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tion; a fmall touch frill put him in mind of them. Ba¬ 
con's Advice to Villiers. 
When he brings 
Over the earth a cloud, will therein fet 
His triple-coloured bow, whereon to look 
And call to mind his covenant. Milton. 
MIND (Godfrey), a Swifs painter, celebrated for his 
Very correct delineations of bears and cats, was borh in 
a 770. His extraordinary talents in the reprefeiitation of 
various fpecies of animals, but efpecially thole above- 
mentioned, in paintings in water-colours, are attefted 
not only by the numerous produttions of his pencil in 
the port-folios of various amateurs at Bern, Zurich, Bade, 
and other places, but alfo by the high encomiums palled 
upon his performances by many artifts of the higheft emi¬ 
nence. Madame Lebrun, of Paris, perhaps the firft living 
female painter, never tailed, in her different journeys 
through Swifferiand, to purchale feveral of Mind’s per¬ 
formances, declaring at the fame time that they were real 
matter-pieces of their kind, and would be acknowledged 
as fuch even in the French metropolis. It was Ihe who 
firft gave to our artift the appellation of Le Raphael des 
Chats, the Raphael of Cats; which he has. ever fince re¬ 
tained, and by which many ftrangefs enquired for him at 
Bern. Mind was certainly well worthy of this name, not 
only on account of the correftnefs of his drawings of thofe 
animals, and the true though dignified delineation of 
their forms, but alfo more efpecially on account of the 
life and fpirit which he transfufed into them in his pic¬ 
tures. The particular and individual phyfiognomy which 
diftinguilhes each of his cats ; the half-fawning, half tiger- 
like, look which is common to them all; the graceful 
movements of his kittens, three or four of which are 
fometimes reprefented fporting about the mother; the 
filkyhair, which looks as though you could blow it up— 
in a word, whatever is charadteriftic of the animal we 
find in his works with fuch truth and fuch complete il- 
lufion, that the fpe&ator would fcarcely be furprifed if 
the eyes of his figures began to roll, if the paws were 
raifed for a fpring, and the well-known cry w'ere to iffue 
from the paper. The affection of Mind for the feline race 
might be termed fraternal. When he was at work, a fa¬ 
vourite pufs generally fat by his fide, and a kind of con- 
verfation was kept up between them, partly in words and 
partly by geftures. He Was often feen employed at his 
table with an old cat on his lap, and two or three kit¬ 
tens upon both fhoulders, or even in the hollow formed 
at the back of his neck by the inclination of his head, 
while the whole family purred forth their delight in hav¬ 
ing found fuch comfortable quarters, in founds refem- 
bling thofe of a fpinning-wheel. Thus encumbered, he 
would fit for fix hours together at his work, and abftain 
from every motion that could in the leaft incommode his 
beloved favourites. In 1809, the general maffacre of cats 
at Bern rendered their friend almoft inconfolable. Eight 
hundred of thofe animals were flaughtered in the fpace 
of twenty-four hours, becaufe one had gone mad and 
bitten feveral others. Mind had indeed carefully con¬ 
cealed and preferved his darlings; but the melancholy 
fight which every moment met his view of dead or Jiving 
cats carried by men, maids, or boys, to the fkinner, 
wounded him to the heart. In winter evenings, Mind 
ufed to amufe himfelf with carving bears, cats, and other 
animals, in miniature, out of wild chel’nut-tree, with fuch 
accuracy and (kill, that they had a rapid fale, and were 
bought up by many as ornaments for their chimney- 
pieces. It is to be regretted that infebts foon attacked 
the wood, and thus deftroyed thefe pretty little figures. 
Mind palled many of his happieft hours at the Bears’ Den, 
in Bern, where from remote antiquity two live bears have 
been continually kept. Between him and thefe animals 
a peculiar fympathy feemed to fubfiit. No fooner did he 
make his appearance, than the beats haftened to him with 
a friendly grunt, and faluted him with a bow, upon which 
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th£y were invariably rewarded with a piece of bread or 
an apple from the pocket of their benefactor and friend. 
