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(1670), ware bom here. Stoma hu immortaliied MouUni by bU itory 

 of Maria. The l<oire stcuner* aaoeo>l tbe Allier a* far «a Houliiu. 

 {IHcticnnairt d* la Prmitt ; Anmmaire pour FAnMH.) 

 IfOULHEIN {Itaulmaim, or Moiimfn), a town and port in the 

 TimMniim PioTineea, which form a part of the Britiah poaae ari ona on 

 the eaatem aide of the Baj of Bengal. MoulinciD is situated near tbe 

 Oolf of llartaban, at tbe oonflavnoti of tUo rirera Saluen, Attayen, 

 and Qjrog, in 16* 30' K. Ut, 97° 44' E. long. : the three 'rivers when 

 united are called the Moalmcin Rirer. It is 10 miles S. by E. from 

 llartaban, and 80 milea h'. by E. from Amherst. [Axanar.] Moul- 

 metn has a good harbour, which admits vessels of 600 or 800 tons. 

 Being favourably situated for commerce, and free fkvm dutiea of 

 import and export, it has drawn away mnoh of the oommeroe which 

 belonged to Martaban, and has in a great measure superseded Amherst 

 The population is eatimated at upwards of 10,000. The exjwrts are 

 teak-timber, rice, tobacco, ivory, stick-lac, coooa-nuta, and live atock. 

 The imports are cotton goods and other manufactures. 

 MOOLTAN. [Hi.NDCsTAK.] 

 MOULTON. [LiNcouisaiRi.1 



HOCNT-BELLEW, Qalway, Ireland, a small market-town, the seat 

 of a PoorUw Union, io situated in 68* 27' N. Ut, 8* 28' W. long., 

 164 niilea E.8.E. from Tunm by road, and 109| miles from Dublin. 

 The population in 1S51 was 829. Ifount-Bcllew Poor- Law Union 

 comprises 14 electoral diviiiionii, with an area of 102,388 acrea, and a 

 population in 18£1 of 22,7U0. The town contains a monastery with 

 • chapel attached, an Endowed school, and a school conducted by the 

 raonka. Petty sessions are held monthly, and fairs four times a year. 

 A market is hcH every Tueaday. 

 MOUNT fAUMKL. [Carmkl; Ilusob.] 

 MOUNT CHAKLES. [DosKoxu] 

 MOUNT SORREU [Lucbstersuibe.] 



MOUNTMELLICK, Queen's County, Ireland, a market- and poet- 

 town, and the aeat of a Poor-Law Union, is situated on the Owenas?, 

 a tributary of the Barrow, in 53° 7' N. lat, 7° 20' W. long., distant 

 by road milea N. by W. from Maryborough, and 62f milea W.S.W. 

 firom Dublin. The population in 1851 was 8657, besides 1600 in the 

 workhouse. MountmeUick PoorLaw Union comprisea 48 electoral 

 divisions, with an area of 200,633 acres, and a population in 1851 of 

 60,185. In the town are places of wonhip for Episcopalians, Roman 

 Catholics, Presbyterians, We!>Ieynn Methodists, and Quakers ; two 

 National schools, and a Free school supported by the Quakers. There 

 •re alao a court-house, a fever hospital, dispensary, and Union 

 workhons*. A branch of tbe Grand Canal terminates at the town. 

 Tanning and soap-making are carrie<l on. There are a woollen factory, 

 a foundry, and a machine manufactory in the place. Tbe Irish Beet- 

 Sogar Company have works for making sugar. Quarter and petty 

 ■esdons are held in the towa There are two weekly markets and 

 fairs eight times a year. 

 MOUNTNE3SINO. [Essex.] 

 MOUNTS BAY [Cobxwalu] 

 MOURA. [ALEifTEJO.] 

 MOURAO. [Alemtuo.] 

 MOURZURK. [Fmiak.] 

 MOUSTIERa [Alpd, Basbs.] 

 MOVILLE. [DowwAu] 

 MOY. [Amsb.] 



MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL divides tbe isUnd of Madagascar from 

 the oootioent of Africa, washing the westom shores of the inland and 

 tba coast of Mosambique. Oppoaite the town its width is 250 miles. 

