ORY 
of life, and reigned aaa he in Egypt. Diodorus, who 
adopts the relation erodotus in Shee particulars, oie 
that the Titans havin r, 
dered himfelf famous, and multiplied his bleffings upon the 
world. As Apollo among the Greeks was called the 
Horus of the Egyptians, as to ia fkill both in medicine and 
e fame perfon, and called by 
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the was 
ee young when Tyabon put eke father to ft ‘aad that 
Ifis, his mother, was obliged to defer the punifhment of the 
tyrant till her fon was capable of being the inftrument of her 
revelge. allegory of Horus has ae thus explained. 
The wind Khas in makes great ravages in Egypt in the 
{pring ; by raifing whirl-winds of burning fie which fuf- 
ring; b 
eae tales darken the air, and cover seed face of ei 
s to le 
uel philofophers have eee 
of the moon over the ftate of the nee they 
united her with this god to drive the ufurper from the throne. 
The priefts agg Ofiris as the father of time, mi ht 
beftow the ia his fon on Horus, who reigned three 
months in the ok 
WEL, in 1 Geography, a pott- town of America, in 
Vermont; the north-wefternmoft in Rutland county, on the 
E. fide of lake Champlain, containing 1376 inhabitants. 
LL, a river “i nada, which runs into ap 
Erie, N. lat. 43° . 80° 30! river 
England, in the oun: = Suffolk, ella ‘ Ipivich 
Water,” which paffes by Stow, Needham, a 
and j joining the Stour, forms the har called 
“ Orwell — ?? and foon after slchrgs itfelf ‘ato the 
German 
nera hic 
{ubftances are confidered Ceuaeiely in this work, 
in the prefent antic cr only on that effential part a this 
ORY 
do&trine which makes us acquainted with the charaéers of 
minerals. 
chara&ters employed in the rape toes of minerals 
a ne into e xternal charaéers, 
are thofe which are difcoverable by means of the external 
e: 
n 
wards nea “fubltances. The moft common » of the phyfical 
the property hic h fome minerals poffefs of 
exhibiting ign of yay ore and magnetifm, Some mine- 
and in 
Saale fome de iete of iron ore, are aol by 
being attra€ted by the magnet : netic pyrites 
and magnetic iron fand. By filing a mineral fo fine, that the 
rved, 
y be 
: apie el 
n by the names of geognottic and 
" geographic char 
As ie ee. sternal charabters which conttitute the chief fubjeét 
of this article, are prefent in every fpecies of foflils, and in 
y are derived from the diverfity 
effential. a ieconce of foffils; as the > mo 
accurately known and defined, and eafily leone, ae 
pendently of the analyfis of foffils ; ; it 1s evident that they 
are the moft eligible forthe purpofes of orytognofy. Itis 
to the celebrated profeffor of Freiberg that the world is 
indebted for a complete treatife on Oa fubjeét. (Werner 
uber die auffern Keanzeichen der lien. Leipzig 1774.) 
ranged by him in fyftematic 
regard to the ae of the external charac- 
ters, it fhould be obferved that Werner divides them i nto ge- 
as ¢ cafes 
ences; fuch as colour, ae weight, &c. 
mong thefe properties form the en Sa fuch a 
seeeien ne luftre, vitreous luftre, &c. eric a 
raters are divided into general and particular. MGadeeth he 
eens are comprehended thofe that occur in all minerals ; 
prieeh = latter, thofe which occur only in particular claffes 
of minerals. The particular generic characters are arranged 
aperda ng to the order in which they prefent themfelves to 
the fenfes, as is exhibited in the following table. 
TABLE 
