ORE 
legate at pon he employed Oregius to examine whether 
Ariftotle taught the mortality of the foul, with the inten- 
tion, fhould that be the cafe, of perfuading the pope to pro- 
hibit his works as far as regarded that fubject. On this 
occafion he vindicated Ariftotle in a piece, entitled « Arif- 
totelis vera de rationalis Anime eee stl Sententia,”” 
which was publifhed at Rome in 1631. ubli fhed age 
theological pieces about the fame time. po eac 
Urban VIII. to the papal dignity, he oe Oregius oie 
divine, and in 1634 raifed him to t the — and prefente 
in the 
other ** De Operibus fex Dierum,’’ which wer 
printed at Rome in 1632. is works were colleéted and 
ayle. oreri. 
printed in a folio volume, in 1637. 
E 
, or OEREGRUND, in Geography, a fe 
port town of Sweden, in the province of Upland ‘eae 
on the fea-coaft, and built in 14 y fome inhabitants of 
bur 
The ne is “defended 
fea by a ee 34 miles N.N.E. of Uplal. 
E. long. 
OREILLARD, in the Manege. 
E » Fr., Orecchio, Ital., the ear. This word, 
fays Rouffeau, is ufed figuratively as a mufical term. ‘To 
have an ear, is faid of a perfon fond of mufic, whofe auri- 
N. lat. 60° 2 
See Wive-L£ared. 
finger neither fings in tune, nor ca n judge accurately of the 
intonations of others ; and when ere to the precifion of 
meafure, the time is broken and changed perpetually, with- 
out knowing it 
Thus, the word ear is always ufed for a difcriminating 
quicknefs and delicacy in the fenfe of lftening or hearing 
mulical tones. See Ez 
OREL, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, and capital of 
the oF of Orlovfkoe, on the Oka Hh miles 
8.8. W. of Mofcow. ON, lat. 52° 56’. E. long. 36 
ORELIA, in Botany. See ALLAMANDA. 
ORELLANA, ened in Biography, a Spanifh adven- 
turer, celebrated as the European navigator of the 
river Maragnon, was a oe officer ond in command 
to Gonzglo Pizarro, in an expedition eae 1540, 
from Quito in aie for the difcovery of the 
to the eaft of the Andes. The party ie ached the 
banks of the Coca, a large river which fone erate into 
the Maragnon, or Maranon, when they built a bark of green 
it with fift ty foldiers, under t 
embarked in February 1541, en committed himfelf to the 
aaa — compafs or ae and a€tually reached the 
ean out feven months. He got fafe to Cubagua, 
Si ee he “failed to Spain. (See Amazon, AMAZONIA, and 
Maranon.) ‘Ten years after this, he was entrufted with 
the command of three veffels from Spain, with which he 
perifhed, without having been able to difcover the true 
mouth of the river, which he had before navigated, and 
which is shee now called by his name, as by t 
author of the Sea 
*¢ Swell’d by a oneal ftreams, impetuous hurl’d 
From all the roaring Andes, huge defcends 
The mighty Orellana.”’ 
ORE 
Seecareapgt in Botany. See Bix 
ORELLANA, in Geography, a a ‘of Spain, a - ptoe 
vince of Eftramadura, on the; Guadiana; 24 mile E. of 
Merida. 
ORENBURG, a town of Ruflia, and capital of a pro- 
vince, to which it gives name, in the government of Upha, on 
the Ural. This town with its fortrefs was built in 1738, by 
order of the emprefs Ann, at the conflux of the Or and Ural ; 
but the fituation being found inconvenient, the inhabitants 
were remove d to a new town built lower down on the 
n 1749: fince the eftablifhment of a confiderable commerce 
here, all Ruffian and Afiatic merchants are permitted, on 
aying a certain duty, to fell their goods by wholefale or 
retail; and all European merchants are allowed to one 
their goods from the harbours and hey towne to A 
pay 180 miles S. of Upha. at. 51° . long. 
55° 14". 
ORENSE, AurtA, or Aque Calida, a city of Spain, in 
Galicia, fo ranked as ae fee of a bifhop, fituated at the foot 
left bank of the Minho, In the 
of the Moors, a beca 
& on the temperature of part of 
and jacent countr town is fmall, 
but airy a tolerably well built ; it ftreets are ftraight, 
and its {quares regular. It has acathedral and parifh church, 
and a chapter, the members of which are numerous. ere 
are alfo two convents of monks; one that belonged to the 
ancient Jefuits; two chapels; a houfe of inttrution for 
girls ; an hofpital for the fick poor ; and an afylum. e 
population is calculated at 2300 perfons. Here is a re- 
markable bridge fe one arch, fo lofty that a fhip can pafs 
The plain of Orenfe is Council ee and 
under it. 
fertile, ater with excellent grapes an d fruits ; 
37 miles S.E. of Compoftella. —. lat. 42° 25'. oo, long. 
7 
Bono, a town of the ifland of eo 344 miles 
N.N.W. of Negropont. N, lat. 39° E. long. 23° 18'. 
OREOBOLUS, in Botany, trom ogo, a moun tain, and 
Buros, a maf, lump, or clod, alluding to its wa and form 
of growth. Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. 235. Clafs 
and ones Triandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Calamaria, 
Linn. ag ta Jul. Cyperacea, Br. 
Ef. Cc Glumes two, {pathaceous, deciduous, including 
one ae fometimes accompanied by an inner {cale. 
(perianth of Brown) in fix deep fegments, pianos 
remaining after the fall of the fruit. Style deciduous. 
Stigmas three. Nut cruftaceous. 
I. O. Pumilio. Gathered by Mr. Brown in Van Die- 
men’s land. A dwarf plant, pes broad, 
The ae seen a two- tle two-edged fhea 
R ALLIS, fo nam r Brown, sae 06%, 
a mountain, an Lae beautifu Ful wn Tr. of oc. 
v. 10, 196 and ander, ae aaa. "Nat. 
Ord. Boece, 
Eff. Ch. Co rolla invegular, hg on one fide, four-toothed. 
of the corolla. Neétari- 
giked, Stigma oblique, or- 
Follicle ene: Seeds 
1. 0. 
Stamens funk in the 
ferous gland none. 
bicular, dilated, rather concave. 
numerous, with a terminal wing. 
