M E S 
lii addition to a great number of valuable communi¬ 
cations, which were printed in the Memoirs of the Aca¬ 
demy of Sciences, Mery publilhed, the following works 
feparately. x. Defcription de l’Oreille de l’Homme, Paris, 
1681, which was annexed to Laney’s work “ De l’Ame 
fenfitive,” by which he anticipated Duverney, who was 
known to have been long employed on the fame fubjeCL 
2. Obfervations fur la Maniere de Tailler, pour l’Extrac- 
tion de la Pierre, pratiquee par Frere Jacques, ibid. 1700, 
nmo. This is a very lcientific and candid difcuflion of 
that celebrated empiric’s method of cutting for the ftone, 
the general principle of which he approves, while he points 
out many mifchiefs in .his operations, occaiioned by his 
ignorance of anatomy, and the rudenefs of his inftruments. 
3. Nouveau Syfteme de la Circulation du Sang, par le trou 
ovale, dans le Foetus humain, avec les Reponfes aux Ob¬ 
jections de MM. Duverney, Tauvry, Verheyen, Sylveftre, 
et Buiffiere, 1700, nmo. The controverfy upon this 
queftion was carried on with ardour. Mery controverted 
the received opinion, that part of the blood palfes from 
the right to the left ventricle, through the foramen ovale, 
and maintained that its paffage was in the oppofite direc¬ 
tion ; and, therefore, that the greater part of the blood in 
the foetus circulated through the lungs, and the fmaller 
portion through the reft of the body. It is lingular, as 
Senac temarks, in his treatife on the heart, that Mery, who 
was in error, had the greater number of partifans ; but 
Duverney and the reft defended the queftion ill. 4. His 
laft work, Problemes de Phylique, 1711, 4to. relates to the 
connexion of the foetus with the mother, and its nutrition, 
which he maintains, in oppofttion to Falconet, to be ef¬ 
fected by means of the maternal blood alone, and not by 
any laCteous fluid, produced in the uterus for that pur- 
poi'e. Gen. Biog. 
ME'RY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Oife, on the Oife: three miles north-eaft of 
Pontoife. 
ME'RY SUR SEI'NE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Aube: fifteen miles north-weft of Troyes, 
and twenty-four eaft of Provins. Lat.48. 30. N. Ion. 3. 58. E. 
MERY'TA, f [from /atjguo, Gr. to colleCt in clufters, 
alluding to the fituation of the flowers.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs dioecia, order triandria. Generic cha¬ 
racters—Male flowers aggregate in clofe heads ; calyx, 
perianthium in three deep, ovate, acute, fegments; co¬ 
rolla, none ; ftamina, filaments three, capillary, the length 
of the calyx; antherse oblong, with four furrows. Fe¬ 
male flowers not difcovered. 
Meryta lanceolata, a Angle fpecies. Native of the So¬ 
ciety Ifles. The male flowers are reprefented in an hemi- 
fpherical, lateral, feflile head. Fmjt. Prod. 92. This is all 
the information extant refpeCting the genus in queftion; 
except that, by a note of the younger Linnaeus, it appears 
that fir Jofeph Banks and Dr. Solander had likewife de- 
fcribed it as new, by the name of NeaJ'a. 
MERZAPOU'R, a town of Bengal: fifteen miles north- 
north-weft of Moorihedabad. 
MERZAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Benares, on the Ganges: twenty-four miles weft-fou th- 
weft of Benares, and forty-two eaft-fouth-eaft of Allaha¬ 
bad. Lat. 25. 10. N. Ion. 82. 50. E. 
MERZ'BERG, a town of Silefia, in the county of Glatz. 
Here is a filver mine. It is ten miles fouth of Glatz. 
MER'ZIEN, a town of Germany, in the principality 
of Anhalt Cothen : three miles fouth of Cotlien. 
MERZIFOU'N, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
twenty-one miles north-weft of Amafreh, and thirty 
fouth of Samfun. 
MES, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Tab near 
Ragian. 
MES-SE.E'LAH, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Algiers: eighty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Dellys. 
ME'SA, a river of the Popedom, which runs into the 
Adriatic at Sinigaglia. 
Vol. XV. No. 1033. 
MES 100 
ME'SA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Tazov- 
Ikaia Gulf in lat. 68. 12. N. Ion. 79. 14. E. 
