1>DEX.. 
427 
Manati of tbe islaiul of Cuba, u*492 
ISianitivitanos, ii. 333 
Maniquarez, inhabitants of, i. 190 j 
village of, i. 191; potteries of, i. 
19G; petrolenin, spnngs of, i. 
305 
Matjoa, expedition to, iii. 51 
Manzanares, the, i. 145, 149, 363; 
bar of the, i. 147; banks of the, 
159; Indian custom of bathing 
in, i. 159 
Mapara, cataract of, ii. 235 
Ma])s of America, ii. 331, iii. 29, 
58, 59 
— of Cuba, iii. 232 
Mar Blanco, iii. 32 
Maracay, i. 502; inhabitants of, i. 
502, 503; situation of, i. 484 
Maracaibo, port of, i. 390 
Maravaca, or Sierra Mariguaca, ii. 
458 
Marepizanas, tribe of, ii. 333 
Margareta, island of, iii. 113, 115 
Marguerita, island of, iii. 216, 371, 
372 
^lariara, peaks of ii. 3 ; getdogical 
construction of, ii. 22 ; hot 
springs of, ii. 20,24; medicinal 
waters of, ii. 26 
Marl formations, i. 35 
Maroa, mission of, ii. 385 
Maryland, iii. 143 
Matacona, river, ii. 460 
Matagorda, iii. 90 
Matavent, river, ii.322, 480 
Matanzas, hamlet of, i* 58 ; origin 
of the name, ib. 
jNlatuna, iii. 219 
Matuniila, iii. 219 
Mauritia-paim, or sago-tree, i. 331, 
ii. 55, 107, 257, iii. 7 8, 72 
Mauritius, sugar canes, first brought 
to the, i. 486 
Mavaca, river, ii. 419, 459 
Maxima of mountain elevation, iii. 
351,353, 354 
Maypures, climate of, ii. 242; luxu- 
riant vegetation of, ii. 257; 
village of, ii. 296, cataract of, ii. 
223, 235, 293, 480; inhabitants 
of, ii. 306; potteries of, ii. 307, 
308; birds of, ii. 311; animals 
of, ib. 
language, ii. 302, 303 n 
Menagerie, ii. 406 
Meat, consumption of, i. 410 n 
Mediterranean Sea, formation of the, 
j, 9 » ; basins of the, iii. 357 
of the west, i. 396, 
iii. 357 
Medusas, or sea-nettles, i. 26; phos- 
phoric properties of, i. 27, 28 
Memnon, statue of, probable cause 
of the sounds issuing from, ii, 
227 
Mendoza, iii. 298 
Mesopotamia, iii. 30 
Mestizoes, i. 205 
Meta, river, ii, 137, 229-230, iii. 
41, 43, 55; plains of the, iii. 
358 
Meteorology, main problem of, i. 
223 
^leteors, i. 28, 29 ; connection of, 
with the, undulations of the 
earth, i. 166 
falling, i. 353-359 
fiery, seen at Cumana, i. 
360 
luminous, i. 352-353 
Mexico, or New Spain, connection 
of, with foreign colonies, i. 396; 
native population of, i. 397, iii. 
129 ; state of society in, i. 413 ; 
nobility of, i. 414; wheat of, i. 
495 ; government of, iii. 75 ; ag- 
riculture of, iii. 126 ; extent of, 
iii. 129 
Miasma, experiments on, i. 372 
Mica-slate, formations of, iii. 379, 
383, 385 
Middleberg, iii. 16‘ 
Migration of nations, ii. 361, iii. 76 
of insect.*;, ii, 282 
-of plants, i. 424; diffi- 
culties of the theory,!. 425 
Milk, distribution of animals yield- 
ing, ii. 492, 493 
