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, nafton chapel, that Rood in its way, together with caufe- 
ways, trees, and houfes ; but carried the trees that grew 
on it along with it, together with the fheep-folds, and 
flock of (heep grazing on it. 
MARCLIS'SA, a town of Lufalia, near the confines 
of Silefia: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Gorlitz. 
MAR'CO, a village of the Tyrolefe, where are ftrong 
defiles, forced by the French on the 4th of September, 
1796 : four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Roveredo. 
MAR'CO (St.), a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto : five miles north of Leece.—A town of Naples, 
in Principato Citra : twelve miles north-north-eaft of Be- 
nevento.—A town of Naples, in Capitanata: eight miles 
north of Monte St. Angelo.—A town of Naples, in Ca¬ 
labria Citra, the fee of a bifliop, eight miles welt-north- 
welt of Rilignano.—A town of Spain, in Galicia : thirty 
miles north-north-welt of Mondonedo.—A town of New 
Navarre : forty-five miles fouth-eaft of Cafa Grande.— 
A town of Italy, in Friuli: nine miles weft of Udina.— 
A town of Sicily, in the valley of Demona: fifteen miles 
weft of Patti.—A fmall illand near the coaft of Iftria. 
Lat. 44. 4. N. Ion. 13. 53. E.—A river of eaft Florida 
■which runs into the Atlantic in lat. 30. 3. N. Ion. 81. 
40. W. 
MARCO'ING, a town of France, in the department 
of the North, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Cambray. The place contains 1175, and the canton 
.14,957, inhabitants, in twenty communes. 
MAR'CO PO'LO. See Polo. 
MARCOMAN'NI, an ancient people of German}', 
who feem to have taken their name from their fituation 
on the borders, or marches, to the eaft of the Higher 
Rhine, and to the north of the Danube. Cluverius al¬ 
lots to them the duchy of Wurtemberg, a part of the 
palatinate between the Rhine and the Necker, the Brif- 
gau, and a part of Suabia, lying between the fprings of 
the Danube and the river Bregentz; they afterwards re¬ 
moved to the country of the Boii, whom they expelled 
and forced to withdraw more to the eaft, occupying what 
is now called Bohemia. 
MARCO'SIANS, or Colobar/sians, an ancient feft 
in the church, making a branch of the Valentinians. St. 
Irenasus fpeaks at large of the leader of this feft, Marcus, 
who it feems was reputed a great magician. The Mar- 
cofians had a great number of apocryphal books, which 
they held for canonical, and of the fame authority with 
ours. Out of thefe they picked feveral idle fables touch¬ 
ing the infancy of Jefus Chrift, which they put off for 
true hiftories. Many of thefe fables are ftill in ufe and 
credit among the Greek monks. 
MARCOT'TES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Cantal: ten miles fouth of Aurillac, and thirteen 
fouth-weft of Mur de Barres. 
MARCOT'ZI, a town of Sclavonia s twenty miles 
north-eaft of Kralovavelika. 
MARCOU'F (St.), two rocky iftands in the Englilh 
Channel, near the coaft of France, about nine miles 
fouth-eaft of La Hogue. The furface of each ifland, which 
is eighteen or twenty feet above the furface of the fea at 
high water, comprifes about an acre. They were taken 
polfeifion of in 1795, by fir Sidney Smith ; and, in the fol¬ 
lowing year, block-houfes, with detachments of marines, 
invalids, and twelve artillery men, were ordered out by 
p-overnment. In theyear 1798, the French dilpatched avery 
numerous body of troops on-board fifty-two gun-veflels, 
in order to recover thefe iftands; but, after having made 
a vigorous attack, they were compelled to retreat to La 
Hogue, with the lofs of 1100 killed, drowned, and wound¬ 
ed ; but on the fide of the Britifh only one killed, and 
two wounded. Lat. 49. 31. N. Ion. 1.4. W. 
MAR'COUR,_/i [ marcor , Lat.] Leannefs; the ftate of 
withering; walte of flefti.—Confidering the exolution and 
languor enfuing the attion of venery in fome, the exte¬ 
nuation and marcour in others, it much abridgeth our 
day:. Brown’s Vulgar Errors.—A marcour is either imper- 
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feft, tending to a lefter withering, which is curable 5 or 
perfeft, that is, an entire wafting of the body, excluding 
all means of cure. Harvey. 
