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Bethlehem on the Connecticut, to the White mountains. WEREHAM, a parish of England, in Norfolk, near Stoke 
Height about 3000 feet. Ferry. Population 424. 
WENOO, a parish of Wales, in Glamorganshire; 5 miles WERFFEN, a town of Upper Austria, on the river Salza„ 
from Cardiff. which, including its parish, has 1200 inhabitants: 26 milts 
WEN WICK, a parish of England, in Huntingdonshire; 
7 miles from Oundle. 
WEOBLEY, a market town and borough of England, in 
the county of Hereford. It is situated in a fruitful county. 
The town is not incorporated, but is governed by two con¬ 
stables, and returns two members to parliament, chosen by 
householders of 20/. rent and upwards, paying scot and lot. 
The constables are the returning officers. An inconsiderable 
market on Tuesday, and three annual fairs; 8 miles north¬ 
west of Hereford. 
WEONARD’S, St., a parish of England, in Hereford¬ 
shire; 7f miles west-by-north of Ross. Population 545. 
WEPFER (John-James), an eminent physician, was born 
in 1620 at Schaffhausen, educated at Strasburg and Basil, 
and after visits to several universities in Italy, took the degree 
of doctor at Basil, and- settled in his native place. His 
reputation was extensive in Switzerland and Germany, and 
he attained, by his dissections and experiments, a high rank 
among those who have contributed to improve medical 
science. In 1658 he published a celebrated work, entitled 
“ Observationes Anatomicae ex Cadaveribus eorum quos sus- 
tulit Apoplexia, cum Exercitatione de ejus loco affecto,” 
8vo., often reprinted, and in some editions with the title 
“ Historia Apoplecticarum.” In his “ De dubiis Anatomicis 
Epistola,” 1664, 8vo., he asserts the entire glandular structure 
of the liver, prior to Malpighi. Another valuable work is 
entitled “ Cicutse Aquaticae Historia et Noxae,” 1679, 4to. 
His papers were published by two of his grandsons, in a 
work entitled “ Observationes Medico-Practicae de affectibus 
Capitis internis et externis,” 1727, 4to. To the Ephemerides 
Naturae Curiosorum, of which society he was a member, he 
communicated several valuable papers. Haller. 
WEPT, pret. and part of weep .—She for joy tenderly 
wept. Milton. 
WERAD, a town of Hindostan, province of Bejapore, 
belonging to the Mahrattas. Lat. 17. 39. N. long. 73 
48. E. 
WERBACH, a town of Germany; 8 miles south-east of 
Wertheim. Population 1000. 
WERBEN, a town of Prussian Saxony, on the Elbe ; 5 
miles north-west of Havelburg. Population 1600. 
WERBERG, a small town of Germany, in Hesse-Cassel; 
12 miles south-south-east of Fulda. 
WERCHOWKA, a small town of European Russia, in 
the government of Podolia. 
WERD, a small island in the Rhine, in the Swiss canton 
ofThu-gau, near Stein. 
WERDAU, a town of Germany, in Saxony, on the 
Plisse; 6 miles west of Zwickau. Population 3000. 
WERDEN, a town of Prussian Westphalia, on theRoer; 
11 miles north-east of Dusseldorf. Population 2100. 
WERDENBERG, a town of Switzerland, in the canton 
of St. Gall, on the Rhine, and chief place of a small district; 
8 miles north of Sargans. Population 4000. 
WER.DENFELS, a district of the Bavarian states, in the 
circle of the Iser, among the Alps, bordering on Tyrol. 
WERDER, a lake of Austrian Illyria, in Carinthia, near 
Clagenfurt, nine miles long. A canal extends from it to 
Clagenfurt. 
WERDER, a town of Prussia, in the Middle Mark of 
Brandenburg, on an island in the Havel ; 4 miles west of 
Potsdam. Population 1500. 
WERDO, a market town of Austrian Illyria, in Istria; 6 
miles south-east of Pedena. 
