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View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham, 
1798. Dickenlon’s Antiquities in Nottinghamfhire, 1804. 
Beauties of England, vol. xii. Gent. Mag. 1819. 
NOT'TINGTON, a village in Dorfetfhire, in theparilh 
of Broadway, north of Melcomb-Regis, and about two 
miles and a half on the Dorchefter-road front Weymouth. 
Here is a medicinal fpring, the virtues of which, in cuta¬ 
neous or fcorbutic complaints, are highly celebrated. 
Dr. Archer, who formerly redded here, and who placed a 
ftrong cellar about the fpring to prevent the cattle (by 
treading there) from filling it up with dirt, faid it deferved 
a cellar of gold. The water manifeftly difcovers, by its 
odour and tafte, a fulphureous impregnation, which quits 
it on expofure to the atmofphere ; a deco'mpofition gra¬ 
dually taking place, as ftiown by the lofs of tranlpa- 
rency and a fubfequent precipitation. Dr. Graves, after 
fubjediting the water to the adiion of various precipitants, 
and collecting its fixed principles by evaporation, and its 
volatile by diftillation, gives the following refult of his 
chemical analyds. In a gallon of the Nottington water. 
are contained, 
Muriat of kali, or fal digeft. fylvii io£ grains. 
Carbonat of kali 4J 
Sulphat of lime - 4 
Carbonat of lime 7 
Carbonat ofmagneda - - 3 
Alumine - 3 
Siliceous earth - 1 
31 
Azotic gas, or phlogifticated air - 4 cubic inches. 
Carbonic acid gas, or dxed air - 6 
Sulphurated hydrogen gas, or hepatic air 6 
16 
NOTWITHSTANDING, conj. [This word, though 
in conformity to other writers called here a conjunction, 
is properly a participal adjeCtive, as it is compounded of 
not and with funding, andanfwers exactly to the Latin non 
ahjiante. It is molt properly and analogically ufed in the 
ablative cafe abfolute with a noun ; as, “ He is rich, not¬ 
withjlanding his lofs.” It is not fo proper to fay, “ He is 
rich, notwithjlanding he has loft much ;” yet this mode of 
writing is too frequent; Addifon has ufed it; but, when 
a fentence follows, it is more grammatical to infert that; 
as, “ He is rich, notwithjlanding that he has loft much.”] 
Without hindrance or obftruCtion from.—Thofe on whom 
Chrift beftowed miraculous cures, were fo tranfported, 
that their gratitude made them, notwithjlanding his prohi¬ 
bition, proclaim the wonders he had done for them. Decay 
Piety. —Although. This vje is not proper. —A perfon 
languifliing under an ill habit of body, may lofe feveral 
ounces of blood, notwithjlanding it will weaken him for a 
time, in order to put a new ferment into the remaining 
mafs, and draw into it frefh fupplies. Addifon. —Never- 
thelefs 5 however. When ufed abfolutely, the expreflion 
is elliptical, this or that being underftood, as in the fol¬ 
lowing paflages of Hooker.—They which honour the law 
as an image of the wifdom of God himfelf, are notwith¬ 
jlanding to know that the fame had an end in Chrift. 
Hooker. —The knowledge is fmall, which we have on 
earth concerning things that are done in heaven ; not- 
u’il/Jlanding, this much we know even of faints in hea¬ 
ven, that they pray. Hooker. 
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity: 
Yet notwithjlanding, being incens’d, he’s flint; 
As humourous as winter. Shakej’peare's Hen. IV. 
NO'TUS,_/i [Latin.] The fouth w'ind; called alfoAufter: 
With adverfe blafts upturns them from the fouth 
Notus, and Afer black with thunderous clouds 
from Serraliona. Milton's Paradife Loll. 
NOT'ZENDORF, a town of Pruflia, in Pomerelia : 
feven miles eaft of Marienburg. 
NOU, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of Delhi: 
twenty miles weft-north-weft of Coel. 
