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county ofChenango; about thirty miles from eaft to weft, 
and twenty-five from north to fouth. It contains 38,802 
inhabitants. 
OTSE'GO, a townfhip and lake in the above county. 
The townfliip was taken from Unadilla, and incorporated 
in 1794. On the eaft, the townfliip includes Lake Otfego, 
which leparates it from Cherry Valley. The Lake is the 
head of Sufquelianna-river; and is about nine miles long, 
and fomewhat more than a mile wide. The lands on its 
banks are good, and well cultivated. The townfliip con¬ 
tains 4224 inhabitants. Lat.42.40. N. Ion. 74. 58. W. 
OT'SKE, a town of Turkilh Armenia: twenty miles 
north-weft of Akalzike. 
OTT (John-Henry), a learned Swifs divine and pro- 
feffor, was the fon of a country minifter in the canton 
of Zurich, and born in the year 1617. After having been 
for fome time a pupil of Breitinger at Zurich, lie was 
fent, in 1635, to purfue his ftudies at Laufimne. From 
thence he went to Geneva and Groningen ; and, in the 
latter place, diftinguilhed himfelf by his proficiency under 
the inftruftions of Gomar and Alting. He then fpent 
five years at Leyden and Amfterdam, in the ftudy of the 
rabbinical writings, and of the oriental languages. Af¬ 
terwards he took a tour to England and France; and, 
upon his return to his native country, was prefented to a 
good living, which he ferved for twenty-five years. In 
1651, he was nominated to the profefforfhip of eloquence 
at Zurich; in 1655, to that of Hebrew; and, in 1668, to 
the chair of eccleliaftical hiftory. He died in 1682, at the 
age of fixty-five, leaving behind him feveral treatifes on 
fubjefts^n divinity and various literature, which are held 
in efteem on account of the erudition difplayed in them. 
Among others, he was the author of, 1. Franco-Gallia : 
Oratio de Caufa Janfenitica. 2. A Latin diflertation on 
the queltions, Whether St. Peter was ever at Rome ? and 
When he was there ? 3. A tranflation of a treatife On 
the Grandeur of the Church of Rome, with Remarks. 
4. Annals relating to the Hiftory of the Anabaptifts. 5. 
0«j/2aloAoyia, five Nomina Hominum propria. 6. An Ex¬ 
amination of the Annals of Baronius. 7. A Defence of 
that Examination. 8. A Difcourfe in favour of the Study 
of the Hebrew Language. 9. A Treatife on the Refur- 
rebtion. 10. On Alphabets, and the Manner of Writing, 
in all Nations. 11. On Poetry in general. Moll of thefe 
works are in Latin. 
He had a fon, called John Baptist Ott, who was 
born in 1661, and acquired celebrity by his knowledge of 
the oriental languages, and antiquities. He was edu¬ 
cated to the miniltry, and officiated as deacon at Stettin, 
and afterwards as pallor at Zollicken ; and,'in 1702, lie 
was made profefior of Hebrew at Zurich. In 1715, lie 
was promoted to the archdeaconry of the cathedral in that 
city. He was the author of feveral works, in which his 
learning and refearch were confpicuous. Of thefe we may 
mention, 1. A Diflertation on Vows. 2. A Letteron Sa¬ 
maritan Medals. 3. On the manufcript and printed 
Verfions of the Bible, before the z£ra of the Reformation. 
4. A Difquifition on certain Antiquities difcovered at 
Klothen, in 1724. The two firft of thefe works are writ¬ 
ten in Latin, the two laft in German. L'Advocut’s Bibl. 
portatif. 
OT'TA, a town of Portugal, in Eftremadura t twenty- 
four miles north-north-eaft of Lilbon. 
OTTACA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
L'avora : eleven miles eaft of Capua. 
OTTA'TI, a town of Naples, in the Principato Citra : 
ten miles fouth-well of Cangiano. 
OTTA'VA, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari: 
eleven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Monopoli. 
OTTAWA', a river which rifes in the fouth part of 
Bohemia, and runs into the Muldau twelve miles eaft of 
Blatna. 
