M I E 
Mie# publilbed his inaugural Differtatlon on Chamasme- 
Iuru°leucanthemum at Bafil in 1721, which was reprinted 
two years afterwards. Achilles Mieg publifhed a work in 
*7151, at the fame place, which he calls “ Specimen obfer- 
vationum anatomicarum atque botanicarum and in this 
are deferibed fome rare grades, as well as the genus 
SdoNTiA.] In botany, a genus of the clafs triandria, order 
snonogynia, natural order gramina. Generic charadfers 
«*—Calyx : glume one-flowered, two-valved ; valves ovate, 
concave, nerved ; upper valve ihorter, blunt; lower a lit¬ 
tle longer, fharpifti. Corolla : two-valved ; valves ven- 
tricofe, nerved ; outer ovate, blunt within, and longer 
than thecalycine valve ; inner oblong, comprefled at the 
tip, fharpifli, the edges convoluted, longer than the outer, 
■within the . upper calycine valve. Ne&ary one-leafed, 
ovate, gibbous at the back, fomewhat comprefled, acute, 
even, thick, fuberous, thinner at the tip and edges, fliorter 
than the corolla, oppofite to the larger coralline glume, 
involving the germ. Stamina : filaments three, capillary, 
longer than the corolla ; antherae oblong, acute. Piftil- 
lum : germ oblong, lubtriquetrous, within the neftary ; 
ftyle fimple, capillary, longer than the corolla; ftigmas 
two, capillary. Pericarpium : none. Seed: fingle, ob¬ 
long, triquetrous-rounded, rolled up in the neftary, in¬ 
closed within the permanent calyx and corolla.— EjIj'ential 
Charadcr. Calyx one-flowered, and corolla two-valved ; 
nedtary one-valved, involving the germ ; feed triquetrous- 
bounded, included within the calyx, corolla, and nedlary. 
Miegia maritima, a fingle fpecies. Root creeping; 
culms half a foot high, covered with leaves, branched at 
the top. Native of the fandy coafts of Cayenne and 
Guiana. 
MIE'HLEN, or Mi'hlem, a town of Weftphalia, in 
the principality of Catzenelnbogen: three miles north 
of Naftede, and fix fouth of Naffau. 
MJEIBOW', a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodek: fifty-eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Novo- 
grodek. 
MI'EKOW, a town of Auftrian Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Cracow. This town is faid to have been built on 
the model of Jerufalem, by Gripfius Jaxa, after his return 
from a pilgrimage tp that city. It is twelve miles north 
of Cracow. 
MI'EL (John), an eminent painter, was born in *599, 
at Vlaenderen, a village near Antwerp. He was firft a 
difciple of Gerard Segers, and was much diftinguilhed for 
his proficiency in the art. For further improvement he 
went to Italy, and entered the fchool of Andrea Sacchi at 
Rome. Being employed by that painter on a pidture in 
the Barberini palace, he gave way to his natural turn, and 
made fome figures in the grotelque ftyle, which fo much 
irritated Andrea, that he difcharged him from his fervice. 
Miel then took arefolution to purfue in earneft the nobler 
branch of the art, and vifited Lombardy in order to ftudy 
the works of Corregio and the Caracci. Returning to 
Rome, he painted in the gallery of Monte Cavallo, for 
pope Alexander VII. Mofesftriking the Rock, and adorn¬ 
ed feveral chapels in Rome with hiftory-pieces, which 
are performances of merit, though fomewhat deficient in 
grace and grandeur. His excellence, in fadt, lay in infe¬ 
rior fubjedts, fuch as carnivals, beggars, gypfies, rural 
feenes, and efpecially hunting-pieces, in which his figures 
of animals are touched with great truth and fpirit. Hence 
he has been known in Italy by the name of Giovanni della 
Vite. His colouring is clear and brilliant, and his fmall 
'works exhibit great delicacy and beauty of pencil. He 
was admitted into the Academy of St. Luke in Rome; 
and his reputation caufed him to be invited to Turin by 
Charles Emanuel duke of Savoy, who kept him five years 
in his fervice, and decorated him with the order of St. 
