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Offspring: 
The accufation, ^ 
All caufe unborn, could never be the native 
Of our fo frank donation. Shakefpeare's Coriol. 
NA'TIVELY, adv. Naturally; not artificially. — We 
wear hair which is not natively our own. Bp. Taylor .— 
There is fomething fo natively great and good in a perfon 
that is truly devout, that an awkward man may as well 
E retend to be genteel as an hypocrite to be pious. Tatler, 
° jii. —Originally.—I take two names given to Chrift 
to be natively Chaldee words. Lightfoot's Mifcell. —This 
goodnefs of God natively proceedeth from his will, as 
thought and truth proceedeth from his mind. Shelford's 
Learned Difc. 
NA'TIVENESS, f State of being produced by nature. 
NATIVIDAD', a mine-town of Bralil, in the govern¬ 
ment of Goyas. Lat. 13. 30. S. Ion. 31.20. W. 
NATIVIDAD', a (mail ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 
near the coaft of California: fourteen miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft from the ifland of Cerros. 
NATIVIDAD', a feaport of Mexico, in New Galicia : 
180 miles fouth-weft of Mechoacan. Lat. 19.20.N. Ion. 
106. 16. W. 
NATIV'ITY, f. [nativite, Fr.] Birth; iflue into life.— 
Concluding ever with a thankfgiving for the nativity 
of our Saviour, in whofe birth the births of all are only 
blefled. Bacon. —They looked upon thofe as the true days 
of their nativity, wherein they were freed from the pains 
and forrows of atroublefome world. Nelfon. —Time, place, 
or manner, of birth.—They fay there is divinity in odd 
numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Shakefpeare's 
Merry Wives of WindJ’or. 
My hufband, and my children both, 
And you the calenders of their nativity, 
Go to a goflip’s feaft. Shakefpeare's Com. of Err. 
State or place of being produced : 
Thefe, in their dark nativity, the deep 
Shall yield ,us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton’s P. L. 
Nativity is a word now chiefly ufed in fpeaking of 
faints, See. The Nativity of St. John the Baptift, celebrated 
in the Romifh church with great folemnity on the 24th of 
June ; the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, a feaft eftablifhed 
by pope Sergius I. who was advanced to the fee of Rome 
in 687, and obferved on the 8th of September, See. When 
we fay abfolutely The Nativity, it is underftood of that of 
Jefus Chrift, or the feaft of Chriftmas, which St. Gregory 
calls the “ feftival of feftivals,” and St. Chryfoftom “ the 
chief of all feftivals.” Of the early celebration of this 
feftival in the Chriftian church, we have given melancholy 
evidence under the word Christmas-day, vol. iv. but 
theobfervance of the day did not become general among 
, Chriftians till about the year 500 ; and hence the true day 
on which it ftiould be celebrated is loft; for there is no 
good realon to fuppofe that Our Saviour was born on the 
25th of December. 
Nativity, in aftrology, the theme or figure of the 
•heavens, and particularly of the twelve houfes, at the 
moment when a perfon was born ; called alfo the horofeope. 
See the article Astrology, vol. ii. p. 3x3, 323.—Carting 
the nativity, or by calculation feeking to know how long 
the queen Ihouldlive, &c. was made felony, anno 23 Eliz. 
c. 2. Jacob's Law Did. 
NATIZO'NE, a river of Friuli, which runs into the 
Lilonzo four miles north of Palma Nuova. 
NAT'LAND. See vol. xi. p. 661. 
NATO'LIA, or Anatolia, a province of Afiatic 
Turkey, bounded on the north by the Black Sea, on the 
eaft by Caram nia, on the fouth by the Mediterranean, 
and on the weft by the Archipelago and the Sea of Mar¬ 
mora ; about 400 miles in its greateft extent from eaft to 
weft, and 350 from north to fouth. Anatolia was an¬ 
ciently denominated Afia limply, or by way of peculiar 
excellence, as being the belt fpot in this part of the world. 
and adorned with many opulent cities, and confiderable 
ftates. Afterwards it was diftinguilhed from the whole 
Afiatic region by the epithet of Minor, or Lefs, and ac¬ 
cordingly denominated Afia Minor ; it derived the name 
of Anatolia from its eaftern fituation with regard to Eu¬ 
rope, and it is Hill called the Levant. Anatolia, in its 
largeft fenfe, comprehends the ancient provinces of Ga¬ 
latia, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Pontus, Myfia, Phrygia, 
Lydia and Maonia, Alolis, Ionia, Caria, Doris, Pamphy- 
lia, Pifidia, Cappadocia, Lycia, Lycaonia, and Cilicia. 
