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more or lefs foliated, with a double cleavage; the princi¬ 
pal one parallel to the lateral planes of the prifm. It is 
tranflucent on the edges, at lea It in thofe cryflals that 
have the appearance of feldfpar; thofe that approach to 
the nature of fteatite are opaque. Hardnefs variable, ac¬ 
cording as the fubltance exhibits the appearances jult men¬ 
tioned. Specific gravity 2 > 9444, Haiiy; 2 927, Karlten. 
This fubltance has not been fubjeCted to chemical ana- 
lyfis. It is found at Gefrees, in the margravate of Bay¬ 
reuth ; in ci-devant Brittany, in France; and near St. 
jago di Compcftella, in Galicia. Thofe of Brittany are 
more exactly quadrangular. Some of them are about 
four lines and a half in diameter, and upwards,of three 
inches and a half in length. Thofe of Spain are generally 
much thicker, and of a rounded form. According to 
Haiiy, the external furface both of the Spanifli and French 
macles frequently exhibits fomething of a pearly luftre. 
It has alfo been obferved by Lelievre and Dolomieu in the 
valley of Bareges, in the Pyrenees ; by Raimond on the 
"plateau de Troumoufe, in the High Pyrenees; and by 
Davy in the clay-flate of Cumberland, and in the county 
of Wicklow in Ireland, where it has likewife been ob¬ 
ferved by Dr. Fitton. Profellor Link found it in the 
snica-flate of the Serra de Marao in Portugal. The made 
has been mentioned by Boetius de Boot under the name 
of lapis cruciger. It was applied in his time as an amulet 
for flopping hemorrhages; and even at the prefent day it 
is ufed for feveral fuperftitious purpofes. 
MA'CLE, or Macled Crystals, a name by which 
feveral mineralogifls, and principally Rome de l’lfle, have 
diftinguifhed the cryflals with re-entering angles, formed 
by the union of two diftinft cryflals, producing the ap¬ 
pearance of two halves of one fymmetrical cryflal, which 
in the ad of uniting have turned on each other in fuch 
a manner, that the planes of the upper part of the one 
correfpond to thofe of the lower part of the other, or 
•nearly fo. Such cryflals are denominated crijlaux tranfpofes 
and hemitropes by Haiiy ; and zwillings-kryjlalle by Werner. 
MACLE'OD’s MA'IDENS, rocks in the Caledonian 
Sea, near the well coaft of the ifland of Skye. Lat. 57.23. N. 
Ion. 6. 36. W. 
MAC'NEN-ABAD', a town of Perfia, in Segeflan : 111 
tniles fouth-fouth-eaft of Zareng. 
MACO'CO, or Anziko. See Anziko, vol. i. p. 784. 
MACOGD'A, a fort on the weft coaft of Africa, at the 
mouth of the St. Domingo River. Lon. 12. 20. N. 
MACOKET'CH (Great), a river of Louifiana, which 
runs into the Mifliffipi in lat. 41. 38. N. Ion. 91. 35. W. 
MACOKET'CH (Little), a river of America, which 
runs into the Miffiftippi in lat. 41. 56. N. Ion. 91.41. W. 
MACOLO'E, one of the Querimba iflands in the In¬ 
dian Sea. Lat. 11. 10. S. 
MACO'MER, a town of the ifland of Sardinia : lixteen 
miles weft of Bofa. 
MA'CON, or Mas'con, a city of France, and capital 
©f the department of the Saone and Loire, near the Saone. 
Before the revolution, it was the capital of a fmall coun¬ 
try, called Mdconnois, which was formerly a county, and 
the fee of a bifhop. It contained four churches, a com- 
roandery of Malta, feven convents, a college, and an hof- 
pital. The trade is confiderable. The number of inha¬ 
bitants is eftimated at 5800. It is feven ports and a half 
north of Lyons, and fifty-three and three quarters fouth 
of Paris. Lat. 46.18. N. Ion. 4. 55. E. 
MACON'DEGAY I'SLANDS, three fmall iflands in 
the bay of Gunong Tellu, on the eaft coal! of the ifland 
of Celebes. Lat. o. 30. S. Ion. 120. 25. E. 
MACO'NIA,a town of Pegu : twenty miles fouth ofPegu. 
