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f^ndets inJifpenfiblo. This city is rendered pleafant in ap- 

 pearance by llie fine houfes occupied by ibe fupcrcargoes of 

 the difierent companies, obhged to winter here ; and their 

 fociety enh!vens the place. N. lat. 22^ 12' 40". E. long, 

 log'. Grofier. De la Peroufe. 



In the foho volume annexed to fir George Staunton's 

 " Authentic Account of an Embaffy from the King of 

 Great Britain to tlie Emperor of China," there is a plan of 

 the city and harbour of Macao ; containing references to all 

 the forts, colleges, convents, and other public buildings, 

 aid places of note ; and alfo the depth of water, and nature 

 of the ground, in every part of the inner liarbour, as well as 

 in the ipace between ihepeninfnla and the northern entrance 

 into the Typa ; taken from an accurate furvey made by a 

 gentlen.an long refident on the fpot. 



Maoao, New, a fea-port town of Tonquin, at the bot- 

 tom of a large bay, full of iflands. N. lat. 31° 30'. E. 

 long. 107'. ' 



Macao, Macn'w, in Onuthology. See Psittacus Macao, 



^lACAPA, in Geography, a town of South America, in 

 th.e government of Pern, on the north bank of the river of 

 t!ie Amazons, nearly on the equinoflial line. \V. long. J2 '. 



MACAQUO, in Zoology, the name of a large fpecies of 

 .monkey called by Mr. Ray cercopithecus ^ti^o/enjis major, the 

 ■great Angola monkey. S?c Si.mia Cynomnlgtis. 



They have another fpecies of this kind alfo about An- 

 gola, whicli may be called the black macaquo. Its only 

 colour is black ; but on many parts of the back and fides, 

 there is a greyifh caft an-ong it : this has a tail of remarkable 

 Jength, being more than- two feet long. See Simia. 



MACAR.-\GUA, in V.cography, a town of the !fi?nd of 

 Cuba ; .1)5 miles N.W. of Havar.na. 

 " MACARAUX, in Ornhhology. See Alca Jrclica. 



MACARIA, in Geography, a town on the weft coaft of 

 the iflaiid of Metelin ; 10 miles W. of Metelin. 



MACARIANS, in Ecck/laJIical Hi/lory, the followers 

 of Macarius, an Egyptian monk, who was diftinguifhed, to- 

 wards the cloie of the fourth century, for his fanctity and 

 virtue. . In his writings there are fonie fuperlHtious tenets, 

 and alfo certain opinions that feem tainted with Origenifm. 

 The name ha'i been alfo apphed to thofe who adopted the 

 fentiments of Macarius, a native of Ireland, who, about the 

 clofe of the ninth century, propaj>ated in France the error 

 afterwards maintained by A*-errhoe«, that one individual in- 

 telligence or foul performed the fpiritual and ratioi'.al func- 

 tions in all the human race. * 



MACARltJS, St., in Biography, a famous anchoret of 

 the fourth century, was a native o.* Alexandria. He ipent 

 fixty years in a nionaltery, and is faid to have been a diiciple 

 -of St. Anthony, the firil inllitutor of a monaftic hfe. He 

 died in the year 391, when he v.-as about ninety years of 

 age. Fifty homilies have been attributed to him : thefe 

 were firll publidied in Greek, at Paris, in 1559. He is 

 fuppofed to have been the author of many Imaller trails, 

 " On Prayer," «' Watching the Heart," " Perfeftion of 

 the Mind," &c. The bell edition of \\u pieces is that pub- 

 lifhed at Leipfic in 1698. Moreri. 



Macarius, St., tht Toimger, a celebrated Tnonk, like- 

 wife a native of Alexandria, who had 5000 monks under 

 his direftion. Of his fanflity, virtues, and abHinence, won- 

 decs are related by Palhdius. He was baniftied by the 

 Arians to an iflaiid inhabited by heathens, whom he con- 

 ■vcrted to, what was called at that period, Chriitianity. 

