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the fea, which was thought to pafs under the temple of 
this god, fometimes overflowed it. It is probable, there¬ 
fore, that Ogoa was the name which the Mylalfians gave 
to the god of the fea. 
OG'OLETZ, an ifland of RufTia, in the ftraits of Vai- 
gatfkoi. Lat. 69. 40. N. Ion. 51.39. E. 
O'GOR, a river of RufTia, which runs into the Duna 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Riga. 
OGOROO', one of the fmaller Friendly-iflands : fif¬ 
teen miles north of Annamooka. 
O'GOST, a river of European Turkey, which runs into 
the Danube near Rakova in Bulgaria. 
OGO'NA, a town of Africa, on the Slave Coaft, fituated 
on the fide of a hill, and containing between 200 and 300 
houfes, built of clay, but clean, and well furnifhed. In 
the centre is a fquare, furnifhed with (hops, and whither 
theybring all kinds of provilions, gold, wax, fugar, &c. 
The inhabitants are fociable, but cunning; they are good 
fifliermen, warlike, and are governed by regular magif- 
trates. 
OG'RAN, a town of Hungary: fifteen miles north- 
north-weft of Prefburg. 
O'GRE, or Ogress,/ [French.] An imaginary mon- 
fter.—The prince heard enough to convince him of his 
danger; and then perceived that the lady, who called her- 
felf the daughter of an Indian king, was an ogrefs, wife 
to one of thofe favage demons called ogres, who lfay in 
remote places, and make ufe of a thouland wiles to fur- 
prile and devour paffengers. Arabian Nights. 
O'GRESSES, I', in heraldry. See vol. ix. p. 423.—Ar¬ 
gent two bends fable betwixt two ogrejfes. Ajhmoie's Berk- 
Jhire. , 
OG'ULIN, a town of Croatia -. thirty-two miles eaft of 
Fiume, and forty fouth of Agram. 
OG'WELL (Eaft and Weft), two villages in Devon- 
fhire, one mile from Newton-Friars. At the former are 
four grift-mills, and one for malt, which are turned by 
four conftant ftreams; and at which eighty families are 
by their leafes obliged to grind. 
OG'WEN, a river of North Wales, which runs into 
the fea one mile eaft of Bangor. 
OGY'GES, in the hiftory of the heroic or fabulous 
age of Greece, a fovereign of Attica and Bceotia, under 
whofe reign happened the inundation fince known by the 
name of Ogyges's Deluge. Whether this prince was a na¬ 
tive or a foreigner, at what time he lived, and what was 
the deluge which happened under his reign ; are queftions 
of no very eafy folution. The Greek hiftorians tell us, 
that Ogyges reigned, as we have faid, in Attica and Bceo¬ 
tia, while Phoroneus, the fon of Inachus, governed Ar- 
golis ; and that it was in his time the deluge happened 
which has palled under his name, and the date of w hich 
Cenforinus fixes about the year 1200 before the Trojan 
war: but in proof of thefe fafits they cite no authorities. 
The Parian Marbles fay nothing of it ; and that famous 
chronicle begins only with the arrival of Cecrops in 
Greece. According to Auguftine (De Civ. Dei), the de¬ 
luge of Ogyges happened under Phoroneus, the fecond 
king of Argos ; and he alleges, that this was the opinion 
of Eufebius and Jerome. Sir Ifaac Newton, who has 
very much contracted the antiquities of Greece, places 
the date of this deluge in the year 1045 before our vulgar 
era. Julius Africanus, on authorities which he has cited, 
and among others that of Diodorus Siculus, maintains, 
that Ogyges lived more than 1020 years before the firlt 
Olympiad, and confequently nearly 1800 years B.C. and 
this date agrees with the opinion of Petavius. St. Jerome 
contends, that it was not in Attica, a^ all the ancients 
allege, but in Egypt, that the deluge of Ogyges hap¬ 
pened ; but ; as Jerome fuppofes that prince to have been 
contemporary with Mofes, we may conjedture that this 
contended deluge was nothing elle but the event that 
happened in the Red Sea at the exodus of the Hebrews. 
