ORS 
the chair of ne profeflor. He was afterwards ap- 
of acred palace, and at leng 
oo 
na 
for modefty and fimplicity of manners, and his attention was’ 
oT ital aa by his ftudies, and his zeal for the honour 
e died in 1761 € was ae = “¢ Tn- 
fli Aa. Rom. Pontificis,’’ in te vols. » bu 
he is chie fy veil to pofte nel by his ¢ Eerlefinical Hit- 
on vols. This work is faid to be well written, 
but is by oo too diffutive it is in the Italien language. 
ORS prea in Geography, a town of the Valais; 5 
miles S. of Mart 
ORSINI, Fav, in Biography, an eminent {cholar, 
was born at Rome in1530. Being an icc ipeen child, his 
education would have been negle&ted, owing to the diflen- 
tions of his parents, had not the quicknefs of his ens been 
noticed by a canon of the Lateran, (fee LarEran,) w who 
took = under jes 2 eigen oe inftru&ed him in claffical 
literatu On arriving at y of difcretion he entered 
GecaneWs into ihe ae of oa eaelicale of high note, 
b ae ch means an DF teal was afforded him of colleét- 
e was in 
literary characters o l 
ance to che authors of that period. He aa attained 
to great fkill in difcovering the antiquity and value of 
MSS., of which he was exceflively proud. “Cardinal Frede- 
ric Borromeo, being once in his oa pany, requefted Orfini 
to point out from a ae that lay before them, the rules by 
which he diftinguifhed ancient from modern manufcripts ; 
upon this he immediately fhut the book, and turned the dif- 
courfe. He died at Rome in the year 1600, at the age of 
o: he was author of feveral learned works, as ** De Fami- 
liis Romanis ;”” and an Appendix to _Ciaconio’ s treatife 
“De Triclinio.” made of a 
reat labour and at vaft ie ag 
bequeathed them to the Vatican. He is 
one of his eulogiits, se Pac antiquitatis Tee dill 
genti mus. 
Orsini, GAETANO, an Italian vocal performer of the 
early part of the laft century, with a counter-tenor voice 
The late Jof. » firft violin to Frederic II. king of 
phate fo remarkable for tafte and expreffion on the violin, 
to us in converfation at Berlin, that in} is 3 being 
at Pace at only 15 years old, arles VI. 
was crowned king of Bohemia, the excellest pees which 
he then heard was of the utmoft ufe to him in his fubfequent 
ftudies, and particularly the performance of Gaetano Orfini, 
a contralto, with which he was beyond meafure affeGted. 
ORSIO, in i a a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Smaland; 20 miles W. of Calmar. 
ORSKAITA, a town of Ruffia in the eoeunent of 
Upha, on the Ural; 132 miles E. of Orenburg. 
ORSKAR, a {mall ifland on the W. fide of the gulf of 
Bothnia. N. lat. 60°32’. E. long. 18° 11/. 
OGNA, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Citra; g 
miles S.E. of Civita di Chieta. 
OR or Orsaks, a town of Africa, in the dif- 
trict of Acra, on the Gold Coatt. 
ORT 
ORS ail oon iad a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra ; 
g miles from Scale 
N’s Isuann an ifland in Penobfcot river, at the 
N. end of Mar ifland, containing about 1000 acres 
This and Orono ate their names from two Indian chiefs, 
their refpective proprietors. 
A, or ance fortrefs of Servia, built 
e 
on both fides of the Danube ; art on the | ie of the 
river, in the bannat of Temefvar, is called Oid Orfova, 
and was ceded to Auftria by the peace of Siftova - and that 
on the right bank of the river, called New Orfova, belongs 
tothe Turks. This fortrefs was taken by general Laudohn, 
fince which time it has been neglected ; 7 5 miles E. of Bel- 
grade. at. 44°55’. E. long, 21° 
ORSOY or Orsaw, atown of Foance, in the depart- 
ment of the eee saul belonging to the duchy of Cleves, 
on the Rhine ; 24 miles S.E. of Cleves. N. lat. 51° 38'. 
E. long. 
R 635 -Ort, or Oort, . town of Eaft Friefland, 
sv the eontlax of the Leer and the Ems; 11 miles S.S.E. 
Em 20 
(2) 
a 
i) 
S 
R the Tyber, once 
the fee of a bifhop, now united to Civita Caftellana ; 12 
miles E.N.E. of Viterbo.—Alfo, a town o 
department of the Gogna, on a lake to w 
name; 36 miles W.N.W. of Milan.—Alfo, a town 
Spain, in Catalonia; 12 miles N.W. of Tortofa.—Alfo, a 
town of Naples, in the province of Capitanata; 11 miles 
N.N.E. of Afcoli. 
ORTAKI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia; 30 
miles S.E. of Scala-nova. 
OR-TCHELOSCHVEI, a town of Ruffia, in’ the 
government of Kolivan; 16 miles $.E. of Mungatzkoi. 
ORTE » a {mall town of Spain, in Galicia, near 
cape Ortegal; 13 miles from Corunna. 
ORTEGAL, Cape, a cape on the N. W. coaft of Spain, in 
the Atlantic ocean. N. lat. 43° 46'. W. long. 7° 55!. This * 
is si extreme point of Spain, or the moft advanced to the 
his coaft: it forms a ae between the Canta- 
ban fea and the ee ocean ° 
ORTE 
the publications of this ge 
confit of feveral botanical traéts, is an account of the 
plants growing in the Royal Gardens at Madrid, publifhed 
fl, 
in numbers. — It.112. Linn. Gen. 24. Schreb. 38. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. 190. Mart. Mill. Di@. v. 3. Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. 79. Juffl. 299. Lamarck Di& 
v. 4. 635. Illuftr. t. 29. Gaertn. t. 129.—Clafs and order, 
Triandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Caryophyllee, Linn. and 
uff. 
h. Cal. Perianth inferior, erect, permanent, of 
five oval leaves, membranous at their margins. Cor. none. 
Stam. Filaments three, awl-fhaped, fhorter than the calyx ; 
anthers linear, compreffed, fhorter than the filaments. Pé/. 
Germen fuperior, ovate, oor at the top; flyle thread- 
fhaped, almoft as long as the calyx ; ftigma an obtufe head, 
Peric. Capfule ovate, brig in the upper part, of one 
cell, and three valves e top. Seeds many, very {mall, 
oblong, acute at eac 
Eff. Ch. C i of ive = Corolla none. Capfule 
of one cell. Seeds numer 
O amarc. am one rves that Ortegia is chiefly diftin- 
guihed aig Polycarpon and Leflingia becaule it is deftitute 
of a 
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