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intended, like our inns, for the accommodation of tra¬ 
vellers. They are mere huts, and are furnilhed only with 
a ferir, or long feat of ftraw ropes; nor do they afford any 
refrelhment but kijcher , a hot infuiion of coffee-beans. 
This drink is ferved out in coarfe earthen cups; but per- 
fons of diftindtion always carry porcelain cups in their 
baggage. Frefh water is diffributed gratis. The matter 
of the coffee-houfe lives commonly in fome neighbouring- 
village, whence he comes every day to wait for paffengers. 
We may here obferve that a Mansale (which word 
was omitted in its proper place) is a houfe in which tra¬ 
vellers are received and entertained gratis, if they content 
themfelves with fuch treatment as is ufual in the coun¬ 
try ; they are all lodged in a common apartment, which 
is furnilhed with a ferir, and are ferved with hot coffee, 
millet-bread, camels’ milk, and butter. Niebuhr. 
MOK'LAFF, a town of Arabia, in Yemen, the refi- 
dence of a Iheik : thirty miles lbuth-eaft of Loheia. 
MOK'LIA, or Muchlj., a town of European Turkey, 
in the Morea : fixteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Argos. 
MOK'NAN, or Mohan'an, a town of Egypt, on the 
weft fide of the Nile. Near this place both Dr. Pocock 
and D’Anville fix the fite of the ancient Memphis : five 
miles fouth of Gizeh. 
MO'KO, a town and diftridt of Africa, in the county of 
Calabar. 
MOKOMO'E, a town of Bengal: thirty-feven miles 
north-eaft of Ramgur. 
MOKONTPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
fourteen miles fouth of Canouge. 
MOK'RETZ, a town of European Turkey, in Bul¬ 
garia : forty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Viddin. 
b MOKRONOG'. See Nassenfusz. 
MOK'SCHA, a river of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tambov, which runs into the Oka near Elatma. 
MOK'SCHAK, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Penza, near the fource of the Mokfcha: thirty-fix 
miles weft-north-weft of Penza. Lat. 58.40. N. Ion. 44. 
50. E. 
MOK'UI, a town of Mingrelia : twenty miles north- 
eaft of Ifgaur. 
MO'KY, adj. Dark : as, moliy weather. It feems a 
corruption of murky. In fome places they call it muggy 
Dulky; cloudy. Johnfon. — It may be from the Icel. muk/tne, 
mohlir, condenfatio nubium, as Serenius has obferved. 
Todd. 
MO'LA (Peter-Francis), an eminent painter, was bom 
in 1609, at Coldra, in the Milanefe. His father, who 
was a painter and architect, placed him at Rome, with the 
cavalier d’Arpino, and afterwards with Albani. On leav¬ 
ing the laft mailer, he went to Venice, and ftudied under 
Guercino, whofe vigorous manner he copied, while he 
perfected himfelf in colouring from-the works of the Ve¬ 
netian fchool. He then returned to Rome, where he was 
patroniled by pope Innocent X. and his luccelfor, Alex¬ 
ander VII. He painted feveral fcripture-hiftory pieces 
for thofe pontiffs, of which that of “ Jofeph recognifed 
by his Brethren,” on the Quirinal, is confidered as the 
fineft. His talents for landlcape were ftill more original 
and diftinguilhed; and his defigns of this kind exhibit the 
molt varied compolition and vigorous touch, with the 
fublime fcenery of his native country on the banks of the 
Lake of Como. His reputation ltood extremely high; and 
he had received an invitation to the court of Louis XIV. 
with which he was preparing to comply, when he was car¬ 
ried off by a fudden dilorderin 1665. He was then at the 
head of the academy of St. Luke, and was regarded as an 
excellent defigner and a great coiourilt, though his tints 
are fometimes rather too dark. His larger works are prin¬ 
cipally in the churches and palaces of Rome. Some of 
his pictures have been engraved ; and he himfelf made a 
print of that of Jofeph and his Brethren. 
