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collected in the feveral burning mountains. In 1640, a 
high mountain broke out into flames, and clouded the 
air, land, and fea, with its afhes. In the fea, between this 
ifland and that of Xoio, very large pearls are found. Lat. 
5.40. to 9. 55. N. Ion. m. to 126. 27. E. 
MIN'DAY, a town of Pegu: eight miles fouth of 
Prone. 
MIN'DED, adj. Difpofed; inclined; affeCted.—If men 
were minded to live virtuoufly, to believe a God would 
be no hindrance to any fuch defign, but very much for 
its advancement. TillotJ'on. 
We come to know 
How you Hand minded in the weighty difference 
Between the king and you. ShakeJ'peare's Henry VIII. 
Minded is ufed in compounds: as, high-minded. —lam 
not high-minded, I have no proud looks. Pjaltns. —We fay 
likewile Imu-minded. 
MIN'DEL, a river of Bavaria, which rifes about eight 
miles fouth of Mindelheim, and runs into the Danube 
four miles below Lauingen. 
MIN'DELHEIM, a town of Bavaria, and capital of a 
lordfhip; this lordlhip is about eight miles fquare. When 
the elector of Bavaria was put under the ban in the year 
1706, the emperor raifed this lordfhip into a principality, 
conferring it as a fief on the great duke of Marlborough, 
who w r as created a prince of the empire, and inverted 
alfo with a feat and vote, not only in the bench of 
princes of the circle of Swabia, but likewife in the im¬ 
perial diet. By the peace of Raftadt and Baden, how¬ 
ever, in the year 1714, Mindelheim reverted again, under 
its ancient title of lordlhip, to the ele&or of Bavaria. It 
is twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Auglburg, and twenty- 
fix fouth-eaft of Ulm. Lat. 48. 2. N. Ion. 10. 27. E. 
MIN'DEN, a principality of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, bounded on the north by the counties of 
Piepholz and Hoya, on the eaft by the county of Schaum¬ 
burg, on the fouth by the county of Ravenfberg, and on 
the weft by the bilhopric of Ofnabruck. It is ninety-fix 
miles in circumference. This principality conlifts, for 
the moll part, of good corn-land, and agriculture is 
carried on here with the greateft diligence ; whence alfo 
it is enabled to lupply the neighbouring countries with 
corn and flax, and in particular with wheat and barley. 
Its meadows and paftures are likewife good, and its breed 
of cattle confiderable. They have alio wood, turf, coal, 
and an important lalt-work, which fupplies the neigh¬ 
bouring countries with that commodity, and plenty of 
filh. In Minden are two mediate and two immediate 
towns, and one borough, together with 121 villages and 
peafantries, forty-fix gentlemen’s eftates and feats, and 
one commandery. The Roman-catholics enjoy only in 
the town of Minden, and the Calvinilts every quarter of 
a year at the citadel of Peterlhagen, their public worfhip; 
all other churches in the country belong to the Lutherans. 
Charlemagne ereCted a bilhopric at Minden, but the pre- 
cife year of its foundation is not certainly known. In 
the year 1648, at the peace of Ofnabruck, the biftiopric 
of Minden was religned, as a principality, to the electo¬ 
ral licufe of Brandenburg, inltead of the ceded countries 
of Pomerania. In 1807, by the treaty of Tilfit, this prin¬ 
cipality was annexed to the then-made kingdom of Weft¬ 
phalia, and formed part of the department of Fulda. And 
laftly, by the A6t of Congrefs, dated June 1815, it is re- 
ftored to the king of Prulha. 
MIN'DEN, a city of Weftphalia, and capital of the 
above principality; fituated on the Weler, and formerly 
one of the Hanfe-towns. It is environed with ramparts 
and ditches, and about two m,i!es in compafs. The fitua- 
tion for navigation and trade is commodious, and fome 
of the inhabitants carry on a confiderable brewery ; while 
others are employed in agriculture and breeding of cattle. 
The cathedral here is a confiderable building, and near 
it is a noble chapter-houfe, conidting of eighteen perfons, 
who are partly Roman-catholic, and partjy Lutheran. 
