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Occupation is alfo ufed, in Common —o for the putting 
a man se of his freehold in time of w 
ccupation amounts to the fame with “differfin in time of 
saad only that the former is deemed not fo great an offence. 
e DIssEISIN. | 
"Occrm is alfo ufed for holding al or poffeffion. 
As, when we fay, fuch land is in nae ure or occupation 
of an aman; ioe is, in his bie 
Occu ons, in the ftatu Bi igamis, denote ufur- 
pations anh the king, by Gas liberties or fs anchifes a per- 
fon is not ae itled to. 
ft entry upon the king into lands and tenements 
is eld an D intruf fon 3 fo an unlawful ufing of franchifes is 
called an occupation. 
ccoupaTion-Bridges in a canal, are alfo called fwing, 
{wivel, or draw-bridges, and they are made for the private 
ufe of perfons whofe lands adjoin the can 
OCCUPAVIT, i Law, a wr rit whic h lies 
who is ejected out and, or tenement, in time 
war ; : asa novel nities lies for one ejected in time of 
ne OCCUPIERS of Walling, aterm in the falt- works for 
the perfons who are the {worn officers, that allot, in par- 
ticular places, what quantity of {alt is to be made, that the 
markets may not be over-ftocked, and fee that all is rai 
fairly and equally between the lord and tenant. fe 
for bim 
g 
‘ee , 
and a 
when they fhall lea a eae ; and * th fe who continue to 
work afte: this Ereubiion, are to have their falt {poiled or 
deftroyed. 
OCDA, in me wk atown of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak ; 150 miles £ If{fpahan 
OCEAN, the vaft eellegana of falt aiid navigable water 
which seco the kha globe of the earth. 
‘he word comes fr: e Latin eceanus, of the Greek 
WRKELYOSs whic 
nicians, who dthe circumference of the ocean, og; from 
the easel ahha hog, circuit, ambit. 
ean is that huge body of waters, in which the two 
gr ad continents known to us, the new and old, are inclofed 
like 
oc ora patetions it ae that the ocean takes up confi- 
derably more of what we know of the terreftrial globe than 
the dry land: and eal difcoveries have evinced that more 
than two-thirds of it are covered with water. 
Dr. Keill computes the furface of the whole ocean to be 
85490506 fquare miles: fo that fuppofing the depth of the 
ocean, at a medium, to be 3th of a mile, the quantity of water 
in the whole will be 213720204 cubic miles. See Goze, 
and Magnitude of the EAR 
Yet Dr. Burnet computes that all the waters in the 
ocean were not fufficient to drown or overflow the . ry land 
fo high as the fcriptures fay it was at the deluge: feven 
or eight oceans, according to him, would fcarcely cave fuf- 
ficed. 
he ocean, penetrating the land at feveral ftreights, or 
ftraits, quits its name of ocean, and aflumes that of fea, or 
gulf ; to which are ufually added fome epithets, to diftin- 
guifh it: as Mediterranean fea, Perfian gulf, &c. In very 
narrow places it is called freights, finus. 
takes divers names, according to the sald 
oe on which it borders: as the Bri itith o ocean, ps 
» &c. According to Maty, the ocean may bec 
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modioufly divided into fuperior, or upper s and inferior, or 
wer. 
Ocean, Upper, which the — called the exterior, as 
environing all the known parts of the world, he fubdivides, 
ccording to the cele cardinal points, into the northern, 
sr ile eaftern, and w 
Ocean, Northern, called "aifo the glacial, frozen, and : 
thian, is ae part of the upper ocean next the north 
bounded on the fouth with the arétic circle, (hence eilled 
the Aréic ocean,) and the northern coafts of Europe, A fia, 
and America; and on the north with the inknowi lands 
about the 
It is pane the i icy or frozen ocean, becaufe thofe who 
a ee through it to China, &c, have 
opped w the ice: and Scythian ocean, 
becaufe it wafhes the ne of io a ‘See Frozsn 
N, Weftern, or f{tlantic, is that part of the grand 
ocean sere ay the weftern coatts of Europe and Africa, 
ts the eafter rica, extending from the ar@tic circle 
o the sjmuog ale or, more gen erally ‘peaking, i is that which 
ase e the ancient contine the new. 
AN, Southern, or P Earapan is that part reaching from 
the equinodtial to the wn antardlic lands } art 
fouthern pole is called the ar in 
only a continuation of the Paci fic, Pane. aa Indian 
— 
Ocean, Eaflern, or Bea has its firft name from its 
fituation ist the eaft ; s latter tu India, the oid 
country it wafhes. It ne ie he coaft of Aja 
the Ifle aux Latrons, i. ¢. of Thte 
It wathes the fhores of the ne coaft of Africa, and 
the fouth of Afia, and is bounded on the eaft by the Indian 
iflands, = the fouthern continent. 
Ocean, Inferior, or American, is that vaft part of - 
rand cea which wafhes the coaft of America; unknow. 
in great agai at leaft, to the ancients. It is divided i fan 
three parts, v: 
The North “tea, which wathes the eaftern ioe of America, 
from the ardtic circle to the tropic of Capric 
The Magellanic fea, extending from the ame of. Capri- 
corn to the Terra aftralis incognita. 
The South fea, or Pacific, which wafhes the weftern coatts 
of America to the eaft, as far as the ifle of Thieves; and 
from fouth to north, from the tropic of Capricorn to the 
land of Je 
he Pacific ¢ ocean, in its whole extent, occupies rage 
half the furface of the globe, from the eaftern fhore 
New Holland to the weftern coafl of etn "This 0 
is Leatale aie with feveral yroups of iflands, which aioe 
e the ea be vaft mountains emerging from the waves. 
See PaciFic 
Ocean, “or va Saltnefs of the, fee asia oe 
Ocean, for the Tides obferved in the, fee Trp 
Phil. Sachfius, in 1664, printed adi ffertation, intitled 
“© Oceanus Microcofmicus,” dedicated to Bartholine; where- 
in he fhews that there is a circular motion in the waters, like 
that of the blood in the human body ; that they all come 
from the ocean, = return ee again. The ee is So- 
lomon’s, Ecclef. See Varour, SPRING. 
OCELLATI peecre in a Natural ii, Tae a name given 
by the eel fometimes to exprefs certain itones found 
in the be and natu 
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0 fhap the groove of the eye, made 
- by art for children to fy ae and, of the nature of what 
we 
