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26. Necydalis flavefcens : fliells teftaceous ; body black; 
bind-thighs clavate and curved. An European infeft, 
and is thought to be a mere variety of the laft. 
27. Necydalis bicolor: bluifh ; edge of the thorax, ab¬ 
domen, and legs, teftaceous. It inhabits the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
28. Necydalisclavipes: black; fliells tapering, green ifh; 
hind-thighs thickened and curved. This is found at Kiel, 
and is a lmall fpecies. The thorax is imprefled on each 
fide black-green ; fliells with a raifed duiky line reaching 
not half way down. 
29. Necydalis teftacea: black; thorax and fliells tefta¬ 
ceous ; legs rufous. This fpecies is found in divers parts 
of Germany. 
30. Necydalis glaucefcens: fliells fubulate and glau¬ 
cous; body black ; incifures of the abdomen white. It 
inhabits the fouthern parts of Europe. See fig. 8. 
' 31. Necydalis fimplex: fliells fubulate and teftaceous; 
the legs are Ample. It is found in Europe; and is thought 
to be a variety of N. psdagraria. 
32. Necydalis quercus : fliells fubulate; abdomen and 
legs yellowifii. It inhabits Denmark, on the oak; and is 
very fmall. 
33. Necydalis brevicornis : fliells very,minute; head 
and thorax brown, with a yellow line; the antennae are 
very (liort and thick. It inhabits Guinea; and is large 
and long. 
34. Necydalis. ftriata: greenifh ; fliells with four raifed 
lines. It is found in Berlin. 
35. Necydalis meianocephala: fliells teftaceous; head 
and wings black ; antennae brown. Inhabits Saxony. 
36. Necydalis glauca: black; thorax and fliells blue. 
Found at Berlin. 
37. Necydalis collaris; black; thorax teftaceous, with 
two pun&ures; legs Ample. It inhabits North America. 
38. Necydalis exufta: brown ; fliells fubulate and tefta¬ 
ceous, darker at the margin ; legs Ample. It inhabits 
Europe. 
39. Necydalis clavata: black; fliells fubulate and tefta¬ 
ceous; t>he outer margin brown; hind-thighs clavate and 
curved. Inhabits Europe. 
NED THO'MAS's SHO'ALS, rocks in the Spanifli 
Main, on the Mofquito fliore'. Lat. 14. 4. N. Ion. 82. 
14. W. 
NE'DA, in ancient geography, a river of Arcadia, fouth- 
•weft of Megalopolis. It commenced at Mount Ceraufius, 
and in its progrefs feparated the Elide from Meflenia. 
Near it was a celebrated ancient temple, confecrated to 
Eurynome, the pretended daughter of the Ocean : this 
temple was encompafled by cyprefs-trees : once a-year it 
tvas reforted to for facrifice, but at all other times it was 
fliut. The Neda ftill retains its ancient name; and is now 
defcribed a river of Greece, which runs into the Mediter¬ 
ranean three miles north of Arcadia. 
NE'DA, a town of Spain, in Galicia: five miles eaft 
of Ferrol. 
NE'DA, or Langaro'la, a river of European Turkey, 
which runs into the fea twenty miles north of Navarin. 
NEDAMO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ellore : fixteen miles eaft of Ellore. 
NEDDAGOO'NTA, a towm of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic: fix miles fouth of Pullumnaire. 
NEDDEE'K, a mountainous traft of Africa, narrow 
and fteep ; about feventy miles weft of Augela, in the 
road to Mourzouk. 
NED'DER, f. An adder: a word ^et ufed in Derby¬ 
shire : [from naclr, Goth, nebbep^ax J—Anon the ned- 
tlers gan her for to fting. Chaucer's Leg', of Goofl Women. 
NE'DE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Vienne: eighteen miles fouth-eaft of St. Leonard. 
NED'EBE, a lake of Egypt, on the borders of Libya, 
abounding in natron : fixty miles north-weft of Cairo. 
NE'DEL-AM'BEL, f. in botany. See Menyanthes. 
