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NAR'GHIN, a fmall ifland in the Cafpian Sea, near the 
tveft coaft: ten miles fouth-eaft of Baku. 
NAR'GHIS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 
frftan : one hundred miles fouth-weft of Schiras, and 
thirty north-eaft of Bender Rigk. 
NAR'GON, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Finland. 
Lat. 59. 30. N. Ion. 24. 36. E. 
NAR'HAI, a town of Hindooftan, in Mewat: thirty- 
five miles north of Cotputly. 
NARIFUSO'RIA, f. A name given by authors to fuch 
medicines as were meant to be inftilled into the noftrils, 
for diforders of the head and eyes. 
NARI'GA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the coaft of the Frozen Ocean, near the 
mouth of the Petchora : 168 miles north-eaft of Mezen. 
NA'RIM, a town of Ruflia, at the conflux of the Ob 
and Ket, in the government of Tobollk ; defended with 
pallifadoes and wooden towers. The environs abound 
with foxes, black, white, and grey; ermines and fables. 
It is four hundred miles eaft of Tobollk, and 1520 eaft of 
Peterlburg. Lat. 59. 5. N. Ion. 81.14. E. 
NARIMA'NI, a town of Turkilh Armenia, on the 
Batoun : forty-five miles weft-north-weft of Kars, and 
fifty-feven north-eaft of Erzerum. I 
NARINAM-POU'LLI, J'. in botany. See Hibiscus. 
NARIN'GA, a town of Bengal : fixty miles weft- 
north-weft of Midnapour. 
NARIPARIDUR'GA, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Cuddapa: twenty-two miles weft-fouth-weft of 
Cuddapa. 
NA'RIZ, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adirbeit- 
zan : ninety miles fouth-fouth-weft of Tabris. 
NARK'SALIK, a town of Weft Greenland. Lat. 62. 
5. N. Ion. 48. W. 
NARKSAR'SAAK, a town of Eaft Greenland. Lat. 
60. 35. N. Ion. 44. 30. W. 
NARNAL'LA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Berar: thirty-five miles weft-north-weft of Ellichpour, 
and feventy-two eaft of Burhanpour. Lat. 21. 25. N. 
Ion. 77. 34. E. 
NARNAVERAM', a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic : eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Bomrauzepollam. 
NAR'NI, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Spoleto, the 
fee of a bilhop, under the pope, on the Nera. It contains 
feven parilh-churches, and twelve convents. Narni was 
under the Roman republic called Ncquinum, fromnequam, 
a rogue, on account of the tricks of the inhabitants. It 
was made a Roman colony in the year of Rome 452, in 
theconfulate of T. Manlius Torquatus. In 1785 it was 
greatly damaged by an earthquake. It is fixteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Spoleto, and thirty-eight north of 
Rome. Lat. 42. 31. N. Ion. 12. 34. E. 
NAR'NIA, or Nar'na, in ancient geography, a town 
of Umbria, wafhed by the river Nar, from which it re¬ 
ceived its name. 
NAR'NOL, a town of Hindooftan, in the Mewat 
country: eighty miles fouth-weft of Delhi, and twenty- 
five north-weft of Cotputly. Lat. 28. 50. N. Ion. 76.28. E. 
NA'RO, now Narenta, a river of Dalmatia, falling 
into the Adriatic, and having the town of Narona, now 
called Narenza , on its banks, a little above the mouth. 
NA'RO, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Mazara: 
eleven miles eaft Girgenti, and forty-fix fouth of Termini. 
Lat. 37. 24 N. Ion. 13.45. E. 
NA'ROCZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : forty-eight miles eaft of Wilna. 
NAR'ODICZ, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : fixty 
miles north-north-eaft of Zytomiers. 
NAROL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: twenty 
miles north-eaft of Surat. 
NARO'VA, a river of Ruflia, which divides the two 
provinces of Ingria and Efthonia. In this river are two 
falls, which, though ppmpoufly defcribed by travellers, 
appear trivial and uninterefting to thofe who have feen 
the fall of the Rhine at Schaffhaufen, of the Dahl near 
Gefle in Sweden, and the ftupenduous cataracts of Trol- 
hastta. The breadth of the river is 200 feet, and the per¬ 
pendicular height of the falls fcarcely exceeds twenty. 
