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Trojan war. The death of Palamedes highly enraged 
Nauplius; and, to requite the injustice of the Grecian 
princes, he endeavoured to debauch their wives, and ruin 
their chara&ers. When the Greeks returned from the 
Trojan war, Nauplius was pleafed to fee them diftreffed in 
a dorm on the courts of Euboea; and, to make their dif- 
after itill more univerfal, he lighted fires on fuch places 
as were furrounded with the molt dangerous rocks, that 
the fleet might be wrecked upon the coaft. This had the 
defired effect; but Nauplius was fo difappointed when 
he faw Ulyfies and Diomedes efcape from the general dif- 
trefs, that he threw liimfelf into the fea. According to 
feme mythologifts, there were two perfons of this name ; 
one a native of Argos, who went to Colchis with Jafon ; 
he was fon of Neptune and Amymone. The other was 
king of Eubcea, and lived about the time of the Trojan 
war. 
NAUPOR'TUS, or Nauportum, in ancient geogra¬ 
phy, a town on a cognominal river, towards its fource, 
in Pannonia Superior. The reafon of the name, accord¬ 
ing to Pliny, is, that the fhip Argo, after coming up the 
Danube, the Save, and the Laubach, was thence carried 
on men’s fhoulders over the Alps into the Adriatic. 
The river Nauportus rifes in the Alps, near Longaticum, 
at the diftance of fix miles from the town Nauportum ; 
which was a colony of the Taurifci, a people on the 
confines of Noricum. Now Upper Laubach in Carinthia, 
on the river Laubach. Lat. 46. 28. N. Ion. 14.40. E. 
NAUR, a fort of Ruffia, in the government of Cau- 
cafus, on the Malka : thirty-two miles eaft of Ekateri- 
nograd. 
NAUR'ZIM, a lake of Ruflla, about forty-eight miles 
in circumference. Lat. 51. 50. N. Ion. 64. 44. E. 
NAUS, a town of the county of Tyrol: fixteen miles 
wert of Bolzano. 
NAU'SA, a town of South-America, in the audience 
of Quito: thirty miles north-north-eaft of Guayaquil. 
NAUSA'RY, a town of Hindooftan, about ten leagues 
from Surat, of fmall extent, but containing a very con- 
fiderable cotton-manufadfory. It has a fort which be¬ 
longs to the Mahrattas; and is furrounded with pagodas, 
gardens, and beautiful flower-plats. In the neighbour¬ 
hood of this town, (he«onIy animal ufed for the faddle 
is the ox. 
NAU'SCOPY,/’ [Greek.] The art of difeovering lliips, 
See. at a great diftance from., land. M. Bottineau, a na¬ 
tive of the Ifland of Bourbon, in 1782, laid the above 
difeovery before the French minifter, M. Caftries, who 
defired him to return, and continue his obfervations 
there under the fuperintendance of the government. He 
had engaged that not a Angle fhip fhould arrive at the 
ifland, without his having lent information of it feveral 
days before. An exaft regifter of his communications 
was kept in the fecretary’s office, and it appears that he 
was wonderfully accurate ; for within eight months, and 
in 62 reports, he announced the arrival of 150 lliips. 
The following is one of his reports : “ On the 20th of 
Augurt, 1785, I difeovered, by examining the horizon, 
fome veflels at the diftance of four days fail from the 
ifland. On the following day the number multiplied 
confiderably to my fight; this induced me to fend infor¬ 
mation of many veflels ; but, though they were only four 
days’ diftance, I neverthelefs dated that no fettled time 
could be fixed on for their arrival, as they were detained 
by a calm. From the 20th of Auguft, to the 10th of Sep¬ 
tember, I did not ceafe to announce in my reports the 
continuation of the calm. On the 13th, I fent word that 
the fleet was no longer becalmed, and that it would ar¬ 
rive at the ifland within forty-eight hours. Accordingly, 
to the furprife of the whole ifland, M. de Regniers fleet 
arrived at Port Louis on the 15th. The general aftonifh- 
ment was greatly increafed, when it was known that this 
fleet had been becalmed fince the 20th of Auguft (twen¬ 
ty-three days) near Rodriguez Iflands, which was pre- 
pifely the diftance that I had pointed out in my reports.” 
