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OK'LANDBEIG, a town of Norway, in the province 
of Aggerhuus, on the Glomme : eight miles fouth of 
Ghriftiania. 
OKLAN'SK, a town of Ruflia, near the Gulf of Pen- 
7, inlkaia : 1888 miles eaft-north-eaft of Irkutlk, 2720 eaft- 
north-eaft of Tobollk, and 3200 eaft of Peterlburg. Lat. 
63.30. N. Ion. 163. 44. E. 
OKMIA'N Y, a town of Samogitia : twenty-eight miles 
north of Medniki. 
OK'NA, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia: 
forty-four miles fouth of Niemecz. 
OKOL'SKI, a Dominican, was a native of Ruflia, and 
became provincial of his order in Poland in 1649. He 
publiflied in 1641, at Cracow, a work entitled “ Orbis 
Polonus,” 3 vols. folio, being a hiftory of the Polifh na¬ 
tion, with learned refearches concerning the origin of 
the Sarmatians. This author likewife wrote a work en¬ 
titled “Preco divini verbi Albertus epifcopus Ratifpo- 
nenfis.” 
OKO'NE, a town of Eaft Florida, on the Afhley. Lat. 
30. 10. N. Ion. 84. 16. W. 
O'KRA , f. in botan) r . See Hibiscus. 
OK'R AH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Gur- 
rah : ten miles north of Mahur, 
OKRIN'IA, a river ofBofnia which runs into the Save. 
OK'RISTEL, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Ifenberg, on the Maine : eleven miles eaft of Mentz, and 
three weft-fouth-weft of Hochft. 
OK'SOR, a town of Egypt, celebrated for its pottery, 
the manufacture of which is of great antiquity: twenty 
miles north of Afna. 
O'KU-JES'SO. See Sachalien. 
OKULO'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the river Pinega : 180 miles l’outh-eaft of 
Archangel. 
OKUNE'VO, an oftrog of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tobollk, on the Enifei: 220 miles north of Turuchanfk. 
Lat. 69,25.N. Ion. 87. 24. E. 
OKUNEV'SK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tobollk, on the Mijas: 200 miles fouth-weft of Tobollk, 
and 136 fouth-eaft of Ekaterinograd. Lat. 55.40. N. Ion. 
63.54.E. _ - 
O'KUS, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland of Ximo, 
north of Nangafaki. 
OL'ABUS, in ancient geography, a town of Afia, in 
Mefopotamia, fituated on the left bank of the Euphrates. 
OLAF'SEN (Eggert), an ingenious Icelander, was 
born in 1726. He received the rudiments of education 
under the care of his maternal uncle, who fent him in 
1745 to Copenhagen, where he applied to northern hifto¬ 
ry and antiquities, as well as to ancient and modern poe¬ 
try. He devoted feme part of his attention alfo to the 
mathematics, natural philofophy, and economics ; and 
diftinguilhed himfelf fo much in thefe purfuits, that the 
Royal Academy of Sciences fent him to Iceland, along 
with his countryman Biarne Paulfen, to examine the ftate 
of the ifland, and to make obfervations in regard to its 
productions, and the manners and cuftoms of its inhabi¬ 
tants. Having continued his refearches till the autumn 
of the year 1757, he returned to Copenhagen; and, fome 
time after, at the defire of the academy, drew up an ac¬ 
count of his travels. In 1767 he was made afliftant judge 
in Iceland ; but this place he did not long enjoy, as he 
was unfortunately drowned, together with his wife, on 
the 30th of May, 1768, in confequence of a violent ftorm 
which took place while attempting to crofs in a boat a 
{mall firth of his native ifland. A confiderable collection 
of manuferipts, fome of them written by himfelf, were 
loft, it is faid, by this melancholy accident. His princi¬ 
pal works, all publiflied at Copenhagen, are, 1. Enarra- 
tiones Hiftoriae de Illandias natura et conftitutione, 1749, 
gvo. 2. Iflandia expergefa&a ad Jubilaeuin, 1749, 4to. 
3. Difputationes duo de Ortu et Progreflu Superftitionis 
circaignem Illandias fubterraneum, 1751,4to. 4. A phy¬ 
sical and economical Defcription of Iceland ; 2 vols. 4to. 
