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only on the fea fide, but towards the land, to defend it the ftump of a limb.] A fort of armour for the flioulders, 
from any incurfion of the fouthern Moors. This town Janies. 
Hands on marfhy ground; and fo low, that at fpring tides MO'GO, f. A name given to a hatchet or tomahawk, 
it is almoft furrounded by the fea. The country about by the natives of New Holland. Grant's Voyage. 
it is a melancholy defert of accumulated fand. The port MO'GO, a town of Perfia, in Lariftan, on the weft coaft 
of Mogador is formed by a channel, between the main of the Perfian gulf: forty miles weft ofLundsje. 
land and an illand, more than a mile in length: it is fuf- MOGONTUEV'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 
ficiently large for Ihips of a middling fize; but in general vernment of Irkutlk, on the borders of China: fixty 
it has not lufficient depth, which difadvantage is increafed miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Deroninfk. 
every day by the accumulation of the fand. It is eighty MOGON'TUS, in the mythology of the ancient Bri- 
miles louth-weft of Morocco. Lat. 31.30. N. Ion. 9. 30. W. tons, an idol worfhipped in Northumberland. 
MOGADOU'RO, a town of Portugal, in the province 
ofTras os Montes: twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Mi¬ 
randa di Duero. 
MOGA'MI, a town of Japan, in the illand of Niphon : 
no miles north of Jedo, and 260 north-eafl of Meaco. 
MOG'AN, a large plain of Perfia, in the province of 
Adirbeitzan, where the emperor Heraclius is laid to have 
encamped, and fince him Timur Bee and Naair Shah. 
MOGA'NI. See Mayaguana. 
MOGANOO'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Baramaul: 
eleven miles fouth of Namacul. 
MOGA'RO, an illand in the gulf of Venice, near the 
coaft of Friuli. Lat. 4.5. 47. N. Ion. 31. E. 
MOGASI'E, a river of Italy, which runs into the In¬ 
dian Sea in lat. 27. 25. S. 
MOGA'TA, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Gothland: 
feven miles eaft of Soderkioping. 
MOG'GIO, /! An Italian corn-meafure, which is equal 
to about fixteen Englillr bulhels. 
MOGGU'RAH, a town of Bengal: eight miles north- 
weft of Goragot. 
MOG'HOFEN, a town of Auftria: four miles weft of 
Efferding. 
MOGHOSTAN', the fouthern part of the province of 
Kerman, in Perfia. 
MOGILEV', a town of Polilh Ruffia, and capital of a 
government, on the river Dnieper. It is a handfome 
commercial town, where the Ruffians carry on a confider- 
able trade. It formerly belonged to Poland. Prince Ula- 
dillaus, fon to Sigilmund IV. in 1616, drew together an 
army of Poles in this town, and penetrated into Ruffia. 
In the year 1654., Mogiley was taken by the Ruffians ; 
and, though the Poles befieged it in 1660, they were 
obliged to raife the fiege and retire. However, it was 
taken from the Ruffians, in the year 1662, by the inha¬ 
bitants, who lent off part of the garrifon by ftratagem, 
and made the reft prifoners of war. By the divifion of 
Poland, in the year 1773, it was ceded to Ruffia, with its 
territory, and erefted into an archbilhopric of the Roman 
church, with an affiftant biffiop. It is 34.0 miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Warfaw, and 364 fouth of Peterlburgh. Lat. 
53. 52. N. Ion. 30. 14. E. 
MOGILEV'SKOE, a government of Ruffia, bounded 
on the north by the government of Polotlk, on the north- 
call by the government of Smolenlk, on the fouth-eaft by 
the government of Novgorod Sieverikoe, on the fouth by 
the government of Tchernigov, and on the weft by Po¬ 
land ; about 176 miles in length, where wideft 120 in 
breadth, and fixty-eight in the north part, and only twen¬ 
ty-four in the fouth. Lat. 52. to 53. N. Ion. 29. to 33. E. 
MOGILNI'CA, or Moulnicza, a town of the duchy 
of Warfaw: thirty-fix miles eaft of Rawa. 
MOGIMI'RI, a town of Brazil, in the government^of 
St. Paul: thirty-five miles eaft of St. Paul. 
