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YELLOW-BUSHA, or Yalo-Bushur, an eastern branch 
of the Yazoo, Mississippi, in the United States. A military 
station, named Elliot, was established, in 1818, on this river; 
120 miles above the mouth of the Yazoo. 
YELLOW BREECHES CREEK, a river of the United 
States, in Pennsylvania, which runs into the Susquehanna. 
Lat. 40. 13 N. long. 76. 52. W. 
YELLOW CREEK, a township of the United States, in 
Columbiana county, Ohio. Population 491. 
YELLOW CREEK, Great and Little, two streams of 
the United States, in Ohio, which flow into Ohio river in the 
south-east corner of Columbiana county ; four miles apart. 
YE'LLOWGOLDS, s. A flower. 
Bring too some branches forth of Daphne’s hair. 
And gladdest myrtle for these posts to wear. 
With spikenard weav’d, and marjoram between, 
And starr’d with yellow-golds, and meadow’s-queen. 
B. Jonson. 
YE'LLOWHAMMER, s. [cenchrymus bellonii.] A 
bird. 
YE'LLOWISII, adj. Approaching to yellow.—Although 
amber be commonly of a yellowish colour, yet there is found 
of it also black, white, brown, green, blue, and purple. 
Wood-word, 
YE'LLOWISHNESS, s. The quality of approaching to 
yellow.—Bruised madder, being drenched with the like 
alcalizate solution, exchanged its yellowishness for a red¬ 
ness. Boyle. 
YE'LLOWNESS, s. The quality of being yellow.— 
Apples, covered in lime and ashes, were well matured, as 
appeared in the yellowness and sweetness. Bacon. — Yel¬ 
lowness of the skin and eyes, and a saffron-coloured urine, 
are signs of an inflammatory disposition of the liver. Ar- 
buthnot .—It is used in Shakspeare for jealousy.—Ford I 
will possess with yellowness. Shakspeare. 
YELLOW RIVER, a river of Ireland, in the King’s county, 
which runs into the Boyne ; 4 miles south of Kinnegad. 
YELLOW RIVER. See Hoang-ho. 
YE'LLOWS, s. A disease in horses. When the gall- 
pipe is stopped up, that matter which should be turned info 
gall is carried back into the blood, and tinctures it yellow ; 
so that the eyes, inside of the lips, slaver, and all the parts 
of the horse, that are capable of shewing the colour, appear 
yellow. Farrier's Diet .—His horse sped with spavins, and 
raied with the yellows. Shakspeare. 
This disease is incident to horses, neat-cattle, and sheep, 
in which there is a yellow jaundice-like appearance, espe¬ 
cially in the eyes. 
It is a disease that takes place in horses in all states of 
them, but which in those of the young kind is often unac¬ 
companied with fever, or any sort of irritation. 
It shews itself by a particular yellowness in the eyes and 
the inside of the mouth, with a considerable degree of con¬ 
stipation of the bowels in some cases. 
The yellows in neat-cattle is a common disease, arising 
from obstruction in the gall-ducts, and consists in a diffusion 
of the obstructed bile through the whole body of the animal. 
It is first distinguished in the white of the eyes, which has 
a particular yellow appearance; and as it increases, the 
whole of the skin becomes tinged with the same yellow 
colour: but the ears, tail, eyes, and mouth, are the parts in 
which it is the most conspicuous. The animals are affected 
with great weakness and debility in every stage of the disease, 
ana there is a listlessness, with indisposition to move, and a 
want of appetite for their food. When in the pastures, they 
mostly wander about by the sides of the hedges, or other 
fences, in a lonely manner. Milch cows are particularly 
subject to the disease in the spring and at the fall of the 
year; though they are not exempt from having it at all 
other seasons. The most unfavourable state of the disease 
is when it proceeds from an induration of some part of the 
liver, as there is then but little hope of the disease being per¬ 
manently removed. As the changing state of the weather 
has often a great effect in retarding or hastening the removal 
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of the disease, care should be taken to house the animals in 
all unfavourable seasons. 
