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enough to be exhaled, though it has frill with it a mixture 
of the corrupted fluid. It is in February, March, or 
April, only, that the plague begins in Egypt.” Our phi- 
lofoph.ical traveller does not believe it a-n. endemical 
dileafe; but afligns very fufEcient reafons for thinking that 
it comes from Conftantinople with merchandifie, or with 
yaffengers, at the very time of the year when the air, by the 
long abfence of dews, has attained a degree of putridity 
proper to receive it. In this ftate of the atmofph.ere, the 
infection continues to rage till about St. John's day, 
when it is fuddenly flopped by the dews occafioned by 
a refrefhing mixture of rain-water which is poured into 
the Nile at the beginning of the inundation. The fi-rft 
and moll remarkable fign of the change effected. in the 
air, is the fudden Hopping of the plague. Every perfon, 
though (hut up from fociety for months before, buys, fells, 
and communicates with his neighbour, without any fort 
of apprehenfion; and, as far as our author could learn, 
upon fair enquiry, it was never known that one fell lick 
‘ of the plague after the anniverfary of St; John. He ad¬ 
mits that Tome have died of it after that period ; but, of 
them the difeafe had gotfuch hold, under the moll putrid 
influence of the air, that they could not recover. To 
corroborate this theory, which attributes fo much to the 
benign influence of the falling dew, he obferves, that, 
immediately after St. John’s day, the clothes of the many 
thoufands who have died during the late continuance of 
the plague are publicly expofed in the market-place ; 
and that all thefe, though confiding of furs, cotton, 
filk, and woollen cloths, which are the Huffs molt reten¬ 
tive of infection, imbibing the moil! air of the evening 
and the morning, are handled, bought, put on, and worn, 
without any apprehenfion of danger, and without a Angle 
accident being known to have happened to any one pof- 
fefl'ed of this happy confidence. 
NU'CULA, /! in botany. See Bumium. 
NUDA'TION,. f. [Fr. from undo, Lat.J The aft of 
making bare or naked. 
NUD'DEAH, a town of HindooHan, in Bengal: thir¬ 
ty. miles eaH-north-eaft of Burdwan.—A town of Hin- 
dooftan, in Dooab : twenty-four miles fouth of Canoge. 
NUDDE'E, f. The Indian* name for a rivulet. 
NUD'DERE, a town of HindooHan, in the circar of 
Ellichpour: twenty-four miles fouth-wed of Akoat. 
NUDDY'A. a town of Bengal: thirty-one miles north- 
weft of Burdwan. 
NUDE, adj. [mid, Fr. nudus, Lat.J Rare; naked.— 
Contrail by nude paroles, i.e. by bare words. Huloet .— 
In law, not covered by compenfation.—A nude or bare na¬ 
ked contract, without a confideration, is void in law, and 
for the non-performance thereof no a&ion will lie. The 
law', in fact, fuppofes error in making thefe contracts; 
they being as it were of one fide only. Jacob. —Any de¬ 
gree of reciprocity will prevent thepaCt from being nude. 
JUacliflone. 
NUDI'AH, a fort o Bengal: thirty-five miles north 
of Palamow. 
NUDIPEDA'LIA, f. [Latin.] Certain proceffions 
among the ancients, in. which all were obliged to walk 
bare-footed. This was done on account of Tome public 
calamity, as the plague, famine, an intenfe drought, and 
the like. It was likewife ufual for the Roman matrons, 
when any fupplication and vows were to be made to 
the goddefs Vefla, to walk in proceflionto her temple bare 7 
footed. 
NU'DITY, f. [ nuditc, Fr. from nudus, Lat.J Naked 
parts; nakednefs; poverty.—There are no fuch licences 
permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to defigij. 
and colour obfeene nudities,. Dryden. 
The man who fliews his heart, 
Is hooted for his nudities, and fcorn’d. Young's Night T/u 
NUEI'A KIANG', a town of China, of the third 
rank, in Se-tchuen : forty-feven miles north-north-welt 
af Tohyli-leom 
NU’F.L. Sec Newel. 
