penobscot bay, 
district of Maine. 
ROSICRU'CIAN, s. [from ros, Lat. dew, and crux, a 
cross. “ Crux stands for lux, light, because the figure of 
the cross x exhibits the three letters of which the word 
LUX'is formed; and light is what, in the opinion of the 
Rosicrucians, when properly modified, produces gold. And 
of all natural bodies, dew is the most powerful dissolvent of 
gold. Mosheim, Ecc. Hist.'] See Rosycruoians. 
ROSICRU'CIAN, adj. Of the Rosicrucians. 
Rosicrucian virtuosos 
Can see with ears, and hear with noses; 
And, when they neither see nor hear. 
Have more than both supply’d by fear. 
That makes ’em in the dark see visions! Hudibras. 
ROSIENIE, a town in the north-west of European Rus¬ 
sia, government of Wilna, situated on the river Dobisza. 
It was formerly the capital of Samogilia, and the meeting- 
place of the diets, but is now much decayed; 76 miles south 
of Mittau, and 100 north-east of Conigsberg. Lat. 55.30. N. 
long. 41. 57. E. 
RO'SIER, s. [rosier, Fr. Chaucer writes it roser.] A 
rose-bush.'—By the roser, or by other bushes. Chaucer. 
Her yellow golden hair 
Was trimly woven, and in tresses wrought. 
No other tire she on her head did wear, 
But crowned with a garland of sweet rosiere. Spenser. 
ROSIERES, a small town in the north of France, de¬ 
partment of the Somme. Population 2800 ; 17 miles east- 
by-south of Amiens. 
ROSIERES AUX SALINS, a small town in the north¬ 
east of France, on the river Meurthe. It was much im¬ 
proved by Stanislaus, the retired king of Poland, in the first 
half of the 18th century, and derives its name from its salt 
springs. There is here a large stud of horses kept by the 
government. Population 2200; six miles west of Luneville, 
and 12 south-east of Nancy. 
ROSIERS, a small town in the north-west of France, 
department of the Maine and Loire. Population 3800; 
9 miles north-west of Saumur, and 18 south-east of 
Angers. 
ROSIERS, Cape, the south limit of the mouth of the 
river St. Lawrence, from whence it is 90 miles across to the 
north shore, measuring by the west end of the island of 
Anticosti. This is the easternmost point of the district of 
Gaspee, in Lower Canada. It has Florell Isle and Cape 
Gaspee on the south. Lat. 48. 56. N. long. 63. 40. W. 
ROSIGNANO, a small town of the north-west of Italy, 
in the Continental Sardinian states, situated on the declivity 
of a hill. Population 2000 ; 6 miles south of Casale. 
ROS1L, or Rossi ls, s. A provincial word for earth of a 
medium stiffness, between sand and clay 
RO'SIN, s. [properly resin ; resina Lat.] Inspissated 
turpentine; a juice of the pine. 
The billows from the kindling prow retire, 
Pitch, rosin, searwood on red wings aspire. Garth. 
Any inspissated matter of vegetables that dissolves in 
spirit.—Tea contains little of a volatile spirit; its rosin or 
fixed oil, which is bitter and astringent, cannot be extracted 
but by rectified spirit. Arbuthnot. 
To RO'SIN, v. a. To rub with rosin. 
Bouzebeus who could sweetly sing. 
Or with the rosin d bow torment the string. 
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