N1C 
oo“ aol Stalks rounded, attached to a fheath 
that embra fte 
Aublet rematks that every part of the plant is extremely 
bitter, and that its young twigs are furnifhed with particles 
. he leaves and twigs are ufed for an infufion, to be 
given in venereal cafes, or where there 8 a fufpicion of 
poifon, being, in a large dofe, highly emeti 
ARA ger in Geography, a town "of Hindooftan, 
in Golconda; §5 miles E.S.E. of Hydrabad. 
NICARAGUA, a province of Mexico or New Spain, 
in the domain of Guatemala, bounded on the N, by Hon- 
duras, on the E. by the North fea, on the S. by Cotta 
Rica, and on the E. by Guatemala, and the Pacific ocean. 
‘Phis is one of the moft woody provinces of New Spain; 
but the plains are very fertile. 
hemp, and alfo the wood ufed b 
called Nicaragua wood ; but little wheat. 
black cattle and hogs, but theep are fcarce. 
fugar, American 
I ith 
Panama and Nom urkeys and alfo parrots 
are numerous, The country itfelf is fo pei and - ro- 
ductive, it has been reckoned the garden of Am 
that 
the hills and fands of the rivers furnifh gold, “whilft the elds 
and woods are per 
province is rainy and tempeftuous, and the fummer very hot, 
but healthy. The natives are accounted fi ingularly ingenious, 
ede as muficians and gold{miths. The capital of this 
extenfive provinee is Leon; which fee. 
rica, which is about 170 Britifh miles in Feneth, from N.W 
t rand lake is 
fituated in the province of the fame name, towards the fouth 
of the ifthmus, and has a grand outlet, the river of St. Juan, 
to the gulf of Mexico ; pies a {maller ftream is by fe 
fuppofed to flow a the Pac Under the direétion and 
the long withed for paffage, in the m 
arge in- 
nies te capable, of being defended by fortreffes on both 
fides, his lake 1 is remarkable for numerous farms on its 
b and flow 
like the fea; it abounds with fifth, but is infefted with cro- 
codiles, 
NICARIA, an ifland of the Grecian archipelago, an- 
Vou, ¥XV, 
NIC 
navigators — no a 
our. nty population, want of ener 
feveral diftriats unfavourable, and general difcouragement 
w 
8° 3’. E. long. 16° 37’. 
N VA, a town - Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 
160 miles N.W. 0 
R, a oan of the ifland of Ceylon; 50 miles 
S.W. of Trincomaly. 
NICCA, a town of ar ifland of Cherfo, in the Adria- 
tic ; 20 miles 
NICCOLI, Niccoto, i in Bio tography, a meritorious con- 
tributor to the reftora of learning in Italy, was the fon 
of a merchant at Flo orence, where i was born in the 
acquaintance with a 
defirous was he of improvement, that he went to Padua for 
the fole purpofe of copying the Latin works of Petrarch, 
which were then in very high efteem. Previoufly to the 
invention a printing, tranfcribing manufcripts was a confi- 
derable part of the labour of a {cholar, and it : faid, that 
a great number of one copied or correéted by Niccoli, 
are ftill extant. With thefe, and with others aon he pur- 
chafed, he formed a felec&t and copisus library for that age, 
and with a liberality fuperior to that of many colleCtors, he 
granted the free ufe of his ftores to all who wifhed. He was 
confiderably inftrumental in promoting that difcovery of an- 
cient authors, which was the moft important fervice then to 
be | = area io has recorded the pecuniary 
iftance him nes in his learned refcarches, by 
in 
his influence that Manuel Chryfoloras, Guarino Veronefe, 
and Fifelfo, ish to Florence as public profeffors. The 
houfe of Nice ed, ere common refort 
of the learne 4 
