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MONT RABI'DA, a mountain of Portugal, near the 
<ea-coaft, between the mouth of the Tagus and Setuval. 
MONT REV'EL, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aiii : eight miles north-north-weft of Bourg en 
Breffe, and nine fouth-eaft of Pont de Vaux. Lat. 46.20. S. 
Ion. 5. 13. E. 
MONT REUILLO'N, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Nyevre : fix miles north-weft of Chateau 
Chinon. 
MONT ROTIE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Rhone and Loire : fifteen miles weft of Lyons, 
slid fifteen fouth-fouth-weft of Villefranche. 
MONT St. BER'NARD. See St. Bernard. 
MONT St. ELOY', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Straits of Calais : fix miles north-weft of 
Arras. 
MONT St. JEAN', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Cote d'Or : twelve miles fouth of Semur en 
Auxois, and twelve north-north-weft of Arnay le Due. 
MONT St. MICHEL', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Channel, about fix miles from the fea,' 
with a caftle, fituated on a rock, about a quarter of a mile 
in circumference, in the midft of a fandy plain, which is 
covered by the fea twice in twenty-four hours; and the 
lands, being drifted by the waves, form dangerous hol¬ 
lows, fo that travellers are obliged to employ guides, who 
found almoft every ftep they go. Before the revolution, 
this caftle was a BenediCtine monaftery, the prior of which 
was governor of the town ; and ftood a fiege againft the 
Proteftants, affifted by the Engliflr, in the religious war. 
This houfe alfo gave name to an order of knights, founded 
by Louis XI. See Knighthood, vol. xi. p. 814. This 
town is fix miles fouth-weft of Avranches, and fix north 
of Pontorfon. Lat. 46. 36. N. Ion. 1.27. W. 
MONT St. PE'RE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Adfne : four miles eaft-north-eaft of Chateau 
Thierry, and fix weft of Dormans. 
MONT St. SULPI'CE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Yonne : fix miles fouth-weft of St. Flo- 
rentin. 
MONT St. VINCEN'T, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Saone and Loire : fifteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Charolles, and twenty-five north-weft of 
Macon. 
MONT SALOY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Cantal: eleven miles fouth-lbuth-weft of Mur de 
Barres, and fifteen fouth of Aurillac. 
MONT SAUGEO'N, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Marne: twelve miles fouth of Langres. 
MONT SENT, a mountain of Spain, and one of the 
mod lofty in Catalonia, always covered with fnow: fouth 
of Vique. 
MONT SEVEROU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ifere : nine miles fouth-eaft of Vienne. 
MONT sous VAUDERY', a town of France, in the 
department of the Jura: feven miles fouth-eaft of Dole, 
and feven north-weft of Arbois. 
MONTABAU'R, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Naflau. In the bailiwic, which is extenfive, fome 
fdver-mines are found : eleven miles eaft of Coblentz, and 
feven north of Naflau. 
MON'TACUTE, a village near Yeovil in Somerfetfliire, 
fo called from a high mount in the fliape of a fugar-loaf, at 
the foot of which it is fituated. This is a place of great 
.antiquity. Upon the top of the mount, earl Moreton, 
brother to William the Conqueror, built a caftle ; and at 
its foot Henry II. built and endowed a monaftery. It 
formerly fent members to parliament, and had a market; 
and its fair at prefent is kept on the Wednefday fucceed- 
ing the 6th of May, on a neighbouring hill. It is faid to 
haye given name to the noble family of Montague, or 
Montacute. Little remains now of this place, but a very 
large old edifice, the feat of the Philips’s family ; which is 
much admired for its fize, uniformity, and priftine prefer- 
ration. It was built by fir Edward Philips, mafter of the 
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rolls, and fpeaker of the houfe of commons, in the firfl 
parliament of James I. and has remained ever fince in pof- 
feflion of his defcendants, who have often reprefented this 
county in parliament. 
