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MEJER'DAH, or Mai-je'ar-da', a feaport town of 
Algiers, in the province of Tremecen. A great quantity 
of grain is exported from this place to Europe : lorty- 
two miles weft of Tremecen. Lat. 35. 8. N. Ion. 1.35. W. 
MEI'GLE, a town of Scotland, in the county of Perth. 
In fome inclofures near is a tumulus, called Hclliduff\ 
which the tradition of tite place affigns to be the fpot 
where Macbeth was killed. In the church-yard are the 
remains of the grand fepulchral monument of Vanora, a 
Britilh princefs, wife of Arthur, who lived in the fixth 
century, and was taken prifoner in a battle between that 
monarch and the united forces of the Pibts and Scots: 
fix miles north-eaft of Cupar, and twelve north-weft of 
Dundee. 
MEI'LAN, a town of European Turkey, in Natolia: 
twenty-eight miles weft-north-weft of Kiangari. 
MEI'LEN, a town of SwiiTerland, and chief place of a 
bailiwic in the canton of Zurich, near the lake : three 
mile Ibuth-eaft of Zurich. 
MEI'LHAN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne : fix miles weft-north-weft of Mar- 
mande.—A town of France, in the department of the 
Gironde : four miles eaft of La Reolie, and twelve north- 
eaft of Bazas. 
MEI'LHUYS, a town of Norway, in the government of 
Drontheim : fourteen miles fouth-weft of Drontheim. 
MEIL'LARDS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Correze : nine miles north of Uzerche. 
MEILLERA'Y, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Loire : ten miles fouth of Chateaubrian. 
MEI'MAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze : twenty-four miles north-north-eaft of Tulle, 
feven miles weft of Uflel. 
MEI'MARG, a town of Grand Bukharia: thirty-fix 
miles fouth-eall of Bukhara. 
MEI'MEND, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan : forty miles 
north of Boft, forty weft of Candahar. Lat. 33. 5. north, 
Ion. 65. 43. eaft. 
MEI'NAM, fignifying the “ Mother of Waters,” a 
large river of Siam. According to Loubere, this river, 
when it enters the dominions of Siam, is fo finall that it 
can only convey finall boats, fcarcely fufficient for car¬ 
rying above four or five perfons. It is afterwards very 
much augmented, at the town of Lancocevan, by another 
confiderable river from the north, of the fame name, or 
rather by the reunion of a branch of the fame river. Lou- 
bere’s account of the fmallnefs of the ftream has been 
doubted, and it has been luggefted that it was only ob- 
ftrubted in its vourfe by rapids or cataracts. When we 
advert to the regular inundations, fimiiar to thofe of the 
Nile and Ganges, which are rivers of long courfe, and 
other circumftances, we may infer that the Meinam is of 
a more diftant and higher origin than the mountains of 
Yun-nan in the weft of China; and that the Thibetian 
Alps furnifti its fiource in that of the Nou Kian of the 
Lamas, fuppofed to be the Tkaluan, or river of Martaban, 
which has no delta, nor any marks of lb diftant an origin; 
but is reprefented by Loubere and d’Anville as a Ihort 
and inlignificant ftream. The Meinam is celebrated 
among the oriental rivers. Kaempfer fays, that it is very 
deep and rapid, always full, and larger than the Elbe. 
He adds, that the inhabitants fuppole its fource to be in 
the mountains which give rife to the Ganges, and that 
it branches through Cambodia and Pegu; an account 
fomewhat confirmed by the difcovery of the river Anau, 
which connebfs the Meinam with the rivers of Cambodia. 
