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with 1 180 inhabitants.— Alfo, a townfliip of Butler county, 

 in Ohio, having 1037 inhabitants. . 



MiLFORD, New, a town of Litchfield county, in Con- 

 neaicut, having 3537 perfons.— Alfo, a townftiip of 

 Luzerne county, in Pennfylvania, having 178 inhabitants. 



MILK, col. 5, 1. 29 from bottom, for oxifying r. 

 offifying. . ,. 



Milk, Chemical Properties of. According to Berzelius, 

 1000 parts of milk deprived of its cream confift of 



Water . . - 



Curd with a little cream 



Sugar of milk . - - 



Muriate of potafh 



Phofphate of potafh 



Laftic acid, acetate of potafli,! 

 with a trace of ladtate of >- 

 iron . . . -^ 



Earthy phofphates 



- 928.75 

 28.00 



- 35-00 

 1.70 



.25 



6.00 



•30 



1000 



In the paragraph defcribing the fermentation of mares' 

 milk by the Tartars, 1. 2, after brandy, add — called Koumifs. 



After the paragraph upon cream, add — Cream of the 

 fp. gr. 1.0244 was found by Berzelius to confift of 



Butter 

 Cheefe 

 Whey 



- 4-5 



- 3-5 



- 92.0 



After the obfervations on curd, add — Curd has many 

 of the properties of coagulated albumen. It is white 

 and folid, and when all the moiflure is fqueezed out, it 

 has a good deal of brittlenefs. It is precipitated by 

 acids, and the precipitate confifts of the curd combined 

 with the acid employed. If this precipitate be digefled 

 with carbonate of lime or barytes in water, the acid 

 combines with the earth, remains undiffolved, (fuppofing 

 the fulphuric acid employed,) and leaves the curd in folu- 

 tion. The aqueous folution of curd thus obtained is 

 yellowiih, and refembles a folution of gum. When the 

 folution is boiled in an open vefTel, it becomes covered with 

 a white pellicle, precifely as milk does, and acquires the 

 fmell of boiled milk. The membrane is almoft infoluble 

 in water, and appears to be produced by the adtion of the 

 air on the difTolved curd. With the mineral acids, curd 

 forms the fame compounds as albumen and fibrin do ; but 

 the neutral compounds are lefs foluble. A great excefs of 

 acetic acid is required to diffolve curd, and the neutral com- 

 pound of curd and this acid appear infoluble. According 

 to the analyfis of Gay LufTac and Thenard, curd is com- 

 pbfed of 



Hydrogen 



Carbon - - . 



Oxygen 



Azote 



MILL Creek, in Geography, a townfhip of Hamilton 

 county, in Ohio, having 1334 inhabitants. 



MILLEDGVILLE, a town of Georgia, in the county 

 of Bald-win ; which fee. 



MILLVILLE. Add — containing 1032 inhabitants 



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MILNTHORP, 1. 2, r. Haverfliam ; 1. 14, after popu- 

 lation, add — of the townfliips of Milthorpe and Haverfham ; 

 1. 15, r. 181 1 — 1138 — 242 houfes ; 1. 16, 546 — 592 — 129 

 — 1 1 1. 



MILTON, 1.8 and 7 from bottom, r. 1811 — 307 — 

 1746. 



Milton, in America, 1. 9, r. 1264; add — Alfo, a town 

 of Strafford county, in New Hampfhire, having IC05 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a town of Chittenden county, in Vermont, 

 containing 1546 inhabitants. 



MILVERTON, lult. r. 181 1 — 1637 ; add— and num- 

 ber of houfes 322. 



MINCHIN-HAMPTON, 1.27, ;•. 1811— town and 

 parifh ; 1. 28, r. 3246, and occupying 710 houfes; 1. 29, 

 1523 males, and 1723 females. 



MINEHEAD, 1. 3, r. 144. 



Minehead, 1. 3, after England, add — By the returns in 

 1 8 1 1 , the borough and parifh were ftated to contain 255 

 houfes, and 1037 inhabitants; 443 being males, and 594 

 females. 



MINERAL Caoutchouc. See Mineralogy, jld- 

 denda. 



MINERALOGY, according to the moft eminent 

 mineralogifts of the French fchool, comprifes the ftudy 

 of all inorganic fubftances that exift naturally in the earth, 

 or on its furface. According to this comprehenfive defini- 

 tion, water, air, and all ponderable elementary matter, may 

 be clalFed with minerals. The German mineralogifts ufe 

 the term mineral in a more reftrifted fenfe. See Minera- 

 logy, where is given a hiftory of the progrefs of this 

 fcience, and an outline of the fyftems of Werner and Haiiy. 

 For a more full account of the external charadters of mine- 

 rals, and of the fyftem of clafTification introduced by 

 Werner, fee Orvctognosy : and for the leading prin- 

 ciples of cryftallography, on which the fyftem of Haiiy is 

 formed, fee Crystallography, Addenda. Under the 

 article Systems of Mineralogy, we have given a fum- 

 mary view of the chemical fyftem of mineralogy recently 

 attempted to be introduced by the diftinguifhed Swedifh 

 philofopher Berzelius. 



Mineralogy has fcarcely been cultivated as a regular 

 fcience in Europe longer than fifty years, and in England 

 it has not excited much attention until the prefent century ; 

 fince which time our acquaintance with the mineral king- 

 dom has been rapidly extending. We propofe in the pre- 

 fent article to defcribe thofe minerals which liave been 

 recently difcovered, or whofe charadters have been more 

 accurately known fince the articles were written in which 

 they were defcribed. Many minerals having received feveral 

 different names, we have alfo deemed it expedient to give 

 an alphabetical lift of all the known fpecies of minerals, 

 with references to the particular name under which each 

 is defcribed. This will, we truft, in a confiderable degree, 

 remedy the inconvenience refulting from the ufelefs multi- 

 plication of names ; an evil which, in this department of 

 fcience, tends greatly to retard the progrefs of ufeful know- 

 ledge. To Werner, we are indebted for the firfl precife 

 definition of the external charadters of minerals ; but unfor- 

 tunately both he and the mineralogifts of the Freyberg 

 fchool have introduced fuch a multiplicity of divifions, 

 fubdivifions, and minute diitindtions into the fcience, with 

 fo many quaint terms to exprefs what was before perfedtly 

 definite in the language of common life, that tlie defcription 

 of the moft intelligible properties is often rendered harfh 

 and obfcure to the ftudent. This is greatly to be regretted, 

 as it prevents many from cultivating mineralogy, deterred by 

 a parade of frivolous diftindlions which affail them in limine. 



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