OST 
watered and fhaded until they have taken root, when they 
muft be taken atel 
ong Vv. d be difficult to er ae cage 
aa. <ieecially the eon and thir forts; but ther 
ot 
joved, to prevent 
dace, as fhould be placed in the ied in O&ober, 
and be treated in the fame manner as myrtles, and other 
hardy greenhoufe plants, which require a large a of 
1 ild weather; and in the beginning of May nts 
removed into the open air, and placed in a theltered re 
during the fummer feafon. As the and fecond forts 
are very thirfty plants, they fhould have panty of water. 
he i 2 ae afford variety among others of the green- 
houfe 
O 
ment of Kiev; at the conflux of the rivers an ata, ; 
24 miles N. of Kiev. N. lat. 50° 58’. E.long. 31° 14’. 
ER Cappeln, a town of Weiltphalia, in the nee 
of Ofnabruck ; 10 miles E.N.E. of Vorden. 
OsTER an ifland near the coatt of Norway; 20 miles 
N.W. of Ber 
OSTERB UR .G, a town of Weftphalia, in the Old 
Eines 36 miles N.W. of Brandenburg. N. lat. 52° 48'. 
ry 
ost TREY, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Upland, remarkable for its furnaces, and near the iron-mine 
o annemora, which is one of the largeft and richeft in 
Sweden ; 24 miles N. of Upfal. See DANNEMORA. 
OSTERFELS, a town of Saxony, in the bifhopric of 
Naumburg ; 7 miles S.E. of Naumburg. N. lat. 51° 5’. 
E. long. 11 53’ 
OSTERHOFEN, a town of Bavaria, on the Danube, 
20 miles N.W. of Paffau. 
OSTERHOLZ, a town of the duchy of aris the in- 
habitants of which are empioycd in digging peat or turf, 
which they fell, tothe annual amount of i rix- cere 
to the people af Bremen ; ; 7 miles E. of Bre 
STER » a town of Sweden, in ae province of 
Schonen ; 8 miles N. of Chriftianftadt. 
OSTERMAN, a in Biography, a celebrated Ruffian 
minitter, was the fon fo) rgyman at Boc m in 
phalia. you uth, taken into the fervice of the 
er his oe in Ruffia during the reigns of feveral 
fovereigns ; but in the revolutions that placed the gs 
Elizabeth on he throne, he became involved in the {i 
difgrace as counts Munic and Lowenwolde. He was ea 
condemned to fuffer death, but his cient was com- 
VoL. XXV. 
ST ER, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the eevee 
OST 
where Mentizo ome years bel se 
After his death his wife and ae were recalled, and their 
property and rank sara to them 
fefled a found judgme 
fatigable labour; no minifter of the fame period was fo 
well acquainted with the teed of the different courts of 
Europe, and in the exercife of his official duties none could 
be more difinterefted and incorruptible; but he was fuf- 
picious and overbearing, and he expected all his coadjutors 
to give way to whatever he propofed. This, ak 1s very 
generally the cafe with great ou “ Fis 
ex- 
preffing himfelf,’? fays his bio was artful 
and obfcure, that few could re eee eee that they 
were able to difcover his true meaning. His e alfo, in 
general, was fo ambiguous, that whatever he wrote might 
be explained two different ways. Tho wag com- 
pletely mafter of his feelings, and would appear to parti- 
cipate in things which were contrary to his convi¢tion, he 
was fo much afraid of betraying his real fentiments by external 
baie that he never lo atc i full in the face with 
whom he converfed.’’? Gen. 
OSTERMARK, in Gas. a town of Sweden, in 
Eaft Bothnia; 18 nies E. of Chriftianftadt. 
OSTERO, a fmall ifland on the E. fide of the gulf of 
Bothnia. N. lat. 63° 23’. E. long. 21° 39’. 
OSTEROD, a town of Norway; 28 miles N.N.W. of 
Drontheim. 
OSTERODE, a town of Weltphalia, in the princi- - 
pality of spines Ay on the Saal, containing about 800 
houfes 8, and a e of corn, which is slrere ses 
has alfo a manufacture of woollen 
Goflar. N. lat. 51° 44’. ong. I 
OSTEROE, one of the Farce ue E. of pen 
and feparated from it by a narrow channel. N, lat. 61° go’. 
ODE, a town of Pruffia, in the ae oF 
Oberland, on the river Dribentz, defended by a cattle; 45 
miles S.E. of Dantzic. N. lat. 53° 36’. ong. 19° 52!. 
OSTERSUND, a town of Sweden, and capital of Jamt- 
land, on the E. fide of the lake Storfio; g5 miles W.N.W 
of Hernofand. N. lat. 63°10’. E. long. 14° 27’. 
OSTERSUNDAM, a town of gas in the province 
of oe 9 miles N.E. of Helfingfors 
OS TERTZ, a town of Croatia; 14 miles S.W. of 
Varafdin. 
OSTERWALD, Jou» eesti in Biography, was 
born at Neufchatel in the year Hé commenced his 
academical ftudies at Saumur, ane fo rapid was the progrefs 
which he made in them, that he was admitted to the degree 
of M. A. before he was fixteen years of age. e after- 
wards purfued his ftudies at Orleans and Paris, and was 
admitted to the office of the miniftry. He fettled as paftor 
to the church of his native place in 1699, and contraGed 
an intimate friendfhip with the celebrated John Alphonfus 
Turretin of Geneva, and Samuel Werenfels of Bafil, and 
the union of thefe three theologians, which was called the 
triumvirate of Swifs divines, latted till aa deaths, Ofter- 
was author of 
of jen oe and ColleGion of Sermons. His fon, 
John Rodolph Ofterwald, was paftor of the French church 
Moreri 
at Bafil. 
4P OSTER. 
