MAD 
point of the ifland lies fourteen miles fout'h of St. Peter's 
harbour, in Cape Breton ifland ; on which ifland the Illes 
de Madame are dependent. 
MADAMPAR', a feaport town of the ifland of Cey¬ 
lon, on the weft coaft, at the month of a river. 
MADAMUT', a town of Egypt, on the eaft fide of 
the Nile : twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Kous. 
MAD'AN (Martin), an Englifli divine of the eftabliflied 
church, was born about the year 1716, and was brought 
up to the profeflion of the bar, which he quitted for 'the 
church, though without preferment. The chapel at the 
Lock-hofpital vv-as built chiefly by his exertions 5 and he 
officiated many years as the chaplain, without any emo¬ 
lument. He is chiefly known as an author by a work en¬ 
titled, “Thelyphthora, or a Treatife on Female Ruin,” 
in 3 vols. 8vo. publiflied in 1781, which occafioned a long 
and very violent controverfy. The author maintained 
the lawfulnefs, or even the duty, of polygamy. Mr. Ma- 
dan was a good claftical fcholar, and publifhed a tranfla- 
tion of Juvenal and Perfius: he alfo wrote a treatife on 
Capital Puniftiments. He died in 1790, having attained 
to much popularity as a preacher 5 and as a man his mo¬ 
ral character was unimpeachable. 
MAD'AN’s POINT, a cape on the r.orth-eaft coaft of 
the ifland of St. Chriftopher. Lat. 17. 28. N. Ion. 62. 38. N. 
MADAPAS'SA, a town of Bengal: fixty miles fouth 
of Dacca. 
MADAPOU'R, a town of Bengal: ten miles fouth- 
eaft of Rajemal. 
MADARAVAN', a town of Fez, in the neighbour¬ 
hood of iron-mines, not far from Mount Atlas. 
MADARGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: eighty-two 
miles north-north-weft of Dacca. 
MADARO'SIS, J. [Greek.] Baldnefs; the falling off 
of the hair. Bailey. 
MADAU'RA, in ancient geography, a town on the 
borders of Numidia and Gtetulia, of which the inhabitants 
were called Madaurenfes. It was the native place of Apu- 
ieius. Apul. Met. 11. 
MAD'BAH, a town of Kemaoon : twenty-three miles 
fouth-eaft of Kerigur. 
MAD'BAN, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty- 
feven miles fouth-eaft of Bittiah. Lat. 26.25. N. Ion. 
S5.21.E. 
MAD'BRAIN,yi A lively frolicfome girl or boy; one 
difordered in the underftanding. 
MAD'BRAIN, or Mad'brained, adj . Difordered in 
the mind ; hot-headed : 
I give my hand oppos’d againft my heart. 
Unto a madbrain rudefby, full of fpleen. Shakejpeare. 
He let fall his book 3 
And, as he ftoop’d again to take it up. 
This madbrain d bridegroom took him fuch a cuff. 
That .down fell prieft and book. Shakejpeare. 
MAD'BURY, a townfhip of America, in Strafford 
county. New Hampfhire, between Dover and Durham, 
about ten miles north-weft of Portfmouth ; incorporated 
in 1755, containing 544 inhabitants. 
MAD'CAP, /• [taking the cap for the head.] A mad¬ 
man ; a wild hot-brained fellow: 
That laft is Biron, the merry madcap lord 3 
Not a word with him but a jeft. Shakejpeare. 
MAD'CAP, adj. Hot; furious; wild; giddy.—The 
■madcap prince of Wales. Shakejpeare. 
MADDAPOU'R, a town of Bengal: thirty-four miles 
call of Mauldah. 
MAD'DEN (Dr. Samuel), is faid to have been born in 
Ireland, in 1686, and educated at Dublin, where herefided 
the greater part of his life. In the year 1729, however, 
he appears to have been in England ; and, having written 
a tragedy, Themiftocles, was, as himfelf fays, tempted to 
let it come out, by the offer of a noble ftudy of books 
from the profits of it. In 1732 he publifhed Memoirs of 
Vo l. XIV. No, 956. 
