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drawn from a comparison of them, which are said by Kastner 3d. A township in Derbyshire; 3 miles south-west-by-west 
to be very valuable, as the observations were made under the of Chesterfield. Population 720.—4th. A hamlet in the 
same meridian, and at the interval of a century. Montucla parish of Deerhurst, Gloucestershire.—-5th. A hamlet in He. 
Hist, du Mathem. Kastner Geschichte du Mathematik, cited refordshire; 4£ miles south of Bromyard.—6th. A hamlet in 
in Gen. Biog. Leicestershire; 4 miles north-east-by-east of Lutterworth.— 
WALTHER (John Godfrey), author of an excellent his- 7th. A hamlet in the parish of Grantham, Lincolnshire._ 
torical and biographical musical dictionary, published in 8th. A hamlet in Northampton; 2f miles north-north-west 
German at Leipsic, 1782, in 8vo. of Peterborough.—9th. A parish in Somersetshire; 3J miles 
In 1790 and 1792, a new edition of this work, with addi- south-west-by-south of Glastonbury. Population 479._ 
lions to the time of publication, was printed at Leipsic in 10th. A hamlet in the same county, in the parish of Kil- 
two vols. 8vo., by Ernst Ludwig Gerber. mersdon.—11th. A township in Staffordshire; 2f miles east- 
WALTHER (John Ludolph), author of another very south-east of Stafford. — 12th. A township in the West 
curious and useful dictionary, published at Ulm in folio, Riding of Yorkshire; 3 miles south-east-by-south of Wake- 
1756, in Latin, entitled “Lexicon Diplomaticum Abbre- field.—13th. A parish in the county of Suffolk; 74 miles 
viationes syllabarum et vocum in diplomatibus et codicibus north-east of London. Population 643. 
a Seculo VIII. ad XVI. usque occurrentes exponens. WALTON, East, a parish of England, in Norfolk ; 7J 
Junctis Alphabetis et Scripturse Speciminibus integris.” miles north-west of Swaffham. 
The author was librarian and private secretary to his British WALTON, West, another parish in the same county; 
Majesty Geo. II. as elector of Hanover. The book has a very 2 miles from Wisbeach. 
learned preface by John Harry Young, regius secretary in 
the university of Gottingen. 
The whole book is engraved on copper-plates; and in the 
second part, among the specimens of writing without abbre¬ 
viations, we have examples of the first attempts at musical 
notation, from the ninth century, not only before lines were 
in use, but even before points of different elevation were the 
vocal guides of the priests in canto fermo. 
WALTHERIA [so named by Linnaeus, in honour of 
Augustin. Frider. Walther, professor of medicine at Leipsic], 
in Botany, a genus of the class monodelphia, order pen- 
tandria, natural order of columniferae, tiliacese (Juss.)— 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth (double: outer one¬ 
sided, three-leaved, deciduous; cav. inner) one-leafed, half- 
five-cleft, acute, cup-shaped, permanent. Corolla: petals 
five, obcoraate, spreading, fastened at bottom to the tube of 
filaments. Stamina: filaments five, united into a tube, free 
above, spreading, short. Anthers ovate. Pistil: germ ovate. 
Style filiform, longer than the stamens. Stigmas pencilled. 
Pericarp: capsule obovate, one-celled, two-valved. Seed 
one, obtuse, wider above.— Essential Character. Calyx 
double: outer lateral three-leaved deciduous. Petals five. 
Style one. Capsule one-celled, two-valved, one-seeded. 
1. Waltheria Americana.—Leaves oval, plaited, sharply 
and unequally toothed, tomentose; heads peduncled. Stem 
soft, woody, about two feet high, sending out two or three 
side branches. Flowers collected in a close thick spike at 
the top of the stem, having soft hairy calyxes.—Native of 
South America, and the islands of the West Indies, Brazil, 
Bahama, Berbice, Surinam, Jamaica, Domingo, &c. 
2. Waltheria Indica.—Leaves oval, plaited, bluntly 
toothed, tomentose; head sessile. This rises with a shrubby 
branching stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, and is 
covered with soft hairs.—Native of India. 
