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M A'RIENBOURG, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ardennes. This town was furrounded with 
walls by queen Mary, filter to Charles V. from whom it 
took its name : two and a half pofts fouth-weft: of Givet. 
MA'RIENBURG, a town of Rulfia, in the government 
of Riga : twenty-eight miles fouth of Verro. 
MA'RIENBURG, a town of the bilhopric of Hilde- 
fiieim, with a fort built by bilhop Henry III. as a defence 
againft the duke of Brunfwick: five miles fouth-eaft of 
Hilderfheim. 
MA'RIENBURG, or Foi.d'mar, a town of Tranfylva- 
nia: fix miles north of Cronftadt. Lat. 46. 2. N. Ion. 25. 
14... E. 
MA'RIENBURG, or Mal'borg, a town of Prulfia, 
and capital of a prefect urate, fituated on the Vifiula. 
This town was formerly the chief place belonging to the 
Teutonic knights; its caltle was burned down by the 
Swedes in the year 1644. The town was taken by the 
Poles in the year 1460 ; by the Swedes in 1625, and in 
1655 ; and by the Ruffians in Dec. 1813. It is twenty- 
four miles fouth-eaft of Dantzic, and feventy-four fouth- 
weft of Koniglberg. Lat. 54. 3. N. Ion. 18. 55. E. 
MA'RIENFELD, a town of Germany, in the biffiop- 
-rie of Munfter: eleven miles eaft of Warendorf. 
MA'RIENFLIES, or Step'enitz, a village of Bran¬ 
denburg, in the Mark of Pregnitz. Here is a convent 
for fix noble ladies : four miles north-well of Pritzwalk. 
MA'RIENGAUL, a town and lake of Ruffia, in the 
government of Polotlk : forty miles north-eaft of Rezitza. 
MA'RIENHAVE, a town of Eaft Frielland : nine miles 
north of Embden. 
MARIENMUN'STER, a town of Weftphalia, in the 
bilhopric of Paderborn : four miles eaft of Neheim. 
MA'RIENSTERN, a town of Upper Lufatia: nine 
■miles weft of BudilTen. 
MA'RIENTHAL, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Erzgebirg: three miles weft-fouth-weft of Zwickau. 
MA'RIENTHAL. See Mergentheim. 
MA'RIENWALDE, a town of Brandenburg, in the 
New Mark: fix miles north-weft of Woldenberg. 
MARIENWER'DER, a town of Prulfia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Oberland, fituated on a fmall river, called the 
Leibe, not far from the Viftula. It was formerly the refi- 
dence of the bilhops of Pomefania, and of fome grand 
mailers of the Teutonic order. Marienwerder was at firlt 
built in the year 1233, on a werder, or fmall illand, called 
Quidzin ; but was foon after rebuilt on its prefent fitua- 
tion. The cathedral, which was erected about the thir¬ 
teenth century, is the large!! church in the kingdom of 
Prulfia, being 320 feet long, and by its ftrong brealt-works 
feems to have formerly fierved for a fortrefs. The palace 
at Marienwerder is fpacious, and built in the old Gothic 
tafte. The adjacent country is very pleafant, and full of 
eminences and gentle declivities. The inhabitants carry 
on a confiderable trade with their neighbours. In the 
year 1723, falt-works were fet up here, and a magazine 
for corn and forage in 1728. This town has often been 
damaged by inundations, war, and fire. The famous 
league formed by the towns and country againft the 
knights of the Teutonic order, was concluded here in 
1440, This town held out againft a vigorous liege in 
1520; and, in the year 1613, it was for fome time the re- 
fidence of the eleffor John Sigifmund. In 1709, the czar 
Peter the Great, and Frederic I. king of Prulfia, had an 
interview at this place. King Staniflaus retired to this 
town from Dantzic, in July 1734. It was occupied by 
the Ruffians in December 1812: thirty-five miles fouth 
.of Dantzic, and ninety fouth-weft of Koniglberg. Lat. 
53.43. N. Ion. 18. 42. E. 
MARIENZELL', a town and convent in the archdu¬ 
chy of Auftria. In the convent is a celebrated image of 
the Virgin : fix miles welt-fouth-weft of Baden. 
MA'RIES (Three), three defert illands, in the Pacific 
.Ocean, near the weft coaft of Mexico; the largeft about 
.twenty-one miles in circumference. They abound in pi- 
M A R 
geons, hares, guanoes, See. and the ccafts with turtles 
and filh. Lat. 30. 21. N. 