 The length of the channel, between 12* and 26° 45' S. lat, may be 

 •boat 1000 milea. Towards its northera extremity are tbe Comoro 

 lalands. Along the coast of Mosambique are extensive ahoals with 

 nreral low coral islands, and along the Madagascar shore several rocky 

 talsnds, but only a few small ii>Un& oooor in we middle of the channeL 

 The shores of the Mosambique coast are all low. Tbe depth of water 

 ii Tan considerable. This channel to tbe south of Sofala is under 

 (1m dominion of the aouth-eastem trade-wind ; to the north it ia 

 ■nbject to the mon*oons. According to the monsoons (south-east 

 from April to November, north-east for the rest of tbe year), vessels 

 fobtg to and coming from India frequently pass through the Moxam- 

 Uqua ChanneL Tbe black whale, which yields the spermaceti, is very 

 •boodant in th<-»e seaa. Water-apouts are of frequent occurrence. 



MOKAMIlIgUB COAST, a portion of the eastern coast of Africa 

 which is situated betwaan Cape Delgado (10* 41' S. Ut, 40' 84' 

 B. lone.), and the northera mouth of the river Zambeai (17* 80' S. lat, 

 SS* K. long.) Tbe Portugueae have had aettlementa on this coast for 

 man than three oaotnries, yet tbe country is very little known, with 

 the aoepUon of tbe co«sl-Une. The Portugueae have several forU 

 •looc the eoMt, bat their authority extends only a ahoH vray inland. 

 Tba lolerior is inhabited by a powerful and brave naUon, tbe Makawaa, 

 who maintafai coaiiMreiBl interoourae with tbe Portuguese. 



The low ttamw baaoh is gaoerally lined by a sandy abore from 

 IS to 16 feet high, and oovcrwl with bushes. This strip of elevated 

 ground seema to be of moHerato width, and behind it extends a plain 

 dotted with clumps of trees on some elevated mounds. This plain 

 b • mofaaa of great extent and oanaideraUe depth, and is impassable, 

 bdaf eoverad with gnm naarly 6 feet above the water. Between it 

 tmi Ih* aaad-liUla is s tuirtvtr ttrip of dry Uod ooveivd with jnngle. 



tbe haunt of elephants, hippopotami, deer, lions, and tiger*. Along 

 the course of the nomerous riven the country is higher and drier ; it 

 is also generally covered with forests, whilst along the sca-ahore trees 

 are soarae. About SO miles from the coast theoanks of the riven 

 are high and the country cultivated, though still intersected with 

 extensive swampa. The mountains and huls which constitute th* 

 eastern border of the table-land of southern Africa ocoar on the banks 

 of the Zambesi River, about 180 milea from the aea. 



The sea along the shores of this country is eonsiderad very dangerous 

 to navigators, and many veasels are lost For a space of 10 to 20 miles 

 it is lined by shoals, on which rise several small coral islands, aome 

 bare, othera well-wooded. The channel between these islands and 

 the continent has generally deep water. The sea east of the shoals is 

 nearly everywhere unfathomable. The most remarkable of theae 

 islands are Fogo, Mofamedo, and St Antony, all of which are situated 

 south of Moxambique : they are uninhabited. Towards Cape Delgado 

 are tbe Qaerimba hlanda, which are of various sixes, but all luw and 

 formed of coral, with long fiat reefs extending seaward, and rising 

 abruptly from au immense depth. Between these islands there is 

 good and secure anchoring ground. The islands are inhabited by 

 Portuguese settlers who have slaves to till the ground. The largest 

 of tbe islands is called Querimba ; it stands in about 12° 20' S. Tat, 

 40° 58' E. long., and is about 5 miles loag. There are several well- 

 built farmhouses on it, and a church near the centre of the island. 



