is the least county in England, it being but 40 miles in circumference; in which are 2 towns, 48 parishes, and 3263 houses. However, for quality it may be compared with any other county; the air being good, and the soil fertile both for tillage and pastures; and it not only affords plenty of corn, but feeds a great number of horned cattle and sheep. It is well watered with brooks and rivulets, and the principal rivers are the Weland and the Wash. It is bounded on the east by Lincolnshire; on the south by the river Weland, which parts its from Northamptonshire; and on the west and north by Leicestershire. It has only two market-towns; namely, Okeham, where the assizes and felons are held, and Uppingham.

RUSCH (Frederic), son of Henry Rusch commissary of the States-general, was born in 1638, and proved one of the greatest anatomists that ever appeared in Holland. He studied at Leyden and at Franeker, where he took his degree as doctor of physic, and settled at the Hague. A piece which he published in 1665, De vestis sympathicis & lacteis, procured him an invitation to be professor of anatomy at Amsterdam; which he gladly accepted, and where he was continually employed in dissections, to examine every part of the human body with the most ferulous exactness. He died in 1721, after having writ several books, in which he published many discoveries, yet not so many as he himself from his confined reading imagined.

RYTER (Michael Adrian), lieutenant-admiral of the United Provinces, was born at Flushing in 1607, and was the son of a burgler of that city. He frequented the sea from his being 11 years of age; and was successively a sailor, mate, captain of a vessel, commodore, rear-admiral, vice-admiral, and at length lieutenant-admiral-general, which is the highest dignity to which he could be raised, since that of admiral belongs only to the governor of Holland. He succoured the Portuguese against the Spaniards; acquired great glory before Salé; engaged several times with the English; took many Turkish vessels, with the famous renegade Amand de Dias, whom he caused to be hanged in 1655. In 1659, he sailed to the assistance of the king of Denmark against the Swedes, and gave proofs of uncommon bravery in the island of Funen. In 1661, he humbled the Algerine corsairs; took a great number of vessels in 1665; and obtained a remarkable victory over the English in 1666. These brave exploits occasioned his being the same year chosen lieutenant-admiral-general; and he continued to distinguish himself till the year 1676, when he was mortally wounded by a cannon-ball, in an engagement with the French, before the town of Augusta in Sicily, and died of his wounds a few days after. His body was carried to Amsterdam, where the States-General erected a magnificent monument to his memory.