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tiS feet. Immenfe ruins of folid walls Hand clofe by, 
and a few remains of infcriptions have been found in the 
neighbourhood. Indeed the whole ifland indicates a fub- 
terraneous conflagration; and in feveral places the ground 
which refounds under your feet apprifes you that it co¬ 
vers vaft cavities. Every appearance teftifies, that the 
ftones and pebbles which are found here have been thrown 
up by the explofion of a volcano ; boiling waters irtiie 
on all fides ; pumice-ftones are fcattered abroad ; fulphur 
is formed in abundance, and lliows itfelf on the furface of 
the ground. Neverthelefs, the vegetable earth, which 
moftly covers the ifland, gently warmed by the fubterra- 
neous heat, is very productive. Corn and cotton are here 
of an excellent quality ; the vines yield good wine, and 
the trees afford delicious fruits ; but the quantity of lands 
that lie fallow announces an exceflive diminution in the 
population, as well as the criminal indifference of the 
government. Ships ftill come to Milo to fetch away a 
great quantity of the folid lava, of which mill-ftones are 
made, which are tranfported to feveral countries of the 
Levant, particularly to Egypt and Conftantinople. The 
ifland likewife contains many mines of iron and ferrugi¬ 
nous pyrites, from which no advantage is derived. Un¬ 
der a liberal adminiftration, other valuable articles might 
be found; and the ifland might even ceafe to be an un¬ 
healthy abode. The whole population at prefent does 
not amount to 500 perfons, (though in the year 1700 it 
contained upwards of 20,000 ;) and this fmall number 
would daily decreafe, if it were not kept up by emigrants 
from the Morea, where diftrefs conftrains them to feek 
new habitations, and who are attracted to Milo with a 
view of cultivating the lands. The captain-pacha has 
fome difficulty in levying 1500 piaftres by way of impoft. 
Lat. 36.40. N. Ion. 24. 30. E. 
MILOPOT'AMO, a town and fortrefs of the ifland of 
Candia : twenty-eight miles weft-north-weft of Candia. 
MILOR'RA, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
between Ternate and Tidor. 
MI'LOSLAW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gnefna. 
MILOWA'QUBS, a river of America, which runs 
into lake Michigan in lat. 43. 26. N. Ion. 86. 59. W. 
MILRE'A, or Milre'e, f. A money of account in 
Portugal, lb called becaufe it contains 1000 reas, or rees. 
In the notation of accounts, the milrees are feparated 
from the reas by a crofled cipher, called cifraon, and the 
milrees from the millions by a colon ; thus, Rs. 2:7000500, 
means two thoufand feven hundred mil. and five hundred 
reas. The milrea valued in gold is worth 673d. fterling, 
and the fame in iilver is worth 68|-d. The milree is alfo 
a gold coin, ftruck for the Portuguefe pofleffions in Af¬ 
rica in 1755 ; it weighs 19^ grains, and contains, in pure 
gold, i8 - i grains, and is valued at 3s. 2{d. fterling. 
MILRE'A, or Milre'e, f. A French meafure of wine 
and oil containing about feventeen gallons of our wine 
meafure. 
MILRE'GOS, a fort on the weft coaft of Portugal, in 
Eftramadura : fixteen miles north of Cafcaes, and twenty- 
one north-weft of Lilbon. 
MIL'RINE, f. in heraldry, a crofs ftamped and turned 
at the ends. 
MIL'SBACH, a river of Germany, which rifes about 
four miles fouth from Breckerfeld, in the county of Mark, 
and runs into the Volme one mile before its conflux with 
the Roer. 
MIL'STATT, or Muhl'stadt, a town of the duchy 
of Carinthia, fituated on the Milftatter See: forty miles 
north of Goritz, and twenty-eight weft of Clagenfurt. 
MIL'STATTER SE'E, a lake of Carinthia: nine miles 
eaft of Saxenburg. 
MILT,./! [Saxon.] The fpleen. 
MILT, or Melt, f. [Dutch.] The fperm of the male 
filh.—You ffiall fcarce take a carp without a melt, or a fe¬ 
male without a roe or fpawn. Walton's Angler. 
