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OSTERWICK, in Geography, a town of Pomerelia; to 
miles §.S of Dantzic.—Alfo, a town of Weltphalia, i in 
the principality of Halberftadt, feated on the Ille, contain- 
ing fe - vera woollen manu actures ; ; 15 miles N.E. of Gofl 
51° 59! . long. 10 
STH HAMMAR, a eee ‘of Sweden, in the pro- 
of Upland, formesly a ltaple-town, fituated on a {mall 
in the Ailand’s Haff, 
N. lat. 60? 15", 
vince o 
rocky ifland, called «« Gold Sheor,”’ 
near the coat 3° o miles N.E. of Upfal. 
E. long. 18° 
OS PHEIM, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg ; 8 miles S.W. of Meinungen. 
OSTIA, in Anatomy, a term uled indifferently with 
ofcula, orifices, &c. for the mouths or apertures of the 
body ; as the ofia vagine, &c. 
Ostia, or fi in Geography, a {ea-port town of Italy, 
and the fee of a bifhop, fituated 13 miles from Rome, at 
the mouth of the Tiber, whence it derived its name. This 
port was firft conftruéted and the town bi itapaie by walls, 
in the time of Ancus Martius. The harbour was reckoned 
one of the moft magnificent and ftupen 
works ; 
the 1 e remains 
of this Auguitan port were full vi see the antiquarians 
fetched the a (fee d’Anville, Mem de l’ Acad. des 
{criptions, tom. xxx. p. I ey an ' declared, with enthufiafm, 
that all the monarchs ot Europe would be unable to ex 
cute fo great a work. a "Tiberina, the two mouths o 
the Tiber, were feparated Ss Holy Ifland, of an equilateral 
form, each of whofe fides was eftimated a 
- the time of Strabo, the harbour was fo choaked, that the 
and was augmented, and the town and port were left at a 
doufice ible diftance from sis ha ore. 
ury, Oftia was ereCted into a 
bifhopric ; the old town was ae by the ee: 
and the new one confiits only of a cathedral, and of a 
mean houfes built round it. The air here is very indaf. 
ferent. N. lat. 41° . long. 12° 13!. 
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oF the oF St ne weno or Narym, and of the Yenifley ; 
the firft of thefe tribes belongs to the ftock of Finns. The 
Oftiaks of the Southera Oby call themfelves Afyaks, from 
the river Oby, which in their language is called Yak; the 
northern, Khondi Khui, people of Konda, becaufe ‘they 
withdrew from that river towards the north. Both ftems 
dwell at prefent about the Oby and the Irtith, in the go- 
vernment of Tobolfk, and derive their origin from the Per- 
mians, from whom they probably feparated to avoid bifhop 
Stephen’s barbarous zeal for making converts. If this de- 
rivation were as certain as it is id al from the fimilitude 
of the languages, they muft furely ha fome very ur- 
gent motive for quitting their mild and gentle fky on the 
W. fide of the Ural, for the inclement regions of the mo 
The Otiaks of the Oby are beste to be one of the moft nu 
merous of the Siberian nations ; but accurate ftatements of 
the amount of their populatisaran are wanting. 
The Narym Oftiaks, who are i called Morafes, are 
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about the upper parts of the Surgut, in the diftri€ts of the 
Oby quite to the Narym, and about the mouths of the rivers 
Ket and Tom 
The Yeniffey Oftiaks, though they refemble the two 
other nations of that name in appellation and mode of life, 
yet {peak a language fo entirely different from that of the 
Oftiaks, [ Alar as from all the Siberian ih ae that they 
might ra e taken for race icular nation, 
ahah ve - frmalleft indication of their ais n have been 
hitherto difcovered. well about fle a Yenif- 
ne near and between the Same es. en the Ruffians, 
17th century, had extended their ace hither, 
thefe “Oftiaks not only immediately fubmitted, but alfo 
affifted the Ruffians to fubdue the neighbouring nations. In 
proportion to the — of the gr round they occupy, 
they are not numero Tooke’s Ruff. vol. i. 
STIANO, a een of ich, in he department of the 
hae 12 miles f Cre 
OSTIANY, a town of f Lithuania, | in the palatinate of 
ina ; ; 40 miles S.E. of Wilna 
IARY, one of the five inferiot orders in the Roman 
church, whofe office is to keep the doors of the church, and 
to toll the bell. 
OSTICO, in Geography, a ae lake of America, in 
Onondago pia ew York, which er its waters from 
the N. end by a {tream 16 miles oe to 
OSTIGLIA, a town of Italy, in the De aaa of the 
Mincio ; 10 miles .0 antua. 
OSTIMURI, a town of New Mexico, in the province 
iles E. of Riochico. N. lat. 29° 12' 
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TINATO, Ital., in Mufc, obftinate, perfevering 
in a theme or fubjee, without varie y- 
OST , or CHARLESTOWN, in Geography, a confi- 
derable town in the ifland of Barbadoes 
OSTINGHAUSEN, atown of Genna any, and feat of 
a prefe€turate, in the duchy of Weftphalia; 8 miles W. of 
Lippftadt. 
OSTIONES, a {mall ifland i in the Pacific ocean, near the 
coaft of America. N. lat. 4’ 10! 
OSTRACH, a river of ree which runs into the 
Danube, about a mile below 
OSTRACION, or Trinh in n Lebiyoles, a genus o 
fithes of the order Branchiofte egous, of which the gen 
charaGter is ; teeth pound, pointing “forward cue 
ture of the gi'ls linear ; body m by a complete bony 
coverin t has no entra fins. “There are twelve fpecies, 
which are as follow 
Specie.. 
The fpecific charater of this is, that it is 
triangular-bodied, and unarmed. It is about twelve inches in 
ength, and is, as its name imports, of a trigonal fhape, 
the fides floping obliquely from the re of the back, ee 
the abdomen being flat: the whole animal, except to within 
a {mall diftance from the tail, 1s completely enveloped in a 
bony covering, divided into hexagonal fpaces, and covered, 
as is the cafe in the whole genus, with a tranfparent epider- 
mis, like that of the armadillo among quadrupeds : the ufuak 
colour is a fubferruginous brown, with a white {pot in the 
centre of each hexagon, which is alfo marked by fine rays 
diverging from the centre to the edges. It is a native of the 
Indian and American feas, and is {uppofed to feed on {maller 
cruftacea, fhell-fifh, and fea-worms. It is confidered as an 
excellent fith for the table, and is held in high eftimation 
among the inhabitants of India . 
Triconus. Triangular ; two fubcaudal {pines ; the - 
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