thus flattered, remained with his father-in-law; and many 
other Ifraelites, engaged in fimilar marriages, fettled with 
him ; and Sanbaliat gave them houfes and lands. When 
Alexander the Great came into Syria, and befieged Tyre, 
Sanbaliat afliftcd him with eight thoufand men, and fub- 
mitted to him the whole province of Samaria. He ob¬ 
tained a permillion from Alexander, to build a temple on 
Mount Gerizim; and gave the chief-priefthood of it, as 
he had promifed, to his fon Manalfeh. The fame God 
•was worfhipped in this temple as in that of Jerufalem ; and 
many who frequented it were Jews as well as Manafl'eh. 
But this temple was held in deteftation by the priefts and 
Jews of Jerufalem, who regarded thofe that worfhipped 
there as fcifmatics; yet we read in Jofephtis, that Ma- 
nafieh, after the death of his great-uncle Eleazar, fucceeded 
to the high-priefthood at Jerufalem. Jofcph. Antiq. lib. xi. 
cap, 7, 8. xii. cap. 3. Jofepbus does not acquaint us how 
this was brought about ; and indeed his account appears 
confufed and contradictory. Nehemiah, xii. 28. mentions 
Sanbaliat the Heronite, who had given his daughter in 
marriage to a fon of the high prieft Jehoiada, fon of Elia- 
fhib ; and acquaints us that Nehemiah was obliged to 
drive away from Jerufalem this fon-in-law of Sanbaliat, 
becaufe he bad taken a ftrange woman to wife. It does 
not mention his name, or what became of him ; but Jofe¬ 
pbus, Antiq. lib. xi. cap. 7, 8, calls him Manafl'es, and af- 
fures us, that he withdrew to his father-in-law at Samaria, 
under the reign of Darius Codomannus the la It king of 
Perfia. Here is a manifeft anachronifm. Nehemiah could 
not have lived under Darius Codomannus. He came fe- 
cond time into Judaea, A.M. 3555, under Artaxerxes Lon- 
gimanus, and (lied A.M. 3580. Darius Codomannus did 
not come to the throne till about A. M. 3670. Some 
learned men have been of opinion, that we mult admit of 
two Sanballats and two Mannfl'ehs, of which the firft lived 
under Nehemiah, and the other under Darius Codomannus. 
Others have thought that Jofepbus has perplexed this hif- 
tory by confounding the years, and referring fails to the 
time of Alexander the Great and the lall Darius which 
happened long before under Nehemiah. Dr. Prideaux is 
of this opinion, (Conned, vol. iii. book 6.) He main¬ 
tains that Jofepbus has confounded the high-prieft Joiada 
with his grandfon Jaddus; and that his hiftory ought to 
be corrected by that of Nehemiah. On this footing, all'o, 
it mult be allowed that Manafl'eh the high-prieft who fuc¬ 
ceeded Eleazar was a different perfon from the fon-in-law 
of Sanbaliat, whofe name Nehemiah does not mention. 
Manafl'eh is allowed a pontificate of twenty-fix years, from 
A. M. 3745 to 3771, ante A.D. 233. Calmet’s DiEl. of the 
Bible. 
MANAS'SITE, f. A defcendant of Manafl'eh. 
MANASWA'RY, a fmall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 
at the entrance into Dory Harbour, near the north coaft 
of New Guinea. Here Capt. Foreft found the true nut¬ 
meg-tree, in the year 1775. 
MANATAW'NY CREE'K, a river of Pennfylvania, 
which runs into the Schuylkill in lat. 40. 15.N. Ion. 75. 
40. W. 
MAN'ATE, a river of Honduras, which runs into the 
bay in lat. 15. 45. N. Ion. 88. 22. W. 
MAN'ATE LAGOO'N, a bay on the coalt of Yucatan. 
Lat. 18. 22. N. Ion. 89.18. W. 
MANATEE' BAY, a bay on the fouth coaft of Jamaica. 
Lat. 17.51. N. Ion. 76.45. W. 
MANATEN'GHA, a river of Madagafcar, which runs 
into the fea on the ealt coaft in lat. 23. 30. S. 
MAN'ATI, a town of the ifland of Cuba, in a bay on 
the north coaft. Lat. 21.32. N. Ion. 76. 20. W. 
MAN'ATI, or Sea-Cow. See Trxchecus manatus. 
