a seaport of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, and gulf of Cambay, is situated on a navigable river. It was ceded to the East India Company by the Guicowar, the Mahratta chief, in 1803. It is forty-four miles south-west from the city of Cambay. Long. 72. 15. Raujeshy E. Lat. 22. 3. N.

RAUJESHY, a district in Bengal, situated principally between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Dinagepoor and Mymunsingh; on the south by Birbloom and Kishenagur; on the east by Dacca, Jalalpoor, and Mymunsingh; and on the west by Monghir and Birbloom. It is the most unwieldy seminary in Bengal, comprehending an area of 12,909 square miles, and is intersected in its whole length by the Ganges and its lesser branches, with many navigable rivers and fertilizing streams. In answer to the inquiries of the Marquis Wellesley in the year 1801, the population was returned at 1,500,000.

RAUKOKE, one of the Kurile Islands, which is small and lofty, with a rocky shore.

RAUN, a town of some strength, situated upon the river Miza, and remarkable for a bloody skirmish between the Prussians and Austrians, in August 1744. The king of Prussia, intending to get possession of Berauen, sent thither six battalions, with eight cannon, and 800 hussars; but General Festititz being there with a great party of his corps, and M. Luchesi with 1000 horse, they not only repulsed the Prussians, but attacked them in their turn, and, after a warm dispute, obliged them to retire with considerable loss.