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time when they were written, but are now Icafcely ever 
enquired for. lie was concerned, with other members 
of the univerfity, in publilhing the Antwerp edition of 
the works of St. Angudine in the year 1577, and the notes 
at the end of the Latin Bible of the divines of Louvain, 
publifned abb at Antwerp in 1580. Moreri. 
MOLA'NUS (Gerard-Walter), an eminent German Lu¬ 
theran divine and profelfor, was born at Karnelft, or Hame- 
len,in the duchy of Brunfwick-Lunenberg, in the year 1633. 
In the year 1660 he was elefted profelfor of mathematics, 
and in 1672 became alfo profelfor of divinity, in the Gym- 
nafium of Rintelen, in the duchy of Schaumburg, fie was 
made abbot of the free imperial abbey at Lockum, and at 
the fame time- was nominated direftor or fuperintendant 
of the churches throughout the deflorate of Brunfwick. 
By his abbacy he took precedency in the Hates of Calen- 
ber°-, and, as firft confiftorial member, was prefident of 
tbe'confiftory of Hanover. He died in 1722, at the very 
advanced age of eighty-nine. He had collefted a valuable 
Cabinet of medals, and an excellent library, of which he 
made good ufe. The rncft important of his productions 
appeared at firft in the German language, at Hanover, in 
the year 1697, and was afterwards repeatedly printed in 
Latin at the fame place, under the title-of <£ Liplanogra- 
phia, feu Thefaurus Reliquiarum eleftoralis Brunfvvico- 
Luneburgicus.” He was alfo the author of, 2. Series ab- 
baturti Luccenfium. 3. Epiftola ad Dominum Joachimum 
Meyerum,qua exponitcogitationes Idas de numrao aureo 
Pofthumi ab eo edito, &c. 4. Difputationes de Studio 
theologico; together with feveral Angle Differtations and 
Deputations, in which his learning is difplayed to great 
advantage. Mojh. FUJI. Eccl. fee. xvii. 
MO'LAR, adj. [rnolaris, Lat.] Having power to grind. 
__The teeth are, in men, of three kinds ; lliarp, as the 
fore teeth ; broad, as the back teeth, which we call the 
molar teeth, or grinders ; and pointed teeth, or canine, 
which are between both. Bacons Nat. FUJI. 
MOLA'RES, /’. The grinding teeth.—The other ten 
teeth, five on each fide, are named molures, or grinders. 
Berdmore. 
MALAPA'RA, a town of Bengal: thirty miles weft 
of Dacca. 
MOLARDI'ER, a towm of France, in the department 
of Mont Blanc, on the Seeran : eight miles north-eaft of 
Chambery. 
MOLASS'ES, f. [properly melafjes ; from melazzo, Ital. 
and mel, Lat. honey, on account of its fweetnefs.] Trea¬ 
cle ; the fpume or (cum of the juice of the fugar-cane.— 
They compute, that, when things are well managed, the 
rum and molajj'es pay the charge of the plantation, and 
the fugars are clear gain. Guthrie. 
MOLASS'ES, f. "in the Scotch dialeft, a bafe kind of 
fpirituous liquor. 
MOLASS'ED, adj. Intoxicated with the fpirit men¬ 
tioned in the foregoing article. 
MOLBET'ZKOI, a town of RuIlia, in the government 
of Novgorod : twenty-four miles fouth-eaft of Tichvin. 
MOLCHI'NA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tobollk : fixty miles fouth-eaft of Narim. 
MOLCK. See Melck. 
MOLC'ZAR, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Novogrodeck : fixteen miles fouth of Novogrodeck. 
MOLD, or Mould, a market-towm in the hundred of 
Mold, Flintlhire, North Wales, pleafantly iituated in a 
fmali but fertile plain, furrounded by lofty and rugged 
hills. It confilts chiefly of one long and very fpacious 
ftreet. The market is held on Saturday every week, and 
there are four fairs during the year. The affiles for the 
county of Flint are holden in this town. On the north 
fide of it rifes a large mount called Baily-hill, laid to be 
partly natural and partly artificial, the lilmrnit of which 
was formerly crowned by a Norman caftle, probably ereft- 
cd by Euftace de Cruer in the reign of William Rufus. 
