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it are feven Lutheran churches, and a well-built orphan- 
houfe. This city carries on a good corn-trade to the 
Upper Harz, and diftiis great quantities for brandy, with 
manufactures of marble and alabafter, the materials for 
which are brought from Stollberg and Hohenftein. It 
was a free imperial city from its firft foundation ; but the 
emperor Rodolphus II. in 1600, conferred it on the elec¬ 
toral houfe of Saxony, which, in 1697, made an abfolute 
stud perpetual cefiion of it to the electoral houfe of Bran- 
denburg; but in 1717, that houfe, in confideration of the 
fum of 50,000 rix-dollars, reftored it to its ancient rights, 
prerogatives, and emoluments. In 1802, it was given 
again among the indemnities to the king of Pruftia; in 
1807, it was annexed to Weftphalia ; and we believe the 
iate peace has reftored it to Pruflia. It is thirty-eight miles 
north of Erfurt. Lat. 51. 28. N. Ion. 10. 56. E. 
NOR'DHEIM, a town of Weftphalia, in the principality 
of Calenberg, on the Ruhme, which at this place divides 
itfelf into two branches : over each of them is a bridge of 
ftone, and the whole river runs into the Leine. Nord- 
lieim is the third in order of the great towns of the prin¬ 
cipality of Calenberg. It has only one parilh-church ; 
but contains, likewife, a grammar-fchool, and fome ma¬ 
nufactures. It was erefted into a town, in 1252, by Al¬ 
bert the Great. It is ten miles north of Gottengen. Lat. 
51. 40. N. Ion. 9. 57. E. 
NOR'DHEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
feven miles north of Bifchoffsheim. 
NOR'DHEIM, a town of Germany, in the lordfliip of 
Schwarzenberg : three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Schain- 
feld. 
NOR'DINGEN, a town of Sweden, in Angermanland : 
twenty-one miles north-north-eaft of Hernofand. 
NOR'DINGBERG, a town of Bavaria, in territory of 
Rothenburg; four miles north-north-eaft of Rothenburg. 
NORDKIO'PING, oi-Norkiofing, a town of Sweden, 
in the province of Eaft Gothland, on the river Motala, 
founded in 980. It is a ftaple-town, next to Stockholm 
in extent, and was formerly fortified. It contains five 
churches, and about 10,000 inhabitants; carries on a 
confiderable trade; and has a new and commodious quay. 
Here are alfo two copper-mills, a hammer-mill for brats, 
feveral paper-mills, fifty corn-mills, woollen manufac¬ 
tures, See. Here is likewife a falmon-fifhery. It is fieventy- 
fix miles fouth-well of Stockholm. Lat. 58. 36. N. Ion. 
j6. 4. E. 
NORDKIR'CHEN, a town of Germany, in the bi- 
thopric of Munfter : fix miles north of Werne. 
NOR'DI.AND, a province of Sweden, bounded on the 
north by Lapland, on the eaft by the Gulf of Bothnia, on 
the fouth by Upland and Dalecarlia, and on the weft by 
Norway, Dalecarlia, and Lapland. Nordland, in the 
times of paganifm, was a diftinCt monarchy, to which 
feveral vaflal-kings were tributary. This country has the 
advantage of all the other parts of the kingdom, in the 
plenty of timber and venifon it affords; but its rocks and 
mountains leave but afmall extent of land fit for tillage. 
Here are, however, fome fertile fpots and verdant paftures, 
which are agreeably interfperfed with lakes, rivers, and 
woods. This province, befides the timber it yields, has 
feveral rich mines, forges, or hammer-mills, and other 
works for metal. Its Takes and rivers abound in fifh; 
and great numbers of cattle are bred in the country. Here 
are greater flights of wild-geefe than in any other part of 
the kingdom. Birch-trees and oak do not grow wild be¬ 
yond Upland, fo that thole trees are very fcarce here. 
$ome fcattergd traCls of land in this country are.inhabited 
by the Finlanders. Nordlapd has nine towns; compre¬ 
hends feven provinces; and is fuppoled to contain 95,000 
fpuare miles, and 150,000 inhabitants, including the na¬ 
tives of Lapland. .The provinces are, Gaifrickland, Hel- 
fingland.MedelpadjJemptland, Harjedalia, Angermannia, 
and Weftro-Bothnia. Lat. 6p. 1067. 39, N. 
