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very maflive archite&ure. The whole building has been 
formerly very fpacious and fumptuous ; as is evident 
from the prelent remains, though thefe have been much 
deteriorated of late years by the barbarous practice of 
ufing its materials for the repair of the roads. It is con- 
ftrufited entirely of cut ftone, and highly finifhed ; and 
within it is an elegant chapel, which was built by bilhop 
Vaughan. At what era this caftle was erefited is uncer¬ 
tain; but Mr. Fenton inclines to think that it is chiefly 
indebted for its grandeur to Thomas Beke, who was 
bilhop of St. David’s from 1280 to 1293, and made this 
the principal place of his residence. Attached to it is a 
large park and a foreft, which Leland tells us were well 
Hocked with red deer in his time. The keepers of this 
foreft were frequently gentlemen of the firft families in 
the county; a circumftance alone fufficient to indicate 
the high ftyle in which the ancient bilhops were accuftomed 
to live. 
Two miles to the fouth-eaft of this palace is Slebech 
Hall, a very elegant manfion, which occupies the fite of 
an ancient commandery of Knights Hofpitallers, though 
not a trace of the eftablifhment of this church-militant 
now remains, except the church itfelf, a very fmall but 
refpeftable edifice, Handing clofe upon the river Cleddy, 
which fkirts the pleafure-grounds, and contributes greatly 
to their beauty. —Pitlon Caftle, lying eaftward from Sle¬ 
bech, though built in the reign of William Rufus, is, 
by the hereditary attention of its pofl’efl'ors, Hill almoft in 
as good condition as when firft erefited. This manfion 
of the noble family of Philips is furrounded by very ex- 
tenfive plantations and gardens, laid out with great tafte. 
Within thefe is an old encampment, called Caftle-lake, 
a poft of confiderable ftrength by nature, and rendered 
more fo by a very high agger on its weftern fide.—At 
Templeton, a village fouth-eaft from Narbeth, is a chapel, 
now in ruins, which belonged to the knights of Slebech, 
who are faid to have much frequented this place during 
their hunting-parties. In the centre of the main ftreet 
are the ruins of an ancient crofs. The lioufes here, 
though thinly fcattered, are well built, and preferve the 
veftiges of former opulence. Indeed, there can be no 
doubt of this having been formerly a confiderable village; 
and by fome it is conjetlured to have been early a ma- 
nufafifuring town, fubordinate to the great colony of 
Flemings, who eftablifhed themfelves at Tenby. Fenton's 
Uijiorical Tour, 1811. Carlijle's Topographical DiCi. of 
Wales, 1812. 
NARBIM'SKOI, a lake of Ruflia, thirty-fix miles in 
circumference : 220 miles north-north-eaft of Turu- 
chanflc. 
NAR'BO MAR'TIUS, in ancient geography, now Nar- 
honne; a town of Gaul, founded by the conful Q. Marcius 
Rex, in the year of Rome 634. It became the capital of 
Gallia Narbonenfis. See Geography, vol. viii. p. 372. 
and the next article. 
NARBON'NE, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diltritl, in the department of the Aude, fituated on 
a canal, which communicates with the Aude. Before 
the revolution it was the fee of an archbifhop, the leaf of 
an admiralty, and the refidence of a governor: it con¬ 
tained two collegiate churches, befides the cathedral, a 
college, two feminaries, thirteen convents, and feveral 
hofnitals. It was formerly the capital of a vicomte, whole 
lords were powerful; and ftrongly fortified; but at pre- 
fent a wall flanked with baftions is its oniy defence. It 
is not populous in proportion to its extent ; neither is it 
a rich or commercial town. The number of inhabitants 
is about 10,000. It is three polls fouth-weft of Beziers, 
and 104I fouth of Paris. Lat. 43. n.N. Ion. 3.5. E. 
NAR'BOROUGH, a village in Northamptonfhire, near 
Ealt Deeping. 
NAR'BOROUGH, a village in Norfolk, on the weft 
fide of Caftle-Acre. Near here, on a hill, is an old mili¬ 
tary entrenchment. 
NAR'BOROUGH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the South 
Pacific Ocean, near the coaft of Chili; difeovered by fir 
John Narborough. It affords wood and water, but is 
without inhabitants. Lat. 45. 12. S. Ion. 76. 12. W. 
