N YM 
NYLACKY, jone of the Bandaiflands. 8. lat. 4° 12’. 
ie S.E. aati - A pai Pe in N. 
ri 60° care and a om is eag m N. to 
S., and 4o fr ong t e oN c 
gulf. Itisa s level, ‘fertile a in general, well-cultivated 
a The inhabitants of 
vrith confiderable Bie might ie sorled to or 
In a it feems ,to be a mean between black 
the Antilope 
unter, ee oe &e di it, Rae - 
T is ath o 
grey, from 
them are half white towards the root, and half black ; 
height of the back is about four feet, and the trunk, Pan 
the root of the neck to the pendulous tail, is about the fame 
each half o t 
long, and of a angular thay ape. 
fonder of 
When tiny, He : would drink two gallons of water. It is 
vicious and ein the rutting feafon, but at other times 
tame an ale female differs fo much from the 
male, that we — fcarcely fuppofe them to be the fame 
eae She is much fmaller, both in height and thick- 
nefs. In her hae and yellowifh colour fhe very much 
refembles deer, and has no horns; yet has four nipples, 
and is fuppofed to go og pt ge with young; fhe has 
i i The 
he oO thefe animals that were ever brought to 
Gisat were fent from Bombay to lord Clive, in 1767: 
they were and female, which bred every year. For 
a more minute deferiptio of this animal, fee Phil. Tranf. 
vol. lxi. part i. art. 
NYL ODESE, or S New Lopgsg, in Geography, a town 
of Sweden, in Welt Gothland, fituated on the North fea; 
formerly flourifhing and governe its own 
being burnt by = Danes in 1611, the inhabitants ‘with. 
Oo 
af 
» Ny cua, in Mythology, a fort of heathen di- 
vinity, fappofed to prefide over waters, rivers, and fonn- 
sains. 
N Y M 
fented under the ee of young m ough others 
erive nymph from /ympha, water, on account of their in- 
habiting near the - See Lympn 
I. 
extend the nare nym h farther, and comprife 
under it the goddeffes ae the oe forefts, and trees; 
called one Oreades, Dryads. and Hamadryads ; 
as well as th . . the “fea, called Nereids, and thofe of 
the alee ea 
M 8 is of. aes: the Greeks borrowed their notion 
of thefe —- from the Pheenicians; for nympha, the 
fame with nephar, in their languaye, fignifying foul. Th 
Greeks site that the fouls of the ancient inhabitants of 
Greece wandered much about the tombs where their bodies 
were interred, or in thie aga which they had frequented 
during their abode in this Id; and accordingly were 
become nymphs ; eau, that the fuls of thofe who 
had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; thofe who 
had inhabited the mountains, Oreades; thofe who had 
dwelt on the fea-coa'ts, Nereids ; and, ead ie = had 
their place of abode near rivers or fountain 
is opinion is confirmed oF be pele econ, ‘that the 
ftars and higher parts of the univerfe were fo many animated 
beings; and that tutelar deities were afligned to the earth, 
the he mountain ingly 
t t 
d to se the, origina al of th 
ll forts, from the la 
oo of them, and, indeed, their number feems 
have beenindefinite. Thus our poets, faithful copiers of the 
reveries of the ancients, frequently give the name of nymphs 
to the illuttrious women who enter into the fubjects of their 
3-) fays, that the wives of the Atlan- 
place where the of 
death was in the delightful gardens of Maurit 
The Pagans 
r near mou 
thoufand years. Plutarch has determined the number of 
years to be g720. The nymphs, napez, an naiads, had 
bs that were 
3 fre- 
NSECT 
is fometimes ue for the little fkin with 
which infe&ts are inclofed ; both while they are in the egg, 
and after they have undergone the firft apparent re at 
ion. See — 
ore frequently ufed by naturalifts for the 
inlets themfelves while they have yet only the form of 
The oa properly oe bride or a new-married wo- 
man; it bein hen it has laid afide its former fin, 
that st begins to yee all its parts diftin@tly. In this change 
it lofes its motion for a while, as when in the egg ; fo that 
thefe infe&ts are twice in their nympha ftate, firft in the 
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maggot, 
