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of African origin, and is found in the province of Acra in 

 Guinea, and is faid to live principally on the fruit of the 

 mufa or plantain-tree. Dr. Shaw, in the Mufeum Leveri- 

 pnum, has defcribed this bird as a fpecies of cuckoo, under 

 the name of Cuculus regius ; but in his Zoology it is a diftinft 



genus. . 



MUSTELA, col. 3, under B. r. Barbara, Ginana 



weafel ; 1. 3, r. Guiana. 



MUSTELIA, in Botany, in memory of Mr. Muftel, 

 who wrote, in Phil.Tranf. v. 63, fome " New Obfervations 

 upon Vegetation."— Sprengel Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 6. 152. 



t. 13. This plant is faid to differ from Eupatorium, 



(fee that article,) in having five minute fcales accompany- 

 ing the briftly feed-crown. How far fuch exift in any Eti- 

 fatorhim, or not, and whether they ought to make a generic 

 diftinftion, merits inquiry. 



MYLOCARYUM, from //uAo?, a mill, and xk^uot, a 

 nut, alluding to the four fpreading wings of the feed. — Willd. 

 Enmn. 454.. Purlh 303. (Walteriana; Frafer's Cat. ) — 

 Clafs and order, Decandrla Moiiogyiiia. Nat. Ord. Erica, 

 Juff. 



EfF. Ch. Calyx of five leaves. Petals five. Filaments 

 fwelling and angular in the middle. Stigma feffile. Cap- 

 fule winged, of three cells. Seeds folitary. 



I. M. ligujlriniim. Privet-leaved Buck-wheat -tree. Willd. 



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n. I. Purfli n. i. t. 14. Sims in Curt. Mag. t. 162?. 

 Ait. Epit. 371. Sm. Inf. of Georgia, v. 2. 135. t. 68, 

 without a name. — On the dry borders offwampsin Georgia, 

 flowering in May and June. An elegant evergreen fhrul 

 eight to twelve feet high. Purjh. Leaves alternate, ftalked, 

 obovate, acute, entire. Floiuers white, fweet-fcented, in 

 terminal clufters. Fruit pendulous, refembling feeds of 

 Buck-wheat, with three or four wings. 



MYOXUS. At the clofe, add— Dr. Shaw enumerates 

 fome other fpecies, fuch as the Chryfurus, or gilt-tailed D., 

 the M. guerlingus, or guerlinguet, and the African, or earlefs 

 Dormoufe. 



MYRIANDRUS. Add— According to Xenophon, it 

 was a Phccnician city, a mart-town, and many merchant- 

 fliips lay at anchor before it. 



MYRICIN, in Chemiflry, a name given by Dr. John 

 to the fubilance that remains after bees'-wax, or the wax of 

 the myrica corilifolia, has been heated with alcohol. This fub- 

 ilance is infoluble in water, ether, and alcohol, both hot and 

 cold. It is foluble in the fixed and volatile oils, and does 

 not precipitate from the former of thefe. It melts between 

 100° and 140°, and is fomewhat glutinous, but of the con- 

 fiflence of wax. Its fp. gr. is .900. 



MYTHOLOGY of tie Hindoos, 1. 26 from bottom, for 

 ftories r. llores. 



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NACHITOCHES, 1. 2, after Orleans, add— and in 

 the territory of Orleans; its inhabitants in 1810 

 being 2870. 



NACOGDOCHES, a fmall town of Louifiana, fituated 

 in N. lat. 31° 27'. W. long. 24° 17', on the Arroyo de la 

 Nana, in a beautiful, healthy, well-watered country. This 

 fmall town, and a few farms in the vicinity, are hitherto the 

 only improvement made by the Spanilli emigrants after the 

 revolution of 98 years. A tribe of Indians, called Nadacos, 

 refides about 30 miles N. of Nacogdoches, upon the head- 

 •waters of the Angelina, where they were found near a cen- 

 tury ago by the French and Spaniards. The Nadacos are 

 a poor inoffenfive race, in peace with all their neighbours, 

 both white and black. 



NAGA, a name of the Hindoo mythological ferpent, 

 otherwife called Sejha; which fee. 



NAGANTEKA, in Hindoo Mythology, is a name of 

 the hypogriff Garuda, the vehicle of the god Vifhnu. It 

 means the deftroyer of ferpents. Another of its names is 

 Superna ; which fee. 



NAIRIT, is one of the eight regents of the winds, or 

 points of the heavens. He rules the fouth-weft quarter, 

 and is fubordinate to Indra, regent of the firmament. ( See 

 Ixdra.) Thefe rulers of the cardinal and intermediate 

 points are fometimes called iWarw/ (which fee). See alfo 

 Virupaksha, meaning with a difagreeable countenance. 



Another of his names is Karbura. He has a fahti or con- 

 fort affigned him, ufually named Nirriti ; which fee. 

 NAIRN, !.«//. for 632 ;-. 613. 



NAIRNSHIRE, col. 2, 1. 46, number of houfes was 

 1 746, and the inhabitants, &c. 



NAKAL, one of the champions of the Hindoo heroic 

 poem, entitled the Mahabarat (which fee). As that 

 poem is fuppofed to be allegorical, and to reprefent the 

 conflitts between man's virtues and vices, Nakal, one of the 

 five fons of Pandu, is faid to be a perfonification of tem- 

 perance, and is made the twin-brother of Sahadeva, or 

 chaftity. Other commentators make them to reprefent 

 beauty and wifdom. Their mother was Maderi, a wife of 

 Pandu; which fee. 



NAKSHATRA, in Aflronumy, is the name given by 

 the Hindoos to the manfions which they affign to the moon. 

 They feem to be the fame, though not exaftly coinciding, 

 with the lunar ftages of the Arabians, which they call 

 man%il. The " Nakfhatras, or aflerifms, marking the moon's 

 path," are twenty -feven or twenty-eight in number. A 

 table of them is given in the ninth volume of the Afiatic 

 Refearches, by Mr. Colebroke, the prefident of the Afiatic 

 Society. See alfo the fecond volume of the fame work, 

 together with the Indian zodiac, accompanied by an effay 

 on its antiquity, by fir W. Jones. 



The Hindoos afcribe the invention of their folar and 



lunar 



