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OL'MAN, a fmall ifland on the weft fide of the Gulf of 
Bothnia, Lat. 61.38. N. Ion. 17. 11.E. 
OL'ME, a town of France, in the department of the 
Puy de Dome : ten miles fonth of Thiers. 
OLMEDIL'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon : fixteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Salamanca. 
OLME'DO, a fmall town of Spain, in New Caftile, 
feated on an eminence in front of an extendve plain : it was 
formerly furrounded by walls, of which foine remains are 
ftill vifible. It has feven parochial ftruftures, and feveral 
religious houfes. The principal altar of St. Mary’s church 
is adorned with good paintings. The population of this 
place was more condderable ; but is now reduced to the 
number of 2000 inhabitants, who carry on no other traffic 
than that which is derived front their brick-kilns. In its 
vicinity are fome vineyards and kitchen-gardens. It is 
under the adminiftration of a corregidor. It is fixteen 
miles fouth of Cuenga. 
OLMES'SA, a town of the ifland of Cordca : five miles 
north-eaft of Corte. 
OLMES'TA, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland: 
thirty miles iouth-weft of Linkioping. 
OLME'TO, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: feven 
miles north of Algieri. 
OLME'TO, a town of the ifland of Cordca : feven miles 
weft of Tallano. 
OLMET'TA, a town of the ifland of Cordca : two 
miles fouth-weft of Oletta. 
OL'MOS (Fr. Andres de), was born near Oria in the 
diftrift of Burgos, in the latter part of the flfteenth Cen¬ 
tury, and was brought up in the houfe of a married filter 
at Olmos, near Valladolid, front which place he took his 
name. At the age of tw'enty he took the Francifcan habit 
in the convent at Valladolid. His zeal and his application 
to theology foon diftinguiffied him ; and, when Charles V. 
fent Juan de Zuntarraga as inquidtorial commiffioner 
agaiuft the witches of Bifcay, Andres was chofen as his 
companion. He acquitted hintfelf fo well in this expedi¬ 
tion againft the old women, that Zumarraga, when he was 
made bifltop of Mexico, in 1518, took him with him to 
the New World. Here Andres was more ufefully employed 
than in burning witches ; his zeal was more wifely di¬ 
rected, and he began a feries of labours which entitle him 
to the refpeft of pofterity. Four languages he found it 
neceflary to learn ; the Mexican, the Totonaca, the Te- 
pehua, and the Gunxteca. Of the two ftrft he wrote 
grammars and vocabularies, which have been of eflential 
lervice to other miffionaries. He anuifed the Mexicans 
with an auto, or myftery of the day of judgment, in their 
own language, which was reprefented before the viceroy, 
Don Antonio de Mendoza, in the capital ; and he com¬ 
mitted to writing that interefting advice of the Mexican 
parents to their children, which we have quoted, vol. i. 
p. 4.22. from Clavigero. Befides thefe, he compofed very 
many religious trafts, in the different languages of the 
tribes among whom he patted the greater part of his life, 
fuffering every kind of privation and difficulty. He lived, 
however, to a great age; and died Oftober 8, 1571. Mi¬ 
racles were attributed to him ; and, if he has not been 
created a faint, he is called fo by the courtefy of catholi- 
cifm. Andres de Olmos is alfo to be ranked among the 
poets of Spain, having tranflated into Caftillian verfe a 
Latin work upon Herefy, by Alonzo de Caftro. R. S. in 
Gen. Biog. 
OL'MUTZ, a city and capital of the marquifate of 
Moravia, and of a circle of the fame name, belonging to 
Auftria, fltuated on the river Morawa, the firfi royal bo¬ 
rough, and the fee of a bifliop, being wholly furrounded 
by the river. It is fortified, well-built, and populous ; 
and divided into the Old and New. It contains twenty- 
fix churches, five chapels, feven cloifters of monks, and 
two of nuns, feveral holpitals, one correction and orphan 
houfe, one college and feminary, an univerfity founded 
in the year 1567, a riding-academy, and a learned fociety. 
