NAY 
NAY 
great confumption. The peaches, apricots, pomegranates, 
pines, plums, walnuts, almonds, and figs, are confumed. 
in the ifland. Naxos has fheep and goats for the wants of 
the inhabitants, a few fmall-fized oxen for hufbandry, to¬ 
gether with mules and affes for draught. The wool is 
of bad quality, and wholly confumed in the country. 
Cheefe is an article of exportation. Cotton is but little 
cultivated, which is alfo the cafe with filk and flax. The 
honey and wax are confumed in the ifland. Tothefouth 
of the town is a fmall faltern, whence the capital is fup- 
plied with fait. Lat. 37. 6. N. Ion. 25.32. E. 
NAX'IA, the capital of the above ifland, and one of 
the molt beautiful towns in the Grecian Archipelago. 
The town Hands on an eminence by the fea, on the welt 
coaft of the ifland, oppofite to Paros. It was defended, 
under the Venetian princes, by a citadel, and by walls, 
which the Turks have in a great meafure deftroyed. The 
Latins, who were formerly mailers of the country, are 
all lodged within their enclofure. The Greeks occupy 
that part which extends to the eaftward of the caftle, 
known by the name of the New Town. The ancient 
city extended to the north, towards the fountain which 
bears the name of Ariadne. There are alfo, below the 
caftle, fome remains of a fubterranean aquedubl, that 
probably brought to the town the waters of a copious 
fpring, which is feen four or five miles to the eaft, and 
which at this day ferves to water part of the plain of 
Naxia. Bacchus had formerly a temple at Naxos: the 
gate and the foundation of it are Hill vifible on a fmall 
rocky ifland, in the vicinity of Ariadne’s fountain. A 
bridge built on a chain of rocks, it is faid, joined this 
ifland to the large one, and conducted an aquedubl for 
conveying water for the priefts who inhabited the enclo¬ 
fure of the temple. On the north fide of the ifland is a 
coloffal ftatue of Apollo, which is an imperfebl piece of 
fculpture. The harbour, facing the ifland of Paros, was 
formerly capable of containing thirty galleys, and clofed 
by a jetty, now to be diftinbtly perceived when the fea is 
fmooth. It is at prefent feveral feet under water, and 
yet the fmall craft of the country lie fafely there in all 
feafons. Ships of burden may anchor, infummer, off the 
harbour, under fhelter of the rock, on which are the re¬ 
mains of the temple of Bacchus. Lat. 37. 7. N. Ion. 25. 
26. E. Sonnini. Olivier. Tournefort. 
NAX'OS, or Naxus, in ancient geography, a town of 
Sicily, on the eaft fide of the ifland, on a fmall promon¬ 
tory to the fouth of Apollinis Archageta ara, and to the 
eaft of Veneris Fanum. It was near the mouth of the 
fmall river Arfines. Upon the deftrubtion of this town, 
its inhabitants were removed to Mount Taurus, on which 
they built the town of Taurominium, called Naxos-Tau- 
rominium. 
NAX'OS, a town of Crete, famous for its hones, called 
lapis Naxius. 
NAY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees : nine miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Pau, and 
fifteen eaft of Oleron. 
NAY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire : twelve miles fouth-eaft of Brioude. 
NAY, a river of France, which runs into the Charente 
between Saintes and Cognac. 
NAY, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Galam : 
twenty-five miles fouth of Galam. 
NAY, adv. [Goth, ne, Sax. na, or ne aye.~\ No ; an ad¬ 
verb of negation : 
Difputes in wrangling fpend the day, 
Whilft one fays only yea, and t’other nay. Denham. 
