OAS 
Falmouth, &c. paffing through the tewn. Four fairs are 
annually held, and a market weekly on Saturday. Warner’s 
Walk through the Weftern Counties, 8vo. 1800. Beau- 
ties of England, vol. ii. by J. Britton, and E. W. 
OA i 8 Heap, a cape of Scotland, on ae 
S.E. coaft of the county of Caithnefs. N. lat. 58° 15!. 
lon 
DA RINCHAM. See WoxkINGHAM 
OAKMULGES, a river of Aoneneas which is the 
fouthern ay branch of the Alatamaha, in the ftate of 
Geot otgia, with the confluence of the Oconee, forms 
this greit river. 
OALALDA, a town of Africa, in the country of the 
Foulis ; 30 miles E.S.E. of Sibbé. 
OAMI, atown of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon; 25 
niles S.W. m Morifa. 
n Agriculture, a provincial term applied to fuch 
ploughed ae as are light, porous, and flowery in the nature 
of their foil. 
OANDA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the country 
of the Foulis, on the Senegal ; 70 miles S.E. of Goumel. 
OANUS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 
Lydia. 
OAR, i spel asus a long piece of timber, flat at one 
end, and round o t the other, whereby a boat, 
ane, galley. ne is rowed, or advanced along the water. 
That art of the oar which is out of the veffel, and which 
enters into the water, is called the blade, or wal 3 and that 
which is within-board is termed the loom, whofe extremity, 
ous {mall enough to be grafped by the rowers, is called 
the handle. 
Int a yell with oars, the water is to be confidered as the 
point of fupport, or a ; the oar as a lever ; the boat 
as the burden to be moved; and the rower’s hand as the 
moving power. S r, and MecHanic Power. 
The burden is to be cone as applied to that point: 
‘of the lever where the oar refts on the boat ; w ich point, 
the ‘diftance of the water from that point, the greater effe& 
will the oars have. 
ie To fhip the, is to fix them in the row-locks ready 
win 
Oar, 1 i ‘Natural Hi iftory. See 
OARACTA, in Ancient Cerra a large ifland of the 
Perfian gulf, fituated upon the coaft of Caramanta, and in- 
habited, according to the journal on Nearchus’s nav igation. 
6) I, in ae: a province of Angola, on the N. 
bank of the Coenz 
OARISTUS, or Oa cued a term in the Greek —— 
fignifying a dialogue between a hufband and his wife ; = 
as that in es fixth' book of ie liad, between He@or a 
Androm 
Scalige er Eos that the oariftus is not properly ant 
particular little p rl or entire piece of poetry ; but alwa 
a‘par t of a great © e adds, that the paflage now pee 
inf Homer, is the ae pr a oariftus extant in the ancient 
sees 
OARUS, in paasied ag ead a river of Scythia, which, 
ca ea o Herodotus, fprung from the country of the 
Hagete, averted nach of the Means, and difcharged it- 
felt into the Palus 
ASIS, ace cam ‘the Coptic word Ouahe, paek 
‘ing a habitable place, a fertile ifland im the midit of th 
dandy ‘defert of “Africa, Ofthefe Oafes, which are called 
OAS 
iflands, becaufe they appear like {uch in the midft of an ocean 
of fand, there are feveral that lie at the diftance of 100 miles 
or more from the Nile, to the W. of it. The Arabian 
geographers were ects with thefe detached fertile 
{pots, and called them ‘ Elouah,”? ‘¢ Ellouah,’? or ‘ El- 
wah.”’ Abulfeda fays, thefe Elouahs are dependent on 
the Said, and that they are iflands in the middle of fand. 
On quitting the Nile, this author ftates that it takes three 
days’ journey acrofs the defert to arrive at them. Jacout, 
who reckons three of them, places them in the weft of 
Lower Egypt, beyond the chain of mountains, parallel 
with ae river. Abulfeda a that the firfl is well culti- 
vated; that it poffeffes abundant rivulets, hot {prings, 
fields covered with karvefts, and other furprifing things, 
but that the people there are wretched. 
the largeft o 
over-againft Behnéfé ; 
under the parallel of lake Maris. The Soay aa in 
which thefe Oafes are fituated, is occafionally traverfed by 
m a feroci cious tribe, and 
Be The Le fe Parva,’ now 
wah-el-Ghurbi,” forms a "kind capita! lement of the 
in their warlike rei ites camels, and fhee 
ery hardy and abftemious; a fmall ca 
leathern bottle of water fupplying a man with ample provifion 
for a vah-el-Ghurbi, it is faid, that feveral 
ruins are to be foun i. The * age J agna,” called «* El. 
wah,”’ is at fome diftance from the other. loots own cig 
of “ [El-wah-el- Ghurbi,” ch is, abou 
ac ee he fays, feems ri ightly to corefpond ok ae latitude 
of Dendera, and of courfe that o outhern extremity | of 
ange it fifty 
agree, that it has one or more fountains of waters, and that it 
was planted with divers kinds of fruit trees: Arrian par- 
icularly notes ae alm and olive. What appeared to 
b very great natural curiofity was a fountain, which 
according to Arria ried in its temperature in a 
fingular manner; being very warm or hot at midnight, 
and very cold in the ie of the day. Rennell fuppofes that 
the fountain, ae a deep-feated fpring, would preferve a 
degre mperature at all feafons; fo that, in 
effeG, it was te ce that underwent the change, 
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