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market has much injured it. The acacia tree exudes vast 
quantities of the purest gum. 
Our information as to New South Wales, is chiefly valuable 
for the guides it furnishes as to places of emigration. Our 
author considers the small capitalist who can command 
about 1200/,, and who designs to lay it out in farming, can- 
not choose a more eligible situation. 1. Because he is under 
the institutions of his native country. 2. Because the lands, 
though not excessively fertile, are much more easily cleared 
than in North America. 3. Because the expense of passage 
inland is very little, though this is made up by the great 
expense that attends the voyage. 4. Because labour is ex¬ 
tremely cheap. 5. Because great portions of land remaining 
uninclosed, there is a vast resource for breeding and grazing 
cattle. 6. Because the climate is very healthy, ague, remit¬ 
tent, yellow, and other fevers being never seen; nor measles, 
hooping-cough, or small-pox. For the 4th reason, America 
is, however, a better place for labourers than New South 
Wales. Mechanics, however, obtain good pay in the latter 
place. Three or four persons putting their money together 
in a common stock, may do very well if they have only 200/. 
or 300/. each. The people are generally very hospitable. 
WALES, New, a name given to a part of North America, 
situated to the south-east and south-west of Hudson’s bay, 
and divided into North and South. The former name is lost 
in the more general term of Labrador. New South Wales is 
situated to the north-west of Canada, and extends along the 
south borders of Hudson’s bay 450 miles, from lat. 54. to 
58. N. long. 85. to 95. W. 
WALES, Point, a cape on the west coast of Observatory 
inlet, on the west coast of North America, so called by cap¬ 
tain Vancouver, in memory of Mr. Wales of Christ’s hospital. 
Lat. 54. 42. N. long. 229. 40. E. 
WALESBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire, near 
Market Raisen. 
WALESBY, a parish of England, in Nottinghamshire; 3 
miles north-east of Ollerton. 
WALET, a large city of Central Africa, capital of the 
kingdom of Beeroo. It was described as ten days journey 
from Benowm, and eleven from Tombuctoo. 
WALFF, a town of France,, in Alsace, with 1100 inha¬ 
bitants. 
WALFORD, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 3 
miles south-south-west of Ross. Population 888.—Also a 
hamlet in the same county; 13 miles north-west-by-north of 
Leominster. 
WALGHERTON, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 3| 
miles south-east-by-east of Nantwich. 
WALGRAVE, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
6| miles north-west-by-west of Wellingborough. Popula¬ 
tion 429. 
WALGRUND, an island in the gulf of Bothnia, about 10 
miles long, and 3 broad. Lat. 63. 13. N. long. 20. 58. E. 
WALHAM GREEN, a hamlet of England, county of 
Middlesex ; 6 miles south-west-by-west from St. Paul’s, 
London. 
WALHAUSEN, a market town of Prussian Saxony, in 
Thuringia, on the river Helm. 
WALHEM, an inland town of the Netherlands, with 900 
inhabitants; 11 miles south-by-east of Antwerp. 
WALI, or Walla, the title of an officer of the police 
in various parts of the Ottoman empire; who is the deputy 
of the pacha, and patroles night and day, keeping a watch¬ 
ful eye on the seditious, apprehending robbers, and, like 
the pacha, judging and condemning without appeal. This 
officer has a multitude of spies, most of whom are thieves, 
and by their means knows every thing that passes. 
WALILABO, a river of the island of St. Vincent, which 
runs into the sea; 1 mile north from Prince’s bay. 
To WALK, v. n. [wa/en, Germ.; pealcan. Sax. to roll.] 
To move by leisurely steps, so that one foot is set down be¬ 
fore the other is taken up.—A man was seen walking before 
the door very composedly. Clarendon .—It is used in the 
•ceremonious language of invitation, for come, or go. —Sir, 
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•walk in.—-I had rather walk here, I thank you. Shak- 
speare. —To move for exercise or amusement.—'What mean 
you, Caesar ? think you to walk forth ? Shakspeare. —To 
move the slowest pace; not to trot, gallop, or amble. Ap¬ 
plied to a horse. To appear as a spectre. 
The spirits of the. dead 
May walk again; if such things be, thy mother 
Appear’d to me last night. Shakspeare. 
To act on any occasion. 
Do you think, I’d walk in any plot, 
Where Madame Sempronia should take place of me. 
And Fulvia come i’ th’ rear. B. Jonson. 
To be in motion; applied to a clamorous or abusive female 
tongue, and is still in low language retained. 
As she went, her tongue did walk 
In foul reproach, and terms of vile despight; 
Provoking him by her outrageous talk. Spenser. 
To act in sleep.—When was it she last walk'd ? _ 
I have seen her rise from her bed, unlock her closet, take 
forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read if, and return to bed; 
yet all this while in a most fast sleep. Shakspeare. —To 
range; to be stirring. 
Affairs that walk, 
As they say spirits do at midnight, have 
In them a milder nature, than the business 
That seeks dispatch by day. Shakspeare. 
To move off; to depart.—When he comes forth, he will 
make their cows and garrans to walk, if he doth no other 
harm to their persons. Spenser. —To act in any particular 
manner. 
I’ll love with fear the only God, and walk 
As in his presence. Milton. 
To travel.—The Lord hath blessed thee; he knoweth thy 
walking through this wilderness. Deut. 
To WALK, v. a. To pass through.—I do not without 
danger walk these streets. Shakspeare. 
No rich or noble knave 
Shall walk the world in credit to his grave. Pope. 
To lead out, for the sake of air or exercise: as he walked 
his horse in the meadow.—To conduct; to lead.—Fll walk 
ye out before me. Beaum. and FI. 
WALK, s. Act of walking for air or exercise.—Nor walk 
by moonlight without thee, is sweet. Milton. —Gait; step; 
manner of moving. 
Morpheus, of all his numerous train, express’d 
The shape of man, and imitated best; 
The walk, the words, the gesture could supply, 
The habit mimick, and the mien belie. Pry den. 
A length of space, or circuit through which one walks. 
He usually from hence to th’ palace gate 
Makes it his walk. Shakspeare. 
An avenue set with trees. 
He hath left you all his walks, 
His private harbours, and new-planted orchards, 
On that side the Tiber. Shakspeare. 
Way; road; range; place of wandering.—If that way 
be your walk, you have not far. Milton.- —Region; space. 
—Wanting an ampler sphere to expatiate in, he opened a 
boundless walk for his imagination. Pope. — [turbo, Lat.] 
A fish. Ainsworth.^-Walk is the slowest or least raised 
pace, or going of a horse. 
WALKENAAM, an island of Guiana, at the mouth of the 
river Essequibo, which is a high state of cultivation, pro¬ 
ducing abundantly coffee and sugar. 
WALKENRIED, a village in the duchy of Brunswick, the 
chief town of a petty district of the same name; 8 jniles 
north-west of Nordhausen. 
WA'LKER, s. [pealcepe, Sax.] One that walks.— 
May no such vicious walkers croud the street. Gay. —One 
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