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pellucid kind, and of a fet ee greenifh colour, with 
l other old 
a mixture of yello Pliny, and fom writers, 
€ aqua marine, cine it the derillus 
earlier writers very juftly determined it 
of gem ; ae ea very properly called it by a peculiar 
generical na 
OMPOMPANOOSUCK, in Geography, . furious but 
fhort river of Vermont, which, after purfuing a S.W. courfe, 
ea itfelf into the Conneéticut at Norwich, oppofite 
Dartmouth college. 
eres a town of Bengal; 21 miles W. of Cal- 
 OMRAU T 7 a town of Hindooftan, in the mapa 
of Berar ; 20 tile sS S.E. of Ellickpour. N. lat. 20°55!. 
E. long. 78 
OMSK, a town ne bea _ ee in the government 
ef Tobolik, on the r On, it unites with the Ir- 
tifch, built in 1716 a well Dee lored N. lat. 55° 
Ww. long. a4 
TCHOU, a river of Thibet, which runs into the 
Nitchon, near 'Tarendiang. 
GER /a Lumiere of a pipe, in Organ Build- 
ing, is foldering to the fides of the mouth two {mall plates 
of the fame metal; thefe plates are called ears. ce opening 
and clofing thefe ears, pipes of this kind are tun 
OMURA, in oe a town of i ae in the ifland 
of Ximo 3; 15 m of Nangafa 
ay ee ure, a provincial term employed to fig- 
nify mallee. when froken of land. It is often written 
oam 
ON, in ol a Geography, called alfo Onion and Onium. 
See HeELriop 
There were as cities of the fame name, the one, as 
Pliny terms it, interior, and the other oo of lefs 
note, really fituated in Arabia, and modern 
with the former. It lay to the E. of the 
um, which it received 
Onias a Jew, who built it. Onias, 
as it has been faid, having fled from his own country, had a 
world, he had ae to a prophecy . 18,19 
which he interpreted a3 favourable to his {cheme. Aceon 
to Scaliger, s to the choice of the prefecture 
f Heliopolis for ereCting his temple by this prophecy ; al- 
tering the expreffi to render it more favourable to 
his defign. His temple, however, was not founded in the 
nome of Heliopolis; and this name was given to it by a mif- 
take refulting from a jfumilitude that aur bau en the 
true name “ Onion,” and the * On,” or Helio- 
Of this he railed et ae eae the paflage 
ment of his temple. The 
the hie igs This j is Sole from the LXX, (Exod.i. 11. 1.) 
ds “* On, which is the city of the Sun,” are 
interpolated, in order to {upport the pretenfions of Onias, 
to prove that this was the name of the place which he 
ONA 
had founded. According to this account, the e cit y of Onias 
is faid S have been built when the Ifaclites had refided fome 
oul are prefumed to be the builders ; 
of the fa ame name, the ancient On ny 
which Br the LXX very properly tranflate Heliopolis. 
(See Gen. xli. 45.) i aermmeg er ag — given by 
Jofephus (Antiq. lib. xiii. c. 3.) of mple of Onias, 
and the occafion of its being built, By ee conceives that 
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refpedt to this was : fimilar to the ancient On 
or Heliopolis, chat i pee that name 3 a name which it 
never serene pre r it was bui It ; and then the prophecy 
as by “Oni as and his friends to eftablifh the 
temple ay fin ee and to 
extended even to the Chrittians, and they we 
Afinarii, ae ba with having an uy 3 head in yah 
churches object of worfhip. As this temple wa 
built 1 in imitation of that at Jerufalem, it did not long fur 
of ‘Trajan : 
deftroyed long before, probably w 
Samaria. See Bryant’s Ghee acione &e. Diff i. p. 124, 
&e. 
n the Beam, any diftance from the fhip ; or the wind is 
faid ow, w 4 on a line with the beams, or at right 
ey ia the kee 
ow, an 1 arch of the horizon, comprehending 
four cones of the compafs on each fide of that point to 
which the fhip’s head is direCted. Thus, feamen fay, the 
fhip in fight bears three points on the flarboard bow, that 1s, 
three points alone ae right hand from that part of the ho- 
uarter- 
cording to cee tack the fhip was on. See On the Bow. 
On-Stand, in re Mota a provincial term applied to the 
rent paid by the out-going to the in-coming tenant, for fuch 
portions of ground as the former has rightly cropped before 
his leaving the farm 
ONA, in Geograph by, a river of Ruffia, which runs into 
the Uda at Mongalova, in the government of Irkutfk.— 
Alfo, a ey hs eru, in the diocefe of Lima; 35 miles 
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ONABAS, 7 a pioen of Dae es in the pravince of 
Hiagni: 16 miles N. of Riochic 
ON R, in Zoolo "8 the name given by authors to 
onin Syria, and fome other 
the fame fpecies kept in ftables, and brought up to be do- 
meftic animals. The {kin of this creature is very robuft and 
durable, and makes the common fhagreen ante ufed by 
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