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fides, the — excepted, by the fea. 
Bar about 60 miles in length, and 
- principal produ@tions are olives, 
figs and grapes. uard again{t the incurfions of the 
Stee towers are anaes at {mall diftances wae a coatt, 
Lecce, whence it is fometimes called ¢ 
On the weft it is 
ro. 
euca, Alefflano, Ugento, Nardo, Oftuni, and Caftel- 
Janeta. rious a ay and sng -port of Naples, and capital of 
the above province. It was a Roman colony, and erected 
into an areuihape es in ee igi century. It is feated on a 
rocky ifland, and joined to another ifland by a bridge, which, 
by another bridge, communicates with the continent. It is 
pupliloes a by walls and ramparts, and defended by a citadel 
ock, The harbour is good, and the trade yaa 
Tt i is de fee of an ee 94 miles S.E. of Bar 
lat. 40° 30’. E. long. 18° 
T » or FARAL, a iowa of Turkeftan, on the 
Arfch; formerly a place of great importance and con- 
fiderable trade. After a brave defence, it was taken by 
Jenghis Khan. The celebrated Timur Bec died here; 
55 miles W. of Taraz. 
OTRAU, atown of Moravia, in the circle of Prerau ; 
zo miles N.E. of Prerau 
OTRICOLI, a town of Italy, in the rages near the 
Tiber, formerly the fee of a bifhop. In this place are the 
ruins . . haces and other magnificent Galdings: 3 24 miles 
S.W polet 
OTROKOTSKIFORIS, Francis, in Biography, an 
Hungarian, who completed his -— at pia and be- 
came minifter in his native country. e wards re- 
nounced the bc religion, and) obtained fome prefer- 
ment im sou e died at Tira ne is ee 
ar i Origines s Hungarice,”’ 
tiqua “eine EC aeerora vere Chriftiana e Catholices" 
vo. 
OTSEGO, in Geography, a county of New B Vork: on 
the fouth fide of M ; aia north by Herke- 
by D 
which cones it from Cherry ley. 
head of Sufquehanna river, and is about nine miles long, and 
omewhat more than a mile wide. The lands on its banks 
are good, mee ou cultivated. The townfhip contains 
4224 inhabitan 
SKE, a a of Turkifh Armenia; 20 miles N.W. 
of Akalziké. 
OTT, Joun aang in oe nN a learned Swifs di- 
uric 
in 1635 nt to purfue his ftudies at Laufanne. Fro 
hence neva and Groningen ; and in the latter 
place diftinguifhed himfelf by his great proficiency under the 
inftrutions and Al He then {pent five 
years at Ley Amfterdam, chiefly in the itudy of 
the Oriental tanguages. After this he took a tour to Eng- 
land France ; and upon his return to his native countrys 
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25 years. In 1651 Ace was nominated to the profefforfhip 
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of eloquence at Zur 
dele Baptift Oct, born in 1661, ae pee piste a 
brity by his knowledge of the Oriental languages and anti- 
quities. He was paftor ofa church at aie ee and after- 
wards profeflor of Hebrew at Zurich. 171 
promoted to the archdeaconry of the jerrer ee in that city. 
He was the author of feveral works of papers fe es 
tion: as, * A Differtation on Vows; Letter on Sa- 
maritan Medals, addreffed to Adrian Reland ” both thefe 
on certain Antiquities difcovered at Klothen, in Thee 
Moreri. 
OTTA, in meee a town of Portugal, in Eftra- 
madura; 24 miles N. of Lifbon 
OTTACANO, a town of Naples, i in the province of 
Lavora ; ee oe E. of Capua. 
T » Gaetano, in Bio 
the fervice of ‘the king of Sardinia, who, in 1770, 
excellent tenor voice, fung w 
graphy, a tenor-finger i in 
with an 
u Vernet, and was fometimes employed by 
his Sardinian majefty as a painter. 
OT TI, in Geography, a sul of Naples, in Princi- 
pato Citra; 10 miles 5.W. o iano 
O , a town “of Nae in the province of Bari; 
11 miles §.S.E. of Monopoli. 
» a river which rifes in the fouth part of 
ae and runs into the Muldau, 12 miles E. of 
latna. 
OTTAWAS, or ye hee called alfo Grand River, a 
river of Canada, which is the moft important of all the tri- 
butary ftreams of the gre ae river St. Lawrence, iffues from 
various lakes towards the centre of Canada, and falls into 
tagnes et le Lac St. L 
mountains, and the lake 
iflande. 
water of the Utawas river is remarkably clear, 
and of a bright greenifh colour; whilft that of the St. Law- 
nce, on the contrary, is » owing to 1 fling over 
Perot, miles in 
foil of which is ae and Fall cultivated. The 
Weft Company principally carries on its fur-trade by the 
Utawas river. r this purpofe they make ufe of canoes, 
formed of the ba rk of the birch tree; fome of which are 
conftruéted upon fuch a large fcale, that they are capable of 
containing two tons; but they feldom put fo much in them, 
efpecially 
