.56 -MAD 
-bluifli colour, but fometiraes white; an inch long, and 
two and a half broad. 
26. MaClra Lifteri: (hell very thin, nearly round, whitifh; 
hinge with a triangular tooth, and large pyriform hollow. 
Found at the mouth of the river Tees; rather larger than 
the lart; 
27. Ma&ra piperita : (hell ovate, comprelTed, tranfverfely 
flriate; teeth of the hinge very minute, with a large ob¬ 
lique hollow. Inhabits the Mediterranean; about two 
inches long, and one and a half broad. 
MACU'IH-YU', a fmall Chinefe ifland belonging to the 
province of Quan-tong. Lat. 23. 10. N. Ion. n6. 22. E. 
MA'CUL, a town of Chili, fifteen miles fouth-eait of 
St. Yago de la Nouvelle Eftremad-ura. 
MAC'ULA, a fea-port of Arabia, in the province of 
Hadramaut: 150 miles north-eaft of Aden. 
MAC'XTLA,y; [Latin.] A fpot.—And laftly, the body 
of the fun may contract loine fpots or macula greater than 
xifual, and by that means be darkened. Burnet's Theory of 
the Earth. 
To MAC'ULATE, v. a. To ftain ; to fpot. 
MAC'ULATE, adj. [maculatus , Lat.] Tainted.—Mott 
maculate thoughts, matter, are mafked under fuch colours. 
Shake/peare's Love's Labour Lojl. 
MACULA'TING,yi The aft of ftaining with fpots. 
MACULA'TION, f. Stain; fpot; taint: 
I will throw down my glove to death himfelf. 
That there’s no maculation in thy heart. Shakefpeare. 
MAC'ULE,/ A fpot ; a ftain. 
MACUL'PA, a town of Mocaumpour, twenty miles 
Louth of Batgoa. 
MACUM'BA, a country of Africa, forming the fouth- 
crn province of Mocaranga. 
MACU'NA, one of the Navigators’ Iflands, in the South 
Pacific Ocean, where feveral officers and men underM.de 
laPeroufe were maflacred by the inhabitants. Lat. 14. 19. 
S. Ion. 169. W. 
MACU'NA, /. in botany. See Doljchos, vol. v. 
MACUN'GY, a tovvnftiip of America, in Northampton 
county, Pennfylvania ; containing 1844 inhabitants. 
MACU'PA, a town of Africa, in the country of Mom- 
ba$a, near the coart: five miles north-weft of Mombaja. 
MACU'RITAS, a town of the ifland of Cuba : 115 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Havannah. 
MACU'TA,/ A money of account in Guinea, equal 
in value to 2000 fmall fbells, called cowries. The Sierra 
Leone Company ufed pieces ol 10, 5, 2, and 1, macutas; 
and we fuppofe they are rtill current there, though the 
company no longer exifts. The firft weighs 16 dwt. 21 gr. 
and contains, in pure filver, 33o - S gr. and is worth 3s. 
ioid. fterling. The other pieces are of proportionate 
weight and value- The 10-macuta piece, or dollar, has 
on one fide two joined hands, with the figures too both 
above and under them, and the infcription One-dollar Piece ; 
on the reverie, a lion; legend over the lion, ‘Sierra Leone 
Company, and under it, Africa. The half-dollar is 
fnarked ; the dollar, 20 ; and the -5*5 dollar, 10 ; with 
the infcriptions, Half dollar piece, Txventy-cent 
piece, and Te-n-cent piece : the reft as on the dollar. 
MAD, a town of Hungary : five miles north of Tokay. 
MAD, a river of America, called alfo Pickawa Fork, 
which is a rapid branch of the Great Miami, that pafles 
in a beautiful ftream in a fouth-weft courfe through a 
pleafant level country of very great fertility. 
MAD, adj. [gemaad, Sax. matto, Ital.] Difordered in 
the mind ; broken in the underftanding ; dirtrafted ; de¬ 
lirious without a fever.—We mult bind our paffions in 
chains, left like mad folks they break their locks and 
bolts, and do all the mifchief they can. Taylor's Worthy 
Communicant. 