MO'GLA, or Mulla, a town of Afiatic Turkey, and 
principal place of a fangiacat, in Natolia, on the ruins of 
the Alinda: 100 miles fouth-eaft of Smyrna. Lat. 37. 8. N. 
Ion. 28: 22. E. 
MO'GLE, a town of Bofnia : thirty-four miles eaft of 
Banjaluka, and thirty-three north of Bofnaferai. 
MOG'LETZ, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Elbe three miles below Pirna. 
MOG'NA, a town of Italy, in the Feltrin. 
MQGN'ION, J'. [from the French magnon , dignifying 
MOGRA'BIANS, Mogarba, or Men of the Wejl, a 
name given to the infantry of the Turks, compofedof the 
peafants of Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, who have 
thought, proper to feek in Syria and in Egypt that refpedt 
which is denied them in their own country. All the* ac¬ 
coutrements and baggage of thefe foldiers are confined to 
a puffy firelock, a large knife, a leathern bag, a cotton 
lhirt, a pair of drawers, a red cap, and fometimes flippers. 
Their pay is 5 piaftres (about 10s. tod.) per month, out 
of which they are obliged to furnilh themfelves with arms 
and clothing. 
MOGUER', a. town of Spain, in the province of Seville, 
at the mouth of the Tinto : forty-three miles weft of Se¬ 
ville. Lat. 37.12. N. Ion. 6.38. W. 
MOGUL', J'. The title of the emperor of Hindooftan, 
who was called the Great Mogul.—The emperor of In- 
doflan, or Great Mogul, fo called from being defeended 
from Tamerlane, the Mongul or Mogul Tartar. Guthrie. 
The deftin’d walls 
Of Cambalu, feat of Cathain Can, 
And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir’s throne, 
To.Paauin of Sinsean kings ; and thence 
To Agra and Labor of Great Mogul, 
Down to the golden Cherfonefe. Milton. 
The Moguls, or Monguls, were a celebrated nation 
of Alia, whole conquefts formerly were the mod rapid 
and extenfive of any people recorded in hiftory. They 
themfelves deduce their origin from Japhet, or, as they 
call him, Japhis, the fon of Noah. His fon Turk, they 
fay, was the flrft king, or khan, of thofe nations who are 
now known by the feparate names of Turks, Tartars, and 
Moguls ; and the Tartars efpecially affert, that their pro¬ 
per deiignation is Turks. To this prince is attributed 
many of thofe inventions which barbarous nations com¬ 
monly aferibe to their firft lbvereigns. He was fucceeded 
by Taunakj in whole reign the whole pofterity of Turk 
were divided into four large tribes, denominated the orda's 
of Erlat, Gialair, Kaugin, Berlas or Perlas; of which lall 
came the famous Timur, or Tamerlane. From this time 
to that of Alanza Khan, we meet with nothing remark¬ 
able. In his reign the Turks, being immerfed in all kinds 
of luxury, univerfaliy apoftatized into idolatry. Having 
two fons, Tartar or Tatar, i. e. Black, and Mogul, laid to 
fignify White, (though others fay it means Melancholy,) 
he divided his dominions among them, and thus gave rife 
to the two empires of the Tartars and Moguls. 
The two nations had not long exifted before they be¬ 
gan to make war upon each other; and, after long con¬ 
tention, the event at laft was, that II Khan, emperor of 
the Moguls, was totally overthrown by Siuntz Khan, 
emperor of the Tartars; and lo great was the defeat, that 
the Mogul nation feems to have been almoft exterminated. 
Only two of II Khan’s family lurvived this difafter. Thefe 
were Kajan his youngeft fon, and Nagos his nephew, 
who were both of an age, and had both been married the 
fame year. Thele two princes, with their wives, had been 
taken prifoners by Siuntz Khan, but found means to 
make their efcape to their own country. Here they feized 
upon all the cattle which had not been carried off by the 
Tartars; which was eaiily done, as having none to dilpute 
the property with them ; then, ftripping lb me of the flain, 
they took their clothes, and retired into the mountains. 
They palled feveral.mountains without much difficulty ; 
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