134 MOUNT. 
lieved before the next Michaelmas, the befiegers ftiould 
be put in pofl'effion; on this the conftable retired, and the 
caftle was relieved within the ftated time by a fleet from 
England. In the reign of Henry V. the edifice was re¬ 
paired j and, as has before been obferved, received the 
name of Mount Orgueil, which it has eVerfince retained. 
It was at this time conceived to be of fuch import¬ 
ance, that, according to d’Argentre, no Frenchman was 
ever fuffered to come within the gate without being firlt 
blindfolded. Towards the latter end of the reign of 
Henry VI. it was, under the pretence of a furprife, deli¬ 
vered up to Surduval, for the count de Maulevrier, cham¬ 
berlain of France, in confequence of an agreement be¬ 
tween him and the queen Margaret, as a reward for the 
afliftance he had afforded her hulband, Henry VI. of Eng¬ 
land. Maulevrier proclaimed himfelf lord of the iflands 
of Jerfey, Guernfey, Alderney, &c. as holding it feu¬ 
dally from the king of France. On the accefiion of Ed¬ 
ward IV. a plan was laid for expelling the French, who 
occupied the caftle and fome other parts of the ifland : a 
fleet appeared before it, and Philip de Carteret, lord of 
St. Ouen, befieged it by land, and, at length, obliged it 
to furrender. In the reign of queen Elizabeth, when 
Elizabeth-caftle was built, fome repairs feemed to have 
been done here, her arms, with thole of the Paulets, and 
the date, 1593, being placed over a gate in the inner ward. 
On the 15thof Augult, 1637, W. Prynne was fent prifoner 
to this caftle, where he remained till the 19th of Novem¬ 
ber, 1640. He has defcribed and celebrated it in a copy 
of verfes, intitled “ a Poetical Defcription of Mount Or¬ 
gueil Caftle, in the Ifle of Jerfey, interlaced with fome 
brief Meditations from its rocky, fteep, and lofty, fitua- 
tion.” In the civil wars, in 1651, this caftle, which had 
long been held for the king, was befieged, and taken, af¬ 
ter a Ihort refiftance, by Haines, the republican general: 
the trifling defence it made was owing, as is reported, to 
its being much out of repair, it having been neglected in. 
favour of Elizabeth-caftle. Ever fince Elizabeth-caftle 
had been made the refidence of the governor, the chief 
care was laid out on that, and very little done to fupport 
this. Mount Orgueil Caftle is unfortunately commanded 
by a neighbouring hill, fomewhat overawing the rampart; 
an inconvenience lefs regarded in former days by reafon 
of the wide deep vale interpofing betwixt the hill and the 
caftle, which hindered approaches. It is now in a manner 
flighted, and confidered as indefenfible. Poffibly govern¬ 
ment may think it needlefs to maintain two grand for- 
treffes in fo fmall an ifland ; and in that cafe there can be 
no difpute which of the two ought to have the preference. 
The caftle Hands, and will long Hand, unlefs purpofely 
demolilhed, on its own ftrength and firmnefs, and under 
its dilgrace retains an air of greatnefs that ftrikes the eye. 
For farther particulars, fee the article Jersey, vol. x. 
p. 777. It is five miles weft of St. Helier. 
MOUNT PAT'ERSON, a mountain on the north 
coaft of Chatham, in the North Pacific Ocean : ten miles 
north of Cape Young. 
MOUNT of PI'ETY, a fund or eftablifliment in fome 
parts of Italy, where money is lent out on fome fmall fe- 
curity. There were alfo mounts of piety in England, 
railed by contribution for the benefit of people ruined by 
the extortions of the Jews. 
MOUNT PLE'ASANT, a town of the ftate of New 
York, on the eaft bank of Hudfon’s River. 
MOUNT PLE'ASANT, a town of Maryland: eleven 
miles fouth of Churchill. 
MOUNT RAINI'ER, a mountain of North America, 
in. New Georgia. Lat. 47. 3. N. Ion. 23S. 2. E. 
MOUNT SA'INT, J'. A game at cards.—Here are cards. 
At what game will your majefty play ? At mount-Jaint. 
/Hackin's Dumb Knight. 
