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Jittpetuofity. About 10,000 hogflieads cf fugar were de- 
ftroyed, and the rifing plants for 1814, in Martinico and 
Dominico, were uprooted. The (hipping at Barbad'oes 
molt of it foundered ; but what is extraordinary, the 
ifland itfelf efcaped injury. Guadaloupe fufrered mate¬ 
rially, and feveral (hips in the harbours were loft. The 
force of the ftorm appears to have been concentered at 
Dominico, where almoft every thing on the furface was 
fwept down, and the Clipping totally deftroyed. This 
ifland is about midway between Martinico and Guada¬ 
loupe. Lat. 14. 24. to 14. 52. N. Ion. 61. 2. to 61. 26. W. 
MARTINI'CO (Tittle), one of the Grenadine illands, 
in the Weft Indies. Lat. 13. 38. N. Ion. 61. 18. W. 
MARTINIE'RE. See Bruzen, vol. iii. p. 464. 
MARTIN'IUS (Matthias), a learned German protef- 
tant divine and philologift, was born at Freinhagen, in 
the county of Waldec, in the year 1572. He received his 
academical education at Herborn, where he diltinguiflied 
liimfelfby his proficiency under the inftruflions of the 
celebrated Pifcator. At the age of twenty-three he was 
appointed preacher to the court of Naflau-Dillemburg ; 
and, in 1596, he was nominated one of the profeffors of 
the college of Herborn. In the following year he was 
made regent of that feniinary, and in 160a was entrufted 
with the fuperintendance and inftruction of thofeftudents 
who were educated at the public expenfe. He particu¬ 
larly excelled in his philological leflures, and in initiating 
his pupils in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac, languages. 
In the year 1607, upon the breaking out of the plague at 
Herborn, he removed, with the members of the college, to • 
Siegen j and foon afterwards accepted of an invitation to 
become pallor of the church of Embden. After remain¬ 
ing three years at Embden, w here he was much efteemed 
and beloved as a miniller and a man, he was offered the 
reflorthip of the college of Bremen, which he accepted, 
to the no fmall benefit of that inftitution. In 1618, Mar- 
tinius w'as one of the deputies fent by the city ot Bremen 
to the fynod of Dort, where he avowed fimilar opinions 
with Amyraut, D.iille, and other French divines, on the 
fubjeft of univerlal grace, and enlilted among the com¬ 
batants againft the fupra-lapfarians. He figned, however, 
the afts of the'fynod. He died in 1630, about the age of 
58. He was the author of, 1. Memoriale Biblicum, 1603, 
8vo. 2. Chriftiana et Catholica Fides, five Symboluin 
Apoftolicum explicatum, i6i8,8vo 3. Procatechefis, &c. 
1619, 8vo. 4. De Fcederis Naturae et Gratice Signaculus, 
1618, 8vo. 5. De Deo fummo illo Bono, et Caula oin- 
nis Boni, &c. 1616, 8vo. 6. Lex Divina Naturae, Gra- 
tiae, et Politiae, 1619, 8vo. 7. De prooipta utiliurn Re- 
rum Meditatione, 1614, 8vo. 8. Epitome Theologiae, 
1617, 8vo. 9. Cadmus Graeco-Phcenix, 1625, 8vo. 10. 
Graecae Linguae Fundamenta, 1631, 8vo. and a variety of 
controverfiai pieces. But his fame is principally built on 
his Lexicon Philologicum, the third edition of which, in two 
large folio volumes, printed in 1697, befides numerous 
other additions, contains his Cadmus Graeco Phoenix, 
and the Gloffary of Ifidore, &c. with the notes of John 
George Graevius. Of this work it is laid that Voffius and 
other learned men have freely availed themfelves without 
being always fo honourable as to acknowledge their ob¬ 
ligations. Fit. Lex. Philot. Pr&f. 
MAR'TINMAS, the fealt of St. Martin, the eleventh 
of November; commonly corrupted to martilmas or mar- 
tlemas: 
Martilmas beefe doth bear good tacke. 
When countrey folke do dainties lacke. Tujfer. 
MARTI'NO (St.) a town of Italy, in the department 
of the Adda and Oglio ; eight miles weft of Bergamo.— 
A town of France, in the department of the Po, in the 
diltrifl of the Four Valleys, to which it gives name ; nine 
miles north-weft of Pinerola.—A town of France, in the 
department of the Sefia; nineteen miles north of Turin. 
