NOA 
esi agge 10 miles S. of Sundfwall.—Alfo, a river of 
whic h rifes 
| sag “of Sweden, in _ Bothnia, fituated 
on the Tornea ; 16 miles N. of : 
NIXONTON, a poft-town oe sna ee: in North Ca- 
rolina, and capital of Pafquotank county, containing a 
court-héufe, gaol, and a few dwelling-houfes; 28 miles 
.E. of Edenton. 
NIZA, a town of Portugal, in = province of Alen- 
tejo; 15 miles N.N.W. of Portale 
N ADDA, a town of Hindooftan, i in the circar 
of Cicacole; 10 miles N.E. of Cicacole. 
NIZAMPATAM, a town of Hindooftan, i in the circar 
Kiftnah, o 
of 
Guntoor, one of the mouths of the river 
34. miles 8. W. 
ce) 
of 
the coaft of the ba ay of Bengal ; 
lipatam. N. ane 15° 55! 48), 
NIZAMPET, a town of oo in the circar of 
Aurungabad ; 15 miles W. of Aurunga 
NIZAO, a river of Hifpaniola, which. runs into the fea, 
three miles E. of cape Nizao. 
NIZEGORODSKOE, a province of Ruffia, bounded 
on the N. by Koftromfkoe, on the W. by Vladimir and 
Tambov, on the S. by Penzenfkoe, and on the E. by Ka- 
zan and Simbirfkk ; about 160 miles long, and 100 broad. 
The capital i : Niznei Novogorod. N. lat. 54° to! to 57°. 
E. long. 42° to 46°. 
NIZNOTOSMANSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 
vernament of Archangel, on the Dwina; 48 miles E. of 
Schenkurfk. 
NIZZA de la Pagha, a town of here in the depart- 
ment of the Tanar aro, on the river Belbo 5 miles N.W. of 
Acqui. N,. lat. 44° 48’. E. long. Zh 
NIZZOLI, Marto, in Biography, an elegant {cholar 
of the fixteenth century, was born at Brefcello, in the 
O = education 
3a youn n he was in- 
"fa. 
e 
Brclein a man illuttrious for ‘his patronage of letters. ‘To 
this nobleman Nizzoli acknowledges the higheft obligations 
for fupporting him by his liberality, and favouring him in his 
literary fludies. Huis work, entitled ‘«¢ Thefaurus Cicero- 
nianus,’” was undertaken at the inftance 
printed at his houfe in 
tutor to the mar o ragn 
feffor a oe in the univerfity or Daeae. re ae 
e veris Principiis et vera ratione Philo- 
feobad “fen publifhed in 1553. 
of his patron, and 
At its opening 
he delivered a Latin oration, which was printed in the fol- 
lowing year. In an infcription to his memory at Brefcel:o, 
dated £576, he is faid to have died at the age of feventy- 
eight. Nizzoli was one of the moft elegant Latin writers 
of histime. His Thefaurus has been feveral times reprinted, 
with additions, under the title of «* Apparatus Latine Lo- 
cutionis.”? A new edition of the “ De veris Principiis Philo- 
fophandi,”’ &c. was printed by Leibnitz, with an illuftrative 
preface 
NO, or No-AMMON, in Ancient Coca), a town of 
Egypt, pendence by the ancient prophets Ezekiel and 
Nahum, and piaced by Jerome near Alexandria. 
NOACALLY, in Geography, a river of peal which 
NOA 
rune into the bay of Bengal, N. lat. 22°45’. E. long. 92° 
NOACHI Cotumsa, in 4fronomy. See Cocumpa. 
OAD, in Geography, a town aa Hindooftan, in Ma- 
dura ; rae .N.W. of Coilpett 
NOADA, atown of Bengal; 50 iss N.W. of Ram- 
ur. 
‘ NOAGUR, a town of Bengal; 23 miles §.E. of 
Doefa. 
NOAH, in Biography, a patriarch and prophet, was 
the fon of Lamech, a isles of Seth, the third fon of 
Adam, was born in the year 8 B.C. In his days a 
general corruption of manners ges among the human 
race, but he had the fortitude to preferve himfelf uncon- 
taminated by the evil examples which oa him, and 
— se himfelf ae a approba' 
mplary vi He under 
fe pele of Laier | efs, and endeavoured, by his exhor- 
tations and admonitions, to reform the mo mare his contem- 
poraries, and to reftore true igen among them. His efforts 
were of no afc and as the ‘people funk deeper under the domi- 
nion of vice, an univerfal 
deluge,, Fie at effets of which Noah and his family were 
faved, by being directed to build an ark or veflel, which 
fhould float on the waters, and thus preferve a‘l thofe who 
were admitted into it. This tremendous ruin, recorded in 
the Old Teftament, and evidently referred to in various fa- 
bulous authors, took 
y ook of eae pa v.—ix. for 
various other particulars relating to Noah and his ‘arly fee 
alfo Anc. Univer. a ft. and Biair’s Chronclogy. 
amet Ark. 
Noan’s Ark shel in Natural a: ifery, the name of a kind 
of fea-thell, which authors we ways puzzled about re- 
ferring to any genus, till a iste French a ie has referred 
it to a new genus he had made under the title cordiformis, 
taking in the bucardia, and triangular heart fheils 
cabinets of the curious afford us three ee of this fhell ; 
the common kind, a yellow and white 
Noah’s ae 
the dignity oe cardinal, and on this occafion Louis 
faid to him, “ I have more pleafure in procuring for you 
the eardindl’s fee than you have in receiving it.”” Notwith- 
ftanding this, the king was — aia aange againft him 
ment o. was alfo 
ier was banthhed.in his turn, and the cardinal recalled. He 
died in 1729 
I 2 NOAILLEs, 
