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OONELLA, one of the Fox iflands, about 7 leagues 
im cirumference, near the mouth of Sam iy harbour 
in Oonalafthka. The ifland of Acootan, of it, is 
eee larger, and has feveral high mouatains. See 
sAcoo 
OONEMAK, Oonimak, or Unimak, one of the Fox 
iflands, between Oonalafhka and Alafhka, about 200 miles 
E 
m ype t. 54° 30' to 55° . long. 
194° 30' to 196° 
Ona Cx, " See ONEMACK Point. 
OONGON ae a ails of Hindooftan, in Golconda; I 
around both walls runs a ditch. The 
rajah is a feudatory of the rajah of Jynagur, to whom a 
eines is paid of 3 ase maipere to the Siccar, and 5060 to 
the officers of governme 
NO, a town of om, in the ifland of Ximo; 25 
miles W. - Fun 
OOOA, one “Of the {mall Friendly iflands; 12 miles 
N.E. of Annamooka. 
OREY, a an of Hindcoftan, in the circar of Go- 
hud; 20 miles 8.S.W. of Calpy. 
OORGAUM, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad ; 
15 miles E. N.E. of A Amednagur. 
OORITCHYCOTTAMALLY, a town of Hin- 
dooftan, in Baramaul; 12 miles W. o oe 
O O, a kind of cloth made by the people of Ota- 
heite, and of other iflands in that neighbourhood, from t 
bark of the bread-fruit tree: the procefs of its manufacture 
which is a name 
fame manner. 
OORT, Apa Van, in Biography, was a painter of 
the Flemith fchool, who enjoyed cunfiderable reputation, 
but is made moft remarkable by ene had the honour of 
initiating the uncommon genius of Rubens in the art he 
practiifed. 
e was born at Antwerp in 1557, and was the fon of 
bert Van Oort, a painter of per{pedctive and architecture, 
Adam foon left his father’s humble walk, and attempted 
hiftory and portrait painting with fuccefs ; but he had ari 
= hee eee of nature, and having genius fuflicient to in- 
t a fyitem of his own, too clofely followed it ‘6. the lofs 
of juft feeling ‘and propriety. 
It was not only in his painting that he was a mannerift, 
but alfo in his oe 3 by the rough and unamiable hu- 
mour of which, he loft his friends and lived unhappily. 
Jordaens, who ae his daughter, and who probably by 
his affeCtion for her was induced to erraiae the rudenefs of 
Van Oort’s manners, was the only one of his numerous 
pupils who did not pall him: yet be lived to the great 
age of 84, dying in 1557. 
OOSCOPIA, wocxome, in An niga a fpecies of divi- 
nation, wherein predictions were made fr eg es. 
OSI, in Geography, a = a Japan in the ifland of 
Niphon; 24 miles 
IMA, a fmall ifand. of toa. near the S. coaft of 
N. lat. 34° 26’. E. long. 1139” 25'. 
Jacop Van, ia Biography, a Flemith painter, 
born at Bruges about 1600, who travelled to Italy, an 
fludying with i great attention the works of Annibal Carracci, 
fucceeded in imitating his Pee ssi a in fuch a manner 
as rig y todeceive. Hed 1671. 
Oost, Oaft, or Ouft, in Figs, a name given by the 
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people who manure hops, to the kiln in which they d 
them, after they are ees from the ftalks 
are room, built up of bric 
more or Jefs, and having a door on one fide. 
f this room is a fire-place, about thirteen inches wide, and 
as much high, and, in length, reaching from the mouth hod 
ag a to the back part of the kiln, that a man has juft ro 
to This fire-place is called a herfe, and ie 
y feveral holes in the fides, in 
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with them ; wher this is done, tsy them even witha antag 
and let a fire be made in the fire. place below. Some recom- 
mend a wood fire, but experience fhews, that nothing does 
fo well as charcoal; let the fire be kept at the mouth of the 
furnace, for the air will be carried all the way through ; 
and thus let the hops lie, never ftirring them till they are 
isobar dry ; when they rattle under the rake, and the 
nner ftalks are brittle, they are fufficiently dried, and are 
et e pufhed out, and a frefh parcel laid in the ooft in their 
equa en are properly cured on the unde 
fide, they are carefully turned ; and by that means the uppe 
fide becoming the the whole fhares the fire alik 
that they may heat gradually, and fo raifed as they dry, that 
it may be done without {corching ; and the fire is to be lower. 
ed by degrees, againft they are ready to be taken off: the 
time ‘aa is about eight hours. From charcoal being 
dear, many people have adopted the method of drying with 
fea-coal, upon what they call cockle-oufts, which are fquare 
iron boxes placed upon brick-work, and a flue and chimney 
in the back part of the building for the {moke to go off. 
The computation is, that a chaldron of fea-coal, at about 
twenty-four fhil.ings, will dry a load of hops, and that a 
load of charcoal will do no more. It is indeed expenfive to 
erect fuch oufts, as there muft be no timber near them; an 
an iron beam and iron lathe are to be ufed, and they covered 
with plates of tin or iron properly Alans together. See 
Tiy-floor. 
new method of drying hops with fea-coal or any 
kind of fuel whatever, by means of a moveable iron furnace, 
m of an horizontal 
it takes a vertical diedion and is carried as high as is necef- 
ary to ome the {moke out of the ouft. It is a fort of 
rolling furnac 
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