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chemical philofopher; and the fecond, is their red u ft ion 
in the large way, which is the bufinefs of the metalluTgift. 
For the tnoft improved methods of accotnpliffiing each of 
thefe objefts, fee the name of each metal, under.the 
articles Chemistry, vol. iv. and Mineralogy, vol. xv, 
fee alfo Platinum, Plumbum, Stannum, &c. 
ORE, A coin. See Ora, p. 675.—Thefe ores (which 
was a Saxon coin) are declared to be in value of o'Ur 
money i6d. a-piece; but after, by the variation of the 
ftandard, they valued 2od. a-piece. Blount's Anc. Ten. 
ORE, a town of Sweden, in Dalecariia : fixty miles 
north-north-weft of Fahlun, 
O'RE-WEED, Ore-wood, or Sea-ware, / A weed, 
either growing upon the rocks under high-water mark, or 
broken from the bottom of the lea by rough weather, 
and call upon the fhore by the wind and flood. Carew's 
Survey of Cornwall.—It is much ufed as manure in De- 
vonfhire, Cornwall, and fome other maritime parts of 
England, and in Scotland. See the article Husbandry, 
vol. x. p. 56a. 
O'READ, f. [fromthe Gr.ogoj, amountain.] A nymph 
of the mountains: 
Thus faying, from her hufband’s hand her hand 
Soft fhe withdrew ; and, like a wood-nymph light, 
Oread or Dryad, or of Delia’s train, 
Betook her to the grove. Milton's P. L. 
O'REB, f. [Heb. a raven.] The name of a man. The 
name of a rock. 
QRE'BRO,.or Oerebro, a town of 'Sweden, in the 
province of Nericia, fituated on the Hielmar-iake. It is 
a long narrow town, with a caftle quite furrounded by 
water, fortified by Guftavus I. and farther improved fince 
that time. In the times of popery, here was a Carmelite 
convent. Oreb’ro has at prefent two churches and a 
grammar-fchool. It has alfo a harbour on the Hielmar- 
iake, which has a communication with the Malar by 
means of the river and canal of Arboga: and confe- 
quently there is a paPfiage by water from, hence to Stock¬ 
holm. The inhabitants carry on a confiderable trade ; 
and this town is celebrated for the exaftnefs of its 
weights and meafures: eighty-eight miles weft of Stock¬ 
holm. Lat. 59. 15. N. Ion. 15.4. E. 
ORE'BY-HUS', a town of Sweden, in Weftmanland : 
twenty miles north of Uplal. 
ORE'BY POI'NT, or Butt of Lewis, the northern 
extremity of the Ifle of Lewis, in Scotland. -Lat. 58. 31. N. 
ion. 6. 15. W. 
ORECH'OVITZ,'a town of European Turkey, in 
Bulgaria: twenty-eight miles weft-fouth'-weft of Nicopoii. 
O'REDESCH, a river of Rufiia, which runs into the 
Luga fixteen miles north of Luga. 
OREEHOU'A, one of the fmaller Sandwich iflands, 
and only confidered as a llngle high hummock, feparated 
from Onehow by a channel about a mile in breadth ; and, 
though the depth of the fea appeared by its colour to’ be 
irregular, it was manifeftly far too deep for people to walk 
acrofs from one ifland to the other. The fea did not 
break in any part of the channel, which, on the contrary, 
feemed to be nearly of a fufficient depth to admit a pal- 
fage for the difcovery. With refpeft to the population, 
Capt. King muft doubtlefs have been led into error, when 
be eftimated the number of inhabitants at 4000. 
ORE'GA, f. in botany. See Origanum. 
OREGAN', or River of the West, a river of North 
America, which runs into the Pacific Ocean in lat. 4.3. 