Later geographers have divided it into four parts, accord¬ 
ing to their fituation : viz. Anatolia, properly fo called, 
on the weftern part; Caramania, on the fouthern ; Ala- 
dulia, on the eaftern; and Amafia, on the northern. 
Anatolia, properly fo called, is divided into the follow¬ 
ing diftrifts ; viz. Bithynia, Myfia, A 5 olis, Ionia, Caria, 
Doris, Lydia, Phrygia, Galatia, and Paphlagonia. 
Anatolia, or Natolia, is now governed by a beglerbeg, 
who refides at Kiutaja, under whom are feveral fangiacs. 
The foil is, in general, fertile, producing corn, tobacco, 
and fruits of various kinds; cotton and filk ; and, not- 
withftanding the indolence of the Turks, and the op- 
preflive nature of their government, its commerce is con¬ 
fiderable ; particularly in carpets, leather, drugs, cotton, 
filk, and other articles of produce and manufacture. Molt 
of the inhabitants are Mahometans, with a confiderable 
proportion of Chriftians, particularly of the Greek 
church, governed by patriarchs, archbilhops, and bilhops, 
who are tolerated by the Porte. Here are likewife many 
Armenians, and fome Roman Catholics. 
NATOL'ICA, an ifland in the Mediterranean, near 
the coaft of Greece. Lat. 38. 39. N. Ion. 21. 26. E. 
NA'TRA, a town of Sweden, in Angermanland : 
thirty-five miles north-north-eaft of Hernoland. 
NATRAPOL'LAM, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: 
fix miles north of Allumbaddy. 
NA'TRIX, f in botany. See Ononis. 
NA'TROLITE, f. in mineralogy, the name given by 
Klaproth (Mem. Acad. Scien. Berlin, 1803) to a foflil 
found at Hogau in Suabia, on the borders of Swilferjand. 
It is deposited in the crevices, or clefts and cavities, of the 
fonorous porphyry (klinginftein porphyry), from having 
a found nearly metallic, which form the mountains and 
rocks of Hohentwial, Hohenkraken, and Miigdeberg. 
The colour of this foflil is a dirty ochraceous yellow, 
approaching fometimes to an ifabelia yellow, or at 
other times to a yellowiftt-brown, interfered with con¬ 
centric white lines. It is compaft ; its internal furface 
has a lilky luftre; it breaks into wedge-like pieces, the 
edges of which poffefs little tranfparency; it is not very 
hard, extremely brittle, and its Ipecific gravity is 2-200 : 
100 grains of this foflil, ignited in a filver crucible, ioll 
9 grains; it fules quickly before the blowpipe into a 
tranfparent glafs, full of fmall air- bubbles, and in a por¬ 
celain furnace melts into a brown glafs ; and in a charcoal 
crucible it afforded the fame produtT, with minute glo¬ 
bules of iron in the furface. From the analyfis of Klap- 
Siliceous earth 
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48 g 
Alumine 
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24-25 
Oxyd of iron 
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i 75 
Soda 
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16-50 
Water 
9 
99-50 
NA'TRON, f. A fort of black fait imported from 
Egypt. See Natrum. 
NATRUDACO F'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in Tine- 
velly : fixteen miles eaft of Tinevelly. 
NATSIATAM', f. in botany. See Menispermum. 
NATT, a call; or Hindoos, which originally fprung 
from a man of the Malakar call having had connexion 
with a woman of the Soodra. From this call are felected 
the dancing girls, fo famous, or rather infamous, in India. 
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