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paper (Sept. 1818) informs us, that a contract has been 
made to ere£t a temporary bridge from the American Ihore 
to Goat Ifland, to enable travellers to view the Falls 
without eroding to the Canada Ihore ; and a flight of flairs 
is conftru&ing, perfe&ly fafe and commodious, by which 
ladies may delcend two hundred feet from the precipice, 
and reach with eafe and fafety the foot of the Falls, where 
a boat is kept to crofs the Niagara. The raoft favourable 
feafon for vifiting them is about the middle of September; 
for then the woods are feen in all their glory, beautifully 
variegated with the rich tints of autumn ; and the fpe&a- 
tor is not then annoyed with rattle-fnakes, nor with muf- 
quitoes, which fwarm fo thickly in the fummer, that, to 
ufe a common phrafe of the country, you might cut them 
with a knife. The cold nights in the beginning of Sep¬ 
tember effectually banifh tliefe noxious inleCls. See Weld, 
vol. ii. and Phil. Tranf. abr. vol. vi. p. 574, 5. 
NIAGAW', a town of Bengal: twelve miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Noony. 
NIAGEE', a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty- 
eight miles fouth-weft of Patna. 
NIAGU-R', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Rut- 
tun pour : twenty-feven miles north-weft of Ruttunpour. 
NIAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: twenty- 
eight miles north-weft of Rogonatpour. Lat. 23. 45. N. 
Ion. 86. 25. E. 
NIAI'SERY, f. \_niais, Fr. filly.] Simplicity; childilh- 
uefs. Cole. 
NI'AK, a town of New York, on the right bank of the 
Hudfon : twenty-three miles north of New York. 
NI'AK, an ifland on the fouth-\ *sft coaft of Eaft Green¬ 
land. Lat. 59.45. N. Ion. 43. 30. W. 
NIAKDEL'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Archangel: fixty-two miles north-north-welt of 
Kola. 
NIALEL', f. in botany, a fine lofty evergreen tree, 
whofe fruit, not unlike a bunch of grapes, is faid by 
Rheede (Hort. Malab. iv. 37.) to be efteemed a delicacy. 
Linnaeus has not referred it to any known plant. Jufiieu 
gueffes it to be really a fpecies of Vitis. 
NIAL'MA, a town of Thibet: feventy-fix miles north 
of Catmandu. Lat. 29.23. N. Ion. 85. 27. E. 
NIA'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad: eight 
miles weft of Beder. 
NIAPAGUR', a town of Bengal: twenty-five miles 
north of Boglipour. 
NIAPON', a town of Africa, in Whidah: ten miles 
eaft of Sabi. 
NIARAN' KENTCHIAN', a mountain of Thibet. 
Lat. 28.25. N. Ion. 83.44. E. 
NI'AS, a fmall ifland, near the w-eft coaft of the ifland 
of Sumatra, remarkable for the beauty of the women, who 
are purchafed as flaves by the Dutch and Portuguefe re- 
fiding in Batavia, and other places. Lat. 1. N. Ion. 97. E. 
NI'AS,/! A young hawk; an eyas. See Eyas. —Laugh 
at, fweet bird ? is that the fcruple ? come, come; thou art 
a niaij'e. B.Jonfon's Dev. an Afs. 
NIASAB AD', a town of Perfia, in the province of Schir- 
van, with a harbour on the Cafpian Sea: forty miles fouth 
ofDerbend. Lat. 41. 18. N. 
NIB, J'. [neb, Sax. the face; nebbe, Dut. the bill.] The 
bill or neck of a bird. See Neb. —The point of any thing, 
generally of a pen.—A tree called thebejuco, which twines 
about other trees, with its end hanging downwards, tra¬ 
vellers cut the nib off it, and prefently a lpout of water 
runs out of it as clear as cryftal, Derhatn. 
NIB'BED, adj. Having a nib. 
NIBBIO'NE, a town of Italy, in the department of 
the Lario : eight miles fouth-eaft of Como. 
'To NIB'BLE, v. a. [from nib, the beak or mouth. Dr. 