.Maurice. He died at Turin in 1664, and was buried in 
the cathedral of that city. Some of the fineft works of this 
mafter were to be feen in the grand faloon of the duke’s 
hunting-ieat, reprefenting the chace of various animals, 
pthers are in the imperial collection at Vienna, and in 
Vot. XV. No. 104,8. 
m i e m 
different cabinets. Miel etched feveral of his own de. 
figns. Gen. Blog. 
MI'ELAN, a town of France, In the department of the 
Gers : fix miles fouth-fouth-weft of Mirande, and eight 
north-eaftof Rabafteins. Lat.43.25-N. lon.o. 23.E. 
MIELEC', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of San- 
domirz : thirty-fix miles fouth-weft of Sandomirz. 
MI'ELESDORF. See Muhldorf. 
MI'ELNICK. See Melnik, p. 65. 
.MI'ELNICK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Bielfk : forty-four miles fouth-w’eft of Biellk. 
M IE'N, f. [mine, Fr. or mynd, Goth, the countenanced 
Air; look; manner.—What can have more the figure 
and mien of a ruin, than craggs, rocks, and cliff's. Burnet's 
Theory of the Earth. 
[He] mark’d her rare demeanure, which him feem’d 
So farre the meane of lliepherds to excell. Spenfer. 
In her alone that owns this book is feen 
Clorinda’s fpirit, and her lofty mien. Waller. 
MI'EN, a rock in the Engliih Channel, near the coaft 
of France. Lat.48. 58. N. Ion. 1. 32. W. 
MI'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chen-fi t 
twenty-three miles weft-north-weft of Han-tcheng. 
MI'EN, a town of China, of the fecond rank, in Se- 
tchuen: fifty-fix miles weft of Pao-king. Lat. 51. 28. N. 
Ion. 104. 29. E. 
MI'EN-TAM-KEOU-TOU'KA, a town of Chinefe 
Tartary. Lat.41.1-N. Ion. 119.42. E. 
MI'EN-TCHOU', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in Se-tchuen : eighteen miles north of Han. 
MI'EN-YANG', a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
inHou-quang: 617 miles fouth ofPe-kine. Lat. 30.12. N. 
Ion. 112.49. E. 
MIENDSIR'SITCH. See Meseritz, p. 180. 
MIER-CHAS-KUN', a town of Periia, in the province 
of Farfiftan, containing about 400 houfes, and feveral ba¬ 
zars ; fituated near the ruins of Perfepolis: forty miles 
north of Schiras. 
MIE'RIS (Francis), one of the mofl celebrated painterk 
of the Dutch fchool, was born in 1635, at Leyden, where 
his father was a goldfmith and jeweller. He ftudied un-- 
der Vliet, Gerard Douw, and Vanden Tempel; but it was 
the fecond of tliefe mafters whofe ftyle and manner he 
chiefly adopted, and whofe principal fcliolarheis reckoned. 
His works were portraits, converfations, and feenes ist 
common life j in all which his imitation of nature was fo 
perfect as to excite the greateft admiration. With all the 
delicate finiih of Gerard Douw, he had a better choice of 
fubjedts, and a more correct and enlarged tafte of defign. 
His colouring is alfo more clear, and his touch more for¬ 
cible and fpirited. In giving the reprefentation of different 
kinds of fluffs he was unparalleled ; and his pictures im¬ 
mediately bore that value, which the imitative branch of 
the art, when executed in the higheft perfection, will 
ever command, as addrefling itfelf to the common judg¬ 
ment. His ufual recompence for working was at the rate 
of a ducat an hour; but feveral of his pieces rofe to a 
price much beyond that eftimate. His careleffnefs and 
intemperance however kept him indigent. He was im- 
prifoned for debt j and, when urged by his creditors to 
procure his liberation by the exertion of his talents, he 
replied that the view of bolts and bars would make the 
pencil drop from his hand. Having once in a fit of in¬ 
toxication fallen into a fewer, whence he was extricated 
by a cobler and his wife, who took him home and put hint 
to bed, he repaid their kindnefs two years after by a pic¬ 
ture, which the woman fold to a burgomafter for eight 
hundred florins. One of his fineft pieces was a picture of 
a young lady fainting, a phyfician attempting to recover 
her, and an old woman handing by. Three thoufand 
florins were in vain offered for it by the grand duke of 
Tufcany, who procured feveral of the other works of 
Mieris, which are regarded as fome of the moft curious in 
the Florentine gallery. One of the molt beautiful of the 
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