Not only fo, but more. A word of amplification. — A 
good man always profits by his endeavour, yea, when he 
is abfent; nay!, when dead, by his example and memory ; 
lo good authors in their ftile. B.Jonfon's Difcoveries. —If 
a fon fliould ftrike his father, not only the criminal but 
his whole family would be rooted out, nay, the inhabi- 
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tants of the place where he lived, would be put to the 
fword, nay , the place itfelf would be razed. Addifon .—■ 
Word of refufal.—They have beaten us openly uncon¬ 
demned, being Romans, and have call us into prifon ; 
and now do they thruft us out privily ? nay verily, but 
let them come themfelves and fetch us out. Ads xvi. 37. 
—The fox made feveral excufes, but the ftork would not 
be laid nay ; fo that at laft he promifed him to come. 
IfiEftrange. 
He that will not when he may, 
When he would he lhall have nay. Old Proverb. 
NAY, f. Denial; refufal. See Denay, vol. v.—There 
is a faire betide there alfo, which (he determined! to fell, 
and would have you to have the firft nay of it. Radcliffe's 
Letters, 1613. 
There was no nay, but I muft in, 
And take a cup of ale. W. Browne. 
To NAY, v.a. To refufe. Ohfolete. —The Hate of a 
cardinal was naied and denaied him. Holinjhed. 
NAYE, or Nayemou', a town of Africa, in Bondou : 
twelve miles fouth-welt of Fatteconda. 
NAY'LAND, or Neyland, a market-town in the 
hundred of Babergh, and county of Suffolk, England, is 
iituated in a valley on the north bank of the river Stour. 
This place was formerly remarkable for its woollen ma- 
nufablures; but this branch of trade i§ now reduced to a 
very low ebb, only a fmall portion of yarn being made to 
fupply the crape and bombazeen manufablories of Nor¬ 
wich. Some white and brown foap, of a very fuperior 
quality, is made here; as is alfo a confiderable quantity 
of meal, which is fent to Manningtree to be Ihipp.ed for 
London. The trade that is carried on by the navigation 
on the Stour, is pretty confiderable from Manningtree 
fo Bury, Sudbury, See. for all the coal that is conveyed 
by the barges from the former to the latter place, paffes 
through Nayland ; and the chalk, from the pits near 
Sudbury, is brought by the barges in return, which makes 
that neceflary article for the farmer come cheap. The 
yearly meeting of the commiflioners of this navigation is 
held at the Queen’s Head here, the laft Monday in Sep¬ 
tember, by direbtion of the abt of parliament. 
There is a number of acres of good meadow-land in 
this parifli, where the tenants of particular houfes have a 
right to feed a certain number of cows, &c. from May- 
day to Obtober 10. There is alfo a quantity of land in 
the neighbourhood, that lets for about 130I. per annum, 
which is veiled in truftees for the purpofe relieving poor 
decayed tradefpeople, and out of which rental a lalary is 
allowed to an Englilh mailer to teach ten boys. 
The church of Nayland, the principal ornament of the 
town, Hands almoft in its centre, and is furmounted by a 
lofty fpire. The porch is a very handfome piece of archi- 
teblure, faid to have been erebted by one Abel, a clothier, 
whole monument appears in the wall. Various other mo¬ 
numents in memory of clothiers are difperfed throughout 
the interior of this edifice; but they are no otherwife 
worthy of regard, except as tokens of the early manufac¬ 
turing opulence of the place. The living is in the gift of 
fir William Rowley, bart. of Tendring-hall: the great 
tithes belong to the’Monnock family, whole feat is at 
Stoke Nayland, which is the mother-church ; (fee below.) 
Nayland has a fmall market on Friday; and there is a 
fair annually on the 2d of Obtober. According to the 
parliamentary returns of 1811, the houfes in Nayland 
amounted to 184 in number, and the inhabitants to 933. 
Stoke Nayland, or Stoke juxta Nayland, (to which 
Nayland itfelf is only an appendage, though it is now the 
larger place,) is the adjoining parifli; the village itfelf is 
near two miles from Nayland. It is diltinguilhed by a 
very noble church and fteeple. This place was the lite 
of a monaftery of great note previous to the conqueft, 
but it feems to have foon fallen to decay after that event. 
2 C Gifford’s 
