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eight in breadth. Though it is for the mod part woody 
and mountainous, yet it is not without fine arable and 
meadow land. The houfe of Naflau is defeended from 
Ot'no, lord of Lamenberg, who lived in the ioth century. 
The founder of the prefent princes of Nafi'au was count 
Henry 1 . furnamed the Wealthy, wdio equally left to his 
two foils, Walram and Otho I. the wdiole county of 
Naflau; with its feudal, patrimonial,and hereditary, lands. 
In a compaCV of partition, made in the year 1255, they 
held the patrimonial houfe and prefeClurate of Naflau, 
v with other family-privileges, in an indivilible commu¬ 
nity ; hut the other part of the county they divided. 
Weilburg, Wilbaden, and Idftein,became WalranVs part; 
and Otho I. had Siegen, Dillenberg, Herborn, Beilitein, 
Hadamar, and Ems, all which gave diitinCtive titles to 
each family. The prefent reigning princes are Nafi'au 
Weilburg, Nafi'au Diilenburg, and Nafi'au Saarbruck 
Uiingen. All the branches are named from the principal 
towns in the feveral diftriCts. 
NASSAU', a town of Germany, in the county of 
Nafi'au Dietz, on the Lahn ; the church of which is tiled in 
common both by the Lutherans and Calvinifts. On the 
other fide of the river facing the town, and on a high 
mountain, formerly flood Naflauberg, a place of great 
antiquity, and the original houfe of the Nafi'au family; 
hut fin ce a fief of Treves: twenty-two miles north-wed 
of Mentz ; twelve fouth-eafl of Coblentz. Lat. 50. 17.N. 
Ion. 7. 55. E. 
NASSAU' DI'ETZ. This county is fituated, accord¬ 
ing to Bufching, in the circle of the Upper Rhine ; Be- 
renger places it in the circle of Weftphalia ; it lies on the 
river Lahn, and was formerly called the Golden County, 
on account of its fertility. It was a fief of Treves, having 
been granted to the archbifhop of that city by the empe¬ 
ror Frederic III. in fo abfolute a manner, that the pof- 
feflor of this county w : as to hold it as a fief of the debtor 
of Treves, as i t,bad before been held of the emperor and 
empire. Dietz is the capital. 
NASSAU', a fmall town of America, in Dauphin 
county, Pennfylvania ; containing a German church, and 
about thirty-five hottfes ; called alio Kerapilown.—A river 
oil the coafl of Eafl Florida, which runs into the fea in lat. 
30. 44.. N. Ion. 81. 4.2. W.—A11 ifland in the Eaft-Indian 
ocean, fituated welt of Sumatra'; about fifty miles in cir¬ 
cumference. This ifland and Poggy are fometimes called 
Nafi'au Iflands, and fometimes Poggy Iflands. The inha¬ 
bitants are all tattooed. Lat. 3. S. Ion. 100. W.—A fea- 
port town of Providence, one of the Bahama iflands.—A 
town of Germany, in the county of Hohenloe; four miles 
north of Wieckerlheim.—A mountain of the iliand of 
Jamaica; fifty miles wefl-north-wefl of Kingdom—A 
fmall iliand at the mouth of Byram river, in Long-ifland 
Sound.—A large bay, called Spirito Santo, on the coalt of 
Weft Florida, about feventy miles from north to fouth, 
in which are feveral iflands, the moll: northerly of which 
is Myrtle ifland. Lat. 27. 4.5. to 28. 10. N. Ion. 82. 35. to 
83. W.—A large and open bay on the fouth coafi: of Terra 
del Fuego ifland ; eaft of Falfe Cape Horn, which forms 
the weftern limit of the bay; it is well flieltered from the 
tempefls of the ocean, and capable of holding a fleet of 
Slips. Lat. 55. 38. S.—A cape on the coafi: of Surinam, or 
north-ead of South America, north-north-weft of Ell'e- 
quibo gulf, and the eaft point of the entrance into the 
river Puniaron. Lat. 7.40. N. Ion. 59. 30. W.—A cape 
on the north fliore of Terra Firma, in South America.—A 
road 011 the coafi: of Welt Florida, weft of Mobile bay, 
north of Ship ifland, and within the north erid of the 
Chandeleurs, or Myrtle iflands. This is one of the bell 
roads, molt eafy of .accefs, and the bell flieltered for large 
vefl'els, on the whole coafi of Florida. This road was fil'd 
difeovered by Dr. Daniel Cox of New Jerl'ey, who called 
it Nafi'au in honour of the reigning prince, William III. 
