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S83 females : 263 families being employed in agriculture, 

 and 43 in trade, manufactures, &c. 



MoRETOX in the Marjh. In l8n this parilh contained 

 194 houfes, and 928 perfons ; ij/z. 457 males, and 471 

 females : 60 families being employed in agriculture, and 9 1 

 in trade, manufactures. Sec. 



MORETOWN, a town of Chittenden county, in Ver- 

 mont, having 405 inhabitants. 



MORGAN, a town of Orleans county, in Vermont, 



having 135 inhabitants Alfo, a townfhip of Greene 



county, in Pennfylvania, having 1621 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Knox county, in Ohio, having 388 inhabitants. 

 — Alfo, a county of Georgia, having 2294 inhabitants. 



MORIEVILLE Plantation, a townfhip of Maine, 

 in the county of Hancock, having 224 inhabitants. 



MOROKINNEC, r. Morokinnee or Morotinnee. 



MOROXYLIC Acid, in Chemlftry, a name given by 

 Klaproth to an acid principle obtained from a faline exudation 

 from the mona alba, collected by Dr. Thompfon in Sicily. 

 This exudation contained the acid in queftion in combination 

 with lime. When feparated, it was found to poflefs the 

 foUowing properties : — It exifts in the form of needle -like 

 cryftals, having the talle of fuccinic acid. It is not altered 

 by expofure to the air. It diflblves readily in water and 

 r.lcohol, and does not, like the moroxylate of lime, precipi- 

 tate the metallic folutions. It is volatile, and may be fub- 

 limed without change ; hence this is probably the beft 

 mode of obtaining it in a ftate of purity. The moroxylates 

 are little known, and do not appear to poflefs remarkable 

 properties. 



MORPETH. In 181 1 the borough contained 464 

 houfes, and 3244 perfons ;'d;2. 1470 males, and 1774 females: 

 77 families being employed in agriculture, and 529 in trade, 

 manufaftures, or handicraft. 



MORPHIA, the name which has been given to an 

 alkaline principle exifting in opium ; the defcription of 

 which, and of the other principles exilUng with it, will be 

 found under opium. See Opium. 



MORRIS, 1. 3, for five r. ten. Col. 2, 1. 6, r. 21,828 

 — 856 were flaves in 1810. — Alfo, a townfhip of Wafhington 

 county, in Pennfylvania, having 1679 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Greene county, having 944 inhabitants. 



MORRISTOWN, 1. 4, r. and in 1810, 3753 inhabitants, 

 214 being Haves Alfo, a town of Orleans county, in Ver- 

 mont, having 550 inhabitants. 



MORRISVILLE, 1. 2, ;-. Bucks; add— having 961 

 nihabitants. 



MORTLAKE. In 181 1 the parifh contained 346 

 houfes, and 2021 perfons; "viz. 832 males, and 1 189 females. 



MOSUL, 1. 2, after Nineveh, add — though others think 

 that the village of Nunia, on the oppoilte bank of the Ti- 

 gris, prefents the poCtion of this ancient city. It is fituated 

 in the pachalic of Bagdad ; dele in the province of Diarbe- 

 kir, fituated: — 1.12, infert — The inhabitants are faid to 

 amount to 35,000 fouls. 



MOTACILLA, r. Rubecula. 



MOTHER-KILL. Add— containing 7445 inhabit- 

 ants. 



MOULTONBOROUGH. Add— It contained, by the 

 cenfus of 18 10, 994 perfons. 



MOUNT Holly, 1. 3, r. 922. 



Mount Joy, after Lancafler r. county, having 1551 ; 

 at the clofe, add — having 636 inhabitants. 



Mount Pkafant, 1. 4, add — having 1 105 perfons. — Alfo, 

 a townfhip of Wayne county, with 522 perfons. — Alfo, a 

 townfhip of Wafhington county, having 1165 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a townfhip of the fame ftate, in Weftmoreland county, 



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having 1788 inhabitants.— Alfo, a townfhip of JefFerfon 

 county, in Ohio, \vith 846 perfons. 



