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with numerous round branches, Leaves nearly feffile, about 
half an inch long, of a broad elliptical figure, with a notch 
at the end, {mo Flowers axillary, folitary, on fimple 
orter than the leaves, = aa thers 
witha few united ones, all on the fam 
defcribes the fruit as a capfule, bering tially eS 
the top, and invefted with the calyx. Th acai eee 
might, whe habe have the appearance of a er ule 
Brown 2.—** Leaves cblonginear, 
Stake fingle-flowered. *—Found n 
1 
es 
5. O. 
with a fa point. 
Port Jackfon, New S 
6. O. aphylla. Br. « Leavesnone. Spikes poly- 
gamous. iia red by Mr. Brown in the tropical part of 
New Holland. 
OL TA 7oon. in a ae a town of Hindooftan, in 
the Carnatic ; 15 miles E. of Tritchinopoly. 
A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in Cilicia 
Trachea, or mountainous Cilicia, ata certain diftance from 
os 
= 
° 
‘s 
ati, t 
Some medals of dis ancient sg! inform us that Olba had 
the title of ipo, or facred ; at Polemon, one of the 
fovereigns of Olba, took deg name of san Antony, in ho- 
nour of this Rom rof Rome 713, that 
hea 
The territory of Olba feems to have been 
both extenfive and fertile ; it was watered by many ftreams, 
Under 
an epifco of Hera 
ae it Gleaee to dss diftri 
OLBASA, at of Afia, 3 in Pifidia —Alfo, a town of 
Antiochan Cappadocia, The name was alfo affigned to 
three towns in Afia Min 
OLBEGO, in Caan a town of —_ in Old 
Cattile ; 20 miles 
OL RF, t on 
4, 
OLBIA, in Ancient Geography, a maritime lowe on the 
E. coaft of the ifland of Sardinia; with a port. It was 
built by the Greeks com to Paufanias, and as Flo 
fays, ravaged by —Alfo, a town fituated in ‘the 
fouthern part of eels. built, fays Liv » by Tolau 
Alfo, a town of Gallia Na rbonnenfis, on the fea-c att; 
founded by the Marfilians, sein ae the Stecades iflends, 
_ they kept a garrifon to guard againft pirates.—Alfo, 
a town of Sarmatia, ers Olbiopolis ce Miletopolis, now 
“ Kezikirman,” fitua at the pee att of the 
and Boryfthenes. eee colon i 
town of Afia, in Bithynia, called « : Oliba, ”? on the rivers 
of the Propontide.—Alfo, a town of Afia, in Pamphylia, 
on the confines of Lycia 
OL M, in Geography, a town of ones in the 
palatinate of Cracow; 28 miles N.N.W.o 
Y; 
n of France, in the department ‘of the 
Puy de Déme ; nine miles W.S.W. of Cler 
OLCADES, in Ancient Geography, a ee isle who oc- 
cupied the interior of Hither Spain ; their territory was ex- 
tenfive, and lay to the fouth of the Carpetani. 
OLD Agczg. ge Ace, and Loncevrry. 
a iat See ASTRONOMY. 
Buffs, in Miltary Language, a name given to the 
riment of foot. This regiment was put on the re- 
gular fablifiment of the army in the year 1665, and de- 
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fiominated the « Buffs,”” from being the firft whofe accoutre- 
ments were — “- foram! prepared from the buffalo, after 
e manner of he w: 
in. ‘The uniform is red, with buff facings, buff 
waiftcoats and breeches. rty-firft erat, which 
has the fame uniform, is commonly called the “« Youn 
uffs.’ 
Oxp Jmpofition of Tonnage. See sik 
D Man’s Beard, in Botany. . 
ie mee ie in Rural Economy, opal word fignifying 
kim-m 
Oi Soke See Sryi 
aa See ome DY. 
ife Fifh, in Ichthyology, a name by which a — 
of balities is called in feveral of our plantations. See Aca 
, Ox-Wife is alfo a name given to the wraffe, a {pecies of 
a 
Op Works, in al are fuch that are either fallen in 
or sont unwrou 
t Bay, in Geography, a bay on we 5. coaft of 
Canad, on niece ver St. Santen : ce. N. lat, 26'. 
long. 58°.—Alfo, a bay at the 'S. end of the ifland of St. 
Lucia. — Alfo, a ‘clufer he {mall iflands in the gule of St. 
Lawrence. N. lat. 51° W. long. 57° 45'. 
Op Cape iil pe feos the N. point of Colbeck bay, 
of the ifland of St. m 
e de la pra 
arbou “tare the S, 
an ay Royal, “having fay fhoals ae iffands at its en- 
"Ons > He ad, a cape on the S.E. coaft of Shea: one 
of ee Orkney iflands. N. lat. 58° 37/, W. long. 2° 4y/. 
Op Man, a cape on the W. coalt of Africa. S. lat. 
14° 40!, 
Op Man's Bay, eek on the S. coaft of Newfoundland ; 
80 wiles E. of Cape ae 
OxLp Man’s Creek, ver of New Jerfey, which dif- 
sek itfelf into = Dekware and feparates the counties 
f Sal oa Glou 
LD nm + Port, iy northward of — river, in Peru; 
oa or nine fae N. adavayllo r 
p Nabb, a cape of eo tore on ie coaft of York- 
fiize, nine miles N.W. of Whitby. 
Otp Peak, a cape of Sean on the coaft of York. 
ire ; nine miles N.N.W. of Scarborough. 
Orv R oad, a town and harbour in ihe ifland of An- 
LD Town, atown of the ftate of New York, on Staten 
(land; 12 miles S.W. of New Yor 
Oxp Road Town, a town of the ifland of St. Chriftopher, 
in a bay that has from five to fifteen fathoms of water near 
the fait five ra W. of Baffle Terre. N. lat. 17° 25". 
ong. "62° 
p Town, a ‘town of the ftate of Georgia; 16 miles 
S.8. E. of Louifville, 
Oxp Town Creek, a river of North Carolina, which runs 
into’Cape Fear river. N. lat. 34° 8'. W. long. 98° ol. 
