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grounds after which they mult be frequently refrefiied with 
water, and in hot weather the glafles of the hot-bed fhould 
be raifed to let in freth air. In two months the roots of 
the plants will have filled the pots, when you fhould pro¬ 
vide fome pots of little larger fize, into which you Ihould 
tranfplant the plants, being careful to preferve as much 
earth to their roots as polfible; then you Ihould fill up 
the pots with frelh light earth, and plunge them into the 
bark-bed again, obferving to water and ihade them until 
they have taken root, after which they Ihould be con- 
ftantly refrelhed with water as you find they want it, and 
muft have air in hot weather. In this bed they may re¬ 
main till Michaelmas, when they muft be removed into the 
bark-ftove, where they muft be conllantly kept, obferving 
to refrelh them with water, but fparingly at this feafon, as 
alfo to clean their leaves from the filth they are apt to con- 
trad in the ftove. The fpring following they Ihould be 
fhifted into frelh earth, and, if they require it, into larger 
pots ; but by no means over-pot_ them, for they do not 
produce many roots § therefore, if the pots are too large, 
the plants will not thrive. They muft be conllantly kept 
in the bark-ftove ; and may be treated after the maimer di¬ 
rected for the coffee-tree. If, when the Hones of the fruit 
are brought over, they are put into the tan-bed, under the 
bottom of any of the pots, they will fprout fooner than 
thofe which are planted in the earth. 
MAMME'A SAPO'TA. See Achras. 
M AM'MEATED, adj. Having paps ; having breads. 
Bailey. 
MAMMEE BA'Y, a bay on the north coall of the 
ifland of Jamaica. Lat. iS. 58. N. Ion. 77. W. 
MAMMEE'-TREE, f. See Mammea. —The mammee- 
tree hath a rofaceous flower, which afterwards becomes an 
almoft-fpherical flelhy fruit, containing two or three feeds 
inclofed in hard rough (hells. Miller. 
To MAM'MER, v. n. To hefitate : 
I wonder in my foul 
What you could alk me, that I Ihould deny, 
Or Hand fo mammering on. Shakefpeare'$ Othello. 
MAM'MET,/. [from mam, or mamma.] A puppet, a 
figure dreffed up. Hanmer. 
Kate, this is no world 
To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips. Shakefpeare. 
MAM'MIFORM, adj. [mamma and forma , Lat,] Hav¬ 
ing the (hape of paps or dugs. 
MAMMILLA,/. A little bread 5 a little nipple. 
M AMM ILLA'RES, f. in anatomy, two little protu¬ 
berances like nipples found in the ventricle of the brain, 
and fuppofed to be the organs of fmelling. 
MAM'MILLARY, adj. Belonging to the paps or dugs. 
MAM'MOCK, /. A large Ihapelefs piece.—-The ice 
•was broken into large mammocks. James's Voyage. 
To MAM'MOCK, v. a. To tear ; to break; to poll to 
pieces.—I law him run after a gilded butterfly 5 and he 
did fo fet his teeth, and did tear it! Oh, I warrant, how 
h« mammockt it ! Shakcfpeare's Coriolanus. 
MAM'MOCKING, f The aft of breaking into con- 
fufed pieces. 
MAM'MON, the god of riches, according to fome au¬ 
thors; though others deny that the word Hands for fuch 
a deity, and underhand by it only riches themfelves. 
Our Saviour fays. Ye cannot ferve God and Mammon 5 that is, 
be religious and worldly-minded at the fame time. Our 
poet Milton, by poetic licenfe, makes Mammon one of the 
fallen angels, and gives us his character in the following 
lines s 
Mammon, the lenft-erefted fpirit that fell 
From heav’n ; for ev.’n in heav’n his looks and thoughts 
Were always downward bent; admiring more 
The riches of heav’n’s pavement, trodden gold, 
Than ought divine or holy elfe enjoy’d 
In beatific vifion ; by him firft 
M A M ISO 
Man alfo, and by his fuggeftion taught, 
Ranfack’d the centre, and with impious hands 
Rifled the bowels of their mother earth, 
For treafures better hid. Soon had his crew 
Open’d into the hill a fpacious wound. 
