ORA 
of the mountains and the vallies are fertile, producing peel 
ffording w sth onions, which 
er rye, which is 
bufhels on 
variety of game, fuch as moofe deer, bears, beavers, racoons, 
fables, &c. or ‘fince it has been inhabited game is become 
carce. 
OrRANGE-Jown, or oe a townfhip in Orange county, 
New Yc a fitvated on the W. fide of the ‘Tappan fea, 
oo to Philipfburg, a about 27 miles N. of New York 
city. This townfhip is bounded E. by Hudfon river, and 
S. by the Hate “of New Jerfey. It eonciied, in 1790, 1175 
free inhabitants, and 203 flaves 
ORnANGE-Zown, a town of ‘Wathington county, in the 
flate of Maine; 19 miles from Machta 
ORANGEADE, a drink made of ¢ orange-juice, water, 
and fi 
Lemery fays it may be given to people in the height of a 
GEBURG, in Geography, a diftri of South 
Carolina, bounded: S.W. by Edifto river: it is divided into 
three counties, viz. Lew fies ‘Orange, and Lexington. 
In its interior are extenfive forette of pine. It is watered 
by the N. a . branches of Edifto river, and contains 
13,766 inbsbitants, of whom 5356 are flaves.—Alfo, 
town of South Carolina, and capital of the above diftri€t, on 
the E. fide of the N. branch of Editto river: containing a 
court-houfe, gaol, and about 20 houfes; 77 miles N.N.W. 
of Charlefton. 
ANGERY, a gallery in a garden, or parterre, ex- 
pofed to the fouth, but well clofed with a o window, to 
aia sia in during the winter fea 
he orangery of Verfailles is the oa magni nificent that 
ever was built: it has wings, and is decorated with a ‘l'ufcan 
order. 
ANGERY is alfo ufed for the parterre, where the oranges 
are oan are in kindly weather 
ORA UTANG, in Zoology, the Homo Lylnefiris of 
Edwards, Simia fatyrus of Linneus. (See Six See 
alfo Man hefe animals will attack and kili a negroes 
who ends in the woods; drive away the elephants, beat- 
ing them with their fifts or silt clubs; and throw ftones at 
eople who offend them; they fleep in — and fthelter 
themfelves from the inclemency of the weather; their ap- 
pearance is grave, and their difpofition melanclclys they 
are very {wift, walk ereét, and can only be taken alive, and 
tamed when they are young ; in which ac they are very 
M. Buffon relates, that he had feen this animal 
a his hand to thofe who came to fee seal ane walk 
out the tea, and ftir it, in order to let it ay and that 
he has done this not only at the command of his matter, 
but often without bidding. He did no kind of mifchief, 
and offered himfelf to be careffed by ftrangers. The food 
which he preferred to every other was dried ripe fruit.. A 
traveller ines that he has feen a female of this fpecies 
: ava, who every morning regularly made its own bed; 
night lay age with the head on the bolfter, and covered 
itfelt with the . When its head ached, it wrapped a 
handkerchief ae it. Hoppius, in his Anthropomorpha, 
760, takes great pains to prove, that the orang-outang is 
incapable, from the extreme dilatation of the pupil, of feeing 
in the day time. Dr. Camper, late profeffor of aftronomy, 
a poft-’ 
ORA 
and muift, con- 
account of the diffe@ion of she organs of fpeech of Ave 
_— ness illuftrated by figures. Se Anatomy of Mam- 
This animal, fome have fuppofed, is the prototype of all 
the fauns, fatyrs, pans, and fileni, defcribed by the ancient 
poets, and whofe forms are 
were pani in the temple of Juno, and found there ns 
the Romans at the taking of Carthage. Vide Strab. lib. xv. 
and Hannonis Periplum, p. 77. ed. Hage, 1674. 
Mr. Pennant apprehends, that the ae of the resi 
were a {fpecies of monkey, and not the fame with this 
; becaufe Alian and Ptolemy affirm, that they had tails 
See Sinaia aud CHIMPANZEE. 
ORANIENBAUM, in Geography, a town of Germany, 
in the duchy of Anhault-Deflau; 6 miles S.E. of Deflau. 
N. lat. 51° 48’. E. long. 12° 28'—Alfo, a town of Ruffia, 
in the gulf of Finland, obese is a royal palace, built by 
prince Menzikoff, afterwards converted into an hofpital ; 
but much ufed as a refidence by the emperor Peter III. ; 
ae miles W. of Peterfburg. N. lat. 59° 52'. E. long. 
° 2 
°ORANIENBURG, a town of Brandenburg, in the 
Middle Mark, anciently ‘called “ Boetzow,” fituated on 
the Havel, and co ntaining two churches. In deo, a co- 
lony of the Vaudois, driven by perfecution on account of re- 
ligion from their own country, was eftablifhed bere. In 
1671 the place was deftroyed by fire 5 18 miles N. of 
Berlin. N. lat. 52° 45'. rE. long. 13° 19/. 
ORANMORE, a pott-town of Ireland, in the county of 
Galway; 98 miles W. by S. from Dublin, and 5 miles E. 
rom Galway. 
ORANSAY. See Cotonsay, and Oronsay. 
; ORARIUM, in Leckfafical Writers, the fame with 
randeum 
ORARNE, in Geography, a {mall ifland on in W. fide 
of the ee of Bothnia. N. lat. 60° 42’. So ae 
RATAVA, a fea-port town on the Ww. fide of the 
ifland of Teneriffe, and the chief place of trade ; the harbour 
of which is rendered unfafe by a N.W. wind: it contains 
one owes and feveral convents; 5 miles N. of Laguna. 
ATION, a f{peech or harangue, framed according to 
the cae of oratory, and {poken in public. 
pig the kinds of orations may be reduced to three heads; 
%. demonfirative, deliberative, and judicial. Ariftotle is laid 
le the author of this divifion, which feems to be very 
juft ; fince, perhaps, there is no fubject of oratory, — 
facred or civil, that may not be referred to one or other 
thefe heads. "It is a divifion which runs through all the an- 
cient 
