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vated in the air, pointing backwards, but mufi have had 
their points thrown out by the fpiral twift on each fide. 
In the elephant, the orbit of the eye is fituated where, in 
the mammoth, there is a large mafs of bone. The cheek 
of the elephant is formed of two bones ; but in the mam¬ 
moth, befides other variations, there is but one bone. The 
whole figure of the under jaw differs confidet'ably, in the 
length of the condyles or arms, which in the mammoth 
is fhort and angular, but in the elephant forms a femicir¬ 
cular line. Mr. R. Peale feems to have no doubt that 
the mammoth was a carnivorous animal, feeding chiefly 
on fhell-fifh ; hut, if the animal, whofe ftomach was lately 
found in digging a well near a fait lake in Wythe county, 
Virginia, w ere really a mammoth, it is clear that this ani¬ 
mal was at lead capable of living on herbage. The con¬ 
tents of this ftomach, which were in a date of perfect pre- 
fervation, confided of half-mafticated reeds, twigs, and 
grafs or leaves. 
Hitherto, it is only in North America that the bones of 
this animal have been found. Similar bones have been 
difcovered in Peru and in Terra Firma ; but they are 
thought by Cuvier to belong to another fpecies of the 
fame genus. The general conclufions are, that the great 
Maftodonton, or mammoth of the Ohio, was in many re- 
l'pe< 5 ls flmilar to the elephant, not furpafling it greatly in 
fize, and being probably furnifhed with a probolcis; that 
the ftrufture of its grinders refer it neverthelefs to a dif¬ 
ferent genus ; -that it probably fed, bike the hippopotamus 
and the bear, on the roots and tougher parts of vegeta¬ 
bles; and that, though, on this account, it mud have fre¬ 
quented marfhy ground, it was not made for fwimming, 
or living in the water, and was truly a land-animal; that 
its bones are mod common in North America, and that 
they are frefher and better preferved than any other foflil 
bones. Further inquiry has enabled Cuvier to reckon, in 
all, five different fpecies of the Maftodonton, fome of 
which have been found on the Old Continent. One fpe¬ 
cies was found by Humboldt in the kingdom of Quito, 
at the height of 1200 toifes. This, we believe, is the 
greateft height at which the foflil bones of quadrupeds 
have ever been difcovered. Edinburgh Rev. for May 1811. 
Phil. Mag. vol. xiv. Nicholfon's Journal, vol. xiii. Monthly 
Mag. vol. xxv. 
MAMOOJOO', a town on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Celebes. Lat. 2. 19.S. Ion. 119.12. E. 
MAMO'RA. See Mahmora, p. 136. 
MAMO'RE. See Madeira River, p.69. 
MA'MOS, a town of South America, in the audience 
of Quito : no miles eaft-north-eaft of Archidona. 
MAMO'SA, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata: nineteen 
miles fouth-weft of Turfi. 
MAM'OTHY, /. A Perfian coin, about the value of 
eightpence. AJh. 
MAMOU'TKAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Caramania: twelve miles fouth-eaft of Erekli. 
MAM'PATA,/! in botany. See Petrocarya. 
MAM'RE, [Heb. rebellious.] The name of an Amo- 
rite, brother of Aner and Efhcol, and friend of Abraham. 
. Gen. xiv. 13. It was with thefe three perfons, together 
with his own and their domeftics, that Abraham purfued 
and overcame the kings after their conqueft of So¬ 
dom and Gomorrah. This Mamie, who dwelt near He¬ 
bron, communicated his name to great part of the coun¬ 
try round about. Hence we read, (Gen. xiii. 18. xxiii. 
17, Sec.) that Abraham dwelt in Mamre, and in the plain 
of Mamre. But it is obferved, that what we tranflate the 
plain fliould be rendered the oak of Mamre, becaufe the 
word elon flgnifies an oak, or tree of a long duration. So- 
zomen tells us, that this tree was ftill extant, and famous 
for pilgrimages and annual feafts, even in Conltan- 
tine’s time ; that it was about fix miles diftant from He¬ 
bron ; that fome of the cottages which Abraham built 
were ftill (landing near it ; and that there was a well like- 
wife of his digging, whereunto both Jews, Chriltians, and 
Heathens, did at certain fealons relort, either out of devo- 
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tion or for trade, becaufe there was held a great mart. 