Mount Talour, a town of Rutland county, in Vermont 

 with 209 inhabitants. ' 



Mou.xt Vernon. Add — containing 1098 inhabitants 



Alfo, a town of Hillfbqrough county, in New Hampfhire, 

 containing 762 perfons. 



MOUNTAGU. Add— See Montague. 



MOUNTAIN Cork. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



MOUNTAINS, col. 7, under Ireland, inftead of 1. 3, 

 infert — Sliebh Donard, a mountain in the county of Down 

 — 2500. Col. 13, 1. 10, r. Varenius. 



MUCILAGE, Chemical Properties of. See Gum. 



MUCOUS Acid, in Chemiftry. See Saclactic Acid. 



Mucous Membrane, &c. See Membrane. 



MUMBO-JUMBO, a kind of bugbear drefl"ed in a maf- 

 querade habit, formed of the bark of trees, and fufpended 

 upon a tree at the entrance of the Mandingo towns in Africa. 

 It IS much employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their 

 women in fubjeftion ; for as the Kafirs, or infidels, are not 

 reflriCled in the number of their wives, everj' one marries as 

 many as he can conveniently maintain ; and as it frequently 

 happens that the ladies difagree, family quarrels fometimes 

 rife to fuch a height, that the authority of a hufband can no 

 longer preferve peace in his houfehold. In fuch cafes, the 

 interpofition of Mumbo-Jumbo is called for, and is always 

 decifive. This ftrange minifter of juftice, who is fuppofed 

 to be either the hufband himfelf, or fome perfon inftrudted 

 by him, difguifed in the above-mentioned drefs, and armed 

 with the rod of pubhc authority, announces his coming, 

 when called for, by loud and difmal fcreams in the woods 

 near the town. He begins the pantomime at the approach 

 of night, and as foon as it is dark enters the town, and pro- 

 ceeds to the bentang (a kind of flage erecled in every town, 

 anfwering the purpofe of a town-hall), at which all the 

 inhabitants immediately aflemble. Every married female, 

 not knowing for whom the vifit is intended, is alarmed, but 

 when fummoned muft appear ; and the ceremony commences 

 with fongs and dances, which continue till midnight, about 

 which time Mumbo fixes on the offender. This unfor- 

 tunate victim being thereupon immediately feized, is ftripped 

 naked, tied to a poll, and feverely fcourged with Mumbo's 

 rod, amidll the ihouts and derifion of the whole affembly ; 

 and it is remarkable, that the reft of the women are the 

 loudeft in their exclamations on this occafion againft their 

 unhappy fitter. Day-hght terminates tliis indecent and 

 unmanly revel. 



MUNI, col. 2, 1. 3 from bottom, for many-mothered, 

 for r. many -mothered fon. 



MURjENA, col. 3, r. Myrus. 



MURIATE of Ammonia. See Sal Ammoniac. 



MURIATIC Acid, Muriates, in Chemi/iry. See 

 Chlorine. 



MUSCI, col. 8, 1. 18, r. fhrinks ; 1. 7 from bottom, r. 

 efexual. 



MUSHROOMS, Chemical Properties of. See FuNGI. 



MUSKINGUM, 1.5, add— This county has 11 town- 

 fhips, and 10,036 inhabitants. 



MUSOPHAGA, PLANTAiN-^a/^-r, in Ornithology, a 

 genus of birds of the Pics order ; the charaders of which 

 are, bill flout, triangular ; the upper mandible elevated at 

 the bafe, above the front ; both mandibles dentated at the 

 edges ; noftrils in the middle of the bill ; tongue entire, 

 thickilh ; feet with three toes before and one behmd. Thi» 

 genus is conftituted by tlie blackiih-violet plantain-eater, 

 with crimfon crown and quill-feathers, and a white flripe 

 beneath the eyes. The bird, which is highly elegant, is 



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