OCE 
we call marbles. Suetonius tells us, that Auguftus Cefar 
ufed ea to divert himfelf with playing nuctbus et 
ocella: 
The word Japidibus is underftood after the laft word, and 
the meaning of the aut and plainly is, ra he played like a 
oy, with nuts and m Bu e abundant tefti- 
he ace naturalifte of the aoa having been 
the which we now call oculus 
mong the ancients, — they had none but the true oculi 
beli, or fuch ftones as were of a particular {pecies, and were 
found i aaueally of die fhape and fize of an eye; but we 
e them much more common, becaufe our jewellers, when- 
ever ey find a natural {pot in an agate, furrounded with a 
white circle, cut it out from the reft of the ftone, and fell it 
as a natural oculus bell. 
LUM, in Ancient Geography, a promontory e 
Britain, generally fuppofed to be Spurn-head; and 
hang r, with great probability, thinks the name is derived 
from the Britifh word Ochel (Uchel) lofty. There 
very lofty mountain in Scotland, called Ocelli -mons, Ochill- 
hills, for the fame reafon. 
ELLUS, in Biography, an ancient Greek oe 
of the Pythagorean fchool, was a native of Lucania, whenc 
the furname of the L 
has come down to us entire; this has been 
fuppofed by Thomas Burnet to have a compiled from the 
from that of their original author. 
trine taught by Ocellusis abi by Dr. 
ment of Bruc ich we refer our readers. It 
are 
intelligible natures of Pythagoras es PyTHAGOREAN Syf- 
tem); and the do€trine o ellus concerning demons 
they inhabit the fublunar eae is effentially diffe 
that of Ariftotle, who fuppofed no fuch intelligences, except 
The work of Ocellus here referred 
nice in Greek w 
g: it has fince gone t 
the moft valuable is faid to "be that of Dr. 
with the verfion of Nogarola, and learned notes, in his “‘Opuf- 
cula a ea prmted at Cambridge in 1671. Moreri. 
Enfield’s Hift. Phil. 
OCELOT of Buffon, in Zoology, called by others the 
OCH 
Mexican cat, and by Hernandez cuniien is a {pecies of 
cat, or FEis Nabeul: id Laan Us 5 
Thi 4 {Cc 
th 
gena, and Brazil; retog the 1 mountains; is very voraciou ae be 
fearful mankind ; preys on young calves, and differen a 
forts of game ; lurks amidit the leaves of trees; and fom 
times nee itfelf along the boughs, as if dead, till the 
aia approaching to examine it, become its prey. Pen 
y 
5 
“OCHAGAVIA, in Geography, atown of Navarre; 23 
miles E. of Pamplon 
OCHAN, a ean of Ruffia, in the government of Perm, 
on the Kama ; : pas S.5.W. of Perm. N. lat. 57° 28’. 
E. long. 54° 
OCHEL, _ river of Silefia, which runs into the Oder ; 
nine miles below Beuthen 
OCHIL Hits, an extenive range of mountains in Scot- 
land, commence in the parifh of Dumblane, Perthfhire, and 
pafliag through ee along the north bank of 
in river Forth, ftretch for many miles into the county of 
Fife. Thefe hills nile for the moft part, abruptly from the 
Nast on their fouthern — and in fome places their afcent 
3 almo The w be cha- 
The 
y woods, and fometimes entirely 
enveloped in their andl fhade. The higheft hill of 
the Ochils is Bencleugh, which, according to Mr. Stobie, 
is 2450 feet in height. Fro m the fummit, the profpeé is 
extremely fine and eee: as no height intervenes even to 
the G 
P 
ling and Falkirk, with the river Forth meandering through 
peninfulated rock in che centre of a deep glen in 
this part of fhe ridge, provincially denominated the Alva- 
a ftand the venerable ruins of Caftle~-Campbell, belonging 
he family of Argyle. From si ard! and darkfome 
faa this pile was called the e of Gloom; and all 
the names of the a adjacent ea hone oe ftill are, fuitable, 
being feated in the pari olor, wafhed by the ftream o 
Sorrow, and enveloped by the glens of oe t was 
deftroyed in 1645 by the marquis of Montrofe, who carried 
fi d {word through the whove eftate, with fuch in human 
y a perfon of 
trefs is faid to have originally belonged. 
he il h re compofed of red and grey granite, 
whinftone, ~ various kinds of {chiftus; and contain nu- 
erous veins of the more ufeful minerals. Some portions 
of them canbe traces of a volcanic origin, great quantities 
of lava being difcovered on a pes or lying in immenfe 
aff he vale belo weftern divifion of thefe 
was made to work a filver mine, but after 
four years continuance the work was abandone 
Thi 
gl 
ae parifh of Alva. It was firft perceived in {mall rings of 
tilver 
