NOR 
feveral tombs are preferved to record the nanies of different 
re) Natural’ H Hiftory 
es M.A., folio. Ge- 
eee or thamptonthir es 
by Pitt: Ditto by Donaldfon. Beauties of England, vol. xi, 
by J. Britton and the Rev. J. Evans. 
NORTHBOROUGH, atownhhip of America, i in Wor- 
cefter county, Maffachufetts, incorporated in 1760, and 
containing 698 inhabitants; 10 miles E. of Worcefter. 
O I E, a townfhip in Worcetter county, 
Maffachufetts, bounded S. by Uxbridge, incorporated in 
1772, and containing 544 chubiai a ; 12 miles S. by E. 
of Worcefter 
NORTH CAROLINA. See Carontna 
N H-CASTLE, a ae of America a, in Weft 
Chefter county, New Mount Pleafant, and 
the White Plains on the ee pe of Conneticut ; contain- 
ing 1168 inhabitants. 
H-EAST Town, a town of America, in 
Dutchefs county, New York, about go miles N. of New 
York city 3 containing 3252 inhabitants 
NORTH END, a town a Matthews’ county, Virgi- 
nia; 185 miles from Wafhingto 
NORTHERN Recee  ico: See ANDREANOFSKEA 
ALEUTIAN, 
Nor N Tale in Geography, t 
wandering tribes that inhabit the region of Nort erica, 
hich lies between at. 5 d being 500 mil 
wide, bounded E. by Hudfon’s bay, y the aos e 
Athapufcow Indians, S. by Churchill river, and N. 
Dogribbed and Copper Indians. In their perfons ne 
i ong, but not cor- 
pulent. 
tions ; they have very low foreheads, 
. in their difpofition, thefe are mo- 
rofe, covetous, and ungrateful; and much addicted to de- 
ceit and impofition, and when treated with refpe&, infolent. 
Among their good qualities, we may enumerate their mild- 
nefs, temperance in drin pai and averfion from riot and 
violence. 
divorces are very common. Many of thefe people boi! their 
food in veffels of birch bark, by cafting in hot ftones; and 
for want of wood they often eat their meat and fifh raw. 
Among their dainties, they reckon maggots ae and blood. 
Fifh and game are plentiful, and fupply the chief part of 
their. food ; and when thefe fail, a black baer —o colleé&ted 
cks -is a fubfti itute 5 this ts boiled, and affords 
: principal <difeafes are the 
tion, a flux. "The ey are very much under 
i When any of hea Rapes 
eat 
a 
w 
them of ae a night ’s lo odging with e 
wives. This is eridene as a pledge of Friendthip between 
two families ; and when either of the men dies, the other 
confiders himfelf beund to fupport the family deprived of 
NOR 
a hufband and father. Eke or three fifters are often wives 
to the fame hufband. religion, in principle and praGtice, 
they feem to be lamentably deftitute ; though théir conju- 
rers pretend to converfe with fpirits. The prefent evil alone 
difturbs ae minds, and they oa to have no idea of futu- 
rity. ea orfe. See Innran 
- Nonruenx Light, or Aurora Borealis. 
NorTHERN Ocean. See Ocr 
NorTHERN nied are thofe ax on the north fide of the 
equator. See Sic 
NO RTHFIELD, in Geography, a townfhip of America, 
in Orange co ounty, Vermont, between 20 and 30 miles W. of 
Newbury, containing 204 inhabitants. —A Ifo, a pleafant poft- 
town in the N. part o thire oak carci 
on the E. fide of Conneticut river; 30 miles N. of N 
ampton, containing 1047 inhabitants ; 5 eorpeatd in 678 
alto, 2 deftroyed by the Indians; and rebuilt in 
See AURORA 
ck river ; corporate in 
rane and containing 929 inhabitants.—Alfo, a townthip 
in Richmond county, Staten ifland, New York, containing 
1387 inhabitants. 
THFLEET, a village and patifh in the lower 
poe hundred of Toltintrough, lathe of Aylesford, and 
nty of Kent, England, is fituated near the banks of 
the ier mes, ik miles cre from Gravefend, and 20 miles 
of Lon t was anciently the property of the fee 
2 ie rchbifhop Cranmer, 
nry VII. ; ies finice 
with a low tower, e ake a enka of i la 
tury, within the {cite of i foundation walls of the ancient 
flruGture, but by no means correfpondent with the reft of 
the nah The nave is feparated from the aifles by o€ta- 
gona 
fter, to r. Bro 
wledge i in el hiftory, oF iy ficiad 
to king Charles II. In the return made to parliament, pur- 
fuant to the population a& of the year 1811, Northfleet 
was {tated to contain 372 houfes, occupied by 2031 perfons; 
of thefe a great number derive enployment from the con: 
tiguous chalk works, which extend from the-northern fidé 
of the village to the Thames ; their — on an —— 
being nearly a quarter of a mile. alk pits are im- 
menfe; the cliffs where the chalk has ee ou) prefentng 
in many places, a precipitous furface from ro 150 
in perpendicular height. The chalk forms a * confiderable 
branc commerce, and tne the fhore are feveral wharfe 
for ‘he. convenience of fhippr g it off, both in its natural 
tat when burnt into lime, for which purpofe heré are 
ea cee kilns. The flints alfo, which pervade the chalk 
in thin ftrata, are collected for fale; thefe form a material 
ingrédient in the compofition of the: Stafordftive ware ; arid 
great quantities are exported to China. 
On 
eminent for his kno 
