NAN 
confiderable aid of men and money for the defence of 
Candia againft the Turks. The fuperintendence of the 
affairs of war.and finances was then entrufted to him ; and 
in 1664. he was fent ambaflador to the imperial court, 
which he vifited a fecond time on theacceflion of the em¬ 
peror Leopold. In 1670 he was delegated upon a fecond 
embafty to the court of France, and on his return was 
nominated a procurator of St. Mark; and was foon after 
raifed to the poll of captain-general by fea. The maritime 
fervice not agreeing with him, he continued to ferve the 
Hate at home. The office of hiftoriographer was conferred 
upon him, and the manner in which he performed its 
duties rendered his name illuftrious. He died in 1678. 
He was author of the Hiftory of Venice from 1613 to 
1671, of which the firft part was publiffied at Venice in 
3662, and the fecond after his death in 1679. It is much 
efteemed for the veracity of the narrative, and for the 
depth and fagacity of the political refleftions. To the 
new edition in the Collection of Venetian Hiftorians, the 
life of the authoris prefixed. This Hiftory has been tranf- 
lated into French and Englilh. He left in manufcript, a 
Paraphmfe of Lucan’s Pharfalia, and Confiderations on 
the Annals of Tacitus. Gen. Biog. 
NANIJAR', a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Eurfali. 
NANIMAN', a town of the iftand of Cuba : feventy- 
five miles weft-fouth-well of Havannah. 
NANJEMOY', a river of Maryland, which runs into 
the Potomack near Port Tobacco. 
NA.NI'NA, a town of Abyffinia : feventy miles eaft of 
Minee. 
NAN'KA I'SLANDS, three fmall iflands in the Eallern- 
Indian Sea, near the weft coaft of the iftand of Banca. 
Wood for fuel, and excellent water, are eafily obtained. 
Lat. 2. ?.2. S. Ion. 105. 41. E. 
NAN'NI, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
110 miles eaft of Ifpahan. 
NAN'NI, or Nan'nius (Peter), a critic and philologift, 
was born at Alcmaer in Holland in 1 500. After receiving, 
a claftical education, he applied for fome time to paint¬ 
ing ; but, reluming his literary ftudies, he taught philo- 
iophy in his own country. He was cliofen profeflor of 
languages at Louvain, where he palled eighteen years. 
He then obtained a canonry at Arras, which he kept till 
his death in 1557. His principal works were, 1. Mijcella- 
ncortnn Decas, containing annotations upon a number of 
ancient authors, in ten books. 2. DialogiJ'mi Herr,ina¬ 
rum ; reckoned his bell work. 3. Annotationes in I11- 
ftitutiones juris Civilis. 4. Scholia in Cantica Canti- 
corum. 5. Tranftations of the Pfalms in Latin Verfe; 
and a number of other tranftations, chiefly from Greek 
authors. His verfions are pronounced by Huet to be 
faithful, and happily expreflive of the fenfe of the ori¬ 
ginals ; but he is laid by Hermant to have grofsly miltake.n 
the fenfe of many paftages of Athanafius, almoft all of 
whole works he tranflated. Gen. Bing. 
NANNUCKLOO', a (mail illand near the eaft coaft of 
Labrador. Lat. 56. 20. N. Ion. 60. W. 
NAN'NY TOWN (Old), a deferred town of the iftand 
of Jamaica : fixteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Kingfton. 
NANO'Rm, a town of'Bengal: twenty-eight miles 
north of Burdwan. 
NANO'VA, a river of Walachia, which runs into the 
Danube. 
NANS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Var : leven miles fouth-fouth-weft of St. Maximi-n. 
NAN'SA, a town of Spain, in Afturia : eighteen miles 
fouth-weft of Santillana. 
NAN'SEMOND, a county of Virginia, on the fouth 
fide of James-river, and weft of Norfolk-county, on the 
North-Carolina line, about forty-four miles long, and 
twenty-four broad; containing 11,127 inhabitants, in¬ 
cluding 4408 Haves. 
