OWA 
OVUTSI, or Ouvustl, in Geography, a as : Japan, i in 
the ifland of Xicoco. N. lat > 20!, 
>in Agriculture, a fort of ae cnace the fea, 
which is often very iterile and unproductive, but (clbene. 
the contrary. 
oe Brook, in Ornithology. See RALLUS Agua- 
Ne 
Outer, Ring. See Turnus Torquatus. 
Ouzett, Rofe or Carnation-coloured. See Turpus Ro- 
Orn, Water. See Sturmus Cinclus. 
OUZOUER fur Loire, in Geography, a town of France, 
in the Seatac of the Loiret, and we place of a canton, 
in the diftrit of Gien; 6 miles Gien. The place 
contains 686, and the canton 5564 ihatiant on a terri- 
tory of 275 kiliometres, in 8 communes. 
W, or Awe, Loch, a lake in Argylefhire, Scotland, 
extends about caty miles i in length, a 1s in bias e places 
two miles b wid 
m 
inferno to loch 
great pda of its banks exhibits lofty mountains covered with 
wood; and within its bofom are many little iflands orna- 
mented with trees and picturefque ruins. On Inifh-Chonnel 
are the remains of an ancient caftle belonging to the 
Argyle family ; and on Troach-Elan are veftiges of another 
fortrefs, which was granted, with fome contiguous lands, to 
the chief of the clan ac-Naughton, by king 
Alexander III., on condition that he fhould entertain the 
Scottifh monarch whenever he paffed that way. 
remote period this latter ifland was the Hefperides of Scot- 
land, and the fatal attempt of Troach, to gather its delicious 
fruit for his beloved Mego, is handed down from age to age 
in a beautiful Celtic tale, after the manner of Offian. ‘ The 
fair Mego longed for the delicious fruit of the ifle guarded 
by a dreadful ferpent. ‘Troach, who had long loved the 
fe) 
Lond 
oO 
the hero, who perifhed in the confli The monfter wa 
alfo acl ed. Mego did not long furvive the death of her 
love 
"The furface of Loch-Awe is 108 feet above the level of the 
Numerous pine difcharge themfelves into it on 
both. fides, and, what is unufual, it receives a large ftream at 
each extremity, aug Gite itfelf laterally by the river Awe 
into loch Etive, an arm o 
called: Bunaw. i n n 
char. Eels are likewife extremely plentiful, but held in 
great abhorrence by the ati who eegecd them as water 
ierpents, and unfit for the foo man 
On a rocky point, sroetling into the lake, near its 
eaftern end, are feated the aed Sie ruins of Caftle-Kil- 
churn, which was built in 1440, by the lady of fir Colin 
Campbell, knight of Rhodes, and ayer of the Breadal- 
bane family, i 
ve walls a apidly falling to ruin, and offe 
contemplative mind a melancholy monument of the 
mutability of earthly Sa and of ie — decay 
the moft durable works of human art. Beauties of Scot- 
land, ol v. Pen ee °s Tour in Scotland 
Wilna; 16 miles E. of Wilkomierz. 
OW » a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon, 
4 
» Ato. aye: ti 
» atown of Lithuania, in ‘the palatinate of 
OWE 
tuated 3 in a hae to which it gives name. 
E. long. 137° 
N. lat. 35° 301. 
ASCO, a lake of America, partly in the towns of 
peers and Scipio, in York, 
out II mt 
Sones river on t 
town of Brutu 
OWCE, in Auraiars a provincial word applied to the 
Ox. 
OWCH, in Care: a town of Turkeftan, on a river 
which runs into the Sihon ; 30 miles 8.S.E. of Andagan 
O E, a town of "Poland, in the palatinate of Po- 
dolia; 40 miles W. of Kaminiec. 
O GO, a polt-town of America, in Tioga county, 
New York, on the N.W. bank of the E. branch of the 
Sufquehaneah ; 30 miles W. of Union, at Tioga point, con- 
eed nee: inhabitants. 
Oweco - Creek, a creek of Tioga ee which ferves 
as the =. gerne of the townfhip of it 
OWE " w Books, 
much to the mefne, as the mefne does to the lord para- 
mount. 
OWEN, Jouy, in Biography, a learned Englifh non- 
conformift divine of the independent denomination, was 
defcended from a refpelable family in North Wales, and 
born in 1616, at Hadham in Oxfordfhire. At Oxford he 
received his grammatical learning, and fo rapid was the 
progrefs which he made, that at twelve years of age he was 
admitted a ftudent at Queen’s coliege. He purfued his 
ftudies with incredible diligence, allowing himfelf, for feveral 
years, not more than four hours fleep ina night. He was, 
at the fame time, exceedingly attentive to his health, and 
occafionally indulged in fach recreations as were proper for 
fo robuft a ‘contlitution as he enjoyed, fuch as leaping, throw- 
ing the bar, ringing of bells, and fimilar hardy Fails 
e was admitted to - degree 
d M. 4 
of B. and 
cominence : in n ed this, ace tep 
ubmiffion to a em. is 
h 
vouring Puritanifm, soa of 
him, and in 16 ftuation 2 college was rendered 
i 
fo uneafy, that he found himfelf obliged to leave it. 
to his eldeft fon. Afterwards he was appointed chaplain 
to lord Lovelace, in whofe family he refided at the 
mencement of the civil wars, when he openly avowed him- 
felf a friend to the parliamentary caufe. This condu& was 
fo highly refented by his uncle, who was a zealous royalift, 
that he immediately difcarded him, fettled his eftate upon 
another pe and died without bequeathing him any 
thing. d Lovelace, though he had joined the king’s 
party, continued to treat his chaplain with great civility ; 
ut when that nobleman went in my; wen 
left his houfe, went to London, and became a perfe& con- 
vert to the principles of the non ee rmifts. r tie 
firft made himfelt known as an aut 16425 wor 
is future advancemen 
ort tim 
ite place he renounced the Prefbyterian principles, joined 
the 
