OSM 
land, at the mouth of the Blackwater river, or Malden water, 
in the county of Effex, witha village. It is faidto have change 
its name from Chiche to that of St. Ofith, who was a virgin, 
murdered. here by the Daues, and canonized. onattery 
of black Auguttine canons was 
by Richard Beaver, bifhop of London, in the yeari120. In 
1801 St. Ofith contained 1268 inhabitants ; 11 miles S.E. 
of Colchefter. 
OSIUS, in Biography, bifhop of Cordova, in Spain, was 
bornin 2 He became the friend of Conftantine, who by 
his perfuafions convened, in 323, the council of Nice, where 
Under the emperor Conttantius he was fo 
was perm 
after, extr aa penitent, and in his laft moments renounced 
the Arian herefy with great fervour. 
stus, Fenix, a learned Italian, was born at Milan in 
875 and became profeffor of ioe at Padua, where he 
died i in 1631. His principal works a . Romano-Grecia. 
2 2. Tradtatus de Sepulchris Epitaphils Ethnicorum et Chrif- 
tianoram. ogia Scripterum illuftrium ; and feveral 
other work, in high eftimation at the period in which he 
ou 
OsKI IN, in pi anew he a provincial word ufed to fignify 
uantity or fhare of common field-land, 
X-gang 5 
pisporeoned probabl to te fize of the fields and number | 
of mefluages 
in the given townthip, at the time the fields 
were fet out ted among the houfes. 
KIPA RO, “in Geography, a town of Perfian Armenia ; 
36 miles N.W. of Kanja. 
OSs KOL, a tewn of Ruffia, 
miles ‘s. E. 
in the aes of Kurfk ; ; 
on the river Ofkol; 60 f Kurfk. N. lat. 50° 
50’. E. lon 37 14’. 
OSKOVA, a mountain of Bofnia; 20 miles S.E. of 
Serajo. 
OSLAWA, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn ; 3 
12 miles W. of Brunn. 
M Iron, in the Wire Works, a particular fort of 
bars of iron, wrought on purpofe for the manufacture of 
iron wire. Thefe are fmall and f{quare, and the firft thing 
done with ene towards the making them into wire, is the 
ftraining, or drawing them at a furnace to {mall rods, of the 
thicknefs of one’s little finger ; thefe ee a round, and 
deliver them to the wire-drawers. See 
SMA, in Geography, an almott ete <a of Spain, 
in Old Caftile, on the Duero, the fee of a bifhop. In the 
year of Rome 682, it ye part with Sertorius, and was 
deftroyed by Pompey. 931, the Moors were defeated 
here by the Chriftians ; - ale S.E. of Burgos. N. lat. 
4r° Pes W. long. 2° 
seein Torat, in Birgraphy, a diftinguifhed Turkifh 
He was bro 
ae bravery, was eget Lea not m 
the. arm and t es 
iam 
name of vane which fign as car- 
ried into Malta, where i it was anced by Vincett “Amiand 
m 
founded here tu her memory | 
It thould however ° 
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native ee oe then poft-captain. ae on 
o him a 
employ 
You naturally diftrat 
every means to regain my lberty, 
ut my word, in 
my faith. I have no fecurity to give 
Ar- 
niaud immediately allowed him to take the bark, and dif pofe 
of itashe pleafed. He immediately fet fail oe Damietta, 
whence he afcended the Nile to Cairo. He there paid to the 
captain a thoufand fequins, on account of his benefactor, and 
made him a handfome prefent for himfelf. He executed his 
commiffion, returned happily to Conftantinople, and was 
himfelf the bearer of the news of his captivity. His 
titude to his deliverer never forfook him, and during all ie 
fteps of his elevation, he never intermitted a correfpondence 
of letters.and of prefents with him. He even extended his 
beneficence ag all the Frenchmen with whom he had an 
concern. 1715, in the war between the Turks and the 
Meany the grand vifier, Ali-Bafhaw, intending to invade 
he Morea, affembled his army in the neighbourhood of the 
ifthmus of Corinth, and gave in charge to Ofman to force 
the paflage, which he effected, and at the fame time carried 
the city of Corinth by ftorm. He ated as .fecond in com- 
mand at the fiege of Corfu, in the following year; and when: 
it was raifed, he remained three days after the genera), to 
favour the retreat of the troops, not withdrawing till they 
were in fafety. He was appointed Serafkier, or chief com- 
mander in the Morea, in 1722, on which occafion he requeited 
Arniaud to fend him one of his a that he might give 
him a luctativeemployment. He was next nominated to the 
government of Romelia, having opined firft the agnity of 
bafhaw. of two tails, and now of three tails. In 1731 
O{man was called to the high Gay of grand vifier: he 
immediately caufed Arniaud to be informed of. this promo- 
tion, who, with his fon, vifited Conftantinople on the ocea-. 
va roe | with him twelve Turkith vege whom he 
ranfome 
e had: are 
urkifh army in Perfia. Yy 1733, he 
fought a bloody battle with Thomas Ko ee in which 
t toman arms were viCtorious, an erfians were 
aid to have loft 60,000 men. uccefs was rewarded 
er and dign 
i 
with an acceffion of pow - Ina fecond battle, 
which was extremely difaftrous to re Turks, saa 
ook. 
