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government is vefted in three baillies and fifteen aaa 
who are elected pg an weekl et for 
provifions. t 
linens and Silefias i is carried o 
gravelly, but at a greater diftance is fertile. 
marle are abundant. According to the narliamehtary returns 
of 1811 the whole parifh comprifes 525 houfes, and a oe 
tion of 2403 perfons. Beauties of Scotland, vol. i 
OUDAL, a town of Norway, ia the province of ogee 
huus; 40 miles N.E. of Chriftiania 
OUDAPOUR, a town of Bengal ; 
Comillah. 
OUDATUM. erty a town of Chinefe Tartary. 
N. lat. 45° 9. E long. 121° 287, 
OUDE, a province or fou bah of Hindooftan, the do- 
minions of which lie on both fides of the 
ing (with the exception of Fezoola Cawn’s diftri@ of R 
pour) all the flat country between that river and the northern 
mountains towards Thibet, as well as the principal part o 
15 miles E. of 
Bahar, on the S. by Allisbad coed by nen oo ie 
y Agra. According to 
the ftatement of Major Renncll, in the Introduction to his 
be reckoned 360 Britifh miles in length from E. to W., an 
in breadth from 150 to 180; and their area is 3 about one- 
third part of that of the Bengal provinces; being to each 
other in the proportion of 5 = Gener, ae Daa 
the whole territory is one conti plain ; a con- 
tinuation of that extenfive level valley cote stich the 
Ganges, and its branches, take their courfe. It is 
over, the central part of the ancient kingdom or empire of 
the * ia *” Lucknow, fituated on the river Goomty, 
t 650 miles from Calcutta, is its prefent capital ; 
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The nabob of Oude is in alliance with the 
Bri - a bri ade of the hic al army is con- 
whole 
by a ftipulated faa, under the name 
circars of Cucpeour and Chunar, conttitu ae a nr of the 
dominions of Oude until the year 1775, when its tribute or 
quit-rent of 24 lacks ie ete to 40) was transferred 
to the Englifh. This Zemindary, which was lately in the 
hands of Chut Sing, cecil the principal part of the {pace 
between Bahar and Oude, fo that only a {mall part of the 
territory of the latter touches Bahar on the N.W. 
revenues of Oude under Aurungzebe amounted to 804 lacks 
of rupees; but they have more lately been reckoned in the 
grofs amount at about 23 millions fterling; of which the 
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new acquifitions of oo ating and other parts of 
the Dooab, are more million. ‘The military efta- - 
blifhment, including the G soe! eapianed| in the eolletion 
the revenues, is from 50 to 60,000 men; but few of 
them deferve the name of regular troops. 
he province of Oude is watered not only by the Ganges, 
but by the Jumnah, Agra, Goomty, and féveral fmaller 
ftreams'; thefe flow through mott of the principal towns, and 
are jnavigab rad ies boats in all feafons of the year. They 
fro rriers againft the neighbouring powers. 
prele ae fy 
ude has an circars, viz. Bahraitch, Canoge, Gootack- 
pour, on the S anickpo 
ucknow ; about 45 miles long and 16 broad. 
capital is Fyzaba 
OUDENARDE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Scheldt, and principal place of a diftri@, fituated on 
the Scheldt ; fuppoted by fome to have been built by the 
Goths in the year 411. It lies in a valley, on the fide of a 
mountain called «« Rerldlaerbery, which defends the city. 
It has two parifh ‘churches, five gates, and many Lee 
buildings. The town has two jurifdictions ; one of the ma- 
giftracy, compofed of a grand baihff, a burgomafter, and 
nine echevins ; the other in the hands of the lords: thefe 
jurifdiGiions are feparated by the Scheldt. This town was 
fo well fortified by Francis de la Noué, a French Calvinift, 
that it was called «Little Rochelle.” Oudenarde furren- 
dered ae the French on the 3d of July, 17943 12 miles S. 
of Ghe 
OUDENBO RG, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lys; fix miles S.E. of Oftend. 
OUDENBOSCH, a town of Brabant ; 10 miles W. 
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of Breda. 
OUDERKERCK, a town of Holland ; fix miles S. of 
Amflerdam. 
OUDEWATER, a town of Holland, feated on the 
Little Iffel, to which era eesie bifhop of Utrecht, 
gave the privileges of a city, 1254. In1575 it 
was taken by affault, piled, and pani by the Spaniards, 
murder od, among many others, the mother, que and 
ae of the celebrated James’‘Arminius, who was born 
‘here in the year 1560; 20 miles S.of Amfterdam. 
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AH, a town of Bengal; 54 miles S.E. of 
Doef: 
OUDGASTEL, a town of Brabant; 12 miles W. of 
Breda. 
OUDIA, Care, or Capfoudia, a cape on the E. coaft 
of Tunis. N. lat. 30° 45'. ng. 11° 2/, 
OUDIGHIR, a town of (ndeoitan, in Dowlatabad ; 
five miles N.W. of Beder. 
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