And digg’d out ribs of gold. Let none admire 
That riches grow in hell 5 that foil may bed 
Deferve the precious bane. Paradife Lojl. 
MAM'MON 1 ST, f. One wliofe heart is fet on worldly 
wealth. 
MAMMOO'DA, f. An Indian coin the value of one 
(hilling. AJh. 
MAMMO'SA, in heathen mythology, one of the names 
of Ceres ; one of the names of Fortune. 
MAM'MOTH, or Mam'mut, /. The name of a huge 
animal, now unknown, to which are faid to have belonged 
thofe tulks, bones, and Ikeletons, of valt magnitude, which 
have been frequently found in different parts of Siberia, as 
well in the mountains as the valleys; likewife in Ruffia, 
in Germany, and in North America. Many fpecimens of 
them may be leen in the Imperial Cabinet at Peterlburgh : 
in the Britilh Mufeum, and in that of the Royal Society. 
A defcription of the mammoth is given by Muller in the 
Recueil des Voyages au Nord: “ This animal, he fays, is four 
or five yards high, and about thirty feet long. His colour 
is greyilh. His head is very long, and his front very broad. 
On each fide, precifely under the eyes, there are two horns, 
which he can move and crofs at pleafure. In walking he 
has the power of extending and contrafting his body to a 
great degree.” Ilbrandes Ides gives a fimilar account; 
but he is candid enough to acknowledge, that he never knew 
any perfon who had fcen the mammoth alive. Mr. Pennant, 
however, thinks it “ more than probable that it ftill exifts 
in fome of thofe remote parts of the vail new continent, 
impenetrated yet by Europeans. Providence (he adds) 
maintains and continues- every created fpecies ; and vve 
have as much alfuran.ee, that no race of animals will any 
more ceafe while the earth remaineth, than feed-lime and’ 
harvcjl, cold and heat,/winner and winter, day and night." 
It is curious to obferve how different an invpreifion the 
fame natural appearances have made on the human mind 
in different Hates of its improvement. A phenomenon 
which,, in one age, lias excited the greatell terror, has, in 
another, been an objeft of calm and deliberate obferva- 
tion ; and the things which have at one time led to the 
moll extravagant fiftion, have, at. another, only ferved to 
define the boundaries of knowledge. The fame comet 
which, from the age of Julius C as far, had three times fpread 
terror and difmay through the nations of the earth, ap¬ 
peared a fourth time, in the age of Newton, to inftruet 
mankind, and to exemplify the univerfality of the laws 
which that great interpreter of nature had difeovered. 
The fame folfil remains, which, to St. Auguftine or Kir- 
cher,Teemed to prove the former exiftence of giants of 
the human fpecies, were found,, by Pallas and Cuvier, to. 
afeertain. the nature and character of certain genera and 
fpecies of quadrupeds which have now entirely difap- 
peared. From a very early period, indeed, fuch bones 
have afforded a meafure of the credulity, not of the vul¬ 
gar only, but of the philofophersv Theophraflus, one of 
the ancients who had mod devoted bimfelf to the Ifudy of 
nature, believed, as Pliny tells us, that bones were a 
fort of mineral production that originated and grew in the 
earth. St. Auguftine fays, that, he found, on the fea-lhore 
near Utica, a foffil human tooth, which was a hundred 
times the fize of the tootli of any perfon living. Pliny 
fays, that, by an earthquake in Crete, a part of a moun¬ 
tain was opened, which difeovered a Ikeleton lixteen cu¬ 
bits, or twenty-four feet, long, fuppofed to be that of 
Orion. At a much later period, Kircher tells us of a ike- 
leton dug up near Rome, which, by an infeription at¬ 
tached to it, was known to be that of Pallas, (Ham by Tur- 
nus,) and was higher, than the walls of the city. The 
fame author tells us, that another Ikeleton.was found near 
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