s 
MAC MAC 
Archelos piftoliferos furiamque manantum, 
Et grandem efmeutam quae inopinum facta ruelle efts 
Toxinumque alto troublantem corda clochero, &c. 
Tbeophilus Folengius, a Benedifline monk of Mantua, 
was the firil who invented, or at Iealt cultivated, this kind 
of verfe. See Folengio, vol. vii. p. 53$. 
The belt pieces of this kind are, the Baldtts of Folengio, 
and Macaronis Forza by Stefonio, a Jefuit, among the Ita¬ 
lians ; and the Rcatus veritabilis juper terribili efmeuta paifa- 
narum dc Ruellis , among the French. The famous Rabelais 
firft transferred the macaronic ftyle out of the Italian verfe 
into French profe : and on the model thereof formed fome 
of the belt things in his Fantagruel. We have little in 
Englifh in the macaronian way, except fome little loofe 
pieces collefted in Camden’s Remains. But the Germans 
and Netherlanders have had their macaronic poets; wit- 
nefs the Certamcn Catholicum cum Calviniflis, of one Martinius 
Hamconius Frifius, which contains about 1200 verfes, all 
the words whereof begin with the letter C. 
MACARO'NYISM,A The ftate oraftions ofa macaroni. 
MACAROO'N, /. [ macarone, Ital.] A coarfe, rude, 
low, fellow : 
Like a big wife, at fight of loathed meat. 
Ready to travail ; fo I figh and fweat, 
To hear this macaroon talk on in vain. Donne. 
MACAROO'N,/. \macaron, Fr.] The name of a cake 
made of almonds and fugar. Is fuppofed by Richelet to 
derive from the Greek puxaf, bleffed, as it were the bread 
of the bleffed, the ambrofia of the New Jerufalem. This 
is improbable; yet a cake of almonds mult have been in¬ 
vented and named in a land of almonds. There is, or 
was, a town, Macaria, in the illand of Cyprus ; perhaps 
Margaret of Hennegan, the favourite miftrefs of Richard I. 
Lent thence the receipt for making macaroons. 
MACAROW'A, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kiev : twenty-four miles north-welt of Kiev. 
MACAR'SCA, a town of Dalmatia, the fee of a bifhop, 
fuffragan of Spalatro. That trafil of fea-coall which lies 
between the two rivers Cettina and Narenta, the firft of 
which is the Neltus and Silurus, the fecond the Narus of 
the ancients, comprifing what was properly called Dal¬ 
matia two ages before our sera, was known by the Greeks 
of the low times under the name of Parathalaffa, and from 
thence was named Primorie by the Sclavi. The pleafarit- 
nefs of the coalt, the fertility of the foil, and convenient 
fituation for commerce with the inland provinces, and the 
great plenty of filh in thofe waters, mult have invited 
ancient nations, though barbarians, to form fettlements 
there; but from their imprudent cultivation of the hills, 
and the necellity which they have perhaps been under of 
cutting down the woods for various ufes, may be pro¬ 
bably derived the deterioration of the country, the lofs 
of much ground near the fea, by its being covered with 
gravel, and the impetuous fury of the mountain-torrents, 
which render a part of it uninhabitable. Macarfca, in 
our days, is the only town in all that territory; and, from 
its fituation, may be fuppofed to have rifen out of the 
ruins of the ancient Rataneum, or Retinum. The fub- 
terraneous grottoes, of which there are many in that neigh¬ 
bourhood, are analogous to thole which, as hillorians tell 
us, reached far within the mountains about Retinum, and 
to which the inhabitants retired, having firit fet on fire 
their city, with the Romans in it, when they took it by 
ftorm. After the total deltrudtion of Retinum, the fitua¬ 
tion was not altogether abandoned : for we find it called 
Muchirum by Procopius; and in the fixth century it was 
called Mucarum : thirty-fix miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Spalatro. 
MACARTNEY’S BA'Y, a bay in the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago, on the eaft coalt of the illand of St. Matthew. 
Lat. 9. 55. N. 
MA'CAS, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Hoval, 
near the mouth of the Senegal. 
