130 MOUNT. 
To place on horfeback ; to furnilh with horfes.—Clear 
reafon, afting in conjunction with a well-difciplined but 
ftrong and vigorous fancy, feldom fail to attain their end: 
fancy without reafon is like a horfe without a rider; and 
reafon without fancy is not well mounted. Grew. 
Three hundred horfes in high ftables fed, 
Of thefe he chole the faireft and the belt, 
To mount the Trojan troop. Dry den's JEncis. 
To embellilb with ornaments. 
To Mount guard. To do duty and watch at any par¬ 
ticular poll:.—Is not ftatio properly a military term, figni- 
fying a foldier’s being upon his duty, or (as we now fay in 
England) mounting the guard 1 Harris on JJaiah. 
To Mount a cannon. To fet a piece on its wooden 
frame for the more eafy carriage and management in 
firing it. 
MOU'NT AI'RY, a town of North Carolina: four 
hundred miles fouth of Walhington. 
MOU'NT AI'RY, a town of North Corolina: twenty- 
one miles north of Saliibury. 
MOU'NT BANKER, a mountain on the weft coaft of 
North America. Lat. 4!?. 39. N. Ion. 238. ao. E. 
MOUNT BAT'TOCK, a mountain of Scotland, in the 
weft part of the county of Kincardine: fixteen miles 
■north-weft of Bervie. 
MOUNT’S BA'Y, a bay in the Englifli Channel, on the 
fouth coaft of the county of Devon, between the Land’s 
End and Lizard Point. Lat. 50. 7.N. Ion. 5. 20. W. See 
Marazion, vol. xiv. p. 333. 
MOUNT CAL'DER, a barren mountain, which forms 
the extreme fouth point of Port Protection, in the north- 
weft part of the Prince of Wales’s Archipelago. 
MOUNT CAL'VARY. See Calvary. 
MOUNT CAM'EL, a mountain of New Zealand, at 
the north extremity ofEaheinomauwe : thirty miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Cape Maria Van Diemen. 
MOUNT CAM'PBEL, a mountain on the north-eaft 
coaft of Kerguelen’s Land. Lat. 49. 12. S. Ion. 70. 20. E. 
MOUNT CAR'MEL. See Carmel, vol. iii. 
Knights of Mount Carmel. See the article Knight¬ 
hood, vol. xi. p. 816. 
MOUNT CAS'SEL. See Mont Cassel, vol. iii. p. 371. 
and Morini, vol. xv. and, for a flourilh upon the fur¬ 
rounding fcenery and the French revolution, fee Gent. 
Mag. for Apr. 1816. p. 294. 
MOUNT CAUCASUS. See Mount K.vseeck. 
MOUNT of CO'COS, an ifland in the South Pacific 
Ocean, difcovered by Le Maire and Schouten in the year 
1616. It is reprefented as a high mountain full of trees, 
of which the greater part appeared to be cocoa-nut trees. 
The inhabitants were handlome, ftout, and well-propor¬ 
tioned ; their hair of various colours, and worn in diffe¬ 
rent forms; very greedy of iron, and thieves. The na¬ 
vigators obtained cocoa-nuts, bananas, yams, fome fmall 
hogs, and frelh water. The natives call it Kootahee. 
Lat. 16. S. Ion. 177. E. 
MOUNT DES'ERT, an ifland near the coaft of Main, 
about thirty-fix miles in circumference. Lat. 44. 20. N. 
Ion. 68. 10. W. 
MOUNT ED'GECUMB, a round mountain on the 
north-eaft coaft of New Zealand, in the South Pacific 
Ocean. Lat. 38. S. Ion. 176. 53. E. 
MOUNT ED'GECUMB, a mountainous ifland in the 
North Pacific Ocean, at the entrance of Norfolk Sound, 
near the weft coaft of America. 
MOUNT ED'GECUMB, a mountain of England, on 
the weft coaft of the entrance into Plymouth Harbour, on 
the coaft of Devonlhire. Lat. 50. 21. N. Ion. 4. 9. W. 
Here are fituated the beautiful feat and park, belonging 
-to the earl of Mount Edgecumbe. The public days for 
■vifiting this moft enchanting fpot are Mondays, Wednef- 
•days, and Fridays; the only ceremony required, being 
that of fetting down your name and addrefs in a book 
kept at the porter’s lodge. You are then permitted to 
•droll through the park and grounds, which contain molt 
delightful walks, particularly that which terminates with 
a view of Cawfand Bay. A cottage is built in the park 
for the accommodation of ftrangers, where hot water for 
making tea, and other conveniences, may be procured. 