MAN'ATI LA'PIS, a name given to a bone, of which 
there are two found in the head of the manati, or fea-cow ; 
they are roundifh, and are ufually of the fize of a hand¬ 
bell. They are faid to have great virtues againft the ftone 
and gravel, when burnt to allies, and given in white wine. 
The world need not, however, regret the fcarcity of this 
remedy; forprobably any animal-bone, when burnt toafhes 
is pofleffed of all its virtues. J 
MANA'TION, /. Imanatio , Lat.] The aft of iffuing 
from fomething elfe. ** 
MANATIR'SKA, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Itktitfk, on the Itchora : eighty-four miles north- 
north-eaft of Kirenfk. Lat. 58. 45. N. Ion. 109.44. E. 
MANATOU'LIN, a chain of illands in Lake Huron 
which extends ninety miles in length, about fix in breadth.’ 
This word, in the Indian language, fays Carver, fignifies 
“the place of fpiritsand the ifland is elteemed by the 
Indians facred. Lat. 45. 20. to 45. 49. W. Ion. 81. 50. to 
84. W. 
MAN AZER'UDAM, adiftriCtor provinceofTurkeftan 
north of Fergana. 
MAN'BAGE, a town on the fouth coaft of the ifland of 
Sibu. Lat. 10. 10. N. Ion. 323. 38. E. 
MAN'BED, a town of Perfia, in the province of Iraki- 
174 miles ealt-fouth-eaft of Ifpahan. 
MANBO'NA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Sabia, of which it is the capital, fituated on the fea-coaft 
at the entrance of the channel of Mofambique: thirty 
miles fouth of Sofala. Lat. 20. 45. S. 1 
MANBOO'M, a town of Bengal: fifty-four miles north- 
weft of Midnapour. Lat. 23. 6. N. Ion. 87. 28.E. 
MANC, a town of Grand Bukharia: fifty "miles weft 
of Badakfhan. 
MAN'CA, a town of America, in Weft Florida, on the 
ealt bank of the Mifliflippi, at the mouth of Hona-chitto 
river. 
MAN'CA, f. An Anglo-Saxon fquare gold coin, in 
value fix (hillings, (Hen. I. c. 69.) but fometimes con¬ 
founded with the manats, ox mane fa, which was equal in 
value to our half-crown ; for Du Cange fays, that twenty 
mancse make fifty (hillings. Manca and mancufa are pro- 
mifcuoufly ufed in old books for the fame coin. See 
Mancus. 
MANCAENBLAN'CA, a town of the ifland of Borneo: 
thirty miles north of Negara. 
MAN'jANA'RES. See Manzanar.es, 
MANCANIL'LA, Mancinella, or Manchineel. 
See Hippomane. 
MANCENIL'LA BAY, a bay on the north coaft of 
the ifland of St. Domingo: thirty-two miles eaft of Cape 
Francois. ^ 
MAN'CEPS, f. in Roman antiquity, a farmer of the 
public revenues; one who fold an eftate with a promite 
of keeping the purchaler harmlefs; one that bouo-ht an 
eftate by outcry ; one who undertook a piece of work on 
giving fecurity for the performance. AJh. 
MAN'CESTER, a village of England, in the county 
of Warwick, luppofed to be the remains of an ancient 
city called Manduejjtdum. Many Roman antiquities have 
been difeovered near Atherftone, to which it is the mo¬ 
ther-church. 
MAN'CHA (La), a province of Spain, in New Caftile 
bounded on the north by the province of Toledo, on the 
eaft by Murcia and Valencia, on the fouth by Cordova 
and Jagn, and on the weft by Eftramadura. It is forf'- 
three leagues long, and thirty-three broad; and divided 
into Upper and Lower. The capital of the former is 
Ciudad Real, and that of the latter Oceana. 
The foil is in general dry and dulty; and the country 
abounds in plains of confiderable extent, but they are 
walte and almolt wholly without trees;’ The rivers that 
water it are little more than rivulets. A great part of the 
province is furrounded by mountains, forming part of the 
chain beginning in Sierra d’Occa, called by “the ancients 
Montes Orofpadani. The molt confiderable of thefe moun¬ 
tains is the Sierra d’Alcarrez, extending from north to 
fouth, towards the fouthern and ealtern parts of the king¬ 
dom of Jaen. In La Mancha alfo, near Alcarrez/and at 
the fide of the Sierra of that name, begins the famous Sierra 
Morena, or the Montes Mariani of the Romans. They con 4 
tinueto the kingdom of Cordova; a ridge foreads into 
