ground occupied by beautiful walks, outside of which is the Maliebaan, a promenade and carriage way planted with several rows of shade trees, and bordered by fine gardens. The most remarkable building is the ancient cathedral, erected in 1382 and now in a dilapidated state. It has a detached tower, said to be 388 feet in height. There are several other churches, 3 of which belong to the Jansenists, who have their chief establishment here. The old town hall contains the room in which the first confederation of the Dutch provinces assembled in 1579; and another where many of the preliminaries of the peace of 1713 between the allies and the French were agreed to. The university is a plain building, but contains a valuable library of 50,000 volumes, a museum, an anatomical hall, and a laboratory, and has an observatory and botanic garden. It was founded in 1636, has 22 professors, and in 1858-19 had 469 students. There are numerous schools. The manufactures include cotton, linen, silk, woollen cloth, carpets, plush or "Utrecht velvet," leather, &c.

UVALDE, a new S. W. co. of Texas, bounded W. by the Nueces river, and drained by the Rio Frio and its affluents; area, 1,480 sq. m.; pop. in 1860, 506, of whom 27 were slaves. About two thirds of the county is prairie land. The soil is very productive. Sheep and goats are raised extensively. Capital, Uvalde.

UVAROFF, SERGEI, a Russian statesman and author, born in St. Petersburg about 1793, died in 1855. He held various important offices under government, and became in 1818 president of the St. Petersburg academy of sciences, and subsequently curator of the university of the same city. He was created a count in 1836. He wrote in French an Essai d'une académie Asiatique (1810); Essai sur les mystères d'Éleusis (St. Petersburg, 1812); De l'empereur Alex

andre et de Bonaparte (Brunswick, 1815); and Esquisses politiques et littéraires (Paris, 1845); and in German, "The Poet Nonnus of Panop olis" (1817); "Studies on the Ante-Homere Era" (1821); and "Remarks upon Goethe (1833).-His son ALEXEI published at St. Pe tersburg in 1852 a volume of travels along the N. shore of the Black sea.

UVULA, the conical fleshy appendage, hanging down toward the tongue from the borde of the soft palate, on the median line. Its made up of muscular substance, covered by mucous membrane; from it arise on each s de two folds, called the pillars of the fauces, tween which, on the back part and sides of the throat, are the tonsils. It varies in sa and length in different individuals, but is geterally to of an inch long; it is somete so long as to rest upon the tongue, cats harassing cough from its continued tickling re quiring the use of astringent gargles or eve partial excision; it is occasionally bifid at the

UWINS, THOMAS, an English painter, bor in London in 1783, died Aug. 25, 1857. h early life he was much employed in designing for illustrated works, and making water co copies of paintings for the use of engrave but subsequent to 1826, when he visited sout ern Europe for the benefit of his health, e painted a numerous and popular series of tures illustrating the social life of the Ita peasantry. He also painted English and Fren peasant pieces, and somewhat later illustrations from popular authors and from sacred and profane history. His historical pictures are b least successful productions. In 1836 be w elected a royal academician; and for severa years he was keeper of her majesty's pictures and of the national gallery.

UZZIAH, or AZARIAH, a king of Judah. See HEBREWS, vol. ix. pp. 34, 35.