It is not a very common disease among sheep, and con¬ 
sequently has not been very accurately described; but pro¬ 
bably confounded with many other affections to which they 
are subject. It is supposed by some to be in general con¬ 
fined to the South-Down and new Leicester breeds, which, 
from their more tender constitutions,.are more liable to com¬ 
plaints. 
The appearances of the disease are a yellowness over the 
whole body, but particularly distinguishable in the white of 
the eye. The wool, too, has a little of the tinge, and is 
slightly hard. The passages of the belly are of a whitish 
colour, and the urine is found to tinge any thing immersed 
in it of a yellow hue. Sometimes there is a degree of full¬ 
ness and hardness in the right side, about the seat of the 
liver. The causes are any thing which has a tendency to 
obstruct the gall-ducts, but they are by no means evident; 
theit effect, however, seems generally to harden the liver, 
and invariably to impede the passage of the bile from it 
into the bowels. In some cases, small stones, formed in the 
gall-bladder, produce it; and at other times, it is caused, 
as in the rot, by the swelling of the glands impeding the 
flow of the bile in the ducts, in which case it is mostly in¬ 
curable. 
YELLOW SEA. See Gulf of Lf.aotong. 
YELLOW SPRINGS, springs of the United States, in 
Greene county, Ohio. They are a curiosity, and are said to 
possess medicinal qualities. Here is a post office; 9 miles 
from Xenia. 
YELLOWSTONE RIVER, a large river of North Ame¬ 
rica, which falls into the Missouri, about the 47th degree of 
north latitude. Captains Lewis and Clarke, after ascending 
the sources of the Missouri, penetrating across the Rocky 
mountains, and descending the Columbia to the Pacific 
ocean, agreed, on their return, to take different routes 'towards 
the Missouri; and it is to the latter of these enterprising tra¬ 
vellers, who descended the Yellowstone to its junction with 
the Missouri, that we are indebted for the first accurate ac¬ 
count of this great river. The Yellowstone river, according 
to Indian information, has its remote sources in the Rocky 
mountains, near the peaks of the Rio del Norde, on the con¬ 
fines of New Mexico, to which country there is a good road 
during the whole distance alongthe banks of the Yellowstone. 
Its western waters are probably connected with those of 
Lewis’s river, while the eastern branches approach the heads 
of Clarke’s river, the Bighorn, and the Platte ; so that it wa¬ 
ters the middle portion of the Rocky mountains for several 
hundred miles from north-west to south-east. During its 
whole course from the point at which Captain Clarke reach¬ 
ed it to the Missouri, a distance which he computed at 837 
miles, this river is large, and navigable for perioques, and 
even batteaux, there being none of the moving sand-bars 
which impede the navigation of the Missouri, and only a 
single ledge of rocks, which, however, is not difficult to pass. 
Even its tributary waters, the Bighorn, Clarke’s fork, and 
Tongue river, may be ascended in boats for a considerable 
distance. The banks of the river are low, but bold, and no¬ 
where subject to be overflowed, except for a short distance 
below the mountains. The predominating colour of the river 
is a yellowish-brown ; that of the Missouri, which possesses 
more mud, is of a deep drab colour; the bed of the former 
being chiefly composed of loose pebble; which, however, 
diminish in size in descending the river, till after passing the 
Lazeka, the pebble ceases as the river widens, and the mud 
and sand continue to form the greater part of the bottom. 
Over these the water flows with a velocity constantly and 
almost equally decreasing in proportion to its distance from 
the mountains. From the mountains to Clarke’s fork, the 
current may be estimated at four and a half miles per hour; 
thence as low as the Bighorn, at three and a half miles; be¬ 
tween that and the Lazeka at three miles; and from that river 
to the Wolf rapid, at two and three-quarter miles; from 
which to its entrance, the general rapidity is two miles per 
hour. The appearance and character of the country present 
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