MARCOU'SSIS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Seine and Oife: fifteen miles fouth of Paris. 
MAR'CULF, a monk, known by his coiieftion of 
“Formules,” is fuppofed to have lived in the feventh 
century, in the diocefe of Landry, bilhop of Paris. Others 
have fuppofed that the biftiop Landry to whom he dedi¬ 
cates his work was of Meaux, in the eighth century. 
The “ Formulary” of Marculf is divided into two books 
the firft containing royal charters, called by him Pracep- 
tiones regales ; the fecond, afts between individuals, called 
Chart# pagenfes. This coiieftion is very ufeful to thole 
who Itudy the hiftory of the early periods of modern Eu¬ 
rope. It was firft publilhed by the learned Jerome Big- 
non in 1613, illuftrated with notes ; and in the fame year, 
by Lindenbrog, in his Code of Laws. A fecond and im¬ 
proved edition by Bignon appeared in 1666, 4to. and it 
w-as laftly printed in a complete form by Baluze, in the 
fecond volume of the Capitularies of the French Kings., 
1677. Moreri. 
MAR'CULUS, f. Among the Romans, a knocker, or 
inftrument of iron to knock at doors with. 
MAR'CUS, a praenomen common to many Romans. 
See ZEmilius, Antoninus, Lepjdus, &c. and the article 
Rome. 
MAR'CUS HOO'K, a place of America, in Chefter 
county, Pennfylvania, on the weft fide of Delaware river: 
twenty miles below Philadelphia, containing about thirty- 
families. Here are two rows of piers, or long wharfs, for 
defending veflels form the driving of ice in winter. 
MAR'CZA, a town of Auftrian Poland : fixteen miles 
fouth of Halicz. 
MAR'CZAL, a river of Hungary, which joins the 
Raab near Kefzo. 
MARD, or Medard (St.), a town of France, in the 
department of the Forefts: thirty-three miles weft of 
Luxemburg. 
MARD le BLAN'C (St.), a town of France, in the 
department of the Ille and Vilaine: feven miles weft of 
Fougeres. 
MARD sur. le MON'T (St.) a town of France, in 
the department of the Marne: twelve miles fouth of 
St. Menehould. 
MARD en O'THE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Aube : thirteen miles fouth-weft of Troyes. 
MAR'DALE, a village of Weftmoreland, in the foreft 
of Thornthwaite, and in the parifli of Shap, to which it 
has a chapel of eafe. 
MAR'DEN, a village in Hereford/hire, on the river 
Lug, near Sutton Valleys, where Ethelbert, a king of the 
Eaft Angles, was firft buried. 
MAR'DEN, a village near Maidftone, in Kent, four 
miles and a half north of Goudherft 5 with a fair Oft. 10. 
—A village in Surry, near Godftone. 
MAR'DI, a people of ancient Perfia, on the confines of 
Media. They were very poor, and generally lived upon 
the flelh of wild beafts. Their country, in, later times, 
became the refidence of the famous afialfinS deftroyed by 
Hulakou, the grandfon of Genghis Khan. 
MAR'DIA, a place of Thrace,-famous for a battle be¬ 
tween Conltantine and Licinius, A. D. 315. 
MAR'DICK, or Mardyke, a fmall town or village of 
France, in the department of the North, fituated near the 
coaft of the Englilh channel, at one time defended by 
forts. Mardick is celebrated for the noble canal there, 
which, after the peace of Utrecht, Louis XIV. caufed to 
be made under th® direftion of Le Blanc, being in length 
3338 toifes and two feet. This canal began at the canal 
of Bergues, near Dunkirk, extending itlelr, with a breadth 
of between twenty-five and thirty toifes, no lei's than 1500 
from eaft to welt in length, at which place it winded from 
fouth to north, and 300 toifes farther had an incompara¬ 
ble lluice with two bafins on it, one of which was 44 feet 
broad. 
