OAK 
which ave origin to the gall, produces a worm which 1 
kind, as the other feeds on vegetable juices. 
This little fly, wel! knowing that where there is one o 
thefe protuberances on a leaf, there is a tender and defence- 
lefs infect within, pierces the fides of the gall, and depofits 
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Oak Puceron, a 
markable f{pecies of animal of the puceron kind. 
itfelf againit the wood that is behind it, or contiguous to 
its back, and fucks there. The extremity of this trunk 
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holds fo faft by the wood, that when it is pulled away, it 
frequently brings a {mall piece of the wood away with it. 
he ants are as fond of thefe as of the other {pecies of 
pucerons, and that for the fame reafon, not feeding upon 
them, but on their dung, which is a liquid matter of a fweet 
a he natural juice of the tree, very little altered. 
Thefe creatures are the fureft guides where to find this 
eron; for if we at any time fee a number of 
rawling up an oak to a certain part, and there creep- 
ing into the cleft of the bark, we may be affured that in that 
place there are quantities of thefe oak pucerons. Reaumur’s 
i {. vol. vi 
The ants are fo a fond of the juices of the tree, 
when prepared for them by pafling through the hody of this 
animal, that when the puceron has a drop not yet evacuated, 
but hanging only in part out at the paflage, an ant will often 
feize on it there. 
Oak, Sea. See Fucus, and Wreck. 
Oaxk-Snake, in Zoolo See CROTALUS. 
Oax-Webb, in Agriculture, a provincial word applied to 
the May bug in fome places. 
Oax Bay, or the Devil’s Heel, in Geography, lies in the 
bay of Fundy, 9 leagues $.8.1. of Moofe ifland. 
Oak Cov cove on the W. coaft of North America, 
in the gulf of New Georgia. 
Oax Jfland, a long narrow ifland on the coaft of North 
Carolina, at the mouth of Cape Fear river. N. lat. 33° 52/, 
W. long 78° 20! 
OAKFUSKEE. See Tarttapoose River. 
OAKFUSKIES, the name of an Indian tribe in the 
weftern part of Georgia. 
AM, a market-town in the foke of Oakham, 
and county of Rutland, England, is fituated in the centre 
of arich valley, called the vale of Catmofe. This place is 
divided into two townfhips, or manors, the one denominated 
the Lord’s-hold, and the other, the Dean’s-hold. The 
former belongs to the earl of Winchelfea, who, as fuperior 
lord, 
men, and two chaplains. 
fill fupported, though comparatively much decayed and im- 
poverifhed, as well as altered from its original deign. The 
free-{chool, and Chrift’s-hofpital, both owe 
Mr. Johnfon, clergyman of North L 
and endowed them by fubfcription, with the a 
fome lands, which he obtained from queen Elizabeth. 
bifhops of London and Peterborough, the deans of Weftmin- 
fter and Peterborough, the archdeacon of Northampton, 
and the mafters of Trinity and St. John’s colleges, Cam- 
bridge, are perpetual governors of the hofpital laft men- 
tioned. The church here is dedicated to All-Saints, and is 
derable diftance. The living is a vicarage, in the patronage 
of the ear] of Winchelfea. Adjoining the church are ruins 
of an ancient caftle, faid to have been built in early Norman 
times by Walkelin de Ferrars, fon of the earl of Derby. It 
afterwards . 
