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MACROCERCI, a name given ,o ',hat chCs of ani:na!· MADURA, ,he capi,al of ,he provinee
oC
~he
fa me
cul~s.
Wllh
tails longer
lhan
thd rhodtes.
nalll\! io
the h:thcr India: E. long.
77 ° ,
:lnJ
N. leit.
M:\ CROPYREN IUM , in na,ural hiHory, a genus
oC
10°.
A
A
foOi!s, confilbng
oC
crullated fep,aria:, IVllh a long M.EMACTERION. ,he founh monlh
oC
Ihe Alheni.n
nucleus {hndlOg out .lt each end of the marso
yed,
confiJling ofooly nvcnty-nine
dd.ys, and anfwer-
M.~CROTELOSTY
LA, in nalural hiaory, a name of
ing
10
,he laner pan
oC
September and Ihe beglnning
a genus oc'f':·yaals, which are compofed
oC
' IVO pyra·
oC
Oélober.
•
mids, joined 'o ,he end
oC
a column; bo,h Ihe pyra· MJEN:\, in ich,hyology. 'Oiee S•• \R us.
mids, as airo the calumo, being
hex.lnguJar,
and (he MAES , a
river
which arifes in
Burgundy.
and
ruos
whole
body
confeqnently compofed of eighteen plane5,
through Lorrain and ChampAign ioto (he Nedlalands,
M ."CUL .'E..in a(l ronomy, dark fpots appearing on ,he
and a' laa. aCler paOing by O1any confiderable ,olVns,
hlminous faces of (he fu n, moon, and eveo fome of
difchar~es
¡trelr
¡ritO'
lhe
Ccrman
fea, a
little below
lhe
the planeu . See
ASTRONOM Y.
Brie!.
Thefe fpo" are moll numerous and eafily obCerved MAESTRICHT, a ,o\Vn in ,he provine
oC
Buban"
in the fun.
It
is not uncommon lO (ee lhem in va·
lituated on lhe river Maes,
~irteen'
n1i1es uorth of
rious forms, magnitudes, and numbers, moving over
Liege :
E.
long
SO40"
and
N
lat.
S6~ SS'.
,he fun's dilk. Tbey \Vere lira
oC
all difcovered by M!\.GADOXA, ,ho capi,,1
oC
,he 'erri,ory\lf ,he fame
the lyncean anronomerGalileo, ¡n..¡.be year
1610,
(oon
name, at lhe mou.h of
(he
river lvIagadoxa,
on rhe
arter he had IiniOled his new·invented
,e1ef~pe.
coan
oC
Aoian, in Afma: E. Ion 4
1°,
and N. lal. 20,
MAD UPLE . See SOL AN UM.
/
MAGAZINE, a placo in " hich llores are kep', of arms,
MADAGASCAR, or
SI
L AUREN CE, an iOand
oC
A·
ammunilion, provifio""
&c.
Every C""ified IOwn
frica, (ituated between
43
0
and
51 0
of ean longitude,
ought
lO
be furnirhed wilh
a
large
m~zine.
which
and between
'2°
and
26°
fou,h latilude ; ,hree huno
(hould contain
aor~s
oC
all kinds,
fuOi~,e1!',
'o enable
dred miles (outh·eafl of th-: contioent of Africa.
It
the garriron ano
inhabit~nu
to hold out·
a
long liege,
is about a
thour~d
miles
in
Jength from north to
f\nd in which Cmilhs, carpenters, wheclwris;hts,
eco
fou(h, and gener.tlly between two and
thr~e
hundred
m<ly be ('mployed, in making every thing bdonging to
miles broad. The country is divided among a great
the artillery, as carriages, w.tggons,
6c.
numberoCpetty fovereigns.
