NOO 
are forty feet long, feven saa a about three deep. 
From the middle, towards each e h 
n nearly in a ftraight 
ine. ‘They are moftly without ornament; nor have they 
any feats, or {upporters, cn the infide, hen ies feveral round 
ee fomewhat thicker than a cane, placed acrofs, at mid- 
depth. They are very light, and by means of pe breadth 
and flatnefs they {wim firmly, without an outrigger, which 
none of ‘them have, in which refpect they differ is thofe 
of other countries. Their paddles are fmall a 
and in managing them they are very dextrous. 
ners for fifhing and hunting, which are rnsenioully con- 
trived and well made, are nets, hooks and lines, harpoons, 
gigs, and an initrument like an oar; which lait is about 
twenty feet long, four or five inches broad, and ahout half 
an inch thick. Each edge, for about two-thirds of its 
length, the other part being a handle, is fet with fharp 
bone-teeth, about two inches long. Herrings and fardines, 
and fach other {mall fifh as come in fhoals, are attacked 
with ms inftrument, which is ftruck into the fhoal, and the 
h 
this harpoon they u 
three fathoms ; and for Alten 
eet long, to which the line 
thaft of about twelve or fifteen 
or rore ig attached, and t 
. Their tron tools are 
d upon a whetftone, and always mae bright. 
probable method by which the 
continent, or receive it, perhaps, through feveral inter- 
mediate nations, 
-- political and religious inftitutions eftablithed am 
thefe people, we have little infewmation. They hav nae 
them fuch men as chiefs, to whom vrhers of their ay Sortie 
families appear to be fubordinate. Belides the figures al- 
ready mentioned, i called *¢ Klumma,”’ they have no other 
indications of religi ion. Thefe are mo! probably idols ; and 
are the images of fome of their ancettors, whom they vene- 
rate as divinities. But they feemed to receive from the peo- 
of religrous homag 
the whole, it abounds ra- 
1 oi dental than with guttural founds. 
The fimple founds, that are either wholly wanting or 
NO O 
rarely ufed, are thofe a aca hod the letters 4, d oS & 
hav 
and v. But they n found, which is 
formed by clafhing the engee oa ‘again the roof of the 
mouth with confiderable force, and m peas to a 
x 
their language there feem to 
was 36 6! "north ; and the longitude by lunar ob- 
frat 233° 17' 14" of” eaft, and by the time-keeper 
"51" o' according to the a rate, but ac- 
ee to the Ulietea rate 233° 59' 24" o'”. The variation 
of the compafs at 
was high wate e per 
fall of the ie was eight feet ea, and the Niche 
tides at the fame time, i. ¢. two or three days after the full 
and new moon, rofe near two feet high 
Voyage, vol. ii.) 
Nootka found by a company of Britifh merchants refiding 
in the Eaft Indies, under the epost of the « 
George’s Sound Company,’’ for carrying on a fur-trade from 
the weftern coaft of America to China ; but the fettlement 
was feized by the Spaniards in 1789. Fora further account 
of the fur-trade at Nootka found, &c. fee Fur-trade. 
NOOVILLA, a town of Eaft "Florida ; 3 54 aks E.S.E. 
of St. Mark. 
yon r Noo name given by fportf{men to a 
fort of horfe a air fori fae: made to take woodcocks, and 
very fuccefsful when the proper pre ouans are taken. The 
nooze is made of feveral long and ftrong hairs twifted toge- 
ee with a runnin 
ee is Na 
cr ‘when he knows his bufinefs, does not ftay 
to ack ie fnares, but fets them i in the morning, and 
fticks are to be about the bignefs of a man’s little finger, ae 
are to be made fharp at oneend, that they may fix the 
ter in the ground : to each of thelei is to be fixed one nooze. 
The fport{man is to take out — ori feveral eee of 
take a cae circle at eae iftance 
the way where the woodcocks are fu sehr o come to the 
- place; he is here to plant afmall hedgerow of pee or 
other bu es, of a confiderable Saka and pretty thick, 
leaving gapsin it here and there. The woodcocks, in making 
up to their place of feeding, when they ne to this hedge, 
will run along by the fide of it, till they come to one of the 
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