NUES'TRA SENHO RA, a town of South America:, 
in the province of Cordova : five miles ealt of Cordova 
NUES'TR A SENHO'R A de AJU'DA, a town of Bra- 
fil : 150 miles fouth-wefi of Pernambuco. 
NUES'TR A SENHO'R A del ES'TERO, a town of 
Brafil, capital of a government, on the coafi oppofite the 
illand of St. Catharine. Lat.-28. 10. S. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de la FE', a town of South 
America, in the province of Ctiyos. Lat. 21 S. Ion. 56, 
4-6. W.—A town of South America, in the province of 
Paraguay : 120 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Ali’umption. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de GUADALOU'PE, a town 
of South America, in the province of Quito: 130 miles 
eafi of St. Joachim de Omaguas. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de LUZ', an illand in the 
Pacific Ocean, dilcovered by Quiros in 1506. This ap¬ 
pears to be tlie fame illand with that called Pic de I’Etoile 
by Bougainville. Lat. 14. 30. S. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de NIE'VES, a town of Bra¬ 
fil, on an illand in the Amazon river, where is an an¬ 
cient million and Spanilh fettlemen.t. Lat. 2. 30. S. Ion- 
49 - 3 5 - W. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de PE'COS, a town of New 
Mexico : ten miles eafi of Santa Fe. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de PO'PA, a town of South 
America, in the province of Carthagena : five miles 
north of Carthagena. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA los SAN'TOS, a town of 
South America, in the province of Cordova: forty-two 
miles ealt of Cordova. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de SOC.O'RO, a town of 
New Mexico, on the Bravo: 115 miles fouth of Santa FA 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de SOCO'RO, otherwife 
Cho'nos, an illand in the South Pacific Ocean, twenty' 
miles long, and five broad, near the coafi of Chili ; about 
it are a number of fmall illands and rocks, called the Cho- 
nos Archipelago. Lat. of the whole 44. to 47. S. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA da VITTO'RIA, a town of 
Brafil in the government of St. Salvador : eight miles, 
north-weft St. Jorge. 
NUES'TRA SENHO'RA de TALAVE'RA, a town 
of South America, in the province of Tucuman. 
NU'EZ, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon, 
on the borders of Portugal: forty-two miles weft of. 
Zamora. 
NU'GA, or N ugje,/. in botany. See Guilandina.. 
NUGA'CITY, f. [nugax, nugacis, Lat.J Futility ; tri¬ 
fling talk or behaviour.—-Such arithmetical nngacities aa 
are ordinarily recorded for his. Move's Conj. Cabb. 1653. 
NUGA'RAH, a town of HindooHan, in Allahabad ; 
twenty-feven miles north-eaft of Gazypcur. 
NUGA 1 TION,/ [nugw, Lat.J The aft or practice of 
trifling.—The opinion that putrefaction is caufed either 
by cold or peregrine and preternatural heat, is but nugti- 
tion. Bacon. 
NU'GATORY, adj. [nugatorius, Lat.J Trifling; fu¬ 
tile; infignificant.—Some great men of the la ft age, be¬ 
fore the mechanical philofophy was revived, were too 
much addicted to.this nugatory art, when occult quality, 
and. fympathy and antipathy, were admitted for fatisfac- 
tory explications of things. Bentley. 
NU'GENT (Thomas), an Irifh writer, and doCtor of 
laws, who died at London in the year 1772. He pub- 
1 Jfhed, 1. A Tour in Europe, 4 vols. 2. Tranflations of 
the Port Royal Latin and Greek Grammars. 3, A Poc¬ 
ket Dictionary of the French Language. 4. A Vocabu¬ 
lary of the Greek Primitives. Dr. Nugent, in the pre¬ 
face to the above-named Latin grammar, fays, that the 
author of that work, and of the; other grammars, out of 
his great modefty, chofe to conceal himfelf under the ge¬ 
neral name of the Society of Port Royal; but that his 
name was Claude Lancelot, who was born at Paris in 
1613. Havingfinifhed his introductory ftudies, he retired 
to Port Raya!, and was employed in the education, of 
3 youth,. 