This mufic made me, let it found no more; 
For, though it have help’d madmen to their wits, 
jn me, it leans, it will make wife men mad, Shctke/pcarc. 
MAD 
Expreffing diforder of mind : 
His geftures fierce 
He mark’d, and mad demeanour when alone. Milton, 
Over-run with any violent or unreafonable defire: with 
on, after, of, perhaps better for, before the objeft of de- 
fire.—It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon 
their idols. Jer. 1 . 38.—The world is running mad after farce, 
the extremity of bad poetry, or rather the judgment that 
is fallen upon dramatic writing. Dryden. —The people are 
not fo very mad of acorns, but that they could be content 
to eat the bread of-civil perfons. Rymer. —Enraged ; fu¬ 
rious.—Holy writ reprefents St. Paul as making havock 
of the church, and perfecuting that way unto the death, 
and being exceedingly mad againft them. Decay of Piety. 
To MAD, v. a. To make mad; to make furious; ta 
enrage.—O villain ! cried out Zelmane, madded with find¬ 
ing an unlooked-for rival. Sidney. 
This mad-s me, that perhaps ignoble hands 
Have overlaid him, for they could not conquer. Dryden. 
To MAD, v, n. To be mad ; to be furious : 
The madding wheels 
Of brazen chariots rag’d : dire was the noife 
Of conflicts ! Milton's Paradife Lcf. 
She, mixing with a throng 
Of madding matrons, bears the bride along. Dryden, 
MAD'-APPLE. See Solanum. 
MADABLO'TA, f. in botany. See G./ertnera, 
»ol. viii. 
MADAGASCAR, an ifland in the Indian Sea, fepa- 
rated from the coaft of Africa by the channel of Mozam¬ 
bique. This African ifland belongs to France. Its length 
is ftated by De Pages to be about 900 miles, and its breadth 
100; but others aflign to it 840 geographical miles in 
length, and about 220 in medial breadth. De Pages fays, 
that, next to Borneo, it is.ihe molt extenfivein the world : 
he might alfo have excepted Papua and New Holland, if 
the latter may be chaffed in the number of iflands. As it 
extends from north-north-eaft to fouth-fouth ealt from the 
12th to the 26th degree of fouth latitude, its climate is 
mild and agreeable. Of its firft dilcovery, nothing cer¬ 
tain is known. The ancients, even as late as Ptolemy, 
feem to have been unacquainted with it. The firft men¬ 
tion of it, upon which we can depend, is by Marco Polo, 
in the 13th century, who, having derived his knowledge 
of it from the Arabs, defcribes it by its prelent name. 
It efcaped the notice of Gama, who coafted along the 
African Ihore ; and, though it is faid to have been known 
to the Arabs and Perfians from time immemorial, under 
the name of Sarandib, its firft difcovery is afcribed to Lo¬ 
renzo or Lawrence Almeyda, in the year 1506. Hence 
the Portuguefe gave it the name of St. Lawrence; the 
French, in the reign of Henry IV. called it I lie Dauphine ; 
its real name, however, is Madecafa, though it is now ge¬ 
nerally known by that of Madagafcar. 
It is divided into twenty-eight provinces ; and its fur- 
face, according toRochon, may be eftimatedat 200,000,000 
acres of good and arable ground, celebrated for fertility 
and for the variety of its productions. Ail its different 
parts are watered by torrents and large rivers ; and more 
efpecially by a number of fmaller rivulets, which flow 
from the valt ridge of mountains that leparatesthe eaftern 
from the weftern coaft. Vigagora is the higheft moun¬ 
tain in the north, and Botiftmena in the fouth. Thefe 
mountains contain in their bowels precious minerals and 
curious foftils ; and their fummits are crowned with lofty 
trees, of long duration. The fcenery which the ifland 
prefents is very pichirefque and interefting, as it is diver- 
fified with precipices, catarafts, and immenle forefts. 
The vegetation of its hills and plains experiences no ob- 
ftruftion from the viciflitude of the feafcns, nor Goes it 
derive much afliftance from the labour of the inhabitants. 
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