M A Z 
themfelves partly by billing, and partly by the culture of 
■wine and garden-fluff. 
MAZOR'NO, a town of the bate of Venice, on the 
north bank of the Po : twenty-two miles fouth of Venice. 
Inhabitants, 1400. 
MAZOU'N AH, a town of Algiers, nearly furrounded 
by the Shelliff, and celebrated for its woollen manufac¬ 
ture: thirty miles fouth of Muflygannym, and twenty-fix 
fouth of Tennes, 
MAZ'ULA, in ancient geography, the name of two 
towns in Africa Propria, according to Ptolemy. He places 
one on the coaft, and gives it the title of a colony 5 and 
the other a little inland. 
MAZ'ULA, in modern geography, a town of Congo, 
on the coaft: fifty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Botnbi. 
MAZ'ULA, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
coalt of Africa. Lat. 8. 5. S. 
MA'ZUS,/. [fo denominated by Loureiro, from ^as£oj, 
Gr. a nipple, on account of the little ftalked tubercles 
which fill up the mouth of the corolla.] In botany, a 
genus of plants, of which the characters are fo fimilar to 
thofe of Mimulus, that we fliall refer to that article for 
one of the fpecies, M. pumilio.; the other, M. rugofus, 
being already defcribed under the name given it by Thun- 
berg, Lindernia Japonica, vol. xii. p. 740. 
MA'ZY, adj. Perplexed with windings; confufed : 
How from that faphire fount the crifped brooks. 
Rolling on orient pearl and fands of gold, 
With mazy error under pendent (hades, 
Ran neflar. Milton. 
The Lapithte to chariots add the ftate 
Of bits and bridles, taught the fteed to bound, 
To run the ring, and trace the mazy round, Dryden. 
MAZZARU'NI, a river of Sicily, which runs into the 
fea, on the fouth coalt, three miles fouth-eaft of Terra- 
aova. 
MAZ'ZO, a town of Italy, on the Valteline: nine miles 
weft of Sondrio. 
MAZZO'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Lavora : feven miles fouth-weft of Capua. 
MAZZUCHEL'LI (Giammaria, Count), a nobleman, 
of Brefcia, diftinguiflied for his acquaintance with Ita¬ 
lian literature, flourifhed in the eighteenth century. He 
wrote, 1. Notizie hiftoriche e critiche intorno alia Vita, 
alle Inventione, ed agli Scritti, di Archimede Siracufano, 
Brefc. 1737, 4to. 2. La Vita di Pietro Aretino, Pad. 1741, 
8vo. 3. He began a vaft biographical work on the wri¬ 
ters of Italy, entitled “ Gli Scrittori d’ltalia,” &c. of 
which he only finifhed the two firft letters of the alphabet, 
in 2 vols. folio, 1753, 1763- This would have been the 
moft complete work of the kind in Europe, had it not 
been interrupted by the author’s untimely death. He 
left to his fons a great collection of materials for the fub- 
fequent parts, which J. Bapt. Rodelli gave fome expecta¬ 
tions of publishing. During his life there was publiflied, 
4. Mufeum Mazzucliellianum, feu Numifmata Virorum 
DoClrina prasftantium, quae apud Jo. Mar. Comitem Maz- 
zuchellum Brixiae fervantur, 1761, folio. Saxii Onom. 
MAZZUO'LI (Francefco), a celebrated painter, is fo 
much better known by the defignation of Parmigiano, 
that we mull refer to that word for his hiftory. 
MAZZUO'LI (Girolamo), the coufin and pupil of 
Francefco, is little known as a painter beyond Parma and 
its diftri&s, though for impafto, and the whole myftery of 
colour, he has few equals. There is reafon to believe that 
feveral pictures painted by this artift, efpecially thofe of 
a higher and gayer tone, are conftantly afcribed to Par¬ 
migiano. He was more attached to the ftyle of Corregio 
than Francefco, and feized its character with great avidity 
in the Nuptials of Santa Catherina in the church del Car¬ 
mine. He excelled in perfpeftive ; and in the Laft Supper, 
in the refeftory of Santo Giovanni, placed and painted a 
colonnade with all the illufiens of Pozzo. To the ruoft 
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harmonious cbiaro-fcuro, he added grandear, variety, and 
vivacity, in frefco. 
