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uiafter, as a high diftintftion. Others, however, laboured 
to- avoid their doom, and feveral hived their lives by flying 
to the woods. As the Indian Bramins give an intoxicat¬ 
ing draught to the women who are to be burnt together 
with the bodies of their hufbands, which renders them 
infenflble of their approaching fate, the Natchez obliged 
their viftims to (wallow feveral large pills of tobacco, 
which produce a iimilar effeft. 
NATCH'EZ, the principal town of the Mifliflippi terri¬ 
tory, on the eaft fide of the Miffiffi;*pi; 300 miles north 
of New Orleans by water, 150 by the lake road. It has 
a Roman-catholic church, and is defended by a fort. 
Lat. 31. 31. N. 
As Natchez is likely to become a metropolis of the back 
fettlements, a centre of adminiffration, of literature, and 
of traffic, we (hall here fubjoin a brief account of its pro¬ 
ductions. The ftaple-commodify is cotton, which the 
country produces in great abundance, and of good qua¬ 
lity. The-manufacture of calico, and the cultivation of 
tobacco, were carried on with fpirit fome years ago; but 
they have both given way to the culture of cotton. The 
country produces maize, or Indian corn, equal, if not 
fuperior, to that in any part of the United States. The 
time of planting is from the beginning of March until 
the beginning of July. The cotton is generally planted 
in the latter end of February and the beginning of March. 
Rye, which has been attempted has fucceeded in fome 
places; but wheat has failed. Apples and cherries are 
fcarce ; but peaches, plums, and rigs, are very abundant. 
The vegetables of the Middle States generally fucceed 
here. The fugar-cane has been tried, but its effeCts have 
not been fully afcertained. From the great number of 
artificial mounds of earth vifible through the whole fettle- 
ment of Natchez, it mud, at fome former period, have 
been well peopled; befides, in all parts where new planta¬ 
tions are opened, broken Indian earthen-ware is found ; 
fome of the pieces being in tolerable prefervation, and 
retaining diftinClly the original ornaments ; but none of it 
appears to have ever been glazed. 
NATCH'IKIN, a town of Kamtfchatka. In the neigh¬ 
bourhood is a medicinal fpring: thirty miles ealt of Bol- 
cheretfk. 
NATCH'ING-TONG', a town of Corea: eighteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Han. 
NATCHITOCK'ES. See Nachitoches, p. 501. 
NATCHITOCH'ES, or Nachitoches, a name given 
to Red River in Louifiana, which runs into the Mifliflippi 
in lat. 31. 15. N. Ion. 91. 47. W. 
NAT'CHUS, a town of the Hate of Georgia. Lat. 33. 
27. N. Ion. 86. 40. V/. 
NATE'CO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bam- 
bouk : one hundred miles fout’h-eaft of Galam. 
NA'TELY, a village in Hampfliire, north-eaft of Ba- 
fingftoke. 
NA'TENS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
fixty miles north of Ifpahan, and fifty eaft of Coufar. 
NAT'ERNBACH, a town of Auftria: eight miles weft- 
north-weft of Efferding. 
NAT'ERNBERG, a town and caftle of Bavaria, near 
the Danube : two miles weft of Deckendorf, and nine 
north-north-weft of Ofterhofen. 
NA'TERS, a town of Swiflerland, in the Valais. Near 
it are the ruins of a caftle which formerly belonged to the 
family of Flue, or Super Saxo. This family, one of the 
moft powerful of the republic, viewing with jealou-fy and 
dilcontent the bifhop’s afcendency, railed againft the fee 
for a feries of years much trouble and inquietude ; till at 
laft, having gained fufficient influence, it cauled the 
famous cardinal Matthew Schinner, the then bifhop of 
Sion, to be expelled from the Valais, at the dole of the 
fixteenth century. Neverthelefs, this prelate, who was 
no lefs aftive than ambitious, pofleffing eloquence and a 
moft intriguing mind, who had likewife unfortunately 
promoted the Ihedding of much of the Valaifan blood in 
wfelefs military expeditions in the Milanefe, found means 
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to reinftate himfelf in the diocefe; and, by way of retali¬ 
ation, expelled in his turn this very family of the Flues, 
and took pofleflion of their eftates. This place is twenty- 
nine miles eaft of Sion. 
