NAN 
death of Nanac that the Sikhs became a warlike people; 
and, as fuch, their hiftory muft be included in that of 
Hindoostan, vol. x. See alfo the article Sikh, and 
Malcolm’s Sketch of the Sikhs, Lond. 1812. 
NANAMO'W, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: thir¬ 
ty-two miles fouth of Fyzabad. 
NANARSO'AK, a town of Weft Greenland. Lat. 61. N. 
Ion. 47. 30. W. 
NA'NAS, a town of Hungary: four miles fouth of 
Tokay, and twenty-five north of Debreczin. 
NA'NAS, a mountain of Carniola, between Wipach 
and St. Veit. 
NANCASERAM', a town of Hindooftan, in Canara : 
feven miles fouth of Mangalore. 
NAN^A'Y, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cher: eighteen miles north of Bourges. 
NAN'CEL (Nicholas de), a phyfician and philologift, 
was born in 1539, at a village of that name between Noyon 
and Soiflons. He ftudied at the college of Prefles at Paris, 
of which the celebrated Ramus was at that time principal. 
He made fuch a proficiency, that at the age of eighteen 
Ramus appointed him to teach the Latin and Greek lan¬ 
guages in the college. He afterwards commenced the 
ftudy of phyfic; but the civil wars which broke out in 
France interrupted his progrefs, and he retired to Flanders, 
where in 1562 he became profeffor of the learned languages 
at Douay. Returning to Paris, he occupied a chair in 
the college of Prefles, and alfo was aggregated to the 
medical faculty. He removed for the pra&ice of his pro- 
feflion to Soiflons, and afterwards fettled and married at 
Tours. In that city he refided till 1587, when he ob¬ 
tained the place of phyfician to the princefs Eleanor of 
Bourbon, abbefs of Fontevrault, whither he removed. 
He died in 1610. Of the works of this learned writer the 
following are the moft remarkable: x. Stichologia Graeca 
Latinaque informanda reformandaque, 1579, 8vo. This 
is an attempt to reduce French verfe to the rules of Greek 
and Latin poetry, which incurred the ridicule that has 
attended all fimilar attempts. 2. Difcours de la Pefte, 
1581, 8vo. 3. De Immortalitate Animi, velitatio adver- 
fus Galenum, 1587, 8vo. This is taken from a large 
philofophical work of his entitled “ Analogia Microcofmi 
ad Macrocofmum,” of which two editions in folio were 
publilhed after his death. 4. Petri Rami Vita, 1599, 8vo. 
This is a curious piece of biography, written by a pupil 
who had the advantage of living twenty years with the 
mafter whom he celebrates. Gen. Biog. 
NAN'CHE, a town of the ifland of Formofa, on the 
■weft coaft. Lat. 23. 52. N. Ion. 119. 45. E. 
NAN'CI, a city of France, in the department of the 
Meurte, near the river Meurte, alternately capital with 
Luneville, formerly the capital of Lorraine, and ancient 
refidence of the dukes. It is fituated in a beautiful and 
fertile plain, near the Meurte, and divided into Old and 
New Town. The firft isfmall and ill-built; the latter is 
larger and better built; the ftreets wider, and in aftraight 
line. Before the revolution, it contained three collegiate 
and three parilh churches, feventeen convents, an univer- 
fity, an academy of fciences, a medical college, an hofpital, 
and a commandery of Malta. This city was formerly 
fortified ; but, by an article in the peace of Ryfwick, the 
fortifications of the New Town were deftroyed. Nanci 
is fuppofed to contain 30,000 inhabitants. It is forty-one 
polls and a quarter eaft of Paris, and eighteen weft of 
Strafburg. Lat. 48. 42. N. Ion. 6. 16. E. 
N ANCOW'RY, or Sow'ry, one of the Nicobar illands, 
lying at the entrance of the bay of Bengal. See Nicoear. 
NANDEDUR'GAM, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Chinna Balabaram. 
NAN'DELSTETT, a town of Bavaria: nine miles 
north-weft of Molburg, and fifteen weft of Landlhut. 
NANDENO RE, a town of Hindooftan in the Car¬ 
natic : eight miles north-north-eaft of Chittoor. 
NAN'DER, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad: 
Vol. XVI. No. 1132. 
