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pality of Neiffe; three miles N.E. of Grotkau.—Alfo, a 
town of Saxony, in the — of Naumburg ; four miles 
S. of Zeitz. 
the old G 
major, or greater comfry. 
pofed A hm of agglutinating broken bones on being taken 
intern 
The Greek writers have fometimes called this plant pede. 
OSSIPEE, Ossarzz, or O/apy, in eile Cds a poft- 
town, mountain, and pond, in Stratford county, amp- 
fhire, North America. ‘The town was incorporated in 1785, 
and has 804. inhabitants. The lake lies N.E. of Winnipifcogee 
lake, between which and Offapee lake is Offapee mountain. 
Its waters run E, and are joined by South river, from Great 
Offapee river, which difcharges itfelf into Saco river, near 
the divifion line between York and Cumberland counties in 
Maine, and between Limerick and Gorham. 
OSSNOBIAN, Assrenesoyne, Indians, a tribe found 
about the fource of Offnobian or Affeneboyne river, far W. 
of lake Superior. The Moravian miffionaries report, that 
they live wholly upon animal food, or that they reftri€t them- 
felves te the {pontaneous productions of nature, denominating 
thofe who dig the ground “ flaves.”’? Bread is unknown to 
them ; and they we it from their mouths, calling it rotten 
wood. ‘T'hefe Indians, as well as thofe numerous nations 
who inhabit the country from lake Superior towards the 
have no permanent place of abode, and live wholly in tents 
made of buffalo and other hides, be which they travel from 
one place to another, like the Ara and as foon as the food 
i is expended, t remove, and pitch their 
tents in another fertile {pot, and thus they ir ae without 
carcely ever returning to the fame {pots a 
Os , or OsceLLa, a diftri& o Tealy, between 
ae hee and lake Maygiora, about 3 5 miles in length and 
15 to 25 in brea th, 3 the country is compe et 
Godiata and vallies, ie is fertile and populous. Thec 
pital is Domo ce 
OSSOLIN, atown “OE Poland, in the palatinate of San- 
domirz ; . miles W. of Sandomirz. 
OSSOORAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal; 16 
miles N. 7 Biffun 
OSSOR a bifhopric in Ireland, the 
It includes almoft the 
county, and fome of the King’s county, extending 46 En 
lifh miles in length and 29 Englifh in breadth, and contain- 
ing 136 parifhes. owever, are the unions, that there 
are only 56 benefices, ae of thefe 20 were without churches 
when Dr. Beaufort publifhed. ‘There is alfo a barony called 
Offory, ee ae the title of earl S he eldett fon of the 
dukes of Ormon 
OS UN, at of France, in the department Me the 
Upper a snd chief place of acanton, inthe d 
of Tarbes ; ne 23 5.5.W. of Tarbes e con- 
tains 1200, a jee canton io iohabrtants, on a territory 
of 160 iene. in! 
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cafe of a vine rom a foun ain in the mi 
furnifhes water to the rahabitants whilft the whole country, 
for eight miles round, is totally deftitute of that neceflary 
article. When Cae befieged Offuna,h e was obliged to bring 
his provifions, and particularly water, from a great diftance 5 
ille. 
45 miles miles N.E. of Sev 
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Os T 
OST, in Rural oo a adi velar to the kiln for 
drying hops. See ae 
STA 
pany with Brouwer, with whom he contraGted a clofe in- 
timacy. 
The choice of Oftade in the fubje&s he reprefented is 
fomewhat fimilar to that of Teniers, but he treated them in a 
manner totally diftin&d, though not with fo lively and f{pirited 
a touch, or fo light and clear a management of his materials ; 
yet with more care, more truth, and fullnefs of nature in 
the effets of colour and of chiar fedro, and with a great 
deal more meaning in the actions and expreffions of his figures. 
ohn it muft be confeffed are generally of the loweft clafs, 
r and grofs in form, and in habits; and placed where 
cies {uch obje&s are to be found, in dirty hovels: yet 
among fuch animals little better than brutes, engaged in 
actions of grofs gratification, fuch is the power of his pen- 
cil, fo agreeable are the hues he employs, and the arrange- 
ment of light and fhade in which they are difpofed, that the 
molt refined eye dwells upon his piétures with delight. He 
el eee our judgment into implicit admiration, by a truth 
char Fecal = energy of effect, which precludes the found- 
atch of ce 
It is eae ti iaukes are not always of fuch low fubje&ts, 
ut he never rifes to any thing like jentility in charaGter, 
and very feldom attempted it. His works are too highly 
laboured to be very numerous, and are, therefore, to be 
bought only at high prices. 
contemrorary artifts, that m 
1685, at the age of 75. 
His younger brother, Ifaac Van Oftade, was taught by 
him the art of es and imitated the ftyle and tafte of 
his inftru€tor ; but he died young, and never arrived at any 
degree of fkill in the art comparable to that of his brother. 
As, how wever, he wrought in the ame manner, and upon nthe 
OSTA ALRIC, in aes a aie of apie. on the 
Tordera; 22 miles S.W. of Geron 
OS O, a gl of oe in’ "the department of the 
Lario; 10 miles 
OSTASCHKOV, a an of Ruffia, in the lal 
oe of ba near the lake Seliger ; ; 80 miles W. of Te 
lat. 
O ‘eye a ila of ap 33, 34 in Angermanland ; 60 miles 
N. of Hernofa 
TE, a ang which rifes in the S. part of the duchy 
of Becnen paffes remervorde, &c. and see into the 
Elbe, at its mouth. N. lat. 53° 54' ong. 8° 54’. 
OSTELLATO, a town of Me in the department of 
the Lower Po; 14 milesS.E. of Fer 
N, a eae ss aie in the oro of Brenien ; 
11 miles N.W. of 
OSTEND, a aed fea- -port of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Lys and chief place of a canton, in the cou 
“ Bruges. [he town contains 10,800, and t anton 
2,8 54 agg et ona dag tory of 35 kiliometres, in ies 
comm is good, and takes its name from 
its eta ‘Gtoat on: Tj 13  furrounded by a great number of 
forts, 