NATEW', a town of the county of Tyrol : fix miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Infpruck. 
NA'THAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
fixty miles north-north-eaft of Ifpahan. 
NA'EHAN, [Heb. a gift.] A famed prophet, and a 
confident of king David. Not long after David’s advance-- 
ment to the throne of Ifrael, he intended to build a tem¬ 
ple for the Lord. Nathan,-without waiting the divine 
direction, encouraged him to do it; but, foon after, was 
direfted of God to forbid him, and tell him that that 
work was divinely allotted to his fon and fuccefior. Some 
years after, when David had defiled Bathflieba, and mur¬ 
dered her hufoand, Nathan, directed of God, reproved 
him. He told him a parable of a man who had a great 
many flocks and herds of his own, and yet, when his 
friend came to vifit him, he by force took from a poor 
neighbour his only lamb, which was very dear to him, to 
entertain his friend. With great indignation, David 
replied, that fuch a perfon (hould be obliged to reftore 
fourfold to the poor man, and then be put to death. Na¬ 
than told him that he himfelf was the guilty criminal ; 
for he had defiled Bathflieba, the only wife of Uriah, and 
had murdered him. When Adonijah attempted to fettle 
himfelf on the throne, Nathan and Bathflieba, by his 
direftion, prevented it; and he and Benaiah, and others, 
were immediately appointed to crown Solomon. 2 Sam. 
vii. xii. 1 Kings i. Nathan and Gad wrote the hiftory of 
David ; probably the Second Book of Samuel, and lalfc 
part of the Firft. He and others wrote the hiftory of 
Solomon. 1 Chrrn. xxix. 29.- 2 Ckron. ix. xxvii. But 
whether this Nathan was the father of Azariah and 
Zabud, who were officers of dignity under Solomon, (t 
Kings, iv. 5.) we know not. 
NA'THAN (Ben-Jechiel-Ben-Abraham), a learned 
rabbi who flouriftied in the eleventh century, was prefi- 
dent of the Jewilh academy at Rome, and died in the year 
1106. He was the author of a work entitled “ Haruc/i, or 
Set in Order;” being a Talmudical diftionary ; in which 
all the terms of the Talmud are alphabetically arranged } 
the pages from which they are taken quoted in the mar¬ 
gin ; and the whole explained in a very copious manner. 
Of this work the elder Buxtorf frequently availed him¬ 
felf, without duly acknowledging his obligations. It was 
firft printed at Pefaro, in 1515, folio; and afterwards 
underwent impreflions at Venice, in 1531, 1553, and 1653 ; 
at Bafil, in 1599 ; at Amfterdam, in 1655, with additions 
by rabbi Benjamin Mufapliia ; and at Paris, in 1629, folio, 
greatly enlarged by Philip Aquino, under the title of, 
“ Didfionarium Hebrseo-Chaldaeo-Thalmudico-Rabbini- 
cum.” 
NA'THAN (Ifaac), a learned rabbi who flouriftied iu 
the fifteenth century. He was the firft Jew who made a 
Hebrew Concordance to the Bible; on which *he was 
occupied from the year 1438 to 1445. This work, he 
acknowledges in the preface, was not his own compilation, 
but for the moft part copied from Latin concordances ; lo 
that the Jews are indebted to Chriftians for the works of 
this nature which they poflefs. Our author entitled his 
performance Muir Nctib, or Light to the Path. It was 
firft printed at Venice by Bombergue, in 1524, folio ; after¬ 
wards in a more correft Hate, with a Talmudical index, 
at Bafil, by Froben, in 1581, folio; and at Rome in 1622, 
under the care of Marius a Calafio, of the order of friars 
minors, and profefl’or of the Hebrew language, in four 
volumes, folio, ftill further correfted ; and with the addi¬ 
tion of the Chaldee of Daniel and Ezra, a Latin verfion 
of the words, and fuch Syriac and Arabic words as are 
fuppofed to be derived from Hebrew roots, &c. The 
moft complete and valuable edition of it is that of Bux- 
torf the elder, which was publifhed by his fon at Bafil, in 
1632, folio. An edition of this work was publifhed at 
Lpndoa, 