 He died about the year 404, when he was nearly 100 years 

 of age. To him have been aUributed " Rules forMoi;ks," 



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in 30 chapters, fii ft. publirtied in Latin by Peter Roverius 

 the .Tcfuit. Moreri. 



Macarius, St., Defert of, in Geography, a defert 011 

 the well part of Egypt, denominated in honour of a fa nt, 

 to whofe honour a convent of monks has been founded, an- 

 ciently called " Nitria." The convent is about 50 miles 

 N.N.W. of Cairo. 



MACARON, the name of a fort of vermicelli, a pafie 

 made of flour and water, and formed in the Ihapc of the 

 barrel of a large quill', or the guts of fmall fouls. 



MACARONIC, or MA.CARONIAN*, a kind of burlefque 

 poetry ; confifling of a jumble of words of different lan- 

 guages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and 

 Eatin words modernized. 



Micaronc, among the Italians, as has been obferved bv 

 Citlius Rhodiginus, fignifies a coarfe clownifli u>an ; and 

 becaufe this kind o£ poetry, being patched out of feveral 

 languages, and full'roi extravagant words, is not fo polite 

 and fniooth as thofe of Virgil, &c. the Italians, among 

 whom it had its rife, gave it the name of Macaronian or 

 Macaronic poetry. Others chiofe to derive it a Maca- 

 ronlbus, from Macaroons, a kind of confeiSlion made of meal 

 not bolted, fweet almonds, fugar, and the whites of eggs; 

 accounted a great dainty among the country people in 

 Italy ; whiiMi, from their being compofcd of various ingre- 

 dients, occafioned this kind of poetry, which confifts of 

 Latin, Italian, Spanifii, French, Englilh, &c. to be called 

 by their name. 



Theoph. Folingius, a Benedicline monk of Mantua, was 

 the firll who invented, or at lead cultivated, this kind of 

 verfe : for though we have a Macaronea Ariminenlis in a 

 v^ry old letter, beginning, " Eft author Typhis Leonicus 

 atqne Paranfus;" yet it feems to Iwve been the work of 

 Guariiius Capellus Sarfinas, who, in the year 1256, printed 

 fix books of Macaronic poetry, in Cabrinum Gagamonae 

 Rcgcm ; but as both thofe came out after the firll edition 

 of Folingius, which was publifhed under the name of Mer- 

 linus Coccajus iu 1520, fo they were likewife much inferior 

 to his in the ftyle, invention, and epifodes, wherewith 

 •he has enriched the hiftory of Baldns ; which makes the fub- 

 iedl of his poem. The tamous Rabelais firft transferred the 

 Macaronic llyle out ot the Itahy.n vcfe into French profe, 

 and on the model thereof formed fome of the bell things in 

 his Paniagrue!. 



We have Icarce any thing in Englilli in the Macaronian 

 way, except fome little loofe pieces collected in Camden's 

 Remains ; which is no difcredit to our authors : fur one 

 may lay of fuch pieces in genera), 



" Turpe eft difficiles habere nugas, 

 Et llultus labor eft ineptiarun-i." 



iJut the Germans and Netherlanders have had thtir Ma- 

 caronic poets ; witnefs the " Certamen Cathohcum cum Cal- 

 viniftis" of cue Martinius Han conius Frifius, which contains 

 about twelve hundred vtrfes, all the words whereof begin 

 with the letter C. 



MACAROON. See Macaronic. 



MACAROW.*^, in Geography, a town of Poland, in 

 the palatinate of Kiev ; 24 miles N.W. of Kiev. 



MACARSCA, a town of Dalmatia, and fee of a bifhop, 

 futTragan of Spalatro ; fituated in a territory, formeily 

 pleafant and fertile, and convenient for commerce, but more 

 lately deteriorated, and fuppofed to have arifen out of the 

 ruins of the ancient Ratanaum or Retinum ; 36 miles E.S.E. 

 of Spalatro. 



J MACARTNEY, 



