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minutely fcaly. The lower pinnules are lobed, the up* 
per ones entire; the terminating one elongated, acumi* 
nate, ferrate-lobed. Capfules folitary, placed on the par¬ 
tial veins beyond the middle, before they open roundith 
or oval, the fize of poppy feeds, even, with a longitudi¬ 
nal cleft above, which afterwards gapes, and difcovers a 
double row of little holes, above five on each fide, com¬ 
municating with the cells of the capfule. Finally the 
rim of the capfule becomes cloven and fublobed. Native 
of Jamaica, where this fern has been remarked by Roger 
Shakefpeare, Everard Home, and Olaus Swartz. 
2. Marattia lsevis, or fmooth-ftalked marattia : rachifes 
even, the partial ones winged; leaflets bluntly ferrate at 
top, the uppermod confluent. Frond fubtripinnate, with 
the lower pinnas alternate. Rachis roundith. Partial 
rachifes flatted, winged above; wings the fubttanceof the 
leaflets, veinlefs, quite entire, contracted at the infertion 
of the leaflets, towards the top of the pinna much wider 
than in M. alata. Native of St. Domingo, where it was 
found by Thierry. 
3. Marattia fraxinea, or afli-leaved marattia: rachifes 
even. Ample; leaflets lanceolate, ferrate, all diftinct. 
This is a very large fern, with a handfome leaf like that 
of the aflt. Frond unequally bipinnate, with the pinnas 
alternate. Rachis half-round, channelled, fmooth ; par¬ 
tial rachis with little or no membranous wing towards the 
top. Pinnules alternate, fcarcely petioled, lanceolate, 
acuminate, ferrate, even, uniform, gradually fmalier to¬ 
wards the bafe of the pinna. Partial veins numerous, 
Ample and divided alternately, fpreading, ending in the 
tips of the ferratures. Capfules towards the edges of the 
pinnules, folitary, placed on the veins ; before they open 
oval, the fize of the feeds of Lepidium fativum, even ; 
w hen thefe fplit open longitudinally, about fix little holes 
appear on each fide. Native of the ifland of Mauritius ; 
difcovered by Thouin. Smith. Plant. Ic. t. 46-48. 
4. Marattia fcrbifolia, or fervice-leaved marattia : frond 
doubly pinnate; branches alternate, leaflets linear-lanceo¬ 
late. Native of the ifle of Bourbon. 
5. Marattia oppofitifolia, or oppofite-leaved marattia: 
leaflets oppofite, linear-lanceolate, fharply ferrated. Na¬ 
tive country unknown. 
6. Marattia falicina, or willow-leaved marattia : frond 
Amply pinnate ; ftalk fmooth, Ample ; leaflets alternate, 
ftalked, linear, very (lightly crenate, with ferrated points. 
Native of New South Wales. The ftalk is two feet long, 
fmooth, Ample, and even, fomewhat quadrangular, very 
firm and ftrong. Leaflets numerous (about 40), on fhort 
(talks, alternate, fpreading, linear, (harp-pointed, four or 
five inches long and half an inch broad ; fmooth and of 
a fine green above; rather paler, and having capillary 
fcales on the lower part of the rib, beneath. The cap¬ 
fules are exceflively numerous, forming a clofe row, along 
each edge of the leaflet, every vein bearing one, fo that 
there are near 100 in every row. They are larger than 
in any other known fpecies, and have nearly a double 
number of cells, whofe orifices are linear, and crowded 
clofe together. When we confider the poffible rate of in- 
creafe in fuch a plant as this by feed, it is as (lupendous 
as that of the ling-fifh, whofe progeny, if uninterrupted, 
would, according to the calculation of Linnams, in twenty 
years fill the whole ocean. Here are perhaps 8000 cap¬ 
fules, each having about 20 cells, which makes 160,000, 
and we can hardly conceive the quantity of minute feeds 
in each cell; at lead it is impoflible to count them with 
any degree of exaftnefs. The number of feeds however 
in fome ferns is probably much greater. 
MARATTOU'R, a town of Hindoolian, in the circar 
of Guntoor : twenty-eight miles north of Mootapilly. 
