NIM 
eccafioned Conftantine re aaa to a = oa 
o be removed i 
urch ; _ whereas, till that ae ie a been in the temple 
See, on the fubje& - Nilometers, the Ata Erudi- 
torum Lipf. anno. 1686, p. 147 
UFAR, in Botany, a name given by the ancient 
writers to the common water-lily. They diftinguifhed this 
plant by that name, from the Indian nymphza, whofe root 
was of a cold and foporific virtue, like that of the mandrake. 
This they a always nenufar. 
n Ancient Geography, an fierce country of 
Arabia, which furnifhed myrrh and incenfe, according to 
trabo, |. 
NIMBO. ETCHAUK, in Geography, a town of Ben- 
gal; 36 miles N.W. of Ramgur. 
NI MBURG, or Niempurea, a town of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Boleflaw, near the Elbe; 26 miles E.N.E. of 
E. long 15° 6!. 
g the Romans, a fcarf embroidered 
with gold, which women wore on their foreheads 
Nimeus was likewife pe Fa the money thrown among 
_ people on any public oc 
or hae of light, drawn around the images of faints. See 
DAL. 
The nimbus is feen on the medals of Maurice, Phocas, and 
others even of the upper empire. 
UEN, or NimmMeEGEN, in Geography, avery an- 
cient, rich, ftrong, and populous city of Holland, on the 
S. fide of the Wahab, faid to have taken its name from 
Magus, king of the G It isthe capital of the Lower 
Guelderland, and was anciently the capital of the whole 
duchy : it is alfo the chief town of Betuwa, or Batavia, the 
country of the Batavi. It has thirteen gates, and is de- 
fended by an ancient fortrefs, called Vlack- Hof, a eal 
ut the time of Julius and feve- 
ral other fon Ganon. t was ariciently a faa ety; an 
after Charlemagne had rebuilt the caitle in the year 775, he 
made this the fecond imperial city of Lower Germany ; 
Ajix-la-Chapelle being the firft, and Thionville the third. 
It was feparated from the empire by William III., king of 
the Romans, and united to the comté of Holland i in 1248, 
but fold by him in 1270, together with its territ 
Otho III., comte of Gueldres, Ela fucceflors remained 
remarkable for its beauty and magnificence. 
taken by the Frenchi in 3794 3 50 miles S.E. of Amifterdam, 
N. lat. 51° 53’. E.lon 
NIMES, or Nems, a town i see in the circle of 
N. of Pra 
ES 
ACUM, in ee Geography, a town in the 
Itinerary of Antonine, on the route trom Caftellum to Co- 
lonia Agrippina, between Minariacum and Camaracunty 
a8 miles from the former, and 14 from the latter. 
NIMETULAHITES, a kind of ee among the 
ee fo called from Nimetulali, their inftitut 
na Tuck would be admitted into the aie he is to 
foe baht up clofe ina chamber forty days, reltri€ted to 
four ounces of food per day. The term expired, the Nime- 
tulahites take him by the hand, and lead him a Moorifh 
>. o:O'A 
N1N 
dance, accompanied = an infinity of ridiculous Saag 
tions, till the violence of the exercife, wit mer re- 
gimen, throws him down on the:ground. This fall is con- 
oe anextacy, during which he is fuppofed to have a 
vili 
The Nimetulahites meet every Monday in the night-time, 
and Ang hymns to Go 
OUTA, in Cengrapby, a town of Chirefe Tar- 
ay in the ape senEN Dt of Kirin. N. lat. 44° 23. E. 
long. 129° 2 
NIMIQUIPAR, a cul of New Mexico, in the pro-~ 
vinceof Hiaqui ; 1 56 miles E. o Riochico. 
H M, in “Ancieat Geography, Kerche, a town 
of the Tauric Cherfonefus, having, according to Strabo, a 
t was fituate cra, nearly E. of 
Zephyriut and §.$.W. of the Poe or Pantica- 
“NIMPTSCH, in Geography, a town of Silefia, ia the 
principality of Brieg, near the he, with a caftle on an 
eminence, The Roman Catholics and the Lutherans pri 
each a church ; 25 miles S.E. of Brieg. N. lat. 50° 3 
Klong. 16 45%. 
NINAF, a town of Egypt on the left bank of the 
Nile; 14 miles N. of C 
oo a town ene ; 18 miles N. of Burd- 
NINE FEET Harpovur, a o on the W. coaft of 
“loridas N. lat. 27°. W. long. 82% gol. 
NINE ISLANDS, aclufter of {mail iflands im the Pa- 
aes ee : called by Capt. Carteret. S. lat. 4° 40! 
ong. 
Tipperary, Ireland, well known to thofe who travel the 
great fouthera road, ‘i the ilage ee Kilkenny and 
Clonmell. It is 71 miles S.W. fai Dublin, and 11 miles 
.E. from Clonme 
NINE-PIN-CO LLAR, that fort . horfe-collar which 
is made fomewhat in the form of the n AR. 
NINETY-SIX, in Geography. 
NINGHAN, a town of Benyal; 18 miles N. os Burd. 
wan. 
NINGO, or Atiampy, a diftri& or kingdom of Africa, 
on the Gold Coaft, with a town of the fame name; 43 miles 
S.W. from the river Volta. N. lat. 5° 18. W. long. 
Z 
0° , 
NING-PO, a city of the firft clafs, in the province of 
Tche-kiang, called by the Europeans Liampo, and having 
an excellent port, on the eaftern coaft of China, eppolite to 
apan. ‘This city is fituated at the confluence of two rivers, 
called Kin and Yao, which form a channel, reaching to the 
fea, and fufficient for the navigation of vefiels of 300 tons, 
Thefe rivers water a plain, almoft environed by mountains, 
and forming a kind of oval bafin, whofe diameter from E. 
to W. pe the city may be about 20 railes, and that 
on their arrival in China. The filks manutaiured at Ning- 
o are much efteemed in foreign countries, efpectally nn Ja- 
pan, where the Chinefe exchange them for copper, goid, 
and filver. This city has four others under its jur ifdiction, 
befides a great number of fortreffes. N. lat. 29°54. E. 
long. 120° 1 
NINGUM, or Mincum, in Ancient Geography, a town 
of Italy, upon the route from Aquilea to Salona, between 
G Tergelle 
154 
NINE- MILE. HOUSE, a Village of the county of 
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