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Tome ; and tfie winters, though pretty fliarp, are for from 
being infupportable, but for the molt part clear and 
healthy. The greatell encomiums are laviihed on the 
fertility of the foil, the richnefs of the mines, and the 
variety of valuable commodities produced in this country. 
It is faid to be beautifully diverfified with fields, meadows, 
riling grounds, and rivers ; abounding with fruit and 
timber-trees ; turquoifes, emeralds, and other precious 
Hones ; gold and lilver ; a great variety of wild and tame 
cattle, fifh and fowl. Upon the whole, we may fafely af¬ 
firm, that New Mexico is among the pleafanteft, richeft, 
and moil: plentiful, countries in America, or any other 
part of the world. There are few great or navigable ri¬ 
vers in it: the moil confiderable are, the Rio Solado and 
Rio del Norte, which, with feveral fmaller Itreams, falls 
into the Gulf of Mexico. On the coaft of the gulf are 
divers bays, ports, and creeks, which might be eaiily con¬ 
verted into excellent harbours, if the Spaniards were pof- 
feifed of any portion of that commercial fpirit which ani¬ 
mates the other maritime nations of Europe. The chief 
divisions are New Mexico Proper, New Leon, New Na¬ 
varre, and California. Crutwell's Gaz. 
MEXIMEU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ain : feventeen miles north-eaft of Lyons. 
MEXOCOT'L, f. in botany, the Brafilian name of the 
Bromelia acanga. 
MEY, a village of Afiatic Turkey, on the lite of the 
ancient Telmiffus : five miles welt of Macri. 
MEY, or Me y'o, f. A mow; a rick of corn. Ainfworth. 
MEYAPON'TE, a river of Bralil, which runs into the 
Parana. % 
MEYAPON'TE, or Arrayal' de Meyaponte, a 
town of Bralil, in the government of Matto Grolfo : 125 
tniles fouth-fouth-eall of Villaboa. 
MEYANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Hou-quang : thirty-two miles ealt-fouth-eall of Hoang. 
MEY'ENBERG, a town of SwilTerland, in the free 
bailiwicks, once an independent lordlhip: ten miles north 
of Lucerne. 
MEY'ENBURG, a town of Brandenburg, in the Mark 
of Bregnitz : twenty-one miles north-ealt of Perleberg, 
and fixty north-north-well of Berlin. Lat. 53. 18. N. 
Ion. 12. 15. E. 
MEY'ENFELD, a town of the Grifons, and principal 
place of a jurifdiftion. It is the reiidence of a bailiff, and 
leat of a council; and has the reputation of being the firlt 
place in the country in which the reformation was en¬ 
couraged. It is a kind of ftaple for goods palling to and 
from Germany and Italy. It is fifty-two miles eall of 
Lucerne, and eleven north of Coire. Lat. 46. 57. N. 
Ion. 9.38. E. 
MEY'ER (James), an hiftorian, was born in 1491 at 
Vleteren in Flanders, near Bailleul, whence he took the 
name of Balliolunus. He lludied in the univerfity of Paris, 
and entered into holy orders. For feveral years he taught 
fchool at Ypres and Bruges ; and in the latter city had a 
benefice in the church of St. Donatian. He died at 
Blankenberg, in 1552- He was on terms of intimacy 
with Erafmus and other learned men, and W'rote feveral 
works, of which the principal are, 1. Flandricarum Rerum 
Decus, 4to. 15315 being an account of the origin, anti¬ 
quity, nobility, and genealogy, of the counts of Flanders. 
z. Annales Rerum Flandricarum, 1561, folio ; thefe begin 
with the year 445, and come down to 1477 ; they are writ¬ 
ten in a pure and eafy ltyle, and have been reprinted in 
the Collection of Belgic Hiltorians, which was publilhed 
at Frankfort in 1580. 
