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WATERTOWN, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Jefferson county. New York, at the mouth of 
Black river; 12 miles from Sacket’s harbour, and 80 north¬ 
west of Utica. Population 1849. 
WATERVILLE, a post township and village of the 
United States, in Kennebeck county, Maine, on the west side 
of the Kennebeck, opposite Winslow; 18 miles north of 
Augusta, and 185 north-north-east of Boston. Population 
1314. 
WATERVILLE, a flourishing village of the United States, 
in Sangerfield, New York.—2. A post village in Stamford, 
New York. 
WA'TERVIOLET, s. [liottonia , Lat.] A plant. 
Miller. 
WATERVLIET, a town of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of East Flanders; 12 miles north-west of Ghent.—2. 
A post town of the United States, in Albany county, New 
York, on the west side of the Hudson, and on the south side 
of the Mohawk; 6 miles north of Albany. Population 
2365. 
WA'TERWILLOW, s. [lysimachia, Latin.] A plant. 
Ainsworth. 
WA'TERWITH, s. A plant.—The waterwith of Jamaica 
growing on dry hills, in the woods, where no water is to be 
met with, its trunk, if cut into pieces two or three yards long, 
and held by either end to the mouth, affords so plentifully a 
limpid, innocent, and refreshing water, or sap, as gives new 
life to the droughty traveller or hunter. Derham. 
WA'TERWORK, s. Play of fountains; artificial spouts 
of water; any hydraulic performance.—Engines invented 
for mines and waterworks often fail in the performance. 
Wilkins. 
WA'TERY, adj. Thin; liquid; like water.—Quick¬ 
silver, which is a most crude and watery body, heated, and 
pent in, hath the like force with gunpowder. Bacoti. —The 
bile, by its saponaceous quality, mixeth the oil and watery 
parts of the aliment together. Arbuthnot. —Tasteless; 
insipid ; vapid; spiritless.—We’ll use this unwholesome 
humidity, this gross, watery pumpion. Shakspeare. —Wet; 
abounding with water. 
When the big lip, and watery eye 
Tell me, the rising storm is nigh: 
’Tis then thou art yon angry main. 
Deform’d by winds, and dash’d by rain. Prior. 
Relating to the water. 
On the brims her sire, the watery god. 
Roll’d from a silver urn his crystal flood. Dryden. 
Consisting of water. 
The watery kingdom is no bar 
To stop the foreign spirits; but they come. 
As o’er a brook, to see fair Portia, Shakspeare. 
WATFORD, a market town of England, in the county of 
Herts. It consists principally of one street, which is ranged 
chiefly on the sides of the high road, and extends in a north¬ 
westerly direction rather more than a mile. In the church¬ 
yard is a house for a free school for 40 boys and 20 girls, 
built and endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller. There are also 
eight alms houses for poor women. The market-house is a 
long building, rough cast above, and supported on wooden 
pillars beneath. The quantity of corn sold here is very great; 
and the number of sheep, cows, calves, hogs, &c. is propor¬ 
tionable. The river Colne, here a small stream, which 
nearly surrounds the town, has several mills on its banks; 
but the principal manufactory of this town is the throwing 
of silk, a very extensive machine, being worked by water; 
and two by the power of horses. Market on Tuesday. Four 
fairs in the year; 20| miles west-south-west of Hertford, and 
14i north-west of London.— 2 . A parish of England, in 
Northamptonshire; 5 miles north-north-east of Daventry.— 
3. A hamlet of England, in Dorsetshire, near Bridport. 
WATH, a parish of England, in the West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5J miles north of Rotherham. Population 815. 
—2. A parish of England, North Riding of Yorkshire; 43 - 
miles north of Rippon.—3. A hamlet of England, in York ¬ 
shire ; 8 miles west-by-north of New Malton. 
WATHOE, a small island in the Baltic, on the coast of 
Sweden, near Stockholm, with very good pasturage. 
WATKINS, Point, a cape of the United States, on the 
south-west coast of Maryland, in the Chesapeak. Lat. 37. 
59. N. long. 76. W. 
WATKINSVILLE, a post village of the United States, in 
Ann Arundell county, Maryland.—2. A post village in 
Centre county, Pennsylvania.-—3. A post town of the United 
States, and capital of Clarke county, Georgia; 7 miles south 
of Athens, and 90 west-north-west of Augusta. 
WATLAS, a hamlet of England, in the North Riding of 
Yorkshire. 
WATLING’S ISLAND, one of the Bahama islands, about 
18 miles long, and 4 broad. Lat. 23. 50. N. long. 74.16. 
W. 
WATLINGSTREET, one of the praetorian or consular 
highways, made by the Romans in England, for the march 
of their armies. It began at Dover, ran to St. Alban’s Dun¬ 
stable, Towcester, Atherston, and Shrewsbury, and ended at 
Cardigan, in Wales. 
WATLINGTON, a market town of England, in the 
county of Oxford, situated on a small brook, among the 
Chiltern hills. Market on Saturday, and two annual fairs; 
24 miles south-east of Oxford, and 46 north-north-west of 
London. Population 1150.—2. A parish of England, in 
Norfolk; miles north of Market Downham.—3. A parish 
of England, in Sussex ;■ If mile north of Battle. 
WATOUR, a town of the Netherlands, in West Flanders; 
11 miles west of Ypres. Population 2000. 
WATSON (Richard, Bishop of Llandaff), celebrated as 
an able Theologian, and a Professor of Chemistry, was born 
in August, 1737, at Heversham, near Kendal, in Westmor¬ 
land. His ancestors had been farmers of their own estates 
for several generations; and his father had for forty years 
been master of the free-school at Heversham, but was become 
infirm, and had resigned it a little before his birth. He was, 
however, educated at this school, and continued there till 
1754, when he was sent as a sizar to Trinity College, Cam¬ 
bridge. He applied without intermission to his studies, and 
in 1757 he obtained a scholarship, with particular expres¬ 
sions of approbation from Dr. Smith, who was then master. 
He had made it a constant practice in his mathematical pur¬ 
suits, to think over the demonstration of every proposition 
that he studied, in his solitary walks; a habit which must 
certainly have been very conducive to the improvement of 
geometrical talent, though it could scarcely be adopted with¬ 
out great labour by those who follow the algebraical mode 
of analysis in all their investigations. After this period he 
passed many hours daily, for a considerable portion of his 
life, in the occupation of instructing others, without much 
enlarging the scale of his own information, though certainly 
not without adding to the solidity and precision of his know¬ 
ledge of the most important elementary truths of science; and 
when he graduated, in 1759, he was classed as the second 
wrangler, which he seems to have considered, not without 
reason, as the place of honour for the year, the senior wrang¬ 
ler, who was a Johnian, having, as it was generally believed, 
been unfairly preferred to him. In October, 1760, he be¬ 
came a fellow of Trinity, and in November, assistant tutor 
of the college. Having taken his degree ofM. A. in 1762, 
he was soon afterwards made moderator of the scholastic 
exercises of the university, an arduous and honourable office, 
which he also filled in several subsequent years. 
In 1764 he undertook a journey to Paris, though without 
being able to speak the language, in order to take charge of 
his young friend and pupil, Mr. Luther, who returned to 
England with him soon after. He was elected in the same 
year Professor of Chemistry, though he had never devoted 
any portion of his attention to that science; but he soon ren¬ 
dered himself sufficiently master of all that was then known, 
to give a very popular course of lectures on the subject about 
a year after his election, with the assistance of an operator 
whom he had brought from Paris, and to become the author 
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