NOR 
ning N. 16° W. until it interfe€ts the Thames, and thence 
up the taid river until it meets the N.W. boundary of the 
ae _ or 7 
the noble family of How The captain and his compa- 
nions found it unibaited, and were the firft perfons who 
met with many trees and plants 
alan ef and more efpecially the flax 
lane, which j is here more luxuriant than in any part of that 
country ; but the chief produce is a fort of fpruce-pine, 
which grows very abundantly, and to a large fize, and ve 
ftraight and t This tree refembles the Quebec pine. 
For about 200 yards from the fhore, the ground is fo thickly 
covered with fhrubs and plants as hardly to be penetrable 
ae inland. The foil feemed rich and deep. Here were 
und the fame kind of pigeons, parrots, and parroquets, 
as er New Zealand, rails, and fome {mall birds. The fea- 
fowl confift of white boobies, gulls, tern, &c. which breed 
undifturbed on the fhores and in the cliffs of the rocks. The 
ifle affords frefh water ; and alfo cabbage-palm, wood-forrel, 
fow-thiftle, and famphire. The cabbage of the tree fo 
called is not only a wholefome vegetable, but very pala- 
table, and affords an agreeable repatt. e coaft does not 
want fifh, fome of which 18 peice 
ree ottom 
the ifand | are aber for the vonttraétion of waffle pines 
Banana-trees 
have been se here ; the fugar-cane grows well; wines, 
n-trees are in a thriving itate ; the potatoe 
urnifhes a crops aunually ; melons and pumpkins are 
very fine, and every kind of garden vegetable profpers. 
Rice has been fown twice, but it is fubje to be blafled 
by the S. . winds 83 apie that which efcaped the blight 
Cotton and indigo thrive in fome 
victs for ae gardens. S. lat. 2 ha 30". 
36! eee Second Se vol. 
LK, New, a tract of country on the W. coaft of 
North hai, aire from Crofs Sound to New 
Cornw 
Norvok Sound, bay on the north-weft coaft of 
America he wo 
and Hippah, one of Queen Charlotte’s iflands, ornament, 
or rather diftort, ther lips in r ribed under 
a 
a, which was taken in by Timur Bec, w 
the Si Rabitants to the fword and razed the walls. 
NOR 
NORHOLM, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Chrifttanfand; 16 miles N.N.E. of Chriftianfand. 
ORI, a town of Sardinia; 18 miles . of Cagliari. 
ORIA, a ene of South a in ‘the province of 
n Cordova; 21 mile SW. of Cordov 
M, in Ancient Geograph ne a province of Eu- 
tae oe along the S. bank of the Danube, from the 
th of the Inn, as far as mount Cetius. Noricum 
are 6 oe 
province confifted, according to Pt 
and N., of the Sesaces and the Alauni, called alfo Ambi- 
fontii, and towards the E., of the Norici, the Ambidrani, 
and the Amblici. Noricum was fubje& to the Romans in 
- aa of Auguttus, and they preferved it from the Ger- 
s, the Quadi, the Mafcomani, &c. Afterwards the 
Goths took poffeffion of it, and it has been faid that Ala- 
ric made it the feat of hisempire. Ata later period, the 
Suevi, the Heruli, and the Huns occupied it. 
NORIE, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Schonen; 16 mies N.N.W. of Chriftianftadt. 
NORIN, a river of Dalmatia, which runs into the Na- 
renza ; oh miles below Citluc 
NORIS, Henry, in Biogra raph yy, a very learned Italian 
cardinal, defcended from a family originally from Ireland, 
was born at Verona in the year 1631 . His father, Alexander, 
was a literary character, and well known by his writings, 
particularly by his “ Hiftory of Germany.” Perceiving 
that his fon gave early indications of an excellent under- 
ftanding, and a love of learning, he determined to do juftice 
to his talents by procuring for him the advantages of a good 
education. Henry had arrived at the age of fifteen, 
e was admitted a penfioner at the Jefuits’ college at Rimini, 
where he went through his courfe of philofo Here he 
began to ftudy the writings of the fathers, particularly thofe 
of St. Auguftine; and foon after he took the habit in aad 
convent of the hermits of St. Auguftine at Rimini, and ap 
At the a 
sianifm,” but. his ieee in it was necefiarily hee, owing 
to the many employments which were affigned to him, fo 
that feveral pa elapfed before he could give it to the 
public. It was printed at Florence in the year 1673. In 
= ee year he was invited by the grand duke of Tul- 
to become his chaplain, and he alfo appointed him 
provelfor i seas al hiftory in the univerfity of Pifa. 
This emplo ae a with his withes, aud he retained 
one party, it the m olen 
It was twice fabmited to ie i of the Inquifition, 
an 
