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VL0DZIM1RZETZ, a small town of Russia, in the 
government of Volhynia, on the river Styr; 155 miles west- 
north-west of Zytomiers. 
VLOTHO, a town of Prussian Westphalia, in the county 
of Ravensburg, with 1400 inhabitants; 6 miles south of 
Minden. 
ULPHA, a township of England, in Cumberland, on the 
river Dudden ; 8 miles east-by-south of Ravenglass.—A town¬ 
ship in Westmoreland; 11 miles south-south-west of Kendal. 
ULPIANUS (Domitius), an eminent lawyer, was a na¬ 
tive of Tyre, a disciple of Papinian, and tutor, as well as 
friend and minister, of the Roman emperor Alexander. 
Heliogabalus exiled him from the court on account of his 
virtues, but when his pupil became emperor he was recalled, 
and placed at the head of sixteen senators, who formed a 
council of state. He was also secretary of state and inspec¬ 
tor over the two pretorian prefects, whose jealousy of his 
authority produced a mutiny among the soldiery, that 
proved fatal to themselves ; and occasioned his advancement 
to the dignity of sole prefect. His wise and virtuous admi¬ 
nistration engaged universal esteem, until the emperor, pro¬ 
bably at his suggestion, undertook to reform the army. The 
soldiers mutinied, and occasioned, for three days, a kind of 
civil war at Rome, which terminated in the massacre of 
Ulpian, A. D. 228, notwithstanding all the attempts of the 
emperor and his mother Mammaea to save him. The Hea¬ 
then writers have concurred in their eulogies of Ulpian, but 
the Christians have reproached him, not unjustly, as their 
enemy; for, observing the emperor's favourable inclination 
to them, he collected all the decrees and edicts of the prece¬ 
ding sovereigns against them. This hostility is ascribed to 
his professional attachment to the laws. Of Ulpian’s wri¬ 
tings there are extant twenty-nine titles of fragments, which 
are annexed to some editions of the civil law. Crevier. 
Gibbon's Hist. 
ULRICAHAM, formerly called Bogesund, a petty town 
in the south-west of Sweden, in West Gothland, province 
of Elfsborg. Population only 800. 
ULRICHS-KIRCHEN, a small town of Germany, in 
Lower Austria ; 12 miles north of Vienna. 
ULRICHSTE1N, a small town of the west of Germany, 
in Flesse-Darmstadt; 21 miles west of Fulda, and 28 east 
of Wetzlar. 
ULROME, a township of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire ; 8 t miles south-by-west of Bridlington. 
ULSTER, a province of Ireland, containing the northern 
counties of Donegal, Londonderry, Antrim, Tyrone, Fer¬ 
managh, Monaghan, Armagh, Down, and Cavan. 
ULSTER, a county of the United States, in New York, 
bounded north by Greene county, east by Hudson, south by 
Orange county, south-west by Sullivan county, and north¬ 
west by Delaware county. The surface of the country is 
considerably broken by the Catskill mountains. The county 
is well watered. The Hudson forms the eastern boundary, 
and the small streams are numerous. 
ULSTER, a township of the United States, in Lycoming 
county, Pennsylvania. 
ULSWATER, a lake of England, situated partly in West¬ 
moreland, and partly in Cumberland; 10 miles north of Amble- 
side, and 14 south-west of Penrith. Its length is about eight 
miles. It is of a sufficient depth for breeding char; and abounds 
with a variety of other fish. One of the amusements on this 
lake consists in the firing of guns, or small cannon, in cer¬ 
tain situations. The report is reverberated among the ad¬ 
jacent rocks and caverns, with every variety of sound ; at 
one time dying away, and again returning with a noise like 
thunder. The echo is repeated seven times distinctly. 
ULTE'RIOR, ad). [ ulterior , Lat.] Lying on the fur¬ 
ther side; situate on the other side.—Further.—The ulte¬ 
rior accomplishment of that part of scripture, which once 
promised God’s people, that kings should be its nursing 
fathers. Boyle. 
UL'TIMATE, ad). [ultimus, Lat.] Intended in the 
last resort; being the last in the train of consequences. 
