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OLFACTORIUS Nervus, in Anatomy, the nerve of 
the firft pair, which is diftributed in the nofe, and in which 
the fenfe Ss {melling — — NERVE. 
OLGSKOI, in 
ele aa of ners 
S. of Ka- 
to f Ruoffia, the 
Gengrapiy, 2 on the Latcha lake; 3 niles 
HOH, aa of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 
jas; 66 miles S.S.E. of Mecca 
OLIANA, a town of Spain, in the province of Cata- 
lonia; 7 miles N.W. of Sol 
POUR; a ane of Bag eae of the circar 
i 195 miles N. axe) cutta. t. 
ong. 89 42' = Allo, a tv ‘of Eindestan, 
in Dowlatabad ; 3; 20 miles N.W. 
LIAROS, in Ancient Geo nes a {mall ifland in the 
number of the pele t tated near to and W. of Paros, 
faid to be a colony o 
O IAS, in Le a fall but very agreeable, town 
rom Madrid to Toledo, two league 
plac 
which affords any Fruit bearing trees. 
O » in Ancient Geography, a town of fs in the 
Tarragonenfis, and in the country of the Ber 
OLIBANUM, in Pharmacy, a kind of sat refi, ufually 
called male FRANKINCENSE ; which fee. 
t has its name olftdanum, "quai oleum eee 3 becaufe dif- 
tilled in form of an oil, from the bark of a tree growin 
ount Lebanon: the Juniperus Lycia. It is caloted pe! 
m the 
in in Arabia, and imported i in chefts and cafks 
iftalled sone it affords a 
and depofition of the oy ee matter, 
-e main diffolved: ether takes ae more than 
one-half, lea ane after evaporation in water a very pur 
ey anda refin; and the undiffolved part, become shite 
nd opaque, is almoft entirely foluble in water, forming a 
Hence olibanum appears to confift of refin, 
milky folution. 
Tor its other properties and ufes, 
gum, and a volatile oil. 
fee FRANKINCENSE. 
OLIBATO, or Lisarra, in he he a river of 
Africa, which runs into the fea, E. of Cape Lopez Gon- 
falvo, forming a bay at its mouth. This river is an to 
abound with raagresia —Alfo, atown of Africa, in Lower 
Guinea, on -named river, containing about 309 
houfes ; 361 ae T. or Cape Lopez Gonfalvo. 8. lat. 1° 
. long. 10° 54! 
‘OLICANA, in Ancient Geography, a town of the ifle o 
Albion, in the country of the us oe was Gtuated 
at Ilkley, on the river Wherfe, in Yorkfh 
NT’s, OLIPHANT’S, or Elephant River, a river 
of Africa, on the weflern coaft of the oe of Good Hope, 
a after collecting the ftreamlets e firft chain of 
ountains in its northerly courfe along their fet, difcharges 
stfel into the Southern | Atlantic, S. lat. ol. Th 
navigation of this eras is impéded by a reef of se acrofs 
its mouth. Olifant’s river, which is a fine clear ftream, 
Stellenboleh and Drakenftein. This valley, being interfected 
by numerous rills of water from the mountains on each fide, 
is extremely rich and fertile; but the great dittance from the 
Cape, and the bad roads over the Cardouw, prefens little 
encouragement for the farmer extending the cultivation’ of 
grain, eh or wine, beyond the necefflary fupply of his 
is ae only place in this route | 
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own family. Dried fruit is the principal article they fend to 
the market, after the fupplies which they furnith, of horfes, 
orned cattle, and fheep. The coma on each fide of the 
lower part of the river is dry and barren, and for many 
miles from the mouth entirely cabana. A chalybeate 
ring of hot water, of the temperature of 108° of Fahren- 
opes, jackalls, hares, and partridges are v 
Ae dues the ae divifions of Stellenbofch al are 
arrow’s ica, vol. 
“OLI GACTIS, in ‘Natal cath a name given by 
innzus, and other a gen 2 ftar-fifh, confifting of 
thofe which have fener ian five ra 
OLIGA A, the name of a oe of cryftals. 
The oes is he from the Greek a a few, a 
e column and pyramid being both pentangular, 
‘he whole con only of ten planes, not, as the common 
ind, of twely 
OLIGARCHY, formed from osy@, few, and a 
aaa a form of government, wherein the admi et 
the hands of a few perfon 
e fe es of Venice and Genoa may be ranked among 
oligarchies. 
Oligarchy amounts to much the fame thing with arifto- 
cracy ; unlefs perhaps the former imports a kind of defeé& 
or gee as if the fovereign power were ta ee 
ree perfons, in prejudice of the mghts of a great 
ouica ete in separ fo named by Mr. Brown, 
ecaufe of the ftamens 
Or Eprite, | Brown. 
Ch. Calyx in four deep fegments, with two fcales 
Corolla four-cleft, its fegments not imbricated 
Stamens within the tube. Germen 
at cn eae 
red by Mr. Brown on the fouthern 
A {mall, uprigh’, much branched 
rub. Leaves aa imbricated, minute. Spikes termi- 
nal, ere vie mall, white, with four fcales, or nec- 
taries, dadeey 
paradoxica "1 lat in its artificial characters not much 
unlike the natural order of Odine, but im habit totally 
different. Sr. 
OLIGOTROPHEROS, among the Greeks, a name 
given to the finer fort of bread mace of the fineft flour.— 
They called it by a _name on of the little fhare of 
nourifhment it conveyed y of diltinGtion a? it, 
called the brown bread pie. or much nouri, 
A, in re a a town of Poland, in Wolecuay 
23 miles N.E. of Lucko. 
OLIKAN, a {mall ifland of Ruflia, in the Penzinfkoi 
fea. N. lat.60°16’. E. long. 155° 3 
OLIL, a town of africa, in Calbari: on the Rio del 
Rey. N. lat. 
PIAS a oo of i aes Turkey, in the Morea ; 
32 miles S.S.E. of Chiarenza 
OLIMPO, 
