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land, was born near Dolgelly, in Merionethhire, in the year 
1716. e was inftruétedin grammar learning at thin 
{chool, in Denbighhhire, and at the age of nineteen he entered 
himfelf of Jefus college, Oxford. Among the favourite fub- 
jects of his purfuit, on his entrance upon academic ftudies, 
was that of the mathematics, which he profecuted with 
great ardour, and the moft ferious application. Havin 
In gael life 
was appoin lain to the bifhop of Landaff, and in 
1753 he proceeded doctor of phyfic at See . Owen’s 
ce 
fion ;’’ ‘* Sermons preached at Boyle’s in 
two vols.; “ ntrodu€tion to Hebrew Critici{fm ;”’ 
‘“¢ The Modes of ame ufed by the ia mare Writers 
explained ad vindicated :’? in this work the author chiefly 
examines thofe quotations which have been ecu by on 
evangelifts, in order to point out the intimate conneCtion be- 
tween the events of the life of Chrift and the prophecies re- 
corded in the Old Teftament ; and he eae: with proving 
that the prophecies in queftion were juftly applied to Chritt, 
or that they 
than to fu ubjedts more auto connecte d 
the fituations of the prophets. Befides the articles becel 
es was the author of ‘ ation 
ec 
gia.’’ Dr. aid a confiderable fhare in preparing for 
the public eye Mr. Bowyer’s « Conjetures on the New Tef- 
tament. ;”’ and : affifted Mr. Nichols in editing the 4to. edi- 
tion of wyer’s Greek teftament in 1783, as we learn 
from this Seen in the infcription of it to Owen 
auxilio concinnatam.’’ He died in the hi 1795? in 
the eightieth year of hisage. New Ann. Regi 
cography, a town of W caeaeees 3 "8 miles 
t 
EN’s t., a bay on the W. coaft of the ifland of 
HEE sa a town or village of the fame name; 6 miles 
W.N W. of Helie 
WER-Gates, in Rural Economy, a provincial word fig 7 
nifying a ftile place, or imperfect gap in a hedge, and alfo a 
flepping place over a brook. 
Ower-Welt, a provincial word applied to a fheep, which 
gets laid upon its back in a hollow 
OWEY, in Gurrathy, a {mall sae of the Atlantic, 
near the N.W. coaft of Ireland. N. lat. 55° 3’. - W. long. 
ose 
OWHARREE, a harbour on the W. coaft of oar 
one of the Suciety iflands, i in the South Pacific ocean. S. lat 
16 54'. W. long. 15x? 8. 
OWHYHEE, an alae in the North Pacific oe dif- 
: s the 
ian fha 
equilateral. The following oes ag to this ifland 
O WH 
are extracted from the account _ it by Capt. King, 
vifited it again after the death of ae Cook, in 
779. (See Cook’s Third Voyages vol, iti. ) e angular 
points make the north-eaft and fouth extremities, of which 
the northern is in N. lat. 20 E. long. 204° 2': the 
eaftern in N. lat. 19° 
fouthern extremity in N 
who 
oa 
g 
lat. 18° 54’. 
~ fi ie 
and Koaarra on the welt. 
Riese are feparated by a mountain, called Mounah Kaah, 
or The Mountain Kaah, which rifes in three peaks, perpetually 
coe with ee and may be clearly feen at 4o leagues dil- 
nee. Tot of this mountain the coait confifts of high 
and abrupt cliffs, down which fall many beautiful cafcades 
of water re once flattered with the hope 
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with a gentle afcent, is interfected b 
rather chafms, and appeared to be il cultivated, and fprin. 
kled over with a number of villages. e {nowy m 
is very fteep, and the lower pa i 
The coa aft of Aheedoo, which lies to the fou 
off the fh 
or three leagues, ea ae on the occafion aiaael mentioned. 
he coa aay whe 8 the eaftern 
ihe qeclii of the 
ea-fide, leaving but a narrow border o 
the beach ar the fhore 
mariners table-land: the fummit was conftantly buried in 
now, and we once faw its fides allo flightly covered for a 
confiderable way down, = the greatelt part of this difap- 
peared again in a few da According to the tropical line 
of fnow, as determined b- Mr. Condamine, from obferva- 
tions taken on the Cordilléras, this mountain mutt be at leaft 
16,020 feet high, which exceeds the height of the Pico de 
Teyde, or Peak of Teneriffe, by 724 feet, according to 
Dr. Heberden’s computation ; or 3680, according to that 
of the chevalier de Borda. The peaks of Mouna Kaah ap- 
peared to be about half a mie high, and as they are entirely 
covered with {fnow, the altitude of their fummits cannot be 
lefs than 18,400 feet. Butit is probable that both thefe 
3 mountains 
