U L M 
U L L 
south extremity of the island liesin lat. 16. 55. S. long. 181. 
29. W. 
ULI'GINOUS, adj. [uliginosus, Lat] Slimy; muddy. 
—The uliginous lacteous matter taken notice of in the coral 
fishings upon the coast of Italy, was only a collection of the 
corallin particles. Wood-ward. 
ULLA, a river in the north-west of Spain, on the west 
coast of Galicia. 
U'LLAGE, s. [uligo, Lat., ooziness.] The quantity of 
fluid which a cask wants of being full, in consequence of 
the oozing of the liquor. Malone. 
ULLAPOOL, a village of Scotland, on the west coast of 
Ross-shire; 61 miles west-by-north of Inverness, situated 
on Loch Broom. It is one of the fishing stations belonging 
to the British Society. 
ULLAPOOL, a small river of Scotland, in Ross-shire, 
which rises in the mountains on the borders of Sutherland, 
and falls into Loch Broom, at the village of Ullapool. It 
abounds with salmon. 
ULLENHALL, a hamlet of England, in Warwickshire; 
2| miles north-west-by-west of Henly-in-Arden. Popula¬ 
tion 393. 
ULLERSDORF, a village of Prussian Silesia, near Low- 
enburg, with 1000 inhabitants. 
ULLERSDORF, a village of Prussian Silesia, in the 
county of Glatz, with 900 inhabitants. 
ULLESKELFE, a township of England, West Riding 
of Yorkshire ; 3| miles south-east-by-south of Tadcaster. 
ULLESTHORPE, a township of England, in Leices¬ 
tershire; 3| miles north-west of Lutterworth. Population 
470. 
ULLEY, a township of England, West Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 4£ miles south-east of Rotherham. 
ULLINGSW1CK, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 
5 miles south-west-by-west of Bromyard. 
ULLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Pebworth, Gloucestershire. 
ULLOA (Antonio di), a celebrated naval officer of 
Spain, was born at Seville in the year 1716, and so distin¬ 
guished by talents and knowledge, that at the age of eigh¬ 
teen years he was appointed to accompany his friend Don 
George Juan to South America, to co-operate with the aca¬ 
demicians Condamine, Bouguer, and Godin, in measuring 
a degree of the meridian. On the 26th of May, 1735, he 
sailed for Peru, and remained at Quito till the measurement 
was completed on the 12th of May, 1744. On his return 
home in a French ship he was captured, in August 1745, by 
two English men-of-war, and from Louisburg, in the island 
of Cape Breton, whither he was carried, he proceeded to 
London, where he was kindly received, particularly by Mar¬ 
tin Folkes, Esq., president of the Royal Society, of which he 
was admitted a member in December 1746. After his 
arrival in Spain, he and his friend Don Juan published an 
account of the voyage to America, in five small folio vo¬ 
lumes, entitled u Relacion historica del Viage de Orden de 
S. Mag. para medir algunos Grades de Meridiano,” Mad. 
1748. Translations of this work were printed, one in Ger¬ 
man, at Leipsic, and one in English, at London, in 2 vols. 
8 vo. 1758. Another in French, entitled “ Voyage historique 
de PAmerique Meridionale,” Amst. 1757, 2 vols. 4to. 
