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Tent the living bird, having large fparkling gla/’s beads 
or buttons fixed in the head for eyes: this enflgn of wif- 
dom and divination they fometimes wear as a creft on the 
top of the head : at other times it is borne on the arm, or 
on the hand. Thefe bachelors are always diftinguifhable 
from other people by their taciturnity, grave and foleran 
countenance, dignified ftep, and by their finging to them- 
felves longs or hymns, in a low fweet voice, as they ftroll 
about the towns. Morfe's Gaz. under Creeks and Muf- 
kogulge. 
MUSKON'GUS, a fmall river of America, which fprings 
from ponds in the town of Maine, in the county of Lin¬ 
coln and ftate of Maine, and enters the fea', after a courfe 
of about twenty' miles, through the adjoining town of 
Weldeborough. 
MUSKON'GUS BA'Y, a bay formed by Briftol or 
Pemaquid-point on the weft, and Meduncook plantation 
on the eaft. In this bay is an ifland of the fame name, 
containing about a thoufand acres. This Indian name 
is alfo applied to a grant or claim of land called Mujkongus 
Patent. 
MUS'KY, aclj. Fragrant; fweet of fcent: 
There eternal fummer dwells, 
And weft winds, with mnjhj wing, 
About the cedar’n alley fling 
Nard and caflla’s balmy fmells, Milton's Comas. 
MUS'LIN,/. [ movfj'eline , Fr. from moyjffe, on account 
of its having a downy nap, like mofs, on its furface; or 
from MoJJiU, the port whence it was firft fent into Europe. 
Baumgarten's Snpplem. XJniv. Hift. ] A fine fluff made of 
cotton, imported from the Eaft Indies.—By the ufe of 
certain attire made of cambric or mvjlin upon her head, 
fhe attained to an evil art in the motion of her eyes. 
Tatler. 
In half-whipt mvjlin needles ufelefs lie, 
And fhuttlecocks acrofs the counter fly. Gay. 
There are various kinds of muflins brought from the 
Eaft Indies, chiefly from Bengal; as mulmuls, tanjeebs, 
terrindams, coflacs, jacconotts, &c. Jacconott, orjacco- 
nett, is a fpecies of muflin of a fabric between the cofl’ac 
and the mulmul, being lighter and thinner than the for¬ 
mer, and ftouter than the latter. The name is faid to 
be a corruption of Jaggernaut, the diftridt in India where 
muflins of this defcription are chiefly made. The jac¬ 
conott is perhaps the moft univerfal fabric of the lighter 
defcriptions of muflin, being more (liowy and open than 
the coflacs, long-cloths, or cotton cambrics, and more 
durable than the mulmuls. It is alio from this quality 
the bell fitted for the ornamental figures of tambour and 
needle-work ; the lighter fabrics, although very beautiful 
when well executed, being too flimfy to bear waftiing, 
drefling, or clear-ftarching, oiten, when loaded with 
needle-work of any kind; and the opacity of the ftouter 
fabrics diminilhing very fenfibly both the fiiow and 
beauty of the work. 
Jacconott muflins are now made in great abundance 
both in England and Scotland. In England, belides 
thofe which are worn plain, a very great number is ufed 
for the finer kinds of printed goods, both as garments 
and ftiawls. In Scotland, befides plain wearing and print¬ 
ing, they are employed for the needle-work of various 
kinds. The Scotch jacconotts are in general made con- 
fiderably lighter in the fabric than thole of England ; and 
this is very proper when the different ufes to which they 
are generally applied are taken into coniideration. A 
very great proportion of the jacconotts made in England 
are either worn plain or ufed for printing; in both thefe 
cafes a clofe flout fabric is moft economical, and in the 
latter the colours will appear with more brilliancy and 
effeft when there is a clofe body to receive and abforb 
the colour in confiderable quantity. In every fpecies 
of needle-work, on the contrary, the lightnefs and tranf- 
parency of the fabric, forming a contraft with the clofe 
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appearance of the work, give it a degree of what painters 
call relief, which greatly heightens its apoearance. 
MUSMUR'jREAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir- 
car of Gohud : ten miles weft of Cafpy. 
