O’M 
port from the common i a of mankind to fee fome- 
thing profound in the form and pofition of letters. Number 
has, “of courfe, as well z as form and pofition, a like allufion ; 3 
and, of all numbers, ¢hree and one bear the palm 
cifm with a curious variety of people. Thus the initial 
aleph and ace denoting one, denoted alfo, like the fingle 
jod of the Hebrews, and the dot or point of the Hindoos, 
the unity of the Supreme. Three in pontine were very 
myttiéal, either as ‘finals Zs a 3 no medial pofi- 
wy, bin, exhibiting three jods 
me 
trifula of the eaftern Siva, have been fuppofed to be con- 
pai with the allufions of this typical letter. This triune 
mblem denotes dominion over earth, fy, heaven, the tri- 
verbal bhurbhuvafwah, the “ great immutable words,”? as 
we have feen, of Menu, the Hindoo lawgiver 
Without prying farther into thefe fancied myfteries, let 
us look, for a moment, at the above obfcure text in Exodus, 
uttered, under awful circumttances, by the Deity, in unity 
of perfon. In our verfion it is rendered “I AM that [ 
iii, 14. The emphatic word fuall alae 
3 
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in capitals 
re- 
er words, one important letter ng 
of triunity, eielly comprehended in one awful triverbal 
phrafe, compofed of ie monofyllables all beginning 
with the thrice-recurring initial of unity. 
en, in this Jewifh gayatri, we find the triliteral 
monofyllabic-triverbal text, fo much admired by the Hin- 
oos, and combining all the literal triunities, initial, medial, 
and final, in every myftical variety of number, pofition, 
form, ob{curity, &c. that the moft enthufiaftic, in the pru- 
riency of his Imaginations can defire. We might farther 
notice the awful letter [, the initial and final, “ the alpha 
and omega, the firft and the laft’”? of Jehovah, tremendous 
name! that, like the om of the Hindoo, no Hebrew 
would utter, as the final of the jir/f and Jaf words of the 
above ‘ineffable text,’ alfo the pofition, &c. of the 
Ipha and omega, the beginning and the end, 
the firft and the lait,”’ in our fcripture. It occurs three times, 
and in the fir/? and /af chapters of the revelation of St. John. 
ut on thefe, and many other fimilar, and probably, acci- 
dental points, that might be hence myttically ‘ milked out 
as it were,’ we have, perhaps, faid enough to fhew wh 
thefe triverbal, &c. phrafes, fhould have been deemed fo 
myfterious by enthufiattic individuals, prone to regard ever 
thing obfcure as myfterious, and every thing mytterious as 
profoun 
It may be doubted if the received tranflation of the im- 
was an White n 
preaches, (Gi (Gites Life of Whitefield,) and fhews that he, 
OMA 
but fubftituted for Jehovah the other word, which anfwers 
to the Englifh word Lord. (See Horfeley’s Sermons, 
vol. iii.) It was refpeétfully alluded | to as the Name, the In- 
effable Name, the Name of four letters ; and in the Talmud 
the gers the ineffable text, &c 
1, in Geography, a rivee of Ruffia, which i 
clear, but black looking water, that runs into the Irtifeh, 
mfk. 
Om el] Mik, a — ifland in the Red fea, near the coaft 
of Arabia. N. lat. 22° 39/. 
OMA, one of a Molucca iflands, about g miles long 
and 6 wide, containing 11 rillages, the a da ef which 
bears the fame name, and about 5000 inhabita 
OMACHIS, ariver of Canada, which runs into lake 
St. Pierre. N. ‘lat. 6°16'. W. long. 72° 42’. 
H, a peft-town of the county of Tyrone, Ire- 
land, where the affizes are held. It is fituated on the river 
Cameron, and isnearly in the centre of the county. It was 
formerly the feat of an abbey. It is 863 miles N.N.W. 
from Dublin 
A, a name given by fome medical writers to 
the gout, when feated in the articulation of the humerus 
with the Wale 
ACA, in Geography, a town of South Ame- 
rica, in fe province of Tucuman ; 50 miles N. of St. Sal- 
vador de Jugui 
MAGU AS, a he of Indians, inhabiting the banks 
of the river Amazon, and converted to Chriftianity in the 
year 1686, by ie Fritz, a Spanifh miffionar 
flatten the hinder and fore Ds of A heads ie thei chil- 
dren, and thus give them 8 appea 
treat the ee ef other aston: ac Ge, ene them 
a ea 
the confluence of the Maranon 
and angen other called St. Joachim ; which fee. 
OMAN, ato eae capital of a province of the 
fame name ; coon of Mafcat. N. lat. 24°. 
E. long. 57° 20!. 
MAN, a province of Arabia, isa on the E. by the 
ocean, on the by the Perfian gulf, and on the W. and 
S. by extenfive defarts, It is poffeffed by ponanibe: of ia tage 
fovereigns, the moft confiderable of whom is the Imam of 
man, or . Several of thefe fovereigns ee the 
title of fcheich. The whole weftern nis a 
fandy plain, a day’ s journey in length, and extendin g from 
the village of Sib to the town of Sohar. 
ritories are mountainous to ae brink of the fhore. 
s N.W. 
whic Sohar ftands ; eee traverfing an arid plain, 
rainy feafon. 
ley, lentils, and different forts of grapes. Dates are fo 
abundant, that feveral fhip-loads of them are annually ex- 
ported ; and there is a variety of other fruits, and of pulp. 
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