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whether the feudal tenants, or others liable to furnifh 
foldiers, has provided their due number; nor could a 
general otherwife know the true ftrength of his army, the 
ground they would occupy, the quantity of provifion and 
forage neceifary for their fubliftence, and that of their 
horfes ; nor the money required for paying them. The 
objeCt of a multer was not only to afcertain the number 
of men and horfes, but likewife to examine their armour 
and weapons. 
Great abufes having crept into the practice of mufter- 
ing the troops in this kingdom, fo that the real effective 
ftrength of the army could never be exaCtly afcertained, 
a new regulation has taken place, in virtue of which the 
feveral regiments and corps are muftered every month by 
the regimental paymafter, and detachments of regiments 
in the refpeCtive diltriCts in which they are Rationed, by 
an officer called paymafter of the diftrict. Thefe have 
fuperfeded the commilfaries ofmufters; and the pay-lifts 
and mufter-rolls of the army are thus made to tally with 
each other. By 49 Geo. III. c. 12. every regiment, troop, 
or company, is to mufter twice a-year at leaft. The 
mufter is a review on a finaller fcale, and is often ufed 
preparatory to a review. See that word. 
MUS'TER-BOOK, f. A book in which the forces are 
regiftered.—Shadow will ferve for fummer: prick him; 
for we have a number of fliadows to fill up the nvujler- 
book. Shakefpeare's Hen. IV. 
MUS'TER-MASTER, f. One who fuperintends the 
mufter to prevent frauds.— Mufter mafters carry the ablelt 
men in their pockets. Ilaleigh. 
MUS'TER-ROLL, J'. A regifter of forces.—How many 
infignificant combatants are there in the Chriftian camp, 
that only lend their names to fill up the mvfter-rolt, but 
never dream of going upon fervice ! Decay of Piety, 
One tragick fentence, if I dare deride, 
Which Betterton’s grave aCtion dignify’d ; 
Or well-mouth’d Booth with emphafis proclaims, 
Though but perhaps a mufter-roll of names. Pope. 
MUS'TERFIELD, a town in South Carolina: ten 
ijnijes eaft of Kingdom 
MUS'TERING, f. The aft of calling over a lift of a 
fliip’s company, or a regiment, or any particular detach¬ 
ment thereof, who are accordingly lummoned to anfwer 
by their names on the occafion. 
MUSTEWA'H, a mountain of Algiers: forty miles 
fouth of Conrtantina. 
MUS'TILY, adv. Mouldily. 
MTJS'TINESS, f. Mould; damp foulnefs.—Keep them 
dry and free from mifiinefs. Evelyn. 
MUS'TY, adj. Mouldy; fpoiled with damp; moift and 
fetid.—Piftachoes, fo they be good and not mufty, made 
into a milk, are an excellent nourilher. Bacon's Nat. Hijt. 
—Let thofe that go by water to Gravefend prefer lying 
upon the boards than on mufty infectious ftraw. Harvey. 
Waft thou fain, poor father, 
To hovel thee with fwine, and rogues forlorn, 
In ftiort and mufty ftraw. Shakefpeare's K. Lear. 
Stale ; fpoiled with age.—While the grafs grows—the 
proverb is fomewhat mufty. ShalieJ'peare .—Vapid with 
fetidnefs : 
Let not, like Naevius, every errour pafs ; 
The mufiy wine, foul cloth, or greafy glafs. Pope. 
Dull; heavy; wanting activity; wanting praCtice in the 
occurrences of life.—Xantippe, being married to a bookilh 
man who has no knowledge of the world, is forced to 
take his affairs into her own hands, and to fpirit him up 
now and then, that he may not grow mufiy and unfit for 
converfation. Addifon. 
