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efpecially i : pa river, as it isin many places fhallow, rapid, 
and fu _ d contains no. lefs th 
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om was, a tribe of Indians who inhabit the eaft fide of 
lake Milas 21 miles from Michillimackinack, in Wayne 
ounty or territory. Their hunting _ lie between 
About o years ago they 
ar "A tribe of them alfo lived near 
t. Jofeph’s, and had 150 warriors. Another tribe lived 
with the Chippewas, on Saguinan bay, who together could 
raife 200 warriors. o of thefe tribes, lately hoftile, 
figned the treaty of peace with the United States, at 
Greenville, Aug. 3, 1795. Jn confequence of lands ceded 
by them to the United States, eereranen: i agreed to 
pay them in goods 1000 dollars a-year aula 
OTTENDORYF, a town of any, in the duchy of 
Bremen, rae of a {mall eau ‘Gla Hadeln, on the 
river eae 24 miles N. of Stade. N. lat. 53 50. 1, 
long. 8° 53!. 
OTTENGRUN, a town of oe in aye! Vogtland ; 
6 miles S.W. of Oeclfnitz. —Alfo, of Germany, 
in the principality of Culmbach; 4 ie 'N. of Muna 
fh 200 warriors. 
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OTTENHEIM, atown of Auftria, on the north fide 
of the Danube; 5 miles W.N.W. of Lintz 
OTTENSCHLAG, a town of Aultria ; 7 miles S. of 
Zwetl. 
OTTENSTAIN, a town of Auftria; 8 miles E. of 
Zwetl. 
OTTENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the bifhopric 
of Munfter; 25 miles W.N.W. of Munfter. 
TER, Joun, in Biography, prof flor of Arabic at 
Paris, was ee at Curiftianitadt in Sweden, where his father 
had amaffed confiderable property. 24. he was fent to 
the high fchool at Lund, where he alfo applicd himfelf to 
natural philofophy and theology ; and here, by intercourfe 
with perfons of the Catholic perfuafion, he began firft to 
feel ferious doubts with regard to the be Acie intro- 
e was admitted into the ane at Rouen, and, after a a 
refidence of three years, was called to Paris by ‘catdinal 
Fleury, who gave him an appointment in the pott-office; a 
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fituation for which he was exceedingly well i eumges by a 
ve bald extenfive knowledge of modern languages. Havin 
oe sa ac 
mpany o moft learned men in that city, and parti- 
; lary tached himfelf to Ibrahim Effend, known as well 
by his literary eutoate as by the eftablifhment of a printing- 
office at Conftantin 
the Afghans, who, in the midft of oody war, had nearly 
over-run the empi The fituation of the country, at that 
period, deterring Otter from making any attempts towards 
the re-eftaslifhment ch trade in Perfia, d 
he refide 
nearly four years, firft in a private eae and afterwards 
as conful of the French naticn. mmotions which 
had agitated Perfia fpread at length to Buflorah ; and in 
1741, the f{pirit of infurre€tion rofe to fuch a height, that 
the neighbouring Arabs, throwing off all reftraint, appeared 
in a ftate of open reb eons For two months they kept the 
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avec une Relation des Expedition ae Thamas Kouli Khan, 
Paris, is wor ufeful 
Slercacan, in regard to names and fituations of places, 
determined by Arabian atronomers mains of antiquity, 
natural hiftory, and accounts of the manners and cuftoms 
the Perfians, and other 
ae nations, contain or 
count of the revolution effeet in Perfia by the celebrated 
Kouli Khan, with fome anecdote of his life. e Koutt 
Kuan.) Soon “ ter og retu 
ligion to the prefent time ; taking as a nda of his 
work the writings of the celebrated Noviari, an hittorian of 
the 14th century, who is reckoned one of the moft authentic 
fources of information on that fubje&t. In 1746, after 
completing a part of this pene aap he was appointed 
Regius profeffor of Arabic; and in 1748 he was eleGed a 
member of the Academy of Infcriptions. Soon after his 
admiffion, 
