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one miles north of Perigueux, and thirty fouth-fouth- 
weft of Limoges. Lat. 45. 32. N. Ion 0.44. E._ 
NON'ZA, a town of the ifland of Corfica: eight miles 
north-weft of Baftia. 
NOO'DLE,/ [from noddle, or noddy.] A fool ; a fim- 
pleton. 
NOODT (Gerard), a learned jurift, was born in 1647 
at Nimeguen. He was educated at his native city, in the 
univerfity of which he ftudied in the various branches of 
literature and fcience. He particularly attached himfelf 
to jurifprudence under the profeflor of law, Peter de 
Greve ; and in the third year of his courfe fuftained two 
public deputations. He afterwards vifited the univerfities 
of Leyden, Utrecht, and Franeker; at the laft of which he 
took the degree of dodftor of law in 1669. After his re¬ 
turn to Nimeguen he waschofen ordinary profeflor of law, 
at the age of twenty-four. In 1679 he was placed in the 
chair of law at Franeker ; and, after twice declining an 
invitation from Utrecht, he at length accepted the pro- 
fefforfhip of law in that univerfity in 1684; but, in 1686, 
he removed to the fame ftation at Leyden, which was 
his final refidence. He was twice redtor of that univerfity; 
and died there in 1725, at the age of feventy-eight. 
Gerard Noodt was a man of a pacific and tranquil dif- 
pofition, extremely laborious, and animated with a truly 
philofophical fpirit. He fullered patiently all objections 
to his opinions from his ftudents ; and, in cafes where no 
fatisfadlory folution of difficulties could be found, he 
chofe rather frankly to confefs his ignorance than to reft 
in dubious explanations. His writings, upon fomeof the 
inoft important topics of jurifprudence, were publifhed 
coileftively by himfelf in a quarto volume at Leyden, in 
1713, and afterwards, with additions, in 1724, folio. A 
more correCt and complete edition was given at Leyden 
in 2 vols. folio, in 1735, with the author’s life by M. 
JBarbeyrac. His two treatifes, “ De Jure Surnrni Imperii 
& Lege Regia,” and “ De Religione ab Imperio, Jure 
Gentium, libera,” were tranfiated into French by Bar- 
beyrac, and publifhed feparately; the latter under the 
title of, “ Difcours fur la Liberte de Confidence.” In 
the firft of thefe treatifes the author fupports republican 
principles of government; in the fecond he carries to¬ 
leration in matters of religion to the fulleft extent. Gen. 
Biog. 
NOO'GA, a river of Africa, which runs into the Indian 
Sea in lat. 28. 30. S. 
NOOGOO', one of the fmall Friendly iflands : three 
miles north-eaft of Tongataboo. 
NOOGOONAMOO', one of the Hapaee iftands, a little 
to the fouth eaft of Haano. 
NOOHEE'VA, or Federal Island, one of the Ingra¬ 
ham iflands, in the Pacific Ocean. Lat. S. 58.S. Ion. 140. 
5 . W. 
The following curious account has been taken from a 
Bombay news-paper of the year 1817. “Mr. Powell, 
commander of the Queen Charlotte, informs us of the 
interefting circumftance of his having recovered from a 
rock, twenty-one miles north-weft of Nooheva, a man 
that had been its folitary inhabitant for nearly three 
years. His account ftated, that early in 1814 he proceed¬ 
ed thither from Nooheva, with four others, all of whom 
had left an American fliip there, for the purpofe of pro¬ 
curing feathers that were in high eftimation among the 
natives of Nooheva; but, lofing their boat on the rock, 
three of his companions in a ftiort time perilhed through fa¬ 
mine, and principally from third, as there was no water 
but what was fupplied by rain. His fourth companion con¬ 
tinued with him buta few weeks; whenhe formed arefolu- 
tion of attempting to fwim, with the aid of a fplintered 
fragment that remainedof their boat, to theifland; in which 
effort he mult, no doubt, have perilhed. They had ori¬ 
ginally taken fire with them from Nooheeva, which he had 
always kept continually burning. The flelh and blood 
of wild birds Were his foie aliment; with the latter he 
£j uenched his thirft in feafons of long droughts, and the 
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fkulls of his departed companions were his only drinking- 
veflels. The difcovery made of him from the Queen 
Charlotte was purely accidental: the rock was known to 
be defolate and barren ; and the appearance of a fire, as 
the veffel paffed it in the evening, attrafted notice, and 
produced an enquiry, which proved fortunate for the for¬ 
lorn inhabitant of the rock, in procuring his removal to 
Nooheeva, whither Mr. Powell conveyed him, and left him 
under the care of Mr. Wilfon, who had relided there for 
many years, and with whom the hermit had had a previous 
acquaintance. 