MOUNT St. AUGUS'TINE, an ifland in the North 
pacific Ocean, near the weft coaft of North America, a lit¬ 
tle within the entrance of Cooke’s Inlet, riling with an 
'uniform alcent to the centre of the ifland, inclining fome- 
what to its eaftern fide. The width of the paffage be* 
tween it and the main land is about fix miles. This ifland 
is ftated by Mr. Puget to be about twenty-feven miles in 
circuit; towards the lea-fide it is very low; from whence 
it riles, though regular, with rather a fteep alcent, and 
forms a lofty uniform conical mountain, prefenting nearly 
the fame appearance from every point of view, and clothed 
down to the water’s edge with fnow and ice, through 
which neither tree nor fhrub w T ere feen to protrude ; fo 
that, if it did produce any, they muft either have been 
very fmall, or the fnow muft have been fufiiciently deep 
to have concealed them. The landing upon this ifland 
was effected with fome difficulty on the ebbing tide, in 
confequence of the fliore being bounded at the diftance 
of a quarter of a mile by innumerable large detached 
rocks, through which a paflage was found, with much 
labour, for a boat: fragments of rocks appeared to lie off 
moft parts of the ifland, but no-where at fo great a diftanca 
as from its northern fliore. Lat. 59. 22. N. Ion. 207. 9. E. 
MOUNT St. ELI'AS, a mountain on the w'eft coaft of 
North America, about thirty-fix miles from the Pacific 
Ocean, perpetually covered with fnow. Lat. 60. 22. N. 
Ion. 219. 21. E. 
MOUNT St. HEL'EN’s, a mountain on the weftcoalb 
of North America. Lat. 46. 9. N. Ion. 203.1. E. 
MOUNT St. MI'CHAEL. SeeMARAZiON, vol. xiv„ 
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MOUNT SE'IR, in ancient geography, the name of 
mountains udiicli lay to the eaft and fouth of the Dead 
Sea, appropriated to them before the eftablifliment of the 
Ifraelites in the Land of Promife.—A mountain on the. 
frontier of the tribe of Judah and that of Dan. Jfh. iv. 10. 
MOUNT SHAN'NON, a fmall town of Ireland, in the 
fouth-eaftern corner of the county ofGalw'ay, and on the 
river Shannon, oppofite to the ifland of Innis Calthra. It 
is about eight miles north-by-weft from Killaloe, and io| 
miles weft-by-fouth from Dublin. 
MOUNT SI'NAI, a famous mount of Arabia Petraea, 
on which God gave the law to Mofes. (Exod. xix. 1. xxiv. 
16. xxxi. 18. xxxiv. 2, 4, &c. Levit. xxv. 1. xxvi. 46.) It 
is fituated on a kind of peninfula, formed by the two arms 
of the Red Sea; one extending north, called the Gulf 
of Kolfun; the other extending eaft, called the Gulf 
of Elan. The Arabs call Mount Sinai by the name of 
Tor, i. e. The Mountain, by way of excellence; or J ebb el 
Mufa, the Mountain of Moles; comprehending a range of 
mountains, which rifes at the interior extremity of the 
Valley of Fazan ; reftridling the name of Tor Sinai to that 
part of the range on which the convent of St. Catharine 
llands, and diftant about 260 miles from Cairo. The 
wildernefs of Sinai, where the Ifraelites continued en¬ 
camped almoft a year, and where Mofes eredted the taber¬ 
nacle, is confiderably elevated above the reft of the coun¬ 
try ; the alcent to it is very craggy, the greater part being 
cut out of the rock ; and then you arrive at a large fpac« 
of ground, which is a plain furrounded on all lides by 
rocks and eminences, whofe length is nearly twelve miles. 
Towards the extremity of this plain, on the north, two 
high mountains appear, the liigheft of which is called 
Sinai, the other Horeb. They are both of a very fteep af- 
cent; and the ground on which they Hand is inconfider- 
able, when compared with their height. Sinai is one- 
third part higher than the other, and its afcent more up¬ 
right and difficult. The Greeks have cut a flight of fteps 
up the rock. Pococke reckons 3000 of thefe lteps to tire 
top of the mountain, or rather bare pointed rock. 
Two German miles and a half up the mountain, Hands 
the convent of St. Catharine. The body of this monaltery 
is a building 120 feet in length, and almoft as many ia 
breadth. Before it Hands another fmall building, in 
which is the only gate of the convent, and which remain# 
always fliut, except when the biftiop is there. At other 
times, whatever is introduced within the convent, whe¬ 
ther men or provifions, is drawn up by the roof in a baf- 
ket, with a cord and pulley. The whole building is of 
i 3 Atewft. 
