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NADAR'ZYN, a town of the ducliy of Warfaw ; ten 
miles (buth of Warfaw. 
NADAST', a town of Hungary: eighteen miles eaft 
of Ziget. 
NAD'DER, a river of England, which rifes in Dor- 
fetlhire, and joins the Willy at Wilton. 
NA'DEC, a town of the kingdom of Burmah, on the 
Ava : thirty-five miles weft of Ava. 
NADEEG'SDA, the moft foutherly of the Kurile- 
iflands, in the Ruffian charts. 
NA'DEN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : fifty-three miles eaft of Kabis. 
NA'DENTAL, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Abo : feven miles weft of Abo. 
NA'DER. See Narwa. 
NADER BAR', a circar of Hindooftan, in Candeifh, 
lying on each fide of the Taptee ; north of Baglana, and 
eaft of Guzerat.—Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, which 
gives name to the circar: 152 miles north-weft of Au- 
rungabnd, and fifty-five eaft of Surat. 
NA'DERSPACH, a river of Auftria, which runs into 
the Bielach about three miles north-eaft of Frankenfels. 
NADGONG', a town of Hindooftan, in Goondwanah : 
ten miles north of Nagpour. 
NADHE'A, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : eighty miles north-north-eaft of Sirgian. 
NA'DIM, a river of Ruffia, which rifes in Lake To- 
romlar, and runs into the gulf of Obfkaiain lat. 66. 25. N. 
Ion. 73. 4.4.. E. 
NADIM'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the gulf of Ob- 
fkaia, and government of Tobolfk: 14.8 miles eaft of 
Obdorfkoi, 524 north-north-eaft of Tobolfk. Lat 66. N. 
Ion. 68. 26. E. 
NA'DIN, a fortrefs of Dalmatia, fituated on a moun¬ 
tain. It now belongs to Italy. 
NA'DIR, a town of Egypt, fituated on the weft branch 
of the Nile: twenty-eight miles north-north-weftof Cairo. 
NA'DIR, f. [Arabic.] The point under foot, dire&ly 
eppofite to the zenith : 
As far as four bright figns comprize, 
The diftant zenith from the nadir lies. Creech. 
NA'DIR SHA'H, i. e. the Wonderful King, otherwife 
called Kouli-Khan, King of Persia. See that article 5 
alfo Hindoostan, vol. x. p. 65-7. 
NADO'NE, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Lahore, on the Beya : thirty miles fouth-eaft of Nagor- 
kote. 
NA'DOR, a town of Africa, fituated in the fouth-weft 
part of Algiers, inhabited by Arabians : eighty miles 
fouth-eaft of Oran. 
NADOU'T, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: fix- 
teen miles fouth of Champaneer. 
NADRA'MA, a town of Africa, in the country of 
Biledulgerid : forty-five miles fouth of Beni Mezzab. 
NAD'SAR, a mountain of Thibet. Lat. 27. 26. N. 
Ion. 87. 29. E. 
NA'DUM, a town of Hindooftan, in Cochin: thirty 
miles eaft of Cranganore. 
NAE'DT, a river of France, which runs into the Mo- 
felle two miles below Alcken. 
NAE'FELS, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of 
Glaris. In the year 1388, a celebrated victory was gained 
near this place by the inhabitants of this canton, over the 
Auftrians. Only about 350 troops of Glaris, aflifted by 
fewer than 50 Switzers, withftood 15,000 Auftrians; and, 
after a terrible flaughter, compelled them to retire. In 
memory of which glorious tranfaftion, a chapel was 
built on the fpot, which was rebuilt in the year 1779. 
The inhabitants are Roman Catholics. It is four miles 
north of Glaris. 
NiEMAS'PORA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
cryptogamia, order fungi. In Albertini’s Confpedtus 
Fungorum, it is called a genus of the firft clafs, angio- 
#arpi (with vafcular fruit), and in the firft order, fclero- 
N M V 
carpi (or hard fruit). There are four fpecies, in two dl- 
vifions. 
