NOT 
licata; 12 miles S.S.W. of Hs ee a town of Naples, 
in Bari; 25 miles E.S.E. 0 
OIERA, a town of Naples, i in n P¥incipato Citra; feven 
miles W.N.W. of Salerno. 
NOILSBERG, a town of poeeene in the circle of 
Leitmeritz ; 18 miles N.W. of Leitmeri 
OHN LE, in Biography, a ae flourithed i in the 
h century, was the fon of a counfellor of Avignon, an 
intended for the church. Having excellent natural abilities, ta 
the Jefuits attempted to injure his credit, and even dire&ted 
againft = the fury of a number of fanatics who appeared 
in Norm Le Noir was a zealous defender of the prin- 
ciples of ery ; the fanatics, juit referred to, affembled 
of fermons, and havin 
year 1663, by which 
having propagated erroneous notions, was, for a time, exiled 
to Fougeres in Britan On his return he attacked the 
prelate when about to ole poffeffien of the archbifhopric of 
Rouen, upon the tranflation of Harlay, archbifhop of that 
herefy, and was, of cour a ee y the canons. In 
the following year M. le Noir was arrefted and committed 
prifoner to the Battile, Whee: a procefs was peace on againft 
him, before fpecial commiffaries, who pronounced him guilty 
of publifhing defamatcry writings, and adjudged him to 
make the amende honorable before the metropolitan church of 
Paris, and then to be fent to the galleys for life. The firft 
part of the fentence was executed upon him, but the punifh- 
ment of the galleys was exchanged for imprifonment. 
was confined firft at St. Malo’s; afterwards in the citadel of 
Breft ; and laftly at Nantes, where he died in 1692. 
was author of feveral works ; of which may be noticed “A 
Colleétion of Requefts, or Cafes, &c.’’ in folio, relative to 
the treatment of the Janfenifts, which work is faid to difplay 
a paffionate eloquence, with a profound and very uncommon 
knowledge of law, and will be found en by the eccle- 
fiattical hiftorian : 
church over the Calvinifts 
M. nae and the eile Claude : w 
e new Gofpel of Sad shal revealed 
by himielf j in the hiftory of the council of which 
occafioned the fuppreflion of a French se ete of that 
ag which was about to be publifhed. orerl. 
» Cape, in Geogra, phy a cape on the 
of a “land of Terra - ee at — entrance of a 
ftraits of Magellan . 54° 30', W. long. 73° 
—Alfo, a cape on the dee fide of Chaleur te, eo 
an 
o 
NOL 
ries oe W.N.W. of Bonaventure.—Alfo, 2 
he S. epee of the ifland of Milo. N. lat. 36° 47/, 
ae 24° 2 
Noir, -_ black, a note of mufic, note noir, @ crotchet p 
J 
cape on 
E. 
or half a minim ; zoirs a iad a quaver | In the old Fr. 
'N OIRA, in Ornithology. See Psrrracus Garrulus. 
oa -AURORA, in Ornithology. See Muscicapa Ru- 
hich 
NOIR-ETABLE, in Geography, a town of France, in 
the department of the Loire, and chief place a a canton, in 
the diftri& of Montbrifon; 18 miles W. Roann 
The place contains 1887, and the canton 6990 inhabitant 
on a territory of 2024 kiliometres, in 10 commu 
NOIRMOUNT Por T, a cape pir anee of 
St. Aubin’s ee on the &. coaft of the ifland of Jerfey. 
NOIRMOU i 
ment of the V lace of a canton, in the 
diftri& of Les Sablend'-Oleoe feparated from the con- 
tinent of France by a ftrait three leagues lohg, and sae 
about a quarter to one league wid The canton 
tains 5420 inhabitants, on a ee) of 675 kiliometres, i in 
one commune. N. lat. 46°58’, W. long. 2° 9’, 
NOIR-SOUCI, in Ornithology. See Loxia Bonnarienfis. 
; IX, Isteau, or Nut Jfland, in Gergraphy, a {mall 
ifland near the N. extremit of lake Cham 
indooftan, in Ba. 14 miles 
NOKISSIMA, or Burning Ifland, a {mall Japanef 
ifland. N. lat. 34°15'. E.lo age lenge es 
NOKRE-KOH, a mountain of Gnd Fare fo 
called from its filver mines; 100 miles E. of Balk. 
OKSELA, a town of Bengal; 45 miles N.E. of 
Nattore. 
ea a town of Naples, in the province of Lavora, 
which, as fome fay, owed its origin to the Greeks of 
halcis s ai, according to others, it was founded by the 
Etrufcans, forty years before the building of Rome. 
Romans took it during the 
b 
y the Roman arms under Marcellus, This town, which 
was anciently rich and flourifhing, is ftiil a handfome town, 
the fee of a bishop, fuffragan of Naples. The filk {pun in 
the neighbourhood is much eftee med 5 13 miles TE. of 
aples. WN. lat. 40° a z. inna 4 14° 20/. 
NOLACHUCKY, a river of America, in the E. par 
of the ftate of Tenneffee, which runs W.S.W. into French 
Broad river, Nee 26 miles from Holfton river. 
n Bo fany, a Linnea 
Borraginee, Juff. 
Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, turbinate 
at the ‘bale, five-fided, “— into five, heart-thaped, acute, 
ent 
