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citings in his Bibliotheca Anatom, where he Calls la 
Mettrie “ omnis religionis publicus adverfarius, homo 
deraum undique leviffimus.” His book was burnt in 
Holland ; and he retired to Berlin, where he was made 
reader to the king, and a member of his academy ; and 
where he lived in tranquillity till his death in 1751, 
which event leems to have been caufed by his prepofterous 
treatment of himfelf under a (light indifpofition. The 
king of Pruffia thought fo well of him, that he deigned 
to compofe his funeral eulogy, which was read at the aca¬ 
demy. His brother-philofophers, however, have treated 
him with little refpeCt, and reprelented him as a frivolous 
and inconfequent reafoner, full of immoral and illogical 
fophifms, fet off with a kind of falfe brilliancy, and en¬ 
livened by ludicrous fallies. His “ Oeuvres philofo- 
phiques” were publiflied at Berlin in 1 vol. 4to. and 
2 vols. 1211.0. 1751. He alfo in the lad; year of his life 
pubiifhed “ Oeuvres de Medecine,” of a practical nature ; 
but his authority would probably (land for little among 
his brethren of the faculty. Halleri Bill. Anatom. Nouv. 
BIB. Hijl. 
METTSECOUBE', a fmall ifland, or perforated rock, 
in the Mediterranean, on the coad of Algiers : where it 
is (aid Raymond Lully, in his million to Africa, fre¬ 
quently retired to meditate : fix miles north of Boujeiah. 
METTYCON'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : 
twenty-five miles north of Bangalore. 
METUA'LES, or Wutuales, a people of Afia, dif- 
perfed in great numbers all over Syria ; and are thus named 
from Mutual, a celebrated captain, who deilroyed the an¬ 
cient religion of the Perfians, in order to fubditute Ma- 
hometanifm in its dead. The Mutules, therefore, are 
Mahometans, but of the fed: of Ali. 
MET'ULiE, a town of the ifland of Sardinia: eighteen 
miles wed-north-wed of Villa d’lglefias. 
MET'ULUM, in ancient geography, a confiderable city 
cf Liburnia, at the fiege of which OCtavius Caelar was 
wounded. Said to be the metropolis, and fituated on 
two eminences, interfeded by a valley. Now generally 
thought to he Metliug in Carniola. Lat. 46. 5.N. Ion. 16. E. 
METUPET'EA, a town of Hindoodan, in the Car¬ 
natic : thirty miles fouth-ead of Tanjore. 
MET'WAY HAR'BOUR, a bay on the fouth coad of 
Nova Scotia. Lat. 44. 10. N. Ion. 64. 30. W. 
ME'TYS, f. A word ufed by many ancient writers to 
expreis a fubdance colleCted by bees, in order to the Hop¬ 
ping up cracks and crevices in their hives. The old au¬ 
thors mention three kinds of fubdances ufed by the bees 
on this occaflon, metys, pijj'oceros, and propolis. The mo¬ 
derns ufe only the latter term to exprefs every thing of 
this kind; the metys and pifloceros feeming to have been 
only the fame propolis, more or lefs mixed with wax. 
METZ, a city of France, and capital of the department 
of the Mofelle, fituated at the conflux of the Seille and 
Mofelle, and divided into Old and New Town. The 
Old Town is large, but the dreets are narrow. The 
Loufes, however, though old-fafhioned, are handfome. 
The New Town is likewife large, and of much more 
beauty than the former. Exclulive of its fortifications, it 
has three citadels. The bifliop, before the revolution, 
dyled himfelf a prince of the Roman Empire, and was 
ludragan to the archbifhop of Treves, with a diocefe of 
613 parifnes, and a revenue of 120.000 livres. Befides 
the cathedral, it contained three chapters, fixteen parifli- 
churches, fix abbeys, and a college. In this city are 
alfo a great number of Jews, who have a fynagogue here. 
