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MEG'STONE, a rock in the German Ocean, near the 
coaft of Northumberland, about two miles north of Earn 
Ifiand. Lat. 55. 38. N. Ion. 1. 23. W. 
MEGUIRETZ'KA, a mountain of Sclavonia : twenty- 
four miles north of Kraliovavelika. 
MEGUN'TICK, a lake of Canada, on the borders of 
Maine. Lat. 4.5. 44. N. Ion. 70. 25. W. 
MEHAI'GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Sambre and Meufe : feven miles north of Namur.—A 
river, of France, which runs into the Meufe near Huy. 
MEHALLE' et KEB 1 RE', a town of Egypt, capital 
. of Garbia, the fecond province of the Delta, and the refi- 
dence of a bey. As there is no town more conliderabie 
in the Delta, it is called Kebira the Great. It has manu¬ 
factories of linen, and lome fal-ammoniac works. A 
great deal of bufmefs is done there. The rivers which 
lurround it fervc for the conveyance of its merchandile 
through Egypt. Its environs are covered with villages, 
flocks, and the various productions of a fertile foil. It is 
forty-leven miles north or'Cairo. Lat. 30. 50. N. Ion. 31.24.E. 
MEKALLEBEG', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak : twenty-live miles fouth-eali of Rai. 
MEHAL'LET A'BU A'LI, a town of Egypt, on the 
left branch of the Nile : three miles fouth of Faoua. 
MEHAL'LET DI'JE, a town of Egypt: five miles 
fouth of Faoua. 
MEHAL'LET il E'MIR, a town of Egypt, on the 
Nile : fix miles l’outh-eaft of Rofetta. 
MEHAL'LET KE'BIR, or Elkbi're, a town of Egypt: 
forty-feven miles north of Cairo, and forty fouth-louth- 
weft of Damietta. Lat. 30. 50. N. Ion. 31.24. 
MEHAL'LET il LO'BEN, a town of Egypt: fixteen 
. miles fouth of Faoua. 
MEHAL'LET MA'LEK, a town of Egypt: five miles 
.fouth of Faoua, and fixty-fix north of Cairo. 
MEHAL'LET il ME'SHAK, a town of Egypt: five 
miles north-north-eaft of Tineh. 
MEHA'MA, one of the fmaller Friendly Ifiands in the 
Pacific Ocean : four miles eaft of Neeneeva. 
MEHARICOU'RT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Somme: feven miles north-north-weft of 
Roye. 
MEHE'GAN (William Alexander), was born at la 
Salle, in the Cevennes, in the year 1721, of a family ori¬ 
ginally from Ireland, which had followed the fortunes of 
James II. He was prevented from adopting the profef- 
fion of arms, in which his family had been diftinguilhed, 
by ill-health 5 and cultivated the belles lettres, attaching 
himfelf particularly to the ftudy of eloquence. When 
. Frederic V. king of Denmark founded, in the year 1751, 
a profeflbrfhip of the French language, M. de Mehegan 
compofed a difcourfe which was pronounced at the open¬ 
ing of the leCtures in Copenhagen. In the following year 
he publifhed a work entitled “ L’Origine des Guebres, ou 
la Religion naturelle mife en ACtion,” which was looked 
upon as breathing the fpirit of modern philofophy. This 
was followed at diftant intervals by, 2. Confiderations fur 
. les Revolutions des Arts. 3. Pieces fugitives. 4. Me- 
moires de la Marquife de Tervile. 5. Lettres d'Afpafie, 
6, L’Origine, le Progres, et la Decadence, de l’Idolatrie, 
1759. H e died in 1766 ; and after that event were pub- 
lilhed, as pofthumous works of M. Mehegan ; 7. Tableau 
de l’Hiftoire moderne, 3 vols. i2mo. highly efteemed on 
. account of the warmth and eloquence of the ftyle, and the 
generally impartial and philofophical fpirit by which it is 
. animated. The hiftory commences with the year 476, 
and concludes with the peace of Weftphalia in 1648. 
There is an Englifh tranflation of it. 8. L’Rilloire con- 
fideree vis-a-vis la Religion, les Beaux-Arfs, et l’Etat, 
3 vols. nmo. 1767. 
