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WESTON, King’s, a parish of England, in Somerset¬ 
shire; 3£ miles from Somerton. 
WESTON, King’s, a village of England, in the county 
of Gloucester, situated between the Avon and the Severn. 
WESTON, Little, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Weston Bampfylde, Somersetshire. 
WESTON UNDER LIZARD, a parish of England, in 
Staffordshire; 7£ miles west-south-west of Penkridge. 
WESTON, Market, a parish of England, in Stafford¬ 
shire ; 13 miles north-east from St. Edmund’s Bury. 
WESTON SUPER MARE, a parish of England, in So¬ 
mersetshire, on the Bristol Channel. 
WESTON, North, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Thame, Oxfordshire. 
WESTON, Old, a parish of England, in Huntingdon¬ 
shire ; 8 miles north of Kimbolton. 
WESTON, Patrick, a parish of England, in Southamp- 
tonshire; 4 miles south-west-by-west of Odiham. 
WESTON UNDER PENYARD, a parish of England, 
in Herefordshire, near Ross. 
WESTON UNDER RED-CASTLE, a hamlet of Eng¬ 
land, in Salop; 4 miles east of Wem. 
WESTON, South, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire, 
near Tetsworth. 
WESTON UPON TRENT, a parish of England, in Der¬ 
byshire; 7 miles south-east of Derby.—2. A parish in Staf¬ 
fordshire ; 4J miles north-east of Stafford. 
WESTON TURVILLE, a parish of England, in Bucking¬ 
hamshire ; 2 J miles north-by-west of Wendover. 
WESTON UNDERWOOD, a parish of England, in 
Buckinghamshire; 2 miles west-south-west of Olney.—2. A 
township in Derbyshire ; 5j miles north-west of Derby. 
WESTON UPON WELLAND, a parish of England, in 
Northamptonshire; 6 miles west of Rockingham. 
WESTON UNDER WETHELE, a parish of England, 
in Warwickshire ; 6 J miles north-east of Warwick. 
WESTON IN ZOYLAND, a parish of England, in Somer¬ 
setshire ; 4 miles east-south-east of Bridgewater. Population 
724. 
WESTONING, or Weston Inge, a parish of England, 
in Bedfordshire; 4 miles south-by-west of Ampthill. Popu¬ 
lation 497. 
WESTOW, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 5 miles 
south-west of New Malton. 
WESTPHALIA, Circle of, an extensive country in the 
north-west of Germany, varying in its boundaries and extent 
very materially, in different parts of its history. Originally 
the name of Westphalia was given to that part of the great 
duchy of Saxony which lay to the west of the Weser; the 
part to the east of that river being called Oost or East-phalia. 
Its area, nearly equal to that of Scotland or Ireland, was about 
27,000 square miles; its population about 2,500,000. The 
climate of Westphalia is similar to that of Holland, or the 
north of Germany generally. 
At the peace of Luneville, all the parts of Westphalia on 
the west of the Rhine were ceded to France; and in 1806, 
when the confederation of the Rhine was formed, the circle 
itself was suppressed. This name has not been revived; and 
the Westphalian territory now belongs chiefly to Prussia, 
Hanover, and Oldenburg. 
WESTPHALIA, a duchy in the west of Germany, having 
on the east the circle of the Upper Rhine, and on the three 
other sides, that of Westphalia ; but belonging politically to 
the circle of the Lower Rhine. Its extent, equal to that of 
one of our larger counties, is about 1700 square miles; but 
its thinly scattered population does not exceed 140,000, 
almost all Catholics. Its southern division is unfit for tillage, 
but has good pasturage, and is rich in forests and mines. The 
central part is more level and fertile; and the hogs being re¬ 
markable both for size and number, the hams which are 
known by the name of Westphalia hams, are exported prin¬ 
cipally from this quarter. 
WESTPHALIA, Kingdom of, one of the temporary 
kingdoms of Bonaparte, created in 1807, and overturned in 
1813. It was composed of conquests from Prussia, Hesse- 
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Cassel, Hanover, and the smaller states to the west of the 
Elbe. 