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I would be at the worst; worst is my port, 
My harbour, and my ultimate repose. Milton. 
ULTIMATELY, adv. In the last consequence.—Trust 
in our own powers, ultimately terminates in the friendship 
of other men, which these advantages assure to us. Rogers. 
ULTIMA'TION, s. The last offer ; the last concession ; 
the last condition.—Lord Bolingbroke was likewise autho¬ 
rized to know the real ultimation of France upon the 
general plan of peace. Swift. 
ULTIMA'TUM, s. Ultimation. A modern term. 
U'LTIME, adj. [ ultimus , Lat.] Ultimate. Obsolete. 
—Whereby the true and ultime operations of heat are 
not attained. Bacon. 
ULTl'MITY, s. [ultimus, Lat.] The last stage; the 
last consequence. A word very convenient, but not in 
use. —Alteration of one body into another, from crudity 
to perfect concoction, is the ultimity of that process. 
Bacon. 
ULTING, a parish of England, in Essex ; 4 miles south- 
south-west of Witham. 
U'LTION, s. [ ultio , Lat.] Revenge. Not in use .— 
To forgive our enemies is a charming way of revenge :— 
and to do good for evil, a soft and melting ultion ; a 
method taught from heaven to keep all smooth upon earth. 
Brown. 
ULTRAMARI'NE, s. [ ultra and marinus, Lat.] One 
of the noblest blue colours used in painting, produced by^ 
calcination from the stone called lapis lazuli. Hill. — 
Others, notwithstanding they are brown, cease not to be 
soft and faint, as the blue of ultramarine. Dryden. 
ULTRAMARI'NE, adj. Being beyond the sea ; 
foreign. Ainsworth. —The loss of the ultramarine colonies 
lightened the expences of France. Burke. 
ULTRAMO'NTANE, adj. [ ultra montanus , Latin.] 
Being beyond the mountains. 
ULTRAMO'NTANE, s. A foreigner.—See Tra¬ 
montane. —He is an ultramontane, of which sort there 
have been none [popes] these fifty years. Bacon. 
ULTRAMUNDANE, adj. [ ultra and tnundus, Lat.] 
Being beyond the world. 
ULTRONEOUS, adj. [ultroneus, Lat.] Spontaneous; 
voluntary. 
ULUA, JUAN DE, an island of Mexico, in the bay of 
Vera Cruz. It contains a fortress and light-house. Lat. 
15. 40. N. 
ULUA, a river of the province and government of Hon¬ 
duras, which is large, and navigable for vessels of 200 tons. 
It enters the sea in the gulf of Honduras. 
ULVA, a small island of the Hebrides, about half a mile 
from Mull, lying between that island and Staffa. It is about 
two miles long, and is inhabited by 200 or 300 people. 
ULVA, in Botany, a genus of the class cryptogamia, order 
algee.—Generic Character. Fructifications are small glo¬ 
bules dispersed through a pellucid, membranaceous or gela¬ 
tinous substance, or frond. 
1. Ulva pruniformis, a singular species, is figured in English 
Botany, t. 968. It grows on aquatic plants under water, 
and is of various sizes, from a pea to a bullace plum, of a 
dull olive green : the skin is fleshy or gelatinous, enveloping 
a mass of pale soft pulp, in which Linnaeus observed the mi¬ 
nute seeds. He has described it well in Flora Suecica. Mr. 
Stackhouse is of opinion, that neither this nor the pisiformis 
properly belong to this genus. 
2. Ulva diaphana, figured in the same work, t. 263, is an¬ 
other singular production, with theappearance of pale barley- 
sugar. The whole substance abounds with minute seeds. 
3. Ulva atomaria fs described by Mr. Woodward in the 
Transactions of the Linnaean Society; and figured in Eng¬ 
lish Botany, t. 419. It spreads out like a fan, and is divided 
like a hand, not down to the base; of an olive brown. The 
seeds are very minute, of a darker colour, and disposed some¬ 
what irregularly iu numerous transverse concentric lines or 
stripes. This is not in Withering. 
4. Ulva ligulata, also described by Mr. Woodward, and 
figured 