MA'CAS, a town ot South America, which gives name 
to a jurifdiftion in the royalty of New Grenada, contain¬ 
ing eight other towns. Macas contains about 130 houfes. 
and iioo inhabitants, Spaniards and Meftizos. At the 
conquelt, and for fome time after, this country was very 
populous ; and, in honour of the great riches drawn from 
the capital, was diftinguilhed by the name of Sevilla del 
Ora ; but at prefent only the memory of its former opu¬ 
lence remains. Such an extreme declenlion proceeded 
from an infurreftion of the natives, who, after fwearing 
allegiance to the king of Spain, took arms, and made 
themfelves mailers of the city of Logrono, and a town 
called Guamboya, both in the fame jurifdidlion, and very 
rich. Thefe devallations have fo dilcouraged any farther 
fettlement there, that the whole country lies as a wafte - 
no money goes current in it; and the only way the 
wretched inhabitants have to provide themfelves with ne- 
ceffaries, is by bartering their home products. The near- 
nefs of Macas to the Cordillera of the Andes, caufes a 
fenfible difference betwixt its temperature and that of 
Quito; for, though it be alfo a woody country, the diver- 
fity betwixt the two moll diftant feafons of the year is 
manifeft; and, as its territory is different from that of the 
jurifdiftion of Quito, fo the variety in the periods of the 
feafons is alfo great. Thus winter begins here in April 
and lafts till September, which is the time of fummer be¬ 
twixt the Cordilleras; and at Macas the fine feafon is in 
September. In grain, and other prodmfls which require 
a hot and moili temperature, the country is very fruitful ■ 
but one of the chief occupations of the country people 
here is the culture of tobacco, which being of an excel¬ 
lent kind is exported in rolls all over Peru. Su«-ar-canes 
alfo thrive well here, and confequently cotton. “Among' 
the infinite variety of trees which crowd the woods of this 
country, one of the moll remarkable is the ftorax. This 
territory alfo produces cinnamon-trees, which are faid to 
be of a fuperior quality to thofe of Ceylon, here known 
by the name of Spanilh cinnamon. Great quantities of 
copal are brought from Macas, and wild wax ; but the 
latter of little value, as it never indurates; and thefmell 
of it, when made into candles, and thefe lighted, is very 
ftrong and difagreeable: 140 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Quito. Lat. 2. 30. S. Ion. 78. 50. W. 
MA'CAS, a river of Portugal, which runs into the At¬ 
lantic in lat. 38. 51. N. Ion. 9. 25. W. 
MACASIN', a town on the fouth coafl of the illand of 
Mindanao. Lat. 7.45. N. Ion. 124. 16. E. 
MACASO'LI, a river of Sicily, which runs into the 
fea nine miles fouth-eall of Sciaca. 
MACASSAR', a fea-port town of the illand of Celebes 
and the principal fettlement of the Dutch in this illand* 
It gives name to one of the two great kingdoms into which 
the illand is divided ; and the illand itlelf is fometimes 
didinguilhed by this appellation. See the article Celebes 
Of the town, Capt. Carteret, who vifited it in 1768, gives 
the following account: It is built upon a kind of point 
or neck of land, and is watered by a river or two, which 
either run through or very near it. It feems to be large • 
and there is water for a lliip to come within half cannon- 
fhot of the walls: the country about it is level, and has a 
molt beautiful appearance: it abounds with plantations 
and groves of cocoa-nut trees, with a great number of 
houfes interfperfed, by which it appears to abound with 
people. At a diltance inland, the country rifes into hills 
of a great height, and becomes rude and mountainous 
The town lies in lat. 5. 1. or 5. 12. S. Ion. by account! 
117. 28. E. s 
MACASSAR' (Strait of), a paffage between the illands 
cf Borneo and Celebes. There is in this paffage a remark¬ 
able point, called by Carteret Hummock Point, “but in the 
French charts denominated Stroomen Point. Lat. 1. 20. N. 
Ion. rat. 39. E. This point is a good mark for thofe to 
know the paflage that fall in with the land coming from 
the ealtward, who, if poflible, fhould always make this 
fide of the paffage. To the fouthward of this point there 
is a deep bay, full of iflands and rocks, which appeared 
to Carteret to be very dangerous. Juft off the point there 
are two rocks, which, though they are above water, can¬ 
not be feen from a fhip till fhe is clofe to the land. To the 
3 eaft ward 
