ORN 
from all countries, and particularly the Venetians, who 
carried on a ere reat trade in jewels tranfported from hence to 
Baffora, and by caravans to Aleppo, or to Suez by fea, 
then ad by the Nile, to Alexandria, where they were 
delivered to the merchants to whom they were configned. 
Its commercial accommodations and celebrity drew the atten- 
themfelves mafters of the 
m 
affitance Englifh, 
deftroyed it in 1622 ieee ee to transfer its trade to 
Gatos or Bande r-Abafii, i.e. the port of Abbas; the 
moiety of the cuftoms of which port he granted the Englifh 
for their good fervice. Gambroon, however, is far from 
ee ar Ormus was. Ormus was loft by e Por- 
from the ae of Goa; 
ftate. lat. 27° 8’. E. te 
ORNA AMENTS, in ee oe all the fculp- 
ture, or carved work, with which a piece of architecture is 
enri 
ORNAMEN ts in Relievo, are thofe carved on the contours 
of mouldings: as leaves, hells, {crolls, flowers, &c. See 
RELIEvVO. _ 
ieeg eE . aro are thofe cut within the mouldings; 
as eggs, flute 
Vitruvius and ‘Vignola “alfo ufe the word ornament to fig- 
nify the entablature 
Ornaments, Di ifr ion of. See DisTRIBUTION. 
ORNANO, in Cae: a town of the ifland of Cor- 
fica, and chief pla ce of a canton, in the diftri& of Ajaccio; 
the canton contains 4478 inhabitants. 
A a town of France, in the oe the 
Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in the of Be- 
fangon; nine miles S.S.E. of it. The place eons 2 500 
and the canton 13,838 inhabitants, on a territory of 2727 
kiliometres, in 28 communes. N. lat. 47° 6. E. long. 
6° 
ORNE, one of the nine ia! esbrige of the N.W. region 
th part of Normandy, and 
yt e department of the 
ure and ‘Loire, on the S. by the sevanacut of the Sarte 
ORN 
and the Mayenne, and on the W. by the department of the 
8° 
Chan in N, To'; 32 French leagues in length, 
and 15 in bre eadth ; containing 6 
h year the new era amounted to 
cE 38m fr. and = expences to 535,186 fr. 33 cents. 
The cap eee is Alen 
s departm ent ‘i is ceeded from E. to W. by a ridge 
of hills partially covered with forefts, and contains many 
tracts of an indifferent foil, yielding grain, flax, hemp, and 
paftures. Here are iron mines and mineral fprings. 
O » a town of ee in the department of the 
Meufe ; fix miles N.N.E pea 
O /&, a name give y the ancients to certain 
winds, _ ufually blew in ace at the time when the 
them. 
birds of aflage came over tot Pliny fays, that thefe 
winds blew from the weft, and t 2 bY fome, the Etefian 
winds were called by this name. eee s fuppofe that they 
blew from the north, or north-welt. 
ORNITHOGALUM, in Botany, an ancient name, 
aope a the Latins from the pie evidently derived 
ant. 364. 287), t 
bellatum appears to be the *€ doves’ dung,” oa in the 
2d book of Kings, chap. vi. v. 25, as having fetched fo 
high a price sere the fiege of ie Pon is recorded by 
the facred writer, that a quarter of a 
for 
milky part of which, their urine, is contrafted with dull 
green, exa@ily as in the petals of this original fpecies of the 
genus before us, and which appears to be the very one de- 
{cribed by Diofcor ides. ‘I'he writer of the prefent article 
had the fatisfaction of ae this, his own explanation of 
the matter, had previoufly occurred to Linneus.— 
Gen. 166. Schreb. 221 illd. .v.2.0%1. Mart. 
Mill. Di&. v. 3. Sm. Fl. Brit. 362. Prodr. Fl. Gree. 
ibth. v. 1. 229. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. 25 
ournef, t. 203. Juff. 53. Lamarck Did. v. 4. 642. 
INuftr. t. 242. Gertn. t. 17.—Clafs and order, pees 
Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Coronaria, Linn. Afphodeli, Jull. 
Gen Cal. none. Cor. Petals fix, lanceolate, their 
n. Ch. 
lower half ere&; upper f{preading ; permanent, fading. 
tam. Filaments fix, ere&, alternately er at the bale, 
fhorter than the corolla; anthers fimple. ermen an- 
gulated ; ityle awl-fhaped, permanent ; ma obtufe. 
Peric. Ca pfule fuperior, roundifh, ae of three cells 
ceas Several, roundi 
and three sae 
{. In fome ices the filam 
ents are flat and ere&t, 
the Aaa ones trifid at 
the top, their middle point 
earing 
