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puWifhed ill Germany, France, and Italy; but in 1 701 

 It was brought before the congregation of tlie Index, by 

 whom the author would unqucftionably have been ceiifured, 

 if he had not agreed to reprint it with fuch alterations, 

 emendations, and omilTions :is fhould be fuggelled to hini. 

 In the fame year Mabillon was chofen honorary member 

 of the Academy of Infcriptions, and pubhihed the firft 

 volume of the lull great work to which he devoted his 

 labours, entitled " Annates Ordinis S. Benedifti in quibus 

 non modo res Monaftica:, fed etiam Ecclefiaflicx HiiloricK 

 non minima pars continctur." The fecond, third, and 

 fourth volumes fuccecded, and the fifth was compofcd by 

 Mabillon, but not publilhed till after his deceafe. Mabillon 

 died in beccmber 1707, foon after he had completed his 

 feventy-fifth year. In fpeaking of his great merit, Dupin 

 fays, " The voice of the public, and the general e(leem 

 of all the learned, are a much better commendation of him , 

 than any thing which we can fay. His profound learning 

 appears from his works ; his modefty, humility, meeknefs, 

 and piety, are no lefs known to thofe who .have had the 

 leaft converfation with him. His ftyle is mafculinc, pure, 

 clear, and methodical, without affectation or fuperfluous or- 

 naments, and 'fuitable to the fubjeds of wliich he has 

 treated." In 1724 the poftliumous works of our author 

 were published in three volumes 4to. by ThuiUier. Moreri. 

 Dupin. 



MA ELY, Bhnnet de, abbe, an eminent political 

 writer, was born at Grenoble in 1709. He was brother 

 of the abbe Condillac, whom he refembled in acutenefs and 

 penetration. He devoted himfelf to the ftudy of literature, 

 and died at Paris in 1785. His principal works are " Ob- 

 fervationson the Greeks;" " Obfcrvations on the Romans;" 

 " Parallel of the Romans and French ;" " Obfervations on 

 the Hiftory of France ;" " Difcourfes on Hiftory." All 

 the writings of this author difplay deep thinking, found 

 moral principles, and a great regard for the good of man- 

 kind. He is, hov/ever, thought to be too much of a panc- 

 gyrift of the ancients, and too fond of applying their po- 

 litical maxims to the very different circumftances of modern 

 ftates. The work of his old age, entitled " Sur lea Con- 

 flitutions des Etats Unis de I'Amerique," gave offence by 

 fome fentiments adverfe to civil liberty and rehgious tole- 

 ration. 



MABOUJAS, the Dfvil-lizard, in Zoology, a fpecies of 

 American lizard, fo called from its uglinefs and difagreeable 

 afpeft. It grows to fix or feven inches long, and to the 

 thicknefs of a thumb, and is found in the trunks of rotten 

 trees, and in marfhy places, where the fun-beams feldom 

 reach ; it is all over of a glofTy black colour, and looks as 

 if fmeared over with oil. 



MABOUL, James, in Biography, an eminent French 

 prelate, diflinguifiied for his pulpit eloquence, and particu- 

 larly for his orations dehvered in praife of deceafed perfons 

 of merit, was defcended from a family of high rank. He ob- 

 tained confiderable emmence in the church, and was employed 

 by the duke of Orleans, the regent, in a fruitlefs attempt to 

 reconcile the hoftile parties who were contending about the 

 bull Unigenitus. His funeral difcourfes were pubUfhed in 

 one volume i2mo. in 1749: they are faid to be diftingui(hed 

 by that fweetnefs of ityle, that noblenefs of fentiment, 

 that elevation, that unftion, and that touching fimplicity, 

 which are the charafterillics of a good mind, and of true 

 genius. Moreri. 



MABRA, in Geography, a town of Algiers, in the gulf 

 of Bona; 10 miles W. of Bona, 



MAC 



MAC, an Irifh word fignifyingyon ; frequently prefixed 

 to furnames ; as jlfacdonald, for Donald's ion ; Mac\ci\im, 

 for Laurence's fon, &c. 



MACA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Hoval ; 20 

 miles from the moulii of the Senegal. 



MACABALAR Bay, h bay on the N.W. coall of the 

 ifland of Mindanao. 



MACABRA, a town of Africa, in Scnnaar; 40 miles 

 S.S.W. <,f Meroe. 



MACACO, in Zoology. See Lemuu Macaco. 



MACADRA, ill Geography, a town of Arabia, in Ye- 

 men ; 32 miles S. of Chamir. 



MAC^, in ./Indent Geography, a people of Africa, E. 

 of the Nafamones and near the fea. Some have fuppofed 

 they are the fame with thofe called Syrtites by Ptolemy, be- 

 caufe they inhabited towards the Great Syrtib. The Cinyps 

 watered their country, and hence Silius Italicus denominates 

 them Cinyphii Macoe. 



MACAENS de Cam'mho, in Geography, a town of Portu- 

 gal, in Elhemadura ; 33 miles S.S.E. of Coimbra. 



MACAIRE, St., a town of France, in the department 

 of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 

 of La Reole. The place contains 1483, and the canton 9980 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 1025 kiliometres, in 15 com- 

 munes. 



MACALLESTER's Bay, a bay on the E. coall of 

 the ifland of Mull. N. lat. 56 30'. W. long, f 45'. 



MACALUNGO, a town of Africa, in Mozambique. 

 S. lat.- 17 . E. long. 39'. 



MACAM, Indian apple, in Natural Hi/lory, tlic name of 

 a common Eaft Indian fruit : it is of a round (liape, and 

 about the fize of our common wild crabs which grow in 

 the hedges : inftead of the feveral fmall feeds, which our 

 crabs and apples contain, this fruit has only one hard ker- 

 nel ; it is of an acid tafte, and of a raw and not very agree- 

 able fmell ; the tree which produces this fruit does not 

 grow to any height : it refembles the quince tree in its 

 leaves, except that they have a yellovvifli call. Mem. Acad. 

 Par. 1699. 



MAC AN, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in Khorafan ; 

 60 miles W. of Meru-Shahigian. 



MACANAO,.a fmall ifland in the Caribbean fea, near 

 the W. coaft of Margarita. N. lat. 11. W. long. 64"^ 

 40'. 



MACANEA, in Botany, is a name adopted by Juffieu 

 for the Macahanea of Aublet deforibed in the fupplement 

 of his Plants of Guiana, and figured in t. 371 of that 

 work. Neither of thofe authors had feen any of the parts 

 of fruftification except the berry and feeds which are thus 

 defcribed. Perk. Berry large, pear-lhaped, of one cell, 

 pulpy withinfide ; its outfide leathery, fprinkltd with red 

 fpots. Seeds from four to fix, ovate, leathery, covered 

 with a membrane and lying in a white pulp. Aublet, who 

 found this plant in fruit in June, calls it by the fpecific name 

 oi gtiianenfis, with the following defcription. — Sln-ub putting 

 . forth numerous branches, twilling themfelves about the neigh- 

 bouring trees. Leaves oppofite, on fcotflalks, toothed, 

 ovate, acute, fmooth. Fruk axillary, in cluilers. — From 

 the imperfect ftate in which Macanea is known, we cannot 

 pronounce to what clafs it belongs. Juflieu ranks it amongll 

 the Natural Order of Gultlfer^, and fays that it is nearly al- 

 lied to Mammea and Singana. 



MACANNA, in Geography, a kingdom of Africa, S. 

 of Bambouk. 



MACAO, a town of Portugal, in Ellreraadura; 12 miles 

 N.E. of Abantcs. 



9 Macao, 



