N A C 
'NA'CA, a town of Japan, on the eaft coaft of the ifland 
of Ximo. Lat. 32. 12. N. Ion. 133. 6. E. 
NACABA', a town of Japan, on the fouth-eaft coaft of 
the ifland of Niphon : forty miles eaft of Awa. 
N ACACHEZ', a town of Louiiiana, on the Red River. 
Lat. 32. 29. N. Ion. 93. 26. W. 
NACA'IREjJl An inftrument of raulic, which, though 
often mentioned by the old poets both of France and 
England, it is not certain whether it was an inftrument 
of percufflon, or a wind-inftrument. In the Roman 
d’Alexandre, it is faid, 
Chafcun a porte trompe ou vielle atempree, 
Nacaires et tabors de grande renomee. 
Du Cange defcribes nacara to be a kind of brazen drum 
ufed in cavalry, yet Chaucer names it in the company of 
military wind-inftruments: 
Pipes, tromps, nakeres, and clariounes. 
That in the bataille blowen blody founes. 
NACAME'RI, a town of New Navarre: 190 miles 
fouth of Cafa Grande. 
NAC AN'TA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
twenty miles north of Mogani. 
NA'^AS, a river of Mexico, which erodes New Bil'cay, 
and joins the Saucedo to form the Palmas. 
NA'CATS, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo: 
forty miles fouth-eaft of Kokura. 
NACHE, / See Natch. 
NACHE'GO, a lake of South-America, in the province 
of Quito: fixty miles fouth of Francifco de Borja. 
NACH'ELO, or Nak'elo, a feaport town of Perfia, in 
the province of Farfiftan, on the north coaft of the Perlian 
Gulf, inhabited by Arabs who arc independent of the 
crown of Perlia. Their chief employment is filhing for 
pearls. It is 170 miles fouth of Schiras. Lat. 27. N. 
Ion. 53. 20. E. 
NACHITOCH'ES, a French fettlement of Louifiana, 
on the Red River, about 140 leagues north-weft of New 
Orleans; of fmall extent, but tolerably populous. Its 
inhabitants, like thofe of Louifiana, are lively, well- 
formed in their perfons, and inured to fatigue. They 
often afeend their rivers with their families to the dis¬ 
tance of four or five hundred leagues, and fpend on thefe 
painful expeditions eighteen or twenty months. Hunt¬ 
ing the bear is one of their favourite purfuits, which is 
chiefly praftifed in the winter-feafon, when this animal is 
particularly fat, and in condition to furnilh a large quan¬ 
tity of oil. Lat. 32. 11. N. Ion. 93. 46. W. 
NA'CHO, a river of Mexico, which runs into the bay 
©f Honduras in lat. 15. 38. N. Ion. 89. 20. W. 
NA'CHO, Na'co, or Puer'to de Caval'los, a town 
of Mexico, in the province of Honduras: one hundred 
miles weft-north-weft of Comayagua, and thirty north 
of Gracias a Dios. Lat. 35. N. Ion. 89. 36. W. 
NA'CHOD, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz: fifteen miles north-eaft of Konigingratz. 
Lat. 53. 18. N. Ion. 15. 57. E. 
NACH'SHAB, or Na'saph, a town of Bukharia: 
twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Samarcand. 
MACIBE'A, f. in botany. See Manettia. 
NACK'ELO, or Nak'lo, a town of Sileiia, in the 
principality of Oppeln: ten miles fouth-eaft of Oppeln. 
NACKTIGA'EL, an ifland in the gulf of Tonquin, 
about fixteen miles in circumference. Lat. 20. N. Ion. 
107. 42. E. 
NACLAN'THUS, 01 Nacchian'te (James), a learned 
Italian prelate in the fixteenth century, was a native of 
Florence, who took the ecclefiaftical habit among the 
Dominican monks. He filled the theological chair in a 
houfe belonging to his order at Rome, with fuch repu¬ 
tation, that pope Paul III. thought proper to raife him 
to the epilcopal rank. He was one of the prelates who 
took part in the deliberations of the Council of Trent; 
and died in the year 1569. His works were held in efteem 
Vol. XVI. No. 1130. 
