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an account, that ££ There was lately difcovered on Mr. 
Campion’s eftate, at Coddleftock, near Oundle in North- 
amptonfeire, a beautiful Roman pavement twenty foot 
fquare, and very little defaced by time; near it were 
found bones, afees, and pieces of urns; an indication 
that the body of fome noted heathen had been buried 
there. Among the rubbilh thrown off the pavement five 
or fix Roman medals of brafs were difcovered, two of 
which were fair, and feemed to bear the fame image on 
one fide, with this infcription; D. N. Valentinianus 
p. F. Aug. i. e. Dominus nojler Valentinianus Pius Falix 
Anguftus. On the other fides were different images and 
mottos. One had the image of Vittory, ftepping from 
the right to the left; a coronet of laurel in her right hand, 
and a palm-branch in her left. On the reverie of another 
was the figure of an emperor in an eredt pofture, leaning 
with his right hand on the head of a captive, kneeling on 
one knee, with his hands tied behind him. His left hand 
was fupported by a Haft' with a crucifix on the top of it, 
denoting him to be a C/iriJHan , as Valentmian was ; one 
of the medals was ftruck at Conllantinople, and the other 
at Sifcia, as appeared by the letters at the bottom of them.” 
Gent. Mag. vii. 254. Beauties of England and Wales. 
Wilkes's Britijk Director]]. 
OUNIEH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern¬ 
ment of Sivas, on the Black Sea: eighty miles north of 
Sivas. 
OU'NSBERRY-TOP'PING, a fteep, high, verdant, 
mountain, in Yorkfhire, not far from Gilborough, which 
has a molt delightful profpeft, and is regarded by the 
failors as a fea-mark. From a rock near the top of it 
there iffues a fpring, recommended for fore eyes. 
O'VO, a fmall illand in the Mediterranean. Lat. 35. 
39. N. Ion. 25. 27. E. 
OVO'CA, a river of Ireland, in the county of Wick¬ 
low, which runs into the fea a little below Arklow. 
OV'OLO, f. in architedfure, a kind of moulding fo 
called, becaufe, when carved, it refembles a firing of eggs. 
OUPHE, f. [atf, Teut.] A fairy ; a goblin: 
Nan Page and my little fon we’ll drefs 
Like urchins, oupkes, and fairies, green and white. Shakefp. 
OU'PHEN, adj. [from oupli.l Elfilh : 
Fairies, black, gray, green, and white, 
Ye moonlhine revellers, and lhades of night, 
You ouphen heirs of fixed deftiny, 
Attend your office. Skakefpeare. 
OU'PLE, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : ten 
miles eaft of Perinda. 
OU'QUES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Loire and Cher: twelve miles north-weft of Mer, and fif¬ 
teen north of Blois. 
OUR, pron.pnj]'. [Sax. pe, us ; quafi weer, ure, vor, oppe, 
our. Lye.'] Pertaining to us ; belonging to us.— Our foul 
is the very feme being it was yefterday, laft year, twenty 
years ago. Beattie. 
Our wit is given Almighty God to know; 
Our will is given to love him, being known. Davies _ 
When the fubftantive goes before, it is written ours .— 
Reading furnifhes the mind only with materials of know¬ 
ledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours: it is not 
enough to cram ourlelves with a great load of colledtions ; 
unlefs we chew them over again, they will not give us 
ftrength. Locke. 
Edmund, whofe virtue in this inftance 
So much commands itfelf, you /hall be ours. Skahefpeare. 
Thou haft fafeion’d twice this foul-of ours, 
So that fee is by double title thine. Davies. 
OU'RA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Tras 
os Montes : nine miles fouth of Chaves, 
OU'RAN, or U'ran Soan'gus, the name of an ima¬ 
ginary feet of magicians in the ifland of Gromboccanore, 
in the Eaft Indies. The word implies men-devils: thefe 
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people were ridiculoufly fuppofed to have the art of ren¬ 
dering themfelves invifible,and puffing where they pleafed ; 
and, by thefe means, doing infinite mifehief; for which, 
reafon the people hate and fear them exceedingly. 