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1772. This curious and interefting work, which was 
publifhed in Danifh, with a great number of plates, has 
been tranflated into German and Englifti. Gen. Bios;. 
OLA'HUS (Nicholas), a learned and pious prelate, 
was born of an ancient family at Hermanftadt in 1493. 
Being brought up to the ecclefiaftical profeflion, he 
pafled through various employments, religious and fecu- 
lar; and was nominated, by Ferdinand king of Hungary, 
bifhop of Zagrab, and chancellor of that kingdom. He 
was afterwards placed in the fee of Agria ; and was pre- 
fent at the famous fiege of that town by the Turks in 
1552, in which he contributed greatly, by his liberalities 
and exhortations, to the fpirited and fuccefsful defence 
made by the inhabitants. In 1550 he was made arch- 
hiftiop of Strigonia; and, during the fifteen years in 
which lie occupied this ftation, he afliduoufly attended 
to the interefts of religion and morality. He held two 
national councils at Tyrnau, the ads of which were 
printed at Vienna in 1560. It was chiefly through his 
munificence that the firft Jefuits’ college in Hungary was 
founded at Tyrnau. In 1563 he was created palatine 
of the kingdom, in which quality he crowned Maximi¬ 
lian as king of Hungary. He died at Tyrnau in 1562. 
This prelate wrote, 1. A Chronicle of his own Times. 
2. Hiftory of Attila. 3. Defcription of Hungary. 
O'LAN, a river which rifes in Thibet, and, entering 
into the province of Chen-fi in China, it changes its 
name to Tai-tong, and finally lofes itfelf in the Hoang in 
lat. 36. 10. N. Ion. 102. 44. E. 
O'LAN POU'LAC, a town of Thibet: feventy-five 
miles north of Haralope-pai. 
OLAN'CHO EL VIE'GO. See Manto, vol. xiv. 
O'LAND, a fmall ifland of Denmark, in the North Sea: 
eight miles north of Nordftrand. 
OLA'NE, in ancient geography, a town of Afia, in 
_the mountains of the Greater Armenia, and in the vicinity 
of Artaxata. Strabo. 
OLAN'GO, a fmall ifland among the Philippines, near 
the eaft coaft of Siba. Lat. 10. 33. N. Ion. 123. 51. E. 
OLANO'W, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : twenty- 
eight miles louth-w'eft of Berdiczow. 
OLAR'GUES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Herault: feven miles north-eaft of St. Pons, and 
feventeen north-weft of Beziers. Lat. 43. 33. N. Ion. 3. 
o. E. 
OLAR'TE (Fr. Diego de), “ was,” fays Mr. Southey, 
“ a townfman and fervant of Cortes, whom he accompa¬ 
nied to Mexico, and bore his fliare in the guilt and the 
glory of that wonderful but atrocious conqueft. Olarte, 
however, enjoyed none of the fpoils; and made the befl 
atonement lie could to the Mexicans, by entering the 
Francifcan order, and living the life of a miffionary among 
them forty years, inflifting upon himfelf during all that 
time penances which proved the fincerity of his contri¬ 
tion.” He was one of the molt fuccefsful miflionaries, 
and belt loved by the natives. At different times he was 
guardian of the convent at Mexico, definidor of the pro¬ 
vince, and afterwards provincial. In 1567, the vifitors 
whom Philip II. fent to proceed againft the rebels, ordered 
him to Spain as a fufpe&ed perfon; he cleared himfelf fa- 
tisfa&orily of the charge, and returned with the rank of 
comilario-general of New Spain. But the fatigue of the 
voyage, and the anxiety which he had undergone, was too 
much for his old age, and he died fhortly after his return 
in 1569. Gen. Biog. 
OLASGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
thirty-two miles fouth of Patna. Lat. 25.5. N. Ion. 85. 
20. E. 
O'LASH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern¬ 
ment of Sivas: ten miles fouth of Sivas. 
OLAV'IDES (Count), was born in Spanifli America, 
but had his education at Madrid, where he was fecretary 
to the count d’Aranda, whom he accompanied in his 
embaffy to France. On his return to Spain, Charles III. 
created him count, and appointed him to the office of 
fuperinteridant 
