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near the bale. Flower-ftalk folitary, central, radical, 
roundilh, longer than the leaves, terminating in an ex¬ 
tremely long, recurved or pendulous, denfe, cylindrical, 
i'pike of innumerable fmall flowers, of a dull orange hue. 
Several fpecies of Ophrys, in Linnaeus’s fecond divi¬ 
sion, with round bulbs, belong properly to this genus. 
See that article. 
MALAZKER'D, a town of Turkifli Armenia, on the 
Aras: eighty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Erzerum, and 140 
north ealt of Diarbekir. Lat. 39. N. Ion. 41. 59. E. 
MALAZKER'D, or Malasgherd, a river ofTurkifh 
Armenia, which runs into the Euphrates near Malazkerd. 
MALBA'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Vifiapour : 
fix miles north-eaft of Merritch. 
MALBA'Y, a river of Canada, which runs into the St. 
Laurence fixty-three miles below Quebec. 
MALBA'Y, a confiderable bay of the Atlantic, on the 
weft coalt of Ireland, extending from Hog’s Head to Bal¬ 
lard’s Point. 
MAL'BON HIL'LS, a town of Virginia: eighteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Richmond. 
MAL'BORN, a town of Auftria: four miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Sonneburg. 
MALBUR'GET, a town of Lower Carinthia: fifteen 
miles fouth-weft of Villars. 
M AL'BURY, a town of Bengal: fourteen miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Kilhenagur. 
MAL'BY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland: 
thirty-five miles eaft-north-eaft of Uddevalla. 
MAL'BY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland : 
.twenty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Uddevalla. 
MAL'BY, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sko- 
nen : twenty-one miles fonth of Chriftianftadt. 
MALCAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifli : 
twenty-five miles eaft-fouth-ealt of Burhampour. 
MAL'CHAM, [Heb. their king.] The name of an 
idol. 
MALCHI'AH, or Melchi'as, chief of the fifth family 
of the twenty-four facerdotal families. 1 Chrtn. xxiv. 9. 
MALCHI'AH, of the Levites, fon of Ethni, and fa¬ 
ther of Baafuah. x Chron. vi. 40. 
MALCHI'AH, a Jew who put away his wife becaufe 
file was foreigner. Ezra, x. 25. 
MALCHI'AH. There are three of this name who are 
noted as having aflifted at the re-building of Jerufalem, 
after the Babylonifli captivity. Neh. iii. 11, 14, 31. 
MALCHI'AH, fon of Enan, father of Achetob, and 
grandfather of Judith. Judith viii. 1. 
MALCHI'AH, father of Pelhur; a confiderable man 
at Jerufalem. Jcrem. xxi. 1. 
MALCHI'AH, fon of Hammelech, was keeper of the 
prifons in Jerufalem. By his order Jeremiah was let down 
into a ciftern in which there was no water, but mud only, 
and in which he was in dangerof his life, had he not been 
quickly delivered by Ebed-melech. Jerem. xxx. viii. 6, &c. 
MALCHI'EL, or Mel'chiel, fon of Beriah, for. of 
Afher, chief of the family of Malchielites, in the time of 
Moles. Numb. xxvi. 45. 
MALCHl'ELITE, a defcendant of Malchiel. 
MALCHI'JAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
MAL'CHIN, a town of the duchy of Mecklenburg, on 
the Cummer Lake, where it receives the river Peene. The 
Hates alfemble here once in two years : twenty miles eaft 
Gultrow, and twenty-fix fouth-eaft of Roltock. Lat, 53. 
4.. N. Ion. si. 32. E. 
MALCHI'RAM, [Hebrew.] A fcripture name. 
MALCHISHU'A, or Melcuishu'a, [Heb. an illuftri- 
ous king.] Third fon of Saul, killed with his father and 
brethren, in the battle of Gilboa. 1 Sam. xxxi. 2. 
MAL'CHOW, a town of the duchy of Mecklenburg: 
feven miles weft of Wahren, and forty fouth of Roltock. 
Lat. 53. 30. N. Ion. 12. 33. E. 