ME'IIEM, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of Delhi: 
twenty-feven miles weft-fouth-weft of Kodak. 
• ME'HEN. See Merana. 
MEIIER'RIN, a town of North Carolina : twenty-five 
miles eaft of Halifax.—A river of Virginia, which runs 
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into the Chow'an twenty miles north-weft of Hartford, in 
North Carolina. 
MEHI'DA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MEIIIN'DRY, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into 
the gulf of Cambay about forty miles fouth of Amedabad. 
ME'HIR, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MEHIT'ABEL, [Heb. God hath done good to us.] 
The name of a woman. 
MEIIITPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : 
forty-five miles fouth-eaft of Sultanpour. 
MEHL'IBACH, a river of Baden, which runs into the 
Rhine fix miles above Brifach. 
ME'HRENBERG, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Naflau Weilburg: four miles north-weft of Weil- 
burg, and thirty-two eaft of Coblentz. 
MEHR'IBAN, a town of Curdiftan : twenty-two miles 
fouth-eaft of Sherezur. 
MEHU'JAEL, f. [Heb. one fmitten of God.] A man’s 
name. 
ME'HUN, a fmall ifiand in the Straits of Babelmandel. 
Lat. 12. 20. N. 
ME'HUN, a town of France, in the department of the 
Cher, on the Evre. Charles VII. built a palace here, in 
which he lived and died; ftarving himfelf to death for 
fear of being poifoned by his fon Louis XI. It is feven 
miles north-weft of Bourgee, and feven fouth-eaft of Vier- 
zon. Lat. 47. 9. N. Ion. 2.18. E. 
MEHUN sur LOl'RE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Loiret, on the Loire: fix miles north- 
eaft of Beaugency. 
MEHUNTPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Chanderee : fixteen miles north-weft of Chanderee. 
ME'I, a town of China, of the third rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Chen-fi : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Fong- 
tfiang. 
MET A SAR'EKIN, a towm of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
government of Diarbekir : thirty miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Diarbekir. Lat. 38. 5. N. Ion. 39. 55. E. 
MEIA'NE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Comis: 
eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Biftan. 
MEIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Mela : twelve miles fouth-iouth-weft of Brefcia. 
MEJAR'HAN, [Hebrew'.] The name of a city. 
MEI'AS-FAR'CHIN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Diarbekir: twenty-five miles north-eaft of 
Diarbekir, and 120 fouth-iouth-weft of Erzerum. 
MEIBO'MIUS (John Henry), a learned phyfician, was 
born at Helmftadt in Auguft 1590. He fpent a conliderabie 
time on his travels in Italy, for the purpofes of improve¬ 
ment in fcience and literature ; and, having given his at¬ 
tention to medicine, in which he made great progrefs, he 
went ultimately to Bafle in 1619, where he was honoured 
with the degree of doftor of phyfic. On his return to his 
native place, his charafter obtained for him, in 1620, the 
appointment of profefior of medicine from the faculty of 
that univerfity 5 and he continued in the office about fix 
years, when he removed to Lubec, where he had been 
chofen phyfician to the city, and to its bifhop. Here he 
palled the reft of his life, which terminated in May 1655, 
in his fixty-fiftli year. In the latter period of his life, he 
employed himfelf chiefly in the inveftigation of medical 
hiftory, and left a manufcript to his fon, entitled “ De 
Vitis Medicorum ufque ad feculum xv.” bat this work 
w'as never printed. The following are the whole of his 
publilhed works, the two laft of which appeared after his 
death. 1. Hippocratis Orkos, five Commentarius in 
Hippocratis jusjurandum ; Lugd. Bat. 1643,410. 2. De 
Flagrorum ufu in re venerea; ibid. 1643. which was 
reprinted at London, Copenhagen, and Frankfort. 3. 
Epiftola de Cynophoria, feu Canis portatione ignomi- 
niofa; Helmftadt, 1645. 4. De Mithridatio et Theriaca 
Difcurfus ; Lubec, 1652, 1659. 5. Maecenas, five de C. D. 
Maecenatis vita, moribus, et geftis, Liber fingularis,” 
Lug. Bat. 1653. 6. De Cerevifiis, Potibufque, et Ebria- 
minibus, extra Vinum aliis, Commentarius; Helmftadt, 
3 1668, 
