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Figarola, at the distance of a mile. The town of Rovigno 
is only a mile in circumference, but very populous, contain¬ 
ing 10,000 inhabitants, who are farther advanced than most 
of their countrymen, in the arts of industry. Their chief 
employments are the pilchard fishery, ship-building, and the 
sale of wood. The environs produce olive oil and wine, 
and contain quarries of beautiful marble ; 40 miles south of 
Trieste, and 37 south-west of Fiume. 
ROVIGO, a delegation or district of Austrian Italy, 
bounded by the delegations of Venice, Padua, Verona, and 
Mantua, and separated by the Po from the States of the 
Church. Its superficial extent is about 550 square miles; 
its population 63,000. It is traversed by a number of rivers; 
and from the lowness of its surface, is in many places marshy 
and unhealthy. It is, however, fertile throughout, the 
marshes producing luxuriant crops of rice. The other objects 
of culture are maize, flax, hemp, and silk. The pastures are 
rich, and the number of black cattle and horses reared is very 
large. This district was formerly called Polesino di Rovigno, 
from the number of canals by which it is intersected. In 
1806, the title of duke of Rovigo was given by Buonaparte 
to Savary, his well known Minister of Police. 
ROVIGO, a considerable town of Austrian Italy, the 
capital of the delegation of the same name, situated on the 
Adigetto, a branch of the Adige. It is surrounded with a 
wall and moat, and has to The east a fortified castle. The 
Palazzo del Podesta, the former residence of the chief 
magistrate, is situated in a large square, the principal orna¬ 
ment of which is a pillar of stone. There are here several 
churches, but none worthy of notice. It is the residence of 
the bishop of Adria ; and it was to the decline of that town 
that Rovigo owed its increase. Population 9000 ; 18 miles 
north-north-east of Ferrara, and 35 south-south-west of 
Venice. Lat. 45. 4. N. long. 11. 48. E. 
ROUILLAC, a small town in the west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Charente. Population 1200; 14 miles north¬ 
west of Angouleme. 
ROUILLE (Peter-Julian), a learned Jesuit, born at Tours, 
in 1681, was educated in the Jesuits’ college of that city, 
and made his profession in the society in 1715. He succes¬ 
sively taught the languages, philosophy, and mathematics in 
its seminaries, and in 1724, was called to Paris by his su¬ 
periors to assist Father Catrou (see his article), in the com¬ 
position of his excellent Roman History. To that work he 
contributed only the dissertations and notes, being prevented 
by a long illness from writing the continuation of the history 
after Catrou’s death. He also revised and corrected the work 
of Father d’Orleans, on the Revolutions of Spain ; and had 
a share in the “ Memoires de Trevoux,” from December 
1733 to February 1737. He delivered a “ Discourse on the 
Excellence and Utility of Mathematics,” printed at Caen in 
1716; and was the author of the “ Second Letter in the 
Examination of Racine’s Poem on Grace,” 1723. This 
Jesuit, who was beloved and esteemed in society, died at 
Paris in 1740. Moreri. Nouv. Diet. Hist. 
RO'VING, s. Act of rambling or wandering.—The num¬ 
berless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. Barroxo. 
ROUJAN, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Herault. Population 1000; 4 miles north-east 
of Beziers. 
ROULADE, [Fr.] in Music, a division or passage in a 
song of many notes to one syllable. A roulade is only an 
imitation of instrumental melody, either to grace a treble 
part, render an image more obvious, enforce the expression, 
or, when it is necessary, to suspend the discourse and pro - 
long the melody. But it is likewise necessary that it should 
be on a long syllable, that the voice should be spirited, 
active, and capable of allowing the throat full liberty to 
warble and express with facility and neatness the notes of 
the division, without fatiguing the organs of the finger, and 
consequently the ears of the audience. Rousseau. 
ROU'LEAU, s. [Fr.] A little roll; a roll of guineas 
made up in a paper. 
In bright confusion open rouleaus lie. 
