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NARSINEN', a town of Pruffia, in Oberland: four 
miles eaft of Soldau. 
NARSINGAPATAM', a town of Hindooilan, in the 
country of Cattack, near the coaft of the Ray of Bengal: 
forty-five miles fouth of Cattack. 
NARSINGUR', a town pf Hindooilan, in Bengal : 
forty-four miles weft of Midnapour. 
NARSYZ'SK, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : fixty- 
four miles north'-north-eaft of Zytomiers. 
NARTHE'CIUM,. f. in botany. See Anthericum 
offifragum, vol. i. 
NAEU-KI'LO. See Pontederia. 
NA'RU-NIN'DI. See Ceropegia. 
NAR'VA, a feaport-town of Rufiia, which, together 
with its fuburbs, is fituated, according to a geographical 
division, partly in Ingria, and partly in Eithonia; as the 
river Narova divides thefe two provinces; (fee Narova ;) 
but, in the divifion of governments eftablilhed by the late 
eniprefs, it is compriled in Ingria, or the government of St. 
Peterfburgh. Narva, fuppofed to have been built in 1224., 
Hands on the Narova, nearly one hundred miles from 
Peteriburgh, twenty-four from the point where that river 
ifi'ues from the Lake Peipus, and eight from its mouth, 
where it falls into the Gulf of Finland. The houfes are 
built of brick ltuccoed white, and it has more the appear¬ 
ance of a German than of a Ruffian town. In the fuburbs, 
called Ivangorod, the coloflal remains of an ancient for- 
trefs, built by Ivan Vaffilievitch the Great, impend in a 
piflurefque manner oyer the fteep banks of the Narova. 
The principal exports are hemp, flax, timber, and corn 5 
the imports are fait, tobacco, wine, falted herrings, fpices, 
tea, fugar, and other grocery wares. The commodities 
which go to Narva along the Narova are obliged, 011 ac¬ 
count of the falls of that river, to be carried a great way 
by land. Near Narva is the fpot celebrated for the victory 
which Charles XII. in the nineteenth year of his age, 
gained over the Ruffian army in 1700. It then belonged 
to Sweden ; but, about five years after, it was taken by the 
Ruffians by ftorm, underthecommand of Peter the Great, 
who gave a great proof of humanity : the Ruffian foldiers 
were beginningto pillage, and to commit all thediforders 
ufual when a town is taken by ftorm ; Peter traverfed the 
ftreets on horfeback, with his drawn fword in his hand, 
reftrained his troops from pillage, killed two who refufed 
to defift, placed guards at the doors of different houfes, 
and before the churches, and repaired to the Hotel de 
Ville, where the magiftrates and principal citizens had 
taken refuge, and, throwing his fword upon the table, 
exclaimed, “ It is not Trained with the blood of the na¬ 
tives, but with that of my own foldiers, whom I have 
killed in order to fave your lives.” Narva is one hun¬ 
dred miles fouth-eafl of Revel, and fixty-eight fouth- 
weft of Peteriburgh. Lat. 59.16. N. Ion. 28. 2. E. 
NAR'VA, or Naro'va, a river of Rufiia, which runs 
from the Tchudfkoi Lake to the Gulf of Finland below 
Narva. 
NA'RIUM-PA'NEL, f. in botany. See Uvaria. 
NARUNGPOU'R, a town of Hindooilan, in Alla¬ 
habad, on the Ganges: feventeen miles eaft of Gazy- 
pour. 
NAR'WA, a town and fortrefs of Hindooflan, in the 
country of Agra, on the Sinde. Thevenot calls it Nader, 
and d’Anville Narva: ninety-eight miles fouth of Agra, 
and ninety-two fouth-eafl of Rantanpour. Lat. 25. 4.0. N. 
Ion. 78. 18. E. 
NAR'WHALE,/ A fpecies of whale. SeeMoNODON, 
vol. xv. p. 689.— Thofe long horns, preferved as precious 
beauties, are but the teeth of narwhales. Brown's Vulg. 
Nr r ours. 
NARWUR', a town of Hindooflan, in Guzerat: twen¬ 
ty-one miles fouth of Darempour. 
NARY'CIA, or Na'ryx, in ancient geography, a town 
of Magna Graecia, built by a colony of Locrians after the 
fall of Troy. The place in Greece from which they came 
bore the fame name, and was the country of Ajax Oileus. 
