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The time requisite to perform the operation of boring varies 
in proportion to the size of the piece, a 12 pounder taking 
about five days. In another quadrangular lange of building, 
at a short distance from the foundry, are two other boring 
machines, and various work-shops, where the ordnance, after 
being proved, are properly finished for service. Brass ord¬ 
nance only are made here ; and these, though so called, are 
wholly formed of a composition of tin and copper. The 
foundry is under the direction of an inspector, a master foun¬ 
der, and an assistant founder. Nearly adjoining to the foun¬ 
dry is the laboratory, where fire-works and cartridges, for the 
use of the navy and army, are made up ; and bombs, car¬ 
casses, granadoes, &c. charged. The other structures in the 
arsenal consist of store-houses and offices of various descrip¬ 
tions, together with numerous workshops, in one of which a 
curious planeing machine, worked by a small steam-engine, 
has been erected. The number of artificers, labourers, and 
boys, employed in the various departments, is about 3000 ; 
exclusive of the convicts belonging to one of the hulks which 
is stationed on the river, opposite to the arsenal: the other 
hulk lies before the dock-yard. The convicts amount to 
about 900 ; they are generally employed in the most labori¬ 
ous offices, as pile-driving, &c. under the care of proper 
persons. 
At Woolwich, also, is situated the royal military aca¬ 
demy, which was instituted about the year 1719; but not 
finally arranged till 1741. This establishment, which has 
varied considerably at different periods, and which has been 
much reduced since the peace, contains at present 100 pu¬ 
pils, who are called cadets. 
The military academy was formerly situated in the arsenal, 
and the building there still serves occasionally for the recep¬ 
tion of particular branches of the institution ; but it is now 
removed to about a mile southward from the town, on the 
upper part of Woolwich common, which, with part of 
Charlton common, has been purchased by government 
within these few years. It is built in the castellated form, 
from designs by Wyatt; and consists, in front, of a centre 
and two wings, united by corridors, with a range of build¬ 
ing behind, containing the hall, servants’ offices, &c. The 
centre forms a quadrangle, with octagonal towers at the 
angles; and, besides a variety of other apartments, contains 
the four teaching rooms or academies, as they are termed, 
the masters’ desks to each of which are situated in the towers, 
where the floor is somewhat raised above the general level. 
The wings contain the apartments for the cadets and chief 
officers, the latter being in the middle of each wing, which 
is more elevated than the extremities; these have octagonal 
turrets at the angles. The whole edifice is embattled, and 
built with brick, whitened over; its length is somewhat 
more than 200 yards; the principal front is to the north. 
The hall is a well proportioned room, with a timber roof, in 
the general style of the college halls. The entire expense of 
this structure is estimated at not less than 150,000/. 
When the Warren, which was made the head-quarters of 
the regiment of artillery, on its being first stationed at Wool¬ 
wich, became insufficient for the purpose, by the increase of 
the regiment, a piece of ground, of about 50 acres, was 
taken by government on lease, and spacious barracks erected 
for the accommodation of the officers and privates. It is a 
very extensive structure, of an oblong form, whose principal 
front, which faces the south, is nearly 400 yards in length. 
It consists of six ranges of brick building, united by an or¬ 
namental centre of stone (having Doric columns in front, 
and the royal arms, and military trophies, above), and four 
other lower buildings, filling up the divisions between each 
range. The latter have also stone fronts, with Doric co¬ 
lonnades, and a balustrade above each. These contain a li¬ 
brary and reading-room for the officers, a mess-room, a 
guard-room, and a chapel; the latter of which will contain 
1000 persons. At a little distance from the back part of the 
chapel, is a new riding-school, built of brick, from designs 
by Wyatt, on the model of an ancient temple. Its appear¬ 
ance is grand : its length is about 50 yards, its breadth 21, - 
and its height proportionable. The whole depth of the 
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buildings, from the front of the barracks, which runs nearly 
parallel with that of the new military academy, is about 290 
yards: this space includes a double quadrangle, besides va¬ 
rious detached ranges. The regiment of artillery consisted, 
during the war, of nearly 17,000 men, including the horse 
brigade, but it is now reduced to about 7000, which are 
formed into nine battalions. The parade is in front of the 
barracks, and the soldiers are frequently exercised in throw¬ 
ing shells, for which the open space on the common affords 
sufficient room. On the east side of the barracks, on the de¬ 
scent leading to the arsenal, is the ordnance hospifal, which 
is an extensive edifice, calculated to contain about 700 men. 
