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of both fexes confifts of a piece of cloth covering thofe 
parts which are commonly concealed, and then wrapped 
round their bodies. Thefe cloths, made front the paper- 
mulberry,, are fometimes variegated, or painted, with 
great tafte. Their houfes, collected into villages, are 
built in the manner of thole in Eafter-ifland, but their 
form is fquare. With regard to their government, it was 
obferved that they were arranged into various tribes, each 
of which was under the controul of its refpeftive chief. 
The excellence of the climate and the fertility of the foil 
would afford the inhabitants every means of happinefs, 
did not leprofy and fyphilis rage among them, very gene¬ 
rally and with great violence. The inhabitants ot this 
jfland appeared in 1793 to be in a very diftrefied hate, 
having buffered much by a war of eleven years’ continu¬ 
ance with their neighbours of Owhyhee. Lat. 20. 34. N. 
Ion. 203. 40. E. Cook's Third Voyage, vol. iii. Pcrovje's 
Voyage, vol. ii. 
MO'WER, /. [from mote; founded as mo-er.~\ One who 
cuts with a feythe.— Mowers and reapers, who fpend the 
molt part of the hot fummer-days expol’ed to the fun, 
have the fkin of their hands of a darker colour than 
before. Boyle. 
The ftrawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, 
Fall down before him like the mower's fwath. Shake,fpeare. 
MOWGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
twenty-feven miles eaft of Rewah. 
MOWILGON'GA, a river of Ceylon, which runs 
into the fea at Trincomalee. 
MO'WING, f. [from the verb to mow .] The aft of 
cutting with a feythe.—It was the latter growth after 
the king’s mowings. Amos vii. x. 
MOW'ING, j. [from mouthy Grimace; mockery. Sher¬ 
wood.— Some Smithfield ruffian takes up fome new mowing 
with the mouth, fome wrenching with the ffioulder, fome 
freffi new oath, that will run round in the mouth. 
Afcham. —Ability.—Without whichewiowi/wg- the wretched 
wyl ffioulde languilhe without effefte. Chaucer's Booth. 
■—The aft of putting into a mow', or heap. 
MOW'LAY, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana: thirty- 
two miles north-eaft of Bafleen. 
MOWRRUD', a town of Candahar: twelve miles fouth- 
eaft of Candahar. 
MOWLAHO'RA. See Moutahora. 
MOX'A, f. A Japanefe word, denoting a foft lanugi- 
nous fubftance, prepared from the young leaves of mug- 
wort, employed by furgeons on the continent as a means 
of forming an efehar, which is ufually made in this coun¬ 
try with cauftic. A little cone of the moxa is laid on the 
part which has been previoufly moiftened, and it is then 
ignited at the top, when it burns down with a temperate 
glowing heat, and produces a dark-coloured fpot, the 
exulceration of which is laid to be promoted by the ap¬ 
plication of afmall quantity of garlic. The ulcer is kept 
open, or healed, according as the indications of the 
cafe require. The moxa is famous in the Eaft for curing 
leveral difeafes, and the French are in the habit of ufing 
it; but, whenever Engliffi furgeons wifli to produce a 
dough, they prefer cauitics to aftual fire. See Artemi¬ 
sia vulgaris, vol. ii. 
MOX'BOROUGH, a village of England, in the county 
of York, anciently called Maizebtll, where a battle was 
fought between the Saxons and the Britons, in which the 
former were defeated: feven miles fouth-weft of Don- 
eafter. 
MOX'ES, or Mo'jos, a province of South America, 
in the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, fituated between the 
biffiopric of Cufco and the country belonging to the Por- 
tuguefe, on each fide of the Marmora or Madeira; of con- 
fiderable extent, inhabited by Indian nations, and little 
known. 
MOXVA'O, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira : forty miles north-eaft of Braganga Nova. 
MOY, a circar of Bengal, bounded on the north-eaft; 
M o y 
by Ghidore, on the fouth-eaft by Curruckdeah, and on 
the weft by Ramgur and Bahar. 