NAN'SEMOND, a river of Virginia, flowing from 
Great Difmal Swamp in a north-eaft direction, and dif- 
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charging itfelf into James-river a few miles weft of Eliza- 
beth-river. 
NAN'SIO, an illand of the Archipelago, a little to the 
north of the illand of Santorino, fixteen miles in circum¬ 
ference ; but has no harbour. The mountains are no¬ 
thing but bare rocks, and there are not fprings fufficient 
to water the fields. There is a vaft number of partridges, 
whofe eggs they deftroy every year to preferve the corn, 
and yet vaft numbers of them are always produced. The 
ruins of the Temple of Apollo a-re yet to be feen, and 
conlift chiefly of marble columns. Lat. 36. 15. N. Ion. 
26. 20. E. 
NANT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aveiron : ten miles fouth-eaft of Milhau, eighteen miles 
north of Lodeve. 
NANTAS'KET RO'AD, the entrance into Bolton 
Harbour, in Maffachufetts. 
NAN'TEBACH, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Rieneck, on the Main : four miles eaft of Lohr. 
NANTER'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of Paris : five miles weft of Paris. 
NANTES, a city of France, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Loire, formerly capital of a diftribt, 
called Nantois, in Bretagne. It is lituated on the Loire, 
and has been reckoned one of the greateft trading cities in 
the kingdom : it is large and populous, conlifting of fix 
parts, and comprehending 73,649 inhabitants. Before 
the revolution, it was the fee of a bilhop, the feat of an 
intendency, a chamber of accounts, or board of finances, 
a mint-office, See. &c. In it were, exclufively of the ca¬ 
thedral and a collegiate church, eleven parilh-churches, 
fourteen convents, two hofpitals, a college, and an uni- 
verlity, founded about the year 1460 ; a fociety of agri¬ 
culture and arts, a ichool of anatomy and furgery, and a 
large rope-manufablory. Since the relioration of the 
Bourbons, great fearch has been made, in various parts of 
France, for dead men’s bones which had been difplaced 
during the revolution : and the mayor of Nantes Hates, 
that the bones of Arthur III. duke of Brittany and con- 
liable of France, who died in'1458, were laved in the de- 
ftrudlion of the church of the Charteux where they were 
interred, and that they have now (1817) been conveyed 
to the tomb of Francis II. his nephew, and fucceflbr in 
the duchy of Brittany. 
Of all the fchools founded upon the Lancafterian fyftem 
in France, that of Nantes is upon the largeft feale. 
Nantes has been accuftomed to carry on a very large 
trade to the French colonies, to America, to Spain, Por¬ 
tugal, and other parts ; though (hips of burthen can come 
no further up the Loire than to Paimbceuf, a market- 
town, where the cargoes are transferred to fmaller veflels, 
and conveyed to Nantes. Lat. 47. 13. N. Ion. 1. 26. E. 
This city.is famous in hiftory for the edict ilfued here, 
in the year 1598, by I-Ienry IV. for granting to the pro- 
felfors of the reformed or protellant religion, the liberty 
of ferrying God according to their confidences, and a full 
fecurity for the enjoyment of their civil rights and privi¬ 
leges, without perfecution or molellation from any quarter. 
This edift was revoked by Louis XIV. at the inlligation 
of the minifter Louvois and father La Ciiaife the king’s 
conieflbr, in the year 1685 ; a meafure which, though ac¬ 
companied with the applaufe of Rome, excited the in¬ 
dignation even of many catholics, whole bigotry had not 
effaced or fufpended, on this occalion, their natural fenti- 
ments' of generality and jullice. This revocation was 
followed by a perfecution of the Huguenots, called, from 
the dragoon-troops employed in it, the dragonade. It is 
but jullice to acknowledge, that this horrid perfecution 
was condemned by the greateft and bed men in France. 
M. d’Auguefleau, the father of the celebrated chancellor, 
reiigned his office of intendant of Languedoc, rather than 
be a witnefs of it: his fon repeatedly mentions it with ab¬ 
horrence. Fenelon, Flechieiy and Bofiuet, confelfedly 
the ornaments of the Gallican church, lamented it. To 
the utmoll .of their power they prevented the execution of 
the 
