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which the Hindooftanee was written before the Mahome¬ 
tans introduced the Perfian character. 
NAGURKE'ARY, a town of Bengal : thirty-eight 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Curruckdeah. Lat. 23. 53. N. 
Ion. 86. 36. E. 
NA'GY BAN'JA, a town of Hungary. This is a me¬ 
tal-town, and one of the royal free towns. Their gold 
and filver mine-works are of great produce, and the mo¬ 
ney coined here is diftinguiihed by the mark N. B. It is 
thirty miles north of Zatmar. 
NA'GY CAR'OLY, a town of Hungary, with a caf- 
tle : twelve miles fouth-weft of Zatmar. 
NA'GY FA'LU, a town of Hungary, near theTheyfs: 
three miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Tokay.—A town of Hun¬ 
gary : fixteen miles eaft-north-eaft of St. Job. 
NA'GY KET'SKY, a town of Hungary : eight miles 
north-eaft of Gros Wardein. 
NA'GY MYHA'LA, a town of Hungary: eighteen 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Ungvar. 
NA'GY SKO'LOS, a town of Hungary : twelve miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Munkacz. 
NA'HANT, a bay of the ftate of Maftachufetts : three 
miles north of Bofton. 
NA'HANT PO'INT, a cape on the north-eaft fide of 
Bofton Harbour : nine miles north-eaft of Bofton. 
NAHANTIK', a bay of the ftate of Connecticut: 
three miles weft of the mouth of the Thames. 
NAHAR' el BER'D, a river of Syria, anciently- Eleu- 
therus, which runs into the Mediterranean ninemiles north 
of Tripoli. 
NA'HAR LYK', a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kiev : twenty-four miles eaft of Bialacerkiew. 
NA'HAR MA'LEK, a town of the Arabian Irak, near 
the Euphrates. Lat. 31. 20. N. Ion. 4.5. 30. E. 
NAI-IARVA'LI, or Naharva'les, a people of Ger¬ 
many, who had a confecrated grove, whofe prieft was 
drefled like a woman. The Romans believed that the 
gods worthipped in this grove were Caftor and Pollux, as 
they were both brothers, and both young. Tacit, de Mor. 
Germ. 4. 5. * 
NA'HE, a river of France, which rifes near Baldenau, 
in the department of the Sarte, pafles by Kirn, Sobern- 
heim, Creutznach, See. and runs into the Rhine at Bingen. 
NA'HEL, or Ma'ham, a town of Arabia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Oman: fifty miles north-north-weft of Oman. 
Lat. 24. 20. N. 
MA'HEL, a town of Egypt: fixteen miles fouth-eaft 
of Cairo. 
NAIII'A, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man 5 faid to be of great antiquity : feventy miles fouth 
of Sirgian, and one hundred north-north-eaft of Gamron. 
NA'HIL, a river of Africa, which riles in the defert 
of Barca, and runs into the Mediterranean in lat. 32.10. N. 
Ion. 40. 10. E. 
NAHR AA'SL See Orontes. 
NAHR el AN'TAR, a town of the Arabian Irak, on 
the Euphrates, the refidence of an Arabian llieik -. five 
miles north of Corna. 
.NAHR ELTEMASIE'H, or River of Crocodiles, 
a-river of Syria, in which fome crocodiles of the fmaller 
kind are found; it runs into the Mediterranean fix miles 
fouth of Tortola. 
NAHR GIBE'RE, a river of Syria, which runs into 
the Mediterranean four miles fouth of Latakia. 
NAHR I'BRAHIM, a river of Paleftine, which runs 
into the Mediterranean about fix miles from Gibelcl. 
This is the ancient Adonis. 
NAHR el KEL'B, a river of Syria, which divides the 
pachalic of Tripoli from that of Acre, and runs into the 
Mediterranean thirty-fix miles fouth of Tripoli. 
NAHR MAL'KA, a canal between the Tigris at A 1 
Modain and the Euphrates at Mefayeb. 
NAHR el MECHAT'TE, a river of Paleftine, which 
runs into the Mediterranean three miles north of Caifa. 
