NIL 
government of Archangel; 52 miles S. of Mezen.—Alfo, 
own of Ruiffia, in the government of Vologda ; 24 miles 
S.S.E. of Vologde—Allo, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 
ment of Upha, on the ae miles E.S.E. of Orenburg. 
—Alfo, a town of Ruffia, hn the government of Tobolfk ; 
40 miles N. of Tomfk. 
NIKS ae See Nicsar. 
IL, in Botany, a name given by the Arabians to two 
very different feeds, which are often, by this means, mif- 
taken in their writings one for another. Avicenna tells us, 
firft, that nil is the feed of a creeping plant, of the bind- 
weed kind, and that this plant had blue flowers, like the 
campanules, or bell-flowers 5 eh in another place, he tells 
us, that nil is the name of a plant ufed in pray which 
feems to be the fame with our Vitis, oF 
It is probable, that the convolvulus, or odeeedl called 
nil, obtained this name only from its flower being o 
fame cig with the fine blue pigment obtained from the 
other nil, 
IL babuit i iz tenementis, in Law, a plea to be brought in 
an action of debt only, brought by a leffor againft a leffee, 
for years, or at will, without deed. 
AB, in Geography a name given to the river Indus, 
or Sinde, in Thibet 
NILA CUNDI,. in Natural Hifory, a name given to a 
ftone of the gem kind, which is half a fapphire and half a 
fad 
i—a 
o 
word zilaa is the Indian name for the fapphire, de- 
rived pe e word nil, the name of indigo, and given to 
this gem hetadle of its fine blue colour, which approaches 
to the tinge of the pigment. The latter part of the word 
is not eafily accounted for, without making a little variation 
in the {peiling, but with that, is very clear and eafy. acut, 
or jacuti, and, as fome fpeak it, jacunti, is the name given 
by the Indians to the ruby, and it is only fuppofing the 
word to be properly niljacunti, and it exprefies, in their own 
language, exactly what we underftand by it, a ftone part 
fapphire and part ruby. 
NILAHUMATHU, in Botany, a name given by feveral 
authors to the fmooth-fruited ftramonium of Mala 
NILAS, in — a town of “creel in oe pro- 
vince of Culiacan ; go miles N.E. of Cul 
NIL-CUND, a town of — 375 ‘nile N. of Cat- 
mandu. N. lat. 29° 18’. ong. 84° 57! 
NILE, a famous river of hee which: rifes in the 
Gebel-el-Kumr, or mountains of the moon, in a di 
called Donga, (whieh fee,) N. lat. 8°. Itis firft known by 
the name of R el-Abiad, (which Fee) or the White river, 
and about — 16° is joine Bann-el-Azrek, 
(which fee,) or the Blue river; the former tinged, and the 
latter ai, as is the cafe with refpe& to the Maranon and 
many cities a wns, and ‘having divided Egypt into, two 
parts, it difchacge itfelf by feven mouths into the Medi. 
terranean, t. 31° 25/. e comparative courfe of the 
Nile may be eftimated at about 2000 Britifh iniles, thus 
rivalling the longeft Afiatic rivers, and being only years 
ho, and alto e Ma- 
er “forms 
Granadil in Nnbie, N lat. 22° ’ eae it gains the level of 
Egypt, after pafling fome rapids to the S. of Syene. Al- 
varez has long ago obferved, that the rife of the Nile in 
gypt is Gresiere by the violent rains, which, during the 
NIL 
cafe in 
the furface of the ground, and where of courfe inundation 
takes place. But the country, as we ae ima bey is without 
habitations. The fertility of Egypt, fa . Browne, the 
sien es and o i te lake er now "cited, arifes from 
human art. The e river are water ma- 
3 
(eo) 
<j 
i 
[or 
wal 
° 
oO 
r 
°o 
3 
e 
> 
When left cacilevaed: fiffures 
ave been obferved, arifing from extreme heat, of fuch 
depth that a - of fix feet could not reach the bottom, 
Rain in Egypt is a very uncommon phenomenon ; the heat 
alfo is extreme, a A from March to November ; 3 and 
as a fupply of water was fo defirable, we need not wonder 
that the ufual period o 
Pp 
miles an hour. 
the feterogencous ne fubfide to the bottom of the vef- 
fel, r becomes limpid and excellent. The Nile 
abonads nny a wpa oe of fifh; fuch as the bilti or labrus 
niloticus, kelb-el-bahr, farban, ‘charmttt, a round fifh about 
eight inches long, and faid 
bahr, oreel, 7. e. murz 
and according 
The beft is the bilti, fomewhat like the white trout, ioe 
ae alae to the weight of fifty pounds. Exce 
ee called the Turkey go 
which is palatable and falubrious food. From Cairo to 
Affouan, 
