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teacher, he rendered himfelf particularly acceptable to his 
pupils, by his mild and unafluming behaviour. As a na- 
turalirt, an author, and an artift, he acquired a confuler- 
able portion of celebrity, although he laboured under 
many difadvantages. In addition to what has been al¬ 
ready ftated of his diligence and induftry, it may be pro¬ 
per to obferve here, that he availed himfelf of every op¬ 
portunity of making his attainments profitable. He made 
drawings and engraved plates, which were not required 
for his own publications. He gave lectures on t^ie folar 
microlcope, in the towns which he vifited as an adtor 5 
and he made collections of Derbyfhire fofiils for fale. His 
exertions, however, though carried to an extent decidedly 
injurious to his health, unfortunately were fo little pro¬ 
ductive, that lie left his family, confilting of a widow in 
a very delicate Itate of health, fix children, and an aged 
mother, almoft entirely unprovided for. The little money 
his ingenuity and induftry had enabled him to fave, had 
all been expended in his publications, and a confiderable 
demand from one of his printers Kill remained unfinished. 
Touched by the diftreffed fituation of this unfortunate 
family, fome benevolent gentlemen, who refpedted Mr. 
Martin’s character, raifed a fubfcription in the town and 
vicinity of Macclesfield, to meet their prefent exigencies, 
A fubfcription was alfo opened at Manchefter and Black¬ 
burn. Several gentlemen, diftinguilhed for their rank 
and fcience, with whom he had the honour to correfpond, 
made prefents to his widow : ainongft thefe may be enu¬ 
merated fir Jofeph Banks, Mr. Lambert, Mr. Rofcoe, &c. 
&c. She was alfo appointed librarian to the Subfcription 
Library at Macclesfield ; and the account from which this 
is abridged was drawn up with an intention of farther in- 
terefting the public in favour of an unfortunate but very 
worthy and ingenious family. Monthly Mag. Jan. 1812. 
MAR/TIN, in geography, a river of Spain, which runs 
into the Ebro, in the kingdom of Arragon. 
MAR'TIN, a fmall ifland near the welt coalt of Scot¬ 
land, at the entrance of Loch Broom. Lat. 57. 55. N. 
Ion. 5. 7. W. 
MAR'TIN, a county of Halifax diftrief, North Caro¬ 
lina, adjoining Tyrrel, Halifax, Bertie, and Pitt, counties, 
containing 5312 inhabitants, of whom 1646 are Haves. 
MAR'TIN, a village in Surrey, one mile from Wim¬ 
bledon and Tooting, had a magnificent abbey, founded 
by king Henry I. and an almihoufe was founded here in 
3656 for fix women, to receive 4I. a-year, and half a chaldron 
of coals, each. Here are copper-mills on the river Wan- 
del, with fome calico-printers ; the bridge over the river, 
built in 1633, is remarkable for its arch, which is turned 
with tiles inltead of brick and Hone. This bridge is the 
boundary of three pariilies, Mitcham, Wimbledon, and 
Martin. Its little church is built with flints, as were alfo 
the abbey-walls, which inclofed fixty-five acres; but lit¬ 
tle of it remains, except the kitchen, and one of its cha¬ 
pels with a pulpit. In this abbey king John fltpt the 
night before he figned the great charter in Runny-mead. 
MAR'TIN (St.), one ot the northernmoft of the Ca- 
ribbee Iflands in the Weft Indies, fituated between An¬ 
guilla on the north at the diftance of 1 j league, and St. 
Bartholomew on the fouth-eaft at the diftance of fifteen 
aniles. This ifland is chiefly valuable for its fall-pits and 
falt-water lakes, which were held in fuch eltimation by 
the Spaniards, that they ereded a fort upon the ifland to 
proted them, and to prevent other nations from making 
a fettlement. The lalt-lakes abound in good fifti and 
turtle; and the falt-water pools are the haunts of birds in 
great number. In this ifland there is no frelh water, ex¬ 
cept that which falls from the clouds and is preferved in 
cillerns. In the woods are wild hogs, turtle-doves, and 
an innumerable multitude of parrots. Here are allb va¬ 
rious trees producing gums, and plenty of the candle- 
tree, fplinters of which, when dried and lighted, emit a 
very fragrant fmell. Its tobacco, which is the chief com¬ 
modity that is cultivated, is reckoned the belt in the Ca- 
ribbee Iflands. 