Next to cats and bears, Mind received the greateft de¬ 
light from looking over works of art, particularly prints 
in which animals were introduced. Among thefe, how¬ 
ever, the lions of Rubens, fome pieces by Rembrandt 
and Potter, and Riedinger’s flags, were the only copies 
that he allowed to be excellent. With the other animals 
by Riedinger he found fault, almoft without exception, 
as incorreft. The bears, by the fame artift, he charac¬ 
terized as abfolute monfters: neither did he entertain a 
much more favourable opinion of the celebrated cats of 
Cornel, Vifcher, and Hollar. On other works, fuch chiefly 
as hunting and hiftorical compofitions, he often pro¬ 
nounced moft fevere opinions, without the leaft regard 
to the celebrity of the mafter; and on other matters, not- 
withftanding bis fecluded life, he difplayed profound pe¬ 
netration and correct judgment. He died of an apoplexy, 
at Bern, in 1814, in his 46th year, The following pa¬ 
rody of the verfes of Catullus, on Lefbia’s fparrow, has 
been propoled as an appropriate infcription for this artift: 
Lagete o files, nrjique lagete! 
Mortmis est vohis amicus. 
Which might be thus rendered : 
Ye weeping cats, your borrows mew; 
Your griefs ye foften’d bruins bellow; 
Mourn him whom Death has fnatch’d from you ; 
Forfooth ye’ll never find his fellow ! 
To MIND, v. a. To mark; to attend.—He is daily 
called upon by the word, the minifters, and inward fug- 
geftions of the Holy Spirit, to attend to thofe prolpefts, 
and mind the things that belong to his peace. Rogers. 
Not then miftruft, but tender love, enjoins 
That I fhould mind thee oft; and mind thou me ! Milton. 
& 
To put in mind ; to remind.—I fhall only mind him, that 
the contrary luppoiition, if it could be proved, is of little 
ufe. Locke. 
Let me be punifh’d, that have minded you 
Of what you fhould forget. Sliakefpeare, 
To intend ; to mean. Not in ufe. 
As for me, be fure I mind no harme 
To thy grave perfon. Chapman , II. 24. 
To MIND, v.n. To incline; to be difpofed.—When 
one of them mindeth to go into rebellion, he will convey 
away all his lord (hip 3 to feoffees in truft. Spenfer on Ireland. 
MTND-BRUCH, f. An indignity; an injury to ho¬ 
nour and reputation. An old word. 
MEND-STRICKEN, adj. Moved; affeCted in his mind. 
—He had been lo mind-ftricllen by the beauty of virtue in 
that noble king, though not born his fubjebt, he ever 
profelfed himfelf his fervant. Sidney. 
MINDANA'O, or MAGiNDANA'o, r one of the Philip¬ 
pine itlands, and next to Lugon in point of fize ; of a tri¬ 
angular form, the circumference near nine hundred miles, 
but with fo many points running out into the fea, and 
deep bays, that a perfon may go acrofs it any-where in a 
day and a half: difcoveted by the Spaniards who accom¬ 
panied Magellan. It lies fouth-eaft of Manilla, at the 
cliftance of 600 miles. All the country, except upon tile 
fea-coalt, is mountainous; yet it abounds in rice, and 
produces very nourilhing roots. There are infinite num¬ 
bers of that fort of palm-trees which are called Jago, of 
the pith of which, reduced to meal, they make bread and 
bifcuit throughout all the ifiand of Mindanao. This ifland 
likewife produces all forts of fruits that are to be found 
in'other illands of this archipelago; but the cinnamon is 
a tree peculiar to this of Mindanao, grows on the moun¬ 
tains without any improvement, and has no owner but 
him that finds it. The inhabitants of Mindanao find very 
good gold by digging deep into the ground, as alfo in 
the rivers, making trenches before the floods. There is 
fulphur enough for all forts of ules, which may be eafily 
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