_ NOU-KIANG', a name given by the Chinefe to the 
river Ava. 
NO'VA, or Ad Novas, in ancient geography, a town 
of Mauritania Tingitana, upon the route from Tocolo- 
flda to Tingis, according to the Itinerary of Antonine, 
between Oppidum Novum and Ad Mercurii: thirty-two 
miles from the firft, and twelve miles from the fecond. 
NO'VA, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the coaft of 
Brafll. Lat. o. 4. S. Ion. 50. 30. W. 
NOU'A, an ifland near the weft coaft of Eaft Greenland. 
Lat. 60. 45. N. Ion. 47. W. 
NOVA SCO'TIA, in its moft extenfive meaning, a 
province of Britilh America, bounded on the north-weft 
by Canada, on the north-eaft by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 
on the fouth-eaft by the Atlantic, and on the fouth by the 
Atlantic Ocean and the United States of America; about 
400 miles from eaft to weft, but of very different breadths: 
in fome places 150, in others not more than 40, from north 
to fouth. In the year 1616 it was poflefled by the French, 
who attempted to colonize it from their new fettlement 
in Canada; and by them itwas called Acadia. The Eng- 
lifh, who deemed it a part of North Virginia, expelled the 
French; and it was granted by James I. to fir William 
Alexander in 1621, on condition that he would form a 
fettlement there. It then received the title of Nova Scotia; 
and, in order to encourage the projeft, James planned the 
order of baronets which is called after the country. To 
every knight who would engage to colonize any part, a 
grant was to be made of certain portions of land. The 
order was not inftituted till 1(125, when feveral baronets 
were created, and they held their lands from the crown of 
Scotland as a free barony, with great privileges to all who 
wmuld fettle in the country. (See Baronets, vol.ii. and 
Heraldry - , vol. ix.) The French, however, gained re- 
pofleflion of theprovince; but, in 1713, it was furrendered 
to England by the treaty of Utrecht; and, in 1784, it was 
divided into two provinces, viz. New Brunfwick and 
Nova Scotia Proper. 
Nova Scotia, in this limited fenfe, is a peninfula, joined 
to the continent by a narrow ifthmus, at the north-eaft 
extremity of the Bay of Fundy; and is about 240 miles 
in length from fouth-weft to north-eaft, and from 30 to 60 
in breadth, and lies to the weft of New Brunfwick. 
Though fituated between the 44th and 50th degrees of 
north latitude, and in a favourable part of the temperate 
zone, yet is the winter here of an almoft infupportable 
length and feverity, continuing at leaft feven months in 
the year ; to this immediately fucceeds, without the in¬ 
tervention of any thing that may be called fpring, a f um- 
mer, when the heat is as violent as the cold was in the 
winter-months ; the heat, indeed, is of no long continu¬ 
ance, the country being wrapt in the gloom of a perpe¬ 
tual fog long after the fummer-feafon has commenced. 
The foil in moft parts is thin and barren, the corn it pro¬ 
duces of a (hrivelled kind, like rye, and the grafs inter¬ 
mixed with a cold fpongy mofs. It is not, indeed, uni¬ 
formly bad, there being traCts in Nova Scotia not inferior 
to the beft land in New England. But, however unpro- 
miling this country may be, fome of the firft Europeans, 
neglecting all the delightful trails to the fouthward, here 
Formed their fettlements. In the year 1749, three thou- 
fand families were conveyed thither at the charge of the 
Englifli government; and the town of Halifax, the pre- 
fent capital, was then founded. Since that time feveral 
towns have been founded, efpecially during the American 
war, when many royalifts retired thither. The country 
round Halifax has the appearance of cultivation, and a 
flourifhing ftate. Here are feveral confiderable rivers, 
among which that of Annapolis is navigable fifteen miles 
forlhips of 100 tons. The harbour of Annapolis is excel¬ 
lent ; but the place is an inconfiderable hamlet. This pro- 
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