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performed in very exaft concert, by beating time upon 
their breads with their hands. 
It appears certain, that the horrid banquet of human 
flefh is as much relilhed here, even amidft plenty, as it is 
in New Zealand. Some of the people, in anfwer to quef- 
tions put to them on this fubjed, replied without hefita- 
tion, that, if the navigators were killed on-fliore, they 
would certainly eat them. Theirmeaning plainly feemed 
to be, that they would not deftroy them for the fake of 
eating them, but that their eating of them would be the 
confequence of previous enmity.' One of the men had 
pundured on his bread the figure of a lizard, and upon 
tirofe of others were the figures of men badly imitated. 
This iflaud had no chief, or hairee ; but was fubjed to 
Teneoonao, a chief of Atooi. 
The foil of this ifland was found to be very poor and 
doiiy ; but it was covered with Ihrubs and plants of more 
delicious fragrance than any which occurred in the other 
illands vifited in this ocean. There was no appearance of 
any running dream ; but fome fmall wells were found, 
jn which the frefli water, though fcarce, w'as tolerably 
good. The habitations of the natives were thinly fcat- 
tered about; and it was fuppofed that there could not be 
more than 500 people upon the illand. Their mode of 
living feemed to be decent and cleanly ; but the men 
and women were not obferved to eat together, and the 
latter feemed to affociate in companies by themfelves. 
They burn here the oily nuts of the dooe dooe, for light 
in the night, as at Atooi; and they bake their hogs in 
ovens; but, contrary to the practice of the Society and 
Friendly, illands, they fplit the carcafles through their 
whole length. A particular veneration feemed to be 
paid here to owls, which are very tame ; and it was ob¬ 
ferved to be a pretty general practice among them to pull 
out one of their teeth, in which they agreed with Dam- 
pier’s natives on the welt fide of New Holland, although 
at fuch an immenfe didance. Lat. 21. 50. N. Ion. 199. 
45. E. Cook's Third Voyage, vols. ii. iii. 
O'NEG, a town of Rufiia, in the government of Arch¬ 
angel, on the river Onega, near the White Sea : eighty 
miles fouth-fouth-wed of Archangel, and 2C0 north- 
north-wed of Vologda. Lat. 63. 35. N. Ion. 37. 24. E. 
ONE'GA, a river of Rufiia, which rifes in the north- 
wed part of the government of Vologda, and runs into 
the White Sea near Oneg. 
ONE'GA, a lake of Rufiia, in the government of Olo- 
rvetz, between the Ladoga and the White Sea. The 
length is between 180 and 200 verds, and its breadth 
from 60 to 80. Like the Ladoga, it contains a few 
illands, conlidingof marble, and in all other properties is 
much the fame. As from the Onega the navigable river 
Svirruns into the Ladoga, and from the Bielo-Ozero the 
Shakfna flows into the Volga, a canal cut through the 
didance of forty verds would conned the Neva with the 
Volga, and aflord a more convenient navigation than the 
palfage by Viflinoi-Volotlhok, becaufe there are no water¬ 
falls, and therefore all the danger and trouble attending 
them in the prefent paflage would be obviated. Toolte's 
ItvJJla, vol. i. 
ONE'GLIA, a principality of Savoy, furrounded on 
all fides, except towards the Mediterranean Sea, by the 
territories of the Genoefe. It is divided into three val¬ 
leys, viz. of Oneglia, Maro, and Prela. The fird is co¬ 
vered with fruit trees, intermixed with houfes, fo as to 
have the appearance of a continued orchard. The valley 
of Maro, or Mairo, extends from the village of St. Lazara 
to the Col of St. Bernard, where it joins the valley of 
Pieve, which is in the jurifdidion of the Genoefe. The 
third, or valley of Pierrelata, or Prela, lies to the wed of 
the other two. All tbefe valleys extend fifteen miles 
from the fea; and in them they reckon 53 towns or vil¬ 
lages, 3000 families, 14,000 fouls, and 2000 men fit to 
bear arms. The fird owner of the valley of Oneglia 
known was the bifhop of Albenga, who, notable to refill 
the power of the Genoefe and other troublefome neigh¬ 
bours, in the year 1292 furrendered it to the family of 
Doria; from whofe defcendants, in the year 1677, it was 
transferred to the duke of Savoy. We believe that it 
now belongs to the king of Sardinia. The country pro¬ 
duces wine, fruits, and excellent olive-oil. 
