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their hands with Wood. Implacable In their hatred as in 
their vengeance, they are only brought to relinquifh the 
one or the other by the voice of the mod refpedtable old 
men in the canton. Povqueville's Travels in the Morea. 
Galt’s Voyages and Travels, j 809-11. 
' MAI'NARD. See MaynarH. 
MAINBA'YA, a town of Ava : fifteen miles north of 
Prone. 
MAPNBURG, a town of Bavaria, on the Ambs : eigh¬ 
teen miles eaft-fouth-enft of Ingolltadt, and thirty-two 
■r.orth-north-eaft of Munich. 
MAINE, before the revolution, a divifion of France, 
divided iota Upper and Lower Maine, about eighteea 
miles in length, and twenty in breadth. It now princi¬ 
pally forms the departments of the Mayenne and Sarte. 
MAINE, a river of Germany, which riles in the mar- 
quifate of Culmbach, on the confines of Bohemia. It is 
formed of two ftreatns, the one called the Weis, or White, 
the other Roth, or Red; both thefe join near Culmbach. 
It afterwards paffes by or near to Lichtenfels, Zeil, Haf- 
furt, Maynburg, Schweinfurt, Schwarzbach, Sommerf- 
haufen, Wurzburg, Catolftadt, Gemunden, Lohr, Wer- 
theim, Freudenberg, Afchaffenburg, Hanau, Offenbach, 
Frankfort, Hochlt, &c. and joins the Rhine a little above 
Mentz. 
MAINE, a diftridt or province of the United States of 
America, belonging to Maffachufetts, bounded on the 
north by Lower Canada, ealt by the province of New 
Brunfwick, fouth by the Atlantic Ocean, and weft by 
New Hatnpfhire, from which it is partly feparated by the 
Pifcataqua river; and fituated between lat. 43 0 and 4.8° 
15' N. and between Ion. 64° 53' and 70 0 39' W. Its 
average length and breadth are each 200 miles j and it 
contains 40,000 fquare miles, or 25,600,000 acres. The 
diftridt of Maine is divided into feven counties, as in the 
following table. 
Counties. 
No. of Inhabitants. 
1700. 1800. 
York 
28,821 
37>729 
Cumberland 
Kennebeck 
Lincoln 
Hancock 
Wafhington 
Oxford 
Total 
25,459 
37:9 21 
24,394 
30,100 
16,316 
4.436 
29,962 
9>549 
2,758 
96,540 
150,896 
Chief Towns. 
York. 
Portland, the metro¬ 
polis of the diftridt. 
Augulta. 
Wifcaffet, Hallowell. 
Caltine. 
Machias. 
The chief rivers are the Penobfcot, Kennebeck, Saco, 
Androfcoggin, St. Croix, See. The mod noted lakes are 
Moofehead, Scoodri, Sebacook, and Umbagog. The 
principal bays are thofe of Cafco, Penobfcot, Machias, 
Saco, and Paffamaquoddy. Its molt remarkable capes 
are thofe of Neddock, Porpoife, Elizabeth, Small Point, 
Peinaquid, and Petit Manan. Almoft the whole coaft 
north-calf of Portland is lined with iflands, arpong which 
veiTels may generally anchor with fafety. 
This diftridt, though an elevated country, cannot pro¬ 
perly be denominated mountainous. The foil is gene¬ 
rally arable, and very fertile, more efpecially between Pe¬ 
nobfcot and Kennebeck rivers. On lome parts of the fea- 
coaft the lands are but indifferent; but they might be 
much improved by manuring them with the rock-weed, 
which grows on the rocks, between high and low water 
■mark, in very large abundance. The fwamps and funken 
lands might he ealily drained, and afford a rich fat foil. 
The foil of the interior country is reprefented as being 
excellent, and well adapted both for tillage and pafture. 