MUSNI'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna : fourteen miles fouth of Wilkomierz. 
MUSNOU', a town of Spain, in Catalonia, on the 
coaft : feven miles fouth-weft of Mataro. 
MUS'NUD, f. [Indian.] A feat; but it particularly 
exprelles the throne of a prince. 
MU'SO, a town of South America, in the viceroyalty 
of New Grenada : feventy miles north of Santa Fe de 
Bogota, and one hundred fouth-fouth-eaft of Santa Fe-de 
Antioquia. 
MUSOLEN'TE, a town of Italy, in the Trevifan : 
nine miles fouth-eaft of Cifmone. 
MUSO'NE, a river of Italy, which runs into the 
Adriatic a little to the north-eaft of Lorerto. 
MUSO'NIUS, one of the moft virtuous and excellent 
of the modern Cynics, was a Babylonian by birth, and 
flouriihed in the fecond century of the Chriftian tera. Phi- 
loftratus fpeaks of him as next to Apollonius in wifdom, 
and an excellent philolopher. He was at Rome during 
the reign of the emperor Nero, where, by animadverting 
on the vices of that tyrant, he provoked his refentment, 
and was committed to prifon. While he was in confine¬ 
ment, he contrafted a friendflvip with Apollonius, and 
entered into a correfpondence with him, of whichTome 
fpecimens may be l’een in Philoftratus. At laft he was 
baniflied into the ifthmus of Greece, and condemned to 
daily labour with the fpade in a ftate of flavery. Being 
feen in this condition by his friend Demetrius of Corinth, 
the latter exprefled great concern at his unworthy treat¬ 
ment : upon which Mufonius, ftriking his fpade firmly 
in the ground, faid, “ Why, Demetrius, do you lament 
to fee me digging in the Ifthmus ? You might, indeed, 
have juft caufe for lamentation, if you law me, like Nero, 
playing on the harp.” His magnanimity is 1 ’poken of 
with admiration by Julian, in his Epiftle to Themiftitvs. 
The time of his death is uncertain; and none of his 
writings have defeended to modern times. Philojirati de 
Vit. Apollmdi Tyan. lib. iv. 
MUSO'NIUS (Caius), furnamed Rufus, a ftoic philo- 
fopher, and a contemporary of the preceding, was a Tuf- 
can by birth, of the equeftrian order, and enjoyed mili¬ 
tary honours. He endeavoured to difleminate the prin¬ 
ciples and precepts of the philofophy to which he was at¬ 
tached among the Roman youth, particularly among the 
officers of the army ; and by fo doing excited the ridicule 
of fome, while he gave offence to others. He likewile 
incurred the difpleafure of Nero, moft probably by the 
freedom with which he expofed the turpitude of the ac¬ 
tions that difgraced his reign, and was baniflied by him 
to Gyara. Afterwards, however, he was recalled by Vefi- 
pafian ; and that emperor was fo well ple’afed by the man¬ 
ner in which he conducted himlelf, that, when he baniflied 
the philofophers in general from Rome and Italy, Mufo¬ 
nius was alone permitted to remain in the city. He is 
thought to have been the philofopher of this name, whom 
Origen commended in his third book againft Celfus, for 
his great integrity and exemplary behaviour. His philo¬ 
fophy, like that of Socrates, was adapted to the purpofes 
of lire and manners ; as may be inferred from the frag¬ 
ment of one of his diflertations “ On the Contempt of 
Labour, and the Exercife of the Mind,” which is pre- 
lerved in Stobseus. Enfield's HiJ't. Phil vol. ii. 
MUSQUABAS'TON LA'KE, a lake of Canada, in lat. 
51. 40. N. Ion. 87. 30. W. 
MUSQUA'KIES, Indians of America, inhabiting the 
fouthern Ihore of Lake Michigan. 
MUSQUATON'S, Indians inhabiting near Lake Mi¬ 
chigan. 
MUSQUI'TO. See Mosouito. 
MUSQUI'TO RIV'ER and BA'Y, lie at a fmall dis¬ 
tance north of Cape Canaverel, on the coaft of Eaft 
Florida. 