He had a fon, Alejandro Mazzuoli, who painted in the 
dome of Parma, 1571. He is a feeble imitator of the fa¬ 
mily' ftyle. Fufeli's Pilkington. 
MB AE'QUA, a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Buenos Ayres : no miles eaft of Corrientes. 
MBOM'BOY, a river of Paraguay, which runs into the 
Parana. 
MBOT'ALEY, a river of Paraguay, which runs int© 
the Parana. 
M. D. Medicines doRor, doflor of phyfic. 
ME, the oblique cafe of Is 
Me, only me, the hand of fortune bore, 
Unbleft to tread an interdicted lhore. Pope. 
For me the fates, feverely kind, ordain 
A cool fufpenfe. Pope. 
Me is (ometimes a kind of ludicrous expletive.—He thrufts 
me hiinfelf into the company of three or four gentleman¬ 
like dogs, under the duke’s table. Shakejpeare. 
He prefently, as greatnefs knows itfelf. 
Steps me a little higher than his vow 
Made to my father, while his blood was poor. Skakejp. 
It is fometimes ufed ungrammatically for /; as, melhinks 1 
Me rather had, my heart might feel your love, 
Than my unpleas’d eye fee your courtely. Shakejpeare, 
MEABAN', a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of France, 
Lat. 47. 33. N. Ion. 2.51. W. 
MEACHEGONG', a town of Birmah, on the right bank 
of the Ava : thirty miles north of Prone. 
MEA'CO, or Mia'co, called alfo Kio, a city of Japan, 
in the ifland of Niphon, the ancient metropolis of the 
whole empire, and now the fpiritual capital, being the 
refidence of the dairi. (See the article Japan, vol. x. 
p. 6§8.) It is fituated near the middle of the fouthera 
coaft, on a fpacious and fertile plain, about 160 miles 
fouth-weft from Jeddo, the reputed capital. This, how¬ 
ever, is the firft commercial city, and is celebrated for the 
principal manufactures: it is alfo the feat of the imperial 
mint; and, as the dairi’s court is literary, all books are 
printed here. It is furrounded at fome diftance by high 
mountains, much covered with ftately temples, monalte- 
ries, burying-places, and pleafure-houfes ; all of which are 
adorned with gardens and orchards, and a great variety 
of verdure, as they are watered by a great number of ri¬ 
vulets which flow from thofe mountains. Tliefe ftreams 
unite in the centre of the city," and there divide it into 
the Upper and Lower Towns. The whole city, when in 
its greateft fplendour, appears by its high and itately walls 
to have been about twenty miles in length and nine or ten 
in breadth ; to which we may add its fpacious fuburbs, 
and the imperial palace, which of itfelf is a kind of city, 
feparated from the reft. The llreets are narrow, but long 
and ftraight; and we learn from Kaempfer, that, by an 
enumeration of the inhabitants in 1674, they amounted 
10405,642, of whom 182,070 were males, and 223,572 fe¬ 
males, without including the numerous attendants of the 
dairi, and probably the children, together with an im¬ 
mense number of ftrangers, who refort hither from all parts 
of the empire. Its temples are numerous, and beyond 
conception magnificent and fplendid. Although Meaco 
has fuffered much from pillage, maflacre,and conflagration, 
it is ftill the grand ftorehoufe of all the manufactures of 
Japan, and of all foreign as well as domeftic merchan¬ 
dize, and the principal feat of commerce. Here they re¬ 
fine their metals, and carry on all forts of manufactures : 
here they weave and dye the ricneft filks and ftuffs, make 
and (ell the moft beautiful Japan-work, porcelain, inulical 
inftruments, paintings, carvings, all forts of gold, filver, 
and copper, articles, and particularly ft eel of the moft ex¬ 
cellent quality and moft curious workmanlhip: they alfo 
prepare in this place drefifes of all forts for both (exes, 
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