NAN 521 
132 miles north-north-weft of Hydrabad, and 104 eaft- 
north-eaft of Perinda. Lat. 19. 6. N. Ion. 77. 35. E. 
NANDGEE'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour: 
fourteen miles north-eaft of Sattarah. 
NANDGOM', a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana: 
eighteen.miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Chandor. 
NAN'DI, a town of Bengal: twenty-five miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Moorfliedabad. 
NANDIGAW', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Condapilly : fifteen miles north-weft of Condapilly. 
NANDI'NA, f. [from the Japonefe vernacular name 
nandin.'] In botany, a genus of the clafs hexandria, or¬ 
der monogynia. Generic Characters.—Calyx : perian- 
thium many-leaved, imbricate, in fix rows; fcales about 
fix in each row, ovate, acute, fmooth, caducous. Co¬ 
rolla : petals, fix, oblong, concave, acute, longer than the 
calyx, caducous. Stamina: filaments fix, very Ihort; 
anthers oblong, ere ft, the length of the corolla. Piftil- 
lum: germen ovate, fmooth, luperior; ftyle three-cor¬ 
nered, very Ihort; ftigma three-cornered. Pericarpium : 
berry juicelefs, globular, fmooth. Seeds: two, hemif- 
pherical, fmooth. — EJfential CharaEler. Calyx many¬ 
leaved, imbricate; corolla fix-petalled. 
Nandina domeftica, a folitary fpecies. Root peren¬ 
nial. Stems feveral, ftirubby, upright, loofe, branched at 
the top, about fix feet high, and half an inch in diameter. 
Branches covered with the (heaths of the leaves, waved, 
leafy at the upper part. Leaves fuper-decompound ; leaf¬ 
lets ternate, ovate, briftle-pointed, entire, with a reflexed 
margin ; their (talks remarkably compounded, the divi- 
fions branching off nearly at right angles ; at the lower 
ones more efpecially, the joints are fwollen into a kind of 
globular bulb. Flowers in loofe terminal compound pa¬ 
nicles, white, with prominent bright-yellow antherai. 
Berries red, the fize of a pea, membranous within. Seeds 
two, convex on one fide, and concave on the other; 
Kxmpfer compares them to what are called in the (hops 
crab's-eyes; they are afti-coloured or reddilh. 
This ornamental plant is much cultivated both in Japan 
and China, and is a native of the latter, from whence it 
was introduced into the garden at Kew in 1804, by Mr. 
William Kerr. It flowers from May to July. The leaf¬ 
lets are remarkable for falling off at the joints of their 
(balks, as foon as it begins to dry between paper. Keempf. 
77 6 - 
NANDOU'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund: 
thirty miles weft-fouth-weft of Pattiary. 
NANDRA'NY, an ancient fortrefs of Hungary: eleven 
miles weft of Arad. 
NAN'DY-AL'LEM, a town of Hindooftan, in Gol- 
conda: thirty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Canoul. 
NANDYOL', a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: ten 
miles fouth of Goragot. 
NAN'FIO, Namfio, or Namphio, an ifland in the 
Grecian Archipelago, fituated fouth-weft of Stampalia, 
and little more than feven leagues in circuit. Its firft 
name was Membliaros, derived from Membliarus, a Phoe¬ 
nician, who, when his relation Cadmus went in queft of 
Europa, accompanied him, and fettled in the neighbour¬ 
ing ifland of Thera. It has fince been named Anuphe , 
which, in the Phoenician language, according to Bochart, 
fignifies (haded and dark, an epithetWhich this ifland ac¬ 
quired from its gloomy and thick forefts; or, as others 
fay, from the Greek word Quivu, “ to appear,” from the 
thunder having on a fudden occafioned it to arife from the 
bottom of the waters, in order to receive the fleet of the 
Argonauts on its return from Colchis, when affailed by 
a furious tempeft. This fable of antiquity is the hiftory 
of the formation of Nanfio, which a volcano caufed to 
appear fuddenly above the fea, in the midft of a violent 
agitation of the atmofphere and of the waves, which has 
been the cafe with fome other iflands of the Archipelago. 
In memory of this event was built a temple, which was 
confecrated to Apollo JEglctes, or “ dazzling with light.” 
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