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under the article Norrincuam. General View of the Agri- 
culture of the county of Nottingham, ae by Robert Lowe, 
efq. of Oxten, 8vo. London edit. 1 The Antiquities of 
Nottinghamfhire, with Maps, Prebeats and Portraitures, 
London, 1677, folio r. Thoroton. 
NOTTURNO, Ital. a night-piece. About the middle of 
the laf century, the notturni a 4, of Martini, of Milan, 
were defervedly in high favour. 
TZENDORF, in Geography, a town of Pruffia, in 
Pomerelia; 7 miles E. of Marienburg. 
NOU, a town of Hinds, in the fubah of Delhi; 20 
miles W.N. ~ of A 
Nova, in Geography, a om ifland i : the oe near 
the coait of Bra S. Tat. o ong. 50° 30! 
Nova pate See ZEMB 
NOUA, 4n ifland near the. W. coaift of Eaft Greenland. 
N. lat. 60° 45" W. long. 47°. 
other feas, and much efteemed at the tables of the on 
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length, and, in its "flat » fomewhat refembles the faber. 
It keeps about the hore, Se icaids fuch as are ftony, and 
feems never . Boi eep water an 
fhores of 
Lapis, in Natural Hi, iftory, the 
e Laet to a ftone which he defcribes from 
m e mae 
ch the natives of America made 
their weapons of wary and tools for other ufes of life, oe 
they knew the ufe of iron. 
There are three {pecies of this ftone, the one blue, the 
other white, and the other black : they are all capable of 
a very high polifh, and, when fet i : bord or filver, are cock 
highly efteemed by the natives: refle& the im of 
things, in the manner of all other ‘highly po olifhed ‘bodies, 
and the two firft are confiderably tran{pare 
fara are feveral quarries of thefe Roiees in the neigh- 
bourhood of Mexico, whence the Indians ufed to get ere r 
eh oad, {plit, in the getting out, into angular and 
ed figures, and thefe they afterwards fafhioned to the 
aici they wa them for, and polifhed with the pow- 
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them; and, when thefe were firft found by our travellerss 
they were not fuppofed to be of human oe but 
to have fallen from heaven in thunder, and were 
many authors ceraunia. Ximenes, Hitt. Ta Occid. lib. x. 
cap. 13 
NOVE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower Meefia, 
ge the route from Viminiacum to Nicomedia, _according 
o the Itin, Anton., between Dimon and Scaidava; 17 
ales from the former, and 18 from the latter.—Alfo, a 
town of Upper Moeefia, upon the route from Vieisiacun 
to Nicomedia, between Cuppx and Talia; 24 miles from 
the former, and 32 from the latter.—Alfo, a town of the 
feeond Pannonia. It is placed by Antonine, in his Itine. 
rary, along the coaft of Gaul, on the route from Tauranum 
etween Murfa and Antianz ; 3 24 miles from the former, 
and 23 from the latter 
ove, or dd Noein a town of Macedonia, upon the 
route from Hydrus to Aulon, between Apollonia and Clau- 
lane ; me miles from the firft, ~ 25 from the fecond. 
NOV » in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 
vernment of obolfk, on the Irtifch 3 100 miles E.S.E. 
of Tobolfk. 
NOVALE, a town of Italy, in the T'revifan, on the 
Mufone; contain feveral churches, a convent, palaces, 
and about 1200 pauper 5 10 miles S. of Trevigio. 
OVALE, our cuitoms, genie land newly 
ploughed, and eauenal ae tillage; and which had not 
been tilled within the memory of man before 
** Quod novale femel fuit, oan erit novale quoad deci- 
What w: 
marum etentionem vel folution was once novale, 
will ever remain fo, as to the paying 0 or non-paying of tythes. 
“ Excepta 
decima novalium cujufdam terre, quam de novo 
excoluerunt.” Pat. d 
Nova ze is fometimes alfo ufed for — ee ee. ee 
which has been ploughed for two a r lies 
fallow, one more ; or that lies Fallow | aay piles 
NOVALESE, i - Coography, a town of Fae | in the 
cod audaiyrey of Mont Blanc; 6 miles W.N.W. of Cham 
bery.—Alfo, a a of France, in the department of the 
Po, fituated on the river Doria; 5 ne N. of Sufa. 
NOVALLERA, a town of Italy, in the department of 
the Panaro, and capital of a {mall i eran nay held as a fief 
ag hen empire by the duke of Modena; 9 miles N. of 
‘NOVANAGUR, a town ’ senate in Guzerat ; 
30 miles $.S.E. of Puttan Sum 
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Forth and Clyde, ftationed near the peninfula called No- 
anus now the Mull of Galloway. They saa ac- 
cording to Camden, the countries of Galloway, Carri, 
Kyle, and Cunningham. Baxter fuppofes ie were called 
Novante, from the Britifh word “ Now heat,’’ new inha 
bitant, and that they had come originally from the neigh- 
bouring coafts of Ireland. He farther obferves, that their 
ithern in Saxon, and der m 
of ie ancient Celts, of white- ae So their chief | prides 
and Religionum, Retigonium, or, as Camden and Baxter 
Imagine 1t was written, Beregonium, being Bargeny in 
Carriat. 
NOVARA, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of Mar rengo, and capital of a country, called 
“‘ Novarefe,”” in the duchy of Milan, the fee of a bifhop, 
fuffragan 