John-Baptift Molu, faid by fome to have been brother 
to the preceding, by others no relation, but his fellow- 
pupil under Albani, was a good painter both in landfcape 
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and hiftory, though inferior to Peter-Frantis. Some of 
his works at Rome have generally palled for thofe of his- 
mailer. Pilhington's Diet, by Fij'eli. 
. MO'LA di BA'RI, a town of Naples, in the province 
of Bari, on the coalt of the Adriatic : twenty miles eaft 
of Bari. 
MO'LA di GAE'TA, a town of Naples, in Lavora, and 
fituated near the fea. Here is a cuftom-houfe, and the 
garrifon is relieved every week from Gaeta. It was an¬ 
ciently a Roman colony, but, after the defeat and fubjec- 
tion of the Samnites, became merely a prasfedture, and re¬ 
mained in that condition till the time of the triumvirs 
Odtavius, Antonius, and Lepidus, who ranked it among 
the military colonies of Italy. In after-times, and under 
the emperors, it grew pretty conliderable, as we learn from 
feveral ancient inferiptions preferved in it to this day; 
the molt remarkable of which is feen on the pedeltal of a 
ilatue, formerly eredted by the inhabitants in honour of 
the emperor Antonius Pius. This unfortunate town was 
miferably ranlacked and deftroyed by the Saracens in the 
year 956, and its biffiopric tranllated to Gaeta. It is fitu¬ 
ated on the Via Appia, and all round it are vaft numbers 
of ruins of tombs, and other buildings. The moll re¬ 
markable are thole faid to be the remains of the Villa Ci- 
ceronis, or country-feat which Cicero had in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Formias. It was from this place that this 
famous orator endeavoured to efcape into Greece, but 
was prevented and killed in his litter by Herennius, and 
Pompilius Lasnas, the vile inltrumencs of Anthony’s re- 
fentment. Here anciently flood the city of Formiie, de¬ 
ftroyed by the Saracens, of which the ruins are Hill feen. 
The great number of large orange-trees in the open fields 
between- this place and Gaeta make the road very pleafant. 
It is eight miles lbuth-eaft of Fundi, and three north-eaft 
of Gaeta. Lat. 41.18. N. Ion. 13.29. E. 
MO'LA SAL'SA, [Lat. fait cake.] In antiquity, was 
barley or wheat parched, and afterwards ground to meal 
or flour, then mixed with fait and frankincenfe, with the 
addition of a little water. Thus prepared, it was fprinkled 
between the horns of the vidlim before it was killed in 
lacrifice. This adt was called immolatio, and was common- 
to the‘Greeks as well as Romans. 
MOLA'DAH, [Heb. generation.] The name of a city. 
Jojh . xv. 
MOLA'NA, a finall ifland of Ireland, in the river 
Blackwater, belonging to the county of Waterford : three 
miles north-north-weft of Youghal. 
MOLANAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 
twenty-one miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Saferam. Lat. 24. 50. N. 
Ion. 84. 32. E. 
MO'LANDS, a town of Norway : twelve miles north- 
north-eaft of Chriftianfand. 
MO'LANS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Saone : fix miles fouth-weft of Lure. 
MO'LANS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Drome : nine miles lbuth-fouth-eaft of Nions. 
MOLA'NUS, or Vander-Meulen (John), a learned 
Roman-catholic divine and profeffor, was born at Lifle in 
Flanders, in the year 1533. As his parents were origi¬ 
nally of Louvain, whither they returned with him when 
he was very young, and alfo on account of his having 
fpent the greatell part of his life in that city, the furname 
of Lovanienfis is generally given to him. At Louvain he 
received his education ; where, after having paffed through 
his courfe of philolophy, he particularly and feduloully 
applied himfelf to the ltudy of divinity and ecclefiafticat 
hiftory, carefully examining and profiting by the valuable 
libraries in that univerfity. In the year-1570, he.was ad¬ 
mitted to the degree of dodtor of divinity, and for fome * 
years filled the chair of profelfor in.that faculty with 
great reputation. He was alfo nominated cenfor of books, 
by the pope and the king of Spain, as well as canon of 
the church of St. Peter at Louvain. He died in 1585, 
about the age of fifty-two. He was author of a great 
number of works, which were in high eftimation at the 
time 
