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discovered by LeMaire and Schouten, in the year 1616. Lat. 
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WATERLAND (Daniel), D.D. was born in 1683, at 
Wasely, in Lincolnshire, where his father was rector, and 
sent to Magdalen college, Cambridge, in 1699, for the com¬ 
pletion of his education; of this college he was elected a 
fellow in 1704, took his degree ofM.A. in 1706, and became 
a private tutor. His tract, entitled “ Advice to a young 
Student, with a Method of Study for four Years,” published 
at this time, was popular, and passed through several editions. 
In 1713 he was nominated master of his college, and pre¬ 
sented to the rectory ofEllingham in Norfolk. On occasion 
of taking his degree ofB.D. in 1714, he distinguished himself 
by defending before the regius professor of divinity the 
negative of his thesis, “ Whether Arian subscription be 
lawful ?” Being chosen chaplain in ordinary to king George 
I., he was nominated, on his majesty’s visit to Cambridge, 
D.D., and incorporated in the same degree at Oxford. Dis¬ 
tinguished as a champion of orthodoxy by his “ Vindication 
of Christ’s Divinity, being a Defence of some Queries re¬ 
lating to Dr. Clarke’s Scheme of the Holy Trinity,” printed 
in 1719, he was appointed in the following year the first 
preacher of lady Moyer’s lecture in favour of the divinity of 
Christ. He also published an answer to Dr. Whitby on the 
same subject, and in 1721 he was presented by the dean and 
chapter of St. Paul’s with the rectory of St. Austin and St. 
Faith. His “ History of the Athanasian Creed,” vindicating 
it against the objections of Dr. Clarke, was published in 1723, 
and his preferments to the canonry of Windsor, the vicarage 
of Twickenham, and the archdeaconry of Middlesex, kept 
pace with his publications of this nature. His remarks on 
Dr. Clarke’s “ Exposition of the Church Catechism,” printed 
in 1730, engaged him in a controversy with Dr. Sykes on 
the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. Against Tindal’s “ Chris¬ 
tianity as old as the Creation,” he published his “Scripture 
Vindicated,” and his “Christianity Vindicated against In¬ 
fidelity.” On these treatises Dr. Middleton published remarks, 
and they were defended by Dr. Zachary Pearce. In 1734 
Dr. Waterland made an attempt for refuting Dr. Clarke’s 
opinions in a “ Discourse of the Arguments a priori for 
proving the Existence of a First Cause;” and in this year, 
having declined the office of prolocutor of the lower house 
of convocation to which he was chosen, he published his 
treatise “On the Importance of the Doctrine of the Trinity,” 
which he regarded as fundamental, avowing his high respect 
for the authority of the fathers in this and other articles of 
faith. In 1736 he commenced a series of archdiaconal 
charges on the subject of the eucharist, arguing against the 
opinion of Hoadley on the one hand, that it was a mere com¬ 
municative feast, and against that of Johnson and Brett, on 
the other, that it was a proper propitiatory sacrifice. But a 
complaint under which he laboured, and which required 
repeated surgical operations, endured by him with exemplary 
patience, at length terminated his life in December, 1740, in 
the 58th year of his age. A collection of his sermons was 
published after his death. “ As a controversialist,” says one 
of his biographers, “ though firm and unyielding, he is ac¬ 
counted fair and candid, free from bitterness, and actuated 
by no persecuting spirit.” Gen. Biog. 
WATERLANDIANS, a sect of those that were called the 
gross or moderate Anabaptists, consisting at first of the inha¬ 
bitants of a district in North Holland, called Waterland,-, 
whence their name. They were also called Johannites, from 
John de Reis, who, assisted by Lubert Gerard, composed 
their confession of faith in 1580. This confession far sur¬ 
passes, in respect both of simplicity and wisdom, all the 
other confessions of the Mennonites; though it has been 
alleged, that it is not the general confession of the Water- 
landians, but that merely of the congregation, of which its 
author was the pastor. See Mennonites. 
