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entcrs

the:'

R uffi.:ln.Ukrain, reparates L ittle Tartary rrom N IMBUS, in aOliquity, a c;rclc ohfC:r\'cd on ccrtún

Budziac 1.'anary, ami falls

iULO

the .l:Uack Sea near

medals, or ruund eh.:: head of (ome emperors, an(wcr·

Oczilkow.

ing

te

lhe cireJes of

liglu,

drawD arollod lhe lruages

NI EST AT, • tOwn of L ower Sa,<ony, in the duchy of

o( (aints.

Mccklenburg: E . long. t tO

26' .

N . lat.

53°

40: .

NIMEGUEN, a eitl' of the l1nited N etherlands, fitua-

NIESTAT

is alfo

a

town of U-pper Saxony, in (he m<lr·

ted on [he

,iver

\\Taal, in the prolJince of Gueldcr·

quifate of Br>ndenburg,

25

miles nonh-eafl of Herlin.

land,

51

miles fouth ealt of ....mllerd.m.

NIESTER, a ri,'er which rires in Puland, .nd rucning NIMETULAHITES', a kind of Turkilh monb . fo

Couth tafl divides Poduli. in P oland from Moldavi.

e.lled Crom thei r Counder Nimetulahi, famou. fo; bi,

in"l'urky ; and afterwards, dividing Be{far.bia from

doll:rines and

lhe

aullerity of bis

Jire.

j3udziae Tartary, f.lls Inlo Ihe Blaek Sea near l3el- N IMPO, a eiry and port·rown of Chin., in the provinee

gorod.

of Chekid11l: E . lung.

122°,.

N. lar. 30°.

NtGELLA, in bot1n y, • genu. of the polyaodria penta- NINEVE H, an .neienl ciry of A{l'yri. , was utualed

00

gynia claCs. T he eali" is wantiog; tbe corolla cooficts

the eaflem baoks of the river Tygris, oppofite to tbe

of five petals; there are five trifid ncétaria within the

place where lvJoufful no\V Hands.

eorolla; aod rhere are 6.e eoooeéled capCule. . Tbe NINOVE, a rowo of tbe Auctriao Nethtrlaod., io the

fpecies are fivc:. nODe of Ihem oativcs of

Briuin.

province of

Flanrlers,

(ituatcd on

the

river

D ender,

NIGER.

a great rivl!r of

Africa, which ruos from can

thirteen

miles wefl: of BrulTels.

to w<fl ,hrough Ihe middl. of Negroldnd, aod dif- NIO,

a

[maU Turkllh iO. nd io rhe Archipelago, Gtualed

charges

¡trelf

imo lbe

Atla.nl

~c

oeean

by

thn:c

channels,

nonh-weH

of Santorini.

remarkal>le

(or·

linte

bUI lhe

called R ío G rande, Cambia. and the river SeIH:ga.

10mb 'of Homer, wllo is

raid

tO líe bUrled herc:.

11

is

300 miles

bCl ween lhe

nonhero

and o

foulhern

NIORT, a [Dwn of France. in

lhe

province

or

Odea·

channels; and all

lhe

COllOtry

bctween tbem is

3Doual-

nois and territory of poiaou, tituClttd on the rlver

Iy overRowed, as Egypr is by ,he Nlle.

Seure. ,wenty eight miles nOrlh·.all of RochelJe.

NIGHT, that part of lhe oatur.1 day during which ,he NIPHON, the largefl of lhe Japao iOaods, Gtuared io

fIJO

is underneath the horizon; or that fpaee: whl;!re:in

the Indian oeean aboul

J

30 miles e:aft of Cliina; bc.-

it

is du(ky .

ing 600 miles Jong, and 1

So

broad, and eootaining

5

S

Ni~ht

was originally divided by the H.;!brews, and

provinees.

other ea(lern muions, inlo Ihree parts. or wd.lehings.

