OSN 
—Found on hills in Japan, in April-and May, by Thunberg, 
who defcribes it as very like O. regalis, except the fertile fron 
being feparate from the barren ones.—Swartz cites a figure 
of this in Houyttin’s Nat. Hift.v. 2. t. 96.f.1. which we have 
not teen 
O. lance Narrow-leaved Ofmunda. Thunb. ee 330. 
Swartz n.6. Houytt. Nat. Hilt. v. 2.t.95-f. ~—Fronds 
acs cingstes leaflets lanceolate, ferrated; the a ones 
ner.—Gath 
an inch or inch and ha e. 
OSNABRUCK ewes in Ceograpley Ns the foiith 
t ip in the county of Stormont, in Upp anada, in 
afcending the river St. — rence. In front Pr “this Gai 
is the rapid called the te 
OSNABURG, or Oswannven, 8 opric of, a principalit 
Germany, bounded on the N.a Be oh i ot = cok 48 
E. 
Mauniter, onthe E. by the counties nf "Ravonibers an d Die- 
pholz, and principality of Minden, and the S. by the 
county of Ravenfberg ; t 40 miles long, and from 16 
to 24 wi Almoft a moiety of this bithopric sonal of 
heath-lands, which yield turf and pafturage. The beft 
{pot is about Quackenbruck, and is called « Artland.”’ It 
produces rye fufficient for the inhabitants, and 500 ftills 
Tt has little wood, but befides turf, it yields coal. 
It has a falt-work at Diffen; and plenty of m arble. I 
the whole country are four principal tow aad three 
{maller, and about 20,000 fire-places, or pe ufually 
accommodating two families. ‘Fhe noble and free are not 
reckoned in this account. The ee are the chapter, 
the knights, and the principal towns. The land-diets are 
appointed by the bifhop, aud held in the town of Ofnabruck. 
The inhabitants are induftrious, and of the peafants, about 
The religion of this 
country is partly Roman Catholic, and partly Lutheran. 
‘No Jews are tolerated. The principal and moft profit- 
able occupation of the inhabitants confifts of {pinning of 
yarn, and of manufacturing a coarfe kind of linen for 
Guinea and America, from which they derive an influx of 
about 1,000,000 rix-dollars. This bifhopric is the firft and 
ould re- 
and abandon his ce 
men, &c. By eace of ‘Tilfit, the new kingdom of 
Weltphalia was Y eftablithed, and Ofnaburg annexed to it. 
Osnazure, a city of Weltphalia, in the bifhopric of the 
fame name, feated on the Hafe, and fortified after the an- 
ris a It confifts of the Old and New Town, under 
e government of a common magiftrac he number of 
houles, elie of the public and bye-buildings, amounts te 
4200, but the town is not populous. Its magiftracy is 
OsSO 
Lutheran, and annually chofen. The Roman Catholics and 
the Lutherans have each two pa arifh churches. Ofnabruck 
was formerly one of the Hanfetowns. Its principal fub- 
fiftence el ai upon . oe and the retail of foreign 
manufa . This was the firft town in Weftphalia which 
jecaved av Lutheran doétrine. George I. king of ay Sa 
ied in this town in his way to Hanover ; <4 mile 
ong. r 
d in eg South Pacific 
Vi 
ni 
: 0 eee The inhabitants were 
clothed, and appe ee ig ie hoe an aa aed rae n; they 
nu us r n 
the water’s a an 
W. long. 1 
_Oswanvne i, a fettlement of the Hudfon’s Bay 
North America, rors at the N.E. corner of 
S. of Gloucefter houfe. 
pie with green trees. S. 
1s well underftood in our own country ; but the method 
practifed in Germany of manufacturing the brown fort, = 
of giving it its peculiar colour, is not known. Some hav 
{uppofed, that it depends on the manner of bleaching the 
flax, and others on that of bleaching the yarn after it is 
{pun 
SOKOLSKA, in Geography, atown of Ruffia, inthe 
government of Archangel, on the river Mezen ; 104 miles 
-N.E. of Archangel. 
OSOLA, a town of the ifland of Sardinia; 14 miles 
N.N.E. of Saffuri. 
OSONALA, a pike os Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra; 
10 miles E.S.E. of Aquila 
OSORIO, Jerome, in “Biogr aphy, a a in ee 
prelate, who meee din the fixteenth cen 
{; fociety to 
wee 
vinity, the fcriptures, an 
his return to his native c 
