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Iiavvks, green parrots with yellow heads, parroquets, pi- 
eons and doves, and fmall birds of beautiful plumage; 
ut no quadrupeds were feen. On the thores great num¬ 
bers of fifli were obferved, and among them tome very 
bold and daring (harks. A few fnakes and guanoes were 
feen; but no traces of human vilitors were perceived; 
though on-fliore fome drift wood was found, which ap¬ 
peared to have been wrought with European tools. Capt. 
Vancouver’s anchoring-place lay in lat. 21.28. N. Ion. 
253. 54. E. 
MARIASTA'IN, a town of Auftria: fourteen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Steyr. 
MARI'CA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs triandria, 
order monogynia, natural order enfatse, (irides, JuJf.) 
Generic characters—Calyx: fpathes bivalve. Corolla: 
fix-parted ; petals three outer ovate, three inner fmaller; 
all connate at the claws. Stamina : filaments three, very 
(hort, inferted into the tube of the corolla; antherae ob¬ 
long, ereCt. Piftillum : germ inferior, angular; ftyle 
three-cornered ; ftigmas three, petal-form, fimple, acute. 
Pericarpium: capfuleoblong, angular,three-celled. Seeds: 
feveral, angular .—EJential CharaEler. Corolla fix-parted, 
with three alternate fegments as fmall again as the other : 
ftigma petal-form, trifid, with the three divifions fimple, 
acute ; capfule three-celled, inferior. There, are two 
fpecies. 
1. Marica Northiana, or broad-ftamened marica: ftalk 
fword-fhaped, winged. Native of the Brafils. It was firft: 
known here in the colle&ion of the Hon. Mrs. North, at 
Farnham-caftle, who procured it in 1789. The plant is 
now frequent in hot-houfes, flowering in fpringand fum- 
mer, being much admired for the beauty of its fliort-lived 
petals, whofe bafes are all elegantly mottled with yellow 
and deep brownifli-orange, while the limb of the larger 
ones is white, of the fmaller blue. The root is tuberous, 
with many fibres, and perennial. Leaves radical, fword- 
fhaped, dark-green, ribbed, two or three feet high. Flow- 
er-ftalk much relembling the leaves, about as tall,.though 
rather narrower, oblique, bearing feveral fucceflive fra¬ 
grant flowers, about two inches in diameter, from a lateral 
(heath near the top, fometimes viviparous. 
2. Marica paludofa, or dwarf mar(h-marica : leaves lan¬ 
ceolate, tapering at each end, plaited ; ftalk round ; inner 
fegments of the corolla erect; concave, half the length of 
the outer. Native of moift meadows, called favannahs, at 
the foot of the mountains, in Guiana. Mr. A. Anderfon 
fent it from St. Lucia to Kew in 1792. The plant is pe¬ 
rennial, flowering in the ftove from June to Auguft. Its 
leaves are about a foot long, deep green, lanceolate, taper¬ 
ing much at each end, ftrongly plaited on each fide the 
midrib. Flovyer-ltalk very (hort, fimple, bearing a fmall 
tuft of fucceflive fliort-lived white flowers; the three inner 
fegments of the corolla are ereft or convoluted, but half 
the length of the reft, concave, a little recurved at their 
fummits, and tipped with green ; fo that the whole flower 
recals the idea of a fnowdrop. See Bambusa, Cipura, 
lyjpR.'EA, Nastus, and Sisy^iNCHiu’iyi. 
MARI'CA, a nymph of the river Liris, near Minturnae. 
She married king Faumis, by whom (lie had king Latinus ; 
and (lie was afterwards called Fauna and Fatua, and ho¬ 
noured as a goddefs. A city of Campania bore her name. 
Some fuppofe her to be the fame as Circe. 
MARI'CA SIL'VA, a foreft of Italy, in Campania, 
which was fituated in the vicinity of the town of Min- 
ternae, towards the mouth of the river Liris. Sacred to 
the above. 
MARICABAN', one of the fmaller Philippine iflands, 
near the fouth coaft of Lu5on. Lat. 13. 52. N. Ion. 120. 
56. E. 
MARICEL'LO, a town of Naples,’ in the province of 
Bari: fix miles north-weft of Gravina. 