OTTAWA', or Utawa, called ajfo Grand River, a 
river of Canada, which is the moft important of all the 
tributary llreams of the great river St. Lawrence, iffues 
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from various lakes towards the centre of Canada, and falls 
into the St. Lawrence about thirty miles above Montreal; 
forming, by its confluence with that river, Le Lac des 
Deux Montagues, et le Lac St. Louis, i. e. the Lake of the 
Two Mountains, and the Lake of St. Louis, in which 
are feveral illands. The water of the Utawa-river is re¬ 
markably clear, and of a bright greenifh colour; whilft 
that of the St. Lawrence, on the contrary, is muddy, 
owing to its pafllng over deep beds of coral, for fome miles, 
before it enters into Lake St. Louis. For a conliderable 
way down the lake, the waters of the two rivers may be 
plainly diftinguilhed from each other. At the mouth of 
the Utawa-river, is lituated the ifland of Perot, about 
fourteen miles in circumference, the foil of which is fer¬ 
tile and well cultivated. 
The North-Weft Company principally carries on its 
fur-trade by the Utawa-river. For this purpofe they 
make life of canoes, formed of the bark of the birch- 
tree; fome of which are conftru&ed upon fuch a large 
fcale, that they are capable of containing two tons; but 
they feldom put fo much in them, efpecially in this river, 
as it is in many places lhallow, rapid, and fulhof rocks, 
and contains r.o lefs than thirty-two portages. The ca¬ 
noes are navigated by the French Canadians, who prefer 
this employment to that of cultivating the ground. Hav¬ 
ing afeended the Utawa-river for about 280 miles, which 
it takes them about eighteen days to perform, they then 
crofs, by a portage, into Lake Nifpiffing; and from this 
lake, by another portage, they get upon French-river, that 
falls into Lake Huron on the north-eaft fide; then, coall- 
ing along this lqft lake, they pafs through the Straits of St. 
Mary, where they have another portage into Lake Supe¬ 
rior; and, coafting afterwards along the Ihores of Lake 
Superior, they come to the Grand Portage, on the north- 
weft fide of it; from hence, by a chain of fmall lakes anil 
rivers, they proceed on to the Rainy Lake, to the Lake 
of the Woods, and for hundreds of miles beyond it, through 
Lake Winnipeg, &c. The canoes, however, which go lb 
far up the country, never return the fame year: thole in¬ 
tended to bring back cargoes, immediately Hop at the 
Grand Portage, where the furs are collebled ready for 
them by the agents of the company. At the Grand 
Portage, and along that immenfe chain of lakes and rivers 
which extend beyond Lake Superior, the company has 
regular ports, where the agents relide; and they have 
alfo eftablifhed trading-ports within 500 miles of the 
Pacific Ocean. Weld's Travels through Lower Canada, 8,-c. 
vol. i. 
OTTAWA'S, a tribe of Indians who inhabit the eaft 
fide of Lake Michigan, twenty-one miles from Michilli- 
mackinack, in Wayne county or territory. Their liunt- 
ing-grounds lie between lakes Michigan and Huron. 
About thirty years ago they could furnilh 200 warriors. 
A tribe of them alfo lived near St. Jofeph’s, and had 150 
warriors. Another tribe lived with the Chippevvas, on 
Saguinan Bay; who, together, could raife 200 warriors. 
Two of thele tribes, pi'evioully hoftile, figned the treaty 
of peace with the United States, at Grenville, Aug. 3, 
1795. In confequence of lands ceded by them to the 
United States, that government has agreed to pay them, 
in goods, 1000 dollars a-year for ever. 
OT'TEL-AM'BEL, f. in botany. See Stratiotes. 
OTTELMENHAU'SEN, a town of the duchy of 
Wurzburg: three miles north of Koniglhofen in der 
Grabfeld. 
OT'TENDORF, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Bremen, capital of a fmall county called Hadeln, on the 
river Meden : twenty-four miles north of Stade. Lat. 53. 
50. N. Ion. 8. 53.E. 
OT'TENDORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Konigingratz : two miles fouth-eaft of Branau. 
OT'TENDORF, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg : 
eight miles eaft of Schweinfurt. 
OT'TENDORFF, a town of Auftria: four miles fouth- 
weft of Ehrnfprunn. 
Q OT'TENGRUN, 