MOY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Aifne, on the Oile : nine miles fouth-eaft of St. Quentin. 
MOY, a river of Ireland, which runs into Killala-bay 
about tfvo miles to the eaft of Killala. 
MOY, a town of Scotland, in the county of Invernefs ; 
nine miles fouth-eaft of Invernefs. 
MOY'A, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: thirty-fevcij 
miles eaft of Cuenca. 
MOY'A, a town of Spain, in the province of Catalonia ; 
eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Manrefa. 
MOYANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Kiang-nan : thirty miles fouth-weft of Haitcheou. 
MOYAR'D, Moyart, or Mooyaert (Claas, or Ni¬ 
cholas), a Dutch engraver, contemporary with Wieringen, 
about the commencement of the feventeenth century, 
was the happy imitator of Elfliiemer, and the inftruftor 
of Berghem, Vander Does, Koningh, and Weenix. The 
name of this artift has been varioufly fpelled, and his 
hiftory is obfeure; Baflan firft calls him Nicholas Moo- 
jaert of Amfterdam, and afterward Claas Moyard, a Dutch 
painter. He etched feveral plates in a ftyle bearing fome 
refemblance to that of Rembrandt; and, as far as is known, 
worked entirely from his own compofttions. Among his 
beft prints are a let of fix plates of animals, etched in 
apparent imitation of Swaneveldt; Lot and his Daugh¬ 
ters, in that of Elfliiemer; and a landfcape with cows and 
fheep: of various quarto dimenfions. 
MOYAR'T (Chriftian Louis), a native of the Nether¬ 
lands, the time and place of whole birth are not known, 
but who was reliding and praftifing engraving in the 
city of Amfterdam in the year 1630. Among a few other 
works of no very extraordinary merit, he produced a fet of 
monftrous allegorical compliments, of folio dimenfions, 
wherein Hercules and Minerva appear quite out of their 
element, and which is intitled “ An emblematical Hiftory 
of Queen Mary de Medicis.” Moyart marked his plates 
with a monogram which will be found at the lower part 
of our Plate entitled Motion, p. 108. 
MOYAT'TA, a river of Ireland, vrhich runs ihto 
Bantry-bay two miles north of Bantry. 
MOYAU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Calvados : five miles north-eaft of Lifieux, and eight 
fouth-eaft of Pont l’Eveque. 
MOY'E (La), a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of 
Jerfey : four miles weft of Noirmont Point. 
MO YEN VIC', a town of France, in the department 
of the Meurte. Here is a confiderable falt-fpring, from 
whence the water is conveyed by fubterraneous channels 
to Dieuze : two miles eaft of Vic, and three fouth-eaft of 
Chateau Salins. 
MOYENVIL'LE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Somme: four miles fouth-fouth-w.eft of Abbeville. 
MOYE'VRE (Grand), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Mofelle: eight miles north-weft of Metz. 
MOY'LE, f. See Moil, vol. xv. p. 620. 
MOY'LE, a river of Ireland, which joins the Mourne 
five miles fouth of Strabane. 
MOY'LE (Walter), a learned writer, fon of fir Walter 
Moyle, of Cornwall, was born in 1672 at Bake, the fa¬ 
mily-feat, nearLooe. He diftinguifhed hirnfeif at fchool 
by his proficiency in claffical ftudies; and, after an acade¬ 
mical courfe in the univerfity of Oxford, was placed in. 
the Temple for the ftudy of law. This, however, he never 
meant to purl’ue profeffionally, as his fortune enabled him 
to devote his time to polite and general literature ; and 
he cultivated an acquaintance with Congreve, Wycherley, 
and other wits of the time, by whom he was much efteem- 
ed. When a defign was fet on foot, about 1695, of trans¬ 
lating the works of Lucian, he undertook to furniffi a ver- 
fion of four of that author’s pieces, which lie executed 
with fpirit and correftnefs. Being warmly attached ta 
the caufe of liberty, he was difiatisfied with the conduct 
and principles of the clergy in king William’s reign, and 
conceived 
