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Barbarofla deftroyed that place. Thefe new colonies 
cauied them to enlarge their town j and the walls enclofed 
the whole of the mountain, the veftiges of which are yet 
vifible. They were ruined during the wars of the iix- 
teenth century, partly by the French, and partly by the 
Imperialifts; neverthelel’s, in the year 1573, Emanuel 
Philibert duke of Savoy built a citadel to defend the 
place. Mondavi was at firft a republic, till the difleniions 
among the inhabitants compelled them to feek a mafter. 
In the year 1347, they iurrendered themfelves to the 
princes of Savoy, and fucceffively to divers other princes, 
till the death of Robert king of Naples, whole heirefs, 
Jane, reflored them to their liberty, which they enjoyed 
not long, for frefli difleniions broke out; and, in 1396, 
they came under the power of Amadeus of Savoy, prince 
of Achaia, on certain conditions, partly favourable, and 
partly compullory ; from him it defcended to the king of 
Sardinia, as duke of Savoy. It was erebled into a bi¬ 
shopric by pope Urban VI. in the year 1388, under the 
archbifhop of Turin. Befides the cathedral, it has five 
: parifh-churches, an univerlity, twelve convents, and about 
•10,000 inhabitants. It vVas taken by the French, after a 
splendid victory, on the 16th of April, 1796. In the year 
1802, the whole of Piedmont was formally annexed to 
the French republic, and divided into fix departments, 
and Mondovi became part of the department of the Stura, 
lo called from the river of that name. It now reverts to 
the king of Sardinia. It is eighteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Saliizzo, and thirty foutli of Turin. Lat. 44. 24. N. Ion. 
*7.56. E. 
MONDRAG'ON, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Guipufcoa, in the neighbourhood of which are fome me¬ 
dicinal fprings, and a mine of iron of fuperior quality. 
The famous iron-mine of Mondragon is about three 
miles from the town: it is called by the Spanifli miners 
Hierro Elado. The iron is found in a red clay, and pro¬ 
duces natural fteel, with this remarkable circumftance, 
that it is not to be found any where elfe in the kingdom. 
They even preferve to this day a traditional ftory, that 
this ore was ufed for thofe famous fwords which Catha¬ 
rine of Arragon prefen ted to her contort, Henry VIII. 
of England ; lorne of which Hill remain in repute in the 
Highlands of Scotland, being luitable to their drefs ; and 
are called Andre Ferrara, the name of the maker, which 
is marked on the blades. The famous Toledo-blades, 
thole alio of Saragofla, called del Parrillo, mentioned in 
Don Quixote, and others, were alfo fupppofed to be made 
of the ore of this mine, which gives 40 per cent, metal, 
though rather difficult to fufe. It is twenty-four miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of St. Sebaftian. 
MONDRAG'ON, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Tarn : twelve miles north-north-weft of Caf- 
tres, and nine louth of Alby. 
MONDRAGO'NE, a town of Naples, in Lavora, near 
the lea coaft, celebrated for its medicinal baths: thirteen 
miles north-weft of Capua. 
MONDUKOL'SKOI, a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Irkutlk, on the borders of China : 1 32 miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Selenginfk. Lat. 50.8. N. Ion. 103.24. E. 
MONE'AH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar, on the 
right bank of the Ganges : leventeen miles weft of Patna. 
MONE'BA, a town of Africa, in Calbari, on the Ca- 
marones. Lat. 3.40. N. 
MONE'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : fourteen miles north-weft of Wexio. 
MONEE'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty- 
three miles north-weft of Saferam. 
MONEGA L, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda: 
thirty-three miles fouth of Combamet. 
MONE'GLIA, a town of the Ligurian Republic: fe- 
ven miies weft of Brugneto. 
MONE'INS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees; nine miles weft of Pau. 
MONEMU'GI. See Monoemugi. 
MONESTI'ER, a town of France, in the department 
MON C5f 
of the Tarn: nine miies north of Alby, and thirteen 
north-eaft of Gaillaci 
MONESTI'ER, a town of France, in the department 
of the Higher Alps : nine miles north-weft of Brian^on. 
