OLN 
than that which is derived from their brick-kilns. In its 
ESTA, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland ; 
30 miles S.W. of Linkioping. 
OLMETO, a town of the ifland of Sardinia; 7 miles 
N. of Alghieri. ene a town of the ifland of Corfica ; 
7 miles W. of Tallan 
OLMETTA, a on of Corfica; two miles S.W. of 
Oletta. 
OLMOS, Fr. Anpres De, in Biography, was born near 
Oria, in the diftri@ of Burgos, in the latter part of th 
fifteenth century, and was brought up in the houfe of a 
married fifter at aaa near Valladolid, from which place 
he took his name. the age of twenty he took the Fran 
cifcan habit in the Penn at Valladolid. He diftinguifhed 
himfelf by his 1s ap to theological ftudies, and was 
fent by Charles V. as 0 the inquifitorial commiffioners 
againft the witches of Bia. He acquitted himfelf fo 
much to the fatisfa@tion of his companion Zumatraga, that 
when the latter was gaia bifhop of Mexico, in 1528, 
he took Olmos with him to the new world. Here his 
zeal was wifely dire€ted, and he began a feries of labours 
which entitle him to the refpeét of pofterity. He found it 
neceflary to learn four languages, viz. the Mexican; 
Sat eal s the Tepehua ; and the Guaxteca. 
firft he @ grammars and vocabularies, gpa have been of 
elena: fervice to other miffionaries. s author of 
very many religious tracts, in the different igi of the 
tribes among whom he pafled the greater part of his life, 
enduring with patience and fortitude every kind of privation 
and difficulty. e live 
died in Odtober 1 1571. 
o 
upon Herefy, by o de 
Papi eee n the Tofirumental Mufic of the Anions, in 
of the joints of the ancient flutes, an 
hae the aes joint or embouchure. Sce Bompyx 
L "Z; in Geography, a city and capital of the mar- 
quifate of Moravia and of a circle of the fame name, feated on 
firft 
the river wa, the royal Gorsug a: and fee of a bifhop, 
furrounde gy the river. It is a fortified, well-built, and 
opulous town ; divided into the Old an Town, an 
containing twenty-fix churches, five chapels, feven cloifters 
of monks, and two of nuns, feveral hofpitals, a correction 
and an orphan-houfe, a college and feminary, an ave ye 
earne 
eae 17° 
GLNEY r OvuLNeEy, a market town and parifh i 
the firft divifion of the three hundreds of Newrort, a 
e town, ates 
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o 
In 
a whic d 
Baffet. Tae aie coatnutes the chief employment of 
OLO 
the inhabitants of Olney. The gh is held on poy 
every week, and there are three fairs annual 
ing to the ‘parliamentary returns of 
parifh contain 484 houfes, and a po pulation of 
ons. 
he spies of aa manor an- 
ciently belonged to the earls of Chefter, from sts it paffed 
to the two families of Albini and Baffet. It afterwards 
or 
who was flain at the battle of Agin- 
Upon this ent it reverted to the crown, and con- 
Its 
court. 
tinued part of the royal demefnes till the year 1638. 
prefent proprietor is the earl of Dartmouth. 
eftorn-Underwood, a {mall village fituated about a mile 
fouth from Olney, was long the refidence of the celebrated 
poet Cowper, who died here on the 25th of O@ober 1800. 
Many defcriptions in his poem of the Tafk were drawn 
from the fcenery adjoining to this town. At Lavendon, 
two miles to the north, formerly ftood an abbey for Pre- 
monitratenfian monks, founded by John de Bidun, a baron, 
as pro 
tected by a caftle, a vettiges of which can ftill be traced. 
Raventton, to the weft of Olney, is noted as the birth-place 
of the [abe lord char celles Nottingham, who was ityle 
by his ace peers the Englifh Cicero, and who is charac- 
terifed by the late fir William Blackftone poate hes of firft 
rate be oe and fterling integrity. He died in 1682, after 
havi advanced to the dignity of an earl, and lies 
anal in ale church of this village, where is a magnificent 
canopy fupported by four black saad 
pillars af the Corinthian order. agna Britannia, by t 
Rev. Dan . F.R.S. aad Samuel lone 
efq. F. R.S. 4to. 
OLOBOK, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 12 miles 
S. of Kalife _ 
OC, atural Hiftory, a name given by the pe eople 
of the Philippine’ ands to os quail. It is like our’s in all 
refpects, but much {ma 
OLOCENTROS, a name given by the old Greeks to 
a {mall animal of the {pider kind, whofe bite was accounted 
rta the tae with the /olipuga, called from 
its flinging, or biting moft violently, in places, or feafons 
where the fun had th i S Africa, 
name fo olifuga was a corrupt riting that word, and 
this {eems alfo a falfe way oe seitg is word paves 
which fignifies the fame as /olifu 
O eas Geograp. tie a town of Mexico; 4o 
miles E.N.E Ms. 
ON A, a river of Italy, which runs into the Po; 12 
miles W. of Piacenza.—Alfo, the name of one of the twelve 
departments of Italy, formerly a part of the duchy of 
Milan, which is divided into four diftrif&ts, and contains 
above eed eae who ele& fifteen deputies. The 
capital is 
i EL a an ifland near the S. coaft of Nova Zem. 
bla, in the ftraits of Vaigatfkoi. N. lat. 70° 30’. E. long. 
NETZ, a town of Ruflia, built by Peter I., in 
visi is an ion forge 
dir 
ee ae N. lat, 61° ro’. E. long. 32° 38!. 