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the twentieth Century; a book which, for Tome reafoit 
now unknown, was in a few days totally fuppreffed. In 
174-0 we find him in his native country, and in that year 
fettiug apart the furn of one hundred pounds to be dis¬ 
tributed in premiums for the encouragement of arts, ma¬ 
nufactures, and fcience: and the fame furn he continued 
to bellow every year while he lived. The good effefts of 
thefe well-applied benefactions have been very fufficiently 
felt in the kingdom where they were given, and have even 
extended their influence to its fitter country, having given 
rife to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and 
Sciences in London. Dr. Madden was poffeffed of fome 
church-preferment in Ireland ; and died the 30th of De¬ 
cember, 1765. He alfo wrote another tragedy, which he 
left as a legacy to Mr. Sheridan; but we know not in 
whofe poffeifion it now remains. 
To MAD'DEN, v. n. To become mad ; to aCt as mad s 
The dog-ftar rages, nay ’tis paft a doubt. 
All Bedlam or Parnaflus is let out; 
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope. 
To MAD'DEN, v. a. To make mad : 
Such madd'ning draughts of beauty. 
As for a while o’erwhelm’d his raptur’d thought. Thomjon. 
MAD'DENING, f. The aft of making mad. 
MAD'DER, J . in botany. See Rubia.— The flower 1 
of the madder confifts of one Angle leaf, which is cut into 
four or five fegments, and expanded at the top; the flower- 
cup afterwards becomes a fruit, compofed of two juicy 
berries clofely joined together, containing feed for the 
moll part hollowed like a navel; the leaves are rough, 
and furround the ftalks in whorls. Miller.—Madder is cul¬ 
tivated in valt quantities in Holland; what the Dutch 
fend over for medicinal ufe is the root, which is only 
dried 5 but the greateft quantity is ufed by the dyers, who 
have it fent in coarfe powder. Hill. 
MAD'DER, Little Field. See Sherardia. 
MAD'DER, Petty. See Crucianella. 
MADDIGU'BA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circac 
of Gooty : ten miles of Anantpour. 
MADDIGUER', a town of Hindooftan: twelve miles 
north-welt of Gooty. 
MAD'DING,y. The aft of making mad. 
MAD'DISON, a county of Kentucky, North America, 
adjoining Fayette, Clarke, Lincoln, and Mercer,counties. 
Chief town, Milford. 
MAD'DISON, a fmall town of Amherft county, Vir¬ 
ginia ; fituated on the north fide of James’s River, oppo- 
lite Lynchburgh : 150 miles weft-by-north of Richmond. 
MAD'DISON’s CAVE, the largeft and moft celebrated 
cave in Virginia, fituated on the north fide of the Blue 
Ridge. It is in a hill of about two hundred feet perpen¬ 
dicular height, the afeent of which on one fide is fo fteep, 
that you may pitch a bifeuit from its fummit into the ri¬ 
ver which walhes its bafe. The entrance of the cave is 
in this fide, about two-thirds of the way up. It extends 
into the earth about three hundred feet, branching into 
fubordinate caverns, fometimes afeending a little, but 
more generally defeending, and at length terminates in 
two different places, at bafons of water of unknown ex¬ 
tent, and which appear to be nearly on a level with the 
water of the river. The vault of this cave is of folid lime- 
ftone, from twenty to fifty feet high, through which wa¬ 
ter is continually exudating ; which, trickling down the 
fides of the cave, has incrufted them over in the form of 
elegant drapery ; and dripping from the top of the vault, 
generates on that, and on the bafe below, ltalaftites of a 
conical form, lome of which have met and formed large 
maffy columns. 
MADDORPET'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: 
nineteen miles north-eaft of Seringapatam. 
MAD'DOX (ifaac), who arrived at the higheft honours 
of the church, was defeended from parents of rather mean 
R. rank 