This fortrefs leems to have been a place of great ftrength, 
as the fides of the mount are not only very iteep of aicent, 
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but are defended by a deep fofs and ramparts. Hiftory 
records that it flood leveral fieges without being com¬ 
pelled to lurrender, till at laft it was ftormed by the 
Welflt forces under the command of prince Owen Gwy¬ 
nedd, in the time of Henry I. 1144. Subfequent to this 
period it fuffered many viciflitudes, and was completely de- 
moliflied during the defperate contefts maintained againit 
England by the celebrated Owen Glendower, in "1440. 
The view from the feite of this caftle, though circum- 
feribed, is extremely beautiful. The church here is a very 
handiome edifice in the pointed ftyle, confifting of a nave 
and two fide-ailles, with a tower at the weft end. In the 
interior are feveral monuments. The living is a vicarage 
in the patronage of the bilhop of St. Afaph. A confider- 
able cotton-thread manufactory is carried on here. It is 
two miles from Ruthin, thirteen from Wrexham, and 188 
north-weft from London. Lat. 53.10. N. Ion. 3. 4. W. 
The vicinity of Mold is decorated by feveral manfions, 
fome of ancient and fome of modem ereflion, the feats 
of independent gentlemen, who generally relide on their 
eftates. Of thele the molt confpicuous are Leefwood, 
Tower, Rhual, and Nerquis-hall. Immediately adjoining 
-to Rhual is Maes-y-Garmon, or the Field of Germanus, 
lo called from its having been the feene of a molt decifive 
viftory achieved by the Britilh Chriftians under the mif¬ 
fionary bifliops, Germanus and Lupus, over the pagan 
Pifts and Scots, in the year 448. A pyramidal ftone, 
erefted on the fpot in 1736, by Nathaniel Griffith, the 
then proprietor of Rhual, bears a Latin inlcription com¬ 
memorative of the event. The hills which inclofe the 
vale in which Mold is lituated, abound with rich lead- 
mines, fome of which are wrought with fignal advantage 
both to the proprietors and contractors. On Moel-y- 
Famma, the higheft point of thefe hills, a monument has 
been lately erefled by fubfeription, as a memorial of the 
event of our molt gracious fovereign having reigned for 
the unufuai period of fifty years. 
A modern tourift, Mifs Hutton, oblerves, “ The ancient 
and modern limits of England and Wales appear to me 
altogether arbitrary : they were probably fixed by the 
fword. The ancient dyke is about a mile and a half be¬ 
yond Mold: the ftone that now marks the boundaries is 
about a mile and a half before we reach Cheiter, but the 
natural barrier is Mold Mountain. Our entrance into 
England was along the vvorft road that ever England pre- 
fented to my view : it was of folt fandy rock, that innu¬ 
merable carts had worn into holes as large as their own 
bodies. We faw twenty of thele carts at once, with each 
of the men driving, leading, pulhing, and exerting every 
effort of cartmanlhip, to avoid the holes. Had a wheel 
gotten into one of them, praying to Hercules, as the car¬ 
man did of old, or putting his Ihoulder to it, as that la- 
gacious god advifed, would have been equally fruitlefs.” 
Wynne's FUJI, of Wales. Mifs Sutton's Second Tour in 
N. W. Monthly Mag. Nov. 1816. 
MOLDAU', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz: twenty-one miles north-weft of Leitmeritz. 
MOLDAU'- See Muldau. 
MOLDA'VA, a river which rifes in Buccovina, paffes 
by Niemecz, &c. and runs into the Siret, near Roman, in 
Moldavia. 
MOLDA'VIA, a province of European Turkey 5 
bounded on the north and north-eaft by Poland, from 
which it is leparated by the Dniefter, on the eaft by Belfa-. 
rabia, on the fouth by Walachia, and on the weft by Tran- 
filvania; about 180 miles in its greateft length from north 
to fouth, and fomething lefs in breadth from eaft to weft. 
The river Pruth croffes it from north to fouth. The 
country has lome very fertile lands, but a confiderablepart 
of the eaftern divifion lies uncultivated, confifting chiefly 
of deferts; and the weftern is very mountainous. Its 
principal rivers are the Pruth and the Siret. The inha¬ 
bitants are of Walachian extraction, and profefs the Greek 
church; but many of them are alio Mahome tan;;, Ruffians, 
Pole's, Rafcians, and Armenians. Towards the dole of 
the 
