350 M A il 
ing, or by aray of the modes of hammering at prefent 
known. New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1814. 
MAR'DUS, a river of Media, falling into the Cafpsan 
Sea. 
MA'RE, f. [mape, Sax.] The female of a horfe : 
The pair of courfers born of heav’nly breed, 
Whom Circe ftole from her celeftial fire. 
By fubllituting mares, produc’d on earth, 
Whole wombs conceiv’d a more than mortal birth. Dryden. 
[From Mara, the name of a fpirit imagined by the nations 
of the north to torment lleepers.] A kind of torpor or 
ltagnation, which feems to prefs the (lomach with a weight; 
the night-hag.—Mulhrooms caufe the incubus, or the 
mare in the ltomach. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. 
Mab, his merry queen, by night 
Beltrides young folks that lie upright, > 
In elder times the mare that hight, J 
Which plagues them out of meafure. Drayton, 
MA'RE, in geography, a frnall illand near the weltcoaft 
of Scotland. Lat. 56. 14. N. Ion. 5. 45. W. 
MA'RE, a rock in the Englith channel, off the coaft of 
France. Here the Repulfe Englith man-of-war ltruckon 
the 10th of March, 1800 j but moll of the crew were laved. 
It is feventy-five miles (outh-ealt of Ulhant. 
MA'RE ^Nicholas de la), born about 1641, was a cotn- 
millioner of the Chatelet during near forty years. As 
a reward for his zeal in the king’s fervice, he was made 
ftevvard of the houfehold of the count of Vermandois, 
and after the death of that prince had a penlion for life’. 
He was employed in various important commillions rela¬ 
tive to the revenue; and made feveral journeys to the 
provinces on public occafions, in which he acquitted 
himfelf to general fatisfadlion. He died in 1723. He 
was the author of a valuable work entitled “Traite de la 
Police,” 3 vols. folio, 1705-19, containing a detailed ac¬ 
count of the eltablifhment of the police in France, the 
fumftions and prerogatives of its magiltrates, its regula¬ 
tions, &c. A fourth volume was added in 1738 by M. 
Je Clerc de Brillet. Moreri. 
MA'RE (Philibert de la), a writer of hiftory and bio¬ 
graphy, and a counfellor of the parliament of Dijon, in 
the 17th century. He wrote feveral works in Latin, in a 
fryle imitating that of De Thou, which were well receiv¬ 
ed by the public. Of thefe, the principal is “ Commen¬ 
taries de Bello Burgundico apud Sequanos,” 1642, 4to. 
containing a relation of the war of 1636. A fecond edi¬ 
tion by his fon Philip, in 1689, among other additions, 
gives a catalogue of writers on the hiftory of Burgundy. 
'Philibert likewife compofed a number of lives, ^chiefly of 
literary characters; and he left in manufeript memoirs of 
the public tranfaftions from 1673 to the year of his death, 
which happened in 1687. 
MA'RE MOR'TUUM, or Dead Sea. See Asphal- 
tites, vol. ii. p. 273. 
MA'RE’s TAIL, in botany. See Hippuris. 
MA'REB, a rjver of Africa, which riles in Abylfinia, 
about fixty miles north-eaft of Axum, and joins the Te- 
tazze, in the country of Nubia, 100 miles before its junc¬ 
tion with the Nile. 
MA'REB, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men, the capital of a diftriCt: twenty-eight miles eaft of 
Sanaa. Lat. 15.44. N. lon.45.16. E. 
MARECHAU'X, a cape which forms the north-eaft 
fide of the bay of Jacmel in St. Domingo. Lat. 18. 18. N. 
MAR'ECHITES, a tribe of Indians, who inhabit the 
banks of the river St. John, and around Paffamaquaddy 
Bay, in North America : they amount to about 140 fight¬ 
ing men. 
MARECKAN', an illand in the North Pacific Ocean, 
and one of the louthern Kuriles, about thirty miles in 
length, called by the Rullians Chimouchis, Lat.'47. 5. N. 
ion, 1 52. 50. E. 
MAREGO'RIAN, one of the Molucca Iliunds, about 
m a ri 
fifteen miles long, and five broad. Lat. 0. 36. S. Jon. 127. 