MEYE'RA, [named by Schreber, in honour, perhaps, 
of Dr. Frederic-Albert-Anthony Meyer, a phylician at 
Gottingen, who died in 1795, and who was the author of 
various trafts on Natural Hiltory j or, otherwife, from 
Jolm-Daniel Meyer, who publilhed at Nuremberg, in 1748, 
a magnificent folio volume of natural hiltory with co¬ 
loured plates, moll of them drawn and engraved by him- 
Vol. XY. No. 1045. 
felf; to the figures of the animals are added a delineation 
of their Ikeletons.] In botany, a genus of the clafs fynge- 
nefia, order polygamia fuperilua, natural order dilcoide®, 
Linn, (corymbifens, Juff.) Generic characters—Common 
calyx of four large broad heart-ihaped concave veined 
leaves, fpreading at the top, rather acute, Ihorter than the 
dilk, the two inner ones oppofite. Corolla: compound, 
tubular, convex; florets in the dific numerous, perfeft, 
funnel-lhaped, five-cleft, fomewhat ereft ; thole of the 
radius feveral, ligulate, lanceolate, entire. Stamina : (in 
the perfeft florets) filaments five, capillary 5 antheras cy¬ 
lindrical,- tubular, five-toothed. Piltillum : (in the lame) 
gerrnen oblong ; ftyle thread-lhaped, longer than the Ita- 
mens ; ftigmas two, re volute. In the female ones the 
ltyle is longer than the florets. Pericarpium : none, ex¬ 
cept the permanent calyx. Seed: in both kinds of florets 
folitary, oblong, tranfverlely comprefled, crefcent-lhaped, 
ftriated, fcaly ; down none. Receptacle convex, fmall 5 
l'cales cartilaginous, imbricated, triangular, incurved, 
furrowed at the back, downy towards the top externally, 
oblique at the extremity, each enveloping a Angle feed 5 
the outer ones a little broader. Schreber, 570. 
MEY'ERINGH (Albert), a painter and engraver of 
landfcape and ornament, was born at Amfterdam in the 
year 1635, and died in that city in 1714. Albert learned 
the rudiments of art of his father Frederic Meyeringh ; 
but owed the degree of excellence to which he attained 
rather to his own genius, and his friendlhip with Poly- 
dore, who was his fellow-ftudent. In his youth he tra¬ 
velled through France, and from thence to Italy for im¬ 
provement. Here he firlt became acquainted with Poly- 
dore, and here for ten years the two friends purfued their 
Itudies together. Meyeringh now returned to Holland, 
and was much employed in painting the ceilings and other 
decorative parts ofvarious public edifices. He alfo painted 
landfcape, and etched feveral folio plates, all from his 
own compolitions, in a free and painter-like ltyle. Their 
f’ubjefts confill chiefly, like thole of the etchings of his 
friend Polydore.of rocky mountains, catarafts, and other 
romantic landfcape-fcenery, adorned with cattle, figures, 
and ruined edifices. 
MEYGUN'TE, or Arrayal' de Meygunte, a town 
of Bralil, in the government of Goyas : ieventy-five miles 
fouth-fouth-eall of Villaboa. 
MEY'LAN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Here : fix miles welt of Grenoble. 
MEY'MAT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze : eighteen miles ealt-north-eaft of Tulle. 
MEY'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Gard : three miles welt of Beaucaire. 
MEYNIAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze, and chief place cf a canton, in the diitrift: 
of Uflel. The place contains 2978, and the canton 7726, 
inhabitants, in 11 communes. 
MEYNT. See To Meine, p. 30. 
MEY'NTHAL, or Val di Magia. See Magia, vol. 
xiv. 
MEY'O, f. A meafure for corn, fait, and other dry 
commodities, in Portugal ; it contains 15 fanegas ; each 
fanega being equal to 4 alquieres. The alquiere is 675 
French (817 Englilh) cubic inches ; fo that 21 alquieres 
= 1 Englilh quarter nearly; or, more exaftiy, 50 alquieres 
—. 19 Englilh bufliels. In the common courle of buiinefs, 
4 alquieres of Oporto are reckoned equal to 5 alquieres 
of Lilbon, and 2 alquieres of Oporto, or 2$ of Lifbon, are 
computed to be equal to an Englilh bulhel. 
MEYRIN'GEN, a town of SwilTerland, in the canton 
of Berne : twenty-eight miles fou'ch-ealt of Thun. 
MEY'RVEIS, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diitrift, in the department of theLozere: twenty- 
feven miles welt of Alais, and twenty-two fouth of Mende. 
Lat. 44.11. N. Ion. 3.31. E. 
MEY'SSAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Correze, and chief place of a canton, in the diitrift 
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