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MANDAWEE' I'SLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands 
in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near the fouth coaft of Borneo. 
Lat. 3.20. S. Ion. 113. 30. E. 
MANDA'YA, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Celebes. Lat. 2. 33. S. Ion. 119. 9. E. 
MANDE' (St.), a finall ifland in the Englifti channel, 
near the coaft of France. Lat. 48.51. N. Ion. a. 59. W. 
MANDEGE'LE, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, near 
the eaft coaft : eighty-eight miles eaft-louth-eaft of Candy. 
MAN'DEL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lys : fix miles fouth of Courtray. 
MAN'DEL, a town of France, which runs into the 
Lys three miles above Deinfe. 
MANDELGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Meywar: fourteen miles north of Cheetore. 
MANDELI'QUE, or Duivelsklip, i. e. Devil's Rock ; 
a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, of height to be 
feen five or fix leagues off, fituated about half a league 
from the north coaft of Java; the paffage between has 
three and a half or four fathoms water, but it is too nar¬ 
row to be fafe. 
MANDEL'LI, a town of Abyflinia: 150 miles eaft of 
Gondar. 
MANDEL'LO, a town of Italy : five miles north- 
■north-weft of Lecco. 
MANDEL'SLG (John-Albert), a native of Mecklen¬ 
burg, was page to the duke of Holftein, and accompani¬ 
ed, as gentleman of the chamber, the ambaffadors whom 
that duke fent toMufcovy and Perfia in 1636. From the 
court of Perfia he went Ormuz, and there embarked for 
the Indies, according to a permiflion obtained from his 
fovereign before his departure. On his return he drew 
up a Journal of his Voyages, beginning in January 1638, 
and terminating in May 1640. It is printed in the fe- 
cond volume of the Travels of Olearius, fecretary to the 
embaffy, and is held in efteem. 
MANDE'O, a river of Spain, in Galicia, which runs 
into the tea near Betangos. 
MAN'DERA, a town of Africa : 120 miles north-eaft 
Senaar. Lat 14. 45. N. Ion. 35. 10. E. 
MAN'DERSHEID F, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment ol the Sarre, late in the electorate of Treves. It 
gave title ot Count to the houfe of Blankenheim: twenty- 
one miles north-north-eaft of Treves. Lat. 50. 15. N. 
ion.6. 50. E. 
MAN'DERY, a town of Hindooftan, in Dowlatabad : 
ten miles weft-north-weft of Ranapour. 
MAN'DEVILE (Sir John), a celebrated early traveller, 
was born at St. Alban’s about the beginning of the four¬ 
teenth century. He was of a good family, and was bred 
to phyfic, which he probably practiied torlome time 5 but 
an ardent defire of vifitingthe dilfant countries of which 
he had read induced him, in 1332, to fet out upon a 
courfe of travels, in which he is faid to have fpent thirty- 
four years. During this period he extended his peregri¬ 
nations through the greatelt part of Afia, Egypt, and Li¬ 
bya, making himfelf malter of many languages, and col¬ 
lecting a great mafs of information, true or fabulous, 
which he committed to writing in Latin, French, and 
Englifii. He at length died at Liege in 1372, where a mo¬ 
nument exilts to his memory. He is there called John de 
Mandevil, alias de Barba, lord of Cainpoli. Extracts 
from his travels are found in various collections; but the 
only genuine edition, entitled “The Voiageand Travaile 
of Sir John Mandevile, Knight,” was printed from an ori¬ 
ginal manufcript in the Cotton library, 1727, 8vo. The 
character of fir John for veracity has been very differently 
Tegarded by different perlons. In general he paffes for a 
mere fabler, and indeed his many marvellous and abfurd 
tales feem to entitle him to no other appellation ; but fome 
have endeavoured to make a diftinftion between what he 
picked up from reading and report, and what he himfelf 
obferved, and have been willing to give him credit for 
nioft of the latter. It is certain, however, that his narra¬ 
tives were much efteemed in his own age, and rendered 
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him famous throughout Europe; and he has many re¬ 
marks which Ihow talents, and an acquaintance with fci- 
ence. Gen. Biog. 
