or Uz, the country and place of residence of Job. In the genealogy of the patriarchs there are three persons called Uz, either of which might give this district its name. The first was the grandson of Sem, by his son Aram (Gen. xxii. 23.), who, according to Josephus, occupied the Trachitis, and Damascus, to the north of Palestine: but Job was among the sons of the East. Another Uz was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Gen. x. 21.), who appears to have removed, after passing the Euphrates, from Haran of Mesopotamia to Arabia Delerta. The third Uz was a Horite, from mount Seir (Gen. xxxvi. 28.), and thus not of Eber's posterity. Now the question is, from which of these Job's Job's country, Uz, took its name? Not from the first, as is already shown; nor from the second, because his country is always called Seir, or Edom, never Uz; and then called a south, not an east, country, in Scripture. It therefore remains, that we look for the country and place of residence of Job in Arabia Deserta; for which there was very probable reasons. The plunderers of Job are called Chaldeans and Sabaeans, next neighbours to him. These Sabaeans came not from Arabia Felix, but from a nearer Sabe in Arabia Deserta (Ptolemy); and his friends, except Eliphaz the Temanite, were of Arabia Deserta.
**UZBECK TARTARY.** See Tartary,
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W
W, or w, is the 21st letter of our alphabet; and is composed, as its name implies, of two v's. It was not in use among the Hebrews, Greeks, or Romans; but chiefly peculiar to the northern nations, the Teutones, Saxons, Britons, &c. But still it is not used by the French, Italians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, except in proper names, and other terms borrowed from languages in which it is originally used, and even then it is founded like the ligature v. This letter is of an ambiguous nature; being a consonant at the beginning of words, and a vowel at the end. It may stand before all the vowels except u; as water, wedge, winter, wonder; it may also follow the vowels a, e, o, and unites with them into a kind of double vowel, or diphthong; as in saw, sew, cow, &c. It also goes before r, and follows f and th; as in wrath, fever, thwart; it goes before b also, though in reality it is founded after it; as in when, what, &c. In some words it is obscure, as in shadow, window, &c.