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on the fubjeft of the Old Teftament fcriptures; which 
was given to the public in 1787, under the title of “A 
brief Account, Hiftorical and Critical, of the Septuagint 
, Verfion of the Old Teftament ; to which is added, a Dif- 
fertation on the comparative Excellency of the Hebrew 
and Samaritan Pentateuch.” In this little work, the 
author has concentrated much valuable information con¬ 
cerning the time when, the peTons by whom, and the 
manner in which, this verfion was made; the evidence 
of its accuracy and fidelity, and of the general eftima- 
tion in which it was held during a long period of years 5 
the cattles of the alterations which at different times have 
been made in it, &c. The laft of Dr. Owen’s publica¬ 
tions, which was another ufeful and acceptable prefent 
to fcriptural Undents, made its appearance in the year 
1789, under the title of “ The Modes of Quotation ufed 
by the Evangelical Writers explained and vindicated,” 
4to. In this work, the author chiefly examines thofe quo¬ 
tations which have been introduced by the evangelifts, 
in order to point out the intimate connexion between 
the events of the life of Chrift and the prophecies re¬ 
corded in the Old Teftament ; and he concludes with 
proving, that the prophecies in queftion were juftly ap¬ 
plied to Chrift, or that they are to be confulered as re¬ 
ferring to him, rather than to fubjefts more nearly con- 
uefted with the times and the fituations of the prophets. 
The numerous and refpe&able lift of fubfcribers by which 
this work was honoured, fully Ihowed the lenfe enter¬ 
tained of Dr, Owen’s merits by fome of the molt eminent 
literary characters of the age. 
In the latter part of his life Dr. Owen was afflicted 
with a lingering illnefs, which carried him off on the 
15th of October, 1795, in the eightieth year of his age. 
The proofs which he ffas left behind him of his folid 
learning, found critical talents, and zeal for promoting 
the caufe of facred literature and maintaining the credit 
of divine revelation, as well as his piety and perfonal 
worth, entitle his name to refpeCtful notice, and will 
tranfmit it with honour to pofterity. 
Eefides the articles already mentioned, Dr. Owen was 
the author of, 12. A Collation of the Account of the 
Dedication of the Temple, in Bowyer’s and Nichols’s 
Origin of Printing. 13. Remarks on the Time employed 
in Caefar’s two Expeditions into Britain, in the fecond vo¬ 
lume of the Archaeologia. 14. He publifhed the fecond 
edition of Rowland’s Mona Antiqua, correfted in lan¬ 
guage and matter, and the addition of notes by the in¬ 
genious Mr. Lewis Morris. Molt of thefe books were 
printed by Mr. Bowyer, who, in remembrance of the 
connexion between him and our author, left the doftor 
a legacy of a hundred pounds, and fuch of his Hebrew 
books and critical books upon the New Teftament as 
he pleafed to take. 15. Dr. Owen, likewife, had no 
finall lhare in preparing for the public eye Mr. Bow¬ 
yer’s Conjectures on the New Teftament; for the 
editor affures us, “ that he fhould not have prefumed’ 
to venture on a talk of fuch importance as well as 
difficulty, if he had not been encouraged throughout 
by the unremitting labour and friend Hi ip of Dr. Owen, 
whofe regard for the memory of Mr. Bowyer, and dift’in- 
guilhed zeal for the interefts of facred literature, prompted 
him not only to enrich the volume with a confiderable 
number of new notes, but alfo kindly and attentively to 
fuperintend the correCIion off the whole.” 16. Our au¬ 
thor alfo a {lifted Mr. Nichols in editing the quarto edi¬ 
tion of Mr. Bowyer’s Greek Teftament, in 1783, as we 
learn from this expreflion in the infcription of it to Dr. 
Owen, “ Ipfius auxilio concinnatam.” Gent. Map:. 1778 
and 1795. Neil’ Annual Regifler for 1784, 1787, and 1789. 
O'WEN’s BA'Y (St.), a bay on the weft coaft of the 
iftand of Jerley, with a town or village of the fame name: 
fix miles weft-north-weft of St. Helier. 
O'WEY, a fmall iftand of the Atlantic, near the north- 
weft coaft of Ireland. Lat. 55. 3. N. Ion. 6. 21-. W. 
OWHARRE'E, a harbour on the weft boaft of Hua- 
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heine, one of the Society Wands, in the South Pacific 
Ocean. Lat. 16. 54. S. Ion. 151. 8. W. 