ME'SA, the fouthernmoft of four iftands in the Pacific 
Ocean, eaft of the Sandwich Illands. Lat. 19. N. Ion. 
137. 30. W. 
ME'SA (Chriftoval de), a Spanifh poet of the fecond 
order, who lived five years in habits of intimacy with Talfo. 
He wrote three heroic poems. 1. Las Navas de Tolofa, 
Madrid, 1598 ; upon the great victory won there by 
Aionfo VIII. over the Moors. 2. La Reltauracion de Efi- 
pana, 1607; of which Pelayo is the hero. 3. El Patron 
de Elpana, 1612 ; in honour of Santiago. Genius is not 
transfulable ; but Chriftoval de Mela acquired fome tafte 
from Taflo, and his poems are not disfigured by the faults 
which were then fafliionable in Spain. Befides thefe works, 
he publilhed fome fmaller pieces, a tragedy upon Po. ipey, 
and tranflations of the whole of Virgil, and left in manu- 
fcript a verfion of the Iliad. Gen. Biog. 
MESA'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: thirty- 
five miles north of Amedabad. 
MESARZE'UM, f. [from Gr.} The mefen- 
terium. 
MESARA'IC, adj. [commonly, but incorrectly, fpelt 
Meferaic.] Belonging to the melentery.—The moft lub- 
tile part of the chyle pafleth immediately into the blood 
by the ablorbent veftels of the guts, which dilcharge them- 
felves into the meferaic veins. Arbuthnot. —In common ufe, 
mefaraic is more frequently applied to the veins, and ?ne- 
J'enteric to the arteries, of the mefentery. Chambers. 
MESARA'IC, f. The mefaraic or mefenteric veins.— 
It taketh leave of the permanent parts at the mouths of 
the meferaics, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion 
into the fiege. Brown. 
MESAU'LA, f. in ancient architecture, the paflage be¬ 
tween the hall and parlour. 
MESAYEB', a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Eu¬ 
phrates : fifty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bagdad. 
MESCHE'DE, a town of the duchy of Weftphalias 
four miles north-eaft of Balve. 
MESCHEDIZUR', or Meschedisir, a town of Perfia, 
in Mezanderan, on the coalt of the Cafpian Sea: ten 
miles weft of Amul. 
MES'CPIELWIND, a town of Bavaria, in the princi¬ 
pality of Bamberg: feven miles fouth-weft of Forcheim. 
MES'CHID, or Mesched, a city of Perfia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Chorafan. This was only a fmall town called 
Tus, before the reign of Abas I. who built a magnificent 
mofque to the memory of a famous imam who was buried 
there ; which brought a number of pilgrims to his tomb, 
and foon increafed the number of buildings. Here is a 
manufacture of beautiful pottery, and another of lkins. 
In time of peace, caravans pals continually through 
this town from Bukharia, Balk, Candahar, Hindooftan, 
and all parts of Perfia. It is 195 miles north-north-weft 
of Herat, and 999 north-eaft of Ifpahan. Lat. 37. 35. N. 
Ion. 57. E. 
MES'CHID, or Mesghid Ali, a town of the Arabian 
Irak; near a large lake caliedRahemat, which communicates 
with the Euphrates by a canal. This town was built on 
the lpot where Ali, the coufin and one of the fucceflors of 
Mahomet, was interred ; and this tomb is annually vi- 
fited by a great number of Perfian pilgrims, who elteern 
this point of devotion equal to a pilgrimage to Mecca. It 
is ninety miles fouth of Bagdad. Lat. 32. 5. N. Ion. 43. 34. E.. 
MES'CHID-HUS'SAIN, a town of the Arabian Irak, 
fituated on a canal, which palfes from the Euphrates to 
the lake Rahemat: it contained, at the beginning of the 
17th century, 4000 houfes : fifty-five miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Bagdad, and fifty fouth of Anbar. Lat. 32. 36. N. 
Ion. 43. 23. E. 
MESCHIDABAD', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na¬ 
tolia : twenty-five miies fouth-l’outh-weft of Amafreh. 
MESCHIQUIE'JOS, a town of South America, in the 
province of Carthagena : ten miles fouth of Mompox. 
X x MESCINZUN'GH* 