Several detached buildings, for the use of the artillery, have 
also been raised on different parts of the common ; among 
which we may mention a veterinary hospital for the horse 
brigade; but the most conspicuous of these is a pagoda, 
used as a repository for models: it is 115 feet in diameter, 
and was removed here from Carlton-house gardens, where it 
served as a banquelting room to the sovereigns who visited 
this country, after the battle of Waterloo. On the west side 
of the town there are also barracks, and a handsome hospi¬ 
tal, erected for the fourth division of marines, who have their 
head-quarters at this place. The population of Woolwich is 
reckoned at 17,000, exclusive of military. 
WOOLWICH, a post township of the United States, in 
Lincoln county, Maine, on the Kennebeck, opposite Bath; 
152 miles north-east of Boston. Population 1050.—2. A 
township of Gloucester county, New Jersey. Population 
3063. 
WOONY, a town of Hindostan, province of Berar, be¬ 
longing to the Nagpore rajah. Lat. 20. 10. N. long. 78. 
59. E. 
WOOP, s. [rubicilla, Lat.] A bird. 
WOOPERTON, a hamlet of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 6| miles south-east of Wooler. 
WOORATLA, a town of Hindostan, province of the 
Northern Circars. Lat. 17. 33. N. long. 82. 48. E. 
WOORDAUN, a considerable town of Low'er Egypt, on 
the western branch of the Nile, the ancient Latopolis. 
WOORDAUN, or Ouardan, a considerable town of 
Lower Egypt, situated on the western branch of the Nile. 
It is surrounded by sand hills and arid downs, sprinkled, 
however, with fine sycamore trees. This place has been 
noted in modern times as the resort of pirates, who, how¬ 
ever, have now been in a great measure extirpated. 
WOOS, s. [alga, Lat.] Sea-weed; an herb. 
WOOSTER, a post town and capital of the United States, 
in Wayne county, Ohio, at the head of the navigation on 
the Killbuck. It is regularly laid out, and contains a bank, 
a land office, a printing office, and 70 houses. The Bap¬ 
tists have a meeting-house here; 45 miles south of Lake 
Erie, and 123 west of Pittsburg. Lat. 40. 46. N. Two 
miles north-west of the town, a well for salt water has been 
sunk, 280 feet deep. It furnishes very salt water in large 
quantities.—2. A township of Washington county, Ohio; 
12 miles north-west of Marietta. 
WOOTTON (John), an eminent, though not very able, 
painter of landscape and animals, who flourished in England 
about 1720. He was a pupil of John Wyck, and was much 
employed in the portraits of horses and dogs, and in painting 
the sports of the field, particularly fox-hunting; upon which 
subject there are seven pictures of his engraved by Canot. 
Once at least he attempted (but he did not frequently repeat 
the attempt) to pourtray a battle, and his subject was that of 
Culloden at the time of the rout of the rebel army. It has 
been engraved by Baron, though it is but an indifferent per¬ 
formance. He died in 1765. He had been successful in the 
pursuit of his art, for he was enabled by its proceeds to build 
a house in Cavendish-square, where he lived, and had painted 
it with taste, according to Walpole, who praises his works 
ridiculously. His prices, he says, were high, forty guineas 
for a single horse the size of life, and twenty if smaller. 
WOOTTON, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 
miles south-west of Bedford. Population 831.—2. A town ¬ 
ship in Berkshire; 3J miles north-west of Abingdon.—3. A 
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