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NU'RI, a town of New Mexico, in the province of 
Hiaqui: forty miles fouth-eaft of Riochico. 
NUtR'IA, a mount of Spain, (a part of the Pyrenees,) 
in the province of Catalonia, where is a pats called Col 
de Nuria. North of Campredon. 
NURJE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Seweftan: twen¬ 
ty-five miles north of Sehwan. 
NURMIJAR'VI, a town of Sweden, in the province 
ofNyland: twenty miles north-north-weft of Helfingfors. 
NUR'MIS, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Kuopio : fifty-eight miles north-eaft of Kuopio. 
NUR'MIS, a fmall ifland on the eaft fide of the gulf of 
Bothnia. Lat. 61.12. N. Ion. 21.10. E. 
NUR'MO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa: thirty-fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Wafa. 
NURMS, a town of the duchy of Courland : twenty- 
eight miles eaft of Goldingen. 
NU'ROW. See Narew. 
NURPUR'. See Nourpour, p. 133. 
NUR'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ruttunpour: twenty miles eaft of Raypour. 
The following pafl’age from Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, 
would feem to account for the ancient ftories of golden 
apples, and other treafures, being guarded by dragons, 
fiery ferpents, See. We are fo well allured of Mr. Forbes’s 
veracity, that we fubmit the extraCI without fcruple to 
our readers ; at the fame time confefting our inability to 
account for it. 
“ It was at Nurrah, a large village. It had been plun¬ 
dered and burnt, not long before, by the Mahratta cavalry, 
when Gen. Goddard took Dhuboy. The principal houfe, 
a manfion far beyond the general ftyle of Hindoo build¬ 
ings, had belonged to a man of family and opulence, who 
emigrated during the war, and died in a diftant country. 
The houfe and gardens were then in a ftate of defola- 
tion. I received private information that, under a par¬ 
ticular tower in this manfion, was a fecret cell, known 
only to the owner and the mafon who conftrufted it; 
that very man gave me the intelligence ; adding, it was 
purpofely formed to contain his treafure, without the 
knowledge of his family, and was afterwards clofed 
with ftrong mafonry. We accompanied the informer 
through feveral fpacious courts and extenfive apart¬ 
ments, in a ftate of dilapidation, until we came to a dark 
clofet in a tower, in one corner of the manfion. This 
was a room about eight feet fquare, the diameter of the 
interior of the tower, fome ftories above the fuppofed 
receptacle of the treafure. In the floor of this clofet we 
obferved a hole in the bricks and chunam, of which it was 
compofed, fufficiently large for a flender perfon to pafs 
through. We enlarged the opening, and lent down two 
men by a ladder. After delcending feveral feet, they 
came to another chunam floor, with a fitnilar aperture. 
This alfo being enlarged, and torches procured, I per¬ 
ceived,from theupper room, that it wasagloomy dungeon 
of great depth. I defired the men to enter it and fearch for 
the treafure; which they pofitively refufed; alleging, that 
throughout Hindooftan, wherever money was concealed, 
there exifted one of the genii, in the mortal form of a 
fnake, to guard it. I laughed at their credulity, and en¬ 
forced the order for their immediate defeent, with fome 
energy. My attendants fympathifed with their feelings ; 
and, under a deep impreflion of fear, feemed to wait the 
event in a fort of awful expeflation. The ladder being 
too lliort to reach the floor of this fubterraneous cell, I 
ordered ftrong ropes and additional torches, to aflift their 
defeent. They at length reludftantly complied; and, by the 
lights held in their hands, during a flow progrefs down 
the ropes, we could diftinguilh through the gloom the 
dark fides and moift floor of the dungeon. They had 
not been many feconds in fearch of the treafure, when 
they called out vehemently that they were enclofed by 
a large fnake; and their cries, afeending from this difmal 
abyfs, were moft horrible. I ftill remained incredulous ; 
and would not fuffer the ropes for facilitating their 
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efeape to be lowered until I had feen the ferpent. Their 
fereams were dreadful, and my refolution inflexible; until 
at length, by keeping the upper lights fteady, I perceived 
fomething like billets of wood, or rather more refembling 
a fliip’s-cabie, coiled up in a dark hold, feen from the deck; 
but no language can exprefs my fenfations of aftonifti- 
ment and terror, when I faw a horrid monfter rear his 
head over an immenfe length of body, coiled in volumes 
on the ground, and working itfelf into exertion by a fort 
of fluggifti motion. What I felt, on feeing two fellou'- 
creatures expofed by my orders to this “ fiend of venge¬ 
ful nature,” I mull leave to the reader’s imagination. 
