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NUREMBERG, an imperial city HF Germany, in the 
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circle of Franconia, anciently called “ Mons N. 
made free by the emperor Frederic adders 
and well built, though not populous, fituated on a fan 
well cultivated and fertile, and eed pleafant by the 
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villages and country {pots that are adjacent; the river Peg- 
nitz runs through the tewn, and i here traverfed by 
n wooden an e bridg e town is enco 
ut 500 
ber of inhabitants 4s very difproportioned to the extent of 
he magiftrates and inhabitants are chiefly Lu- 
twe parochial churches, it contains 15 
; — town is divided into 8 parts, 
ne of the arts is an the 
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tation in the arts of painting and engraving; and many of 
its artifts have diftinguifhed themfelves by works in ivory, 
wood, and metal, which are widely circulated. urem- 
berg is one of the principal trading towns in Germany. The 
adjoining peda called the circle of Nuremberg, is con- 
fiderable ; os s E.S.E. of Mentz. N. lat. 49° 28 
E. long. 1 
NURHUA, a town of arpa in Bahar ; Pee miles 
N.W. of Chuprah. N,. lat. E. lon 
Alfo, a town of Hindotan, i in Bahar, on the ‘Dewsh; 
50 miles N.W. of Pat 
NURI, a town ae "New — in the province of 
Hiaqui ; 40 miles S.E. of Rioc 
NU of 
EE, a town of Bee ad 3; 25 miles N. 
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Schwan. 
NURMIJARVI, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of fle 20 miles N.N.W. of Helfingfors 
NURMIS, a town of Sweden, in the gov vern of 
Kuopio; 58 miles N.E. of Kuopio.—Alfo, a {mall iad 
on the E. al of the gulf of Bothnia N. lat. 61° 
E. long. 21° 
MO, 2 a ‘own of — in the government of 
Wala; 36 miles E.S.E. 0 
NURMS, a town of the aachy of Courland; 28 miles 
E. of Goldingen. 
NURPUR, or Noorrour, a town of Hindooftan, and 
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capital place of a diftri&, in the fuba Lahore. It is 
fituated on the top o ill, whieh is afcended by fome 
fteps, and has the appearance of opulence and induftry. 
The diftriG is mountai 3 its revenues ount to 
40. it is lefs molefted than the ee 
principalities by ny ae eet of the feiks; 7 
miles N.E. 0 ore. N. i‘ -75° 5'. 
NURRAH, a town of Hindotan, in "the circar of 
oo. 3 — miles E. of Naypo 
NURSERY, in Agriculture and Plonting , the name of a 
place appropriated for rearing and ler se young plants 
of different kinds. Every gentleman who has any extent o 
land to be planted fhould have a place of this fort for raifing m 
his young trees and plants, as it faves a great deal ne 
trouble and expence which muft otherwife be incurred i 
providing them, 
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8 a very {pecious appearance at firft 
ew. e adhered to it early in life, and it is fo feemingly 
confiftent with nature, that he is not furprifed it has been 
generally adopted by young Panter; at the fame time he 
cannot account for thofe who have had much praétice and 
he adds, 
experiments, of the i 
and tender feedlings in the poorett foils, - the great 
cefs attending cE that were well- oy 
fimilar fituations. The confequen fe g plants o 
poor hungry land are no lefs fatal as Santing ae fecthinpe 
in fuch, and fhould as much as poffible H 
promoting their vigorous grow wth a 
eet ftately and handfome ; nor can this be eff 
ort, the roots of feedlings are not fo well fitted as larger 
plants to draw fufficient nourifhment from crude, rank, and 
aeapaguesta foils : 
ured, from its infancy, to live hardily, and will ad- 
= with a [ai a Shia ° luxuriance, if it is planted in 
t is whereas a plant that has been nurfed in 
a "ere foil, and a certainly rufhed up to a great fize, like 
animal t een pampered with high feeding, and 
felled up with fat, will languith and pine away, : tran{- 
ted to a more indifferent foil. But it would b 
be in fome mea ee foreign to the 
ofe, it may voit be noticed, that it could feldom be ae 
leads to a conclufion dire€tly the reverfe of w 8 
a y experience. For it has been found, from 
reiterated experiments, that a ftrong and vigorous plant, 
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