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at lead one thouland miles in length is thus wafhed by 
boatable waters, exclufive of all the great lakes; and 
many millions of acres of excellent tillage-land, rapidly 
fettling, are accommodated with water-communications 
for conveying their produce to market. The intervals 
on both fides of this river, of various widths, are fome of 
the riched and bed lands in the world ; and are diftri- 
buted into farms, which are occupied and cultivated prin¬ 
cipally by Dutch people, whole agricultural praftice ad¬ 
mits of great improvement, as they negleft to employ 
the manure of their barns in the culture of their land. 
The banks of this river were formerly thickly fettled 
with Indians; and, at the period when Albany was fil'd 
fettled, it is faid that at Scheneftady there were 800 war¬ 
riors, and that 300 warriors fubfided within a fpace now 
occupied by a fingle farm. About three miles from its 
entrance into the Hudfon, the river is about one thou- 
fand feet wide; the rock over which it pours, as over a 
mill-dam, extends from fouth-wed to north-ead, almod 
in a line from one fide of the river to the other, and is 
about forty feet in perpendicular height, and, including 
the defcent above, the fall is as much as fixty or feventy 
feet. About a mile below the falls is a handfome bridge; 
and immediately below the bridge the river divides into 
three branches, which form feveral large illands. 
MO'HAWK RIV'ER, a river of New Hampfhire, which 
runs into the Connecticut in lat. 44. 53. N. Ion. 71. 25. W. 
MO'HAWK RIV'ER, or Cookoua'co, a branch of 
Delaware-river, which, after it mingles with the Popach- 
ton branch, is called Delaware. 
MO'HAWK TOW'N, formerly a town on the fouth 
fide of the river of the lame name, in Montgomery coun¬ 
ty, New York, fituated in a very fertile country. It was 
abandoned by the Mohawk Indians in 1780. 
MO'HAWK VIL'LAGE, or Town, on the Grand 
River, or Oufe, in Upper Canada, is the principal vil¬ 
lage of the Six Nations, in the traft purchafed from the 
MifTalTaga nation by his prefent majedy, on account of 
their loyalty and attachment during the late revolu¬ 
tion, in which they lod their poffelfions on the Mohawk 
river. This trail is one hundred miles long, and twelve 
wide, interfered by Grand River, from its mouth in 
Lake Erie upwards. The village is beautifully fituated, 
has a neat church with a deeple, a fchool-lioufe, and a 
council-houle ; and not far from it a grid and a faw mill. 
Thefe buildings have for the mod part been erefted by 
government, which pays a miller, fchoolmader, and black- 
imith, for their fervices at the village; and the Society 
for Propagating the Gofpel makes an allowance to a 
clergyman of the edabliihed church for occafional vilits to 
thele tribes. The Liturgy of the Church of England has 
been tranflated into the Mohawk language, and printed 
for the ufe of the Six-Nation Indians. In 1800, this 
nation, the Seneca and Oneida pagans, revived their cuf- 
tom of facrificing white dogs to their gods, which had 
been neglected for thirty years, under a notion that the 
negleft of this lacrifice had been one caufe of their va¬ 
rious misfortunes. 
MOHAW'RY, a town of Hindoodan, in the circar of 
Chanderee : forty-five miles wed of Chanderee. 
MOHEGAN', Indians in Connecticut, between Nor¬ 
wich and New London. 
MOHEL'NICE. See Muglitz. 
MOHEL'NO, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Znaym : twenty-four miles north of Znaym. 
MOHERNAN'DO, a town of Spain, in New Cadile: 
ten miles north of Guadalajara. 
MOHE'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne: fixteen miles fouth-wed of Sarlat. 
MOHER'RY, a town of Hindoodan, in the circar of 
Cicacole : twenty miles fouth-wed of Ganjam. 
MOHGONG', a town of Hindoodan, in the circar of 
Ruttunpour : fixteen miles fouth-ead of Dumdah, 
MOHIC'CONS, Indians inhabiting a branch of the 
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Sufquehannah. Some of them abide near Sandufky, and 
others between the rivers Scioto and Mulkingum. 