MAL'CHUS, or Mal'ichus, [Heb. a king.] Jofephus 
fpeaks of Malchus king of the Arabs, who received great 
obligations from Herod fon of Antipater, afterwards king 
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of the JetX’S. Antigonus, by the afliftance of the Perfians, 
having forced Herod to return from Jerufalem, he had a 
mind to take refuge with Malchus ; but this prince for¬ 
bade him to enter his dominions. This obliged Herod 
to go to Egypt, whence he proceeded to Rome, 40 B. C. 
MAL'CHUS, or Malichus, aflaflinate’d Antipater, the 
father of Herod. Jofeph. Anliq. lib. xiv. cap. 10. 
MAL'CHUS, a fervant of the high-prielt Caiaphas, who 
in the garden of olives, among thofe fent to apprehend 
Jefus, was fmitten by St. Peter, and had his right ear cut 
off. John xviii. 10. Though it is not certain whether it 
was entirely feparated from his head, or only cat off in 
part; the latter is molt probable, becaufe Jefus only 
touched it to heal it. Luke xxii. 51, 52. Some believe that 
Peter ftruck this fervant in his own defence, and to pre¬ 
vent him from feizing him alfo. There is great probabi¬ 
lity that Peter intended to cut off his head, and not his 
ear. Cornelius a Lapide thinks that Malchus became a 
convert; while others think, it was he who ftruck our Sa¬ 
viour on the face, and alked him. Doji thou anfwsr the high- 
priejl/o? But St. John does not favour this opinion ; for 
he lays (xviii. 22.) he that ftruck our Saviour was one of 
the officers belonging to the high-prieft Annas; without 
infinuating that it was Malchus, of whom he had fpoken 
a little before. 
MAL'CKENBURG, a mountain in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, and one of the highelt in Germany, near 
the town of Zwingenberg. 
MAL'COLM (Alexander), author of “ A Treatife of 
Mufic, fpeculative, practical, and hiltorical,” 8vo. Edin¬ 
burgh, 1721. This work, which has confiderable merit, 
is dedicated to the molt illuftrious directors of the Royal 
Academy of Mufic. The author has drawn from the 
pureft fources of information concerning ancient mufic, 
and does not frem ignorant of the modern. His chap¬ 
ters on compofition, however, go but a little way into the 
myfteries of the art. He has indeed given common ex¬ 
amples of the three fpecies of movement in melody: retlo , 
obliquo, and moto contrario-, riling and falling together; one 
part ftationary, and the other moving up or down ; anti 
contrary motion. He has alfo given the treble and bale 
of a few ufual cadences, in two parts only. But, though 
his explanations, defcriptions, and difcuffions, are numer¬ 
ous, they are rendered fo tedious and full of repetitions 
and amplifications, that many years’ ftudy, experience, 
and reading, would be ftill neceffary for a ftudent, after 
the molt careful and attentive perufal of this book, to 
render him a complete contrapuntift. His inftruftions 
are rendered obfcure, perhaps by too great a defire to ren¬ 
der them clear; they are involved in too many words- The 
Ityle is not alluring; it abounds in Scotticifms, is rough, 
and often dark and uncouth. The work is too fcientific 
for an elementary tract, and too fuperficial in the rules 
for practical harmony. The plates at the beginning have 
an hieroglyphic appearance,and mull be totally unintelli¬ 
gible to inexperience; and the author feems deficient in 
his manner of writing. Though he has read and medi¬ 
tated much, yet, by being fell-taught, there is an awk- 
wardnefs of expreflion in communicating his knowledge 
to his readers, which wanted practice and good tafte to 
render it clear, ufeful, and pleafant. 
As this work is become fomewhat fcarce, and was pub- 
lilhed before the Monthly and Critical Reviews were ella- 
blilhed, we fhall (from the veteran Burney) fpecity fome 
of the principal fubje< 5 ts which the author has treated, and 
the authorities upon which He builds. His doctrine of 
vibration is taken from s’Gravefande and Keil. He men¬ 
tions Vincenzo Galileo, but not his more learned fon. Kir- 
cher, Dr. Holder, and Dr. Wallis, are cited; the latter 
on his doubts concerning the vibrations which conllitute 
intervals, from their celerity, as we are unable to count 
them. He confiders ratios and coincidences under the 
guidance of Merfennus. He does not mention Galileo, in 
Speaking of the dcflrine of pendulums; nor does he give 
any authorities in explaining arithmetical, harmonical, 
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