OGI 
ghat language ; and as it was applied by the ancient Celts to 
their god of eloquence, the ee in . tae i ity, has 
— to the character of this But ord 
Og 8 fo fimilar to it, both in fou 
Hetle soibe can be entertained that “ Hercules Ogmius (to 
a oy — of Key er) non alius fit, quam Jiteratus, 
wens.’ So far this art io eee writing ma 
well as the name of the Irifh alphabet, may be difcovered, is 
too wild and ridiculous to claim a moment’s inveftigation or 
notice ‘ 
O, in Geography, a {mall ifland in the South 
Pacific ocean, weft of Annamooka 
Pie 
DOO, a town of Bengal; 24 miles $.W. of Ram- 
es OGIER, ‘CHARLES, in Biography, a man of learning, 
n at Paris in 1595. He ftudied fir . at Bourges, 
alence to 
y to the ae courts. 
m, Suecic icum, Po in 
ii Memmii, Comiti ‘Avauxii, ad 
ex oo Legati.”” This wo 
iculars of the manners and cu 
toms, the eminent f the countries vifited 
by the author, and likewife of the negociations of the count 
vaux. It is interfperfed with Latin verfes. Ogier died 
n 1654. e had a brother Francis, an ecclefiaftic, who 
ead ie count d’Avaux, when he w 
nicum , cu 
a 
ne — 
ohadac 
r 1600, at or 
palea <e was a branc 
family, became a prifoner for debt in the king’s bench, and 
was unable to give his fon a liberal education: he, there- 
fore, bound himfelf an apprentice to a dancing-mafter in 
ondon, and was afterwards employed in the family of the 
earl of Strafford, who appointed him deputy-maiter of the 
revels at Dublin, where Ogilby erected a theatre. To his 
r it is mentioned, that w 
on ith the firft money which he 
earned, he his’ parent from 3; an act of filtal 
piety deferving of higheft commendation. y 
in the h 
various 
of Hom d Virgil. His Homer, though a very 
bad Geaallat os, had. the honour of being a great Beoue 
nd a nesting ha 
OGN 
with Pope in his childhood, and is thought to have kindled 
the poetical flame in his breaft. e cuts to his tranflation 
of Virgil were fae valued, and ferved for a {plendid edi- 
H ifhed 
tion of that a magnificent edition of 
the bible with coleiee for which-he was remunerated by th 
houfe of ‘ I was appointed to conduét the 
the king’s coronation, of which he peau 
mpous pee in folio, with plates. He had the mis- 
nee to lofe his whole property in the great fire of ‘Loe 
don; after which he obtained the appointment of his ma- 
jefty’s cofmographer and geographic printer, in which 
capacity he printed fome volumes of his great Atlas. 
alfo publifhed an account of Japan; and an account of the 
great crofs-rcads of the kingdom, from his own adtual 
furvey and menfuration by the wheel, which was for a con- 
fiderable time a ftandard work, and paffed through many 
editions. 
r Oc Arches, in reali ale are arches 
branches of a ’ Gothic vault, which, in lie 
bn diagonally from one angle t 
the other arches a make the fide of the fquares, 
whereof the ogives are an nals. 
The middle, ee the pais cut or crofs each other, is 
called the feyy which is fometimes carved in form of a rofe, 
or a cul d The members or mouldings of the 
ogives are patie nerves, Lael or reins; and the arches 
which feparate the ogives, double 8. 
RPE, James, in + Bicgrapy an Englifh 
— born in Weftminfter about the year 1688, was the 
on of fir alee Oglethorpe of Godalmin in Surrey, 
affeGtion in the reign _ William and 
who was accufed of 
eae an ae de-ca: 
ned hom and obtained a feat i in the honfe of commons, 
vol. i. and ii. ee ean Mag. 
ees in Geography, a county of Georgia, in 
America, on the north fae of Alatamaha river, welt of 
Liberty county; containing 9780 inhabitants, of whom 
3089 oa flaves. 
OGLIASTRO, a town of the ae = Sicily, in the 
valley of Magara; ; 9 miles Pale 
OG , ariver of Italy, which rife in ae bifhopric of 
Trent, and joins the Po at Bergo For 
Octo. See Our 
GMO, in Cay, a town of sae Siam, on the 
eaft fide of ie gulf. N. lat. 13° - 101° 48), 
O MU, a town on the weit con of the iflind of Leyta. 
N. lat. 10° 55’. E. long. 124° 30'. 
OGNATA, a town of Spain, in Guipufcoa; 3 miles 
S.W. of Segura. 
OGNI, a dluiter of five {mall oe in the Grecian 
Archipelago, between the ifland of ai the coaft of 
Natolia. N. lat. 38° 33’. E. long. 26" 
OGOA, 
