a rich and considerable town in New Spain, with a rich convent of Dominicans. The country about it abounds in cochineal, indigo, and sugar. E. Long. 97° 25'. N. Lat. 15° 20'.

(Jeremiah, Ezekiel), No-Ammon, (Nahum); a considerable city of Egypt, thought to be the name of an idol which agrees with Jupiter-Ammon. The Septuagint translate the name in Ezekiel, Diopolis, "the city of Jupiter." Bochart takes it to be Thebes of Egypt; which, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, was called Diopolis. Jerome, after the Chaldee paraphrase Jonathan, supposes it to be Alexandria, named by way of anticipation; or an ancient city of that name is supposed to have stood on the spot where Alexandria was built.

No-Man's-Land, a space between the after-part of the belfrey and the fore-part of a ship's boat, when the said boat is stowed upon the booms, as in a deep-waited vessel. These booms are laid from the forecastle nearly to the quarter-deck, where their after-ends are usually sustained by a frame called the gallows, which consists of two strong posts, about six feet high, with a cross piece reaching from one to the other, athwart-ships, and serving to support the ends of those booms, masts, and yards, which lie in reserve to supply the place of others carried away, &c. The space called No-man's-land is used to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c. which may be necessary on the forecastle. It probably derives its name from its situation, as being neither on the starboard nor larboard side of the ship, nor on the waist or forecastle; but, being situated in the middle, partakes equally of all those places.