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miftakes, but it was no {mall thing gained to have = {crip- 
iven in the vernacular language of the 
came out at Gen 
Olivetan’s in the Gothic character, are now exeeedingl 
fcarce. 
R, Serapuim, a learned French ecclefiaftic, 
as pro moted to the purple in the early id . the 
fee century, was born at Lyons in the yea 
He ftudied the civil oo canon law at Bologna, fied one 
he went to ens d obtained the patronage of pope 
i se ‘him auditor and dean 
Eleme ILI., of whom the latter, in 16¢ 
him the title of patriarch of Alexandria, and raifed him to 
the facred college, at the recommendation of king Henry IV 
e was lkewife nominated to the bifhopric of Rennes in 
B apie e died in he age of feventy-one 
d for the 
repare prefs ¢  Decifiones Rote Rom 
| were printed at Rome 14, in two volumes folio, 
and were reprinted at Frankfort in the following year. 
rade 
rer, Craupe Marruieu, advocate of the par- 
He was 
ee 
or Bofluct, an then abandon himfelf to a life of frivelitg 
and diffipation. He died in 1736, at the age of 35. 
had a chief hand in the eftablifhment of the academy of 
Marfeilles, and was of courfe one of its original members. 
He publifhed (1) < L’ Hiftoire = frat se Roi de ee 
doine, et Pére ae ndre le Aa 0 vols, 
has fo ably haadie d the ittory of the 
ifferent nat 
aRoms; but the conduat of the 
ne 
heir me and cu 
FP 
mains a les Marfeillois duane se Cue one = Gau- 
ois.’ 
OLIVIN, Volcanic Chryfolite, Peridot sranuly “bali 
ally, in Mineralogy, a {pecies of Chry/olite ({ee Cury- 
SOLITE), the colour of which is between afparagu aa 
olive-green, and which, by expofure to the weather, t conte, 
It occurs sg ae in bafalt, fometimes 
n rectangular ica 
luftre varies internally between ianierne and fh 
Its fra€ture conchoidal, 
uc ttle 
eafily frangible. Sp. gr. 3.22 to 3.2 early infisfible 
before the blowpipe, without additio on, and “ofee { its colour 
by digeftion in nitric acid. The analyfis of it by Klaproth 
is as follows: 
neva in 4550, copies of which, as well as of 
OLM 
to sz. Silex 
— 38.5 es 
0.20 
— 
Oxyd of iron 
7 
Lofs 2.25 
It is eafy of decompofition, and to this circumftance many 
bafalts owe their pordus texture. Olivin is found very 
peep! ia Bohemia and other parts of ra y> and 
alfo in France, Britain, Norway, and Sweden. Aikin’s 
AROWSTOW, in Geography, a town of Poland, 
in the palatinate of Brzefc; 14 miles E. of Brzefc. 
OLKILUOTO, a fmall ifland on “the E. Pas of the 
gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 61° 15!._ E, long. 21° 19, 
OLKINIKYI, a town a aie in the cee of 
Troki; 22 miles S. of Tro 
WITZ, or a wie aila . Moravia, in 
the circle of Znaym ; ; gmiles N.E. o 
O SZ, or InKusx, a town °F Pola ie in the pala- 
tinate of Cracow ; omy celebrated for its mines; 16 
miles N.W. of Crac 
LA, ariver of ¢ Germany, which runs into the Wefer ; 
17 a aa Brem 
n M is 
yt a » was the pot in which the priefts 
boiled ne Sie of the victim 
ms that — bats to them. 
OLLBRUCKEN, in Geography, a rance, in 
the department of the Rhine and Moelle, Le ae capital of 
a lordthip, in the eleCtorate of Cologne ; 18 miles N.W. of 
Coblentz. 
OLLERIA, a town id oe in the province of Va- 
lencia ; as miles S. of St. pe. 
OLL ee a ax eae harbour on the coatt of 
Peru ; a lat. 14° 36! 
OLLET, in ea Economy, a term applied to fuel of 
any k 
RGUES, in ae ed a town of France, in 
the department of the Puy-de- e, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftrict of per bert; 9 miles = NW. of 
Ambert. The place contains ae nd the canton ee 
a on a territory of 1474 ome | in § com- 
OLLIOULLES, a town of France, in the department 
of the ven = chief place of a canton, in the diftriG of 
oulon 3 4 mi . of Toulon e place contains 2591, 
and the cetaa 44463 inhabitants, on a territory of 195 
iliometres, in mmunes. 
OL YA, a town of Bengal; 30 miles S.W. of Rogo- 
ae er 
LMAN, a or ifland on the W. a - the gulf of 
Bothuis N. lat. 61° 38". E. long. 17° 
OLMEDI LLA. a town, or rather villas, of Spain, in 
New . od on the road from Madrid to Valencia, 
and haif way on the royal route leading to thofe two 
capitals. 
OLMEDO, a es town of Spain, feated on an emi- 
nence in front of an extenfive plain: it was formerly fur. 
walls, of which fome remains are fill vifible ; 5 
ntings. 
place was more eeredeibie but is now reduced to the 
number of 2000 inhabitants, who carry on no other traffic 
than 