18. N. 
ORE'GIUS (Auguftine),a learned Italian cardinal and 
philofopher, was defcended from parents in humble cir- 
cumftances, and born at Florence in the year 1577. As 
he afforded early indications of good natural abilities 
and a love of learning, he met with friends who fent him 
to purfue his ftudies at Rome. Here an adventure oc¬ 
curred to him fimilar to that which befel the patriarch 
ORE 
Jofeph in the houfe of his Egyptian mailer; and he 
proved equally faithful to his duty: he had the refohi- 
tion to fly from his apartment, and to fpend a cold win¬ 
ter’s night in the ftreet without clothes, rather than 
venture back to the fcene of temptation. 'When cardi¬ 
nal Bellarmine was apprifed of this linking in fiance of 
virtue, he took our young fcholar under his own patron¬ 
age, and placed him in a college where the youths of the 
firft families in Rome were educated. The advantages of 
this fituation he improved with the greateft diligence and 
fuccefs, and became a proficient in the Greek tongue, 
philofophy, divinity,ecclefiaftical hiftory, and an acquaint¬ 
ance-with the councils. We meet with no account of his 
perfonal hifiory, from the time of his completing his aca¬ 
demical ftudies till he w'as turned of fifty years of age; 
but he appears to have entered into orders, and probably 
refided at firft with cardinal Bellhrmine, and afterwards 
with cardinal Barberini, who became pope by the. name 
of Urban VIII. While the cardinal laft mentioned Was 
legate at Bologna, he employed Oregius to examine whe¬ 
ther Ariftotle taught the mortality of the foul, with the 
intention, fhould that be the cafe, of perfuading the pope 
to prohibit leftures upon him with regard to that fubjeft. 
On this occafion he vindicated Ariftotle againft that 
charge, in a piece entitled “ Ariftotelis vera de rationalis 
Anima; Immortalitate Sententia,” which was publiflied 
atRome in 1631. In the fame year he publilhed his theo¬ 
logical treatifes on the fubjefts contained in the firft part 
of the Summa of Aquinas, which he drew up for the be-- 
neiit of cardinal Barberini, the nephew of his patron of 
that name, and fent into the world for the ufe of the 
younger Roman prelates. Upon the acceflion of Urban 
VIII. to the papal dignity, he made Oregius hi$ divine ; 
and in the year *634 honoured him with the purple, and 
prefented him to the archiepifcopal fee of Benevento. He 
died at that place in 1635, when he was fifty-eight years 
of age. Cardinal Bellarmine ufed to call him his divine, 
and pope Urban VIII. was accuftomed to give him the 
title of his Bellarmine. He wrote a treatife “ De Angelis,” 
and another “ De Operibus fex Dierum,” which were 
printed' at Rome in 1632; and they ,vere collected toge¬ 
ther, with other treatifes written by him, and printed in 
" a folio volume, in 1637, under the care of his nephew, 
Nicholas Oregius. Bayle. Moreri . 
O'REGRUND, or Oeregrund, a fea-port town of 
Sweden, in the province of Upland, built in the year 
1491, on the fea-coaft, by fome of the inhabitants of 
Oefthammar; who left that town becaufe of the great de- 
creafe of the water in the harbour, which entirely ruined 
its trade. Oeregrund was a ftaple-town till the year 1630 ; 
and has been three times burnt and quite demolifiied by 
the Ruffians. The harbour is defended from the violence 
of the fea by a mole. It is thirty-four miles north-north - 
eaft of Upfal, and eighty-eight weft of Stockholm. Lat. 
60. 20. N. Ion. 18. 15. E. 
O'REL, a town of Rufiia, and capital of th? govern¬ 
ment of Orlovfkoe, on the Oka: 176 miles fouth-fouth- 
weft ofMofcow, and 464 fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterfburgh. 
Lat. 52. 56. N. Ion. 36. E. 
O'REL, a mountain of France, in the department of 
the Drome, near Die. 
ORE'LIA, f. in botany. See Allamanda. 
ORELLA'NA (Francis), a Spanifli adventurer, fa¬ 
mous as the firft European navigator of the great river 
Maragnon. He was a young officer, fecond in command 
to.Gonzaio Pizarro, in an expedition undertaken in 1540, 
from Quito in Peru, for the difcovery of the inland coun¬ 
try to the eaft of the Andes. They had reached the 
banks of the Coca, or Napo, a large river which dif-. 
charges itfelf mto the Maragnon, when they built a bark 
of green wood for the purpofe of affifting their progrefs, 
and manned it with fifty foldiers under the command of 
Orellana. The veflel fell down the ft ream, and was loon out 
of fight of the land-party ; when Orellana, fired with the 
idea 
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