NIE 
they anoint themfelves with, to preferve them from noxious 
fumes, and infe€tions of any kind; and ufe the exprefled 
juice of the leaves to cool the head, and ftrengthen the brain, 
rubbing it on externally. Phil. Tran 409- 
IEL, in Geography, | a {mall ifland near the wett coaft 
of Scotland. N. lat. 55° 58’. W. long. 5° 32'. 
oo HOLO: a town of Chinefe Tartary. N. 
°r', E. long. 124° 191. 
*NIEM ANOWICZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pa- 
lativate of Troki; 48 miles N. of Grodno. 
NIEMECK, a town of Saxony; 18 miles N. of Wit- 
temberg. N. lat. 52° 4’. E. long. 12° qo. 
Z, or chee, a trong town of European 
Turkey, in Moldavia, aaa on a mountain, at the foot 
of which runs a river of the fame name, sae difcharges 
itfelf i in the Moldava ; 3 76 miles W.N.W. of Jaffi. N. lat. 
47° 23". E. long. 25° 58’. 
NIEMECZYN, a town hs Feel in the palatinate 
of Wilna; 12 miles N.E. of Wilna 
NIEMEN, a river rae akes its rife a few miles fouth 
ef Minfk, in Lithuania, and pafliag by Grodno, joins the 
Wilna at Kowno3; and foon afterwards entering Pruffia, 
changes its name to Memel. 
NIEMERSAT, a town of Pruffia, in Samland, near the 
Baltic; 8 miles N. of 
NIEMI, a town of Sweden, i in Weft Bothnia; 44 miles 
N. of Tornea. 
EMUROW, a town of ae in the palatinate of 
Belcz; 36 miles S.W. of Belc 
NIENBE RG, a town oo ae duchy of Berg; 6 miles 
S.S.E. of Wipper furt 
NIENBORG, a town of ease in bifhopric 
of Muntter, on the Dinckel ; 3 miles N.W. of Munfter. 
N. lat. 52° 9!. E. long. 6? 51! 
NIENBURG, a town of Ceenany: in the baer! of 
ake on the Weler ; 32 miles S.S.E. of Ho . la 
52° 38’. E. long. 9° 27'.—Alfo, a town of Germany, c called 
Munch ‘Nienburg, in the duchy of Retake Cothen, fituated 
on the Saale, and contaising the prince’s pa ace and a 
church ; 58 ia N.W. of Cothen. N. lat. 51° 53’. E. 
long. 11 
STENDORP, a town of the duchy of Holftein; 5 miles 
E.S.E. of-Gluckita 
pee ae hak a town of Holftein; r1 miles N.N.W. 
of Arenfboc 
SLENTIDS, or Nizuyaus, a town of Germany, i in the 
county of Bentheim, feated on the Dinckel, near its con- 
fluence with the Vechte; ah miles S.E. of Covorden. N 
Jat. 52° 33'. E. long. 6° 
NIENKIRCHEN, he name of three towns in the 
duchy Holftein. 
NIE 
ong. ; 
Comprise, in om Ww, an exception taken to a 
petition, as unjuft; becaufe the thing defired is not in that 
act or deed whereon the petition is grounded 
granted, 
NIENT Copeble “oes Non ¢ff culpabilis 
NIEOD-TCHUANG, in Geography, a town of Chinefe 
NIE 
sigh! oo miles E.N.E. of Peking. N. lat. 41%. E. 
°'18 
fame 
NIEPA, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of Cuba; 
55 miles N. of St. Yago. 
- See Dui 
NIEPOL een a oud 7 of ae in the palatinate 
of Cracow; 10 m 
NIER, a fall x river or Ireland, which flows from the 
Waterford mountains to the river Suire. 
NIEREDOW4A, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Troki; 10 miles N. of Birza. 
SAW or Nigsovia, a town of Perfia, in the 
province of Sch Ca. with a harbour, on the eaft coaft o 
the tl tes iat 45 miles §.S.E. of Derbend. 
ESOLONE, a town of Poland, in Volhynia; 34 
vaileg N.W. of Zytomiers. 
NIESTER. See Duieste 
NIESUCHWIESCHOWZA, a town of Poland, in 
Volhynia ; 33 miles N.W. of Lucke 
ESWICZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek ; 24 miles N.W. of 
NIESYCE, a town of Lithwansa,. i in the palatinate of' 
Mink; 44 miles N.E. of Manik. 
NIE RO, a river of Naples, _— runs into the gulf 
of Tarento, N. lat. 39° r2'. E. long 
NIEVA, an ifland fouth-weft Ag Mase bay, i in Hud- 
fon’s ftraits. 
NIEUIL, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Vienne; and chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ of 
Limoges; 7 miles N.W. of Limoges. The place contains 
671, and the canton Deo inhabitants, on a territory of 
137% kiliometres, in 6 communes, 
NIEUKERK, a te ae; Guelderland, near the Zuyder 
See; 8 miles S. . of Harderwyck. 
NIEU T, a fea-port anal y of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Lys, and chief place of a canton, in the diftri& 
of Furnes; which name it aflumed when Philip, comte of 
Flanders, built a harbour in 1168. It lies near the fea- 
ore, ona branch of the river Yperlee, which, by its junc- 
tion with the river Colme, forms a canal i runs into the 
ea. The harbour at low-water is d lace is chiefly 
defended by its fluices, by which the aint country may 
be inundated. After the peace : Pais a in 1713, the 
French ceded this town to the Englifh, who, in 1715, fur- 
rendered it to his Imperial and Catholic majelty Charles VI. 
ut being pai ae by the French in 1745, it was reftored 
at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. Before the French re- 
volution, oe was a convent Pe Englifh Chartreux, founded 
at Shene in 1415 by Henry V.; and in the reign of queen 
Elizabeth, removed firft to Malines, and at laft eftablifhed 
veffels, In 1794 it was taken e French; 9g miles 
-W. of Oltend. The place contains 2983, and the canton 
7533 inhabitants, on a territo ory oO kiliometres, in 19 
communes, at. 51° 7. ong. 2 ° 33/. —Alfo, a town 
of Holland, on ‘the ia, 3 15 ‘miles E. ot Rotterdam 
NIEUWE Diep, a harbour on the north coat of 
Holland, taken. poffeflion of by the Englifh fleet in 
1799; and near it is a magazine, called « Nieuwe Werk,” 
taken . the Englifh at the fame time; 6 miles E. of 
Helder. 