A town of France, in the department of the Dora, near 
the Dura Baltea; feventeen miles fouttneaft of Aofta.—A 
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town of France, rn the department of the Maritime Alps ; 
twelve miles welt of Tenda.—A town of Italy, in the 
Veronefe ; fifteen miles north-weft of Verona.—A town 
of Italy, in the department of the Reno; twelve miles 
north-eart of Bologna.—A town of Italy; thirteen miles 
north of Modena.— A town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra; 
five miles north-welt of Oppido —A town of Naples, in 
Bafilicata ; twenty-four miles fouth-fouth eait of Potenza. 
— A town of Corfica; four miles north of Baltia_A 
town of Italy, in Friuli ; leven miles fouth-eaft of Friuli. 
MARTINOAVA, a town of Auitrian Poland: fix 
miles north of Halicz. 
MARTINO'WES, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Schlan : four miles (outh-ealt of Budin. 
MAR'TINSBERG (St.) a town of Hungary : ten 
miles fouth-eaft of Ranh. 
M AR'TINSBOROUGH, a town of America, in North 
Carolina, on the fo-ufh fide of Tar river ; twenty miles 
above Walhington. 
MAR'FINSBURG, a poll-town of Virginia, and ca- 
pital of Berkley county, about eight miles foutli of the 
Patowmac, in the midft of a fertile and well-cultivated 
country ; twenty-five miles from the mineral fprings at 
Bath. It contains feventy bottles, a court-houfe, gaol;, 
an epifcopal church, and another near the town ap¬ 
propriated to the prelbyterians : twenty-two miles north- 
eaft ot Winchefter, and eighty-eight north-north-weft of 
Alexandria. 
MAR'TINSDYCK (St.) a town of Holland, in the 
ifland ot Tolen : five miles weft of Tolen. 
M AR'TINSPERG, a town of Aultria : fix miles fouth- 
iouth-weit ol Zwerl. 
MAR FINSVIL'LE, a polt-town of America, and the 
capital ot GuiiiorU county, in North Carolina, pleafantly 
fituated on the ealt tide ot Buffaloe creek ; and contain¬ 
ing about forty tioulcs, a court houfe, and gaol. 
MAR'riNVASF, a town ot France, in the depart¬ 
ment ot the Channel : three miles loutli of Cherbourg,, 
and nine north welt of Valognes. 
MARTIOBAR'BULI, f. among the Romans, a defig- 
nation given to loktiers who carried leaden balls to an¬ 
noy the enemy with. 
MAR'PIUS, a man’s name; the fourth king of the 
Romans; a name of Jupiter. 
MARTIZA'Y, a town ot France, in the department cf 
the Indre : eleven miles north Le Blanc en Berry, and 
eleven fouth of Chatillon lur Indre. 
MAR'TLET, J. in ornithology; fee Martin. In 
heraldry, a little bird repreiented without feet; and ufed 
as a difference or mark of diltindtion for younger brothers, 
to put them in mind that they are to trult to the wings 
of virtue and merit, in order to raife themfelves, and not 
to their feet, they having little land to let their foot on. 
MAR'TNETS, f. Small lines faltened to the leech of a 
fail, being reeved through a block on the topmalt-head, 
and coining down by the malt to the deck. Thofe mart- 
nets which belong to the toplails are faltened after the 
lame way to the heads of the top-gallant-malis ; but their 
fall comes down no farther than the top, when it is haled. 
Their delign is, in furling the fail, to bring that part of 
the leech which is next to the yard-arm dole to the yard, 
fo that the fail may furl up the clofer. 
MAR'TO, a town of European Turkey, in Romania 5 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gallipoli. 
MAR'TOCK, a market-town and parifli in tiie hun¬ 
dred of that name, and county of Sornerfet. It chiefly 
deferves notice on account of its church, which is a large 
and elegant edifice, conlilting of a nave, chancel, nortll 
and fouth aides, and a porch. The interior is finely or*, 
namented with carved work, and fome paintings of the 
apoftles ; and an altar-piece in ftucco. The market is 
held twice a-week, on Wednefday and Saturday ; and is 
ufually well fupplied with provifions of every defeription. 
Near the market-houfe, which is a neat modern building', 
erefted at the junction ot three turnpike roads, in the roi.ct- 
