the most northerly province of Ireland. In Latin it is called Ultonia, in Irish Cui Guilly; and gives the title of earl to the dukes of York of the royal family. It is bounded by the Atlantic ocean on the west, St George's channel and the Irish sea on the east, the Decalodonian ocean on the north, and on the south and south-west the provinces of Leinster and Connaught. Its greatest length is near 120 miles, its breadth about 100; and its circumference, including the windings and turnings, 460; containing 9 counties, 58 market-towns and boroughs, 1 archbishopric, 6 bishoprics, and 214 parishes. Ulster abounds in lakes and rivers, which supply it with variety of fine fish, especially salmon, besides what it has from the sea, with which a great part of it is bounded. The southern parts of it are rich, fertile, tile, well cultivated, and inclosed; but the greater part of the northern is open and mountainous.—The towns of this province are in general the neatest and best built of any in Ireland, as well as the farm-houses; which in most parts of the kingdom are constructed of no better materials than clay and straw. The inhabitants of Ulster are also more like the English in their manners and dialect than those of the other three provinces: for as it includes within itself the whole, or by far the greater part, of the linen manufactory, the best branch of trade in the kingdom, they have consequently the greatest intercourse with England. An Englishman, in some parts of it, indeed, will imagine himself, from the similarity of their language and manners, in his own country. This province had anciently petty kings of its own. It was first subjected to the English in the reign of Henry II. by John Courcy, the first who bore the title of earl of Ulster; but it afterwards threw off the yoke, and was never entirely reduced till the reign of James I. when great numbers of Scots by his encouragement went and settled in it. Of these, most of the present inhabitants are the descendants. This province was the first and principal scene of the bloody massacre in 1641. See Ulster, Supplement.

ULTRIOR, in Geography, is applied to some part of a country or province, which, with regard to the rest of that country, is situated on the farther side of the river, mountain, or other boundary which separates the two countries.