OoOuD 
belenging to his order, for the Ld eg of apa from 
their — fuch doc uments as might him in his en- 
quiries int Lhiftory. He fift vifited the eee 
teries in the Netherlands, whence he brought back with 
him a rich fupply of materials, and in 1682 he made the 
refearches in the ey ee houfes of Lorraine, Bur- 
inay, and Alface. In 1683 he was fent to Paris, where 
he formed conneétions with feveral eminent charaGers in the 
republic of letters, and in 1688 he publifhed a work, by 
which he ac 
m typographicam inven- 
n 1690 he found reafon to change his religious fenti- 
ments Pel ae withdrew from France and 
eyden, where he renounced the popifh creed, and made a 
public profeffion of the Proteftant reliyion. Soon after this 
he was appointed {ub-librarian of the univerfity of Leyden, a 
poft which he retained till his death in 1717. as au- 
thor of many other works, as « A@a Beati Luc batis 
© ra- 
pe rmino, 
Phil. Labbeo, Guil Caveo, El du Pin, &c.”’ in three 
hd folio 
UDIN, Francis, a learned French ~~ was born at 
Vignorix, in Champagne, in the year was fent 
very young to commence his ftudies at ees, ‘age he 
made a confiderable progrefs in his acquaintance with the 
{ciences and the belles lettres. He refo ved to embrace the 
y-nine. wa 
a good linyuift ; was acre re in the knowledge of 
oad _ profane eta? and in tlte fcience of medals. 
He w is tafte in polite literature, and 
had a gers facility in compotng 
f many * Poe 
was author v ‘* Odes,’ 
«¢ Hymns,” &c. “of which the = part was inferted in 
a colleétion entitled “‘ Poemata didafcalia,’”” in three vo- 
lumes, 12mo. His profe works were numerous, espe 
of « Differtations,”” ‘« Eulogies,’? * Lives,’? &c.: alfo of 
ommentaries on many parts of the {criptures. "He was, 
towards the clofe of life, employed by his fuperiors on a con- 
tinuation of the ‘‘ Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jefu,” 
which was begun by father Ribadeneira. 
OUDIN ARCH Paglia 6 a medalift, was born 
at Rheims in 1643; he was profeffor ef the law at his na- 
tive place, and anny abeiied the office 
the royal cabinet of medals. He was alf 
Academy of oe and died in 1712. 
memoirs on med 
He wrote three 
OUR, "Meywa AR, or Midwar, in Geography, 
vince of ce psa to the Rajpoots, pee 100 
E. of 
OVE 
year 1779 was eftimated at 10 lacks of rupees per annum.— 
Alfo, the capital of the circar to which it gives —_ in the 
country of Agimere ; 120 mi -W. of Agimere. N. 
at. 24° 42’. E. long. 74° 42! 
OUDOBO, a country of Africa, fubje&t to Ben 
OUE, a mountain of Perfia, in Khorafan ; ; ight miles 
E. of Kain. 
OUEI-LO, a town of Thibet ; 295 males S.W. of 
OUEI. NING, a ai of ae i oe fir rank, in 
Koei-tcheou. N. lat. 26 45. E.1 103 50 
da UEN, a one of Thibet ; ; pe se E.S.E. of 
ee YUEN Hotun, a town of Corea; 450 miles E.N.E. 
of Peking. 
OUE-KIUM, a town of ae of the firft rank, in Ho- 
nan, on the river Ki; 297 miles §.5.W. of Peking. 
GUNN, a town of the duchy of Hollfiein; nine 
miles E.S.E. of Eutyn. 
OVELGUNNE, or OVELGOENNE, a town of Germany, 
and chief place of a fmall territory, which, in 1653, was 
annexed to the comté of Oldenburg ; 16 miles N.E. of Ol- 
denburg. 
egies See OWEL 
VEN, or Affaying eee in Metzllurgy, is the parti- 
cular fort of ye ufed by t sit ag ayers in their operations 
on metals, laying Fur 
OU EN-TCH OU, in Guo! hy, a city of China, of 
the firft rank, in eee on a river with a good har- 
bour, ee fe from the fea; 755 miles S.E. of Peking. 
. lat. ong. 120 29'. 
OUEN- Cai a town of Corea; 85 miles N.E. 
of King-ki-ta 
OUEN-Y, iowa of Corea; 20 miles S.S.W. of Ou- 
tcheou. 
OUEN-YEN, a town of Corea; 33 miles $.S.W. of 
u-tcheou. 
OUEPAS, . ipa of Mexico, on the coaft of Cofta 
Rica, S. of Car 
A. See Aw 
OVERACKEN, a fmall ifland on the ne fide of the 
gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. 63 50'. E. long.20 20’, 
OVER , Joun, in Biography, a aed prelate of 
» was born abou 
where he was c ellow. Inthe year 1 06 he was no- 
minated Regius ee oe af ms ne took the degree of 
doétor in that faculty. ut the fame time he was elected 
matter of Catherine-hall, a foon after was promoted to the 
deanery of St. Paul’s, London. On the acceffion of James I. 
he was chofen | ghesaenes of the lower houfe of convocation, 
and in 1612 he was appointed one of the firlt governors of 
the Cha ede, then juft founded. In 1614 he was no- 
en to the fee of Litchfield and Coventry, from which, 
n four years, he was tranflated to that of Norwich, here 
i died in 1619, at the age of about fixty. He particularly 
excelled in {cholaftic theology 3 and declared himfelf without 
hefitation in favour of Arminianifm. He is chiefly known 
as the author of a work entitled ‘* The Convocation-Book,”’ 
to which Dr. (afterwards bifhop) Sherlock, attributed his 
converfion from nonjuring principles. See Biog. Brit. notes 
to the article SHERLOcK. 
-BLOW, in Sea Language. They fay it over- 
blows when the wind blows fo very hard that the fhip can 
bear no top-fails. 
OVER. 
