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NEK'OUBAN LAKE, a lake of Canada: twenty-four 
miles north-weft of Quebec. Lat. 4.9. 55. N. Ion. 75. W. 
NEKRE'SE, a town of the principality of Georgia, in the 
province of Kaket : fixty-five miles north-eaft of Teflis. 
NEK'SHAB, or Karshi, a town of Grand Bukharia : 
fixty miles eaft of Bukharia. Lat. 39. 5. N. Ion. 63. 40. E. 
NE'LAM-MART, /.' in botany. See Hedysarum. 
NE'LAM-PAREN'DA. See Viola. 
NELCYN'DA, in ancient geography. See Nelisu- 
ram.—A lfo, a town of Arabia, near the mouth of the 
Red Sea; faid by Arrian to have been a commercial place. 
NELD, f. [perhaps a poetical contraction of] Needle: 
For thee fit weapons were 
Thy neld and fpindle, not a fword and fpear. Fairfax. 
NELEVANGO'LE, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : 
fifteen miles north-weft of Bangalore. 
NE'LEUS,a fon of Neptune and Tyro. He was brother 
to Pelias, with whom he was expofed by his mother, who 
wifhed to conceal her infirmities from her father. They 
were preferved and brought to Tyro, who had then mar¬ 
ried Cretheus king of Iolchos. After the death of Cre- 
theus, Pelias and Neleus feized the kingdom of Iolchos., 
which belonged to Aifon, the lawful fon of Tyro by the 
deceafed monarch. After they had reigned for lotne time 
conjointly, Pelias expelled Neleus from Iolchos. Neleus 
came to Aphareus, king of Meflenia, who treated him 
with kindnefs, and permitted him to build a city, which 
he called Pylos. Neleus married Chloris the daughter of 
Amphion, by whom he had a daughter, and twelve fons, 
who were all, except Neftor, killed by Hercules, together 
with their father. Neleus promifed his daughter in mar¬ 
riage only to him who brought him the bulls of Iphiclus. 
Bias was the fuccefsful lover, by means of his brother 
Melampus. See that word, vol. xv. 
NELGOO'ND, a town of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour: 
thirty iniles weft of Baddammy. 
NE'LI-PO'LI, f. in botany. See Averrhoa. 
NE'LI-PU'. See Utricularia. 
NE'LI-TA'LI. See Psidium. 
NELI'TRIS, in botany. See Psidium. 
NELISURAM', formerly Nelcynda, a town of Hin¬ 
dooftan, and capital of a final 1 country on the weft coaft, 
fouth of Canara. This town and diftriel were ceded to 
Great Britain in 1799. The town is thirty-three miles 
north-eaft of Mangalore. The fort of Nelifuram is fitu- 
ated on a river named Cangenecora, whole courfe is from 
the north-eaft, and falls in about four miles to the north 
of Mount Della. This Nelifuram, which is fituated about 
twelve miles up the river, is confidered by major Rennell 
as the place meant by Nelcynda and Melcynda by Pliny 
and Ptolemy; a place vifited by the Egyptian and Roman 
fhips. Lat. 12. 20. N. Ion. 74.. 57. E. 
NEL'LA CORVIN'DUM, in mineralogy. See Ada¬ 
mantine Spar, vol. i. and the article Mineralogy, vol. 
xv. p. 46 5. 
NEL'LA TEN'DALE COT'TI. See Crotalaria. 
NEL'LE-COT'TA. See the article Hindoostan, vol. 
x. p. 85, 6. 
NELLEM'BI, a town of the ifiand of Ceylon : four¬ 
teen miles fouth of Candi. Lat. 7. 25. N. Ion. 80. 50. E. 
NEL'LENBURG, a landgraviate of Germany, which 
confifted formerly of the towns and prefeifurates named 
from it, viz. Stockach, Aach, and Thengen, and con¬ 
tained about thirty boroughs, villages, and a diftrict 
thirty-two miles in circuit. This landgraviate, diminilh- 
ed by the difmemberment of Thengen, and deprived of 
the land-court which is held at Stockach, is now governed 
by a landvogt; and it has its name from Nellenburg, a 
town with a citadel fituated on a mountain. It is fixteen 
miles north-weft of Conftance. The grand duke of Baden 
has the title of Landgrave of Nellenberg. 
