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hiftorians and writers on public law; 2. _ se 
publicarum totius Orbis,” in four volumes 8vo., a work 
which, though imperfect, is ufeful, “partcaarly for in 
knowledge of modern kingdoms. ie e 
Rebus publicis peal in tranquil fta*um veducendia,” 
The author died a ain the year 1678. 
OLDENDORF, in Ca, a town of Weftphalia, 
in the principality of oes 20 miles N.N.W. of 
Gottingen . la ‘ lfo, a 
4 
town 0 Wefiphalia, in the cour! y of nee on the 
Wefer. N. lat. 52° 8. E. lo 
OLDENLANDIA, in Bary a name of Plumier’s, 
in his Nova Genera 42 s defigned to comme- 
morate Henry Bernard Oldenland, thee called a German, 
but who it feems was really a Dane. Having imbibed a 
tafte for botany, under the tuition of Herman at Leyden, 
he undertook a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, «bout 
the year 1695, for the purpofe of col!l-Ging plants, where 
he foon after died, at an early age. His herbarium came 
at length into the hands o ie Burmann family, and was 
taken to Upfal by the laft iran of that name, for the 
infpeCtion of Linnzus, who defcribed from thence many 
of his Plante Africans: Race in the Amoen. Acad. 
6. 
v. 
The original har sree paid! proving the fame genus 
with Hedyotis, and the name having obtained pre- 
cedence, we fhall efta ge one, upon three fpecies 
very erroneoufly referred to ihe former, ead generic cha- 
raGer being effentially different from Hepyorrs; fee tha 
article, where we have already adverted is a fubjeét. 
at. 
Clafs and order, Aig Digynia. rd. | Suecu- 
lente, Linn. Saxifrage, 
Gen. Ch. Cal. a fuperior, of five equal ae 
permanent. Cor. Petals five, alternate with, and 
an, the leaves of th yx, concave, obtufe. Stam. 
Filaments five, very fhort, erect; anthers roundifh. Pi 
Germen ‘inferior, large, globofe; ftyles two, sie b 
one, fpreading, aye eae of the flamens ; oi obtufe 
opening at the to a numerous, anes cient on 
two flat orbicular pil receptacles 
Eff. Ch. Calyx of five leaves. Petals five. 
inferior, of two cells, with many feeds. 
The parts of fru€tification are fo minute, that our 
imperfe& dried fpecimens do not allow us to {peak with 
precifion refpeéting the chara&ters of this genus. It feems 
allied to Vahia, but we rather wifh to fubmit our remarks 
Capfule 
to thofe who may be able to examine the plants alive. 
1. O. dichotoma. (O. pentandra; Retz. Obf. fafc. 4. 22 
Willd. Sp. Pi. v. 676. Heuchera dichotoma; Murray in 
omm. Goett 1772 —Stalks two-flowered. 
Stems eae , much branched, leafy, round, 
ong. Leaves es oppolite, feffile, linear alia roughifh. 
d. Flowers 
Ybf. fafc. ve 23. 
ile.— 
elas. entire 
folitary or otherwife is not faid, and we hav © fen 0 au- 
thentic gras Seay einuies eae Sipe 
3- mel Sp. 6753 ee 
the Per ° RheedeLcoes os elpted faikeed, Stalks 
_ tion of the Country fan thirty to forty Miles round Man- 
chett 
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axillary, i in pairs, fing'e-flowered.—Native of the Eatt Indies. 
» and fomewhat heart-fhaped at the bafe- 
OLDENZEEL, in Geography, a hats of Holland, ir 
the departnrent of Overiffe ,» the capital of che country of 
Twente; 40 miles N.W. of Mu = N. lat. 52° 24’. 
E. long. 6’ 
SLOHE, a town of the duchy of ag 
oe has falt- works 5 1 5 miles W. of Lubeck. N. lat 
lo 
ei ong. 1 
ofbH AM, fous, in Biography an Englith poet of the 
feventeenth century, was born hipton, in Gloucefter- 
fhire, in 1653, of which parifh his father was minifler. He 
was educated in grammar learning at Tetbury-{chool, and in 
1670 was entered at St. Edmund’s hall, Oxford. After 
an abode of four edd at the univerfity he became ufher of 
the free-fchool at Croy: 
The Popifh plot re the article QaTEs) induce 
write his ‘ue fatires againft the hina 
to this made himlelf known as a poe 
William Hicks, and when ine had fitted his pupil for foreign 
travel, he went to London to cultivate his comne&tions amon 
- eee and men of wit aa that city. He was foon intro- 
William, 
his memory in the church p 
was se! obtained by his ie ie ae frit ted aa indignant 
vein o ich gave him the appellation of the Englifh 
Juvenal. "The are, how coe. coarfe in ae language, and 
harfh in their verification, but poffefs much vigour of ftyle 
and vivacity of defcription. Of the poems of Oldham, part 
were publifhed by hinfeif, - the reft after his death, under 
the title of «« Remains”’ An edition of the whole, with 
the author’s life, was given in two volumes. Biog. Brit. 
OxpHAM, in Geography, a market-town aad parifh in the 
hundred of Salford, a county palatine of Lancafter, Eng- 
land, is fituated on a branch of the river Medlock, at the dif- 
tance of fix miles ice Manchefter. The ground, 
the greater portion 
inhabitants 
population report o ’s Defcrip- 
er, 
