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RODRIGUEZ ROEBUCK 385 him ; when, however, the news of his victory reached England, an express was sent to bring back his successor, but failed to reach him. Rodney arrived in England, Sept. 21, 1782, and received the thanks of both houses of par- liament, with an additional pension of 2,000, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Rod- ney of Rodney Stoke in Somersetshire. See "Life and Correspondence of Lord Rodney," by his son-in-law, Gen. Godfrey Basil Mundy (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1830). RODRIGUEZ, Alfonso, a Spanish religions au- thor, born in Valladolid in 1526, died in Se- ville, Feb. 21, 1616. He received his degree of doctor of philosophy at the university of Salamanca in 1545, and soon afterward en- tered the society of Jesus. After -teaching for several years at Salamanca, he was ap- pointed rector of the college of Monterey and professor of moral theology, which post he held for 12 years, his fame as a teacher bring- ing him pupils from every part of the coun- try. He was afterward master of novices at Valladolid and Montilla for 30 years. His "Practice of Christian Perfection" (4to, Se- ville, 1640) has been translated into all the European languages. RODRIGUEZ, Island of. See MAURITIUS. ROE, Azd Stevens, an American novelist, born in the city of New York in 1798. After serv- ing as clerk in a mercantile house in New York, he engaged in business as a wine merchant, and finally retired and settled at Windsor, Conn., where he has since resided. His works include "James Montjoy, or I've been Tbinking" (New York, 1850); "To Love and to be Loved" (1852); "Time and Tide, or Strive and Win" (1852); "A Long Look Ahead" (1855) ; " The Star and the Cloud " (1856) ; " True to the Last" (1859); " How Could He Help it? " (1860) ; " Looking Around " (1865) ; "Woman our Angel" (1866); "Cloud in the Heart " (1869) ; and " Resolution, or the Soul of Power " (1871). ROEBLING, John ingnstns, an American en- gineer, born in Muhlhausen, Prussia, June 12, 1806, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 22, 1869. He was educated at the polytechnic school in Berlin, and emigrated to America and settled near Pittsburgh in 1831. He was assistant engineer on the slack-water navigation of the Beaver, and on the Sandy and Beaver canal and a feeder of the Pennsylvania canal, after which he spent three years in surveying the route across the Alleghanies adopted by the Pennsylvania Central railroad. He introduced the manufacture of wire ropes, first at Pitts- burgh, afterward removing his establishment to Trenton, N. J., and their use in the con- struction of suspension bridges, his first work being the suspended aqueduct of the Penn- sylvania canal "across the Alleghany river, completed in May, 1845. He afterward con- structed the Monongahela suspension bridge at Pittsburgh, and some suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson canal. In 1851 work was begun upon the Niagara bridge (see BRIDGE, vol. Hi., p. 274), and in 1867 he com- pleted the Cincinnati suspension bridge, which has a clear span of 1,057 ft. His last design was for the East river bridge, connecting the cities of New York and Brooklyn. (See BEIDGE.) Mr. Roebling published " Long and Short Span Bridges " (New York, 1869). ROEBUCK, a small European deer of the genus capreolus (H. Smith), the C. caprcea of Gray, and the chevreuil of the French. The horns are small, nearly erect, cylindrical, slightly branched, with a very short peduncle and three short branches ; the skull has a very small, shallow suborbital pit ; the muffle broad and naked ; tear bag indistinct ; hoofs narrow and triangular, and a tuft of hair rather above the middle of the metatarsus. The color in summer is reddish brown, in winter olive with paler shades; inside of the ears fulvous, and a black spot at the angles of the mouth ; the tail Roebuck (Capreolus caprea). is short, and the anal disk is large and white ; the hair in winter is thick and harsh, and in summer thinner and more flexible. It is about 4 ft. long, 2J ft. high at the shoulder and 2$ ft. behind. It is one of the most graceful and active of the deer family, frequenting the woods and copses of the rocky regions of Eu- rope from the Scottish highlands to the Tyrol, but in less wild districts than the stag. Its agility and speed are astonishing, 20 ft. being sometimes cleared at a single bound. They are not polygamous, and a pair generally has two young at a birth, which are treated with the utmost tenderness by both parents, and often remain attached to each other after quitting the old ones ; they congregate in small families, but not in herds, feeding on herbage and the buds and tender shoots of trees, from the lat- ter habit often doing much mischief in a forest. The flesh is considered better than that of the stag, when the animal is properly killed. The horns are used for knife handles, &c. ; they are