NARCE'A, a river of Spain, in the province of Afturias, 
which runs into the Pravia about a mile above the town 
of Pravia. 
NARCIS'SO LEUCOI'UM. See Leucoium. 
NARCIS'SUS, in fabulous hiftory, a youth of exquifite 
beauty, born at Thefpia, a city in Bceotia, was deemed 
to be the fon of Cepbifus and the nymph Liriope. Ac¬ 
cording to the fable,he w'as enamoured with his own figure, 
which he law in a fountain ; and, contemplating it lor a 
long time, without perceiving that he law merely his own 
lhadow, he pined away with love and delire. The nymphs 
railed a funeral pile to burn his body; but they found 
nothing but a beautiful flower, which hence bears his 
name. Thus Ovid relates the fable. But Paufanias, re- 
jedding this account as incredible, refers to another tra¬ 
dition, according to which NarcilTus had a twin-filler, 
who perfectly refembled him, and with whom he fell in 
love; but, having had the misfortune to lofe her while 
they were hunting together, he abandoned himfelf to 
melancholy, and frequented the bank of a fountain, whofe 
water ferved as a mirror to refleft his own figure, which, 
refembling that of his filler, gave him fome confolation. 
The flowers called narcijfujes, however, are faid to be 
more ancient than this adventure; and the origin of their 
name is reported to have been as follows: The daughter 
of Ceres W'as gathering flowers in a meadow, when Ihe was 
ravilhed by Pluto; and the flow'ers lhe was gathering, and 
which Pluto ufed for feducing her, were narcijfujes, and 
not violets. It is faid that the manner of Narciflus’s 
death has no other foundation befides his name, which is 
derived from a Greek word that fignifies “ to be be¬ 
numbed, or without fenfation;” whence foporific drugs 
have been called narcotics. NarcilTus, it is added, having 
manifefted only difdain of all perfons who conceived an 
affection for him, Love himfelf is laid to have taken ven¬ 
geance upon him for his indifference, by caufing him to 
be in love with himfelf; and Ovid, who always inclines 
to the marvellous, has conlidered this ftory in a light that 
bell anfwered that end. Ovid adds, that, as this youth 
was deftined to have merely phantoms for the objefls of 
his paflions, and of thole which he infpired, the nymph 
Echo fell in love with him, and that his difdain obliged 
her to retire into caves and rocks, where lhe retained no¬ 
thing but the voice. 
NARCIS'SUS, f. [a name adopted from the poets, who 
have fabied that the flower which bears it originated in 
the transformation of a beautiful youth, who pined away 
with admiration of his own image in a fountain. The 
origin of the word, neverthelefs, appears to lie deeper, 
being derived from vu.tp.-r\, ftupor, anti alluding to the 
effects of the fmell of a narciflus. Theie arc frequently 
an intenfe head ach, and partial lofsof recollection. The 
name of the youth might apply to the ftupidity of his 
paffion, and ot the flower to its own properties, before 
Ovid elegantly combined them. The delcription of 
Diofcorides, unufually full, leaves no doubt of his va,g- 
y.ura-oq being the fame as ours; the *• white lpecies, purple 
within,” anfwering exactly to the beautiful, though very 
common, N. poeticus.] In botany, a genus of theclals 
hexandria, order monogynia, natural order of fpa- 
thaceas, (narcifli, Jvff.) Generic charafiters—Calyx: fpathe 
oblong, obtufe, comprelfed, opening on the flat fide, 
lhriveiling-.• Corolla: petals fix, ovate, acuminate, flat, 
equal, inferted into the tube of the nettary externally 
above the bafe; neCtary one-leafed, cyiindric-funnel- 
form, coloured on the border. Stamina : filaments fix, 
awl-lhaped, fixed to the tube of the nectary, (hotter than 
the neftary ; antheras oblongifh. Piftiilum: germen 
roundifh, obtufely three-fided, inferior; ftyle filiform, 
longer than the llamens; ftigma bifid, concave, obtuie. 
Pericarpium : capfule roundifli, obtufely three-cornered, 
three-celled, three-valved. Seeds many, globular, appen- 
dicled.— FJJential Character. Petals fix, equal; neblary 
funnel-form, one-leafed} ftamina within the nettary. 
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