ONE'GLIA, a feaport and capital of the above prin¬ 
cipality, which carries on a confiderable trade in olive-oil. 
It is well-built; and had formerly a large and good cita¬ 
del, which was dedroyed in the wars between the duke of 
Savoy and the Genoefe. Towards the ead is a mountain 
which advances into the fea, and forms a promontory, 
called Cape Oneglia. Towards the fea, it is defended by 
walls and fome fmall forts. In the year 1692 it was bom¬ 
barded by the French ; and exactly a hundred years after, 
namely, on the 23d of Odober, 1792, it was dormed, plun¬ 
dered, and burnt, by them. It is thirty miles north-ead 
of Nice, and fifty fouth-wed of Genoa. Lat. 43. 53. N. 
Ion. 8. 4. E. 
ONEI'DA, a county of America, in the date of New- 
York, bounded on the north by the river St. Lawrence 
and county of St. Lawrence, on the ead by the county of 
Herkemer, on the fouth by the county of Chenango, the 
Lake Oneida, and county of Onondago, and on the welt 
by Lake Ontario. It is ninety miles from north to fouth, 
and from forty-five to fixty ead to wed. 
ONEIDA CAS'TLE, a fort of New-York, on the Ge- 
neflee-river : twenty-four miles fouth of Lake Ontario. 
ONEIDA CREE'K, a river of New-York, which runs 
into Lake Oneida in lat. 49. 3. N. Ion. 75. 47. W. 
ONEIDA LA'KE, a lake in the date of New-York, 
between twenty and thirty miles long, and five miles wide ; 
it is conneded with Lake Ontario on the wed by Ofwego- 
river, and with Fort Stanwix by Wood-creek. 
ONEI'DAS, one of the Six Nations of Indians, con¬ 
taining 628 perfons, who inhabit the country fouth of 
Oneida Lake, called the Oneida Refervation. Their prin¬ 
cipal village, Kahaomerolakala, is about twenty miles 
fouth-wed of Whitedown. This nation receives an an¬ 
nuity from the date of New-York of 3552 dollars for 
lands purchafed of them in 1795, and an annuity of about 
628 dollars from the United States. Thefe annuities, to¬ 
gether with the corn, beans, and potatoes, railed by the 
fquaws, and the filh and game caught by the men, afford 
them a barely tolerable fubfidence. Their pride leads 
them to defpife their neighbours, the Stockbridge and 
Brotherton Indians, for their attention to agriculture; 
but, being under a neceflity of purchaling provifions of 
them, they begin to feel a fenfe of their dependence. 
They are divided into three tribes, or clans, by the names 
of the Wolf, the Bear, and theTurtle. They have their 
name from their Pagan deity, which fome few of the na¬ 
tives dill worlhip, (notwithdanding the inltrudion of 
milTionaries from the Society edablilhed in Scotland for 
promoting Chridian Knowledge ;) which deity is merely 
a mif-lhapen rude cylindrical done, about 120 pounds in 
weight, in their language called Oneida, dignifying the 
“ Upright Stone.” Formerly this done was placed in the 
crutch of a tree, and then the nation fuppofed itfelf in¬ 
vincible. Thefe Indians are all of mixed blood; info- 
much, that there has not been a pure Oneida for feveral 
years pad. 
ONEIROCR A'TIA, J. [from the Gr. a dream, 
and n^aro;, power.] The power of explaining dreams. 
ONEIROCRI'TIC, f. [from the Gr. om^o;, a dream, 
and xfiroio;, a critic.] An interpreter of dreams.—Having 
furveyed all ranks and profeflions, I do not find in any 
quarter of the town an oneirocritick, or an interpreter of 
dreams. Addifon’s Spectator. 
ONEIROCRIT'ICAL, adj. Interpretative of dreams; 
—If a man has no mind to pads by abruptly from his ima¬ 
gined to his real circumfiances, he may employ himfelf 
in that new kind of obfervation which my oneiroeritical 
correfpondent has direded him to make. Addijbns Spce- 
tator. 
ONEIROCRIT'ICS,/ pi. Interpretation of dreams;— 
A pre- 