MA'RIESTADT, a town of Sweden, in Weft Goth¬ 
land, on the Wenner lake, built in the 16th century by 
duke Charles IX. and named by him in honour of his 
duchefs : eighty miles north-eaft of Gotheborg, and 136 
weft-fouth-weft-of Stockholm. Lat. 58. 27. N. Ion. 13. 
38. E. 
MARIET'TA, a town of United America, in the (late 
of Ohio, at the conflux of the Ohio and the Muikingum. 
Vellels of 200 tons burden are built at this place. Lat. 
39. 17. N. Ion. 81. 38. W. 
MARIGNA'NO, or Melignano, a town of Italy, in 
the department of the Olona, near which Francis I. king 
of France, gained a victory over the Swifs in the year 
1515: eleven miles fouth-eaft of Milan. 
MARIG'NIA, f. in botany. See Bursera. 
MARIGNY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Channel: fix miles weft of St. Lo, and nine eaft of 
C'outances. 
MARIGNY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire: fifteen miles fouth-weft of Chinc*i. 
MARIGNY', a town of France, in the department of 
Mont Blanc: five miles fouth-eaft of Bonne-ville, and 
twenty fouth-louth-eaft of Geneva. 
MARIGNY', a town of France, in the department of 
the Aube : fifteen miles north-weft of Troyes. 
MAR'IGOLD, /. [from Mary and gold.'] A yellow 
flower, devoted, I fuppofe, to the virgin. Jo/m/on. —See 
Calendula. —The marigold hath a radiated difeous flow¬ 
er ; the petals of them are, for the moll part, crenated, 
the feeds crooked and rough; thofe which are uppermost 
long, and thofe within Ihort; the leaves are long, intire, 
and for the molt part fucculent. Miller. 
The marigold , whofe courtier’s face 
Echoes the lun, and doth unlace 
Her at his rife. Cleaveland. 
MAR'IGOLD, (African and French.) See Tagetes. 
MAR'IGOLD, (Bafe.) See Silthium. 
MAR'IGOLD, (Corn.) See Chrysanthemum. 
MAR'IGOLD, (Fig.) See Mesembryanthemum. 
MAR'IGOLD, (Marlh.) See Caltha. 
MARIGON'DON, a town on the weft coaft of the 
illand of Lugon. Lat. 13. 8. N. Ion. 123. 20. E. 
MARIGO'T, a town of the illand of Martinico: nine 
miles north-weft of Cul de Sac de la Trinite. 
MARIHA'BAG, a town on the eaft coaft of Minda¬ 
nao. Lat. 8. 48. N. Ion. 126. 12. E. 
MA'RII KRE', a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Caucafus, on the Ural: feventy miles louth of 
Urallk. 
MAR'ILA,yi [from /mpi*«, Gr. live embers or fparks; 
alluding to the elegantly-tranfparent dots and lines in the 
foliage, or to the fparkling yellow pellicle and fringe which 
is laid to accompany the leeds.] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs polyandria, order monogynia. Generic charafters— 
Calyx: perianth five-leaved 5 leaflets oblong, blunt, fpread- 
ing. Corolla: petals five, obovate, waved at the edge, fpread- 
ing, longer than the calyx. Stamina: filaments very nu¬ 
merous, inferted into the receptacle, a little connate at the 
bafe, filiform ; the inner ones the fame length with the co¬ 
rolla, the outergradually Ihorter; antherae ovate. Piltillum: 
germ linear, four-cornered, fuperior ; ftyle Ihort, thick; 
ltigma blunt, fubcapitate. Pericarpium : capfule fubco- 
lumnar, incurved, four-corned, four celled, four-valved. 
Seeds: very numerous, like faw-duft, ciliate .—EJfcntial 
CharaBer. Calyx five-leaved ; corolla five-petalled; cap¬ 
fule four-celled, many-feeded ; ftigma Ample. 
Marila racemofa, a Angle fpecies, adopted by Swartz 
from the MSS. of Dr. Solander. It is a native of the Well 
Indies; as Montferrat and St. Chriltopher’s. 
MARILHO'SA, a town of Portugal, in the province 
of Alentejo: eighteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Mourao, 
and twenty-one eaft ef Mouro. 
MA'RIM, 
