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communicated the refult of their inquiries in refpeft to 
the qualities and medicinal properties of this water, and 
as their opinions have been uniformly favourable to its 
character, and in unifon with my own, I can have no he- 
fitation in fpeaking with increafed confidence of the ad¬ 
vantages which nvuft refult from its ufe. The Melkfham- 
fpa water contains feveral fubftances that are very aftrve, 
and which determine the medical properties of many dif- 
tinguiflied mineral waters. Its charafter is faline, and the 
quantity of laline ingredients is equal to that of the 
mod celebrated fprings. The lalts contained in it are 
in their nature purgative; and therefore a condant effeft 
on the bowels, is the-aftion this medicinal water produces 
■when taken in fuitable dofes. A countervailing pro¬ 
perty in this water arifes from the prefence of fome iron, 
thereby precluding that debility which i’o often follows 
the ufe of the ftronger purgatives. A moderate dole, for 
inftance, half-a-pint, will often aft drongly; two half¬ 
pints feldom fail to produce a copious effeft; and a pint 
and a half in the courfe of the day has proved generally a 
powerful dofe of phyfic. In doles too fmail to produce 
any aftion on the bowels, it pafles off readily by urine ; 
and thus it appears to combine a variety of falutary ope¬ 
rations. The courfe of the water may be perfevered in 
without interruption for a confiderable length of time, 
even in dates of apparently-great debility, without pro¬ 
ducing any inconvenience to the fyftem. The appetite 
is much improved by its ufe; it promiles the happieft ef¬ 
fects in mod of the diforders of the digellive organs ; and, 
as far as its powers have been obferved, it wonderfully 
improves all thole habits of body which are the regular 
attendants of indigedion. It leems calculated in a lupe- 
rior degree to relieve and remove the bad confequences 
relulting from bilious obdruftion ; and to redore to the 
funftion of the liver, in l'ecreting bile, a due and healthy 
regularity. There is aifo a llrong chalybeate fpring in 
the fame field. The eligibility of the fituation is unquef- 
tionable, it being dole to the neat and refpeftable town of 
Meiklham, and only twelve miles from the city of Bath j 
and, from the above experiments and obfervations, we 
may prelume, that an excellent preparative or auxiliary 
to a courfe of the Bath-waters may be found in the Melk- 
lham faline aperient.” Med. andPhyf. Journal, Oft. 1813. 
To MELL, v. n. [miter, Ft.] To mix.—He rttffll'd his 
talk with many a tear. Spenjer .—To meddle.—It fits not 
fathers with fucli things to melt. Spenjer. 
MELL I'SLANDS, a cluder ol fmail illands, near the 
wed coad of Scotland. Lat. 58. 15. N. Ion. 4. 57. W. 
MEL'LA (Annaeus), the father of Lucan. He was 
accufed of being privy to Pifo’s confpiracy againd 
Nero ; upon which he opened his veins. Tacit. Ann. c. 17. 
MELLA'GO,/ in pharmacy, any kind of juice boiled 
up to the confidence of honey. 
MELLAHA', a town of Africa, in the country of 
Barca. Lat. 31. s- N. Ion. 23. 44. E. 
MELLA'RIA, in ancient geography, a town of Hif- 
pania, in Bcetica, at the foot of the mountains, and 
louth-wed of Sifapa ; which was a confiderable place, 
and is mentioned in the Itinerary of Antonine. Now 
Fuentes Ovejuna. —Alfo, a town of Hifpania, in Bcetica, 
(now Tarifa;) fituated towards the louth on a drait, 
famous for its falt-works and for its commerce in falted 
provilions. According to the Itinerary of Antonine, it 
was twelve miles, towards the wed, from Portus Albus. 
MEL'LATS, f. in chemidry, are combinations of an 
acid called the meliitic with certain bafes. See Mellites. 
MELL'DORF. See Meldorp, p. 48. 
MEL'LE, a town of France, and principal place of a 
didrift, in the department of the Two Sevres: thirteen 
miles louth-ead of Niort, and eleven fouth of St. Maixent. 
Lat. 46. 13. N. Ion. o. 4. W. 
MEE'LE, a town of Wedphalia, in the bifhopric of 
Ofnabruck : eleven miles louth-ead of Vorden. 
