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forts may be flipped any time in open weather, from = 
autumn to the early fpring, and others ‘almoft any tim 
w hey occur; planting them by dibble, the a 
ones in alu eds, in rows fix nook inches afunder, 
to have a year’s ereans and the larger ones at once where 
they are oe rem 
But in fever forts of under- tabby perennial plants 
off-fets from the 
off in setae and, previous to planting thofe o tender 
kinds, be laid on a Gry fhelf for fome days, t till i: Suilae 
at bottom is dried up; then planted in pots of dry foil, 
and managed according to their different kinds na habits 
of growth. ee SUCCULENT NTS. 
Off-fets are never produced from annual plants of any 
- 
t the particular management that is requifite in the 
different kinds is more fully explained under the culture of 
the sete to which it be ongs. 
ETS, in Surveying, are perpendiculars let fall, and 
meafured from the ftationary ae to the hedge, fence, or 
extremity of the inclofure. 
FF-SET Staff, a rod, or rie te ba! convenient length ; 
for inftance, of ten links of the 
his ftaff is a into ten cava parts. Its ufeis for 
the ready meafuring the diftances from the ftation line of 
things proper to he sioner in aplan. See CHain 
OFF-TRACING. See Catauinc, CounTER- i 
ing, DESIGNING, and PENTAGRAPH. 
OFF-WARD, in the Sea Language, the fame with con- 
trary to the fhore: thus they fay, the /bip heels off-ward, 
when, being aground, fhe heels towards the water-lide ; she 
A lies with is fern to the off-ward, and the head to the fbore- 
when her ftern is towards the fea, and head to the 
‘OFVANAKER, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 
the province of Helfingland; 37 miles W. of Soderhamn. 
Ve a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 32 
miles N.W. of Pite 
OGBUCKTOE, a fettlement on the E. coaft of La- 
— N, lat. 55° 55’. 
DEN, SamvueEt, in Biograph , a learned divine of the 
church of England, was born at Manchefter in 1716. 
Having been inftruéted in grammar- -learning at the free- 
{chool in his native town, he was entered of King’s colleges 
in the univerfity of Cambridge, from which houfe he re- 
moved to St. ye 8 sae in the year 1736. He took his 
gree 0 1738, — in the following year was 
elected fellow of hie college. 1740 he received deacon’s 
and ordained prieft. 
mafter of the free-{chool * * halifax j in Yorkfhire, which he 
univerfity of Cambridge. 
his return, he took the degree of doétor o 
that occafion recommended himfelf fo ftrongly to the duke 
a 
prefented to the reGtory of Lawford in Effex, and alfo t 
that of Stansfield in Suffolk. Dr. Ogden had pete 
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ed in the year 1778, in the fixty-fecond year of his 
is fermons are nimated, and itriking. 
thor rifes to the fublime, and fometimes 
ath s. His 
umes octavo, 
with a memoir eae) to which the reader is referred for 
further particulars. 
OGEE, or Oa, in ArchiteGure, a moulding, confifting is 
two members, the one concave, the other convex, the fam 
with what is otherwife called cymatium. 
Vitruvius makes each member of the ogee a quadrant of 
a circle ; Scamozzi, and fume others, make them fomewhat 
jee and ftrike them from two equilateral triangles. 
a figure of the ogee bears fome refemblance to that of 
= 
OGEE, in Gunnery, an ornamental mow'ding in the fhape 
of an S, ufed in guns, mortars, and howi 
eter in Geography, a river rae America, in 
eorgia 5 s §. of Savannah river, the courfes of 
which rivers are parallel to each other. It rifes near the 
Appalachian mountains, and difcharges itfelf into the fea, 
oppofite to the N. end of Offaban ifland; 18 miles S. of 
Savannah. 
GELSTROMEN, a river of Sweden, which rifes in 
the mountains bordering on Norway, and runs into the An- 
germann, near n. 
OGENDOW, a town of the Birman empire; 10 miles 
S.W. of Segongme 
OGE RSKOL, a: a town i Ruffia, in the government of 
Perm; 52 miles W. of Per 
irene a a —_ and of Japan, in the ftrait between 
Niphon and Xic 
OGGI ANO, 2 a town of sale in the department of the 
Lario; 11 miles E.S.E. of Com 
M, or Ocum ea, among the Irifh anti- 
aries, are certain characters found on monuments, and on 
old writings of a cr yptographic, or ftenographic nature: 
thefe antiquaries oi that their origin 1s very remote, 
and that their eeapire proves the juftice of the claim which 
the Irifh mak the ufe of letters at a period long ante- 
cedent to he ec ae they were = introduced into the 
other Weftern nations of Euro In an account 
and defcription of the Oghams, eee it is propofed to 
ort difcuffion on this important point 0 
and common a ale. 
are of the firft importance and nece sty ja in every antiquarian 
inveftigation, but they are moft indifpenfably neceflary, 
bjects of Celtic antiquarianifm are involve 
According to the moft accurate and beft informed writers 
on the fubjeét of Irifh charaéters, there were three kinds of 
Ogums ; firft, Ogum beith, where bA, or the Trith letter 
Leith, the firft confonant, is ufed inftead of the vowel a. 
To this Ogum, the name of Ogum confoine is is n. 
Tis, 
