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an honed benevolent mind, with the vices which fpring 
from too much good-nature. He had pity for every 
creature’s diftrefs, but wanted prudence in the applica¬ 
tion of his benefits. He had generofity for the wretched 
in the higheft degree, at a time when his creditors com¬ 
plained of his want of juftice. About T703, the city of 
Bath became in fome meafure frequented by people of 
diftindlion. Several phyficians had prail'ed the falubrity 
of the wells; and the amufements were put under the di¬ 
rection of a mailer of the ceremonies ; the fecond perfon 
appointed to which office was Mr. Nafli, who fet up a band 
of raulic, and the company very fenfibly increafed. The 
city of Bath, from his affiduity, foon became the theatre 
of fummer-amufements for all people of fafnion; and 
every amufement foon improved under his adminiftration. 
His equipage was fumptuous, and he ufed to travel in a 
poll-chariot and fix greys, with out-riders, footmen, 
French horns, and every other appendage of expenfive 
parade. Of all the inltances of Naffi’s bounty, none does 
him more real honour than the pains he took in eilablilh- 
ing an hol'pital at Bath. It is with regret we add after 
this, that, in the evening of his life, he wanted that 
charity which he had never refufed to any. Pall the power 
of giving or receiving pleafure, he became poor, old, and 
peevilh ; and, indeed, a variety of caufes concurred to em¬ 
bitter his departing life. He died in St. John’s Court, 
Bath, Feb. 3, 1761, fincerely regretted by the city to 
which he had been fo long and fo great a benefadlor. 
Jones's Biographical Di&l. 
NASH POI'NT, a cape in the Britiffi Channel, on the 
fouth coall of Wales, and county of Glamorgan. Lat. 
51.23.N. Ion.4. 30. W. 
NASHAU'N, or Naw'shawn, a fmall illand in Buz¬ 
zard’s Bay. 
NASHUA'Y, a river of New Hampffiire, which runs 
into the Merrimack three miles north of Dunltable. 
NASH'VILLE, a town ofthellate of Tennaffee,on the 
fouth fide of Cumberland River; boats of twenty tons 
are navigated between this place and New Orleans. Lat. 
37. 2. N. ion. 84. 12. W. 
N ASHWAC'TISH, a river of New Brunfwick, which 
runs into the St. John in lat. 46. 4. N. Ion. 66.46. W. 
NASICOR'NOUS, adj. [from the Lat. unfits, nofe, and 
cornu, horn.] Having a horn on the nofe.—Some uni¬ 
corns are among infedts; as thofe four kinds of najicor- 
nons beatles defcribed by Moffetus. Brown. 
NAS'ILOW, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : fifty miles fouth-eall of Wilna. 
NAS'IMA, a town of Japan, on the fouth coall of Ni- 
phon. Lat. 34. 26. N. Ion. 134. S. E. 
NAS'IMA, a fmall illand of Japan, in the ftrait between 
Niphon and Xicoco. 
NAS'NO, a town of Japan, in the illand of Niphon : 
feventy mi es north of Jedo. 
NASKATAPOO'R, or the Town of Men without 
Nofes. See Kiiirtipoor, vol. xi. 
NAS'KEAG POI'NT, a cape of Hancock-county, in 
the Hate of Maine, being the eallern point of Penobfcot- 
bay, in the town of Sedgwick. 
NAS'KOW, a town of Denmark, fituated on the well 
coall of the illand ofLaland, of which it is the capital; it 
was anciently well fortified, but is now only encompafled 
with a wall. It is a town of the middling fize, and hand- 
•fomely built. The inhabitants are wealthy, and trade in 
the produce of the country, which is very fertile. The 
Jews are allowed the public exercife of theirreligion, and 
have a lynagogue. In this town are an hol'pital and a 
grammar-lchool, both well endowed. Here is ailo a 
pretty good harbour. In 1420, Nalkow' fuffered extremely 
by fire ; in 1570, it was plundered by the Lubeckers ; and, 
in 1659, it furrendered to the Swedes, after a vigorous re¬ 
finance of thirteen weeks; but was reltored at the peace. 
Lat. 54. 51. N. Ion. 11. 5. E. 
NA SO, a town of Sicily, in the valley of Demona: 
nine miles well of Patti. 
