NOR 
feven Lutheran churches and an orphan-houfe. It carries on 
a good trade in corn to the Upper Harz, and diftils great 
quantities of brandy; it has alfo manufactures of marble 
and alabafter, the materials of which are brought from Stoll- 
It was a free imperial city from its 
it was given among the indemnities to 
Proffia, and in 1807 it was annexed to Weit- 
the king of 
N. lat. 51° 28’. E. long. 
phalia , 38 miles N. of Erfurt. 
NORD EIM, a town of oe in the province 
church, a pained ey and fome manufactories. Al- 
bert the Great raifed it into a town in 12¢2; 10 miles N. 
of Gottingen. N. lat o”, FI !.—Alfo, a 
t. 51° go’, E.long. 9° 57’. 
tl of ce duchy of Wurzburg ; 7 miles N. of Bifchoffe. 
“NORDINGEN, a town of Sweden, in Angerman- 
land ; 21 miles N ernofa 
weden, in the pro- 
vince of Eaft Gothland, on the river Motala, founded in 
980 is next in extent to Stockholm, a ftaple town, and 
formerly fortified ; it contains five churches, and about 10,000 
inhabitants ; its trade is confiderable, and i it has a new 
commodious quay. Tt has two copper-mills, 
for brafs, feveral paper-mills, fifty coftiemille, woo 
nufadtures, a falmon- fifhery, &c’; 76m miles S.W. of Stock- 
olm. N. lat. 50° 36’. E.long. 16° 4 
NORDKIRCHEN, a town of Gefmany in the bifhop- 
ric of Munfter ; 6 miles N. of Wer 
NORDLAND, a province of Sweden bounded on the 
N. by Lapland, on the E. by the gulf of Bothnia, on the 
S. by Proper Sweden, on a _ by Norway, lying between 
Go and 674°N. lat. It is ck mountainous pro- 
vince, diverfified with forefts, verdant vallies, lakes, and 
It abounds with timber and venifon; but has 
only a fmall portion fit for tillage. This province has, 
befides timber, feveral rich — forges, hammer-mills, 
and other works for metal. Its lakes and rivers patel 
country. 
Upland bees are fcarce. 
inhabited by Finlanders. 
and is fuppofed to contain 95,000 
1 pe 000 inhabitants, including the natives of Lapla 
The provinces are, Gaftrickland, Helfingland, Medelpad, 
Jemptland, a haa and We -o- Bothnia, 
NORD-LIBRE, (Conné), a town of France, in the 
department of the a and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftri& of Donay. lace contains 5978, and the canton 
13> ieee inhabitants, on a Stee of 874 kiliometres, in 10 
communes. 
NORDLINGEN, a city of Bavaria, — in a fertile 
country on the Eger, with abundant paftu Until the 
year 1802, it was free and imperial, alee it was given, 
among other indemnities, to the eleGtor of Bavaria. The 
ft wholly Lutherans, who have three 
e Roman Catholics alfo have a place in 
ich they ae their worthip. The m 
compofed of Lutherans. 9 
rench ; 30. iri N.N.W. of Augfburg. N. lat. 48° 49’. 
E. long. 
NORDMALING, a fea-port town of Sweden, in the 
It is divided into feven provinces, 
quare miles, and 
rouade 
aati of Angermanland, fituated ina 2 of the gulf of 
62° o 
othnia. N. lar. 34 . long. 1 
NORDMARSCH, a "fall ifland of Deierk, in the 
North fea; 3 miles N.W. of Nordftrand. 
NOR 
NORDORF, or Norprorp, a town of the duchy of 
Holftein; 13 miles . of Kiel. 
NORDRE RONNERNE, a clufter of iflets — rocks in 
the Cattegat, about four miles from the N. he of the 
ifland of Leffoe. N. lat. 57°22’. E. long fea: 
NORDST RAND, an ifland of Denmark, in the North 
fea, near the coaft of Slefwick. The fea has often inun- 
dated it, and in 1634, the impetuofity of the waves {wept 
away 6408 perfons, 1332 houfes, 30 wind-mills, 6 churches, 
and 50,000 head of cattle; and a great part of the ifland 
‘was deftroyed. It formerly contained 22 parifhes, and 
abounded in corn and cattle; but now only one parifh 
remains. N. lat. 54° 37’. E. long. 8° 48’. 
RE, a ‘iver of Ireland, iar rifes at ea fouthern 
county a ny of Kilkenny, ae the city of Kilkenny 
of Thomeftown and 
and the t Iniftioge, and joining 
arrow, m which rifes in fe northern part of the fame 
mountains, a little to the no ofs.— Alfo, 
noted place in the river Tham of the ifland of Grain, 
, E. 
on which yes a light fixed and a ace veffel. N. lat 
: .o° 
Nor. Black, a cape of England, on the coaft of Somer- 
fetth thire, ‘in the m of the Severn; § miles S.W. from 
the mouth of the 
NOR A, a souk of Spain, in Afturias; 8 miles 
N.N.E. of Ovied 
NORENB ERG, a town of Germany, in the New 
Mark of Brandenburg ; ; 21 miles E.N.E. of Stargard. N. 
lat. en aq’, E, long. 15° 33! 
RES, Jason pk, in Biography, a man of letters of the 
orn at Nicofia, in the ifle : 
Fae, at ae. he put into Latin the Commentaries on 
Horace’s Art of Poetry, which he had taken from 
mouth of Trifon, and publifhed them at Venice, with the 
hen Cyprus fell into the hands of the Turks in 1570, 
De Nores retired to Venice, with the lofs of all his property, 
and lived there fome years, probably fupported by the libe- 
rality of fome of the nobles. In 1577 he was appointed 
by thofe of his own nation to plead in their “behalf before 
the doge, and not only obtained for them a fettlement in the 
city of Pola, with many privileges, but procured for himfelf 
an appointment to the chair of moral philofophy at Padua. 
In this fituation he wrote the greater part ot his works, 
and continued to bide! his leads charge till his 
death, in the year e fubjeéts of his feveral works 
are philofophical, c: Soe iicl, political, and rhetorical. 
They difplay much learning, and are written in a good ftyle. 
Moreri. 
OLK, in Genres a county of England, fituated 
on the ea tern fide of the ifland, and furrounded by the follow- 
ing counties and waters, viz. Ale German ocean, or North 
fea, on the north and eait, Siff Ik on the fouth, and the 
county of Cambridge on the weft The area thus enclofed 
is nearly of a circular form, and difplays almoft a flat furface : 
. é.,1t has no prominent hills nor deep vallies. It is fo fur- 
its marine and river boundary, that it may be 
¢c 
aa ugh the marfhes, near Lopham. Th 
ongeft diameter 
sin the dire@ion B ealt to welt, from Vas 
Wit 
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