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filtrate the folution, and when perfeétly clear, evaporate the 
liquor to fuch a ftandard, that the falt will no longer be fut- 
tained in it; then fet it in a cool place, a as & the falt 
as it fhoots, laying it in an earthen colander This is 
of much the fame virtues with tartar veces: and i is fre- 
en paar ae Penn fyl vania, oe the 
Juniatte and the W. branch of Sufquehannah ri 
TENAU, a town of Bavaria, on ie Regen 3 15 
miles N.N of Ratifbon 
the apart of Antonine, eweet Septimonca and Cauca ; 
m the former, and at the fame diftance from the 
latter. 
NIVELLE, DE LA Cuausske PETER CiaupE, 1 in Bio- 
ect 
chiefly at the Jefuits’ ie and ftadied nee and phi- 
lofophy at Pleffis. a uncle was high in office, and could 
have introduced the young man into fituations on would 
t he had 
5 poe 
was highly * volanded ; ; and being urged by. his rete? to 
turn his thoughts to dramatic Sompontions, he produced a 
comedy, entitled ‘* La Faufle Antipathie.” This piece was 
fufficiently faccefeful to oe him to proceed, and his 
next comedy, e Prejugé a ode,’’ was received with 
an a plate ae la his moft fanguine expetations. 
This was followed by “ L’Ecole > Amis,’ and by the 
jealous of the fuccefs > idiculed ‘de 
moral ftrains of its aut ce “and ca ae a friend who 
was going to the performance, if ** he was intending to hear 
father La Chauffée preach.” This je‘t was not forgotten ; 
and Nivelle, conan, aman of amiable difpofitions, oppofed 
the eleGtion of Piron when he was a candidate for a feat in 
17 3: 
Vv NICHOLAS, was born at Paris about 
the year 16 eeling an early inclination to retirement and 
ftudy, he entered the feminary of St. Magloire, belonging 
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to thé congregation of the Oratory, where he continued till 
that community was difperfed in 1723. After this he was 
nominated prior commendatory of St 
cefe of Nantes. 
of T 
the Conftitution Unigenitus,” in foe en 
volumes 12mo., and fome other pieces conne@ed with the 
fame fubje 
NIVELLES, in Geography, a town of France, and prin- 
cipal place of a diftrid, in the department of the Dyle, 
formerly capital of Wallon Brabant, to which pau 
the privilege of coining money; 15 miles S. of Bruflels. 
It is divided into two parts, one containing, 3 30 inhabitants, 
and its canton 9324, ona eget of 145 kiliometres, in. 
ro communes, and the other, comprehending 3307 inhabit- 
ants, and its ca 11,0055 on a territory of too kilio- 
metres, in 11 CO 
NIVERNOIS,, Eonied uLES Mancini, Duke of, in Bio~ 
graphy, nat Paris in 1716. He was brought up to 
the military ferviees and after he had ferved in the army 
fome time, he was nominated ambaflad or to Rome, and then 
e he m 
aged, he maintained the character of a prudent and en- 
ee minifter, who united amenity of manners with the 
dignity of his ftation. After his return to Paris he devoted 
himfelf entircly to letters, and by fome publications he ob- 
taine an admiffion into the French Academy, and that of 
This worthy and ee man lived to be a 
_and was committed to prifon 
that blood-thirfty wretch ea the 
of his crimes, Nivernois was Riaines He died in 
i works were publifhed 
ch was Nevers. 
he lies between ie 45' and 47° 35' N. lat 
19) 
2° 55" ee 4 
between 
- long 2 18 of an oval form, tolerably fertile, 
ure. It con 
It is n 
‘Nivesion Bay, a large bay at the eaftern extremity of 
lake Ontario. 
NIVERS, in Biography, mufic-mafter and organift of St. 
Sulpice at Paris, publifhed, in 1667, a treatife on compofition, 
and many other works on chanting, plain-chant, le chant 
Gregorien, &c. And when the fyllable f was firft propofed 
for the ie of pal ey of C natural, he wrote a book on the 
gammut of f, and an elementary trad, called ‘* Mufique 
saree} Bnfans ‘ eopetlee with twelve books for the organ, 
a bord 
NIVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of the Oife, a chief place of a canton, in the 
diftri& of Beauvais. ace contains 131, and the can- 
ton 9854 oe on a territory of 202} kiliometres, 
n 22 commu 
NIUKCHEVSK Ol, a town of Ruffia, in the province 
of cae on the Sula; 24 miles S. of Uft Silo'fk. 
NIURUNDA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Medelpadia ; 
