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■which other ancient performances of this kind are re¬ 
proached, are in general creditable to the artift by whom 
they were executed. Their chief merit, however, confifts 
in the fidelity with which they reprefent the manners and 
tifages of antiquity. Thefe .pictures will be copied with 
the greateft accuracy by Mr. F. A. Scott, a diftinguiffied 
artift, who has been already engaged two years upon the 
work for the purpofe of accompanying the fragments of 
the poem preferved with them. M. Majo, w'ho has no 
hefitation in referring the origin of this work to the 
fourth or fifth century of the Chriftian sera, defcribes the 
Writing as being in capital letters of great beauty ; the 
■words follow each other without intervals, in the ancient 
manner; originally alfo they w'ere without accents and 
points; fuch of thefe marks as are to be found, being by 
a late hand, which is proved by the colour of the ink and 
the coarfenefs of the ftroke. No piece of penmanfhip of 
equal beauty has yet been difcovered either in the manu- 
fcripts of Herculaneum, or in thofe records of the fourth 
and fifth centuries which contain fragments of Greek, or 
in any of the moft ancient manufcripts in the Ambrofian 
library. The text has been found upon collation to agree 
in general with that of Ariftarchus; but fometimes it 
gives the reading of Zenodotus. Befides thefe valuable 
fragments, the Ambrofian library poflefles a large collec¬ 
tion of manufcripts of Homer, on parchment, filk, or 
linen, apparently belonging to the twelfth or thirteenth 
century, and containing many inedited notes and read¬ 
ings which M. Majo intends alfo to publifh. The work 
announced will therefore conlift of Preliminary Remarks 
on the antiquity and beauty of the pictures and manu- 
fcript, on the merits of the fragments of the text, and on 
other manufcripts of Homer in the Ambrofian library. 
The 58 piftures and explanations will follow, together 
with the fragments of the poem, one of which w'ill be 
engraved to prefent a fac-fimile of the manufcript: the 
others will be printed in capitals refembling the original 
as nearly as poffible. Each fragment will be accompanied 
with critical annotations; and.at the end will be given 
feleft readings, unpublifhed fcholia, paraphrafes, and ex¬ 
planations furnifhed by the other manufcripts of Homer 
mentioned above. 
The inhabitants of this city made no oppofition to the 
French republic ; but the citadel flood a fiege from the 
iSth of June to the 29th, 1796, when the garrifon furren- 
dered prifoners of war. The French w'ere driven out of 
the city by the Ruffians on the 28th of April, 1799, and 
the citadel iurrendered on the 23d of May. The next 
year, June 2, it was again taken by Bonaparte. When 
the Cifalpine Republic was eftabliflied, Milan was ap¬ 
pointed the capital of the department of Olona, and of 
the whole republic ; it continued the fame in the king¬ 
dom of Italy ; and we confefs it to be an objeCf of intereft 
with us that this celebrated city fhould preferve, as far 
as poffible, the advantages it had acquired during the laft 
tw elve years, even amidft the oppreflions and burthens of 
unceafing war. Rendered the feat of government for a 
territory peopled by fix millions of native Italians, and 
receiving the impull'e of new national inftitutions and of 
great public works, it rofe above the calamities of the 
times, and made rapid progrefs in all that conftitutes the 
greatnefs and dignity of a metropolis. It would feem that 
fcience more efpecially was beginning to derive encou¬ 
ragement from the aids afforded to it; and the informa¬ 
tion we have collected from recent travellers in this part 
of Italy convinces us that it was here we were to look 
for the ferious revival of fuch ftudies among the Italians. 
The names of Volta, Mofcati, Oriani, Calfares, Brieflak, 
Pini, Raffori, with feveral others which have reached us 
by report, may be conlidered as belonging exclufively to 
Milan, and in the department of fcience alone. Two ex¬ 
cellent obfervatories, three rich and extenfive mineralo- 
gical collections, a fchool of mines, an academy, together 
with feveral other fcientific inftitutions, gave impulfe and 
vigour to the progrefs of thefe purfuits. New periodical 
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works were fet on foot; and the conftant intercourfe with 
France afforded facilities of very great importance to the 
favans of the north of Italy. It is true that thefe circum- 
ftances w'ere not exclufively the creation of the period to 
which we have referred; but they certainly derived a 
new' charafter from the political ftate of Lombardy dur¬ 
ing that time, and held out a fairer augury than hereto¬ 
fore of the advancement and future profperity of the 
Italian people. Milan is 132 miles north of Venice, and 
fixty-five north of Genoa. Lat. 45. 26. N. Ion. 9. u.E. 