MARI'CHI, in Hindoo mythology, is deemed by fir 
William Jones, in his Diflertation on the Chronology of 
the Hindoos, Afiatic Refearches, vol.-ii. to be a perfonifi- 
cation of Light. In the wild theogonies of that poetical 
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race, he is made the offspring of Brahma, and father of 
Kafyapa, the prolific parent of Surya, or the Sun, and 
many "other divinities. 
MAR'ICI, in ancient geography, a people of Italy, in 
the vicinity of the Loevi, who inhabited a tract now called 
Pave/an, watered by the Tefino and the Po. 
MARICOLAM', a town of Hindoofian, in Cochin : 
twenty miles north-north-eaft of Cranganpre. 
MARIDSAKE', a lake of Thibet, about thirty miles 
in circumference. Lat. 34.42. N. Ion. 88. 50. E. 
MARIDU'NUM, in ancient geography, a town of the 
ifle of Albion, belonging to the Demetse, and fuppofed to 
have been fituated where Caamarthtn , in South Wales, now 
Itands. 
MARI'E, a town of Hindoofian, in Malwa : twelve 
miles eaft of Seronge. 
MARI'E (Cape Dame), the weft point of the ifland of 
St. Domingo, which, with Cape Nicholas, forms the en¬ 
trance of the bay of Leogane. Lat. 18. 38. N. Ion. from 
Paris 76. 51. W,—The town of this name, fituated on the 
Cape, is on the north-weft part of the fouth peninfula : 
eight leagues weft of Jeremies, and fixty weft of Port au 
Prince. 
MARI'E (St.), a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenees, feparated from Oleron by a river, and 
connected with it, at the dillance of two miles, by a bridge 
of ftone. 
MARI'E (St.), a town of France, in the department 
of the Mouths of the Rhone, on an ifland formed by the 
divided ftream of the Rhone, near the fea ; fixteen miles 
fouth of Arles. Lat. 43.27; N. Ion. 5. 31. E. 
MARI'E (St.), a town on the north-weft coaft of the 
ifland of Martinico. 
MARI'E(Straits of) connect lakes Superior and Huron. 
Near the upper end of thefe ftraits, which are forty miles 
long, is a canal navigable by boats. The ftraits afford a- 
pleafing view of various iflands. 
MARI'E d’ARU'CI (St.), a town of France, in the 
department of Mont Blanc : fifteen miles north-weft of 
Chambery. 
MARI'E de la ME'R (St.), a town of France, in the 
department of the Eaftern Pyrenees, near the coaft of the 
Mediterranean : nine miles eaft-north-eaft of Perpignan. 
MARI'E aux MI'NES, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of tile Upper Rhine, near which are mines of filver' 
and lead : four miles north-weft of Colmar. 
MARI'E du MON'T, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Channel: four miles north of Carentan. 
MARIEHO'E, a town of Denmark, in the ifland of 
Laaland, fituated near a lake abounding in fifli : twelve- 
miles eaft of Nafcow. Lat. 54. 51. N. I011. 12. 32. E. 
MARIEFRED', a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Sudermanland, on a bay of the Malar Lake: twenty-five 
miles weft of Stockholm, and thirty-fix north of Nykioping. 
MARIEGALAN'TE, an ifland in the Welt Indies,, 
difcovered by Chriftopher Columbus in the year 1493 5 
of a circular form, and forty-two miles in circumference. 
It was firft fettled by the French in the year 1647, from 
whom it was twice taken by the Dutch. In the year 1691 
it was taken by the Englifli, and again in the year 1759,. 
■but reftored to the French in the year 1763. This ifland 
abounds with tobacco, and contains a great many grottos 
where large crabs are found, as alfo feveral rivers and 
ponds of frefti water. Along the eaftern ftiore run high 
rpcks, which afford flielter to vaft numbers of tropic-birds. 
The weltern fliore is flat, and the ground in general pro¬ 
per for cultivation. At the time of its laft reduction by 
the Britifh army,,1000 hogfbeads of fugar were manufac¬ 
tured yearly. Lat. 16. N. Ion. 61. 6. VV. 
MA'RIENBERG, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Erzgebirg, near which are mines of filver, cobalt, iron, 
vitriol, a.nd fulphur ; here is likewife a manufacture cfi- 
fine lace, and a medicinal bath. It is three miles eaft— 
north-eaft of Wolkenftein, and thirty-four fouth-weft of 
Drelden. Lat. 50. 36. N. Ion. 13. 6. E. 
MA'RIENBOURG. 