OWHYIIE'E, an ifland in the North Pacific Ocean, 
difcovered by Capt. Cook, Nov. 30, 1778. This is the 
eatternrnoft, and by far the largeft, of the group called 
Sandwich Wands; it is of a triangular lhape, and nearly 
equilateral. The following particulars relatihg to this 
ifland are extracted from the account of it by Capt. King, 
who vifited it again after the death of Capt. Cook, in 
March 1779. (See Cook’s Third Voyage, vol. iri.) The. 
angular points make the north-eaft and foutb extremities,, 
of which the northern is in lat. 20.17. N. Ion. 204. 2. E. 
the eaftern in lat. 19.34.N. Ion. 205. 6. E. and the fouth- 
ern extremity in lat. 18. 54. N. Ion. 204. 15. E. and its 
greateft length, which lies in a direction nearly north and 
foutb, is 85 miles, its breadth is 72 miles; and it is about 
25s geographical, or 293 Englilh, miles in circumference. 
The whole ifland is divided into fix large diftriCts: 
Amakooa and Aheedoo, which lie on the north-eaft fide; 
Apoonaand Kaoo, on the fouth-eaft ; Akona and Koaarra 
on the weft. The diftriCts of Amakooa and Aheedoo are 
feparated by a mountain called Mouna Katth , or the 
Mountain Kaah, which rifes in three peaks, perpetually 
covered with fnow, and may be clearly feen at forty 
leagues diftance; its height is eftimated at no lefs than 
18,400 feet. To the north of this mountain the coaft 
confilts of high and abrupt cliffs, down which fall many 
beautiful cafcades of water. The country rifes inland 
with a gentle afeent, is interfered by deep narrow glens, 
or rather chafms, and appeared to be well cultivated, and 
fprinkled over with a number of villages. The Snowy 
Mountain is very fteep, and the lower part of it covered 
with wood. The coaft of Aheedoo, which lies to the 
foutb of Mouna Kaah, is of a moderate height, and the 
interior parts appear more even than the country to the 
north-weft, and lefs broken by ravines. The coaft to the 
north-eaft of Apoona, which forms the eaftern extremity 
of the ifland, is low and flat; the acclivity of the inland 
parts is very gradual, and the whole country covered with 
cocoa-nut and bread-fruit trees. At the fouth-weft ex¬ 
tremity the hills rife abruptly from the fea-fide, leaving, 
but a narrow border of low ground towards the beach. 
We were pretty near the fit ore at this part of the ifland, 
and found the fules of the hills covered with a fine ver¬ 
dure; but the country feemed to be very thinly inhabited. 
On doubling the eaft point of the ifland, we came in 
fight of another fnowy mountain, called Mouna Roa, or 
the Extenfive Mountain, which continued to be a very 
confpicuous objeft all the while we were failing along the 
fouth-eaft fide. It is flat at the top, making what is called, 
by mariners table-land : the fummit was conftantly bu¬ 
ried in fnow ; and we once faw its Tides alfo flightly co¬ 
vered for a. confiderable way down, but the greateft part 
of this difappeared again in a few days. According to 
the tropical line of fnow, as determined by Mr. Conda- 
mine, from obfervations taken on the Cordilleras, this 
mountain mu ft be at leaft 16,020 feet high, which exceeds 
the height of the Pico de Teyde, or Peak of Teneriffe, by 
724 feet, according to Dr. Heberden’s computation ; or ■ 
3680, according to that of .the chevalier de Borda. The 
peaks of Mouna Kaah appeared to be about half a mile 
high; and, as they are entirely covered with fnow, the alti¬ 
tude of their fummits cannot be lefs than 18,400 feet. But 
it is probable that both thefe mountains may be confider- 
ably higher y for, in infular fituations, the effedls of the 
warm fea-air muff neceflarily remove the line of fnow, in 
equal latitudes, to a greater height than where the atino- 
fphere is chilled on all fides by an immenfe traft of perpe¬ 
tual fnow. 
The coaft of Kaoo prefents a profpeft of the mod hor¬ 
rid and dreary kind ; the whole country appearing to have ■ 
undergone a total change from the effects of fome.dread- 
ful convulfion. The ground is every-whe.re covered with , 
cinders, and interfered in many places with black ftreakpj, 
which Teem to mark the courfe or a lava that has. flowed*. 