They strike the soul and glitter in the eye ! Pope. 
ROULERS, a populous town in the Netherlands, in the 
province of West Flanders, situated on the Mandel, a small 
river which falls into the Lys. It contains 8500 inhabitants, 
employed partly in the linen manufacture, partly in the 
cultivation of the surrounding district, the principal product 
of which is flax. The adjacent pastures are rich, and the 
breed of cattle good ; butter forms consequently an article 
of export. There is here a central school, with eight teachers; 
12 miles north-north-east of Ypres, and 18 south of Bruges. ’ 
ROULSTON, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 13 
miles south-west of Hereford-. 
ROUM, i. e. the kingdom of the Romans, a name given 
to Natolia, by Solyman, sultan of the Turks, when he invaded 
and became master of it, in the 11th century. It is now 
chiefly applied to a part of Asiatic Turkey, extending from 
the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, eastward of Caramania 
and Natolia, and westward of Armenia and the government 
of Diarbekir, including the governments of Sivas, Adana, 
and Marasch. 
ROUM KALA, a small town and fort of Persia,'in the 
pachalic of Orfa, situated on the western bank of the 
Euphrates, and inhabited by Turks and Arabs. It was for¬ 
merly called Zeugma, from a Grecian term signifying a 
bride, and was the great passage for the Roman armies into 
Macedonia. There were two small towns, one on each side 
of the river; the former was called Zeugma, and the latter 
Apamea. A few miles farther down the river, the caravans 
travelling from Aleppo to Orfa, pass the Euphrates on a 
bridge of boats, at a place called “ Bir,” which, according to 
M. D’Anville, represents the ancient Bertha; 144 miles from 
Aleppo, and 67 from Orfa, in lat. 36. 58. N. It is situated 
on an eminence on the bank of the Euphrates, protected by 
a citadel and a wall in a dilapidated condition. At this 
town, the houses of which are in a ruinous state, a tax is 
levied on all travellers and merchants who cross the 
Euphrates, which is here deep, rapid, and about 130 vards 
broad. 
To ROUN, v. 7i. To whisper, [punian, Sax. sussurare. 
Germ, runen ; M. Goth, runa, mysterium, The Lancashire 
dialect preserves this form in reaxon, to whisper.]—And oft he 
roxoneth in her ear. Goxver. —He rouned in his ere. Chau¬ 
cer. 
To ROUN, v. a. To address in a whisper. 
A little wholesome talk. 
That none could hear, close roxvned in the ear. Breton. 
ROUNCESTON, East and West, two villages of 
England, North Riding of Yorkshire; 7 miles south-by-west 
of Yarn. 
ROU'NCEVAL, s. [from Rouncesval, a town at the foot 
of the Pyrenees.] A species of pea. 
Dig garden, 
And set as a daintie thy runcival pease. Tusser. 
ROUND, adj. \rund, Dutch; rotundas, Lat.] Cylin¬ 
drical.—Hollow engines long, and round, thick ramm’d. 
Milton. —Circular. 
The queen of night. 
In her increasing homes, doth rounder grow. 
Till full and perfect she appeare in show r . Broxon. 
Spherical; orbicular.—The outside bare of this round 
world. Milton. —Smooth; without defect in sound.—In 
his satyrs Horace is quick, round, and pleasant, and as in 
nothing so bitter, so not so good as Juvenal. Peacham. 
—Whole; not broken.—Pliny put a round number near 
the truth, rather than a fraction. Arbut.hnot. —Large; not 
inconsiderable: this is hardly used but with sum or price. _ 
Three thousand ducats! ’tis a good round sum. Shalcspeare. 
■—They set a round price upon your head. Addison .— 
Plain; clear; fair; candid; open.— Round dealing is the 
honour of man’s nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like 
allay in gold and silver, which may make the metal work 
the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. —Quick; brisk.— 
Painting is a long pilgrimage; if we do not actually begin 
the journey, and travel it a round rate, we shall never arrive 
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