o** 
his premature death, the 
feveral others which he’ had projeCted. 
in 1749 er was a man of great learning afd in 
mild in “his manners, and of a modelt difpofition. 
tegrity, 
Gen. 
Bio 
Os in Geography, an ifland in the North fea, on = 
coat of Norway, at the mouth of Romfdal bay. N. 1 
62° 45’. E. long. 7° 9). 
Orrer, a river of a ae which runs into the fea, 
about 5 miles E. of Exm 
Orter Bay, a bay on the S. coaft of Newfoundland, 
between Bear and Swift bays, wn near cape Ray. 
Orter Creek, a river . ica, in Vermont, which 
rifes in Bromley, and purluing a a cenien dire€tion about 
gO miles, difcharges ae Ps lake Champlain at Ferrif- 
courfe about, fifteen {mall tributary 
onal. ftream, 
principal peak, 
about 4000 feet in perpendicular height. 
Orrer’s Head, a lofty rock on the N. fhore of lake 
48° 5 
Orter, Hunting. See Huntine. 
OTTERBACH, i in Geogr. raphy, a river of France, which 
rifes near Weiffembu Fe and runs into the Rhine, about 10 
miles above Germerfhet 
OTTERB oS a en of France, in the department 
of Mont Ton nd chief place of 
ait of oc encas +5 ae, N 
The place contains 1374, and the canton 5359 Gil uiadts. 
in 20 communes. 
OTTERPIKE, in Tebihyology, the name of a large 
{pecies of the draco marinus, or fea-dragon, called in Eng- 
hith the — it is 1 ae Jarger than the ce ee 
is of a variety oF beautiful colours; and, inftea 
ie ace “fide lines which that fifh has, this has rows of 
large black {pots. See Tracuinus Dra 
OTTERSB 
ERG, in Geography, a ee of the duchy 
of arpa o d by a fort with four baltions ; 16 miles 
E. of Bre N. lat. 53° 9! E.long.g°1 
oT "Sa. Mary, a market town in the hu 
ndred 
of that name and county of Devon, England, is fituated 
nk of the river Otter, at t the diftance of 124 
a large, irregularly built town, and is chiefly fupported by 
its manufactories of flannel, ferge, and other woollen goods. 
The market day is Tuefday every week, and Carlifle ttates 
there are fifteen fairs annually. Here isa ree {chool, 
formerly kept by the father of the poet Coleridg h 
church is a {pacious -_ poffefling many Gas lantes in 
its contruction. he uorth and fouth fides are {quare 
towers, which open into the body of the church, and form 
two tranfepts, as in the cathedral at Exeter. ae thefe 
towers are furmounted by {mall turrets and op 
ments, and that on the north has likewife a (mall {pire in 
OTT 
dhove mentioned, ‘for a Gane n, ten vicars, a mater o 
mufic, two parifh prietts, ae feco:.daries, er. ht chorifters, 
and two clerks.”? In one of thefe buildi gs is a large hall, 
which Oliver Cromwell ufed as a convention room; and in 
are the remains of the anci 
are held here 
y lord renin occupies the 
psof Exeter. 
It is a very apeonl — and commands fereral rich and ex- 
tenlive views o adjacent Sans other princi- 
pal feats in this ny are ay, and Fari in ae 
The latter is a very fpacious sian con os furrounded by 
gee plantations. aaa ng nea oe houfe, is 
faid to have been the pefi oma ampment. 
Polwhele’ s Hiftory and Anti of Devonine folio. 
Beauties of England and Wales, vol. iv. by John Britton, 
F.S.A. and E. W. Br syle ey. 
awe in peceaees a German Benedi&ine monk, 
who flourifhed in the ninth century, was a difciple of Ra- 
banus, archbifhop ‘of Mentz, a {pent she ee part of 
his life in the monaftery of Weiffemburg in Lower Alface. 
ture, a te a variety of works in profe and verfe e 
direGted his attention to the improvement and purification of 
the Ge anguages then called the Teutonic, and wit 
this view dr rammar, or rather perfeCted in part that 
comm de emperor Charlemagne. In order that 
common people might be inftructed in the gofpel hiftory, 
wrote a work in Teutonic rhymes, divided into five books, 
bontaniiag the principal circumftances of the life of Chrift, 
ey from the four evangelifts, and in the order of time. 
is work was publifhed by Flacius Illyricus in 1571, but 
more correGily afterwards by Lambecius, who gives an ac- 
nt of the other works of Ottfride, among which are 
- «« Homilies” upon the evangelifts ; and paraphrafes on other 
parts of the facred fcriptures, oreri. 
OTT clara fee in ao a town of Meckley ; 
68 miles W. of Mun 
OTTMACHAU, : a aa of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neiffe, on the river ad 6 miles W. of Neiffe. N, lat. 
56° 20!. E. long. 17° 2 
OTTOK, a town of Croatia; 28 miles S.S.W. cf 
Carlftadt. 
OTTOMAN 
the empire of the Turks, ur rather to 
Othomannus, or Ofman, the frft prince of the fam 
Ofman, to diftinguith his followers from others, a them 
, or OTHOMAN, an appellation given to 
t rom 
whom Of 
found ‘ Poin kingdom. 
title, n 1300, the saat of Sultan, which 
figaied abolute fovereiyn. era of the Ottoman 
empire may be dated from the ne | of = ma 
