Uabistiguiatch. What this formidable word denotes I am
unable to explain. It is given as the place of printing of a
Roman Catholic Prayer-book, said to be in the language of the
Delaware Indians in North America, dated 1767. (TrubnerV
Linguistic Catal., 1860, p. 20.)

Vacia, or Vacium, (in German books Waitzen, in Hungarian
Watzon, or Vatzon, in Slavonic and Illyrian Wacowe,) Vats, or



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Vacs, a large town of Hungary, in the county of Pesth, beauti-
fully situated on the bank of the Danube. It possesses a very
fine Cathedral. Printing was carried on in 1773. In one
book I have found this town designated by the Latin name
Triticea. (Szecheny Cat.)

*VaUntia Segalaunorum. I think there is no doubt that the
art of printing was in use at Valence so early as the year 1510.
A book of that date, 'Breviarium secundum usum ecclesice Aga-
thensis (i. e. Agde, in France), has been included by Panzer
among those which he assigned to Valentia in Spain, but in
fact it came from the press of Valence. A copy of it is in the
Imperial Library at Paris.
* Valentiniance. The art of printing was practised at Valen-
ciennes a century earlier than the period mentioned* by me in
Series I. The late Dr. Bliss noticed a book entitled Les Chan-
chons Georgines, faities par Georges Chastellain, imprimees a
Vallanchiennes de par Jehan de Liege, the date of which he sup-
posed (from " Le Voleur") to be 1499 or 1500, and pronounced
to be not only the first Valenciennes book, but likewise the
earliest known specimen of the typography of the South of
France. (See "Notes and Queries," Second Series, viii. p. 395.)

Valera, a small town of Spain, in the province of New Castile.
—1817.