MOHI'LA, one of the Comora illands in the Indian 
Sea, between the ifland of Madagafcar and the continent 
of Africa. It has the conveniency of a good road for 
fiiips, and is faid to be fertile. It is fubjeft to a fultan, 
whole children lhare his authority as viceroys over dif¬ 
ferent didrifts of the idand; they all take the title of 
fultan, though fubordinate to the authority of their fa¬ 
ther ; and each of them has his guards, his crown, his 
fceptre, and all the other fymptoms of royalty, with a 
numerous court. The fultan never appears without being 
attended by twenty of the principal perfons of the ifland ; 
and on thefe occalions he is clad in a long robe of flriped 
calico, wl;ich hangs from his flioulders to his feet, with a 
turban on his head. The people alfo generally wear long 
garments of a fimilar duff; they continually chew the 
areka, or beetle-nut, like the Indians of the Ead, to 
whom they bear a great refemblance in their manners and 
aftions. Lat. 12. 30. S. Ion. 43. 50. E. 
MOHILL', a pod-town of the county of Leitrim, Ire¬ 
land : feventy-eight miles wed-north-wed of Dublin. 
MOHIL'NA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : forty- 
four miles north of Zytomires. 
MO'HILOF, a large and drong city of Poland, in the 
province of Lithuania, and palatinate of Mfciflau. It is 
well built, populous, and has a confiderable trade. Near 
this place the Swedes obtained a great viftory over the 
Ruffians in 1707. 
MO'HILOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw: fixty miles fouth-wed of Braclaw. 
MOHL, a town of the duchy of Ilolllein: five miles 
north-north-ead of Pinnenberg. 
MO'HLA, a town of Germany, in the county of Hen- 
neberg : five miles ead of Salzungen. 
MO'HLENKAMP, a town of the duchy of Holdein s 
feven miles north-wed of Neudadt. 
MOHN, called by the Edhonians Mulioma, which lite¬ 
rally fignifies “ the Land of Boils and Sores,” an ifland 
of the Baltic, feparated from the main land by a drait, 
called the Great Sound, about two Swedilh miles over in 
its broaded part, and near a mile where it is narrowed j 
the tranfport being made in fummer by large boats called 
prames. Boats of a fimilar kind pafs between Mohn and 
Oefel, acrofs the Little Sound, which bears fome refem¬ 
blance to a lpacious haven. Mohn lies to the fouth-welt 
of Oefel, forming a parifli of itfelf, with its own church 
and preacher. Near the middle of the ifland, on an emi¬ 
nence, dands the church. Many of the boors live here 
comfortably; having a little portion of fored, which, as 
alfo their hay-fields, are inclofed by a wall of dones. As 
a flicker from dorms, to which thefe feas are fubjeft, 
fome have their houfes built in the midd of thefe little 
thickets. Not only acorns and bilberries, but alfo wild 
nuts and crab-apples, grow here, of which lad the boors 
make a tolerably-well-taded cider; and in the farms they 
ufe them alfo for fwine-wafh. The circumference of the 
whole ifland meafures about 95 verds, or 63 miles. The 
pailage over the Great Sound in dimmer is made with 
oars in about four hours, but with a fail and fair wind 
in lefs than two. To Mohn belong two fmall illands; 
one lying towards the north, and quite uninhabited, is 
merely a hay-field for the boors of Mohn ; the other lies 
nearly between Oefel and Mohn in the Little Sound, and 
is occupied by three boors. On Mohn is a large dagnant 
lake, from which a canal has been made into the fea. 
Tooke's Huff. Emp. 
MO'HO, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of La Paz: 
twenty-five miles fouth-ead of Afangaro. 
MO'HOCK, f. The name of a cruel nation of America, 
(fee Mohawk,) given to ruffians who infelled, or rather 
were imagined to infed, the dreets of London.—In your 
fpeculation of Wednelday lad, you have given us fome 
account of that worthy iociety of brutes, the mo/wchs; 
1 whereia 
