NIN 
Tergett and Pucentim 28 miles front the firft and 18 from 
— a re in. 
vOEN. a town of Chinefe Tartary, fituated on 
a river oe ihe fame name, near the gulf of Leao-tong ; 20 
miles E.N.E. of Pekin. 
' NINIANS, St., a confiderable town, and extenfive 
parifh, fituated on the fouth bank of the river Forth, in the 
county of Stirling, Scotland. The ancient name of the 
parifh was Eggles ; 3 nor is it exaGtly known at what time, or 
from whom it eb nee its s prefent appellation. _ Lhe tow wn is 
two miles = 
triéts the country exhibits an appearance of high cultivation, 
and derives much picturefque effect from the windings of the 
Forth, and the variety of plantations and feats with which 
they abound. To the hiftorian and the antiquary Sr. Ni- 
nians is a fruitful theme. 
kingdoms, it was, beyond doubt, frequently the f{cene of 
contention between them, and was fometimes in the poffeffion 
of one and fometimes of another, according to the decifion 
nts in the 
ee the ftandard of the Scottifh monarch; and on Plain- 
muir, immediately behind the houfe which lately belonged 
to Bain Whyt, efq., is a {mall circular fortification, pointed 
out as the {cite of king Edward’s tent. The battle of Sau- 
chie- Burn, fo fatalgo the caufe of James III., was likewife 
among ae rning menum ments o 
frequently eigen: and in the end gence about the 
total ruin of the royal family of Stua 
of St. Ninians pare . a medium computa- 
cording to the parliamentary returns of 1811, it contains 
1371 houfes, and 7636 inhabitants, being an increafe, fince 
1801, of 11 houfes and 786 perfons. Sinclair’s Statiftical 
eae of ‘Scotland, vol. xviii, Beauties of Scotland, 
ee in ee a town of Contiten: 50 miles 
W. of Erbil. 
NOVE, atown of France, in the department of the 
Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ of Au- 
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denaerde, fituated on the Dender, and having one handfome 
arifh-church, rebuilt in 1718; 18 miles S.E. of Ghent. . 
The place contains 3021, an and the canton 16,773 ea 
on a territory of 2122 kiliometres, in 15 comm 
Ship ce a {mall ifland near the N. coaft of Sardinia. 
N. lat. 48° 17’. ong 9° 29/. 
NINSI, in Botany, the fpecific name of a fpecies of Sium, 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 361, called by the aay ae or hoes 
fin, much celebrated by Kempfer, in his 18, 
for the virtues of its pap whic eee ue. OF Gin- 
t feems, in reputed reftorative quali- 
ties. pfer fays i it se next to Tea, the moft famou 
plant of the Eaft. e SIUM. 
H,in Mufie. The ninth, being one of the principal 
difcords, muft be regularly prepared and refolved; but 
though it is only the oGtave of the fecond, and itfelf a fecond 
to the oCtave, yet it requires a very different treatment. ‘The 
refolved in the bafe ; but the ninth 
muft be prepared ie ‘refolved in the aie and can very 
the fixth, and fometimes the fifth accompany it. Other 
difcords may be joined with the ninth, as 3 or $, and then 
both the difcords muft be prepared and refolved together. 
In four parts the 2 muft be accompanied by the fifth, and the 
7 by the third ; but in five parts hoth by the third and 
t 
NINTIPOLONG, in Zoology, the Ceylonefe name . 
a fpecies of ferpent, called alfo /erpens hypnoticus. Iti a 
very poifonous fpecies, and its bite brings a fleep upon t 
perfon, which terminates in death. It is ofa deep blac ihe 
brown, variegated with {mall fpecks of white 
US, in Biography, the reputed founder of the Affy- 
rian monarchy, is reprefented as the fon of Belus, and the com- 
mencement of his reign is fuppofed to have been about the 
r B.C. 2059. Little can be inferred from the facts re- 
Hise fe of this perfon : it is even doubted whether there ever 
onarch, and other people confound him with 
n Sefoftris. He is faid to have been of a very 
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made an alliance w s, king o 
marched into the ‘aiftrit sf Tea. the capital of that 
fubmiffion, he left upon 
overthrew and put to death the king of Media, and placing 
a confidential governor over that country, he proceeded to 
the conqueft of the reft of Afia, all of which, except Bac- 
> and India, he reduced under his dominion. a 
which es on this occafion are ftated at prey eh 
millions. He defeated the king of the country in the field, 
but made little progrefs in the fiege of his ftrong capital. 
At this junGture, the hufband of the celebrated Semiramis, 
who was a principal officer in the army of Ninus, sa aaa 
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