Where the foil is properly prepared for receiving the feed, 
it is faid to be favourable for the growth of wheat, rye, bar¬ 
ley, oats, peafe, hemp, and flax; and for the production of 
almoft all kinds of culinary roots and plants, Englifh grafs, 
and alfo for Indian corn of fhort (talks. Kennebeck is 
•much improving in apple-orchards : hops are the fpoijtane- 
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ons growth of the country : peaches are fcarcely known ; 
plums, fmall cherries, fmall pears, grapes, rafpberries, 
goofeberries, currants, blackberries, and cranberries, are 
among the wild fruits of Maine. This country is uncom¬ 
monly good for grazing; and large (locks of neat cattle 
may be fed in it both fummer and winter. It abounds in 
white pine and fpruce-trees, fuitable for malts, boards, or 
(hingles; and maple, beech, red, white, and grey, oak, and 
yellow birch, may be contidered as the principal produc¬ 
tions of the country. The moiftland produces fir, which 
yields a balfam that is much prized. Here are alfo elms, 
poplars and a(h-trees 5 alfo bafs, horn-beam, butter-nut, 
balm of Gilead, and hemlock-trees. Upon the whole, 
the diftridt of Maine may be regarded in the three follow¬ 
ing divifions of it: thejfr/2, comprehending the tradt ly¬ 
ing eaft of Penobfcot river ; the fetrnd, and beft tradt, ly¬ 
ing between Penobfcot and Kennebeck rivers ; and the 
third, firft fettled, and at prefent molt popular, weft of 
Kennebeck river. The climate in this diftridt, as well 
as in every part of North America, is colder than the 
fame degree of latitude on the eaftern fide of the Atlan¬ 
tic. The weather is more regular here in the winter than 
it is in the fouthern dates. Frofts commence fometimes 
in September, and always before the middle of Odtober ; 
the fevere cold begins about the middle of December; 
and fpring opens at the clofe of March. Of late the win¬ 
ters in this country are more moderate, and lefs fnow has 
fallen than twenty years ago. 
From the different rivers of this country water may be 
drawn for mills and all water-works; and its rivers fur- 
nifh plenty and variety of fifh. The falmon-fithery, in 
the bays and around the illand, has of late years become 
a confiderable objedt to the inhabitants. The animals of 
this diftridt were formerly deer, and moofe of a large fize; 
but there are now few to be feen. The fox, bear, wolf, 
beaver, See. are found here. Cattle and horfes are ealily 
reared in this country; and the (beep, on the Kennebeck 
river, are larger than thofe in Maffachufetts proper; the 
mutton is of higher flavour, and the fleeces are much hea¬ 
vier. The rattle-fnake is the only poilbnous ferpent in 
this diftridt; and that is rarely feen. Birds, though in- 
creafing, are not numerous. 
The manufadtures and commerce of this country are in 
an improving Rate. From the firft fettlement of Maine 
till the year 1774 or 1775, and even in fome places toa la¬ 
ter period, the inhabitants negledted agriculture, and gene¬ 
rally followed the lumber-trade ; but, when they found that 
Indian corn, rye, potatoes, and flax, grew in their fields, 
and afforded an immediate profit, they applied to the cul¬ 
tivation of the foil; and they now rail’e a fuflicient quan¬ 
tity of corn and other grain for their own confumption; 
and they export from the Kennebeck, either in cattle or 
other articles, more than they import. Their wool and 
flax are very good ; hemp has been lately cultivated with 
fuccefs: and almoft every family manufadture wool and 
flax into cloth, and make utenfils of hufbandry fuflicient 
for their own ufe. The principal exports of this country 
eonfift of various kinds of lumber, fuch as pine-boards, 
(hip-timber, and almoft every fpecies of fplit timber ma- 
nufadtured from pine and oak, which are exported from 
the various harbours in large quantities. Dried fi(h alfo 
furnilhes an article of export, and alfo pickled fifh, fuch 
as falmon, (had, Sec. Mountain and bog-iron ore are 
found in fome parts, and works have been eredted for its 
manufadture. 
A fpirit of literary improvement has been lately ex¬ 
cited in this diftridt. Bowdoin-college is fituated in the 
village of Brunfwick, upon the river called by the Indian 
natives Androfcoggin. The legiflature, about the year 
1794, incorporated certain perfons for the purpofe of efta- 
blifhing this univerfity, or college, under the name of 
Bowdoin-college, fo called after James Bowdoin, efq. late 
governor of the Maffachufetts. The legiflature granted 
feveral townftiips of unfettled lands within the diftridt of 
Maine to the college as a fund for its fupport; and the 
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