MEL'LE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Scheldt s five miles fouth-fouth-ead of Ghent, 
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MEL'LE, a mountain of Sicily, in the valley of Mazara: 
twenty-two miles north of Girgenti. 
MELLE'AN, or Mel'leous, adj. [from the Lat. met, 
honey.] Like honey ; confiding of honey. Phillips. 
MEL'LER, a lake of Sweden, eighty miles- long, and 
thirty broad ; on which dands the city of Stockholm. 
MELLERAU'D, a town of France, in the department 
of the Orne : nine miles north-ead of Seez. 
MEL'LET, f. in farriery, a diy fcab on the heel of a 
horfe. 
MEL'LI, or Lamlem, a country of Africa, bounded 
on the north by Calhna, on the ead by Wangara, on the 
fouth by Guinea, from which it is leparated by moun¬ 
tains, and on the wed by Gago ; 500 miles in length 
from ead to wed, and from 150 to 200 in breadth. Lat. 
11. 30. to 15. N. Ion. 5. 30. to 14. 50. E. 
MEL'LID, a town of Spain, in Galicia : twenty miles 
ead of Compodella. 
MELLIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. met, honey, and 
fero, to bear.] Producing honey. 
MELLIF'IC, adj. [met, honey, and facio, to make.] 
Making honey ; producing honey. Phillips. 
MELLIFICA'TION, J'. The art or praftice of mak¬ 
ing honey ; production of honey.—In judging of the air, 
many things befides the weather ought to be obferved : 
in fome countries the filence of grafs-hop'pers, and want 
of mellificatidn in bees. Arbuthiiot. 
MELLIF'LUENCE, /! [mel and fluo, Lat.] A honied 
flow ; a flow of fweetnefs. 
MELLIF'LUENT, or Mellif'luous, adj. Flowing 
with honey; flowing with fweetnefs.—As all thofe things 
which are mod mellifluous are looned changed into choler 
and bitternels, fo are our vanities and pleafures converted 
into the bittered borrows. Raleigh. 
The freely flowing verfe 
In thy immortal praife, O form divine, 
Smooths her mellifluent dream. Ahenjide. 
Innumerous fonglters, in the frefli’ning lhade 
Of new-fprung leaves, their modulations mix 
Mellifluous. Thomjbrds Spring. 
MELLIG'ENOUS, adj. [met, honey, and genus, a kind.] 
Having the qualities of honey. Scott. 
MEL'LIGO, /! [Lat.] A kind of bee's wax. 
MELLIL'OQUENT, adj. [: mel, honey, and loqum-, to 
fpeak.J Speaking lweetly. Scott. 
MELL'ING, J. The aft of meddling or interfering ; 
Here is a great deal of good matter 
Lod for lack of telling: 
Now I lee thou dod but clatter. 
Harm may come of melliug. Spehfefs Pafltorals. 
MELLIN'GEN, Mollingen, or Mel'ding, a town of 
the principality of Weimar : three miles louth of Weimar. 
MELL'ITES, j\ Mellite, Mellilite, or Honey- 
stone ; in mineralogy, a genus of the clals of inflam¬ 
mables ; the "generic charafters of which are, that it is 
foft, brittle, pellucid, Alining- with a glafi’y ludre, of a 
conchoidal texture and honey-yellow colour; in the 
' form of a double four-fided pyramid with the faces quite 
fmooth. There is but one Ipecies, called 
Mellites Werneri, or mellite of alumine. This mi¬ 
neral was midaken, by Born and other writers, for a 
crydallized variety of amber, till Werner and Laumont, 
and principally Klaproth, determined its true nature, 
which is totally different from that of any other mineral 
lubdance we are acquainted with. Its colour is honey- 
yellow, of more or lefs purity and intenfity, palling into 
wax and fometimes into draw and greyilh yellow. It is 
feldom found maflive and in detached grains, but gene¬ 
rally crydallized. The primitive form of the crydals 
is an oftohedron with common bafe perfeftly fquare ; 
the inclination of each face of the four-fided pyramid, 
on its correfponding face in the other pyramid, is, ac¬ 
cording to Haiiy, 33,° 22'. The crydals, which are very 
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