The inundations are in September, after the fnows have 
melted in the northern mountains, and the rainy feafon 
has commenced. In December the waters decline, and 
by degrees fink to their former level. The fame intelli¬ 
gent traveller informs us, that the water in the earth 
fwells before the river riles; that, the wells are nitrous, 
but the water of the Meinam, though muddy, is pleafant 
and lalutary ; that the inundations are chiefly difcernible 
towards the centre of the kingdom, not near the lea; 
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that the rice rs reaped in boats, and the ft raw left in the 
water; that a feftival is celebrated in December, when 
the wind begins to blow from the north, and the inun¬ 
dation, abates. The banks of the Meinam are generally 
low and marlhy, but thickly peopled from Yuthia to 
Bankok, below which are wild deferts like the Sunder- 
bunde of the Ganges. Monkeys, fire-flies, and inolkitoes, 
fwarm on the fertile fhores. Pinkerton. 
MEI'NART, a town of Germany-, in the county of 
Hohenlohe : feven miles fouth-eaft Ohringen. 
MEINAU', an illand in the nor'ch-weft part of the Lake 
of Conftance, about three miles in circumference, and 
celebrated for its wine. In 1805 it was ceded to Baden: 
four miles north of Conftance. 
MEI'NBACH, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
three miles north of Schweinfurt. 
MEI'NDER, a river of Natolia, anciently called 
Meander, which runs into the Archipelago in lat. 37. 
30. N. 
To MEI'NE. v. a. To mingle : 
In which that boy thee plonged, for defpight 
That thou bewray'dft his mother’s wantoneSe 
When Ihe with Mars was meynt in joyfulnefs. Spenfer. 
MEINE, Mei'nie, or Meiny, f. [meni5u, Sax.] A 
retinue ; domeftic fervants : 
They fummon’d up their meiny ; ftrait took horfe ; 
Commanded me to follow, and attend. Shakejpeare. 
MEI'NERTSHOF, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Henneberg, five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Salzungen. • 
• MEI'NERZHAGEN, a town of Germany, in the 
county of Mark : feven miles fouth of Ludenlcheid. 
MEI'NSTER WALT, a town of Pomperelia: ten miles 
fouth of Dantzic. 
MEINUN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Henneberg, belonging to the prince of Saxe-Weimar; 
fituated amidft mountains, on the river Werra. In the 
year 1681, duke Bernhard chofe it for his refidence, and 
caufed a new palace to be built, furnilhing it with a 
princely library and cabinet of medals : twenty-one miles 
north Schweinfurt, fourteen miles north-weft Hiiburg- 
haufen. Lat. 50. 37. N. Ion. 10.40. E. 
MEI'ONITE, J'. in mineralogy. See Scorlus Vefu- 
vianus. 
MEIO'SIS, f. [Greek.] A figure in rhetoric, in which 
we fpeak of any thing in flighter terms than what it de- 
ferves ; a kind of extenuation, a diminution. 
MEIRON'NES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Barcelonette. The place contains 354, and the 
canton 3252, inhabitants, in three communes. 
MEISE, a river of Weftphalia, which runs into the 
Aller near Hudemuhlen, in the principality of Luneburg 
Zeile. 
MEI'SNER, a mountain of Germany, near Cappel, in 
Lower Helle. 
MEI'SNER (Balthafar), an eminent German Lutheran 
divine and profefior, was born at Drefden in Saxony, in 
the year 1587. At the age of fifteen he was fent to pur- 
lue his academical ftudies at the univerfity of Wittem¬ 
berg, where he was admitted to the degree of M. A. 
in 1604. Afterwards he applied with great diligence to 
the ftudy of divinity, and acquired no little reputation 
by his exercifesin the public fchools, both in that faculty 
and in philolbphy. In 1609 he quitted Wittemberg, 
and ftudied during two years in the univerfities of Straf- 
burg, Tubingen, and Giefen. In 1611,-he was recalled 
to Wittemberg, where he was appointed profefior of mo¬ 
ral philolbphy, and. difcharged the. duties of that office 
with great applaufe. In 1612, he was created D.D. and 
two years afterwards was ekSed to the theological chair, 
which he filled with great honour and fuccefs during the 
remainder of his life. In 1624, he was nominated alleflbr 
of the confiftory; and he was thrice railed to the poll cf 
3 ...... re&or. 
