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brilliant colours ; and fometimes _— plains form an ho- 
ri = 20 or 3° leagues. The annual ote and : the 
n the 
or Old Guiana, a in 1586, on the fouthern bank of 
the Orinoco, so ues from its mouth, but transferred in 
1764 toa more tafe eoausa about 90 leagues from the fea, 
is 0 0 In OGober flood declines ; ; and the 
river is loweft in Februar man, which is ftriétly 
neither an | alligat or nora oueodie | is a terrible inhabitant 
of the Orinoco. 
eda the great floods, the river Orinoco, where it paffes 
a range of mountains at a place a ai Angoftura or the 
f the 
refting account. The n of the Caberres ay the 
Caribs in courage and joa They are famous for the ufe 
of a mo oifon, and in his time were fituated on the 
Guaviari tomacs, in the fame quarter, raife their 
ideas ek ahaa tae ai before omacs are ac- 
cuftomed to eat earth, as oldt has ane obferved 
» turtle, &c 
ae in fa&t, they only preferve their grain, fi 
arth, and eat the whole mingled, fo that a ftranger would 
seucie that Re nei earth. This is done with a 
view to keep their vidtuals frefh ; and the se afterwards 
dug from the pits pase bricks. Some of them are faid 
to eat 14lb. of this earth per day. On the ‘Orin oco moft o 
the diale&ts are derived from the Betoya-or ian. Lap the 
Cariba. Moft of the tribes are {mall, from 500 000 
warriors; but the Caribs boaft of 12,000, and the Cabernee 
were more numerous. The fury of the Caribs is not more 
defiru€tive than domeftic pain: Many mothers deftroy 
pa ‘on ches to deliver them from the miferies fuf- 
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OROPESA, the capital of ae {lion of Cocha- 
bamba, in South America, fituated o river in a 
valley. ‘The inhabitants trade with ee corn and fruits, 
which are produced in confiderable i egaay in the valley, 
where their town is fituated; 1 150m .W. of La Plata. 
~ _ W. long. 67° 6'. Allo; a town of Spain, 
W. long. 59° 50. 
8. Tat. pe ' 
in New e; 52 miles W. of Toledo.—Alfo, a town of 
coe in cara on the coaft of the oS 32 
8 E.N.E. of Begorbe. N. lat. 40° 8". W. long 
ROPESA, ere a cape ? deer on the coaft of Va- 
lencia. N. lat. E. | ri, 
OROPUS, in ok a oe Ys own of Afia, in 
Syria, faid to have been 7 by Neator.. Steph. Byz.— 
Alfo, atown of Macedonia.—Alfo, a town of Attica, near 
Peake inhabitant of this town were the fir 
Ampbhiaraus in the number o id Sere and 
the other Gresik followed on: example. 2 ftadia from 
the t town was a temple of this deity. pene excelled. 
ORP 
in the interpretation of dreams, and. 8 delivered his predic. 
tions in herrea Hage —Alfo, a townof Greece, in a 
ifland of Eubcea which was a e emple base re 
Apo ilo. erie ‘ ton of the Peloponnefus, i in the Argo- 
lide, —Alfo, n of Greece, 7 Thefprotia, of which 
town ee was sonatas a par 
OROSEI, in Geo, “Rickie a own of Sardinia, on the E. 
coatt; 58 miles E. a Alghi 
ute the calumnies of the Pagans int eich was) He 
sceoninels compiled, in books, a view of general hif- 
hich he is faid to have se te “De Miferia Ho- 
His ignorance eek language involved 
him in many miftakes. Orofius \ was saree likewife of «« A 
Defence of ne Freedom of the Will,” againft the Pelagians, 
and other The « Hittory” has gone through 
feveral eon of a ha beft i mee unquettionably, that 
of Haverc 1738. ranflation our immortal 
Alfred is fill extant in ee ch it has t ae title ‘* Hormefta,”’ 
but the reafon for this change in the title has not been afcer- 
tained. Bayle. More 
OROSMADES, OROMASDES, oF Oromaxes, in My- 
principle, er author of good, in the fyftem of Zoroatter, 
vived by the Mani . Orofmades oe the goo 
{pirits and the ftars, and enclofed them in an egg, which was 
whence proceeded con ufion, anda 
d per But after many confliG&s the 
good deity totally vanquifhes the evil one. See Anima- 
“ORO SPEDA, or peau in Ancient be hates 
mountain of Spain, in mates ere the {prin the river 
SPIZA, in sa aia a name by which the an- 
cient pina call the brambling, or mountain-finch, 
ord is ae and exprefles mountain-chaffinch. See 
Mosniraiverts 
EG, i in re: a town of Hungary, the 
fee of a S Bithop ; 8 miles 
OROVI ZA, a town of Sclavonia ; 3 14 miles N.N.E. 
of Pofzega. 
OROUST, adifland i in the North fea, near eg we coat 
of a ce smiles in circumference. N. lat. 58° 10’. 
E. long. 1 
ORPE 
trade, and p 
LLO, a preparation of brafs ufed in the glafs 
lates of brafs into 
ft 
Ce) n 
— "for eas days, in which time it will be well calcined ; 
old, powder and fift it, and finally grind it on a por- 
p This will be a black powder ; {pread this on tiles, 
which place on era coals in the leer, near the hole, for 
four days; take off the afhes that may fall into it, eas 
finally powder and it it fine = ule. It is known to 
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