The word Nary dan is more univerfally underflood as ap- 
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plying to the Italian colony, near which pines and other 
trees grew in abundance. 
NAS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Upland: 
twenty-one miies fouth of Upfal. 
NAS, a town of Norway, in the province of Aggcr- 
liuus : fixty miles north of Chriltiania. 
NAS, [from ne has.'] Has not. Obsolete: 
For pity’d is mifhap that nos remedy, 
But fcorn’d been deeds of fond foolery. Spenfer. 
NASACA'R A, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo: 
fifteen miles eafl of Kokura. 
NASAD'KA, a town of Raffia, in the government of 
Perm : fixteen miles fouth-eafl of Perm. 
NASAGAR', a town of Hindooflan, in Lahore : fifty- 
fix miles fouth-eafl of Nagercote. 
NA'SAL, adj. [iiaj'us, Lat.] Belonging to.the nofe.— 
Some nations may be found to have a peculiar guttural or 
naj’al fmatch hi their language. Holder's Elem. of Speech. 
—When the difeharge leffens, pafs a fmall probe through 
the nafal duCt into the nofe every time it is dreft, in order 
to dilate it a little. Sharp's Surgery. 
NA'SAL, f A medicine operating through the nofe.—■ 
Nafals are generally received : an empirick in Venice had 
a flrong water to purge by the mouth and noftrils. Bur¬ 
ton's Anat. of Mel. —One of the letters fpoken as through 
the nofe.—in attempting to pronounce thefe two conlo- 
nants, as likewife the nafals , and fome of the vowels, 
fpiritally, the throat is brought to labour, and it makes 
that which we call a guttural pronunciation. Holder. 
NASA'LIA, f. Remedies to be taken by the nofe} 
called alfo errhines. 
NASAMO'NES, in ancient geography, a numerous 
people of Africa, who inhabited a part Of Cyrenaica. 
According to Pliny, Silius, and Lucan, the Pfylli and 
Nafamones mufl have been feated near the greater Syrtis, 
or behind the Regio Syrtica and Cyrenaica, if we adopt 
Strabo’s opinion. The Pfylli, as Herodotus informs us, 
having once had all their refervoirs of waterdried up by the 
fouth wind, advanced into the Sahara, in order to make war 
upon that wind; but, as it blew with extreme violence, 
they were overwhelmed with torrents of fand, and all pe- 
rifhed. After this tragical event, their neighbours, the 
Nafamones, annexed the territories which they pofiefled 
to their own dominions. Herodotus reprefents the Nafa¬ 
mones as a powerful nation in his time, and remarkable 
for fome lingular cuftoms, then prevalent amongflthem. 
During the l’ummer-feafon, they left their cattle on the 
coaft, and difperfed themfelves over the plains of FEgila, 
or Augila, in order to gather the fruit of the palm-trees, 
or dates, with which this place abounded. Here like¬ 
wife they found an immenfe quantity of grafshoppers, 
which, being dried in the fun, they pulverized, and in- 
fufed into milk. The liquor compofed of thefe two in¬ 
gredients was highly efteemed by them as a mod pleafant 
beverage. They had many wives, whom they ufed in 
public, like the Maflagetse, after having erefted a ftaff for 
a mark. The bride lay the firll night with all the guefts 
invited to the wedding; and received from each of them 
the next morning a prefent, which he had brought with 
him for that purpofe. When they took an oath, they laid 
their hands on the fepulchres of thofe who had been gene¬ 
rally efteemed the moll juft and excellent perfons amongft 
them. At their divinations, they went to the tombs of 
their anceftors, where, after certain prayers, they fell afleep, 
and grounded their prediftions on the dreams that then 
occurred to them. They pledged their faith to each other 
by mutually prefentingacup of liquor. When they had 
no liquid, the parties took up dult from the ground, 
which they put into their mouths. According to fome 
authors, the Nafamones were regarded by the ancients as 
no better than a numerous gang of banditti; as they mads 
frequent incurfions upon the territories of their neigh¬ 
bours, which they plundered and ravaged in a barbarous 
manner. A people of the fame name, as we learn from 
Phiioltratus, inhabited part of Ethiopia. 
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