Banier thinks it certain that Ogyges was not a native of 
Greece, but does not determine whether he was from 
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Egypt or Phoenicia, or from the country of Amalek. He 
went and fettled at Thebes in Bceotia, named frequently 
by the ancients Ogygian Thebes; and he reigned alfo over 
Attica. It was under his reign the inundation happened, 
which occafioned great defolation in the country, and 
went by the name of the Deluge. The epocha of the de¬ 
luge is placed by Banier tow'ards the year 1796 B.C. agree¬ 
ably to the Greek hiftory, and to thoopinion of Petavius 
and Marlham. In Blair’s Table, the reign of Ogyges in 
Attica is fixed in the year 1796 B.C. and his (leathin 1764 
B.C. when the deluge happened ; which deluge is faid to 
have laid wafte the country of Attica for 200 years, till 
the coming of Cecrops. 
OGYG'IA, the ancient name of Thebes in Bceotia; 
fo called from Ogyges. 
OGYG'IAS IN'SUUE, or Ogygian Isles, compre¬ 
hend a certain number of illands near that part of Italy 
called Brutium, to the eaft, and oppofite to, a kind of 
peninfula north-eaft of the Scylacian Gulf. They are 
reprefented as the territory of the nymph Calypfo ; and 
one of them bears her name, as well as that of Ogygia, 
It is particularly defcribed by Pliny. 
OH ! interject. An exclamation denoting pain, forrow, 
or furprife.— Oh me ! all the horfe have got over the river; 
what lhall we do ? Walton's Angler. 
My every aftion fpeaks my heart aloud ; 
But, oh! the madnefs of my high attempt 
Speaks louder yet. Dryden's Span. Friar. 
OHAMANE'NO, an harbour in the illand of Ulietea, 
one of the Society Illands. Lat. 16.45. S. loni5i.38.W. 
OHAME'NE HAR'BOUR, a bay on the eaft coaft of 
the illand of Otaha. 
O'HANG JA'VA, a clufter of illands in the Pacific 
Ocean, difcovered by Tafman ; one of them is of conli- 
derable length, the reft little better than large rocks. 
Lat. 4. 36. N. 
O’HA'RA (Kane), W'as a native of Ireland, and a 
younger brother of a genteel family. He had an exqui- 
lite tafte in mufic, and great Ikill in the burlefque. He 
died June 17, 1782, having for fome years been deprived 
of his eyefight. He was author of the following farces, 
fome of which ftill continue favourites with the D public : 
1. Midas, 8vo. 1764. 2. The Golden Pippin, 1773. 3, 
The Two Mifers, 1775. 4. April Day, 1777. 5- Tom 
Thumb, 1780. Bing. Dram. 
OHATOO'A, one of the Navigators’ illands, probably 
the fame which is by La Peroufe called Ozolava, which 
fee. 
O'HEL, [Heb. a tent.] A man’s name. 
OHERURU'A, an harbour of the Pacific Ocean, on 
the weft coaft of the illand of Otaha. Lat. 16. 38. S. Ion. 
151. 30. W. 
OHETERO'A, an illand about twelve miles in circum¬ 
ference, in the South Pacific Ocean, without either har¬ 
bour or anchorage, and only a bay on the weft coaft, which 
is foul and rocky. The inhabitants are adlive, and well- 
made, of a dark-brown complexion ; they form circles 
round their arms and legs, but have no figures on the 
other parts of their body; their clothing is made of the 
bark of a tree, and curioully coloured ; fome wear bon¬ 
nets adorned with the feathers of birds, others wear 
white ftutf like a turban. Their arms are lances, made of 
very hard wood called etna, well polilhed and lharpened 
at one end, fome of which were twenty feet lone, and 
three fingers thick. They had alfo a weapon, which was 
both a club and pike, and made of the fame wood, about 
feven feet long, and polifned and lharpened at one end 
with a broad point. As a guard, when they attacked each 
other, they had leveral folds of mats, placed under their 
clothes, from the neck to the waift. Other things which 
were feen in this illand were fuperior to any which our 
navigators had feen before : the cloth was better dyed, 
and painted with greater neatnefs of tafte 5 the clubs were 
better cut and polilhed ; and the canoe, though fmail, 
was 