MAG DALEN, or
NUnJ
o[
SI
MAGDALEN, an order
MADDER . See R UBIA.
oC
religious in ,he RomiO, church, de.!icated 'o St
MADERAS, fom, iOaods filuated in ,he Adan,ic ocean,
Mary M'gdalen, and rome,imes called M 'gddlonenes.
three hundred miles wen
of
Sallee,
in
Afríca;
in
16°
TheCe chieflyconfi{t of7urtczans, who, quitting their-
W . long. and between
32°
and
33°
oC
N.
la,.
proCellion, devole ,he rea of ,heir lives 'o "pen,aDce
T he Jargell
oC
them, caBed Madera, or rather
Mat·
and monifJcation.
tera, by ,he Ponuguefe, is abou, an hundred and MAG DEBURG, ,he capital
oC
Ihe duchy of ,he fame
twenty miles in circumference, and produces ¡ncre -
naOle, fituated on the r¡ver Elbe, Ceventy miles \Yen
dible quantities of \Vine, which has the peculiar qua·
of Herlin :
E.
long.
12 ° ,
and
N
lat
52
o
I
s'
li,y
oC
keeping
bea
iD ho, c1ima,es, where o,her wioe, MAGDELENA, a large river
oC
Sou,h America, IVhich,
turn four.
rifing oear the equator, runs north through Terrf\ Fu·
MADNESS,
a
mon dreadful
kind
of delirium, without
Ola,
and, uniting its
walerS
with
lhe
r¡ver
Canee,
oh·
a rever.
Sce
l\IED IC l toE .
taíos the name of
lhe r¡ver
Grande, and falls
ioto lhe
MADRAS, a 'OlVn on Ihe coa
a
oC
Cormandel, inhabi,ed
nonh fea, below ,he \o\Vn
oC
Madre de Popa.
by blacks, and [¡,uated jull \Vi,hou, ,he walls
oC
,he MAGELLAN STRE IGH T', or rather
SIr<ighll
o[
White town of Fort St George.
MAG ELLAN.
Thefc=
Hreigltts are about
three
hundred
MADRE
DE POPA,
a town and. convent
of
T erra
Fir·
miles in length from
the
Adantic
la
the Pacific ocean,
ma, in South America, fituated on lhe r¡ver Grande.
but of a very unequal brcadth ; and ",erc al fi rl1 diCco·
[¡Cly
miles ean ofC. nhagena, almoa as much reforted
vered .nd pa{fod by Ferdinand M. gell. n, Crom whom
to by
the
pilgrims of Americ.l, as the chapel of Lo·
they had
their
n.tOle ; they are fitu,ued betwecn the
retto is by Ihe pilgrims
oC
Europe:
\V.
long.
76
o
N.
ifland T erra del Fuego and Ihe moll foulhern' pan of
Jat.
11 0 .
the
continent of America, bt!tween
76° and 84°
of
MADRID, ,he capital
oC
,he ..2,rovince oCNew Callile,
W,lung. and between 52 0 and 5>1 0 offoulh lH.
and of the.whole kingdom oÍSpain:
W.
long.
4°
J
S',
MAC f, or
MA G
I A~S,
an ancient rcligious
fc:ét
in
Per-
anó N .
lar.
4
°
30' .
lid.
and
other
eaflern cOllotrie!1 who
In.tintaincd,
lhat
M ADRIGAL. is a !hon amorous poem, compofed
oC
a
,here were 'IVOprincipies. Ihe one ,he cauf.
oC,1I
good,
nUOlber
of free and unequal verCes, neitiler confined
lhe Olher lhe cauCe of all cvil ; and, ahumin.wog dle
to lhe regularity of
j\
[annel. nor to (he pointof anepi.
ador,teion of imi\ges. worflúp ped God only
by
(ir!!,
gram, but onl y cunfiíling of fome tl!nder .md delic;ne
which they
IClok~d
upon as lhe briglndl ami !noU glo-
thought, exprefrcd with a bcautifuJ, nuble, and d e·
rious fymt>ol of Oroma(Jcs, or lhe
gOlJu
Cad
i
as
gant fimplicity .
darkncfS is lhe tructl rymhol oi" Arimanills, or lhe evil
MADRI G AL,
in geography, a c¡ty of the province of
godo
T his reli!!ion
W,IS
reformcd by Zoro¡¡,f!er, \Vho
PopO\yan
J
in C()uth America :
vV.
long.
75 °
30', and
m,unt·
led
Ihat
dH:rc
w.\sonefupremc: independent be-
N.
lato
30"
jog; an under him{\Vo principies or aogels, ane the aogel
of