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cies and barbarifms. In his preface he pretends to have 
explained the original in a hundred places, the true mean¬ 
ing of which had not been difcovered ; but the learned 
world has not given him credit for fuch a notable fervice 
to the interefts of literature. Afterwards he publifhed 
The Hillory of Religion, from the Beginning of the World 
to the Reign of the Emperor Jovian, 6 vols. ianio. two 
of which are taken up with the life of Jefus Chrift, ex- 
traded from the four evangelifts, and thrown into the 
form of a harmony. This work the author valued as fu- 
perior to all other productions of a fimilar nature, in de¬ 
fiance of the judgment of the critics, and the indifferent 
reception which it met with. In the year 1718 he pub¬ 
lifhed Thoughts on the literal Meaning of the firfV eigh¬ 
teen Verfes of the Gofpel of St. John, in nrao. which are 
faid to contain fome happy conjectures, and judicious cri- 
ticifins on former verfions 5 but intermingled with the moil 
extravagant opinions and reveries. ^ It was his intention 
to publilh Thoughts on the'firft eighteen or twenty Verfes 
of the three other Gofpels, on the lame plan 5 and he fpent 
fome years in preparing them for the prefs. The (ingular 
notions, which were introduced into them, prevented him 
from obtaining a licenfe for printing them. M. Malle- 
mans was alfo the author of a number of Differtations, or. 
Reflections on different paffages in the Scriptures, which 
made their appearance in the Memoires de Trevoux from 
1706 to 1709. Moreri. 
MAL'LEN, a town of Spain, iq Arragon, anciently 
called Manila 1 fix miles north-eaft of Borja. 
MAL'LEMDERS,/'. See Farriery, vol. vii. p.252.. 
MALLENOWIT'Z, a town of Moravia, in the circle 
Hradifch : ten miles north-eaft of Hradifch. 
M ALLEO'LUS, f. Among the Romans, a bundle of 
any combuftible matter befmeared with pitch, and ufed 
by the Roman foldiers either for giving light in the night¬ 
time, or for fetting fire to fome of the enemies’ works. 
In the latter cafe, the malleoli were fixed to a dart or ja¬ 
velin, that they might be fure to catch firm hold, and 
communicate the fire wherever they happened to f^ll. 
Malleolus, in anatomy, a technical term equivalent 
to ankle. It denotes the bony prominences, which pro¬ 
tect the joint of the ankle. The inner and fmaller of 
thefe, malleolus intermix, is a procefs of the tibia ; the outer 
and larger, malleolus externus, is a part of the fibula. See 
the article Anatomy, vol. i. p. 557. 
MALLEPALEAM', a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : nine miles fouth of Sankeridergam. 
MAL'LERE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stupa-: nine miles north-weft of Savona, and twenty- 
five fouth of Acqui. 
MAL/LERY (Charles), a Dutch engraver of fome emi¬ 
nence, was born at Antwerp in 1576, It is not known 
of whom he learned the rudiments of drawing and en¬ 
graving ; but, from the great refemblance his ityle bears 
to that of the two Wierixes, it is probable he ftudied in 
their fchool. He was a very laborious artift, and engraved 
a great number of devotional fubjeCts, animals, and book- 
ornaments. He worked with the graver only, and fo ex¬ 
ceedingly neat, that he, in fome inftances, equalled the 
molt laboured performances of Jerome and Anthony Wie- 
rix. But he did not draw fo correCHy ; fo that, with in¬ 
ferior powers as an artijl, he feerns to have poffeffed the 
fame (hare of patience and attention, and manual (kill. 
He had the honour of having his portrait twice painted 
by Vandyke j both were fuccefsful pictures; and the 
prints after them, by Vorfterman and Morin, are well 
known. In the collection of the abbe Marolles were three 
hundred and forty-three of the engravings of Mallery; 
among the belt of which may be mentioned, 1. The Ado¬ 
ration of the Kings, izmo. a. Theyouthful Saviour, in a 
landfcape, accompanied by two angels. 3. The Canaani- 
tilh Woman. 4. A Crucifix, held by a man furrounded 
with allegorical figures. 5. The Holy Family, accompa¬ 
nied by a Magdalen, 4to. 6. Chrift among the DoCtors, 
• 2 2.1120. '7. The Hiltory of the Silk-worm, on lix middling- 
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lized plates, lengthways, from J. Stradnn, entitled Vermis 
Sericus. 8 . A bull of St. Anthony, in an liiltorical bor¬ 
der, after Stradan. 8. The fable of the Man, his Son, 
and his Afs, going to the Fair, in four quarto plates. 