MACO'PIN, a fmall river of America, which runs from 
the fouth-eaft into the Illinois eighteen miles from the 
Mifliffippi, twenty yards wide, and navigable nine miles 
in the hills ; the fhore, which is low, is covered with ma¬ 
ple, afh, button-wood, &c. the land abounds with tim¬ 
ber, and is overrun with high weeds. 
MAC 
MACOTE'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon : eighteen miles eaft of Salamanca. 
MACOT'TO, a town on the fouth coaft of the ifland 
of Luejon. Lat, 13. 12. N. Ion. 123. 8. E. 
MACOU', a town of Perfian Armenia: feventy-fiva 
miles fouth of Erivan. 
MACOU'BA St. AN'NE, a town of the ifland of Mar- 
tinico. Lat. 14. 54. N. Ion. 61. 17. W. 
MACOUBE'A, /. in botany, occurs only in Juflieu 
and Aublet, the former having taken it from the Supple¬ 
ment of the latter author’s work on the Plants of Guiana, 
where it is figured in t. 378. The only parts of fruftifi* 
cation with which they were acquainted,are—Pericarpium : 
capfule orbicular, flightly comprefled, fometimes obtufely 
triangular, of one cell; hollow withinfide; rough, red- 
difti, and marked with grey fpots, on the ouiiide. Seeds: 
numerous, oblong, incurved, obtufe, convex above, fur¬ 
rowed below, inclofed in a white membrane, and attached 
to the internal coat of the pericarpium. 
Macoubea Guianenfis is a tree riling to the height of 
forty feet. Its wood is of a greenilh-yellow, and in dry*, 
ing has a difagreeable fmell. Leaves oppofite, on foot- 
ftalks, ovate, acute, entire. Fruit as big as oranges, in 
clutters at the divarications of the branches. The whole 
tree abounds with a milky juice. Aublet found it in the 
woods of Guiana, bearing fruit in February. Juflieu 
places Macoubea in the natural order of guttiferae, on 
the authority of Aublet’s defetiption. 
MACOUCOU'A,^. [the Caribbean name of the plant 
in queftion, as we learn from Aublet. It is noticed by 
Juflieu as nearly allied to Ilex, but figured by Lamarck 
under its vernacular name.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, natural order rhamni, 
JuJf. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
interior, of one leaf, cloven into four fliort acute feg- 
ments. Corolla: of one petal, tubular, (landing upon 
the receptacle ; tube very Ihort; limb divided into four 
roundilh lobes. Stamina : filaments four, within the di- 
vifions of the corolla; antherte roundilh, of two cells. 
Piftillum : germen fuperior, very fmall, roundilh ; ltyle 
none; ftigma obtufe. Pericarpium and feeds unknown. 
Macoucoua Guianenfis, the only fpecies known. A na¬ 
tive of woods in Guiana and Cayenne, flowering in Fe¬ 
bruary. The trunk of this tree is thirty or forty feet in 
height, much branched. Bark thick, hard, brittle, white 
externally. Leaves alternate, nearly fertile, polilhed, 
oval, obtufe, and fometimes ending in a fort of jagged 
point. Flowers corymbofe, axillary, on footllalks, white. 
Fruit unknown. The natives ufe the bark of this tree 
merely for fuel. , 
MACOU'RIA, a river of Guiana, which runs into the 
Atlantic in lat. 5. N. Ion. 53. 46. W. 
MACOW'AL, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Sirhind : fifty miles north of Sirhind. 
MACQYAQUI', a-town of New Mexico,..in the pro¬ 
vince of Mayo: feventy miles eaft-north-eaft of Santa 
Cruz. 
MACPALXOCH'I,y. in botany. See Helicterej. 
MACPHER'SON (James), a writer of much temporary 
fame, related to the chief of the clan of that name in the 
Highlands of Scotland, was born in 1738, at Ruthven, in 
the county of Invernefs. He ftudied at the univerfities 
of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ; at the latter of which, in 
1758, he printed a poem entitled The Highlander, which 
dilplayed fome fire and fancy, but as yet undifeiplined by 
talte. He appears to have been deligned for the church, 
but was never fettled in any cure; and in 1760 he was 
living as private tutor in the family of Mr, Graham, of 
Balgowam About this time he lurprifed the literary 
world by publilhing “ Fragments of Ancient Poetry, col¬ 
lected in the Highlands of Scotland, and tranflated from 
the Gaelic or Erie Language.” The Angularity of thefe 
pieces, the novelty of their ltyle and imagery, and the 
idea that they were the product of a remote age and rude 
people* 
