Quang-tung, the eastern province Quatre-Bras, Fr. the four arms, _i.e._ at the meeting of four roads Quebec, in Canada, named after Quebec in Brittany, the village on the point Queensberry, 24 Queen’s County, named after Queen Mary Queensferry, 76 Queensland and Queenstown, named after Queen Victoria Quimper, 53 Quimper-lé, 53 Quita, the deep ravine R Radnorshire, 165 Radom and Radomka, named after the Sclav. deity Ratzi Rajputana, 163 Ramgunga, 86 Ramnaggur, ram’s fort Ramsgate, 88 Randers, 162 Raphoe, 163 Rapidan R., named after Queen Anne Rappahannock R., Ind. the river of quick-rising waters Rastadt, 163 Ratibor, 28 Ratisbon, Sclav. the fortress on the R. Regen, Ger. _Regena Castra_ or _Regensburg_ Ravenna, 79 Rayne, Gael. _raon_, a plain, a parish in Aberdeenshire Reading, a patronymic Redruth, in Cornwall, in old deeds, _Tre-Druith_, the dwelling of the Druids Reeth, on the stream, _rith_ Rega R., 164 Reichenbach, 15 Reichenhall, 98 Reigate, 88 Reims or Rheims, named for the _Remi_, a tribe Remscheid, 171 Renaix, corrupt. from _Hrodnace_, the town of Hrodno Renfrew, 162 Rennes, named from the _Rhedoni_, a tribe Resht, Ar. headship Resolven, Welsh _Rhiw_, Scotch _maen_, the brow of the stonehead, in Glamorganshire Reculver, in Kent, corrupt. from _Regoluion_, the point against the waves Retford, 166 Reutlingen, a patronymic Revel, named from two small islands near the town, called _reffe_, the sand-banks Reykiavik or Reikiavik, 209 Rhine R. and Rhone R., 164 Rhode Island, 74 Rhodes and Rosas, in Spain, named from the _Rhodians_, a Grecian tribe Rhyddlan or Rhuddlan, Cym.-Cel. the red church Rhyl, the cleft, a watering-place in North Wales Rhymni, the marshy land, in Monmouthshire, on a river called the Rhymni, from the nature of the land through which it flows--_v._ Romney, at EA, 71 Riga, 126 Ringwood, in Hants, the wood of the Regni Rio-de-Janeiro, 164 Ripon, 167 Ritzbuttel, 27 Rive-de-Gier, 166 Rivoli, 166 Rochdale, the valley of the R. Roche Rochefort, 167 Rochelle, 167 Rochester, 167 Roermonde, 140 Romania or Roumilli, 109 Romans, anc. _Romanum-Monasterium_, the monastery of the Romans, founded by St. Bernard Rome, perhaps named from the _groma_, or four cross roads that at the forum formed the nucleus of the city Romorantin, 166 Roncesvalles, 200 Roque, La, Cape, the rock Roscommon, 167 Roscrea, 167 Rosetta, anc. Ar. _Rasched_, headship Ross, in Hereford, 165 Rossbach, the horse’s brook Ross-shire, 168 Rothenburg, 165 Rotherham, 165 Rotherthurm, 165