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This town was a place of conlideration fo early as the 
time of Charlemagne. In the year 1026, the emperor 
Conrad II. held here a diet of the empire, at which his 
fon Henry III. was elefted king of the Romans. In 1 547, 
itjwas belieged by the imperialifts, but made up matters 
with the emperor, by paying down to him 6000 rix-dol- 
lars. In the year 1625, it was furprifed by a garrifon of 
imperialifts, which for two years only flood the town in 
at leaft 600,000 rix-dollars, and which, to this day, has 
entailed a great load of debts. In 1634, it was befieged 
and taken by the Swedes, after it had been occupied for 
nine years and twelve weeks by the imperialifts. The 
Swedes did not quit it till September 7, 1650. In the 
year 1757, this town was taken by the French: in the 
year following it was retaken by the Hanoverians, under 
the prince of Brunfwick, after a fiege of nine days, when 
the garrifon, confifting of 4000 men, were made prifoners 
of war. See the article England, vol. vii. p. 726. In 
1759, the French took it again by aflault, made 1500 men 
prilonefs, and feized immenfe magazines. In the fame 
year a battle was fought on a heath near this town, be¬ 
tween the allies under the command of prince Ferdinand 
of Brunfwick, and the French under the command of M. 
de Contades, in which the latter were defeated, with the 
lofs of 7000 men, killed, wounded, and prifoners. It is 
thirty miles eaft of Ofnabruck. Lat. 52.18. N. Ion. 8. 56.E. 
MIN'DEN, a town of New York: forty-eight miles 
north-eaft of Waftiington. 
MINDEPIL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore 3 
eight miles weft of Vencatighery. 
MINDERE'RUS (Raymond), a phyfician of Augf- 
burgh, who was diftinguilhed in the early part of the fe- 
venteenth century as a partifan of the chemical fed. He 
was alfo eminent as a military phyfician, in which capa¬ 
city he ferved feveral campaigns, with univerfal efteem 
throughout all ranks in the army; whence he alfo rofe to 
high reputation and pra&ice in the courts of Vienna and 
Munich, and was confulted by the principal nobility. 
He publifhed the refult of his experience relative to the 
difeafes of armies, in the German language; and this 
work was tranflated into Latin, with the title of “ Medi- 
cina Militaris, feu Liber Caftrenfis, euporifta et facile 
parabilia Medicamenta continens,” Vienna, 1620, 8vo. 
This work was feveral times reprinted, and was alfo 
tranflated into Englifh in 1674. He was likewife author 
of the following works: 2. De Peftilentia Liber unus; 
ibid. 1608. 3. Aldedarium Marocoftinum; ibid. 1616. 
4. De Calcantho, feu Vitriolo, ejufque qualitate, virtute, 
et viribus; 1617. 5. Threnodia Medica, feu Plandtus 
Medicinal lugentis; 1619. His chemical reputation is 
evinced by the connexion of his name in the fhops, even 
at this day, with the neutral fait, the acetat of ammonia, 
which is called Mindererus’s fpirit. Eloy. Diet Hill. 
MENDFUL, adj. Attentive; heedful; having memory. 
—I acknowledge the ufefulnefs of your directions, and I 
promife you to be mindful of your admonitions. Hammond. 
MI'NDFULLY, adv. Attentively; heedfully. 
MI'NDFULNESS, J'. Attention; regard. Sherwood. 
MINDIGAU'T, a town of Hindooftan, in Dooab: five 
miles fouth-eaft of Canoge. 
MI'NDING, J. The aft of attending to ; the aft of re¬ 
membering. 
MIN'DIUM, f in botany. See Michauxia. 
MI'NDLESS, adj. Inattentive; regardlefs: 
As the ftrong eagle in the iiient wood, 
Mindlefs of warlike rage, and lioftile care, 
Plays round the rocky cliff, or cryftal flood. Prior. 
Not endued with a mind ; having no intellectual powers : 
God firft made angels, bodilefs, pure minds ; 
Then other things which mindlejs bodies be j 
Laft he made man. Davies . 
Stupid ; unthinking : 
Pronounce thee a great lowt, a mindlefs Have, 
Or clfe a hovering temporizer. Shakefp. Wirrt. Tale. 
MENDLESSLY, 
