ONI 
According to tradition, this edifice was erected as a tem- 
orary fhrine for the corpfe of one of our ancient kings ; 
‘and Smart Lethieullier, efq. ftates that the body of St. 
Edmund, when on the way to its place of fepulture at 
St. Edmund’s Bury, was ‘entertained at Aungre (Qugar), 
where a wooden chapel ereéted to his memory remains to 
this day.”” Contiguous to the ater is the feat of Craven 
Ord, efq. one of the mafters in chanc 
At Fyfield, a mile north-eaft rae On ngar, a variety of 
Celts were difcovered in 1749 : and near Naveftock, a feat 
of the earl of Waldegrave, is an ancient monument, {uppofed 
by Stukeley to be a Druid temple of the kind which he 
called Alate. 
tes, four miles to the north of this town, was the feat 
buried under a plain altar in the on churchyard having 
an infcription upon it mden Hee 
tannia by Gough, 
Wale e8, vol. v. by 
— it. folio. Raines of Eagu ae 
. W. Brayley, and John Bitton 
‘ONGERCURRY, a town of — in the pro- 
vince of Cattack ; 22 miles E. of Guntoo 
ONG-KIN, a town of "Corea ; ; 58° miles S.W. of 
oan 
NG-LAKE, a river of Madagafcar, which runs into 
the bay of St. Auguftine 
ONGLEE, or OnexE, is ufed by the French heralds to 
denote the talons or claws of beafts or birds, when of 
colours different from the body. 
LET, in Ornithology. See Tawacra Siriata. 
ONGOA, in Geography, a town of ie in the country 
of Mocaranga ; 80 miles N.W. of Maffap 
rae one of the f{maller Friendly iflands; 6 
miles E.. of Nen 
ONG E. a circar of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic, E. 
of Cuddapa, and S. of Guntoor.—Alfo, the capital of the 
above ou fituated in the northern a of the edgier ; 
65 miles N. of Nellore. N. lat. 15°30’. E. long. 78° 
se ONGO. MANCAN, : 7 of Chinefe Tartary. N. 
lat. 43° 32'. E. long. 12 
ONI, a aes = Imir ta 3, bi miles N.E. of Cotatis. 
ONIDA, a {mall ifland 3 in the gulf of Venice. S, lat. 
E. nae vie 
AMOU, a harbour on the S.E. coaft of the 
ifland of Ulietea; N.E. of Ohetuna, a harbour on the fame 
NION, Caps, a cape on the S.W. fide of Newfound- 
land ifland, about four leagues W. of Quitpon ifland, or the 
northern point of that extenfive iflan 
River,.a river of America, in the ftate of Ver- 
mont, formerly called ‘¢ French River,” and by the Indians 
«s Winoofki,’? which rifes in Cabot, about 14 miles W. of 
Connecticut river, and is navigable for {mall veffels five miles 
from its mouth, in lake Champlain, between the towns of 
Burlington and Colchefter, and for boats between its feveral 
hae This is faid to be one of the fineft ftreams in Ne 
ut ; and it runs through a very fertile country, the 
ich, for fome miles on each fide of the ai 
is brought rea to the lake at Burlington. It is from 
to 30 rods wide, to the lower falls, and 1 
miles from its aa and its aaa = ne interval is 172 
feet, or about four feet ger mile. een Burlington and’ 
Colchefter it has torced a paflage ea h a folid as of 
lime-ftone, which at fome remote aie! mutt have formed 
at this place a prodigious cataract. The chafm is feats 
Vou. RXV. 
~ 
‘ONI 
70 and 80 feet in depth at low water, and in one place 76 
feet from rock to rock, where iteis traverfed by a wooden 
bridge. At Bolton there is a chafm of the fame kind, 
and the rock is at leaft 130 feethigh. From one fide feveral 
— have fallen acrofs the river, fo as to 
idge at low water, 
sah an object of curiofity. ‘The Indians formerly paffed 
along this river from Canada, when they made their.attacks 
on the frontier fettlements, on Connecticut river, orfe. 
ONJONG-MASS » atown o on the W. coatt of Su- 
matra, on the Line. E. long. 
» in Botany, “Garding Dietetics, and the 
ateria ered See ae 
Onion Ss 
NION “Shell, in Riad Zi ‘ftory, a _ given by authors 
to a peculiar kind of oyfter, which is of a rou figure 
and very thin and tranfparent and reprefents se exactly 
a piece of the peel of an See Ost 
ONIS, in Gengrapiy, a town of Spain, in Afturi 
fituated E. of Cangas de esi at the foot of a moentan 
and ia the little river Curad 
Onis, Cangas de, a town of Spain, in Afturias, 
fit eer at the confluence of on rivers, one of which, the 
Santa Cruz. 
ONISCUS, in Ichthyology, a name given by Athenzus, 
and others of the Greek writers, to the acipenfer, or 
fturge 
Oecus is a the officinal name of the whiting. See 
Gavvus Merlang: 
Oniscus, in “Entomology, a genus of infets of the order 
Aptera; of which the generic charatter is: Jaw pier ale 
denticulate ; lip bifid; the antennz are fetaceous, and ar 
the body i 
mo e them, 4 e 
lat feveral days; when the male = he = le with his 
two fore-feet, and drags her along wi m wherever he 
dire&ts his aad On the feventh hy fee impregnation 
the oun, e from the mother alive, and fwim about 
with vigour a alertnefs, ‘The fea onifci are {uppofed to 
be viviparous ; thofe of the land oviparous: the former are 
of a pale red colour for fome time’ after being excluded 
from a fell 
ivifion A. ‘Thefe have si feelers ; they have frequently 
four antennz, that are fe This ‘divilion comprifes the 
Cymothoa of Fabricius, a contains thirty-eight {pecies 
of which ten, as will be marked in the defcription, peed 
common to our own country. 
Species. 
This fpecies has the fegments of the body 
PARADOXUS. 
It is found in Terra del Fuego, and 
falcate aa fpinou 
is a large iniect. 
MBRICATUs. Anten 
claws; hind-thighs are. 
is large, oblong, and pale. 
Fatcatus. The as ea of the body of this are hid 
3 
nz compreffed ; legs furnifhed with 
It inhabits New Zealand : 2 it 