There was not a moment for refleffion ; down went the 
ropes, and we drew up the panting terrified wretches 
fpeechlefs; but, to my inexpreffibie joy, no otherwife af- 
fefted than by the cold perfpiration and death-like ftate 
produced by fear, which foon fubfided. Some hay being 
then thrown down upon the lighted torches left in the 
cavern, confirmed the mortal part of the guardian genius, 
as-we afterwards took up the fcorched and lifelefs body 
of a large fnake ; but, notwithftanding a minute fearch, 
no money could be found. The proprietor had doubt- 
lefs carried off his treafure, when he fled to a foreign coun¬ 
try. As the cells in the tower were all very fmall and 
deep, and the walls of ftrong mafonry, it appeared won¬ 
derful how this fnake had fubfifted. I wiflied very much 
for one of the ancient pfylli, or a modern fnake-charmer, 
in my train at Nullah, to have called forth the ferpent 
who had guarded the treafure confided to its care until 
its owner moft probably carried it away, but forgot to li¬ 
berate the centinel. Having added faithfully in his part, 
his life ought to have been (pared.” 
NURSE, f [nojiice, Sax. nourice, Fr. nource, old Eng.] 
A woman that has the care of another’s child.—Unnatural 
curiolity has taught all women but the beggar to find out 
nurfes, which neceflityonly ought to commend. Raleigh's 
Hi/l. of the World. —A woman that has care of a lick per¬ 
fon.—One Mrs. Quickly, which is in the manner of his 
nurfe, or his dry -nurfe, or his cook. Shakefpeare's M. Wives 
of Windfor. —One who breeds, educates, or protects ; 
We muft lofe 
The country, our dear nurfe; or elfe thy perfon 
Our comfort in the country. Shakefpeare. 
An old woman, in contempt: 
Can tales more fenfelefs, ludicrous, and vain, 
By winter-fires old nurfes entertain ? Blackmore. 
The ftate of being nurfed : 
Can wedlock know fo great a curfe, 
As putting hulbands out to nurfe? Cleaveland. 
To NURSE, v.a. [from the noun, or by contraction, 
from nourijh, nourir, Fr.] To bring-up a child or any thing 
young.—I was nurfed in fwaddling-clothes with cares. 
Wifd. vii. 7. 
Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, 
And nurs'd his youth along the marfliy Ihore. Dryden. 
To bring-up a child not one’s own.—Shall I call a nurfe of 
the Hebrew women, that (he may nurfe the child ? Ex. ii. 7. 
To feed ; to keep; to maintain,-—Thy daughters lhall be 
nurfed at thy fide. If. lx. 4. 
The Nifeans, in their dark abode. 
Nurs'd fecretly with milk the thriving god. Addifm. 
To tend the lick.—To pamper; to foment; to encourage 3 
to foften; to cherilh.—And what is ftrength, but an ef¬ 
fect of youth, which, if time nurfe, how can it ever ceafe. 
Davies. —By what fate has vice fo thriven amongft us, and 
by what hands been nurfed- up into fo uncontrouled a do¬ 
minion ? Locke. 
NUR'SE-CHILD, f. One brought-up with tendernefs. 
—Sweet nurfe-child of the Spring’s young hours. Davies's 
Hymn 'to the Rofe, 1622. 
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