1. Spheroidal. 1. Nsemafporachryfofperma; with gold- 
coloured feed. It generally vifits the bark of poplar and 
alder trees ; and often haunts the putrid relics of the vine’s 
knotty branches, when they lie fcattered and fevered from 
the main Item of the plant. Like the reft of the genus to 
which it belongs, it proves perennial; and, fond of damp 
and rainy weather, puts out its luxuriant curls in all di¬ 
rections and fliapes. 
2. Nsemalpora leucofperma; with white feed. Difdain- 
ing to feek for fofter beds, this hardy tribe feems to de¬ 
light on the furface of the clofeft-grained timber-wood; 
and is often met with on the elm, maple, &c. in the 
country (Upper Lufatia) where Albertini made his obfer- 
vations. 
II. Amorphous; of no determined fliape. 3. Nsemaf- 
pora crocea ; yellow. This fpecies is efpecially fond of 
the birch ; the branches of which arelaviflily loaded with 
the individuals of this yellow family. This fungus ap¬ 
pears late in autumn. 
4. Nsemalpora populina. This is a fort of tuberous 
fungus, or puff; large, thick, wrought in ligneous fibres ; 
foftilh, and of a dark-green complexion. Its curling fila¬ 
ments are numerous and long; and its choiceft abode the 
fallen limbs of decayed poplars. April gives it birth. 
NZE'NIA, the goddefs of funerals at ancient Rome, 
whofe temple was without the gates of the city. The 
fongs which were fung at funerals were alfo called ncenia. 
They were generally filled with the praifes of the de- 
ceafed ; but fometimes they were fo unmeaning and im¬ 
proper, that the word became proverbial to fignify non¬ 
fen fe. 
NAIVE, f. [navus, Lat.] A fpot. This is one of the 
words which Dryden has been blamed for ufing, and is 
fuppofed to have introduced into our language. It is 
certainly a bad word ; yet probably was in ule before his 
employment of it; at leaft it was a favourite exprelfion of 
his contemporary Aubrey. Todd's Johnfon. —So many 
fpots, like naves on Venus’ foil. Dryden on the Death of 
Lord Hnjlings. —I am forry fo great a wit ftiould have fuch 
a nave. Aubrey of Ckillingworth. —He was a tall, hand- 
fome, and bold, man ; but his nave was, that he was 
damnably proud- Id. of Sir W. Raleigh. 
NAE'VIUS (Cneius), an ancient Roman poet and hif- 
torian, was a native of Campania, andferved in the army 
in the firft Punic war. Of this war he wrote a hiftory in 
Saturnian verfe, with all the rudenefs of thofe illiterate 
times, but yet, according to Cicero, perfpicuoufty 5 and 
he adds that Ennius, who alludes to the work contemp- 
tuoufly, borrowed much from it. Naevius was likewife 
the fecond Roman who brought dramatic compofitions on 
the ftage. His firft comedy was afted B. C. 235, or, ac¬ 
cording to another authority, in 228. It appears to have 
given offence to fome of the leading men at Rome; for 
Plautus, in his Miles Gloriofus, hints at his being con¬ 
fined in prifon. He was finally obliged to quit Rome 
through the enmity of the patrician family of Metelli; 
and died at Utica, B. C. 203. . A highly laudatory epi¬ 
taph on him is extant, faid to have been written by him r 
felf. Of the works of this poet only fome inconfiderabie 
fragments, preferved by grammarians, have reached mo¬ 
dern times. Gen. Diog. 
There was another Ntevius, a famous augur in the 
reign of Tarquin, who, to convince the king and the 
Romans of his preternatural power, cut a flint with a 
razor, and turned the ridicule of the populace to admi¬ 
ration. Tarquin rewarded his merit by erecting him a 
ftatueinthe comitium, which wasftill in being in the age 
of Auguftus. The razor and flint were buried near it 
under an altar, and it was ufual among the Romans to 
make witnefles in civil caufes fwear near it. This mira¬ 
culous event of cutting a flint with a razor, though be¬ 
lieved by fome writers, is treated as fabulous and impro¬ 
bable by Cicero, who himlelf had been augur. 
NZE'VUS, 
