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 742 OURO PRETO OUTLAWRY it from the panther by its smaller size (the length of the body being only 3 ft.), its longer and shaggy hair, and its tail nearly as long as the body. The ground color is whitish gray on the back and sides, without tint of ful- vous, and whiter below ; the body is marked by blackish spots, sometimes forming irregu- lar circles, the limbs simply spotted, and the tail ringed. It is a very active animal and an expert climber, preying upon rodents and the smaller ruminants. Ouvier and others regard it as a variety of the panther, the last also being considered the same as the leopard. Hamilton Smith considers it distinct, and Gray describes it as a species. The term ounce is frequently, but improperly, applied to the ja- guar (felis onca). OURO PRETO, or Vfflarica, an inland city of Brazil, capital of the province of Minas Geraes, and of a district of the same name, 170 m. N". by W. of Rio de Janeiro ; pop. about 4,000. It is situated on several hills near the Itacolumi mountain, at an elevation of 4,000 ft. above the sea, and is irregularly built, with crooked and for the most part ill-paved streets ; but some of the more modern houses are well constructed. Among the public edifices, which are more remarkable for their number and dimensions than for beauty, are 15 churches, two of which are profusely decorated internally, the gov- ernment house, governor's palace, treasury, museum (founded in 1864), mint, theatre, two prisons, a barrack, and a civil and a military hospital. The educational establishments in- clude a college of pharmacy and surgery, with chairs of Portuguese and Latin, half a dozen primary schools, one private school, a public library, and a model botanic garden with a school of agriculture. Leguminous plants and fruits are the chief productions of the sur- rounding country. There is a considerable trade with Rio de Janeiro. Although the mountains in the vicinity are very auriferous, and the mines were once the richest in the empire, the mining is now reduced to com- paratively unprofitable washings. Onro Preto was founded in 1699 ; it was named Villarica in 1711, but the first name (meaning "black gold ") was restored in 1822. OUSELEY, Gideon, an Irish clergyman, born at Dunmore, Galway, in 1762, died May 14, 1839. He was designed for the government service, but in 1789 was converted by the Wes- leyan itinerants, and became a preacher. He travelled through Ireland preaching for seven years, when he was received into the Wes- leyan conference, and in 1799 was appointed missionary to Ireland. It was just at the close of the rebellion, and the Catholic Irish often treated him rudely ; but being a master of the Irish language, and thoroughly acquainted with the Irish character, he succeeded in converting thousands. He rode on horseback from town to town, generally addressed the crowd without dismounting, and preached from three to five times a day, laboring thus for 50 years with great success. The best known of his writings is " Old Christianity and Papal Novelties." OUSELEY. I. Sir WiDiam, an English orien- talist, born in Monmouthshire in 1771, died in 1842. In 1788 he became cornet of dragoons, but left the army in 1794, and went to the uni- versity of Ley den, where he studied the ori- ental languages. In 1795 he published his "Persian Miscellanies." Afterward he went to London, and accompanied as private secre- tary his brother, Sir Gore Ouseley, the am- bassador to the Persian court. Among his works are : " Oriental Collections " (3 vols. 4to, 1797) ; " Observations on some Medals and Gems, bearing Inscriptions in the Pahlavi or Ancient Persian Character" (1801); "An Abstract of the Persian Translation of the Ge- ography written in Arabic by Ibn Haukal " (1800) ; and " Anecdotes from Oriental Bibli- ography" (1827). An account of his travels in Persia was published in 1819-'22 (3 vols. 4to). II. Sir William Gore, eldest son of the preceding, born July 26, 1797, died March 6, 1866. He was connected with the British le- gation in Stockholm in 1817 and in Washing- tori in 1825, when he married a daughter of Governor C. P. Van Ness of Vermont. Sub- sequently he represented England in various capitals of South America, and was also em- ployed on a special mission to Central America. He published " Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States" (1832), and " Views of South America" (1852). OUTAGAMIE, an E. county of Wisconsin, in- tersected by Fox, Wolf, and Embarras rivers ; area, 684 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 18,430. Its surface is diversified and covered with forests, which yield large quantities of lumber. It is intersected by the Wisconsin division of the Chicago and Northwestern, the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western, and the Green Bay and Lake Pepin railroads. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 353,620 bushels of wheat, 55,862 of Indian corn, 199,167 of oats, 66,051 of potatoes, 282,342 Ibs. of butter, 35,445 of wool, and 18,647 tons of hay. There were 3,064 horses, 4,819 milch cows, 1,488 working oxen, 4,525 other cattle, 10,815 sheep, and 6,551 swine. Capital, Appleton. OUTAGAMIES. See FOXES. OUTLAWRY, the process by which one is ex- cluded from the protection of the law, partly in respect to his property, and partly in re- spect to his person. The outlaw, says Brae- ton, forfeits home and country, and becomes an exile. Anciently he was known by another name, to wit, frendlesman, as it seems, because he forfeited his friends ; for if any of them rendered him any assistance, they suffered the same punishment as the outlaw himself, losing like him both their goods and their life, unless the king of his grace spared them. From the time one was outlawed he was said anciently to bear a wolf's head (caput lupinum gerere and it is usually stated, as if on the authority of Bracton, that an outlaw might be killed