OUR ANOG'RAPHIST, /.' [from oiiranography.] An 
aftronomer; one.who deferibes the heavens. 
OURANOG'RAPHY, ft [from the Gr. apauo?, heaven, 
and yputpu, to deferibe.] A defeription of the heavens.— 
The ingenious Mr. Hooke, in his animadverfions on He- 
velius’s ouranograpliy, had omitted the chief object ion 
Hevelius makes againft thefe kind of fights. Ilijl. II. Soc. 
OU'RDA, a town of Bengal: feventy-two miles north 
of Dacca. 
OURCIE'RES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Higher Alps: ten miles north of Gap. 
OU'REM, a town of Portugal, in Eftremadura, fituated 
on a mountain, containing 1800 inhabitants: twelve miles 
fouth-eaft of Leyria, and twelve weft of Thomar. 
OU'REOS, a fmall ifland in the Gulf of Engia: four¬ 
teen miles north-weft of Engia. 
OUR'FA, Roiha, or Rouah, a town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, in the province of Diarbekir, anciently called Edcjjd. 
It is watered by a canal from the Euphrates. Many 
learned men, and the Jews univerfally, are of opinion, 
that it is the Urof the Chaldees. The latter fay that this 
place is called in feripture Ourcafdin, that is, the Fire of 
Chaldasa, out of whiclr, they fay, God brought Abraham ; 
and, on this account, the Talmudifts affirm that Abraham 
was here call into the fire, and was miraculoufly delivered. 
This place feems to have retained its ancient name, as 
others have done ; Edeffa being the name given it by the 
Greeks. However, the name feems to have been changed 
in honour of one of the kings of Syria of the name of A11- 
tiochus, and to have been called Antiochia. The famous 
fountain Callirrhoe being here, diftinguiflied this city 
from others by the name of Antiochia ad CaUirrkocn. 
Ourfa is built on part of two hills, and. in the valley be¬ 
tween them, at the fouth-weft corner of a fine plain, 
which appears more beautiful, becaufe all the other parts 
about it are rocky, or mountainous. The town is about 
three miles in circumference, encompaffed with ancient 
walls, defended by fquare towers. On the north fide 
there is a very deep fofs, which feems to be the bed of a 
winter-torrent coming from the weft; on the eaft this 
fofs is not fo deep, there being much moraffy ground on 
that fide. The hill on which the caftle ftands is to the 
fouth. Some parts of the town are tolerably well built, 
though it is not well laid out. The great beauty of it con- 
fifts in fome fine fprings that rife very plentifully be¬ 
tween two hills, and at the very walls of the city. The 
caftle is fituated on the fouth fide of the city, at the be¬ 
ginning of a chain of hills which run fouthward. The 
afeent is very fteep, and there is a deep fofs cut into the 
rock on three fides of it. The caftle is about half a mile in 
circumference ; but there is nothing remarkable in it, ex¬ 
cept two very lofty Corinthian pillars with their bafes, 
the capitals of which are fine ; the columns coniift of 
twenty-fix ltones, each about one foot fix inches thick: 
they are probably the remains of a portico belonging to 
fome large temple. There is a traditjon, that the throne 
of Nimrod flood on thefe pillars; it is certain, however, 
that Timur Beceredted fome trophies on them. Some ec- 
clefiaftical hiftorians mention, that Abgarus king of Edeffa 
fent a letter to Our Saviour; but the truth of this has 
been much queftioned. Ourfa is the refidenceof a pacha 
of two tails, who not only commands the greateft part if 
not all Mefopotamia, but alfo a confiderable tradl of coun¬ 
try to the weft of it, as far as Antab. There is a great 
trade in this place, as it is the only town in all thefe parts 
for a confiderable diftance, and as it is the great thorough¬ 
fare into Perfia. They prepare Turkey leather here, ef- 
pecially the yellow fort, for which they were formerly 
famous. There is a confiderable number of Armenian 
Chriltians in the city, who have two churches ; one large 
one in the city, the other at fome diftance from it: in the 
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