MUSTYGAN'NIM, Mostagan, or Mostaganin, 
a feaport town of Algiers, in the province of Mafcara 
orTremecen, fuppofed to be the Cartemuf of Pliny and 
Ptolemy. It is built in the form of a theatre, with a full 
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profpeCl of the fea ; but in every other direction it is fur- 
rounded with hills. In one of the vacant fpaces about 
the middle of it are the remains of a Moorifh caftie. The 
north-weft corner of the city, which overlooks the port, 
is lurrounded with a wall of hewn lfone; and has another 
caftie built in a more regular manner, defended by a 
Turkifh garrifon ; however, the chief fecurity of the 
place depends upon the citadel, which is built on one of 
the adjoining eminences, and commands both the city 
and country. L he town is well fupplied with water, 
and its haven is commodious and fafe. Neverthelefs* 
though it is. one of the largeft towns in the province of 
Mafcara, it is neither beautiful, nor has any flourifhing 
trade or manufacture. Behind it rifes Mount Magaraba, 
fo called from a people of that name, who inhabit it! 
This mount extends itfelf about ten leagues from eaft to' 
weft along the Mediterranean coaft. The occupiers live 
in tents, feed a great multitude of flocks, and pay 12,000 
crowns yearly to the dey of Algiers. The town is diftant 
eight miles north-eaft from Tremecen. Lat. 36. 6. N. 
Ion. o. 30. E. 
MUSUE'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of Jaen, 
on the left bank of the Guadalquivir: feven miles north- 
eaft of Jaen, and fifty north of Grenada. 
MUSU'MA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
fixty-five miles.weft of Meaco. 
MUSU'RUS (Marcus), a modern Greek poet and critic, 
was born in the i(le of Crete about the year 1481 ; from 
thence he went to Italy, where he ftudied under the 
learned John Lafcaris, and by an almoft inceflant appli¬ 
cation he acquired a thorough knowledge of Greek 
and Latin literature. From 1503 to 1509, he was Greek 
profeffo.r in the univerfity of Padua, wdiere his falary was 
trifling, and his labour very great. When the univerfity 
of Padua was broken up by the wars, Mulurus went to 
Venice, where he publicly taught Greek many years with 
great applaufe. At the fame time he affifted Aldus 
'Manutius in his editions of the Greek writers, many of 
which he corrected, prefixing to them Greek epigrams or 
prefaces of his own compolition. Of thefe, his Elegy 
prefixed to the Aldine edition of Plato, in m3, is the 
moil celebrated. In 1516, he was invited to"Rome by 
Leo XI. who prefented him with the archbiihopric of 
Malvafia, but he enjoyed this dignity only a fliort time. 
He died in the following year, at the early age of thirty- 
fix, juft at the period when the higheft expectations were 
entertained by the learned of his future fervices in the 
caufe of literature. Of his epigrams, feveral have been 
publiflied, with his Encomium of Plato; and to him we 
are indebted for the firft complete editions of Arifto- 
phanes and Athenaeus. 
MUSWELL HILL', a village in Middlefex, five miles 
and a half north from London, in the pariih of Hornfey. 
It derives its name from a famous well on the hill, where," 
formerly, the fraternity of St. John of Jerulalem, in 
Clerkenwell, had their dairy, with a large farm adjacent. 
Here they built a chapel for the benefit of fonie nuns, 
in which they fixed the image of our Lady of Mufwell. 
Thefe nuns had the foie management of the dairy; and 
it is fingular, that the faid well and farm do, at this time, 
belong to the pariih of St. James, Clerkenwell. The 
water of this fpring was then deemed a miraculous cure 
for fcrofulous and cutaneous diforders. For that reafon 
it was much reforted to; and, as tradition fays, a king of 
Scotland made a pilgrimage hither, and was perfectly 
cured 1 
.There is not within one hundred miles of London a 
village more rural and pleafant, or that can boalt more 
varied and extenfive profpeCts. Here are alfo many 
genteel feats of perfons of refpeCtability. Wilkes's Britijh, 
Diredory. 
MUT, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty-five 
miles fouth of Patna. 
MUT-BE'DR, a town of Egypt, on the eaft branch of 
the Nile ; four miles fouth-welt of Manfora. 
MUT- 