NAS 587 
NASONO'VA, an oftrog of Ruffia, in the government 
of Tobollk, on the Enifei: 320 miles north-north-well of 
Turuchanlk. 
NASO'W, a town of Pomerania: eight miles north- 
eall of Curling. 
NASPATUC'KET. See Wanaspatucket. 
NASS'AFI, the furname of Nagmeddin Abou Hafs 
Omar Ben Mohammed, a celebrated Muflulman doctor, 
who was born in the year of the Hegira 461, or A. D. 
1069, at the city of Nekfcheb, called by the Arabians 
Natfaf or NelTef, in that part of thePerfian territories which 
lies beyond the river Gihon, anciently called the Oxus. 
He was one of the mod eminent of the fedl of the Hani- 
fites, or followers of Abou-Hanifah, who is venerated as 
the principal imam or chief of one of the four orthodox 
fedls among the Mahometans. He is fpoken of by fuc- 
ceeding writers in high terms of praife; and has the titles 
given to him of “ Nag-m Bddin n Almi/lat, or Star of the 
Faith and of Religion;” and “ Mofti Alginn u Alans, or 
Sovereign Dodlor of Genii and of Men.” He died at Samar- 
cand, in the year,537 of the Hegira, or A. D. 1123, when 
he was about the age of fifty-four, deeply regretted by an 
immenfe number of difciples, who refpefted him equally 
on account of his learning and piety. To him are attri¬ 
buted nearly a hundred treatifes on the Muflulman law 
and traditions, in which he is laid to have condenfed the 
excellences of 550 preceding writers. 
NASS'AFI, the furname ofHafedheddin Aboulbarakat 
Abdallah Ben Ahmed Ben Mahmoud, another famous 
Muflulman doctor, of the fame country with the preced¬ 
ing, but who flouriffied at a much later period. The 
foundnefs of his dodlrine, and the exemplarinefs of his 
piety, are likewife highly commended ; and his writings 
on law and religion are held in much efteetn. He died at 
Bagdat, in the year 710 of the Hegira, or A. D. 1291. He 
was the author of a Commentary on the elder Naflafi’s 
Works; a Commentary on the five books of the Muflul- 
man law; and two pieces on the metaphyiics and fcho- 
laftic divinity of the Mahometans. D'Herbelot's BibL 
Orient. 
NASSAR'RE (Pablo de Zaragoza), an ecclefiaftic and 
organill of the royal convent in that city, author of a 
treatife on mufic in Spanifli, entitled Fragmentos Mujicos, 
in four parts, or diftindt treatifes ; in which are contained 
the general rules neceflary for canto fermo; charadters for 
time, in meafured mufic; counterpoint, and compolition, 
Madrid, 4to. 1700. 
The work is written in dialogue; the queftions are per¬ 
tinent, and the anfwers fuccindl and clear. In the firft 
dialogue on canto fermo, examples are given, in Grego¬ 
rian notes, of all the eight modes of the church. In the 
fecond dialogue, the clefs, characters for time, and their 
proportions in canto figurato, or meafured mufic, are ex¬ 
plained ; in which the old time-table is united with the 
new, from the maxima to the femi-quaver. A confider- 
able part of this ledlion is now ufelefs in practice, unlefs 
in decipheringvery old mufic. In the third dialogue, the 
technical terms uled in counterpoint are defined, and its 
rules explained. In this part of the work the author’s 
knowledge of the hiftory of counterpoint appears to be 
very f’uperficial. He quotes Bacchius Senior in his defi¬ 
nition. All his examples are written on canto fermo on 
four lines. But this ledlion advances no further in com- 
poiition than plain counterpoint, and the ufe of concords. 
In the fourth dialogue, however, the ufe of difcords, pair¬ 
ing notes, and ligatures, or binding-notes, is amply 
treated ; and numerous fltort examples of fugue on Ample 
fubjedls are given, but none of canon or double counter¬ 
point. The paflages are all ecclefiaftical, and much more 
ancient than the date of the book. 
NASS'AS, a river of Mexico, which falls into the Gulf 
of Mexico. 
NASSAU'. See Maurice, vol. xiv. p.558,9. 
NASSAU', a principality ot Germany, lituated in the 
Wetterau, about forty-eight miles in length, and twenty- 
eight 