3. Waltheria lophanthus.—Leaves roundish-cordate, 
serrate, silky-tomentose, petioled; heads peduncled, imbri- 
cate-bracted.—Native of the Marquesas islands in the south 
seas. 
4. Waltheria ovata.—Leaves roundish-ovate, unequally 
toothed, tomentose; heads sessile.—Native of Peru. 
5. Waltheria angustifolia.—Leaves oblong, obtuse, 
plaited, toothed hoary ? heads sub-sessile.—Native of the 
East Indies. 
6 . Waltheria elliptica.—Leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 
plaited toothed, tomentose; heads sessile.—Native of the 
East Indies. 
Propagation and Culture. —These plants are propagated 
by setds, which must be sown on a hot-bed ; and when the 
plants are fit to transplant, they must be each planted into a 
separate small pot, and plunged into a fresh hot-bed, and 
afterward treated in the same manner as other tender plants 
of the same country, for they must be kept in the bark-stove, 
otherwise they will not thrive in England. 
WALTON, a hamlet of England, in Buckinghamshire, 
half a mile south-east of Aylesbury.—2d. A parish in the 
same county; 2 miles north-by-east of Fenny Stratford.— 
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WALTON, East, a parish of Wales, in Pembrokeshire; 
5 miles north of Haverford West. 
WALTON, West, another parish in the above county; 
5 miles north of Haverford West. 
WALTON, Cardjffe, a parish of England, county of 
Gloucester; 1 mile south-east-by-east of Tewkesbury. 
WALTON LE DALE, a township of England, in the 
county of Lancaster; 2 miles south-east of Preston. Popu¬ 
lation 4776. 
WALTON IN GORDANO, a parish of England, in 
Somersetshire; 11| miles west of Bristol. 
WALTON, High, a township of England, in Cumber¬ 
land; 10J miles north east-by-east of Carlisle. 
WALTON, Higher, a township of England, in the 
county of Chester. 
WALTON ON THE HILL, a township of England, in 
the county of Lancaster; 3 miles north-by-east of Liverpool. 
Population 794.—Also a parish in the county of Surrey; 4 
miles south-by-east of Epsom. 
WALTON, Low, a township of England, in Cumber¬ 
land ; 10 miles north-east-by-east of Carlisle. 
WALTON, Lower, a township of England, in the 
county of Chester; 8 miles north-east of Frodsham. 
WALTON-LE-SOKEN, a parish of England, in the 
county of Essex, one of the three Sokens, situated under 
Naze point, south of Harwich. It was formerly much more 
considerable than at present, the sea having destroyed the 
greater part of the village. The ancient church is entirely- 
destroyed, and the remains of coffins and bones are ob¬ 
servable, intermixed with the sea sand. To the north of the 
town, on the Naze, is a lofty tower, about 80 feet high, of 
brick, originally built by the Rigby family, lords of the 
manor, as an observatory and tea-room, but lately height¬ 
ened by the Trinity-house, to form a landmark for vessels 
passing this way, or entering Harwich harbour. Walton 
has long been noted for its extensive copperas works, which 
were erected here on account of the number of copperas 
stones found on the shore. 
WALTON-ON-THAMES, a parish of England, in the 
county of Surrey, situated on the banks of the river Thames, 
over which it has a handsome brick bridge of four main 
arches and several smaller ones, erected in the year 1780; 3 
miles west of Kingston. Population 2722. 
WALTON-UPON-TRENT, a township of England, in 
Derbyshire; 17 miles south-west of Derby. 
WALTON-ON-THE-WOLDS, a parish of England, 
county of Leicester; 4 miles east of Loughborough. 
WALTON WOOD, a parish of England, county of 
Huntingdon; 6 miles north-by-west of Huntingdon. 
WALTON, a post township of the United States, in 
Delaware county, New York, on the Delaware; 85 miles 
south-west of Albany. Population 1311. 
WALTON, a county of the United States, in Georgia. 
WALTON (Brian), editor of the English Polyglott Bible, 
was born about the year 1600, in the district of Cleveland, 
Yorkshire, and in 1615 admitted into Magdalen college, 
5 Z Cambridge, 