The Rlfjzin, or the country round the city of Metz, is of 
tolerable fertility, and produces a little wheat. It was 
anciently a part of the kingdom of Audrafia, of which 
Metz was fora long time-the-capital, and the ufual refi- 
dence of the king. When the children of Charles the 
Great and Louis the I ious divided the dominions of that 
crpwn, the kingdom of Lorraine role out of the remains 
of that of Audrafia ; and, towards the end of the fecond 
royal line of France, Metz, Toul, and Verdun, three 
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principal towns, fltook od' the yoke, and put themfelves, 
as free cities, under the protection of the emperor. The 
power was divided betwixt the biihop and the magidrates} 
but the latter, with the adidance of the people, got the- 
fuperiority over the former, infomuch that the bifliop had 
no other power remaining to him in the city of Metz, 
and country of Mefzin, than a fliare in the eledion of 
the magidrates, and in the adminidration of the oath of 
office. In the year 1552, Metz, Verdun, and Toul, put 
themfelves under the protection of the French, by the 
name of the protected chJiriSl, till the year 1648 ; when, at 
• the peace of Wedphalia, the three biflioprics were abfo- 
lutely transferred to France. The number of inhabitants 
was lately 41,035. Metz is thirty miles fouth of Luxem¬ 
burg, and 114 ead of Paris. Lat. 49. 7. N. Ion. 6.15. E. 
METZ, plur. Metzen, j. A corn-meafure in Ger¬ 
many. At Auglburg, 100 metzen — about 81 Wincheder 
buffiels. At Vienna, the metz contains 3100 French cubic 
inches, ~ 3753 Englilh ditto ; hence 4 metzen = 7 Win¬ 
cheder bulhels. 
MET'ZELS, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg : three miles ead-fouth-ead of Wafungen. 
MET'ZENSEIFFEN, a town of Hungary: fixteen,- 
miles fouth of Kapfdorf. 
METZO'NA, a town of European Turkey, in Epire : 
twenty-five miles ead of Arta. 
METZO'VO, a town of Theflaly, Angularly fituated 
among the heights of Pindus, in the midd of ridges, 
about 3000 feet above the level of the fea. The inhabi¬ 
tants, who are chiefly Wallachians, are refpedable, and 
extenfively engaged in commerce. Metzovo is one of the 
mod intereding geographical pofitions in the fouth of 
Turkey. From that part of the chain of Pindus, four 
large rivers take their rife. The river Arta, which runs 
into the gulf of that name in the Ionian Sea, is the lead 
confiderable of the four. The Afpropotamo, the ancient 
Achelous, riles at no great didance from the former river, 
and runs in a loutherly direction through a mountainous 
traCl which has been rarely viiited by modem travellers : 
it continues its progrefs between the ancient Astolia and 
Acharnania, and enters the Ionian Sea near the town of 
Meflalongi, oppofite to the fmall iflands, the Echinades of 
antiquity, which Herodotus fays were formed by the river 
itlelf. The third river is the Salympria, or ancient Peneus, 
which from the ead fide of Pindus delcends into the 
plains of Theflaly, and makes its way into the Archipe¬ 
lago, through the deep defiles of Tenipe. The Viofa is. 
the fourth dream, the Aios of antiquity ; a large river, 
which, running in a north-wed direction, falls into the- 
Adriatic near Polina, the ancient Apollonia. 
Defcending into the Vale of Theflaly, and journeying 
eadward from Metzovo, the attention is immediately at¬ 
tracted by the extraordinary rocks of Meteora, near the 
fmall town of Kalabaca. Thefe rocks rife from the flat 
furface of the valley, and confid of a group of infulated 
maffes, cones and pillars, of great height, and lo perpen¬ 
dicular, that each of their fronts looks like a valt wall 
formed rather by art than by nature. The deep and 
winding recedes between them are thickly wooded ; and 
the foliage of the trees increafes the efieCl of the great 
pyramids of naked rock which rife from the bofom of the 
wood. This group of rocks is almolt entirely infulated 
from the adjoining hills. Though the outline of the. 
group is irregular in form, yet, generally.fpeaking, it may 
be called triangular ; the length of each fide of which 
may be fomething more than two miles. The point im¬ 
mediately above Kalabaca, cannot be lefs than four or 
five hundred feet in height. On the fide of the town it 
riled to about two-thirds of this height, by a perpendi¬ 
cular plane of rock, lb uniform in furface that it leems as 
if artificially formed. On the oppofite fide, the bale of 
the rock falls even within the perpendicular from the top, 
and there is the fame iingujar uniformity of furface. The 
pinnacle is clothed with bruffiwood, but is perfedlv in-, 
acceifibie on all fide.s. 
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