The caftle of Olmutz is ftrong, and often ferves as a ftate- 
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prifon: here the French general la Fayette was feveral years 
confined. It is 162 miles fouth eaft of Drefden, 116 eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Prague, and 80 north-north-eaft of Vienna. 
Lat. 49. 33. N. Ion. 17. 11. E. 
OL'NEY, or Oulney, a market-town in the county 
of Buckingham, is fituated on the north bank of the river 
Oufe, near the borders of Northamptonfhire, and at the 
diftance of fifty-fix miles from the metropolis. The 
houfes in the town, except thofe of late ereftion, are 
moftly covered, with thatch, and chiefly ranged in one 
long ftreet. May <?, 1787, a fire happened here, which 
deftroyed forty-three large tenements, and occafioned 
other confiderable damage. The church is a large ancient 
ftrufture, in the pointed ftyle, adorned with a handfome 
tower and fpire, the latter rifing to the height of 185 feet. 
In the cemetery formerly flood a chapel, dedicated to the 
Virgin Mary, in which was a chantry, founded by lord 
Ballet. Lace-making conftitutes the chief employment 
of the inhabitants of Olney. The market is held on 
Monday every week; and there are fairs annually on 
Ealter-Monday and June 29. According to the parlia¬ 
mentary-returns of 1811, this town and pariffi contain 
484 houfes, and a population of 2268 perfons. Previous 
to the year 1767, the parifli of Olney was one entire com¬ 
mon ; but at that period it was enclofed under the au¬ 
thority of an aft of parliament. The manor anciently 
belonged to the earls of Chefter, from whom it palled to 
the two families of Albini and Ballet. It afterwards be¬ 
came the property of Thomas Moubray duke of Norfolk, 
after whole banilhment the king granted it to Edward 
duke of York, who was (lain at the battle of Agincourt. 
Upon this event it reverted to the crown, and continued 
part of the royal demefnes till th'e year 1638. Its prefent 
proprietor is the earl of Dartmouth. 
Wefton-Underwood, a fmall village fituated about a 
mile fouth from Olney, was long the refidence of the ce¬ 
lebrated poet Cowper, who died hereon the 25th of Octo¬ 
ber, 1800. Many defcriptions in his poem of the Talk 
were drawn from the fcenery adjoining to this town.—At 
Lavendon, two miles to the north, formerly flood an ab¬ 
bey for Premonftratenfian monks, founded by John de 
Bidun, a baron, in the reign of Henry II. This place 
appears to have been anciently of much more importance 
than at prefent, as it had a weekly market and an annual 
fair; and was protefted by a caftle, fome veftiges of which 
can ftill be traced.—Ravenfton, to the w'eft of Olney, is 
noted as the birth-place of the great lord-chancellor Not¬ 
tingham, who was flyled by his contemporaries the Englijh 
Cicero, and who is charafterifed by Biackftone as a lawyer 
of firft-rate abilities and fterling integrity. He died in 
1682, after having been advanced to the dignity of an 
earl, and lies buried in the church of this village, where 
is a magnificent monument eredted to his memorwby his 
Ion. His effigy is finely executed in white marble, in 
his chancellor’s robes, and reclines under a canopy fup- 
ported by four black marble pillars of the Corinthian 
order. Ravenfton has an hofpital, adjoiningto the church, 
for fix poor men and fix poor women. Here was once a 
monaftery. 
Stoke-Goldington, fouth-weft of Olney, has a charity- 
fchool. This fmall village has moft beautiful views, en¬ 
livened by the Oufe running through rich meadows, and 
the light of Olney church. Wilkes's Britijh Directory, 
vol. v. Ly finis's Magna Britannia. 
OL'OBOIC, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : twelve 
miles fouth of Kalifch. 
OLOMPAN', a town of Mexico : forty miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Mexico. 
OLO'NA, a river of Italy, in the Milanefe, which runs 
into the Po twelve miles weft of Piacenza. 
OLONE'I, an ifland near the fouth coaft of Nova Zern- 
bla, in the ftraits of Vaigatfkoi. Lat. 70. 30. N. Ion. 58. 
29. E. 
OL'ONETZ, a town of Ruffia, which gives name to a 
government, built by Peter I. Here is an iron-forge; 
and 