18. E.- 
MAREILLAC', a town of France, in the department 
of Aveyron, and chief place of a canton, in the dill 1 ice 
of Rodes. The place contains 1216, and the canton 
10,453, inhabitants, in 18 communes. 
MAREL'LA, a town of Hindooltan, in the Carnatic ; 
twenty-one miles iouth-fouth-weft of Ongole. 
MAREM'MES, a diltrift of the Sienna, divided into 
Maremma di qua, and Maremma di la; the former on 
the eaft, and the L.tter on the weft, fide of the river Om- 
brone : they both are bounded 011 the fea by the fouth. 
The foil is fertile, but the air is reckoned unwholeibme. 
MAREN'D. See Marant, p. 329. 
MAREN'GO, a village ot France, and giving name 
to one of the new departments, a diftinftion which it 
owed to a bloody battle fought hereon the 14th of June, 
1 800 ; the event of which made the French matters of Pied¬ 
mont and Lombardy, and paved the way to the peace 
of Luneville. See the article France, vol. vii. p. 848, 
The field where this bloody contelt took place is not pro¬ 
perly a plain ; but an unewclofed open level lpace of 
ground, cultivated every- where, the high road excepted. 
There are rows of trees, (principally mulberries,) in the 
trunks of which balls are ftili difcernible. Near thefe 
trees the battle was fought. The village of Marengo, 
adjoining on the right of the road to Genoa, confilts of 
only eight or nine lcattered houfes, of wretched appear¬ 
ance. In one of them, which Hands nearelt to the high¬ 
road, and the attached farm-yard, the combat raged with 
peculiar violence, and the French and Aultrians difpol- 
lefled each other of the fp.ot feveral times in the courfe of 
the day. Deffaix was killed a few yards from this houfei 
and a pillar, not fuch as the event deferves, but a lhabby 
paltry one, records the faff. 
MAREN'GO, a department of France, formed of that 
part of Lombardy heretofore called the Alexandrin ; 
bounded on the north by a part of Italy and the depart¬ 
ment of the Sella, on the eait by Parma, on the fouth by 
Genoa, and on the weft by the department of theTanaro 
and the Dora. The principal towns are Alexandria, 
Tortona, Cafal, Bobbio, and Voghera. The population, 
322,800. 
MAREN'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stura : four miles north-north-eaft of Savigliano, and 
five welt-fouth-welt of Cheralco. 
MAREN'NES, a leaport town of France, and principal 
place of a diftrift, in the department of the Lower Cha- 
rente, at the mouth of Seudre. The principal trade is in 
fait. The number of inhabitants is about 5000 : nine miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Rochefort, and nineteen weft of 
Saintes. Lat. 45. 49. N. Ion. 1. 1. W. 
MAREN'ZIO (Luca), an eminent Italian mufical com- 
pofer, who flounlhed during the latter end of the fix* 
teenth century. This ingenious and fertile author, who 
diltinguilhed himfelf chiefly as a madrigalift, was born a: 
Concaglia, in the diocele of Brefcia, and the fcholar of 
Giovanni Contini, who was himfelf a voluminous corn pofer. 
The inclination of Marenzio leading him very early to the 
compolition of madrigals, he cultivated that ftyle more fuc- 
cefsfully than any ot his predeceflors; and.the number he 
compoled is prodigious. At Venice, between the. years 
1587 and i6oi, were printed nine books of his madrigals 
for five voices ; the two lalt were polthumous. Belides 
thefe, this author compofed fix books of madrigals in fix 
parts ; madrigals for three voices; another let for five, 
and ltill another for fix voices, different from all the 
former. Canzonets for the lute. Mottetti a 4, & Sacras 
Cantiones, 5, 6, ac 7, Vocibus modulandus. All thefe 
works were fir ft printed at Venice ; and afterwards at Ant¬ 
werp, and many of them iu London, to Englilh words j 
Of the madrigal Hyle he was called in Italy il piu dolce 
cigno ; and the proud antagonilt of Nanino, Sebaltiaa 
Raval,the Spaniard, who was editor of fome of his works,, 
ltyles him a divine compiler. He was fome time maeltro di. 
i capella. 