is considered as the most complete, as the author approved, 
the undertaking. His next object was to collect information 
with regard to the state of the arts and sciences, &c. in va¬ 
rious parts of Europe, and with this view he made a tour, 
under the appointment of Ferdinand VI., through England, 
France, Holland, and various districts of Germany; and the 
result of this tour was, that many young Spaniards were sent 
at the public expence to France, Holland, Geneva, and Italy, 
to acquire a knowledge of medecine, surgery, engraving, 
watch-making, and various other arts in which the Spaniards 
were at that time very deficient. Ulloa was also active in 
promoting the royal woollen manufactories, and in organizing 
the colleges of history and surgery 5 he also superintended 
and completed the canals and basons both at Carthageua and 
Ferrol. The famous quicksilver mines of Almaden were 
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objects of his peculiar attention ; and in 1759 he was deputed 
to visit those of Guancavellica in Peru. From this service, 
he was removed, in 1766, to the government of Louisiana, 
which had been ceded to Spain, but the disturbances that 
ensued obliged him very soon to abandon that station. In 
1776 he commanded the galleon fleet that sailed trom Cadiz 
to Mexico, and having been charged with neglect in that 
service, he was honourably acquitted by a council of war at 
Cadiz. His second great work, which was a Physical and 
Historical Account of the Southern and North-eastern Part 
of-America, and which contained a curious disquisition on 
the peopling of America, was published at Madrid, 4to. in 
1772, under the title of “ Entretenimientos Physicos-His- 
toricos sobre la America Meridional y Septentrional Ori¬ 
ental:” the disquisition is entitled “ Sobre el Modo en quel- 
passaron los primeros Pobladores.” This work was trans¬ 
lated into German by professor Diez, and published at Leip¬ 
sic in 1781, 1782, in 2 vols. 8 vo., and was enriched by the 
valuable additions of professor Schneider. Dr. Robertson 
estimated them so highly, that he procured a translation of 
them into English for his own use. 
Another eminent Spaniard related to the subject of this 
article, Don Bernard di Ulloa, published in 1740 an in¬ 
teresting work, entitled “ Restablecimiento de las Fabricas 
y Commercio Maritimo di Espagna,” which was translated 
into French in 1743, and which contains several extracts 
from the work of Don Ant. Ulloa. This latter died in the 
isle de Leon, near Cadiz, on the 5th of July, 1795. The 
Transactions of the Royal Society contain several papers 
which he communicated to the society. He was a knight 
and commander of the order of St. Jago, lieutenant-general 
of the royal navy of Spain, and director-general of the 
Spanish marine. Gen. Biog. 
ULLOCK, a hamlet of England, in Cumberland; 6 
miles south-west-by-south of Cockermouth. 
ULLWELL, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Swanage, Dorsetshire. 
ULM, a considerable town in the south-west of Ger¬ 
many, in Wirtemberg, situated on the banks of the Danube 
at the spot where it receives the small river Blau, which 
flows through the town. It contains 15,000 inhabitants, 
and bears many marks of the antique, consisting of crooked 
streets, and of houses in the old German style. 
Ulm has long been a free city of the empire, but suffered 
in its commercial prosperity, from the aristocratic spirit of a 
few families who engrossed the management of the town 
revenues, and retained them long in their hands, without 
rendering any account to the citizens at large. It was not 
till after a kind of insurrection, and at so late a date as 1795, 
that the citizens obtained a satisfactory plan of administra¬ 
tion ; 44 miles south-east of Stutgard, and 40 west of Augs¬ 
burg. Lat. 48. 23. 45. N. long. 9. 59. 7. E. 
ULM, or Wald Ulm, a small town of the west of 
Germany, in Baden ; 15 miles east of Strasburg. Population 
900. 
ULMERFELD, a small town of Lower Austria, on the 
Ips ; 8 miles north of Waidhofen. 
ULMHAUSEN, a large village of the west of Germany, 
in Wirtemberg; 1 mile from Goppingen, noted for its mine¬ 
ral springs. 
ULMUS [derivation unknown; in Greek IlreAfa],in Bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the class pentandria, order digynia, natural 
order of scabridse.-—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, turbinate, wrinkled; border five-cleft, erect, co¬ 
loured within, permanent. Corolla none. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five (sometimes four or eight), awl-shaped, twice as 
long as the calyx. Anthers four-groved, erect, short. Pistil: 
germ orbicular, erect. Styles two, shorter than the stamens, 
reflexed. Stigmas pubescent. Pericarp : berry oval, large, 
juiceless, compressed, membranaceous-winged, one-celled. 
Seed one, roundish, slightly compressed .—Essential Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx five-cleft, inferior, permanent. Corolla none. 
Capsule membranaceous, compressed flat, one-seeded. 
1. Ulmus campestris, or common elm.—Leaves doubly- 
serrate rugged, unequal at the base. Bade cloven, on the 
4L branches 