In 1659 the Spaniards abandoned this ifland, blew up 
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its fort, and deffroyed all the houfes and cifterns of the 
occupiers. The French and Dutch afterwards fhared the 
ifland between them; but in the year 3689 they were at¬ 
tacked and plundered by fir Timothy Thornhill, and in 
1744, the French were driven out by the BntiiJvtorces, and 
did not return till after the peace of 1763. The t-wo co¬ 
lonies breed poultry and ftieep, which they fell to the other 
iflands ; and they alfo cultivate a little cotton and coffee. 
About forty years ago the French part contained 400 
white families, and 10,000 flaves. The Dutch part 
comprehends fixty families, and about 200 flaves. In 
March 1801, this ifland was taken by the Britifli. On 
the north-weft fide it has commodious harbours and bays. 
Lat. 18. 5. N. Ion. 62. 35. W. 
MAR'TIN (St.), a town of Hungary, on a fmall river 
which runs into the Waag; ten miles welt of Rofenburg. 
—Alfo, a town of Mexico, in the province of Zacatecas, 
ninety-five miles fouth-weft of Zacatecas.—Alfo, a town 
ofNaoles, in Capitanata : ten miles fouth of Termola.—> 
Alfoj a town of Spain, in Afturia: forty-four miles weft 
of Oviedo.—Alfo, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, on the 
Duero : forty-two miles feuth-fouth-weft of Burgos.— 
Alfo, one of the Scilly iflands. Lat. 50. N. Ion. 6. 14. W. 
(See Scilly Islands.) —Alfo, a town of the ifland of 
Cuba: 130 miles fouth-weft of Havannah.—Alfo, a town 
of France, in the department of the Po: nine miles 
north-weft of Pinerola.—Alfo, a town of France, in the 
department of the Dora: eighteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Acfta.—Alfo, a town of France, in the department of the 
Maritime Alps : nineteen miles north of Nice.—Alfo, a 
town of Sweden, in South Finland : thirty miles north- 
eaft -of Abo.—Alfo, a town of South America, in the 
government of Moxes: 180 miles north-north-eaft of 
Trinidad.'—Alfo, a fmall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, near 
the coalt of Peru. Lat. 11. S. 
MAR'TIN d’AURIGNY' (St.), a town of France, in 
the department of the Cher : iix miles north of Bourges. 
MAR'TIN d’AUXY', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Saone and Loire: twelve miles fouth- 
weft of Chalons fur Saone. 
MAR'TIN’s BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of The 
ifland of Guernfey. 
MARTIN le BEAU'X, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Indre and Loire, near the Cher: nine 
miles ealt-fouth-ealt of Tours. 
MAR'TIN la CHAPEL'LE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Lozei>e : twelve miles fouth-weft of 
Mende. 
MARTIN de CLE'LES, a town of France, in tire de¬ 
partment of the Ifere: twenty-one miles fouth of Gre¬ 
noble. 
MARTIN’S CO'MB. See Comb Martin, vol. iv. 
MARTIN de COURTISO'LS (St.), a town of France, 
in the department of the Marne : lix miles eaft-north-ealt 
of Chalons fur Marne. 
MARTIN d’EURIA'GE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Here: five miles fouth-eaft of Gre¬ 
noble. 
MARTIN de FONTENA'Y, a town of France, in the 
department of the Calvados : four miles fouth of Caen. 
MARTIN’S I'SLANDS, a duller of fmall iflands in 
lake Huron. Lat. 45. 33. N. Ion. 84. 20. W. 
MARTIN de LON'DRES, a town of France, in the 
department of the Herault: twelve miles north-north- 
welt of Montpellier. 
MARTIN de PALIE'RIES, a town of France, in the 
department of the Var: nine miles north of St. Maxirein. 
MARTIN’S PO'INT, a cape on the fouth-eaft of 
coaft of Guernfey: two miles fouth of St. Peter. Alio 
a cape on the weft coaft of Africa. Lat. 32. 40. S. 
MARTIN de RE', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Charente, on the north coaft of the 
ifle of Re: nine miles weft-north-weft of La Rochelle* 
Lat. 46. 12. N. Ion. 1. 38. W. 
MARTIN’S THOR'P, a village in Rutlandfliire, north- 
welt of the Luftenhams, towards Guntliorp, and three 
prily; 