NEL'LER (George Chriftopher), a learned German 
writer on eccleliaftical antiquities and medals, was born 
at Auba-Ganerbial in Franconia, in the year 1709. He 
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became canon of St. Simeon’s at Treves, privy-counfellor 
to the prince-eleblor, and do&or of laws. He excelled 
in the knowledge of ancient monuments and medals, of 
which he had a fine collection; and he acquired no little 
celebrity by his various publications. Thefe confift of 
difiertations, which difplay great learning and laborious 
refearch ; but are not entirely exempt from marks of fyf- 
tem, and notions that are paradoxical. The author died 
at Treves, in 1783, in the feventy-fourth year of hi? age. 
For a lift of his pieces, we refer to the Gen. Biog\ 
NEL'LI CAMA'RUM, or Nelli'ka, f. in botany. 
See Phyllanthus. 
NELLIPIL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Rajamundry, on the coaft: thirty miles fouth-eaft of Ra- 
jamundry. 
NELLO'RE, a town and fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic, near the Pennar river: eighty-five miles north 
of Madras, and ninety-eight north of Arcot. Lat. 14. 
26. N. Ion. 79. 57. E. 
NEL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : thirty- 
four miles fouth of Harponelly. 
NEL'SON, a county of Kentucky, with about 9087 
inhabitants, including 1234 flaves. Bardftown is the 
chief place. 
NEL'SON (Robert), a learned and worthy Englifti 
gentleman, generally diftinguiffied by the appellation of 
“ the pious Mr. Nelfon,” was the fon of a confiderable 
Turkey merchant, and born at London in the year 1656. 
He loft his father when he was only two years of age, 
•who left him a handfome fortune, and committed him to 
the care of his mother, and of her brother fir Gabriel Ro¬ 
berts, whom he appointed his guardian. This gentleman 
foon became extremely attached to his nephew, who pof- 
fefled a beautiful perfonal form, with fingular fweetnefs 
of temper, and gave early evidence of ltrength and viva¬ 
city of intellect. For fome time he was placed at St. 
Paul’s fchool; but afterwards his mother took him home 
to her houfe at Dryfield, near Cirencefter in Gloucefter- 
ftiire, where fiieengaged the learned Dr. GeorgeBull, then 
reCtor of Suddington in that neighbourhood, to attend 
him in the capacity of private tutor. When he was qua¬ 
lified for entering on academic ftudies, he was fent to 
the univerfity of Cambridge, and admitted a fellow-com¬ 
moner of Trinity college. Here he fecured the efteem 
and affeClion of all who knew him, by the excellence of 
his charaCler, and the ripening, as he grew to manhood, 
of thofe amiable qualities which difclofed themfelves 
early in his youth. Being frequently induced to vifit 
London, he foon became acquainted with Dr. Tillotfon, 
with whom his uncle was very intimate; and, from the 
congeniality of their characters and difpofitions, a clofe 
friendfliip took place between that worthy divine and our 
author, which was diflolved only by the death of the 
former. In the year 1680, Mr. Nelfon was chofen fellow 
of the Royal Society; and, being defirous of improving 
himfelf by foreign travel, fet out for Paris towards the 
latter end of the year, in company with his fchooi-fellow 
and friend Dr. Halley. On their road to that city, they 
faw the remarkable comet which gave rife to fir Ifaac 
Newton’s Aftronomy of Comets, and to Dr. Halley’s 
Synopfis Cometarum. While he continued at Paris, lie 
had an invitation to undertake an office at the court of 
Charles II. of England, which he declined, on account 
of the averfion that his mother and other friends had for 
it. From Paris the travellers palled to Rome, where they 
feparated; and Mr. Nelfon, after completing what is called 
the grand tour, returned to England in the fummer of 
i 63 z. At Rome he met with the widow of fir KingftniH 
Lucy, bart. fecond daughter of the earl of Berkeley; a 
mutual affeCfion took place between them, and lie mar¬ 
ried her foon after their arrival in England. Some time 
after this union had taken place, the lady acquainted her 
liulband with what file had previoufly concealed from him, 
viz. that Hie had become a convert to the Roman-catholic 
religion. This change in her religious fentiments had 
been 