Jolinjon. — It has been thought allied to the Greek yvenriu, 
vellico; and gnibble , it is oblerved, is the old ortho¬ 
graphy of this word. See Barret’s Alv. 1580. So Junius 
cites the Belg. knabbelen, or hnibbelen, “ quod ficutiiis fre- 
quentativumeft a knawen, ita gnibble, Anglis eft a gnaw."} 
N I C 
Tobite bylittleat atime; to eat flowdy.—Had not he bet¬ 
ter have born Wat’s nibbling of his plants and roots now, 
than the huntfman’s eating of him out of houfe and home ? 
L' Eftrange. 
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling fheep, 
And flat meads thatch’d with ftover them to keep. Shakejp. 
To bite as a fifh does the bait: 
The roving trout fucks in the twining bait, 
And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Gap. 
To NIB'BLE, v. n. To bite at.—This fifh, plunging 
himfelf in mud, and then lifting up his head a little, calls 
out the fixing; which the little fifties taking for a W'orm, 
and nibbling at it, he immediately plucks them both in 
together. Crew's Muf. 
They gape at rich revenues which you hold, 
And fain would nibble at your grandaine gold. Dnjden. 
To carp at; to find fault with.-—Inftead of returning a 
full anlwer to my book, he manifeftly falls a nibbling at 
one Angle paffage in it. Tillotjbn. 
NIB'BLE, f. A word ufed.by anglers, denoting the aCt 
of the fith trying the bait, as it were; not immediately 
fwallowing it. 
NIB'BLER, J'. One that bites by little at a time.—The 
tender nibbler would not touch the bait. S/uthefpeare's 
Pajfionate Pilgrim. —A carper.—You tell me what the 
wits fay of your book. I luppofe you mean thofe identi¬ 
cal dunces, who have been at war with fenfe for thefe laft 
twenty years, as they were with wit for twenty years be¬ 
fore. But thefe are nibblers at the outfide. I can tell you 
of a London divine that has gone deeper, and has returned 
your book in a great rage to the bookfeller. Warburtonto 
Hard. 
NI'BE, a towm of Denmark, in North Jutland : nine 
miles w'eil-fouth-weft of Aalborg. 
NIB'ELES, J". An Abyflinian inftrument; a kind of 
common flute, joined to a bag which receives the wind; 
in fhort, a fpecies of bagpipe. 
NIB'HAZ, [Heb. the feeing barker.] An idol-god of 
the Avites, who, it is faid, was w'orlhipped in the like- 
nefs of a dog. Poflibly he is the fame with the Egyptian 
Anubis; or perhaps is the fame with Nebo, and his name 
may fignify “ the all-feeing Nebo.” 2 Kings xvii. 31. 
NIBIA'NO, a town of the duchy of Piacenza : iixteen 
miles fouth-weft of Piacenza. 
NIBRO'ECK, a town of Holland, in the department 
of Guelderland : fix miles fouth of Deventer. 
NIBS-A'AE, a river of the duchy of Slefwick, which 
runs into the North Sea below Ripen. 
NI'BU, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 165 
miles north-u'eft of Jedo. 
NIC-KOWSE, or Ben-Cowse, a towm of Algiers, in 
the province of Conftantina; lurrounded with a mud- 
wall, and defended by a garrifon and three pieces of can¬ 
non. The inhabitants are chiefly Zwowiah, under the 
protection of Seedy Lallan, their tutelar faint, to whofe 
memory they pay great refpeCl; and the revenues of whofe 
fanCtuary maintain 20ofcribes. It is fituated in a valley, 
with a circle of mountains at a moderate diftance from it. 
A rivulet glides by it to the weft; but, being impregna¬ 
ted with too many nitrous particles, the water is feldom 
made ufe of in the offices of the table or kitchen. We 
have the traces here of a large city, with the remains, as 
ufual, of pillars, broken walls, and cifterns; but at pre¬ 
lent the Nic-Kowlians make themfelves famous for the 
tombs, which they pretend to fliow, of the Seven Sleepers, 
whom they ftrenuoufly maintain to have been Muffulmen, 
and to have lleptat this place. It is twenty-three miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Seteef, and fixty-three fouth-weft of 
Conftantina. 
NICZE'A, the ancient name of Nice, a town of Italy, 
on the confines of Liguria. It was a colony from Mar- 
feilles, fituated on the lea-coaft, about a league from the 
mouth of the Var. It held a diftinguilhed rank among 
the 
