in the schools, something that is only nominal, or has no existence but in name.

NUNCUPATIVE Will or Testament, a will made verbally, and not put in writing. See the articles Will and Testament.

UNDINA, a goddes among the ancient heathens, supposed to have the care of the purification of infants. And because male infants were purified nine days after their birth, her name is derived from nonus, or the ninth, though female infants were purified the eighth day; which purification was called hydraficio by the Romans.

UNDINAL, Nundinalis, a name which the Romans gave to the eight first letters of the alphabet used in their kalendar.

This series of letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, is placed and repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year; one of these always expressed the market days, or the assemblies called nundinae, quinta novendiae, because they returned every nine days. The country people, after working eight days successively, came to town the ninth, to sell their several commodities, and to inform themselves of what related to religion and government. Thus the nundinal day being under A on the first, ninth, seventeenth, and twenty-fifth days of January, &c., the letter D will be the nundinal letter of the year following. These nundinals bear a very great resemblance to the dominical letters, which return every eight days, as the nundinals did every nine.

UNDOCOMAR, a Rajah in Bengal, and head of the Brahmins, who, in 1775, was condemned to an ignominious death by English laws newly introduced, in an English court of justice newly established, for a forgery charged to have been committed by him many years before. That he was guilty of the deed cannot be questioned, but there was surely something hard in condemning a man by an ex post facto law. He bore his fate with the utmost fortitude, in the full confidence that his soul would soon be reunited to the universal spirit whence it had sprung. See Metaphysics, Part III. Ch. iv. Of the Immortality of the Soul.

Monte Nuovo, in the environs of Naples, blocks up the valley of Averno. "This mountain (Mr Swinburne tells us) arose in the year 1538, for after repeated quakings the earth burst asunder, and made way for a deluge of hot ashes and flames, which rising extremely high, and darkening the atmosphere, fell down again and formed a circular mound four miles in circumference, and 1000 feet high, with a large cup in the middle. The wind rising afterwards, wafted the lighter particles over the country, blasted vegetation, and killed the animals who grazed; the consequence was, that the place was deserted, till Don Pedro de Toledo, viceroy of Naples, encouraged the inhabitants by example and otherwise to return.

Part of Monte Nuovo is cultivated, but the larger portion of its declivity is wildly overgrown with prickly-broom, and rank weeds that emit a very fetid sulphurous smell. The water is shallow, its inside clad with shrubs, and the little area at the bottom planted with fig and mulberry trees; a most striking specimen of the amazing vicissitudes that take place in this extraordinary country. I saw no traces of lava or melted matter, and few stones within.

Near the foot of this mountain the subterraneous fires act with such immediate power, that even the sand at the bottom of the sea is heated to an intolerable degree."