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Gofpel in Foreign Parts, excited a good deal of attention, 
and was thought by foine perfons not to promulgate’thofe 
lentiments which the mild 1'pirit of Chriftianity and the 
doftrines of the church of England particularly inculcate. 
Others admired the difeourfe as being calculated to make a 
ltand again ft thofe republican principles which the Ame¬ 
rican war had begun already to excite among us. 
MARKHL, a town of Bavaria : feven miles eaft of 
Neu Oetting, and feven north of Burkhaufem. 
MAR'KINCH, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Fife. Here is a manufacture of linfeed-oil, and another 
of ltockings: four miles fouth of Falkland. 
MAR'KING, / The act of letting a mark. 
MAR'KING-YARN,/! in {hips of war, is white yarn 
fpun the wrong way, and put into all cordage of three 
inches and upwards, as the king’s work. Blankl. Nav. Expof. 
MARK'LAND (Jeremiah), a learned and acute critic, 
was born-in 1693. He was the (on of the Rev. Ralph 
Markland, known by a work on The Art of Shooting fly¬ 
ing. Pie received his early education in Chrilt’s Hofpi- 
tal, whence he was fent to Peter-houfe, Cambridge, of 
which he became a fellow. He was a tutor in that col¬ 
lege, but refufed to lake orders. The firft u'ork by which 
he made himfelf known as a man of erudition was his 
Epiltola Critica, 1723, addrefled to biihop Hare. In 1728 
he publilhed an edition of Statius’s Sylvae, 4to. His Notes 
on Maximus Tyrius, 1740, did great credit to his critical 
fagacity. This quality was amply difplayed by his Re¬ 
marks on the Epiftles of Cicero to Brutus, and of Brutus 
to Cicero ; with a Diflertation upon four Orationsnferibed 
to Cicero; 8vo. 1745, * n which he attempted to prove the 
fpuriotifnefs of thofe pieces. His opinion, however, was 
not generally adopted by the learned, and they ftill appear 
as genuine in editions of Cicero’s works. In 1761 he pub- 
lifhed an excellent grammatical tratt De Grtecorutn Quinto 
Declinatione imparifyllabica, & inde formata Latinorum 
Tertia, of which only a few copies were printed for pre- 
fents; but it was annexed to an edition of the Supplices 
Mulieres of Euripides in 1763, reprinted in 1775. His 
other writings were either fragments, chiefly deltroyed by 
himfelf in a lpirit of dejeflion, or contributions to the 
works of other writers. He aflilled Dr. Taylor in his 
editions of Lyiias and Demofthenes; Dr. Mufgrave in his 
Hippolytus ; and Mr. Bowyer in an edition of Sophocles; 
and alfo in his Conjectures on the New Teltament, in which 
are feveral paflages illuftrated by this critic, and marked 
with an R. The life of Mr. Markland pafled in obfeurity, 
and is little diltinguilhed by events. His relidence in 1743 
was at Twyford ; from 1744 to 1752 at Uckfield, in Suflex ; 
and thence to the time of his death, at a farm-houfe at 
Milton, near Dorking. He flumnetl company, and was 
feldom feen beyond his garden. His circumltances were 
fuppoled to be rather narrow ; but he was very charitable 
to the neighbouring poor. By efpoufing the caufe of the 
widow with whom he lalt lodged, he brought upon hitn- 
felf the burthen of an expenfive law-fuit, which reduced 
liim almoft to indigence; yet he could fcarcely be pre¬ 
vailed on to accept the liberalities of his friends. He died 
in 1776, in his eighty-third year; and was buried in 
Dorking church. 
MARKLEU'THEN, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Bayreuth, on the Eger: fix miles north-north- 
eall of VVunfiedel. 
MARK'MAN, or Mark'sman,_/ A man fkilful to hit 
a mark.—A11 ordinary markjman may know certainly when 
he fhoots lefs wide at what he aims. Dryden. 
Whom nothing can procure, 
When the wide world runs bias from his will. 
To writhe his limbs, and fhare, not mend, the ill ; 
This is the markjman fafe and lure, 
Who (till is right, and prays to be fo ftill. Herbert. 
