253 M A N 
As the pearl-fifiiery has been formerly, without due 
confideration, exhaufted by the avarice of the Dutch, it 
is not perhaps at prefent fo productive as it once was. 
However, the revenue which government derives from it 
is (till confiderable, and may by good management be in- 
creafed. Pearls are confidered as the next ftaple of the 
ifiand to cinnamon ; the concourfe of people attracted by 
it affords a facility for difpofing of the other produce ; 
and, by proper management, advantage might be taken of 
the opportunity here offered to introduce Britifh manu¬ 
factures into various parts of India. AJiatic Rcfearches , 
vol. v. 
MANARAN', a fmall ifiand in the fea of Mindoro. 
Lat. 11.20. N. Ion. 120. 51. E. 
MANAR'DI (John), a learned phyfician, was born at 
Ferrara in 1462. After completing his Itudies in the 
learned languages and in medicine, he was appointed me¬ 
dical profeffor in Ferrara, which poll he occupied from 
1482 to 1495. He then redded for fome years with Gian- 
francefco Pico of Mirandola, to whom he was both phy¬ 
fician and preceptor, and whom he aflifted in publifhing 
the work of the celebrated John Pico againft judicial af- 
trology. In 1513, he accepted the invitation of Ladiflaus 
king of Hungary to become his phyfician ; and he remain¬ 
ed in that country two years after the death of that prince. 
He returned to Ferrara in the beginning of 1519, and re¬ 
fumed his functions. At an advanced age he married a 
fecond wife, young and handfome, by which he was fup- 
pefed to have fhortened his days. He died at Ferrara in 
7536, at the age of feventy-four; and a very honourable 
iafcription to his memory was placed on his tomb by his 
widow. Manardi is termed by Haller a femi-arabift and 
femi-galenic, which implies an attachment to ancient 
doftrines modified by modern obfervation. He publiflied 
in 1520 “Epidolarum Medicinalium Libri vi.” afterwards 
augmented to twenty books, and feveral times printed, 
laftly, with the title of “ Curia Medica xx Libris Epitfo- 
larum & Confutationum adumbrata,” Hanov. 1611, folio. 
This is a very mifcellaneous collefiion of remarks upon 
the ancients, with corrections and refutations; and cafes 
and obfervations from his ow n practice ; fome of which 
are valuable, and (how him to have been a real improver 
of his art. He treats of the lues venerea as a new difeafe 
imported from America, and recommends the cure by 
guaiacum in preference to mercury. He alfo publifhed 
“ In primum Artis parvse Galeni Librum Commentarius,” 
1525, quarto. Hatleri Bibl. Med. PraB. 
MA'NAS, a river of Afia, which runs into the Cafpian 
Sea fifteen miles north of Derbend. 
MA'NAS HO'TUN, a town of Thibet: 125 miles 
north-weft of Tourfan. Lat. 44. 58 N. Ion. 86. 44. E. 
MANASQUAN', a river of New Jerfey, which runs 
into the Atlantic in lat. 40. N. Ion. 74. 8. W. 
MANAS'SEII, the elded fon of the patriarch Jofeph, 
and the anceltor of one of the twelve tribes of Ifrael, was 
born in Egypt, of the daughter of Potipherah, pried or 
prince of On, towards the clofe of the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury B.C. He was adopted by Jacob on his death-bed, at 
the fame time with his brother Ephraim ; when the old pa¬ 
triarch decreed that from that day they fhould rank as his 
fons, and be confidered as the heads of two diftinft tribes, 
which fhould be called after their names. In the diftribu- 
tion of the land of Canaan, one half of the tribe of Ma- 
nafTeli had its inheritance afligned on the eaft fide of Jor¬ 
dan, having the Frills of Bafhan and Ilermon on the eaff, 
part of Lebanon on the north, and the tribe of Gad tothe 
fouth. The territory of the other half of this tribe was 
"bounded by the tribe of Iflachar on the north, that of 
Ephraim on the fouth, and by the river Jordan and the 
Mediterranean on the eaft and weft. Gen. xli. xlviii. 
Jo/k. xiil. xvi. 
' 'MANAS'SEH, king of Judah, afcended the throne on 
-the death of his father Hezekiah, about the year 710 B.C. 
