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parts, forming together a folio volume. This edition is 
rare, and much fought after by collectors, owing to the 
circumflSnce of its not having been fubjeCted to the exa¬ 
mination of the holy office. Later editions made their 
appearance at Antwerp in 1568, and at Lyons in 1586 
and 1589 ; all in folio. His Commentary on Ifaiah was 
firft publifhed at Paris in 1623, folio ; and reprinted at 
the fame place in 1658. Gen. Bing. 
OLEA'TRUM, anciently a town of Spain, nearSagun- 
tum. Strabo. 
OLEG'GIO, a village of Italy, in the Milanefe, on the 
Tefino : nine miles north-north-eaft of Novara, and 
twenty-three weft of Milan. 
OL'EGON, a cape of Ruflia, in the fea of Ochotfk: 
252 miles eaft of Ochotfk. Lat. 59. ao. N. Ion. 151.14.E. 
OLEK'MA, a river of Ruflia, which rifes in the moun¬ 
tains on the frontiers of China, in lat. 49. and, running 
due north, enters the Lena oppofite Olekminfk. 
O'LEKMINSK, a town of Ruflia, on the Lena, where 
it is joined by the Olekma, in the government of Irkutfk : 
300 miles weft-fouth-weft of Yakutfk, and 692 north-eaft 
of Irkutfk. Lat. 60.25. N. Ion. 119. 14. E. 
OLENE'I, a cape of Ruflia, at the weft fide of the 
mouth of the Obfkaia Gulf, in the Karfkoi Sea: 340 miles 
north of Nadimfkoi. Lat. 72.15. N. Ion. 72. 22. E. 
OLENE'I NOS', a cape of Ruflia, in the White Sea: 
fixty miles north of Archangel. 
OL'ENEK, a town of Ruflia, at the mouth of the river 
Olenek, near the Frozen Ocean : 360 miles north-north- 
weft of Ziganfk. Lat. 72. 24. N. Ion. 114. 14. E. 
OL'ENEK, a river of Ruflia, which rifes in lat. 67. 20. 
and runs into the Icy Sea in Ion. 104. 14. E. lat. 72. 30. N. 
OLE'NI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Bra- 
claw : fifty-two miles north-weft of Braclaw. 
OLEN'KA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Tun- 
gunfka in lat. 58.6. N. Ion. 95.14. E. 
OLEN'KA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Vitim 
in lat. 55. 30. N. Ion. iij. 54. E. 
OLE'NOS, in ancient geography, a town of Achaia, 
towards the north-weft, near the mouth of the river 
Mela*; fuppofed to be the prefent Caminitza. 
OLEN'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the Vokfcha : 120 miles eaft of Archangel. 
OL'ENUM, or Ol'enus, in ancient geography, a town 
of Peloponnefus, between Patras and Cyllene. The goat 
Amalthasa, which was made a conftellation by Jupiter, 
is called Oleuia, from its refidence there. Ovid. 
OL'ENUS, a Greek poet, older than Orpheus, came 
from Xanthe, a city of Lycia. He compofed feveral 
hymns, which were fung in the temple of Delos upon 
feftival-days. Olenus has the reputation of being one 
of the founders of the oracle at Delphi; and he is 
faid to have been the firft who filled, at that place, the 
office of prieft of Apollo, and to have given refponfes in 
verfe. Herodotus. 
OLEO'SE, or O'leous, adj. [oleofus , Lat.] Oily.— 
Rain-water may be endued with forne vegetating or 
prolifick virtue, derived from fome faline or oleofe par¬ 
ticles it contains. Ray on the Creation. —In falcons is a 
fmall quantity of gall, the oleous parts of the chyle being 
fpent moft on the fat. Floyer on the Humours. 
O'LEOUT, a river of New-York, which runs into the 
eaft branch of the Sufquehanna. 
OLERA'CEOUS, adj. [ oleraceus , Lat.] Like to pot¬ 
herbs.—It [muftard] is the fmalleft of feeds of plants apt 
to grow untd alignous fubftance, and from an herby and 
oleraceous vegetable to become a kind of tree. Sir T. 
Brown's Mifcell. 
OL'ERON, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Charente, on the eaft coaft of the ifland of Oleron: 
fifteen miles fouth of Rochelle, and nine weft-fouth-weft 
ofRochfort. Lat. 45.53. N. Ion. 1.6. W. 