NEDE'NES, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Chrif- 
tianfand : twenty-four miles north-eaft of Chriftiunfand. 
NED 
NEDERBRA'KAL, a town of France, in the depart* 
rnent of the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Audenarde. The place contains 3145, and the 
canton 12,439, inhabitants. 
NEDERCRU'CHTEN, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lower Meufe, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Ruremonde. The place contains 
3522, and the canton 6614, inhabitants. 
FIEDIQUr, a town of Plindooftan, in Vifiapour: thirty 
miles fouth of Calberga. 
NEDOSTRELO'VA, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutlk : thirty-two miles north-north-eaft of 
Vitimflcoi. 
NEDRIGAI'LO, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Charkov: eighty miles north-w r elt of Charkov. Lat. 
50. 54. N. Ion. 34. 20. E. 
_ NEDRO'M A, a town of Algiers, fituated near a fmall 
river, at the toot of a hill, ip a charming country, fur- 
rounded with magnificent ruins. It was anciently called 
Celame, or Celamium. It is fifty miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Oran. 
NEDS'JED, a province of Arabia. This province is 
of vaft extent, comprehending all the interior parts of 
Arabia; bounded on the north by the defertof Syria, on 
the eaft by Lachfa, on the fouth by Hadramaut and Ye¬ 
men, and on the weft by Hedsjas. The foil is various ; 
among the hills fertile, and bearing abundance of fruits, 
efpecially dates; but, being bounded by arid tracts of 
country, its rivers are only fl\ort dreams, whidh, after 
pafling through the valleys, have their waters ablorbed 
in the fandy plains, before they can reach the ocean. 
Upon this account, the inhabitants are in many places 
obliged to dig deep wells; and cultivation is there diffi¬ 
cult, or almoll impoifible. The Bedouins inhabit a great 
part of this province. The remainder is mountainous, 
full of cities and villages, and parcelled out among fo 
many petty fovereigns, that almoft every little town has 
its own lhiek. Formerly, when the power of the (herifs 
was at its height, many of thefe fliieks, who were fituated 
in the vicinity of Hedsjas, were obliged to pay tribute to 
the flierif of Mecca; at prefent they pay nothing. The 
inhabitants of this vaft country referable the other Arabs 
in their moral qualities; they are at once robbers and 
hofpitable. As thofe petty fovereigns are fo numerous in 
Nedsjed, it is impoffible for any traveller to pafs fafely 
through this country : the firft lhiek whofe territories he 
enters, will be lure to rob him, if it were only to prevent 
a neighbour, with whom he is at war, from profiting by 
this aft of rapacity if he himfelf Ihould abftain from it. 
The caravan, indeed,'travels fafe between Oman and 
Mecca, becaufe it confifts of beggars, from whom nothing 
is to be gained. But the fhieks of Nedsjed levy a contri¬ 
bution upon the caravan from Bagdad on its way to Mecca, 
in the fame manner as the fliieks of Hedsjas levy contri¬ 
butions upon thofe from Syria and Egypt. The people 
appear to be of a very warlike charafter, and are almoft 
conftantly in arms. It is faid, that none of their young 
men are fuffered to marry till after they have performed 
fome gallant aftion ; that is, fome robbery. 
Nedsjed is divided into two diftrifts ; El Arab, which 
joins Oman ; and El Kherdsje, which ftretchcs to the 
confines of Yemen. In the latter diftrift, extending 
northwards from Hedsjas to the defert, is the city of 
Imam, famous, even before the days of Mahomet, for 
being the native city of Mofeilama, who aflumed the 
charafter of a prophet. This diftrift contains alfo many 
other cities. North from Nedsjed, and about ten days’ 
journey from Bagdad, is the famous mountain of Scha- 
mer, confiderable both in extent and fertility. Between 
this mountain and Syria is a hilly traft of country, de¬ 
nominated Dsjof al Sirhan, which is populous and culti¬ 
vated. This province contains Sabseans, or Chriftians of 
St.John, and a few Jews; its other inhabitants .are all 
Mahometans, who were once rigid Sunnites. 
At a late period a new religion Iprung up in the diftrift 
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