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province of East Flanders, on the Scheldt. It is seldom 
visited by travellers; 7 miles east-by-south of Ghent. Popu¬ 
lation 7400. 
WETTERFELD, a village of Bavaria, on the Regen; 22 
miles north-east of Ratisbon. 
WETTERHORN (Storm Peak), a mountain among 
the Alps, in the Swiss canton of Berne. Height 12,000 feet. 
WETTIN, a town of Prussian Saxony, in the duchy of 
Magdeburg, on the Saale; 29 miles west-north-west of Leip- 
sic. Lat. 51. 35. N. long. 11. 52. E. Population 2700. 
WET WANG, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 6| miles 
west-by-north of Great Driffield. 
WETZLAR, a town of Germany, situated on the river 
Lahn ; 25 miles north of Frankfort on the Main. It is built 
on ground so unequal and hilly, as to be inaccessible to car¬ 
riages. 
WEVELGHEM, a town of the Netherlands, in the pro¬ 
vince of West Flanders, on the river Nederbeeke, with 3100 
inhabitants. 
WEVELINGHOVEN, a town of the Prussian States, in 
the government of Cologne. Population 1200. 
WEVELSBURG, a large village of Prussian Westphalia, 
on the river Aim; 9 miles south of Paderborn. 
WEVER, a river of England, in Devonshire, which runs 
into the Columb. 
WEVERLING, a town of Prussian Saxony, in the govern¬ 
ment of Magdeburg; 27 miles north of Halberstadt. 
WAVERSHAM, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Chester, situated on the river Wever or Weaver; 3 
miles from Northwich. 
WEVERY, a river of Wales, in Brecknockshire, which 
runs into the Wye. 
To WEX, v. a. [corrupted from wax by Spenser, for a 
rhyme, and imitated by Dryden.] To grow ; to increase. 
She first taught men a woman to obey ; 
But when her son to man’s estate did wex. 
She it surrender’d. Spenser. 
She trod a vexing moon, that soon wou’d wane, 
And drinking borrow’d light, be fill’d again. Dryden. 
WEXFORD, a county of Ireland, in the province of Lein¬ 
ster, bounded on the east by St. George’s Channel; on the 
south by Waterford bay; on the south-west by the county 
of Kilkenny; on the west by the county of Carlow ; and on 
the north by the county of Wicklow. This county extends 
38 Irish miles in length, and 24 Irish miles in breadth. It 
contains 315,396 Irish plantation acres, and is divided into 
8 baronies, and 142 parishes, with 2 boroughs; namely, 
Wexford and New Ross, each of which return one member 
to the united parliament. It forms almost a peninsula, being 
separated from the counties of Waterford and Kilkenny by 
the deep and navigable streams of the Nore and Barrow, and 
from the counties of Carlow and Wicklow by formidable 
ranges of stupendous mountains, through which there are 
only two passes, one by the sea-side at Arklow, and another 
by Scullough Gap to the county of Carlow. The baronies 
of Forth and Bargie, divided from the west of the county by 
a chain of mountains, named the mountains of Forth, are 
considered the most fruitful, and abound with marl and other 
manures. The remainder of the county is interspersed with 
single mountains of considerable elevation. 
WEXFORD, a sea-port town of Ireland, at the mouth of 
the Slaney, in a county of the same name, of which it is the 
chief town, with a large and beautiful harbour, in St. George’s 
channel. The mouth of the harbour is choaked with a bar; 
and therefore no vessel drawing more than 12 feet water, can 
pass to the town. The English invaders wrested this town 
from the Danes, after a siege of four days, on the 4th of May, 
1170. This town was likewise besieged by Cromwell, on 
the 1st of October, 1649, and having been betrayed by 
captain James Stafford, commandant of the castle, it was 
stormed, when sir Edward Butler, the governor, with 2,000 
soldiers, were put to the sword. It is irregularly built, and 
the streets are narrow. There were four religious houses 
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established here previous to the reformation. The trade of 
Wexford is inconsiderable, in consequence of local'obstacles. 
