OS W 
S. of Landfperg.—Alfo, atown of Auftria ; 5 miles E. 
of Freyftatt.—Alfo, a town of Upper Carniola ; 3 11 miles 
E. of Stein. 
OSWANSIO, a town of Sweden, in Geftricia; 17 
miles W.S.W. of Geffle. 
OSWEGATCHIE, a river of North America, which 
runs a endorse courfe from its fource into St. Law- 
rence county, New York ; after fome windings it purfues a 
welterly courfe by the northern part of a lake of its name, 
the waters of which it receives, and then runs feven miles 
W. into the St. Lawrence. The lake of this name is 
about 18 miles long from S.W. to N.E., and fends its waters 
north-weftward into the river of its name. It is about ten 
miles - E. of the Thoufand ie near the ertrance into lake 
Ontar 
OSWEGATCHIES, an ath tribe sear at Swa- 
gatchey, on the river St. Lawrence, in Canad Thirty 
years ago they could furnifh on 100 warriors. 
OS GO, anavigable river of New York, which con- 
veys the waters of Oneida, anda number of feral lakes, into 
lake Ontario. y called Onondago. —Alfo, 
a fortrefs on the. ealt fide ‘of the be of the above river, 
and S.E. fide of lake Ontario. N. lat. 43° 20’. W. long. 
75° 43'. It was taken by the Britifh from the French in 
i and confirmed to them by the peace of 1763. It was 
delivered up to the United States July 14, 1766. It is 
about 150 or 160 miles E. by N.of Niagara. N. lat. 44° 
43'. W.long. 76° 50’, 
OswecGo Creek, Great, lies in the county of Lincoln, 
Upper Canada, and runs into the river Welland, above the 
Little eee creek, near the N.W. part of the townfhip of 
Wainflee 
Owes Tea, in Botany. See Monarpa. 
OSWESTRY, in Geography, a borough, market-town, and 
ieee in the hundred of Ofweitry, and county of Salop, a 
18 moar mm 
exhibits fome very rich and piéurefque aaah Itisa 
borough by prefcription, and is governed by a mayor, re 
corder, high fteward, town-clerk, murenger, coroner, and 
The body corporate confifts of the 
mayor, twelve aldermen, and fifteen common councilmen, 
who elect the mayor, recorder 
are the market-days in this town, and there are fix an n- 
nually. Here is an excellent free grammar-{chool, of recent 
erection. The church is a very 
ae us building, with a 
plain, well proportioned tower at o ; e 
been rae mproved within the la it 
==) 
> 
s 
< 
a 
EX) 
wv: 
quence of an act obtained, in 1810, for widening, paving, 
and eee the pic and of the fpirit of building which 
has refulted from that meafure. According to the parlia. 
ment returns of 1811, ihe praia in the town were 788, and 
the inhabitants 3479, in num 
f gre oe antiquity. The Saxons 
Its prefent appella- 
tion, which is a corruption for Ofwaldftre, was derived 
OS W 
t's-dyke, which ran parallel to the former, at the 
diftance of two miles. It was thus rendered a border-rown, 
ormans. ry II. lay here previous to 
his defeat by the Welfh on the Berwin mountains. In 1212 
king John burnt both the town and cattle, which were then 
in the poffeffion of the Fitz-Alans, and plundered a part of 
Wales, on account of the refufal of Llewellin to join his 
sarees in oppofition to Lewis, the dauphin of France, 
o had been invited to England by the rebellious barons. 
Olweftry was likewife deftroyed pe ea Welth prince, sei 
Llewellin the Great, in 1233. this period it w 
encircled by a ftrong wall, which mee on gates fronting i 
tour cardinal points. Some traces of the wall ftill remain, 
ut the gates were entirely ieee about the year 1769. 
OF the caitle, which ftood o 
the weft fide of the town, sy a fe 
Thefe, rabid are fufficient to indicate its former pro- 
Saat from Ofweltry is fituated the elegant manfion of 
Atten-park, the property of W. Lloyd, efq.; and near the 
village of Weft-Felton, in this peetbeinee, is re villa 
of John F. M. Dovatton, efq. called ** The Nurfery.”? This 
gentleman has, within thefe few months, publifhed a volume 
of poems, which may juitly entitle him to hold a high rank 
among the poets of the age. His father, though he never 
appeared as an author, was a man of fingular genius, and 
has left a pase colletion of MSS on the fubjeét of antiqui- 
ties, now inthe poffeffion of his fon, together with a variety 
of piisioplical and mufical inftruments conftru&ed by his 
own hands, and upon new principles. 
mile north-eaft from Ofweftry is an ancient fortification 
called Old-Fort, which the Welth formerly oe 
ran, that is, O "s 
the Montgomeries, the Peverells, and the Fitz-guarines 
The fituation of t aftle is extremely picturefque ; its 
ealtern walls being wafhed by a fine lake, fhaded with large, 
e 
Charles and his parliament, this caftle w 
fir Thomas Middleton, the celebrated parliamentary gene 
ral, whofe delcendarits: by the female a {till poffefs it. 
It is a {quare building, ftrengthened at the angles by mafly 
baftion-like towers, and having a court in the centre. 
idture 
