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VALLATA, a small town of Italy, in the central part of 
the kingdom of Naples, in the Principato Ultra. Population 
3800. 
VALLATION, s. [val/atus, Latin.] An intrench- 
ment.—The vallation south-west of Dorchester in this county, 
called Dyke-hills, consisting of two ridges or borders with 
an intermediate trench, although so near a Roman town 
and road, is not Roman, but I imagine Saxon or Danish. 
Warton. 
VA'LLATORY, adj. [val/atus, Latin.] Enclosing as 
by measure. Not in use. —Mention is made in Ezekiel of a 
measuring reed of six cubits:—with such difference of reeds, 
vallatory, sagittary, scriptory, and others, they might be 
furnished in Judea. Sir T. Brown. 
VALLAY, an island of the Hebrides, lying to the north of 
North Uist, from which it is separated by a narrow sound, 
dry at low water. It is 1| mile long, and half a mile broad, 
with a light sandy soil, exceedingly fertile. 
VALLE (Pietro Della), a Roman patrician, who, in 
the year 1614, commenced his travels into Egypt, Turkey, 
Persia and India. At Bagdat he fell in love with a young 
female of the Maronile sect of Christians, and married her. 
She accompanied him in his journey, and on his return 
towards Italy, she died near the Persian Gulph. The loss 
so much affected him, that he had her remains embalmed, 
and carried them with him during his subsequent travels, 
and on his return to Rome, they were magnificently interred 
in the church of Ara Coeli; and he himself pronounced her 
funeral eulogy, which was printed. The account of his 
travels, written by himself in Italian, and contained in 
fifty-four letters, was published at Rome in 1650. They 
have been often cited as authority, though not destitute of 
marks of credulity, and still bear a respectable rank among 
books of travels. The style is pure and elegant, though the 
narration is prolix. Doni has spoken of him in terms of 
high commendation, and represents him as well acquainted 
with the Oriental languages, and with music. He wrote 
on other subjects besides his travels, and was a member of 
the Academy degli Umoristi. His second wife was a Georgian, 
attached to his first wife, and the companion of his travels. 
Morcri. 
VALLE, a small town of Italy; 35 miles north of Na¬ 
ples.—2. A small town in the north of Italy ; 5 miles west 
of Lumello.—3. A small town of Austrian Illyria, in Istria; 
42 miles south of Trieste. 
VALLE, San Juan de, a settlement of Quito, in the pro¬ 
vince of Loxa. 
VALLE, Nuestra Senora de, a settlement of New 
Granada, in the province of San Juan de los Llanos, on the 
shore of the river Apure. It is the name of several other in¬ 
considerable settlements in South America. 
VALLE, a river of South America, in the province of Tu- 
cuman, which runs south-east, and enters the Vermeio. 
VALLE CASTELLAN A, a small town of Italy, in the 
north of the kingdom of Naples, in the Abruzzo Ultra. 
VALLE-FERTIL, a settlement of Chili, now in the vice¬ 
royalty of Buenos Avres. 
VALLE DE MAIZE, El, a town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of San Luis Potosi, situated near the river Panuco, and 
not far from the town of that name. 
VALLE ROTONDA, a small town of Italy, in the north¬ 
west of the kingdom of Naples, in the Terra di Lavoro; 30 
miles north-north-west of Capua. 
VALLE E SPIO, a small town of Italy; 36 miles south¬ 
east of Salerno. 
VALLEJUELO, a small river of St. Domingo, -which 
runs north, and unites itself with that of Canas, to enter the 
Artibonito. 
VALLEN, a small island on the north-west coast of 
France, belonging to the department of Finisterre. 
VALLENDAR, a small town of the Prussian province of 
the Lower Rhine, in the government of Coblentz, near the 
Rhine. 
V A L 
VALLERAUGUE, a small town in the south-east of 
France, department of the Gard, 6n the river Herault; 40 
miles north-west of Nimes. 
VALLES, a town of Mexico, and capital of a district of 
the same name,situated in a beautiful plain, on the shore of 
a river flowing down from the lofty ridge of mountains. 
Lat. 21. 45. N. long. 99. W. 
VA'LLEY, s. [vallee, Fr.; vallis, Lat.] A low ground; 
a hollow between hills.—Sweet interchange of hill andt talley. 
Milton. 
VALLEY CREEK, a river of the United States, in Penn¬ 
sylvania, which runs into the Schuylkill. Lat. 40. 7. N. 
long. 75. 30. W. 
VALLEY FORGE, a place of the United States, in Penn¬ 
sylvania, near the union of Valley Creek with the Schuylkill; 
15 miles north-west of Philadelphia. 
VALLIER, St., a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Drome, on the Rhone. It has 1600 in¬ 
habitants, and some small manufactures of silk and olive oil. 
It has a fine Gothic castle ; 20 miles north of Valence. 
VALLIOVA, a small town in the north of European Tur¬ 
key, in the province of Semendria, on the river Kolubra; 
35 miles south-south-west of Belgrade. 
VALL1QUIERVILLE, a small town in the north of 
France, department of the Lower Seine; 3 miles west of 
Yvetot. 
VA'LLISE, s. [valleys, Dutch.] A portmanteau; a 
wallet. 
I promise 
To keep my master’s privities lock’d up 
In the vallise of my trust, lock’d close for ever. 
B. Johnson. 
VALLISNERI (Anthony), a celebrated Italian naturalist, 
was born in 1661. He was first instructed in the rudiments 
of the learned languages by the Jesuits, at Modena, and 
was afterwards taught rhetoric, and the Aristotelian philoso¬ 
phy, under the same auspices, at Reggio. Nevertheless he 
began, even at this period, to be dissatified with the prevail¬ 
ing system, which he called a philosophy of words; and 
happening to have a more liberal and enlightened preceptor 
than usual, his attention was directed to natural and experi¬ 
mental philosophy, and the then prevalent hypotheses of 
Des Cartes. His tutor Biagi, a Jesuit, had the good sense 
and honesty to avow, that the philosophy of Aristotle might 
suit theologians and monks, but that he himself knew many 
able and distinguished men, at Bologna and elsewhere, 
who, so far from being indebted to that great person, never 
thought of his doctrines but to refute them. Vallisneri 
therefore removed to Bologna in 1683, and very soon 
gave up theories and hypotheses for the observation of na¬ 
ture. Here the great Malpighi, to whose particular favour 
he was recommended by the princes of the house of Este, 
directed his anatomical enquiries. The first particular object 
of investigation to which this ingenious philosopher devoted 
his attention, was the anatomy of the Silk-worm, by which 
he was led to the study of the metamorphoses and generation 
of other insects. He gave his discoveries to the world in 
the form of two Dialogues in Italian, supposed to take place 
between Pliny and Malpighi, on the arrival of the lattter in 
another world. These brought great reputation to their 
author, both for the value of their contents, and the elegance 
of their language and composition. 
On the 12th of January, 1730, he died. The younger 
Vallisneri accomplished a lasting memorial for his distin¬ 
guished parent, in a complete and splendid edition of all 
his works, making three folio volumes, printed at Venice in 
1733, and illustrated with plates, in one of which the fructi¬ 
fication of the Lcmna is exhibited. Vallisneri is certainly 
entitled to rank with Redi, Malpighi, Reaumur, and Swam¬ 
merdam, as an original observer of the intricate and obscure 
physiology of insects, and the lower tribes of the animal 
kingdom. He co-operated with those philosophers in clear¬ 
ing away the theory of equivocal generation, and other 
rubbish 
