Winterthijr

Winterthijr, a town of Switzerland, on the Eulach, in the canton and 16 m. N. E. of the city of Zürich; pop. in 1870, 9,404. It is surrounded by walks and vineyards, and is one of the most attractive and prosperous of Swiss towns. It has several notable churches and a new town hall, a public library and museum, and a gymnasium. In the vicinity are cotton factories and iron and machinery works.

Winthrop Maekwortn Pried

Winthrop Maekwortn Pried, an English poet, born in London in 1802, died July 15, 1839. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity college, Cambridge, obtaining an unprecedented number of prizes for Greek odes and epigrams, and for English poems. He graduated in 1825, was called to the bar in 1829, and in 1830 and 1831 was returned to parliament for St. Germain in Cornwall as a conservative. In 1834 he was appointed secretary of the board of control, and in 1835 he was returned for Great Yarmouth. He was afterward member for Aylesbury and recorder of Barnstaple. His sister, Lady Young, prepared a complete edition of his poetical works, with a memoir by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge (2 vols., 1864).

Wirtemberg

See Wübtemberg.

Wisconsin River

Wisconsin River, a tributary of the Mississippi, in Wisconsin. It rises in Vieux Desert lake on the N. E. border, and has a general S. course to Portage City, whence it flows a little S. of W. to its mouth 4 m. below Prairie du Chien. Its entire length is estimated at 600 m. It is navigable by small steamers to Portage City, 200 m. above its mouth. At this point it approaches within 1½ m. of the Fox river, with which it is connected by a canal.

Wisdom Of Solomon

See Wisdom, Book of.

Wishtonwish

See Peairi'e Dog.

Wismar

Wismar, a seaport town of MecklenburgSchwerin, Germany, on a bay of the Baltic, 18 m. N. of Schwerin; pop. in 1871, 13,883. It has an excellent harbor, over 50 registered vessels, a fine Gothic and live other churches, a new town hall, a gymnasium, a school of navigation, and other public buildings. Machinery, tobacco, and chiccory are the chief manufactures, and grain is the principal export. Wismar was one of the Hanse towns. Under the treaty of Westphalia of 1648 it was annexed to Sweden; in 1803 it was restored to Mecklenburg. The neighboring Wenndorff has been a watering place since 1867.

Withe

Withe, a S. W. county of Virginia, intersected by the Great Kanawha (here called the New) river; area, about 600 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 11,611, of whom 2,342 were colored. It is mostly an elevated plateau, lying between Iron mountain on the south and "Walker's mountain on the northwest, and the soil is generally fertile. Iron ore, lead, bituminous coal, limestone, and gypsum are very abundant, and there are traces of silver found in the lead mines. It is intersected by the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 71,913 bushels of wheat, 17,913 of rye, 115,175 of Indian corn, 79,234 of oats, 17,057 of potatoes, 86,144 lbs. of butter, 19,827 of wool, and 4,445 tons of hay. There were 2,176 horses, 2,376 milch cows, 5,550 other cattle, 7,442 sheep, and 8,160 swine; 3 manufactories of pig iron, 1 of pig lead, and 6 flour mills. Capital, Wytheville.