MONESTI'ER, d’AMBEL', a town of France, in the 
department of the Higher Alps : fifteen miles north-weft 
of Gap. 
MONESTI'ER de CLER'MONT, a town of France, 
in the department of the Here, celebrated for its medi¬ 
cinal fprings: fifteen miles north-eaft of Die, and fixteem 
fouth of Grenoble. 
MONE'TA, a furname of Juno among the Romans. 
She received it becaufe fhe admonijhed them to facrifice a 
pregnant fow to Cybele, to avert an earthquake. Civ. de 
Div. c. 15. Suidas however, fays, that Juno was fur- 
named il Ioneta, from alluring the Romans, When in the 
war againft Pyrrhus they complained of want of pecu¬ 
niary refources, that money could never fail to thofe who 
cultivated juftice. 
MONETA'GIUM, f. A certain tribute paid by tenants 
to their lord every third year, that he fhould not chango 
the money which he had coined, formerly when it was 
lawful for great men to coin current in their territories ; 
but not of filver and gold. It was abrogated by the flat. 
1 Hen. I. c. 2. The word Monetagiiuii is likewife ufed 
for a mintage, and the right of coining or minting money. 
MONETA'RIUS, or Moneyer, f . A name which an¬ 
tiquaries and medalifls give to thofe who ftruck the an¬ 
cient coins or moneys.—Many of the old Roman, &c. 
coins have the name of the monetarius, either written at 
length, or at leail the initial letters of it. Chambers. 
MONE'TIA, f. [fo named by PHeritier in honour of 
his friend Jean-Eaptifte-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, knight 
of Lamarck, of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, author 
of Flora Gallica and of the Botanic Encyclopaedia. See 
Lamarckia.] In botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, 
order monogynia, (clafs dicecia, order tetriandria, Sekre- 
her.) Generic charaClers—Calyx: perianthium one-leaf- 
ed, ventricofe, four-toothed, two of th’e divilions deeper ; 
fegments lanceolate, acute, reflex; permanent. Corolla: 
petals four, linear, acute, recurved, longer than the calyx. 
Stamina : filaments four, erebt, inferted into the recepta¬ 
cle, almoft the length of the corolla ; antherae ovate, in¬ 
cumbent. Piftillum : germ fuperior, (lightly four-cor¬ 
nered, ending in a thickifh conical ftyle, (hotter than the 
lfamens ; ftigma acute. Pericarpium : berry juicelefs, 
globular, with a little point, furrounded by the calyx, 
two-celled. Seeds : folitary, flat on one fide, convex on 
the other.— Ejj’ential Character. Calyx four-cleft; petals 
four; berry two-celled; feeds folitary. There are. two 
fpecies. 
1. Monetia barlerioides, or four-fpined monetia: fpines 
four, leaves fmooth on both fides. This is a middle-fized 
prickly fhrub, with the habit of Barleria hyftrix. Stem 
upright, full of chinks, afh-coloured. Branches oppofite, 
diffufed, denfe, afh-coloured ; branchlets prickly, bent 
down, four-cornered, green at firft, afterwards afh-co¬ 
loured. Shoots green; pubefeent in their natural foil, 
but in gardens naked. Prickles four, in whorls, decuf- 
lated, horizontal, axillary, a pair from each axil, awl- 
fhaped, pungent, green, mortified at top, having one 
ftreak on the inner lide, the length of half the leaf. Leaves 
oppofite, fpreading, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, acu¬ 
minate ; the point thorny, fharp, mortified, reflex; they 
have one nerve, fcarcely prominent underneath, with few 
hardly-vifible veins, of the fame colour on both fides, ei¬ 
ther flat or converging a little on the fides, permanent, an 
inch and a half long and eight wide. Petiole very fhort, 
obfoletely twilled, gibbous on one fide, flat on the other. 
Flowers axillary on the fhoots, few, in clufters, in threes 
at the top, fometimes folitary; leffile, herbaceous, two 
lines wide. Brables two-leaved, oppofite, preifed to the 
flo wers laterally, very narrow,acute, changing into prickles. 
Native of the Eaft Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. 
Cultivated in 1758, by Mr. Miller. It flowers in July. 
Seba’-s. 