Its chief traffic consists in exporting malt, barley, beer, bee*, 
hides, butter, and tallow. The town and its suburbs contain 
seven parishes; those in the suburbs are St. John’s, St. Mi¬ 
chael’s, and St. Peter’s. It was evacuated by the king’s forces 
on the 30th of May, 1798, in consequence of the defeat of 
some detachments sent to reinforce the feeble garrison in the 
defiles of the adjacent mountains, when it became the scene 
of many enormities. It returns one member to the imperial 
parliament. Much woollen cloth is manufactured in the 
town and neighbourhood; 25 miles west-north-west of Wa¬ 
terford, and 60 south of Dublin. Lat. 52. 22. N. long. 6. 
29. W. 
WEXHAM, a parish of England, in Buckinghamshire; 
If mile north-east of Slough. 
WEXIO, or Kronoborg, a province of Sweden, con¬ 
sisting of the southern part of Smaland, and containing, on 
a surface of 3,480 square miles, 90,000 inhabitants. 
WEXIO, a town of Sweden, in Smaland, situated on the 
river Gullsmedsback. It has a cathedral, is the residence of 
a bishop and provincial governor, and has a public school, 
where Linnseus received the first elements of his education ; 
46 miles north-north-west of Carlscrona. Lat. 56. 52. N. 
long. 14. 44. E. 
WEY, a river of England, in Dorsetshire, which runs into 
the sea at Weymouth.-—2. A river of Surrey, which rises 
in Hampshire, waters Guildford, and enters the Thames at 
Weybridge. It has been made navigable to Guildford and 
Godalmin, and a canal has been cut from it to Basingstoke, 
in Hampshire. 
WEYBREAD, a parish of England, in Suffolk ; 7 miles 
north-east-by-east of Eye. 
WEYBRIDGE, a hamlet of England, in Norfolk; lOf 
miles from Yarmouth.—2. A village and parish of England, 
in the county of Surrey, situated at the conflux of the rivers 
Wey and Thames; 9 miles south-west of Kingston, and 20 
south-west of London. 
WEYDEN, a village of the Prussian province of Cleves 
and Berg, near Aix-la Chapelle, with 900 inhabitants. 
WEYER, a village of the Bavarian circle of the Rhine, 
with 900 inhabitants. 
WEYERSIIEIM, Zum Thurn, a village of France, in 
Alsace, with 1,500 inhabitants; 9 miles north of Strasburg. 
WEYHILL, a small village of England, in the county of 
Southampton. It is situated on the road from London to 
Amesbury, on an eminence from which it derives its name. 
The town itself is small and unimportant, and the church is 
in a very desolate state; but the place is greatly noted on 
account of its fair, which is held annually, from the 9th to 
the 15th of October, and is reckoned one of the largest in 
England for cattle, store-sheep, Sussex and Kentish hops, 
Wilts, Somerset, and Gloucester cheese. For sheep and hops 
probably it has not its equal in England; and the price of 
both is usually a criterion for all the west parts of the king¬ 
dom. In leather, cheese, and other articles of general con¬ 
sumption, also, it mostly regulates the markets and fairs for 
several months after. The booths are formed into regular 
streets, and exhibit all the features of a large town, every part 
of which presents a scene of bustle and activity; and the 
amount of money circulated here during the mart is incredi¬ 
ble, and almost incalculable; 3 miles west of Andover. 
WEYLAND, Point, a rocky point on the south shore 
of New Holland. Lat. 33. 14. S. long. 134. 32. E. 
WEYMOUTH, a sea-port, borough, and market town of 
England, in Dorsetshire, is celebrated as a fashionable bath¬ 
ing place. It is situated on the British channel, at the western 
side of a most beautiful bay, which forms nearly a semi-cir- 
cle, making a sweep of more than two miles, and is well 
protected from the north winds by hills. It receives its name 
from the mouth of the little river Wey, near which it stands, 
and communicates with Melcombe Regis, to which it is 
united by a handsome new bridge. Weymouth, though a 
town of considerable antiquity, continued, till within these 
