OTH 
The banks toward the fea were frequented by an infinite 
number of a fort of moth, elegantly f{peckled with red, 
black, and white. There were alfo feveral other forts of 
moths, as well as fome pretty butterflies, and a few other 
infe@ts. Although no fixed inhabitants were found on this 
ifland, indubitable marks remained of its being, at leaft, oc 
cafionally frequented. Some an ts were found; and afo 
ae arge ftones, ereted, monuments, under 
e of fome trees; and feveral pass inclofed with Gaulle 
ones; where, probably, the dead had been buried ; and, in 
a 
ong. 201° 37’. Cook’s Third “Voyage, 
 OTALCIA, from ous, the ear, and aayor, pain, a pain 
in the ear. 
OTANG ee in oe a town of Bengal; 16 
miles S.S.W. of T 
OTARDIS. ce Sonus 
OTCHAKOV, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government of Ekaterinoflav, at the mouth of the Dnieper, 
on the Black fea. This town has as of confiderable im 
portance to the Turks, as a harbour for their gallies againtt 
etal 3 abe being always cs and eerie it 
(8 ihe ee eek the ony 0 
was ocd called it “ “ Ollie. sd 
opening the trenches. In the following year t 
evacuated it, after having demolifhed the 
re) 
mas 3 300 made prifoners ; and the Ruffi 
It was formerly a place of sale trade, 
foe fince ae eftablifhment of Odeffa, its trade has d ned ; 
40 miles W. of Cherfon. N. lat. 46° 44! E. Ten 
31° 34! 
OTCHIER Bay, a bay on the N. coaft of South 
America, W. of the river Urano and E. of cape Caldero; 
10 miles W. of Cumana. 
OTCHI-HOTUN, a town of aes 150 miles N.E. 
of Cafhgar. N. lat. 40° 46’. E. long. 84° 14'. 
OTEAVANOOA Harzonr, a bay on the S.W. coatft 
of the ifland of Bolabola. This is one of the moft capa- 
cious harbours captain Cook ever met w 
HYTES, from wros, the genitive of ous, the eats 
and eyxtve, fo pour in, a fyringe for the 
OTHER, in Biography, a ee Nomad, who 
refided fome time at the court of Alfred the Great. He 
was a man of great confideration in his own country, thouzh 
his whole riches confifted of no more than twenty head of 
cattle, twenty fheep, and as many f{wine, and being pof- 
feffed of an enterprifing fpirit, he undertook a voyage of 
difcovery towards the White fea; and another towards 
Sweden, on the fhores of the Baltic. Alfred, who had 
been at Rome, where he probably collefted the materials 
for his Geography, having caufed the Ormefta or Hormetta 
of Orofius to be tranflaeed into the Anglo-Saxon; intro- 
duced into it the relations of Other, and of Wulfftan, a 
Dane, who, perhaps, became acquainted with Other in the 
courfe of his travels, or refided with ara in England. Al- 
fred’s account o and Walfftan is 
faid to be exceedingly valuable, as sonaiuite the beft in- 
jerd. The caliph fh 
OTH 
formation with regard to the geography of the northern re. 
gions in the ae century. Gen. Biog. 
n Botany, a genus of Thunberg’s, very 
nearly allied to ‘Orie xa. Of its etymology we are unable 
unb 
to form a conjecture. Thunb. Nov. Gen. 56. 4e 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vir. 671. Jul 288. —Clafa a i 
—— Rae gars Nat. Ord. Berberides, Juff. 
Gen Cai. Perianth inferior, of one nite permanent, 
cloven i a “four ovate ferments. Cor. als four, eae: 
eeme 
blunt. Stam. Filaments four, ee ot co very ba 
the petals, oppofite to them, and 
anthers twin, w 
{mooth; ftyle none; ftigma feffile. eric. unknown, pro- 
bably a "capfule. 
: h. Petals ad ovate, flat. Calyx four-cleft. 
Stigma feffile. Capfule ? 
1. O. japonica. Linn. Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 158. Thunb. 
Japon. 61.—Native of Japan, where it is called Mukade Ko, 
that is Millepeda. Stem fhrubby, with round, ftnated, 
purple branches. Leaves alternate, ftalked, ovate, obtufe, 
undivided, ge conan: {fpreading. Flowers axil- 
lary, cluftered, 
OTH AN, i in Pia. the third Saracen caliph, was 
one of the companions and fecretary of Mahomet. On the 
death of Omar, in the year 634, the choice of a fucceffor 
was left to fix eleGtoars, who concurred i in the nomination of 
n he came to the throne, efteemed for his piety and in- 
ais, and t diftinguithed by the fame fimplicity of manners 
hich had charaGterifed his two predeceffors. 
public aét was © = a body of troops to complete the re- 
duction of n, while another body entered Perfia, 
whence they ally expelled the unfortunate prince Yefde- 
ewe 
own relations 
ebn-Sai 
ment of Eg ee whic 
ifle of Cypres, and the important Syrian fea-port of Aradus. 
The ifle of Rhodes aftervards fell under his power. 
Another Moflem army reduced all that part of Khorafan 
‘which had n-t then fubmitted to the Mahometan yoke. 
From Upper Egypt Abdal'ah-ebn-Said made an incurfion 
into Nubia, the Chniftian fovereign of which country he re- 
duced to beg for peace, on condition of coming his tri- 
butary. Whi'e the Moflem 
dead. 
and unjift a& fo inflamed the paffions of the secre that 
they infifted upon Othman’s abdication. i 
errur, and promifed a redrefs of grievances; but his ap 
par 
