ORV 
well adapted for the direQion and improvement of the 
younger clergy of every denomination. 
Orton, or Overton, in Geography, a market town and 
parifh i aft Ward, county of Weftmoreland, Eng 
- by S. from Appleby, 
by N. from London. The town is of very trifling import- 
ance, and chiefly inhabited by farmers, engaged in the cul- 
tivation of the {mall tra& of fertile ground by which it is 
immediately furrounded. The church here is a large, an- 
r. Burn, author 
e Peace,’’ and one of the editors of 
um- 
0 
there are two fai rs during the year. Ac- 
cording to i eine returns of 1811, this tous con- 
tains 292 houfes and 1333 inhabitants. opographi- 
cal Defcription of Cumberland, Weftmoreland, Lancahhire, 
&c. by John Houfman, 8vo. 1800. 
A, in Ancient Geography, a town and port of 
Italy, in Samnium ; it ve ne to the people called Fren- 
tani, oe: to 
RTONA @ Mare, i in  Geegraphy, a fea-port town of Na- 
< uzzo Citra; the fee of a bifhop, united | = 
oo E. of Civita ai Chieti. N. lat. 42° 
every week, 
ples, in 
Campali; 
E. long. 
ORFORL a = of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon; 
15 miles S. of Idfam 
OSTA, a ae of Sweden, in the province of 
Schonen ; re miles N. of Lund. 
RT D, a town of Saxony, in the margraviate of 
Meiffen ; _ miles N. of Drefden. 
ORTYGIA, in Ancient Geography, a poe ifland on the 
coaft of Sicily, before Syracufe, and at the mouth o 
fituated between its two ports, was always very important. 
See SYRACUSE 
ORTYGOMETRA, DAKER-HEN, in Oraithology. See 
Rattus Crax 
ORVAL, in in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 
partment of the Forefts ; five miles N. of Montmedy. 
RV or OrVALLA, in Botany, an old name for 
Clary, Salvia Sclarea, and other fpecies of the fame genus, 
adopted by Dodonz oe applies it to a {pecies of 
e 
UBA, in awn ry. 
UENNY, wn us Hindoottan, in Dowlatabad ; 
15 miles N.N.W. 
aro 
ORVIETA, poaae of, See PENITENTS. 
ORVIETAN, a celebrated antidote or counter-poifon ; 
fo called, becaufe invented, and originally fold, by an ope- 
rator from Orvieta, in Italy, who made een of it 
on his own aie on the public ftage, by taking feveral 
dofes of poifo 
In Charas’s Piamecapens is a method of making Orvietan; 
where it nia that Venice treacle is one of the principal 
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VIET TO, in Geography, a city of Italy, and capital 
of a province, called the *¢ Orvietan,”’ the fee of a ifhop, 
fituated at the conflux of the Pagtia the Chiana. The 
cathedral is a fine Gothic building, hay contains fome good 
e@ goo 
y of Orvietan is about 
and from Io to 15 a, 73 miles S.S.E. o 
Florence. N. ke 42° 42’. E. lon ng. 12° 2). 
RVILLE, James Puinip pv’, in Biography, was 
ORU 
ia at Amfterdam in 1696, of a geuagt! originally from 
nce. From early life he fhewed an ardent attachment 
to ie and afterwards ree lled ae various parts of 
Europe, Bea the abratics ae cabinets ard forming con- 
‘epi ns with learned 
continued a work, which had been began by fone: i ned 
Posliiaen, cntitled ‘* Obfervationes Mifcellanee Nove,?? 
and ten volumes of it were publifhed by them jointly, and 
four cra were publifhed by d’Orville feparately. Some 
his own writi 
I 
after his death were publifhed his cbferations ye Sicily 
under the title of ** Sicule.”” Gen 
UM, in wa eee a town of Dead: in North 
Jutland; 11 miles S. of T fted 
oe a town of “Peru, in - diocefe of La 
Paz, on lake Titic aye f Afangaro. 
be n the Saba of 
d archi — of 1s T 
ha 
erds are aaneroun and it Be been long fam 
gold and filver mines. The former have not long ge 
been wrought, and the latter have declined. Oruro 
ae has, according to Alcedo, five conventsand four pe 
urches. 
ORUROS, Gorur, in Ancient Geography, a town of 
Afia, in nae on the banks of - Euphrates ; S. of Au- 
zara, and 250 miles from Zeu n the time of Pom- 
ug 
d -pey, it was on this fide the cody of the Roman em- 
RUS, or Horvs, in Mythology es deity of ancient 
Egypt, which, as well as Ofiris, was an emblem e fun. 
To this purpofe Plutarch fays, that ae which prefides 
over the fun, whilft he is moving through fpace, the e Egyp- 
tians called Horus, and the Greeks Apollo. The veneration 
in which this deity was held in Egypt appears from the 
circumftance of three — oe bern hers by this name 
in the Thebais. The {parrow-hawk w on em- 
blem of Ofiris joss Horus, ee both had oneure tne fame 
attribute. cording to the interpretation of the hiero- 
givghice - Heliopolis Horus is the fupreme lord and 
the author of time, and this evinces the propriety of repre- 
i of t A 
ting him as the e a or the fun. The 
Egyptians defcribe him under the appellation of aay 
as borne on lions, thus fignifying his sean into the fign 
buus, 
of the zodiac, called the lion. Macrobws, wh 
n of Ofiris and Ife ; 
ye on, atter ree his brother Ofiris, 
took prfleffion of the kingdom, and that Horus, aguing 
himfeif with he mother Ifis, avenged the dea:h of his father, 
expelled the tyrant from his throne, without depriving ae 
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