NIPPERS',

in the menage, are fou r teeth in lhe fore-

The Romans, and afttrwards the Jews from them,

part of a hore!!'s mouth,

tWO

in lhe upper aod two

i[1.

divide the nighl ioto foor paru. or watehes, lh e firn

lhe lower jaw. A borre ptltS Ibem forth belween

(he

of which began at fllnfel and Jafled till

ni De

al nighl,

Cecond aad third year.

aeeording ,o our way of reekoniog; the Ceeond l.neJ NlPPLES, in aoaromy. See ANATOMV, p.

~77.

tiJlmidnight; the third til!

th reein themo'rning ;

and NIPPLE WORT. in bonoy. SceLAPsANA .

the rou nh ended at (unrife.

The ancient G allls and NISI PRIUS, in law, a judicial wri t which lies in eares

Germansdivided Ihei r time, nOI by days, bUI by

n~ghts;

wbere lhe jury being impannelJed and returoed before

and rhe people ,,( Icelaod, and the Arabs, do the lame

the juniees of ,he baok, ooe of ,he parties .e'luell. to

al this day. "rbe Jike is alfo obrerved of our

Saxoo

btlve fuch a wril, for the t:are of the cO\lntry, iD

or...

ancefbrs.

der that the trial may

co.me

before ,he jufiices iDthe

NI CH T-MARE , io medicine.

Sl!e

MI::D I CINE ,

p.

157:

(ame county on their coming lhither. The purport

NI GH T_WALKl::RS. See NOCTAM8UL.l.

ora writ' of niti príus is, thal lhe Iheri!fis thereby

NIGHTI NGALE, iooroi,hology. See M oTAc ILLA.

commanded

10

bring ' o W efl minner ,he men imp. -

NIGRITIA . See N

te

RO LAND.

nelled, al a eertaio day, before lhe juflices, .. oifi pri.,

NILE, a great river in Egypt. hav,i r.g irs fouree io A-

jufliciarii dominí regis ad aluras capieodOls "enerínt ."·

byffinia, or the

l!

ppe. Erhiopia, io

12°

oorth lat.

1,

NISMES,

a

fine city of France•. in the provioee of La

0-

generally ruos from fouth tO oorth ,hrough Abyllioia

Auedoc : E . long.

4° 26',

N . lat.

43° 40'.

ioto Egypt , and then cOlltinues its courre nonh in one NISNA, or N1SE-NOVOCOROD, tbe capital of the

ílream

liJl

it comes below Cl iro

tO

Ihe Dcha, where

province of NI(e. or L iule Novogorod,

iD

Rullia

1

E.

i, divides; ooe braoeh diCehargiog itfel( into ,he Me-

loog. 45°, N . lat. 56°.

diterranean al D amieta, and another a hundrcd miles NISSA, a cily of European Turky, in lhe province of

10 lhe wefiward of it at Ro(etta. There are greal

Servia:

E .

Ióng,

23° ,

N . laL

4;°·

rc:joicings every year when lile N ilc r:res ro a ceruio N I5SA or NI ZZ A. a to\\'n of h aly, in lhe duchy of

heigh', ,heir (uture harvefl depending upon it. The

M'ootferral :

E.

loog.

40"

N. Jar.

44° 45'.

jufl height of the ioaod¿tion, aecord:og tO Plioy, i. NITHSD AL E, a count y of Seotland, bouoded by

fixteeo cubils; wnen

it

arifes bu[ tO t\velve or Ihir-

Clyclefdale on the north , by Annandale on !he ean,

teeo, a famine

j,

dreaded ; aod whcn it <xeeeds fi,,-

by Solway frilh

00

the fou,h , and by GallolVay

011

teen, there is alCo danger apprehended. T he river

the wefi,

begios uCually 'o rife io May or Juoe, and is cooveyeJ NITRACHT, or NVTREA, a town of Huoguy, forty

by referv.,:", einerns, and eao. Is, 'o the fields and

miles oorth-eafl of Prelburg.

gardeos as rhey w..ot it.

NITRE, o. SALlo PETRE. Sec

CHEMIST.RY,

p.

73.

A~

10

Ihe D elta, il is all overJlowed,

11 9·

NIUCHE, .