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France, &c. 1668. 4. The Reafdns which produced the 
Converfion of the Count de Lorges Montgommery, 1670. 
5. A Defence of the ancient Tradition in the French 
Churches relative to the Million of the firft Preachers 
of the Gofpel among the Gauls, in the Time of the 
Apoftles and their immediate Difciples, with Confide- 
rations on the life and the Abufe of the Writings of 
Sulpicius Severus and St. Gregory of Tours, on this and 
iimilar Topics, 1678. 6. The Art and Science of Num¬ 
bers, in French and Latin, with a Preface on the Excel¬ 
lence of Arithmetic, 1677.. 7. Harmonic Archite&ure ; 
or, the Application of the Doftrine of Proportions in 
Mufic to Architefture, 1679,4to. 8. Calendarium novum, 
perpetuum, et irrevocabile, 1682; which M. Arnauld, 
who entertained a great regard for the author, and proved 
that many of the notions in.it were untenable, prevailed 
upon M. Ouvrard to fupprefs. 9. Ereviarium Turonenfe, 
renovatum, et in melius reft i tut urn anno 1685. And he 
left behind him manuferipts on fcientific, controverfial, 
and other fubjefts. Moreri. 
OVUT'SI, or Ouvustx, a town of Japan, in the ifland 
of Xicoco. Lat. 34. 8. N. Ion. 135. 20. E. 
OU'Y, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe-tche- 
li: thirty-eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chun-te. 
OU'Y, a town of China, of the third rank, in Pe-tche- 
li: eighteen miles fouth of Citing. 
OU'Y, a tow'n of China, of the third rank, in Tche- 
kiang: twenty-eight miles fouth of Tchu-tcheou. 
OUZOU'ER sur CRES'CE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Loiret: twenty-one miles fouth of 
Montargis, and fix fouth-eaft of Gien. 
OUZOU'ER le DOYEN', a town of France, in the 
department of the Loire and Cher: fifteen miles north of 
Mer. 
OUZOU'ER sur LOI'RE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Loiret, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Gien : fix miles fouth-eaft of Gien. The 
place contains 686 inhabitants. 
OUZOU'ER le MAR'CHE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Loire and Cher: twelve miles north of 
Mer, and twenty-one north of Blois. 
QUZOU'M CU'PRI. See Trajanopoli. 
OW, or Awe (Loch), a lake in Argylefhire, Scotland, 
flightly mentioned in vol.xii. It extends almolt thirty 
miles in length ; and is in fome places two miles broad, 
but its ufual width does not exceed one mile. It is an 
uncommonly-fine expanfe of water, and little inferior to 
Loch Lomond in the beauty of its feenery. A great part 
of its banks exhibits lofty mountains covered with wood ; 
and within its bofom are many little iflands ornamented 
with trees and pi< 5 turefque ruins. On Inifh-Chonnel are 
the remains of an ancient caftle belonging to the Argyle 
family; and on Troach-Elan are veftiges of another for- 
trefs, which was granted, with fome contiguous lands, to 
the chief of the clan of Mac-Naughton, by king Alexan¬ 
der III. on condition that he fltould entertain the Scottifli 
monarch whenever he palled that way. At a more re¬ 
mote period this latter ifland was the Hefperides of Scot¬ 
land ; and the fatal attempt of Troach, to gather its deli¬ 
cious fruit for his beloved Mego, is handed down from 
age to age in a beautiful Celtic tale, after the manner of 
Oifian. “ The fair Mego longed for the delicious fruit of 
the ifle guarded by a dreadful ferpent. Troach, who had 
long loved the maid, goes to gather the fruit. By the 
ruftling of the leaves the ferpent was awaked from his 
fleep. It attacked the hero, who periflied in the conflift. 
The monfter was alfo deftroyed. Mego did not long fur- 
vive the death of her lover.” 