OL'ERON, an ifland in the Atlantic, near the weft 
coaft of France, five leagues and a half long, and from 
one to two wide. It is feparated from the continent by 
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a narrow channel, called Pcrluis de Maubijfon, and from 
the ifland of Re by the Pertuis d'Antioche. The number 
of inhabitants is eftimated at 12,000, who are diftributed 
in the town of Oleron, and feveral villages. The foil 
is fertile; but the principal part of the inhabitants are 
feamen. 1 he ifland was formerly in the pofleflion of the 
crown of England ; and Richard I. compofed fome mari¬ 
time laws, which were called the laws of Oleron, and were 
the principal foundation of the maritime laws of mod 
ftates of Europe. Lat. 45.46. N. Ion. i.ii.W. 
Oleron, Laws of. The inhabitants of the ifland of 
Oleron have been able mariners forfeven or eight hundred 
years paft ; fo that they framed and drew up the laws of 
the navy or the marine, which are ltill called the laws of 
Oleron. According to the French writers, thefe maritime 
laws were digefted in the fore-mentioned ifland under 
the title of llcole des Jugemens d'Oleron, by direction of 
queen Eleanor, the wife of Henry II. in her quality of 
ducliefs of Guienne, and afterwards enlarged and improved 
by her fon Richard I. But Selden (De Dominio Maris, 
c. 14.) denies this, and maintains that thefe laws were 
compiled and promulgated by Richard I. as lung of Eng¬ 
land. See the article England, vol. vi. p. 801. How¬ 
ever, it is proper to add, that more modern writers (as 
Monf. Boucher of Paris, and our countryman Mr. Luders) 
confider the whole account as fallacious; M. Boucher 
calling the ftory of our Richard I. and queen Eleanor 
me chimere des plus invraijhnblables. See Monthly Rev. 
Dec. 1811. 
OL'ERON, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftriiSt, in the department of the Lower Pyrenees; before 
the revolution, the fee of a bifhop, who had the title of 
Premier Baron of Bearn : twelve miles fouth-weft of Pau, 
and ten weft of Tarbe. Lat, 43.11.N. Ion. o. 32. W. 
O'LES, a town of Iftria: lixteen miles north-weft of 
Pedena. 
OLE'SA, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia : 
fixteen miles north-weft of Barcelona. 
OLES'KO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Belcz: 
thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Belcz. 
O'LESNICK, a tpwn of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz : twenty-eight miles weft of Sandomirz. 
OLES'NO. See Rosenberg. 
OLET'TA, a town of the ifland of Corfica : fix miles 
fouth-weft of Baftia, and thirty-nine north-north-eaft of 
Corte. Lat. 42. 33. N. Ion. 9. 30. E. 
OLET'TE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eaft Pyrenees, celebrated for its warm baths : feven miles 
fouth-weft of Prades, and fifteen north of Compredon. 
OLET'ZKO, a caftle of Pruflia, near Marggrabowa ; 
whence that town is fometimes fo called. 
OLEVI'TO, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra : 
twenty-three miles eaft of Salerno. 
O'LEUM MED'ICUM, in the writings of the ancients, 
a name given to a famous oil which had a quality of 
burning under water, in fpite of all that could be done 
to quench it. It was called Medicum, becaufe of its 
being produced among the Medes; and fome have called 
it Oleum Medea, becaufe it was fuppofed to be that fub¬ 
ftance with which Medasa anointed the crown of her 
rival. Ammianus Marcellinus tells us, that if an arrow 
was anointed with this oil, and ftiot out of a bow againft 
any inflammable fubftance, the whole immediately took 
fire; and, if any one attempted to quench the flames by 
water, they only burnt the more fiercely for it. The 
Venenum Pharicum of Nicander is fuppofed to be the 
fame with this oil. Chambers. 
O'LEUM VI'TRI ANTIMO'NII, a name given by 
Bafil Valentine, and others, to a famous preparation of 
antimony, which they keep as a fecret, or at leaft declare 
in fuch terms as are unintelligible, and boaft of as the 
univerfal medicine. The learned Kerkring has given 
the procefs for making.this “ red oil of the glafs of anti¬ 
mony;” but that in fo enigmatical a manner, that he 
feerns himfelf not to expeft any body to underftand him ; 
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