NASSAU'VIA, [fo named by Commerfon in compli¬ 
ment to the prince of Naflau, who is laid to have been the 
companion of his herborizing excursions about the llraits 
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of Magellan.] In botany, a genus of the clafs fyngenefia, 
order polygamia-fegregata, natural order compofitse, 
Linn, ("cinarocephalas, duff.) Generic charaders—Com¬ 
mon calyx: of feveral oblong pungent horizontal leaves, 
furrounding a cylindrical common receptacle, and fepa- 
rating the tufts of flowers; perianthium double; the 
outermod of three linear-lanceolate leaves; inner of^five 
larger ones; all rather fpinous-pointed. Corolla: com¬ 
pound, tubular; florets four or five, equal, perfeCtJ uni¬ 
form ; their limb two-lipped ; the upper with three teeth, 
ered; lower with two, refiexed. Stamina: filaments 
five, capillary; anthers cohering, acute, about equal to 
the limb. Piftillum : germen oblong, fomewhat quadran¬ 
gular, comprefled ; flyle thread-lhaped ; fligmas linear, 
divaricated. Pericarpium : none, except the permanent 
calyx. Seed the figure of the germen ; down of four or 
five foft white deciduous bridles, fcarceiy extending be¬ 
yond the calyx. Receptaculum : fmall, naked .—Effential 
Character. Flowers in an oblong head, with fitar-p feales 
interfperfed; caiyx four or five flowered, double; the 
outer of three leaves, inner of five ; florets tubular, two¬ 
lipped; down Widly, deciduus ; receptacle naked. 
Naflauvia fuaveoiens, the only fpecies. Native of the 
flraits of Magellan ; communicated by Jufiieuand Thouin 
from Commerfon's Herbarium. The root appears to be 
perennial. Stems decumbent at the bale, then ered, a 
fpan high, leafy, with a few fiiort iateral branches. Leaves 
fefiile, ovate, acute, ribbed, lmooth, crowded, deeply 
toothed, or almod pinnatifid, in their upper part. 
Flowers terminating, the main flem, in a denle oblong 
downy head, whole outer feales are broaded, all of them 
being entire and tingle-ribbed ; in which characters, and 
their downinefs, they did'er from the foliage. The whole 
plant has much of the afpeft of a tuflilago, or butter-bur, 
in its flowers ; but the foliage is totally diflimilar, both in 
form, fize, and fituation, to every fpecies of that genus, a* 
is likewite the frudlification. This herb is faid to be de¬ 
lightfully fragrant; but nothing of that kind is percep¬ 
tible in our dried fpecimens. 
NASS'ENFUSS, or Mokronog, a town of the duchy of 
Carniola: five miles north of Rudolfswerth. 
NASS'ENFELS, a town of Bavaria, in the principality 
of Aichflatt: four miles north of Neuberg, and five louth 
of Aichflatt. 
NASS'IA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land: eighteen miles ead-fouth-ead of Jonkioping. 
NASS'IG,a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: five mile® 
fouth of Konigftiofen in der Grabfeld. 
NASS'IR-ED'DIN, the furname of Mohammed Ben 
Haflan, or Ben Mohammed al-Thoudi, a very celebrated 
philofopher, altronomer, and various writer, among the 
Mahometans. He was born in the year of the Hegira 
597, or A. D. 1182; but in what place or country we are 
not informed. He cultivated literature and the fciences 
with great l’uccefs, and is characterized by Ebn Khalekan 
as “ the dodtor who had acquired thehighed reputation 
in all branches of knowledge.” He is frequently called, 
by way of eminence, “ Khouageh, or the Mafier.” Ho- 
lagou, emperor, of the Moguls, placed him at the head 
of all the philofophers and aflronomers whom he had 
given directions for iparing amidfl the wars of depreda¬ 
tion which he carried on againd the Mahometans ; and 
he created him director, or luperintendant, of the re¬ 
venues of all the colleges in the cities of which he be¬ 
came mailer. Afterwards he affigned him the city of 
Maragah, in the Perfian province of Aiderbeitzan ; and 
commanded him to prepare thofe adronomical tables 
which have reached our time, and were called Imperial, 
or Ilehhauik, after the emperor’s title of Ilklian. Naflir 
Eddin alfo publilhed the mod edeemed Mahometan 
editions, with commentaries, of Euclid’s Elements of 
Geometry, and the Spherics of Theodoltus and Menelaus, 
in the years 663 and 670 of the Hegira, or A. D. 1246 and 
1253; a treatife on moral fubjeCts, entitled Akhlak al- 
Najferi ; and another on economics and politics, entitled 
Al-Menzeli 