The fteep and chalky banks of the river, its rapid and 
turbid ftream, and a rocky ifland which feparates the two 
falls, form a rugged and pifturefque fcene, which is 
heightened by the foam and roaring of the cataraG:. 
N AROV'TCHAT, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Penza : eighty-four miles weft of Penza. Lat. 53.44. N. 
Ion. 43. 14. E. 
NARP, a river of Pruflian Lithuania, which runs into 
the Pifla near Gumbinnen. 
NAR'RABLE, adj. [from narration .] Capable to be 
told or related. CocJteram. 
NARRAGAN'SET. See Naraganset, p. 571. 
NARRAGUA'GUS. See Steuben. 
NARRAGUA'GUS BA'Y, a bay on the coaft of Maf- 
fachufetts, joining to Machias Ray. 
NARRAN'GIA, f. With the Afabs, a kind of divina¬ 
tion drawn from the various appearances of the fun and 
moon. Adi. 
To NAR'RATE, v. a. To relate; to tell. 
NARRA'TION,/ [Fr. from narratio, Lat.] Account; 
relation; hiftory.— Homer introduces the beft inftruc- 
tions in the midft of the plaineft narrations. Broome on 
the OdyJJey. 
NAR'RATIVE, adj. [narratif, Fr. from narro, Lat.] 
Relating ; giving an account.—To judicial afts credit 
oughtto be given, though the words be narrative. Ayliffc's 
Parergon. —Story-telling; apt to relate things pad.—Age, 
as Davenant fays, is always narrative. Dryden. 
The poor, the rich, the valiant, and the fage, 
And boafting youth, and narrative old age. Pope. 
NAR'RATIVE, J’. A relation ; an account; a ftory.—- 
In the inftruftions I give to others concerning what they 
ftiould do, take a narrative of what you have done. South. 
—Cynthio was much taken with my narrative. Toiler. 
NAR'RATIVELY, adv. By way of relation.—The 
words of all judicial afts are written narratively, unlefs it 
be in fentences wherein difpofitive and enacting terms arc 
made ufe of. Ayliffe. 
NARRA'TOR, f. Atelier; a relater.—He is but a 
narrator of other men’s opinions, fufpending his own 
judgment. Mountagu's App.to Cafur, (1625.)—Confider 
whether the narrator be honeft and faithful, as well a» 
Ikilful; whether he hath no peculiar gain or profit by be¬ 
lieving or reporting it. Watts's Logick. 
NAR'RATORY, adj. Giving a relation of things. —- 
Letters, though they be capable of any fiibjedd, yet com¬ 
monly they are either narratoru, objurgatory, confolatory. 
&c. Howell. 
NARRICKEE', a town of Hindooftan: twenty miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Agra. 
To NAR'RIFY, v. a. To narrate ; to give an account of. 
NAR'KOW, adj. [napeu, nappe, Sax. from nvji, near.] 
Not br6ad or wide, having but a fmall diftance from fide 
to fide. — The angel flood in a narrow place, where was no 
way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. Num. ii. 
26.—By being too few, or of an improper figure and di- 
menfion to do their duty in perfeftion, they become nar¬ 
row, and incapable of performing their native function. 
Blackmore. 
Edward from Belgia 
Hath pafs’d in fafety through the narrow feas. Shakejpeare. 
Small; of no great extent; ufed of time as well as place. 
—From this narrow > time of geftation may enfue a fmall- 
nefs in the exclufion ; but this inferreth no informity. 
Brown. —Though the Jews were but a fmall nation, and 
confined to a narrow compafs in the world, yet the firft 
rife of letters and languages is truly to be afcribed to 
them. IFi/Auif.—Covetous ; avaricious: 
To narrow breads he comes all wrapt in gain. 
To fweliing hearts he lliines in honour’s fire. Sidney 
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