WA'TERLEAF, s. A plant. 
WATERLEBEN, a village of Germany, in the duchy of 
Brunswick, on the IIs. Population 1000. 
WATER-LEIGH, a hamlet of England, in Gloucester¬ 
shire; near Wootten-under-Edge. 
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WA’TERLILY, s. [nymphcea , Lat.] A plant.—Let 
them lie dry twelve months, to kill the waterweeds, as water- 
lilies and bulrushes. Walton. 
WATERLOGGED, adj. Applied to a ship, when by 
leaking she has received a great deal of water into her hold, 
and is become so inactive upon the sea, as to yield without 
resistance to the effort of every wave rushing over her deck. 
Chambers. —The shattered, weather-beaten, leaky, water¬ 
logged vessel. Burke. 
WATERLOO, a village of the Netherlands; 10 miles 
south of Brussels, with 1600 inhabitants. It was the scene 
of battle fought on the memorable 18th of June, 1815.—For 
a full account of this famous battle, the reader is referred to 
the article Paris. 
WATERLOO, a post village of the United States, and 
capital of Seneca county, New York, on Seneca river; 14 
miles west of Auburn. 
WATERMAN, s. A ferryman; a boatman.—Having 
blocked up the passage to Greenwich, they ordered the water¬ 
men to let fall their oars more gently. Dryden. 
WATERMARK, s. The utmost limit of the rise of the 
flood. 
Men and beasts 
Were borne above the tops of trees that grew 
On lh’ utmost margin of the watermark. Dryden. 
WATERMELON, s. A plant. It hath trailing branches, 
as the cucumber or melon, and is distinguished from other 
cucurbitaceous plants, by its leaf deeply cut and jagged, and 
by its producing uneatable fruit. Miller. 
WATERMILL, s. Mill turned by water. 
Forth flowed fresh 
A gushing river of black gory blood. 
That drowned all the land whereon he stood : 
The stream thereof would drive a watermill. Spenser. 
WATERMILLOCK, a township of England, in Cumber¬ 
land ; 7 miles south-west of Penrith. 
WA'TERMINT, s. A plant.—Those which perfume the 
air most delightfully—are burnet, wild-thyme, and water- 
mints. Bacon. 
WATER NEWTON, a parish of England, in North¬ 
amptonshire, near Peterborough. 
WATER OVERTON, a hamlet of England, in War¬ 
wickshire ; 2j miles north-west of Coleshill. 
WATER PERRY, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
5§ miles west of Tame. 
WATERS POINT, a cape on the west coast of North 
America. Lat. 60. 5. N. long. 212. 17. E. 
WA'TERRADISH, s. A species of water-cresses. 
WA'TERRAT, s. A rat that makes holes in banks.— 
There be land-rats and water-rats. Shakspeare. 
WA'TERROCKET, s. A species of water-cresses. A 
kind of firework to be discharged in water. 
WATERSA'PPHIRE, s. A sort of stone.— Watersap- 
phire is the occidental sapphire, and is neither of so bright 
a blue, nor so hard as the oriental. Woodward. 
WATERSEY, one of the Hebrides, lying to the south of 
the island of Barray, from which it is distant about one mile. 
It is about three miles long, and in some places one broad, 
and tolerably fertile. 
WATERSIDE, a hamlet of England, in Buckinghamshire 
near Chesham. 
WATERSTOCK, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire 
5 miles west of Tame. 
WATER STRATFORD, a parish of England, 
inghamshire, near Buckingham. 
WATERTIGHT, adj. That will not admit water.— 
Cottages not high built, yet wind-tight and water-tight. 
Bp. Hall. 
WATERTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in Middlesex county, Massachusetts, on Charles river; 7 
miles west-by-north of Boston. Population 1531. 
WATERTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in Litchfield county, Connecticut; 12 miles south-south-east 
of Litchfield. Population 1714. 
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