To thefe fuperftitions Conftantine. the Great put a ftop. 
MAMTRAS'NA, a mountain of Ireland, in the countv 
of Galway : fifteen miles fouth of Caftlebar. 
MA'MUD, an ifland in the Sooloo Archipelago. Lat. 
6. 4.. N-. Ion. iai. 52. E. 
MA'MUL, a town of Walachia: thirty-one miles north- 
eaft of Krajova. 
MA'MUN, a town of Africa in the country of Sugul- 
mefla : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Suguimefla. 
MAMU'RIUS VETU'RIUS, a worker in brafs in Nu- 
ma’s reign. He was ordered by the monarch to make’ a 
number of ancylia, or (liields, like that one which had fallen 
from heaven, that it might be difficult to diftinguiffi the 
true one from the others. He was very fuccefsfui in his 
undertaking; and he afked for no other reward, but that 
his name might be frequently mentioned in the hymns 
which were lung by the Salii in the feaft of the Ancylia. 
This requeft was granted. Ovid. Faji. 
MAMUR'RA, a Roman knight, born at Formiae. He 
followed the fortune of Julius Caefar in Gaul, where he 
greatly enriched himfelf. He built a magnificent palace 
on Mount Ccelius, and was the firft who incrulted his walls 
with marble. Catullus has attacked him in his epigrams. 
Formiae is fometimes called Mamurrarum Urbs. 
MAN,/ [man, mon, Sax.] Human being.—The king 
is but a man as I am; the violet fmells to him as it doth 
to me; the element (hows to him as it doth to me; all 
his fenfes have but human conditions. Shakefpeare. —Not 
a woman: 
I had not fo much of man in me, 
But all my mother came into mine eyes, 
And gave me up to tears. Shakejpeare's Henry V. 
Not a boy: 
The nurfe’s legends are for truth receiv’d, 
And the man dreams but what the boy believ’d. Dryden. 
A fervant; an attendant; a-dependant.—Such gentle¬ 
men as are his majefty’s own fworn fervants fliould be 
preferred to the charge of his majefty’s (hips; choice be¬ 
ing made of men of valour and capacity, rather than to 
employ other men’s men. Raleigh's EJJays. 
My brother’s fervants 
Were then my fellows, now they are my ven. Shakefpeare . 
A word of familiar addrefs, bordering on contempt: 
You may partake of any thing we fay : 
We fpeak no treafon, man. Shakefpeare's Rich. Ill, 
It is ufed in a loofe fignification like the French on, one, 
any one.—This fame young fober-blooded boy doth not 
love me, nor a man cannot make him laugh. Shakefpeare's 
Henry IV.—Our thoughts will not be direfted what ob¬ 
jects to purfue, nor be taken off from thofe they have 
once fixed on; but run away with a man, in purfuit of 
thofe ideas they have in view. Locke.— One of uncommon 
qualifications.—Will reckons he (hould not have been the 
man he is, had not he broke windows and knocked down 
conftables when he was a young fellow. Addfon's SpeBator, 
I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more is' none.—What bead was’t then 
That made you break this enterprife to me ? 
When you durft do it, then you were a man ; 
And, to be more than what you were, you would 
Be fo much more the man. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
Individual.—In matters of equity between man and man, 
our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbour in the 
place of myfelf, and myfelf in the place of my neighbour. 
Watts's Logic. —Not a bead : 
Thy face, bright Centaur, autumn’s heats retain - . 
The fofter fealon fuiting to the man. Creech. 
Wealthy or independent perfon : to this fenfe fome refer 
the following paflage of Shakefpeare, others to the fenfe 
next foregoing.—There would this monfter make a man 3 
any ltrange bead there makes a man. Shakefp. Tanpejl. — 
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