MARKO'BEL, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Hanau Munz^nburg; five miles north-eaft of Hanau. 
M A R 379 
MARKOV', a fmall ifland of Ruflia, in the Frozen Sea. 
Lat.71 50. N. Ion. 1 38. 14. E. 
MARKO'VO, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Irkutfk: fifty-fix‘-miles fouth-vveft of Kirenlk. 
MARKOW', a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : fixty miles eaft-fouth-ealt of Wilna. 
MARKOWIS'KA, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : 
twenty-four miles ealt of Lucko. 
MAR'KOWITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Olmutz: eighteen miles fouth of Olmutz. 
MARKS (Lake oi), called alfo Skibkah el Low- deah, a 
large lake of Africa in Biledulgerid, reaching near fixty 
miles from eaft to W’eft, and about eighteen miles broad, 
interfperfed with fmall iflands, the large'! of which, how¬ 
ever, though uninhabited, is well flocked with date-trees. 
Thefe trees are, by a fabulous tradition of the Arabs, 
aferibed to the Itones of dates, which the Egyptians brought 
with them for fuftenance when they invaded this country ; 
whence the circumjacent country is denominated Babyra 
Fharaoune, or the Plains of Pharoah. The fituation of this 
lake, with regard to the fea, the Syrtes, and the river Tri¬ 
ton, has induced fome writers to take it for the Palus Tri- 
tonis of the ancients, and to confider the above-mentioned 
ifland as the Cherfonefus of Diodorus Siculus, and the 
Phla of Herodotus. Lat. 33. 50. N. Ion. 8. 50. E. 
MARKSUH'LA, a town of Germany, in the principa¬ 
lity of Eifenach : five miles fouth-fouth-vveft of Eilenac/i. 
MARKT BI'BART, a town of the duchy of Wurz¬ 
burg: twenty-four miles fouth-vveft of Bamberg, and 
twenty-five eaft-fouth-eaft of Wurzburg. 
MARKT EI'NERSHEIM, a town of Germany, in 
the lordlhip of Limburg: fixteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Wurzburg. 
MARKT HOHENLU'BEN, a town of Saxony, in the 
county of Reufs: eight miles north-weft of Greitz. 
MARKT OF'FINGEN, a town of Bavaria, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Oettingen Wallerftein : eight miles weft-fouth- 
welt of Oettingen. 
MARKT STEI'NACH, a town of the duchy of Wurtz- 
burg: five miles eaft-north-eaft of Schweinfurt, and twen¬ 
ty-five north-eaft of Wurtzburg. 
MARKTL, a town of Auftria, on the Trafen : twelve 
miles fouth of St. Polten. 
MARKUT'CHOE, a town of Bengal: forty-two miles 
north-north-eaft of Ramgur. 
MARKUW'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate- 
of Braclaw : thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Braclaw. 
MARKWO'TIZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Bolellaw : twelve miles eaft of Jung Buntzel. 
MARL,/. [Wellh; mergel, Dut. marga, Lat. In Saxon, 
mepg is marrow, with an alluljve fignification, marl being 
the fatnefs of the earth.] A kind of clay, which is become 
fatter, and of a more enriching quality, by a better fer¬ 
mentation, and by its having lain fo deep in the earth as 
not to have fpent or weakened its fertilizing quality by 
any produft. See Marga, p. 352.— Marl is fuppofed 
to be much of the nature of chalk, and is believed to be 
fertile from its fait and oily quality. Quincy. —We under¬ 
hand by the term marls Ample native earths, lefs heavy 
than the boles or clays, not foft and unCtuous to the 
touch, nor duCtile while moilt, dry and crumbly between 
the fingers, and readily diffulible in water. Hill. 
Uneafy fteps 
Over the burning marl, not like thofe fteps 
On heaven’s azure. Milton. 
To MARL, v. a . To manure with marl.—Sandy land 
marled will bear good peafe. Mortimer. 
To MARL, v. a. [from marline.'] To fallen the fails 
with marline. Ainfworth, 
MAR'L-PIT, JJ. A pit out of which marl is dug.—. 
Several others, of different figures, were found; part of 
them in a rivulet, the relt in a marl-pit in a field. Wood, 
ward. 
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