NICÆA, in Ancient Geography, the metropolis of Bithynia; situated on the lake Alcanius, in a large and fertile plain; in compass 16 stadia: first built by Antigonus, the son of Philip, and thence called Antigonea; afterwards completed by Lyömachus, who called it Nicaea, after his consort the daughter of Antipater. According to Stephanus, it was originally a colony of the Bottiae, a people of Thrace, and called Ancore; and afterwards called Nicaea. Now Nice in Asia the Less*. Famous for the first general council.—A see.*See Nice, and Nicaea, (Diodorus Siculus), of Corsica.—A third, of the Higher India, (Arrian); situated on the west side of the Hydaspes, opposite to Bucephale, on the east side.—A fourth Nicaea, a town of Liguria, at the Maritime Alps, on the east side of the river Paulon, near its mouth, which runs between the Varus and Nicaea, (Mela). A colony of the Massilians, (Stephanus); the last town of Italy to the west. Now Nizza or Nice, capital of the county of that name, on the Mediterranean.—A fifth, of Locris, (Strabo); a town near Thermopylae; one of the keys of that pass. It stood on the Sinus Maliacus.

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In the Explanation of the Plates of Midwifery on pp. 75 and 76, in some copies, for Plates CCC, CCCI, CCCII, CCCIII, and CCCIV. read Plates CCCXLVI, CCCXLVII, CCCXLVIII, CCCXLIX, and CCCL.

Page 513, col. 1. fide note, for Plate CCCXXIII. read Plate CCCLIV.