Eujiace's Clascal Tour in Italy. Petit-Radel's Vm/age 
hiflorique, fyc. Examiner, May 1815. New Monthly Mag. 
Feb. 1816. Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1816. 
MILAPOU'R, a town ofHindooftan, in Myfore: twen¬ 
ty-two miles eaft of Colar. 
MILA'SA, or Mar/mara, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 
in the province of Natolia : this place was anciently called 
Mylajja. Here are the remains of three temples, and of 
a column called Meander’s Pillar. It is fixteen miles 
fouth-weft of Mogla. Lat. 37. N. Ion. 27. 50. E, 
MIL'ATIN, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: forty- 
four miles fouth-weft of Lucko. 
MILAVERAM', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Condapilly: fourteen miles north of Condapilly. 
MILA'Y, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitme- 
ritz : fixteen miles fouth of Leitmeritz. 
MILAZ'ZO. See Melazzo, p. 46. 
MIL'BACH. See Millenbach. 
MIL'BANK’s SOU'ND, an inlet in the North Pacific 
Ocean, between Point Day and Cape Swaine. 
MIL'BERG, a town of Aulfria: four miles fouth-weft 
of Laab. 
MIL'BORNE PO'RT, a borough-town in the county 
of Somerfet, lying on one of the branches of the river 
Parret, at the diltance of ten miles from Ilchefter, and 
two from Sherborne in Dorfetfhire. This place is of great 
antiquity, having been a borough of confiderable import¬ 
ance prior to the Conqueft ; after which it loft much of 
its confequence, though it retained all its former privi¬ 
leges till the reign of Edward III. by whom it was de¬ 
prived of the right of fending members to parliament. In 
the reign of Charles I. however, that franchife was re- 
ftored ; and it now returns two reprefentatives. The go¬ 
vernment of this tow'n is veiled in the owners of nine bai- 
liv/icks, who are lords thereof, aftifted by two deputy- 
bailiffs, two conftahles, and feveral other inferior officers. 
Befides thefe, there is likewife an aflociation within the 
borough, confifting of nine perfons, two ftewards, and 
feven affiftants, who are privileged to hold property in 
their corporate capacity, for the benefit of the poor. 
The buildings of Milborne-Port are chiefly dilpofed 
in four ftrcets, the principal one of which, called High 
Street, is of confiderable width, but extremely irregular. 
In this ftreet Hands the guild-hall, an ancient edifice, hav¬ 
ing a door-cafe partly of Saxon and partly of Norman 
architefture. The old market-houfe is converted into 
warelioufes, and there is no regular market now held; 
there are two fairs for cattle and toys, June 5 and Oft. 28. 
The church, an ancient ftruflure, built in the form of a 
crols, is furmounted by a very maffive quadrangular tower, 
fupported by two pointed and two femi-circular arches. 
In the north aifle are feveral handfome monuments in 
honour of the Medlycot family. On opening a plot of 
ground near the church-yard, for the purpofe of build¬ 
ing, fixty bodies of men and women were difcovered, ar¬ 
ranged in regular rows, which, from the want of coffins, 
are fuppofed to have been buried at the time of the great 
plague. 
Befides the borough, the parifli of Milborne-Port con¬ 
tains two confiderable villages, called Kingfburg-Regis 
and Milborne-Wyke. The former has land-tax and pa¬ 
rochial afieflinents peculiar to itfelf; ancl there is held 
here an annual court-baron, wherein the lords’ rents arg 
paid, prefentments made, and a conftable, tything-man, 
and liayward, appointed. The lands in .this vicinity are 
1 tnoftly 