NORDLE'DA, a town of the duchy of Bremen; four 
miles fouth of Otterndotf, 
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NOR'DLINGEN, a city of Bavaria, on the Eger, in a 
fertile country, particularly abounding in pafturage, 
which, till the year 1238, flood on the adjacent hill of 
Emerandlberg, but was that year confumed by fire, upon 
which it was built on its prefent fite. It was free and im¬ 
perial from 1251 till 1802, when, with other indemnities, 
it was given to the eleftor of Bavaria. The burghers here 
are almoft all of them Lutherans ; and thofe of that reli¬ 
gion, exclufive of the parochial church, are poffeffed of 
two others, one of which Hands near the hofpital, and a 
Latin fchool; but the Roman-catholics celebrate public 
worlliip in the church near the German-houfe, which be¬ 
longs to the land-commanders of Ellingen in Franconia, 
and which, in the year 1387, fell to the Teutonic Order. 
The magiftracy, alio, are Lutheran. It is fifty-four miles 
eaft of Stuttgart, and thirty norch-north-weft of Augf- 
burg. Lat. 48. 49. N. Ion. 10. 31. E. 
NORDMA'LING, a feaport-town of Sweden, in the 
province of Angermanland, in a bay of the Gulf of 
Bothnia. Lat. 63. 34. N. Ion. 19. 24. E. 
NOR'DMARSCH, a fmall iiland of Denmark, in the 
North Sea : three miles north-weft of Nordftrand. 
NOR'DON, or Nordebourg. a town of Pruflia, in the 
provinceofNatangen: forty miles fouth-eaft ofKonigfberg. 
NOR'DORP', or Nordtorp, a town of the duchy of 
Holftein : fifteen miles l'outh-weft of Kiel, and thirty-five 
north of Hamburg. 
NOR'DRE RONNER'NE, a clufter of iflets and rocks 
in the Cattegat, about four miles from the north-weft 
coaft of the iiland of Leflbe. Lat. 57. 22. N. Ion. 10. 55. E. 
NOR'DSTRAND, an iiland of Denmark, in the North 
Sea, fituated near the coaft of Slefwick. This iiland has 
frequently fuffered by inundations of the fea, particularly 
in 1634, when the whole country was overflowed, and the 
impetuofity of the waves was fo great, that 6408 perfons, 
1332 houfes, 30 wind-mills, 6 churches, and 50,000 head 
of cattle, were fwept away ; and a great part of the iiland 
deftroyed. It formerly contained twenty-two pariihes, 
and abounded in corn and cattle: one pariih only now 
remains. Lat. 54. 37. N. Ion. 8. 48. E. 
NORE, a noted place in the river Thames, at the point 
of a fand-hank, which runs off from the iiland of Grain, 
to the eaitward from it, on which was formerly a buoy, 
and a light is now fixed on a floating-veffel. Lat. 51. 27. N. 
Ion. o. 44. E. 
NORE, or Neor, a river of Ireland, which rifesat the 
fouthern part of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, in the 
Queen's-county, very near the rife of the Suire. After 
making a fweep to the eaitward, it takes a fouth-fouth- 
eaft direction through the Queen's-county and that of 
Kilkenny, pafling the city of Kilkenny, and the towns of 
Thomeitown and Iniftioge, and joining the Barrow, 
which rifes in the northern part of the fame mountains, a 
little to the north of New Rofs. 
NORE (Black), a cape of England, on the coaft of 
Somerfetihire, in the mouth oftheSevern : five miles fouth- 
weft from the mouth of the Avon. 
NOREG'NA, a town of Spain, in Afturia: eight miles 
north-north-eaft of Oviedo. 
NO'RENBERG, a town of Germany, in the New Mark 
of Brandenberg: twenty-one miles ealt-north-eail of Star- 
f ard, and forty-three weft-fouth-weft of New Stettin. 
,at. 53.27.N. Ion. 15. 33. E. 
NO'RES (Jafon de), a man of letters in the fixteenth 
century, was born at Nicolio, in the Ifle of Cyprus, of a 
diftinguifhed family, faid to have come originally from 
Normandy. In his youth he ftudied at Padua, where he 
graduated. After his return to Cyprus, hearing of the 
death of his friend Triton Gabrielli, a learned man whofe 
houfe he had frequented at Padua, he put into Latin the 
Commentaries on Horace's Art of Poetry which he had 
taken from the mouth of Triton, ami publithed them at 
Venice in 1553, with the addition of a Brief Compendium 
of Cicero’s three books De Oratore. When Cyprus fell 
into the hands of the Turks in 1570, Nores retired to Ve¬ 
nice, 
