NIG 
ginning within the continent. Among the eaftern waters, 
the “ Gir’’ of Ptolemy feems to be recognized in the river of 
Bornou, and its adjun&s ; and the Niger in that of Tom- 
The Panagra the fame geogra- 
ra; and his Libya Palus, which 
iger ealtward, feems to 
be meant either for the largeft of the lakes, or for the 
lakes of that country, of which there are feveral, collectively. 
Rennell’s eee of the African Affociation, paffim. 
See Guin and Jon 
NIGHT, that en of = natural day, during which the 
fun is underneath the zon: or, night is that {pace of 
time wherein the fun is Bike our hemifphere 
nder the equator, the nights are lege equal to the 
days. Under the poles, the night continues half a year 
The ancient Gauls and Germans divided their time “not 
by days, but nights; as appears from Tacitus and Cefar ; 
and the people of eae ae the Arabs do the fame at 
thisday. See Day, Hou 
eae fame i is apes sbferved of our Saxon anceftors 
us in 
Nicnn ane bynd Pe "See THIRD. 
Niagut-mare. See INcusus. 
ips ech and aot ad ee Keyfler, Antiquit. Sel. Septen- 
raw o by Warton, in his Hift. of Eng. Poetry, 
vol. 
NIGHT-HAWK, in Ornithology. 
u 
NIGHTINGALE, Lufcinia or Philomela, the brownith- 
y motacilla, with the annules of the knees grey. See 
Morac CILLA Lujfcinia 
he nightingale aes its name from night, and the 
Saxon bide pe ay 
M = fund. i difle&ion, that the mufcles of the 
larynx are tronge in the nightingale than in any other bird 
of the fame fi 
This bird, ee moft famed of the feathered tribe, for the 
See CAPRINULGUS 
brown. 
They begin their fong i in the evening, and connie it the 
whole night. Penna 
NIGHTINGALE, “American, of Edwards. See Moracitya 
Cakdris 
Nicurieaze, Mock, or Black-cap. See Moraciura 
Atricapilla. 
NIGHTINGALE, Virginian, the common, but, improper 
name of a bird of the grofs-beaked kind, called a authors 
the sealer aie criffata: it is s brought t s from 
Virginia, and ych valued in England for ite ea 
and ice manner a finging ; it is very fond of almonds 
and the like fruits. See Loxta Cardina 
NIGHTINGALE Jfland, in Geogra ee 22 eal ifland in Be 
Eaft Indian fea, near the S.coalt of Madura. S. Tat. 
NIG 
15!. E. long. 114°.—Alfo, a {mall ifland in the South 
Atlantic ocean, of an irregular form, with a hollow in the 
bout feven or eight miles in Soman os At 
its eaten extremity are fome rock ets, and on the 
N.E. coaft is anchorage. S. lat. 37° 29) W. long. 11° 
NIGHTSHADE, i in Botany. See SOLANUM. 
NIGHTSIIADE, Garden, 
ms, and re. 
markable diftortions of the limbs; and to poultry they 
roved fatal in a ae time. The a or rather the 
which were boiled and eaten by a 
oe oeeed juice of the Phe without perceiving bat narcotic 
he mptoms ; nor wit 
increafed quantity of urine. As this {pecies of nightfhade 
is fuppofed to be the Exguxyos xNTOLIOS of Diofcorides, its 
external ufe was reforted to in ancient times as a difcutient 
the utility of this practice want the confirmation of later 
experience. With the Arabians it is a common application 
to burns and ulcers; and Ray alfo expreffes a high opinion 
of its effects in indurations of the breaft. The w: 
negle 
this plaat in the a aie 
the Weftminfter hofpital, b 
- internal ufe in old fores, ferofulous and cancerous ulcers, 
ns, and even Il of which 
From his 
ies of re sie t, infufed in an ounce of water, fometimes 
0 ect; that in the dofe of two or 
that by the kidnies, and it no spas asd occafioned head- 
Mr. B 
ud 
olanum, fince the joruinalica of thi 
Dae o opinion of Mr. Bromfield feems to be tacitly con- 
Fe firmed. 