WESTPHALIA, Province of, a province of the Prus¬ 
sian states, constituted in 181G, and bounded on the west by 
the Netherlands, and on the east by Hanover and Ilesse- 
Cassel. It lies between lat. 50. 43. and 52. 30. N., and has 
an extent of 8300 square miles, with nearly 1,000,000 inha¬ 
bitants, being in its area somewhat larger than Wales, and 
considerably more populous. It is divided into the three 
districts of Munster, Minden, and Arensberg. 
WESTPORT, a parish of England, in Wiltshire, adja¬ 
cent to Malmsbury. Population 720.—2. A seaport town 
of Ireland, in the county of Mayo, situated at the mouth of a 
clear stream, which flows into the sea, and forms a fine bay 
within Clew bay; 115 miles west-north-west of Dublin, and 
8 west of Castlebar. Lat. 53. 48. N. long. 9. 22. W.—3. A 
post town and seaport of the United States, in Bristol county, 
Massachusetts, on Buzzard’s bay ; 24 miles south of Taunton, 
and 60 south of Boston.—4. A post village of the United 
States, in Essex county. New York.—5. A post town of 
Henry county, Kentucky, on the Ohio; 17 miles above 
Louisville. 
WESTPORTFORD, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
6 miles from Holdsworth. 
WESTRAW HILL, a hill of Scotland, in Lanarkshire, 
in the parish of Pettinain, about 1000 feet above the level of 
the sea. 
WESTRAY, one of the Orkney islands, about 20 miles 
north from Kirkwall. It is of an irregular figure, having 
many bays and jutting out points of land. It is about 9 or 
10 miles in length from east to west, and its breadth varies 
from 1 to 2 miles ; but, towards the west end, it is at least 
6 miles broad. Lat. 59. 9. N. long. 2.49. W.—2. A parish 
of Scotland, in the Orkneys, comprehending the isles of 
Westray and Papa Westray. 
WESTRAYSVILLE, a post village of the United States, 
in Nash county. North Carolina. 
WESTR1DGE, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Streathley, Berkshire. 
WESTHILL, a parish of England, in Leicestershire, near 
Lutterworth. 
WESTRINGIA [so named by J. E. Smith, M.D., in 
honour of John Peter Westring, author of a Dissertation 
on the Lichen tribe, and their uses in dyeing, printed in the 
Transactions of the Stockholm Academy for 1794], inBotany, 
a genus of the class didynamia, order gymnospermia, natural 
order of verticil late labiate, (Juss.J —Generic Character. 
Calyx one-leafed, permanent, tubular bell-shaped, with 
five sides, and five prominent angles, without furrows or 
streaks, divided about half way into five equal, erect, lan¬ 
ceolate, beardless segments. Corolla one-petalled, ringent, 
twice as long as the calyx, reversed; tube length of the ca¬ 
lyx, with a hairy orifice; border four-lobed; upper lip a 
little longer, erect, cloven half way down; lower lip in three 
deep equal segments, divaricating, and of a linear oblong- 
form. Stamina: filaments four, about half as long as the 
border, spreading; two lower shorter, and most frequently 
abortive. Anthers roundish, two-lobed, incumbent. Pistil: 
germ four-lobed. Style filiform, length of the stamens. 
Stigma cloven, small. Pericarp none. Seeds four, naked, 
obovate.— Essential Character. Calyx half five-cleft, five¬ 
sided. Corolla reversed, with four segments, the longest 
erect, cloven. Stamina distant; the two shorter or lowest 
abortive. 
Westringia rosmariniformis.—This is a shrub very much 
branched; the branches either opposite or four together, 
square, silky, leafy. Leaves in fours, on very short silky 
footstalks, spreading, linear-lanceolate; of a bright shining 
green above, and almost naked ; clothed with white siiky 
down beneath. Stipules none. Flowers from the upper 
part of the branches, axillary, solitary, on short flower- 
stalks. At the base of the calyx a pair of linear, short, silky 
bractes. Calyx silky, its segments naked with revolute 
margins. Corolla white, with purple spots about the ori¬ 
fice.—Native of New South Wales, near Port Jackson. 
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