10. Various plates of horfes for a book entitled De la Ca¬ 
va lerie Francaife , 4to. from the fame painter. 
MALLESUN'DRUM, a town of Hindooftan* in My-- 
fore : ten miles eaft of Sankeridurgam. 
MAL'LET, /. [ malleus , Lat.j A wooden hammer.— 
The* velfel foddered up was warily ft ruck with a wooden 
mallet , and thereby coinpreffed. Boyle . 
Their left hand does the calking iron guide, 
The rattling mallet with the right they lift. Dryden. 
The mallet is diftinguifbed from the hammer by being 
made of wood, whereas the hammer is generally headed 
with iron. The mallet is much ufed by artificers who work 
with a chiffel, as fculptors, ntafons, and ftone-cutters, 
whofe mallet is ordinarily round ; and by carpenters, join¬ 
ers, printers, &c. who ufe it fquare. There are feveral forts' 
of mallets ufed for different purpofes on (hip-board. -The 
calking ■mallet is chiefly employed to drive the oakum into' 
the feams of a (hip, where the edges of the planks are 
joined to each other in the fides, deck, or bottom. The 
head of this mallet is long and cylindrical, being hooped 
with iron to prevent it from fplitting in the exercife of 
calking. There is alfo the ferving-mallet, ufed in ferving 
the rigging, by binding the fpun-yarn more firmly about- 
it than could poflibly be done by hand, which is per¬ 
formed in the following manner: the fpun-yarn being pre- 
vioufly rolled up in a large ball or clue, two or three turns' 
of it’are paffed about the rope, and about the body of the 
mallet, which for this purpofe is furniftied with a round 
channel in its furface, that conforms to the convexity of 
the rope intended to be ferved. The turns of the fpun- 
yarn being drained round the mallet, fo as to confine it 
firmly to the rope, which is extended above the deck, one 
man paffes the ball continually about the rope, wliillt the 
other, at the fame time, winds on the fpun-yarn by means 
of the mallet, whofe handle adding as a lever drains every 
turn about the rope as firm as poffible. Falconer. 
MAL'LET (David), a poet and mifcellaneous writer, 
was born about the beginning of the eighteenth century 
in Scotland, and probably in Perthfhire. The name of 
his family, which appears to have been in the inferior 
ranks of life, was Malloch. Of his early education no¬ 
thing further is known than that he received fome part 
of it under Mr. Ker, a profeffor of Aberdeen. In 1720 
he was in the ftation of tutor to the children of a Mr. 
Home near Edinburgh, and at the fame time attended 
leftures in the univerfity of that city. He had already 
exercifed himfelf in' poetical coinpofition ; and a paftoral 
and fome other pieces which he wrote about this period 
brought him into notice among the Scottifh literati. The 
treatment which he met with at Mr. Home’s did not ac¬ 
cord with his expectations ; and, in 1723, he gladly ac- 
cepted the offer of accompanying the two younger fonsof 
the duke of Montrofe to Wincheller. About this time he 
printed in a periodical work his admired ballad of William 
and Margaret; its fuccefs induced him to refume his poe¬ 
tical ftudies, and in 1728 he publifhed The Excurfion. 
He now thought fit to foften his original name of Malloch 
to Mallet , without any other licenfe than his own choice. 
It may be fuppofed that this change was not merely for 
the fake of euphony, but to conceal from common obfer- 
vation his country and origin, although the illiberal alone 
would feel prejudice againlt him on their account; gnd 
accordingly this inftance of folly is noticed by Dr. John- 
fon in his Dictionary under the word Alias. It was pro¬ 
bably at this period that Mallet accompanied his noble 
pupils in the ufual continental tour. His tragedy of Eu- 
rydice, which he had planned foine years before, was firll 
brought upon the ftage in 1731, and favourably received; 
its revival fome years after, however, obtained little fuc¬ 
cefs, and it has disappeared from the theatre. He was now 
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