N A U r,3() 
Injuftice to M. Bottineau’s extraordinary talent, it ought 
to be obferved, that it was neither by the undulation of 
the waves, fubtilty of fight, nor the ufe of glades, that he 
made fuch accurate reports; and, at the time that he an¬ 
nounced the proximity of the fhip to be within a day’s 
fail, a perfon placed on a commanding height could not 
djfcern it. The information conveyed by M. Bottineau 
difconcerted all the attempts of the Englifh cruifers to in¬ 
tercept the fhipping in thofe feas, and deftined for that 
ifland, during the time he continued his obfervations, 
which was until the return of peace rendered them of 
lefs importance. 
All the explanation this gentleman has chofen to give 
is as follows : “ This knowledge is not derived either 
from the undulation of the waves, or from the fubtilty 
of fight, or from any particular fenfation ; but merely 
from obfervation of the horizon , which difeovers figns 
indicating the proximity of fliips or of land. On the ap¬ 
proximation of a fhip toward the land, or towards another 
fhip, there appears in the atmofpherea meteor of a parti¬ 
cular nature, viiible to every one without any painful at¬ 
tention. It is not by any kind of accident that this me¬ 
teor appears under thefe circumftances ; on the contrary, 
it is the neceflary refult of the approximation of one veffel 
towards another, or towards the land. The exiftence of 
the meteor, and the knowledge of its different modifica¬ 
tions, are what conftitute the certainty and the precifion 
of my information. If I am afked, how it is poffible 
that the approach of a fhip towards land fhould give birth 
to any meteor whatfoever in the atmofphere, and what 
connexion there can be between two objedls at fuch a 
diftance from each other ? I reply, that I am not obliged 
to give an account of the hows and the wherefores ; that It 
is fufficient for me to have difeovered the fa< 51 , without 
being obliged to account for its principle.” The writer 
concludes, by defiring to be called on for experimental 
proofs, and by promifing in future a complete treatife of 
Naufcopy, with maps, plates, See. This complete treatife , 
as far as we know, has not yet been publifhed, nor do we 
expedl ever to fee fuch a treatife on the fubjedt as will fa- 
tisfy the minds of thofe who are perfuaded that every ef¬ 
fect muft have an adequate caufe. The whole feems to be 
the work of fancy. 
NAU'SEA, /. [Lat. vavlnx, Gr. from vav;, a fhip.] Sea- 
ficknefs ; any ficknefs.—The ficknefs and naufea, ufiual in 
other cafes of the like nature, being marvelloufly in this 
transferred to the by-ftanders. Dodfley. 
NAU'SEA (Frederic), a learned German prelate in 
the fixteenth century, who took the furname of Blanci- 
campianus. No mention is made of the time or place of 
his birth or education ; but the firft account which we 
have of him ftates, that he applied to the ltudy of the law 
and divinity with great fuccefs, and acquired a high cha- 
radter for erudition, as well as by his zealous defences of 
the catholic dodfrine and difeipline againft the proteftants. 
He preached at Mentz for fome time with great reputa¬ 
tion ; and, the fame of his eloquence having reached the 
court of the emperor Charles V. at Vienna, he was called 
to officiate there before that monarch. So acceptable 
were his fervices to the emperor, that in the year 1541, 
on a vacancy taking place in the fee of Vienna, he pro¬ 
moted our author to that dignity. In 1552, he was de¬ 
puted to attend the council of Trent, and died in that 
city in the fame year. He was the author of, 1. An Ex- 
polltion of the Books of Tobit and Judith. 2. A Para- 
phrafe on the Gofpel of St. Matthew. 3. An Expofltion 
of the Twelve Articles of the Creed. 4. Poftils and 
Homilies on all the Gofpels of the Year. 5. An Expli¬ 
cation of the Decalogue. 6. Paraphrafes on thefeventh, 
eighth, and nineteenth, Pfalms. 7. A Difcourfe on the 
Lord’s Prayer. 8. Four Books concerning the End of 
the World. 9. Three Books concerning the Final Ad¬ 
vent of Jefus Chrift. 10. Four Centuries of Homilies, 
printed at Mentz in 1534. 11. Five Books on Councils, 
Leipfic, 15383 and a multitude of controverlial works. 
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