NOOK, j. [from een hoeck, Teut. a corner. In fome 
parts of the north of England, this word is pronounced 
newk. Nook-Jhotten, which Shakefpeare ufes for /hooting 
out into nooks, is, in fome places, according to Mr. Pegge, 
a modern application to a wall in a bevel, and not at right 
angles with another wall.] A corner ; a covert made by 
an angle or interfedtion.—The favages were driven out of 
their great Ards, into a little nook of land near the river 
of Strangford; where they now poflefs a little territory. 
Davies. —In an old deed of fir Walter de Pedwardyn, 
twelve acres and a half were called a nook of land; but 
the quantity is generally uncertain. Chambers. 
Safely in harbour, in the deep nook, where once 
Thou call’dft me up. Shakefpeare'sTempeJl. 
Thus entred Ihe the light-excluding cave, 
And through it fought fome inmoft noolie to fave 
The gold. Chapman. 
NOO'KEETAH, a town of Bengal: forty-five miles 
north-eaft of Nattore. 
NOOMS (Reynier, or Remigius), better knowm by his 
cognomen Zeeman, i.e. Seaman, was born at Amfterdam, 
in the year 1612. He was originally a failor; but 4 having 
an innate love and natural talent for fine art, he accuftom- 
ed himfelf to imitate on paper what he faw ; and, by pur- 
fuing this mode of ftudy in the fchool of nature alone, 
gradually became a marine painter and engraver of con- 
fiderable rank and ability. As the imitative powers of 
the failor difclofed themfelves, his countrymen could not 
but behold his productions with fome degree of pleafing 
wonder; nor was due encouragement withheld. Atone 
period of his life he accepted an invitation to Berlin ; and, 
if we may judge from twelve of his engravings of Hup¬ 
ping, See. which were publifhed here by Tooker, he refi- 
ded for a time in London, but finally returned to Am¬ 
fterdam, where he executed a cdnfiderable number of 
plates from his owndefigns in a bold and intelligent ftyle. 
They confift of flapping and marine views, ornamented 
with good figures, and doled by back-grounds, which 
are often beautifully executed and appropriately intro¬ 
duced. 
NOON,/, [non, Sax. naivn, Welfli; none, Erfe; fup- 
pofed to be derived from no?ia, Lat. the ninth hour, at 
which their ccena, or chief meal, was eaten : w'hence the 
other nations called the time of their dinner , or chief 
meal, though earlier in the day by the fame name. Jokn- 
fon. —The ninth hour or noon, was three o’clock in the 
afternoon: thus the nones, a name given to certain 
prayers, began at twelve, and ended at three in the after¬ 
noon, which was called high noon. See Gloffi to Wicliffe, 
edit Baber. Serenius fays that the ancient Icelanders di¬ 
vided the day into four intervals, of w'hich noon, fo 
called, was that from twelve to three. Todd.] The middle 
hour of the day ; twelve ; the time when the fun is in the 
meridian; mid-day.—If I turn my eyes at noon towards 
the fun, I cannot avoid the ideas which the light or fun. 
produces in me. Locke. 
In days of poverty his heart was light, 
He funghis hymns at morning, noon, and night. Harte, 
It is taken for midnight: 
Full before him at the noon of night 
He faw a quire of ladies. Dryden. 
NOON, 