MAN'DEVILLE (Bernard de), a writer of temporary 
fame, was born about 1670 in Holland, where he was 
brought up to phyfic, in which he took the degree of 
doCtor. Whether he was of Englifti extraction does not 
appear; but he fixed his refidence in this country, and 
wrote his books in its language. His firlt publication 
was the Virgin unmalked ; or, a Dialogue upon Love, 
Marriage, See. 1709; which is not prailed for its moral 
tendency. In 1711 he publilhed a work in his own pro- 
feffion, entitled A Treatife on the Hypochondriac and 
Hyfteric Paflions, vulgarly called the Hyppo in Men and 
the Vapours in Women ; oCtavo. This is a much more 
entertaining performance than medical works ufuallyare, 
containing many ftirewd and farcaltic remarks, and dis¬ 
playing much knowledge of the world, and no mean ac¬ 
quaintance with medicine. From the fatirical ftrokes 
upon the modern practice of phyficians and apothecaries, 
it may be gathered that he had not much intereft with the 
faculty ; and indeed he fee ms never to have enjoyed any 
confiderable fnare of profeffional enployment. A poem 
which he printed in 1714, entitled, The Grumbling Hive, 
or Knaves turned honelt, was the ground-work of the 
publication by which he is beft known, which appeared 
in 1723 under the title of “The Fable of the Bees ; or. 
Private Vices made Public Benefits ; with an Effay on 
Charity and Charity Schools, and a Search into the Nature 
of Society ;” oCtavo. The foundation of the reafoning in 
this piece is the fophifm, that every thing which has been 
called luxury or Superfluity in the advanced ltages of fo- 
ciety is vice; whence is deduced the prevalence of vici¬ 
ous principles in human nature, and the inftrumentality 
of vice in producing the apparent profperity of ftates. 
His general views of mankind are of the molt difparag- 
ing and degrading kind; and, from his idea of the lower 
dalles, he declares againft all attempts to enlighten or 
raife them by education. The tendency of this work was 
thought to be fo immoral, that it was prefented by the 
grand jury of Middlefex (a favourite mode at that time 
of refuting obnoxious books), and raifed a fwarm of an- 
fwers of different perluafions and principles. To fome 
of thele he replied, defending himfelf from the immoral 
inferences drawn from his work. One of his -anfwers was 
to Bp. Berkeley, who had animadverted upon him in his 
Alciphron, or Minute Philosopher. Mandeville, in the 
fame year, 1732, pubiifhed A Letter to Dion, occalioned 
by his Book called Alciphron ; in which he has pointed 
out Some inifreprefentations and falfe reafonings of his 
adverfary. The Fable of the Bees is now Scarcely read, 
and is only remembered as a work of bad repute. The 
author had before publilhed, in 1720, Free Thoughts on 
Religion, by which he incurred the Suspicion of de iSm. 
In 1732 he pubiifhed An Enquiry into the O.igin of Ho¬ 
nour, and UTefulnefs of Chriltianity in War. He died 
in 1733. New Biogr. DiEl. Mandeville's Works. 
MANDEU'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Upper Rhine, anciently capital of the Mandubiis 
five miles of Montbeliard. 
MANDEWAR', a town of Hindooftan, in Ba-har : 
aiirty-tuo miles South-South-welt of Arrah. 
MAN'DIBLE,/. [ mandibula , Lat.] The jaw; the in- 
ftrmnent of inanducation.—He faith, only the crocodile 
moveth the upper jaw, as if the upper mandible did make 
an articulation with the cranium. Grew. 
MANDI'BULAR, adj. Belonging to the jaw. 
MAN'DIL, or Man'dril, f. The name of a kind of 
cap or turban worn by the Perfians. It is formed by firlt. 
wrapping round the head a piece of fine white linen five 
or fix ells long; over this they wrap, in the fame manner, 
a piece of Silk of the fame length, and oftentimes of great 
value. Care is taken, that, in wrapping the Silk, it be So 
managed, as that the Several colours in the Several folds 
make a kind of waves, Somewhat like what we See on mar- 
hied; 