The banks are very landy, and the mouth is fometiines 
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choked up when the winds blow ftrong, at which time the 
waters overflow, and form a lake dangerous for travellers 
to crofts, as there is no bridge. The Englilh interpreter 
was drowned here, with his horfe, in 1761. 
NAHR SA'LEH, the ancient bed of the Euphrates : 
twenty miles fouth of Baftora. 
NAHR TE'RI, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chufiftan : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Ahuaz. 
NAH'RAIM, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Diarbekir, on the Khabur : forty miles north- 
eaft of Kerkiiieh. 
NAH'TE. See Niehte. 
NAHUA'PO, a town of Peru, in the audience of 
Quito : forty-five miles weft of St. Joachim de Omaguas. 
NA’HUM, the feventh of the minor Hebrew prophets 
according to their order in the Hebrew Bible, though 
probably the fifth in order of time. Fie gives himfelf the 
lurnameof the Elkojhite, which St. Jerome, in the preface 
to his comment on this prophet, derives from Elktgai, 
a village in Galilee, and the fuppofed place of his birth or 
refidence. With refpeft to the time when he delivered 
his prophecy, very different opinions have been enter¬ 
tained both by the ancients and moderns. Jofephus places 
him in the reign of Jotham, and fays that his predictions 
came to pafs a hundred and fifteen years afterwards. Ac¬ 
cording to our belt chronologers, this date would bring 
us to the year in which Samaria was taken, or 721 B. C. 
St. Jerome, Theodoret, and Theophylaft, agree in fup- 
poling that he prophefied under the reign of Hezekiah or 
Manaffeh. The late primate of Ireland concurs in opi¬ 
nion with thole who think that Nahum uttered this pro¬ 
phecy in the reign of Hezekiah, and not long after the 
fubverfion of the kingdom of Ifrael by Salmanazar, or 
between the years 720 and 698 B. C. which hypothelis 
carries with it great appearance of probability. The fub- 
jeft of this prophecy is the deftruftion of Nineveh. It 
opens by fetting forth thejufticeand power of God, tem¬ 
pered by lenity and goodnefs; and then fuddenly addrelfes 
to the Aflyriansa prediction of their perplexity and over¬ 
throw, the merited punilhment of their devifing evil 
againft the true God. In the next place it contains a 
proclamation of fpeedy freedom to Judah from the galling 
Afiyrian yoke, and the deftruftion of the Affyrian idols ; 
after which Nineveh is called upon to prepare for the ap¬ 
proach of her enemies, as inftruments in the hands of 
Jehovah ; and the military array and mufter of the Medes 
and Babylonians, their rapid approach to the city, the 
procefs of the fiege, the capture of the place, &c. are de- 
feribed in the true fpirit of eaftern poetry. The prophet 
afterwards denounces a woe againft Nineveh for her per¬ 
fidy, violence, and idolatry ; deferibes the number of her 
chariots and cavalry, her burnilhed arms, and the unre¬ 
lenting daughter which fine fpread around ; pronounces 
that all her preparations for defence, her numbers, her 
opulence, her multitudes of chief men, would prove of no 
avail; foretels that her tributary nations would defert her 
in the day of herdiftrefs ; and concludes with announcing 
the triumphs of others over her, on account of her exten- 
five oppreflions. This fhort view of the fubjeft of this 
prophetical book is taken from biihop Newcome; and bi- 
fliop Lowth fays, “ None of the minor prophets feem to 
equal Nahum, in boldnefs, ardour, and fublinjity. His, 
prophecy, too, forms a regular and perfect poem ; the 
exordium is not merely magnificent, it is truly majeftic - 
the preparation for the deltruftion of Nineveh, and the 
defeription of its downfal and defolation, are exprefi'ed 
in the molt vivid colours, and are bold and luminous in 
the higheft degree.” 
N AHUNKEAG', a fmall ifland in the riverKenneb.eck s 
forty miles from the coaft. 
NA'I-CGRO'NA, f. in botany. See Dolichos. 
NA'JAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aveiron, on the Aveiron. In the year 1672, a copper- 
mine w'as difeovered in the neighbourhood. It is nine 
miles fouth of Villefranche, and fifteen weft of Sau ve Terre. 
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