WERE, of the verb. To be. The plural in all persons 
of indicative imperfect, and all the persons of the subjunc¬ 
tive imperfect, except the second, which is wcrt. 
He had been well assur’d that art 
And conduct were of war the better part. Dry den. 
WERE,.?. Adam. See Wear. —O river! let thy bed 
be turned from fine gravel to weeds and mud; let some un¬ 
just niggards make weres to spoil thy beauty. Sidney. 
south-south-west of Salzburg. 
WERGELA, or Wurglah, a populous town of the 
Bled el Jereede, to the south of Algiers, the remotest on this 
side of the desert; 300 miles south of Algiers. 
WERL, a town of the Prussian states, in the duchy of 
Westphalia. It has several large salt-works; 19 miles west- 
south-west of Lippstadt. Population 2300. 
WERMELSKIRCHEN, a well built village of Prussian 
Westphalia, in the duchy of Berg. Population, with its 
parish, 4100. 
WERNE, a small river of Prussian Westphalia, in the 
principality of Paderborn. It falls into the Weser. 
WERNE, a small town of Prussian Westphalia, on the 
Lippe; 19 miles south of Munster. Population 1300. 
WERNECK, a village of Germany, in Bavarian Franco¬ 
nia ; 18 miles north-north-east of Wursburg. 
WERNER (Abraham Gottlob), a celebrated mineralogist, 
and professor of mineralogy at Freyburg, in Saxony, was 
born on the 25th of September, 1750. His father was in¬ 
spector of an iron-work in Upper Lusatia, and at an early 
period intended to educate his son for the same employment. 
The first scanty rudiments of his education were received at 
a school at Bunsleur. He was afterwards sent to the Minera- 
logical Academy at Freyburg, and from thence to the 
university of Leipsic, where he applied himself to the study 
of natural history and jurisprudence; but the former he 
found more attractive, and it was here that he employed 
himself in defining the external characters of minerals, for 
which he was endowed by nature with a singular quick¬ 
ness of perception. At this place he published, in 1774, 
his work on the external characters of minerals, which 
was considered as the basis of his oryctognostic or mine- 
ralogical system. (See Mineralogy.) It has been trans¬ 
lated into various languages, but Werner could never be 
persuaded to publish a new and enlarged edition. “ In this 
work,” says professor Jameson, “ he gave the first example 
of the true method of describing mineral species. In these 
descriptions, all the characters presented by the species suite 
are detailed with a certain degree of minuteness, and in a 
determinate order; so that we have a complete picture of it, 
and are furnished with characters that distinguish it from all 
known species, and from every mineral that may hereafter 
be discovered.” It cannot be denied, that, previous to this 
time, the descriptive language of mineralogists had been much 
too indefinite to convey accurate information, or to enable 
mineralogists in distant countries to understand each other. 
Scon after this publication, Werner was invited to have the 
care of the cabinet of natural history at Freyburg, and to 
read lectures on mineralogy. 
This situation, so well suited to the peculiar studies ii> 
which he was engaged, offered abundant materials for the 
exercise of his talent for observation and classification. In 
1780 he published the first part of a translation of Cronstedt’s 
Mineralogy. In his annotations on this work, he gave the 
first sketch of his mineralogical system, and published many 
descriptions in conformity with the methods proposed in his 
treatise on external characters. In this system we find 
earthy minerals divided into four genera, siliceous, argilla¬ 
ceous, talcaceous, and calcareous; and these subdivided into 
species, sub-species, and kinds. 
In 1791 he published a catalogue of the great mineral 
collection of Pabst Von Obaine, captain-general of the Saxon 
mines. In this work he gave a tabular view of the whole 
mineralogical system, in which the arrangement of genus, 
species, sub-species, and kinds, is continued; several addi¬ 
tions are made to the external characters, and the arrangement 
of the species is in some instances changed, owing to more 
extended observations. Werner, besides his lectures on 
mineralogy, also delivered lectures on the art of mining, 
which he is said to have rendered extremely intelligible by 
his simplification of the machinery, and by drawings and 
figures. His system of geognosy,"or geology, was delivered 