It is called milt, or melt, becaufe it yields, by expreffion, 
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a whitifh juice refembling milk. The milt of a carp con- 
fifts of two long whitifh irregular bodies, each included 
in a very thin fine membrane. M. Petit confiders thefe 
as the tefticles of the fifh wherein the feed is preferved : 
the lower part, next the anus, he takes for the veficuloc 
feminales. Mem. Acad. R. Scien. 2733. 
In the milt of a living cod-fifh there are fuch incredible 
numbers of thofe animalcules found in the male feed of 
all animals, that in a drop of the juice of it, no more in 
quantity than a fmall grain of fand, there are contained 
more than ten thoufand of them ; and, confidering how 
many fuch quantities there are in the whole milt of one 
fuch fifh, it is not exceeding the bounds of truth to affirm, 
that there are more animals in one milt of it than there 
are living men at one time upon the whole face of the 
earth. However ftrange and romantic fuch a conjecture 
may appear at firft fight, a ferious confideration, and cal¬ 
culation, will make it appear very plain. A hundred 
fuch grains of fand as here mentioned will make about 
an inch in length; therefore in a cubic inch there will 
be a million of fuch fands. The milt of one of thefe 
jiffies is frequently about the quantity of fifteen cubic 
inches, it mull therefore contain fifteen millions of quan¬ 
tities as big as one of thefe fands ; and, if there be ten 
thoufand animals in each of thofe quantities, there mull 
be, in the whole, a hundred and fifty thoufand millions ; 
which is a number vaftly exceeding the number of man¬ 
kind, even though we were to luppofe the whole earth 
as populous as Holland. See Philolophical Collections, 
p. 4. 
MILT, ./! A Portuguefe coin. Phillips. 
To MILT, v. a. To impregnate the roe or fpawn of the- 
female filh. 
MILT'-WASTE, or Milt-wort, f. in botany. See 
Asplenium. 
MIL'TENBERG, a town of Germany, on the Maine s 
twenty-fix miles north-eall of Heidelberg, and forty-fix 
eaft-louth-eaft of Mentz. 
MILT'ER, /. The he of any fiffi, the ffie being called 
/pawner. —The fpawner and milter labour to cover their 
fpawn with land. Walton's Angler , 
MIL'THORP. See Milnthorp. 
MILTING, f [from milt.] A difeafe in beads. Scott , 
MILTI'ADES, an Athenian captain, fon of Cypfelus. 
He obtained a victory in a chariot-race at the Olympic 
games. He led.a colony of Athenians to the Cherfonefus. 
The caufes of this appointment are Unking and lingular. 
The Thracian Dolonci, haraffed by a long war with the 
Abfynthians, were directed by the oracle of Delphi to take' 
for their king the firft man they met in their return home, 
who invited them to come under his roof and partake his< 
entertainment. This was Miltiades, whom the appear¬ 
ance of the Dolonci, with their ftrange arms and garments, 
had ftruck with wonder and curioiity. He therefore in¬ 
vited them to his houfe, and was made acquainted with 
the commands of the oracle. He obeyed ; and, when the 
oracle of Delphi had approved a fecond time the choice 
of the Dolonci, he departed for the Cherfonefus, and 
was invefted by the inhabitants with lovereign power; 
The firft meafures he took were to flop the further-incur- 
lions of the Abfynthians, by building a ftrong wall acrofs 
the ifthmus. When he had eltabliffied himfelf at home, 
and fortified his dominions againll foreign invaiion, he 
turned his arms againll Lamplacus. His expedition was 
unfuccefsful; he was taken in an ambufcade, and made 
prilbner. His friend Croefus king of Lydia, was in¬ 
formed of his captivity, and procured his releafe. He 
lived few years after he had recovered his liberty. As he 
had no iffue, he left his kingdom and pofleffions to Stela- 
goras the fon of Cimon, who was his brother by the fame 
mother. The memory of Miltiades was greatly honoured 
by the Dolonci, and they regularly celebrated feltivals and 
exhibited ffiows in commemoration of a man. to whom 
they owed their greatnefs and prefervation. 
MILTI'ADES, the fon of Cimon,.and nephew of the pre¬ 
ceding. 
