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which Mr. Werner has described as universal formations 
neither occur invariably in the order of succession which he 
has described, nor are universally spread over the earth’s 
surface; yet there is a certain similarity between the geo-’ 
logical arrangement of distant countries when viewed on a 
large scale, which indicates that similar processes of forma¬ 
tion had taken place, and nearly in the same order in remote 
parts of the globe; but we are far from knowing whether 
these processes were universal and simultaneous, or local and 
successive. 
WERNERSDORF, a village of Prussian Silesia, in the 
circle of Bolkenhayn, with 1000 inhabitants. 
WERNETH, a township of England, in Cheshire, near 
Macclesfield. Population 1034. 
WERNIGERODE, a district, with the title of county, in 
the Prussian states, in Upper Saxony, lying between the 
principality of Halberstadt and the states of Brunswick and 
Hanover. Its area is about 100 square miles; its population 
13,000. It lies in the Hartz forest, and is consequently full 
of mountains and romantic spots. 
WERNIGERODE, a town of Prussian Saxony, and the 
chief place of the above county. It stands on a small stream 
called the Zillicherbach, at the north extremity of the Hartz. 
It is divided into the Old and New towns, and the suburb of 
Nessenrode; contains 5100 inhabitants; 25 miles south- 
south-east of Wolfenbuttel, and 12 west-south-west of Hal¬ 
berstadt. 
WERNITZ, a river of the Bavarian states, which rises 
near Rothenburg, and runs into the Danube, near Donau- 
wert. 
WERNSDORF, a small town of Germany, in Saxony; 
23 miles east of Leipsic. Population 1000. 
WERNSDORF, a village of Bohemia, with a castle. It 
has also a manufacture of fire-arms; 3 miles north-west of 
Kadan. 
WERNSTADTL, a town of Bohemia; 38 miles north 
of Prague. It has extensive cotton manufactures. Popula¬ 
tion 1400. 
WERRA, a considerable river of Germany, which has 
its source in the forest of Thuringia. At Allendorf it be¬ 
comes navigable for small boats, and at Munden joins the 
Fulda, after which the united stream takes the name of the 
W eser. 
WERRAY, a river of Wales, in Cardiganshire, which 
runs into the Irish channel, near Arth; about 7 miles south 
of Aberystwith. 
WERRE, a small river of Germany, which rises in the 
county of Lippe, flows through Herforden, and falls into the 
Weser. 
WERREAR, or Wuddyar, a district of Hindostan, 
province of Gujerat. It is situated on the shores of the 
Runn, and abounds with rich pastures, which enable the 
the farmers to breed a great number of cattle, horses, and 
sheep. Poultry are also in great abundance. 
WERR1NGTON, a parish of England, in Devonshire, 
near Launceston. Population 491.—2. A township in North¬ 
amptonshire, near Peterborough. 
WERSE, asmall river of Prussian Westphalia, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Munster, which falls into the Ems near Tellight. 
WERSTADT, a town of Germany in Ilesse-Darmstadt, 
district of the Rhine. It is neatly built. Population 1200. 
WERT, the second person singular of the subjunctive 
imperfect of To he .—All join’d, and thou of many wert but 
one. Dry den. 
WERTACH, a river of Bavaria, which falls into the Lech 
below Augsburg. 
WERTH, toeorth toyrth. Whether initial or final in the 
names of places, signify a farm, court, or village, from the 
Saxon peop'Sij, used by them in the same sense. Gibson. 
WERTH, a small town of Bavaria, on the Danube; 12 
miles east of Ratisbon. 
WERTHEIM, a county of Germany, in Franconia, lying 
chiefly to the south of the Maine, and now subject to the 
grand duchy of Baden, but held in property by the prince 
and count of Lowenstein Wertheim. Its area is about 110 
WES 
square miles. It is fertile in-corn and wine, the latter being 
accounted the best in Franconia. Population 12,000. 
WERTHEIM, a town of Germany, in Baden, the capital 
of the circle of the Maine and Tauber, and of the above 
county; 20 miles west of Wurzburg. Lat. 49. 44. 15. N. 
long. 13. 13. 15. E. 
WERTHER, a town of Prussian Westphalia; 5 miles 
north-north-west of Bielefeld. Population 1200. 
WERTINGEN, a town of Germany, in Bavaria; on the 
Zusam; 14 miles north-north-west of Ulm. Population 
1400. 
WERVIN, a small village of England, in Cheshire, near 
Dalamere Forest. 
WE'SAND, s. [papen, Saxon. This word is very 
variously written; but this orthography is nearest to the 
original word.] The windpipe; the passage through which 
the breath is drawn and emitted ; the larynx. 
The shaft that slightly was impress’d. 
Now from his heavy fall with weight increas’d. 
Drove through his neck aslant; he spurns the ground. 
And the soul issues through the weazon 's wound. Dri/den. 
WESCHNITZ, a small river of Germany, which rises in 
the Odenwald, passes Weinheim, and falls into the Rhine, 
near Stein. 
WESEL, or Lower Wesel, a town of the Prussian states, 
in the duchy of Cleves, at the confluence of the Lippe and 
the Rhine. It is a place of old date, having formerly be¬ 
longed to the Hanseatic confederacy; 25 miles east-south¬ 
east of Cleves. 
WESEL BAY, a bay on the south coast of the island of 
Java. Lat. 8. 21. S. long. 113. 42. E. 
WESELY, a town of Bohemia; 62 miles south-by-east of 
Prague. Population 1000.—2. A town of Moravia, on an 
island in the March, with 2400 inhabitants; 40 miles south 
of Olmutz. 
WESEN, a small town of Switzerland, in the canton of 
St. Gall, at the western extremity of the lake of Wallen- 
stadt; 7 miles south of Utznach. 
WESENBERG, a town of Germany, in the grand duchy 
of Mecklenburg Strelitz; 7 miles south-south-west of New 
Strelitz. Population 1000. 
WESENHAM, All Saints, or South, a parish of 
England, in Norfolk ; 1\ miles south west of Fakenham. 
WESENHAM, St. Peter, or North, a parish in the 
above county, adjoining the foregoing. 
WESENITZ, a small river of Saxony, which falls into the 
Elbe, near Pirn a. 
WESENSTEIN, a large village of Saxony, on the Elbe; 
8 miles south-south-east of Dresden. 
WESER, one of the principal rivers of Germany. It is 
formed by the junction of the Werra and the Fulda, at Mun¬ 
den ; flows through the territories of Hanover, Brunswick, 
Prussia, Bremen, and Oldenburg; and runs into the German 
ocean, between the last mentioned principality and the pro¬ 
vince of Bremen. Ships go up the stream as far as Vegesack, 
and boats navigate its whole course. 
WESHAM, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Kirk- 
ham, Lancashire. 
WE'SIL, s. See Wesand. —The wesil, or windpipe, we 
call aspera arteria. Bacon. 
WESLEY (John), one of the principal founders of Me¬ 
thodism, was the son of a clergyman, who, educated under 
a father who was ejected for non-conformity, became a zea¬ 
lous high-churchman, and composed the speech delivered 
by Sacheverel before the house of lords. John was born at 
Epworth, in Lincolnshire, of which his father was rector, in 
June, 1703. Educated under pious parents, he was reli¬ 
giously disposed from his youth. From the Charter-house, 
where he, received his school education, he was removed to 
Christ-church College, Oxford ; and, after taking his first 
degree, was elected, in 1724, fellow of Lincoln College, and, 
in 1726, proceeded to the degree of M. A. At this time 
he was reputed as a good classical scholar, and particu¬ 
larly conversant with dialectics. He was also a poet of no 
mean 
