name common to several orders of monks, from being clothed in a white habit.

White Sea, is a bay of the Frozen Ocean, so called in the north part of Muscovy, lying between Russian Lapland and Samoieda; at the bottom of which stands the city of Archangel. This was the chief port the Russians had before their conquest of Livonia.

White Colour for painting. See Chemistry, no 703.

White Copper. See Chemistry, no 1157.

White Drop, Ward's. See Chemistry, no 746.

White Iron, or Tin-plate, iron-plates covered over with tin; for the method of making which, see Latten.

In 1681 tin-plates were manufactured in England by one Andrew Yarranton, who had been sent to Bohemia to learn the method of making them. But the manufacture was soon afterwards discontinued. It was revived again in 1742, and is now arrived at as great, if not greater, perfection in this country than in any other.

White Lead. See Chemistry, no 875.

White Throat, in ornithology. See Motacilla.

(a) Bishop Berkeley was present at these conversations, and from his son we received the account which we have given of them. They are likewise mentioned, but not stated so accurately, by Bishop Newton in his own Life.