MONTAFI'A, a town of France, in the department 
of the Tanaro : eleven miles north-weft of Afti, and nine 
eaft-north-eaft of Chieri. 
MONTAGNAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : five miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Nerac, and feven fouth-weft of Agen. 
MONTAGNAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Herault: three miles eaft-north-eaft of Pezenas, 
and twenty-one weft-fouth-weft of Montpellier. 
MONTAGNAC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : three miles north-eaft of Mou- 
flanquin. 
MONTAGNAC' la CREM'PSB, a town of France, 
in the department of the Dordogne: nine miles north of 
Bergerac. 
MONTAGNA'NA, a town of Italy, in the Paduan : 
eighteen miles fouth-weft of Padua, and thirteen north- 
weft of Rovigo. Lat. 45. 14. W. lon.'i 1. 31. E. 
MONTAGNA'NA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 
Modena : ten miles fouth of Modena. 
MONTAGNA'NA (Bartholomew), a native of Padua, 
was a diftinguifhed profeflor of medicine in the univerftty 
of that city, in the middle of the fifteenth century ; and 
was fucceeded by his fon, of the fame name, who held a 
lUll higher reputation as a fcholar, though he was lefs dif- 
tinguilhed as a practical phyfician. The latter left Padua, 
and took up his refidence in Venice, in the year ij°8, 
where he praCliled his profeflion until his death, in 1525. 
The firft Montagnana left a collection of opulcula, which 
were firft printed at Venice in 1497, and afterwards fre¬ 
quently republithed, with the title of “ SeleCtiorum 
Operum, &c. Liber unus et alter.” And the fecond 
publiflied, 1. Refponfa reparandae confervandseque fa- 
nitati feitu dignilfima. 2. De Peftilentia, ad Adrianuin 
Pont. Max. 
But the family of Montagnana produced feveral me¬ 
dical and furgical profeflors for two or three fucceflive 
generations; the fon and two grandfons of the fecond 
Bartholomew having taught thefe fciences, and publilhed 
each one or two works of fome note. A trait of Bartho¬ 
lomew, the fon, “ De Morbo Gallico,” is printed in the 
Venice collection upon that fubjeCt. The grandfons, 
Marc Anthony and Peter, who were fucceftively profef- 
fors of furgery at Padua, publiflied, the one a treatife, 
“ De Herpete, Phagedasna, Gangrasna, Sphacelo, et Can- 
cro,” Ven. 1559 ; and th§ other two effays, “ De Urinis,” 
and “ De Vulneribus et Ulceribus, eorumque remediis,” 
both in Latin and Italian. Eloy Did. Hiji. de la Med. 
MONTA'GNE (Matthew), otherwife Plattenberg, a 
Dutch engraver, was born at Antwerp in the year 1600, 
and died at Paris in 1666. He went at an early age to 
Italy; and made a long flay at Florence, where he en¬ 
graved in concert with his countryman John Aflelin. 
From thence he journeyed to Paris, where, for reafons 
which we are unable to ftate, he changed his name from 
Plattenberg to Platte-vioniagne , and afterwards to Mon- 
tagne. He painted flipping, fea-views, and landfcapes, 
in a very good ftyle, and acquired great reputation. 
Nicolas Montagne, the fon of Mathew, was born 
in the year 1631, and died at Paris in 1706. He ftudied 
painting under Philip Champagne, to whom he was re¬ 
lated ; and engraving under Morin, whofe ftyle he im¬ 
proved upon. He painted portraits and liiftory with fuc- 
cefs; and in 1681 was chofen profeflor of painting in the 
Royal Academy at Paris. The moft confiderable work 
he engraved was a fet of portraits, on which we find his 
name inlcribed Nicolas de Plattemontague. He drew the 
human figure very correCtly; and his plates polfefs a very 
agreeable efreCl. 
MONTAGRIE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Dordogne : fix miles north-eaft of Riberac. 
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