NAD 501. 
by the Catholics, and l’ome of them were particularly- 
valued by the advocates for the high claims of the papal 
power. They confift of, 1. Enarratio in Epiftolam ad 
Ephefios. 2. Interpretatio Epiftola; ad Romanos. 3. 
Medulla facrae Scripturas. 4. De Papas et Concijii Potef- 
ftate. 5. De Maximo Pontificatu, Maximoque Sacerdotio 
Chrifti; and other theological treatifes ; which were col¬ 
lected-together, and publiflied at Venice in 1557, in tw@ 
volumes, folio. Gen. Jiiog. 
NACON'GO, a river of Africa, which runs into the 
Atlantic in lat. 5. 15. S. 
NACO'RI, a town of New Mexico, in the province of 
Sonora s fifty miles fouth-eaft of Pitquin. 
NACO'RI, a town of New Navarre : 250 miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Cala Grande. 
NACOSA'RI, a town of New Navarre 180 miles fouth- 
fouth-eall of Cafa Grande. 
NACOU', a town of China, of the third rank, in Se- 
tchuen : thirteen miles fouth-weft of Tche-li-leou. 
NA'CRE, j. in conchology and helminthology. See 
Pinna. 
NA'CRI, an ifland in the Grecian Archipelago, about 
fix miles in circumference : five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Patino. 
NACSIVAN', Naxivan, or Nacshivan, a town of 
Alia, in Perlian Armenia, fuppofed to have been the an¬ 
cient Artaxata, and one of the largeft cities of the Eaft. 
It was ruined by Abbas I. who removed the inhabitants 
into the interior parts of Perfia : it began infenlibly to re¬ 
cover, and, in the laft century, contained 2000 houfes; 
but it once contained 40,000. In it are fome conliderable 
bazars, caravanferas, public baths, and other buildings, 
more ufeful than magnificent. It is eighty-five miles 
fouth-eaft of Erivan, and 230 eaft of Erzerum. Lat. 39. 
20. N. Ion. 45. 25. E. 
NACZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna: twenty miles north-weft of Lida. 
NACZCHRADETZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of Kaurzim s ten miles fouth of Benefchow. 
NACZIKOW'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Braclaw : thirty-fix miles weft of Braclaw. 
NA'DAB, [Heb. a prince.] Sort of Aaron and brother 
of Abihu. Offering incenfe with ftrange or common fire, 
and not with that which had been miraculoufly lighted 
up upon the altar of burnt oft’erings, he was flain by the 
Lord, together with his brother. Lev. x. 12. 
NA'DAB, king of Ifrael, fucceeded his father Jero¬ 
boam on the throne, in the year of the world 3051, 954 
B. C. During his fliort reign of lefs than two years, he 
imitated his father’s vices and idolatry, and fpeedily re¬ 
ceived the punilhment which his crimes deferved; for, 
having advanced with an army to befiege Gibbethon, a 
fortrefs belonging to the Philiftines, Baaiha, one of his 
generals, a perfon of the tribe of Iflachar, formed a con- 
fpiracy againft him, and put him to death ; after which, 
Baaiha feized upon the kingdom, and deftroyed the whole 
race of Jeroboam, according to the prediction of the pro¬ 
phet Ahijah. 1 Kings xiv. xv. 
NA'DAB, f. The fovereign pontiff, or high prieft, of 
the Perfians, whole dignity is the lame as that of the mufti 
among the Turks; with this difference only, that the 
nadab may diveft himlelf of his ecclefiaftical office, and 
pals to a civil employment, which the mufti is not allowed 
to do. 
ThC nadab takes place next after the atmath clulet, or 
prime minifter; he has two judges under him, called the 
Jcheik and the caji, who decide all religious matters, grant 
divorces, and are prelent at contracts and public adls; and 
thefe have deputies in all the cities of the kingdom. 
NADAGONG', a town of Hindooftan, an the circar of 
Ellichpour: nine miles eaft of Omrautty. 
NADAMU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Cochin : 
thirty-fix miles eaft of Cochin. 
NADAN-FOE'RE HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tar¬ 
tary. Lat. 42. 50. N. Ion. 126. z 6 . E. 
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