The vaft number of parties, in the fummer-time, from 
the adjacent towns and country, for the purpofe of vifit¬ 
ing Mount Edgecumbe, gives the park the appearance 
of a fair being held. On the public days, numerous 
groupes are aflembled, fome playing, fome finging, foms 
dancing, which forms a rural fcene, highly exhilarating, 
from the number of beautiful well-dreifed women, who 
give life to the different parties. The walks and grounds 
from various points are fuppofed to polfefs the molt com¬ 
plete views of hill, u'ood, and water, in England. Webb's 
Obf. on various Parts of Great Britain ; 1811. 
MOUNT FA'IRWEATHER, a mountain on the weft 
coaft of North America: twelve miles north-eaft of Cape 
Fairweather. 
MOUNT FE'LIX, a lofty Cape on the north-eaft coaft 
of Africa, at the entrance of the Arabian Gulf: forty 
miles weft-north-weft of Cape. Guardafui. Lat. 12. N. 
Ion. 50.40. E. 
MOUNT GAR'DNER, a mountain and promontory 
on the fouth-weft coaft of New Holland, forming the eaft 
boundary of King George the Third’s Sound. Lat. 35. 
4. S. Ion. 118. 29. E. 
MOUNT HEL'LEBY, a lofty mountain in the ifland 
of Barbadoes. 
MOUNT HER'MON. See Hermon, vol. ix. 
MOUNT HIL'LARY, a mountain of Ireland, in the 
county of Cork : feven miles ■weft of Mallow. 
MOUNT HOL'LY, a town of theftate of New Jerfey ; 
twelve miles fouth-eall of Burlington. 
MOUNT HOL'LY, a tovynlhip in Rutland county, 
Vermont, formed out of a part of Wallingsford, a part of 
Ludlow, and a gore of land between them; containing 
668 inhabitants. 
MOUNT HOPE BA'Y, a bay on the north-eaft part of 
Narraganfet Bay. 
MOUNT HO'REB. See Horeb, vol. x. 
MOUNT JOLI', lies on the northern coaft of the gulf 
of St. Lawrence, in Labrador. Lat. 50. 5. N. Ion. 61.35. W. 
MOUNT JOY', a Moravian fettlement in Pennfylvania: 
fixteen miles from Litiz. 
MOUNT JOY', the name of two townlhips in Penn¬ 
fylvania; the one in Lancafter, the other in Adam’s, 
county. 
MOUNT I'SLAND, an ifland in the gulf of St. Law¬ 
rence, on the coaft of Labrador. Lat. 50. 5. N. Ion. 61. 
35. W. 
MOUNT KAS'BECK, one of the higheft of the Cau- 
cafian mountains, which, with the adjacent country, was 
explored by Meffrs. Englehardt and Parrot in the year 
1811. They were furnilhed with guides by the lord of 
the country, (under the Ruffian government,) and Kaf- 
becli is the name by which he is diftinguiflied. Thp Ruf¬ 
fians, governing by policy as well as ftrength, feek to 
maintain their influence by bellowing military rank and 
pay, and orders of knighthood, upon the Caucafian chief¬ 
tains. 
Kalbeck is a prince in his own right; and, although he 
has condefcended to accept a colonelcy in the Ruffian fer- 
vice, he is one of the moft powerful of thefe leaders. He 
is lord of the village Stephan Zminda, otherwife Kalbeck, 
which is fituated at the foot of the lofty mountain which 
hears the latter name; and the Ofletes who inhabit the 
Valley of the Terek, from the fortrefs Dariel to Mount 
Kafchaw, .are fubjeCted to him. This valley is upwards 
of thirty miles in length; and all the villages within it 
are either under his protection, or peopled by his imme¬ 
diate vaflals. General del Pozzo, the commandant of 
Wladi Kawkas, invited Kalbeck to the fort, in order 
that he might introduce him to Englehardt and Parrott, 
who were defirous of vifiting the fources of the Terek, 
and of exploring the mountain which Kalbeck confiders 
as his property. The prince attended accordingly, ac¬ 
companied 