The year is divided into tbe raiuy and dry «e.i8ons. The rains 

 commence in November and continue to the end of March. The 

 country along the riven is then overflowed to a distance of several 

 miles. The beat in samroer being very great, tbe numerous sw.imps 

 render nearly the whole coast unhealthy. The country is rich in 

 productions. The grains which are cultivated are rice, millet, maize, 

 and wheat ; the most common vegetables are cabbage, lettuce, spinach, 

 peas and beans of difierent kinds, tomatas, pumpkins, and cucumbers. 

 The fruita are cocoa-nuts, mangoes, oranges, limes, acajoa-apples, 

 cuatard-applos, pineapples, guavas, biuianas, and plantains. Different 

 kinds of pimento are also cultivated. Fish and turtle abotmd on all 

 the coral-banks and islands. Cattle, sheep, and especially goats, are 

 numerous. The exports are ivory, the tusks of the hippopotamus, 

 gold-dust, columbo-root, gums, and some amber. Formerly a great 

 number of slaves were exported. 



The settlements which the Portuguese still maintain on the eastern 

 coast of Africa do not extend so far as Cape Delgado. Tbe river 

 Mozimba separates them in this direction from the territories partially 

 subject to the Imam of Muscat The most northern is Ibo (12° 20' 

 S. lat, 40° 80' E. long.), tbe harbour of which ia formed by 

 Querimba Island. It is sU-ongly fortified, but does not api>ear to be 

 a place of trade. Farther south is Pomba, which has one of the 

 finest harboura on the coast, the entrance being a channel between 

 two rocky points, one mile and three-quarten across ; but the baain 

 into which it opens is 9 mil&i long by 6 milea broad, and has sufficient 

 water for the largest ships. This place has some trade. Near 16* 

 S. lat are three excellent and spacious harboun — Port Conducia, Port 

 Mozambique, and Port Mokamba, but only the second is used for 

 commercial purposes. 

 * The most southern Portugtiese settlement on this coast is QuUimant, 

 built on the northern bank of the northern, or Quilimane nrm of the 

 Zambesi, in 17° 61' 8" S. lat, 37° 1'E.long. Itisaboutl2 miles from 

 the sea. The river at iU entrance is a mile broad, and immedlntcly 

 increases in width considerably. The place contains only a few brick 

 houses for the Europeans and their deacendants, and a great number 

 of hute for the slaves. The trade in slaves was considerable till very 

 recently. Besides rice, it exporta ivory and some gold and silver. 

 There are extensive coal-fields in the captaincy of Quilimane, but no 

 mines are worked. The principal Portuguese settlement on the Zambesi 

 is iSena, or Senna (near 17° S. lat, 37* E. long.), to which place goods 

 are sent up the river in boata horn Quilimane, bring^g down gold 

 dust, elcphaute' teeth, wax, hides, rhinoceroses, horsea, &c, to be 

 abipped to Mozambique. The African tribea of the interior trade 

 with Sena. Sena is 110 miles W. from Quilimane, like which town it 

 is the head of a captaincy, and consisU of a few brick houses and 

 churches, a redoubt, and a large number of huts. About 100 miles 

 N.W, from Sena and also on tbe Zambesi is Telle, a large well-built 

 town, which stands on a healthy site on the right bank of tbe river. 

 Tetto gives name to one of tbe captaincies iuto which the Portuguese 

 government of Mozambique is divided, but it i« very questionable 

 whether the Portuguese have any authority so far inlaud. 



Two decrees were issued by tbe Portuguese government in June 

 1864, ordering the establishment of custom-houses and fiscal porta at 

 Mozambique, and aome other settlcmenU along this coast 



MOZAMBIQUE, a fortified seaport on tl>e east coast of Afric.i. is 

 the capital of the Portognese territories along that coast It is 

 situated in 15° 2' 3. lat, 40* 48' E. long., on a deep inlet of the xcn, 

 6 miles broad and 6 milea long, which receivea the waten of th rce 

 considerable rivers. At the entrance of tbe harbour are three small 

 islands, which render the anchorage perfectly safe. Of these islaiula 

 that of Mozambique, on which the city stands, is formed of coral, Ik 

 very low and narrow, and scarcely one mile and a half long. It is 

 situated nearly in the centre of the entrance of the inlet The other 

 two idands, San Qeoi^ to the northward and Saut' lago to the 