^ "when he was only twelve years of age. This prince ap- 
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pears to have been mod unhappy in his companions and 
counfellors; and to have made it his (tudy to become, in 
every pofiible inftance, the reverfe of that virtuous pious 
character of which his father had given him a fliining ex¬ 
ample. Hedifgraced himfelf by the practice of the molt 
abominable vices ; revived that idolatry which it had been 
Heztkiah’s firft care to exterminate, introducing new and 
unheard-of deities and fuperftitious ceremonies; and he 
polluted the temple of God, not only by introducing into 
it the altars and rites of heathen w'orftiip, but by letting 
up an idol even in the molt holy place. For thefe abomi¬ 
nations he was feverely reproved by different prophets, who 
threatened both him and his fubjects, who had too readily 
imitated his wickednefs, with the fame dreadful judgments 
which had been inflicted on their brethren the Ifraelites. 
Their reproofs, however, inltead of producing amendment, 
only excited his rage; and he now added to his other 
vices, tyranny and cruelty. So much innocent blood did 
he caufe to be fhed, not fparing the prophets themfelves, 
that he is reprefented as having filled Jerufulem with it, 
from one end to another. At length, he was Hopped in 
his fanguinary career by the invafion of an Alfyrian army, 
too powerful for him to refill', which plundered and depo¬ 
pulated the country; and, having by an artifice feized his 
perfon, carried him away, in chains, a captive to Babylon. 
In the miferable condition to which he was thus reduced, 
Manafieh became deeply fenfible of the criminality of his 
pad conduct, and fincerely penitent on account of his cru¬ 
elties and impieties. He therefore humbled himfelf before 
God, offering the molt earned prayers for mercy and for- 
givenefs, and entreating that his enemy might be inclined, 
to humanity towards him, and grant him his liberty. 
Thefe prayers were heard, and Manafieh was redored to 
his kingdom; from which time he afiiduoully employed 
himfelf in repairing the mifehiefs which his impiety and 
tyranny had occafioned, and in difeharging the duties of 
a pious and patriotic fovereign. He purified the temple 
from idols, and all the relics of fuperdition ; redored the 
worfhip of the true God in its ancient order and lplen- 
dour; and left no means in his power unattempted, for 
reclaiming his people from idolatry and wickednefs, and 
confirming them in their obedience to the law of Mofes. 
Afterwards he provided for the fafety of his kingdom by 
repairing the fortifications of Jerufalem, and other cities ; 
and, having reigned in peace and happinefs about thirty- 
three years after his return from Babylon, died about the 
year 643, B.C. in the fixty-feventh year of his age, and the 
fifty-fifth of his reign. In the chapter of Chronicles re¬ 
ferred to below, mention is tw-ice made of Manafleh’s 
Prayer; and among the apocryphal books of the Old 
Tedament, may be feen a compolition of that nature, en¬ 
titled, “ The Prayer of Manafieh king of Judah, when he 
was holden Captive in Babylon.” Of the claims of this 
piece to genuinenefs, however, confiderable doubts have 
been entertained. 2 Kings xxi. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 
MANAS'SEH, hufband of Judith, had been dead three 
years when Holofernes’s war began. Manafieh was of 
the tribe of Simeon. He died in the harvelt-field of a 
coup de foleil ; he left all his efiate to his wife Judith, and 
was buried in his own country, Bethulia. Judith viii. 2, 3. 
MANAS'SEH, high-pried of the Jews, fon of John and 
brother of Jaddus. He fucceeded Eliezar, his great uncle, 
and was fucceeded by Onias II. his nephew'. Manafieh 
had married a daughter of Sanballat governor of Samaria. 
The Jews and prielts, dilpleafed at this marriage, (file being 
of another religion,) declared he mud either quit his wife 
or renounce his priedhood. Manafieh withdrew to his 
father-in-law, and told him, that, though he had a great 
affeCtion for his daughter, yet it troubled him that on her 
account he was excluded from the priedhood. Sanballat 
promifed that he would procure him a chief-priedhood, 
and the firlt place in the province; that he would build a 
temple upon Mount Gerizim, like to that of Jerufalem, 
and there he lliould be the firlt high-pried. Manafieh, 
thus 