The furface of Loch-Awe is 108 feet above the level of 
the ocean. Numerous rivulets difeharge themlelves into 
it on both fides ; and, what is unufual, it receives a large 
itream at each extremity, emptying itfelf laterally by the 
river Awe into Loch Etive, an arm of the fea to the north, 
at a place called Bunaw. This lake abounds with falmon, 
trout, char, and eels. On a rocky point, projedting into 
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the lake, near its eaftern end, are feated the venerable 
ruins of Caftle-Kilchurn, which was built in 1440 by the 
lady of fir Colin Campbell, knight of Rhodes, and an- 
ceftor of the Breadalbane family, while her hufband was 
engaged in the holy wars. Since that period, however, 
many additions have been made to its original extent, by 
fuccefiive pofteftbrs. In 1745 it was fitted-up for the 
reception of a royal garrifon to fecure the peace and tran¬ 
quillity of the country ; but its maflive walls are now ra¬ 
pidly falling to ruin, and offer to the contemplative mind 
a melancholy monument of the mutability of earthly 
grandeur, and of the unavoidable decay of the moll du¬ 
rable works of human art. Beauties of Scotland, vob v. 
OWA'RI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon, 
fituated in a bay to which it gives name. Lat. 35. 30. N. 
Ion. 137. 50. E. 
OWAN'TY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna; iixteen miles eait of Wilkomierz. 
OWAS'CO, a lake of United America: twenty-five 
miles fouth of Lake Ontario, 
OWCH, a town of Turkeftan, on a river which runs 
into the Sihon : thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Andagan. 
OWCEE. See Ouche. 
OW'CZE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Po- 
dolia : forty miles weft of Kaminiec. 
'To OWE, v. a. [eg- aa, I owe, or I ought, Icel.] To be 
obliged to pay; to be indebted.—A fon owes help and ho¬ 
nour to his father; and is a lubjedt lefs indebted to the 
king? Holy day. —If, upon the general balance of trade,, 
Engliflr merchants owe to foreigners one hundred thou- 
fand pounds, if commodities do not, our money mull, go 
out to pay it. Locke. 
I owe you much, and, like a witlefs youth, 
That which I owe is loft. Shakejjpeare's Merck, of Ven. 
Thou haft deferv’d more love than I can fliow. 
But ’tis thy fate to give, and mine to owe. Dryden, 
To be obliged to aferibe; to be obliged for: 
By me upheld, that he may know how frail 
His fall’ll condition is, and to me owe 
All his deliverance, and to none but me. Milton. 
To have from any thing as the confequence of a caufe : 
O deem thy fall not ow'd to man’s decree, 
Jove hated Greece, and punifli’d Greece in thee. Pope. 
To poflefs ; to be the right owner of. For owe, which is 
in this fenfe obfolete, we now ufe own .— Thou doft here 
ufurp the name thou ow'Jl not. Shakefpeare. 
Nor poppy nor mandragora, 
Not all the drowfy fyrups of the world, 
Shall ever mea’cine thee to that fw.eet fleep 
Which thou ow'djl yefterday. Shakefpeare's Othello. 
If any happy eye 
This roving wanton fhall defery, 
Let the finder furely know 
Mine is the wag; ’tis I that owe 
The winged wand’rer. . Crajhaw. 
To OWE, v. n. To be bound or obliged.—The ryche 
man oweth of dutye to doo liis mercy upon the poore crea¬ 
ture. Bp. Fijher. 
OWE'GO, a town of the ftate of New-York, on the 
eaft branch of the Sufquehanna; 150 miles north-weft of 
New-York: inhabitants, 1284. 
O'WEN, a town of Wurtemberg: eighteen miles 
fouth-eaft of Stutgard, and twenty-eight eaft of Nagold. 
O'WEN (Thomas), a judge of the Common Pleas, lbn 
of Richard Owen, efq. of Condover in Shropfliire, was 
educated at Oxford. Having taken a degree in arts, he 
left the univerfity, and entered himfelf of Lincoln’s Inn, 
London, where, in procefs of time, he became an eminent 
counfellor. In 1583 he was eledted Lent-reader to that 
fociety. In 1590 he was made fergeant-at-law, and 
queen’s fergeant loon after. He arrived at length at the 
dignity 
