NIS 
NISIBIN, anciently Niflis, a fortrefs of Afiatic Tur- 
key, in the SD ment of Moful; 70 miles N.W. of Moful. 
N. lat. long. 40° 30!. 
NISESIS, i in Ancient Geography, a large and populous 
city of Mefopotamia, about two days’ journey from the 
aes in a midft of a pleafant and fertile sara at the 
foot of m fius, and on the river M ; 
treble cll of brick call are defended by a Si ditch. 
Rome 68 
Arm 
oy eae ‘taken by Trajan, after a revolt, retaken by 
his troops. e of ‘Tec. it ad been de- 
lofs and ignominy. But in the year 363 o 
era, after the death of Julian, and under the irrefolute em- 
eror Jovian, it furrendered to Sapor by treaty. It 1s now 
reduced t 
C ee are covered with the ruins of towns and vil- 
*NISIDA, in Geography, a ifland, evidently formed 
by volcanic explofion, in the corner of the gulf 
of Puzzuolo, near the main Tand. fertile, and well culti- 
vated. On the fouth coaft is a {mall harbour, called ** Porto 
Pavone ;’’ and on a neighbouring rock ftands a Lazaretto, 
where fhips bound for Naples are obliged to perform qua- 
rantine: This ifland abounds in rabbits rae large agar 
{nakes: its chief produce is oil; 5 miles W.S.W. 
aples. 
NISI PRIUS, in Law, a judicial writ which lieth in 
an its effet is, that the 
bring to Weitminfter the 
men impane elled, at a certain day, before the juftices, nifz 
prius jufliciarii pee regis ad affifas i aa a that 
is, unlefs the juftices 80 before that day, into fuch county 
to take affifes. This they are fure to do, in “ve vacations 
preceding each Eafter and Michaelmas terms, and there dif- 
ofe of the caufe; which faves much expence and out to. 
the parties, the jury, and the witneffes. See Jur 
Nisrt Prius = Ali ife, Courts fy are compete of two or 
more commiffioners, who are twice in every year fent by the 
king’s fpecial eoaaiicn. all round the kingdom, (except 
only London and Middlefex, where courts of zi, if f prius are 
holden in and after every term, before the chief or other 
jadge of the feveral fuperior courts, and e&cept the four 
northern counties, where the affifes are holden only once a 
year,) to try, by a jury of the refpeCtive counties, the truth 
of fuch matters of fact as are thea under difpute in the courts 
of A bias 
es of. See Assises and Justice 
The prefent ities of affife and aiff prius are more ihe 
Edw. I. 
of the king’s 
fworn juftices, ponnlan to themfelves one or difcreet 
knights of each county. By ftatute 27 Edw 
plained by 12 Edw. IT. c. 
allowed to be taken before an y 
NIS 
flatute 14° Edw. III. c. 16, inquefts of nifi prius may be 
taken before any juftice of either bench, (though the plea 
e not depending in his own court,) or lor the chief 
baron of the exchequer, if he be a man of the law; or 
otherwife before the juftices of affife, fo peel one of thefe 
juftices be a judge the king’s bench, on pleas, 
or the king’s ferjeant {worn. For their oi fee Cir- 
CUIT 
NISITA, in Géography, a town of Naples, in the pro- 
vince of Lavor. 5 feven miles W.S.W. 
, a Re own ee in the bifhopric of Naum. 
burg; fix miles E. of 
NISMES, or oe a — of France, and capital of 
the department of the Gard. 
vernment, and contained a femina 
del, and about 32,594 inhabitants, of whom a third was 
fuppofed to be Proteftants. It is divided inte three parts, 
is faid to contain 39,300 baba and its three 
are cloth and filk: the number of ftockings annually made 
in this town has been computed at 20,000 pair. is city 
was a large and magnificent city, before it was taken by 
the Goths. Its veftiges of Roman antiquity are grand and 
numerous ; amon whic 
thian order, of exquifite tafte, ereGted by the inhabitants, 
inthe year of Rome 754, to the memory of Caius and 
Lucius, the fons of Agrippa. N. lat. 43° 50’. E. ine. 
4° 26). 
NISQUEUNIA, or Nesticiuna, a fettlement of ° 
America, on the Mohawk river, between Albany and 
i It is the principal feat of the fociety called 
‘ Shaker 
NISSA, a town of European Turkey, in Servia, fituated 
onariver of the fame name, which j joins the Iba ar, 30 
N.N.W 
ramparts, and éeutains feveral mofques, baths and foun- 
tains: the houfes are conftructed of clay and wood; 245 
pegs N.W. of Adrianople. N. lat. 43° 31’. E. ‘long. 
1” 20’. 
7 Ness sa, or Niz one a town of Portugal, in Alentejo ; 
zr miles E. of Abran 
NISSER, a lake of Norway, in the province of Chrif- 
tianfand ; 35 miles . of Skee 
OLIA, in Botany, fo named by Jacquin and Lin- 
nzus, in memory of William Niffolle, - D, of rial digs 
t moires de 
enti tioned 6 as an See lleat natu- 
teda fuppofed genus to him, 
ee, a which - ‘undoubtedly a La- 
thyrus, _as “all following botanifts made it 
er. 198. Li : ee 
> 
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t. Oo. 
Diadelphia Decandria. 
Leguminofe, J 
Gen. Ch. poe Perianth of one leaf, inferior, bell. 