MARATU'BA, an ifland in the Eaftern Indian fea, 
about twenty-four miles in length from north to fouth : 
towards the northern part, the breadth is about twelve 
miles from ealt to welt, about one-third of its length ; the 
remainder, towards the fouth, is hardly four. It is the 
largelt of a group to which it gives name ; Kakkabban is 
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the next in fize; the red are very final]. Lat. 2. 14. N. 
Ion. 118.30.E. 
MARAU'A, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : fixteen miles north-north-ead of Hoduida. 
MARAU'DER, f. [French.] A loldier that roves in 
queft of plunder. 
MARAU'DING, f. The aft of a party of foldiers, who, 
without any order, go into the neighbouring houfes and 
villages, when the army is either in camp or garrifon, to 
plunder and dedroy, &c. Marauders are a difgrace to 
the camp and to the military profeflion, and deierve no 
better quarter from their officers than they give to poor 
peafants, &c. 
MARAVE'DI, f. A little Spanifh copper coin, worth 
fomewhat more than a French denier, or half a farthing 
Englifli. The word is Arabic, and took its rife from the 
Almoravidcs, a dynafty of Moors, who, paflingout of Africa 
into Spain, impofed their own name on this coin, which 
by corruption was afterwards changed into maravedi. 
Mention is made of it in the decretals, as well as in other 
Latin writers, under the name of marabitini. 
The Spaniards count by maravedis, both in commerce 
and in their finances, though the coin itfelf is no longer 
current among them. The fmallnefs of the coin produces 
vad numbers in the Spanifh accounts and calculation ; 
infomuch that a dranger or correfpondent would think 
liimfelf indebted feveral millions for a commodity that 
cod but a few pounds. In the laws of Spain, we meet 
feveral kinds of maravedis; Alphonfine maravedis, white 
maravedis, maravedis of good money, maravedis Combre- 
nos, black maravedis, and old maravedis. When we find 
maravedis alone, and without any addition, it is to be un- 
derdood of thole mentioned above. The red are different 
in value, finenefs of metal, tirne,&c. Mariana aflerts, that 
this coin is older than the Moors; that it came from the 
Goths ; that it was anciently equal to a third part of the 
real, and confequently of twelve times the value of the 
prefent maravedi. Under Alphonfus XI. the maravedi 
was (eventeen times, under Henry II. ten times, under 
Henry III. five times, and under John II. two times and 
a half, the value of the prefent maravedi. 
MAR A'VI, a country of Africa, with a city of the fiune 
name, built on the fouth fide of the lake, about 250 miles 
from the Indian fea. Lat. 13. 15. S. 
MARA'VI, a lake of Africa, known to extend 300 
miles in length, and probably much more; the breadth is 
about thirty miles. Lat. 8. to 13.S. 
MARAU'TSCH, a town of Upper Carniola: eleven 
miles ealt of Stein. 
MARAUZGUIR', a town of Hindooflan, in Myfore : 
thirty miles eall-fouth-eaft of OufToon. 
MARAWA', a town on the ead coad of the ifland of 
Banca. Lat. 2. 15.S. 
MARAWA'R, a country of Hindoodan, bordering on 
the coad oppofite Ceylon ; about fixty miles in length, 
and forty in breadth. In 1773, this country was con¬ 
quered by the Britiflt under Gen. Jofeph Smith, and the 
rajah killed. It is covered with thick foreds, and little 
cultivated. When the empire of Hindoodan was in a 
flourifhing date, Marawar yielded an annual revenue of 
five crores of rupees. 
MARAWIL', a town of the ifland of Ceylon, on the 
wed coad: fourteen miles north of Negombo. 
MARAYAN', a town ofHindooftan, in Bahar: twenty- 
five miles ead of Bahar. 
MAR'AYET BA / Y, a bay on the wed coad of the 
ifland of Lu^on. Lat. 14. 37. N. Ion. 120. 21. E. 
MARA'ZION, Merazion, or Market Jew, a mar¬ 
ket-town in the county of Cornwall, fituated on the fide 
and at the bottom of a hill, near an arm of the fea, called 
Mount’s Bay. It derived its principal fupport, if not its 
origin, from the refort of pilgrims, and other devotees, to 
a neighbouring facred edifice on St. Michael’s Mount; 
but, that attraction being countera&ed by the changes of 
opinion which commenced at the Reformation, and the 
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