M U Y 
M U Z 
arifes, there muft be Tome particular article in the con¬ 
tract whereon it is founded. 
MUT'WAL, a river of Ceylon, called alfo Calana 
Ganga, one of the branches by which the Muliwaddy falls 
into' the fea, about three miles from the fort of Columbo, 
after having nearly furrounded a large trad of level coun¬ 
try in that neighbourhood, of which it forms a very 
beautiful peninfula. The country along the banks of the 
Mutwal, for many miles, is extremely piCturefque and de¬ 
lightful. 
MUTYHA'RA, a town of Bengal: thirty-three miles 
north-north-eaft of Purneah. 
MUT'ZA, or Muzza, a river of Italy, which runs 
into the Adda eight mile's fouth-eaft of Lodi. 
MUT'ZA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Adda, on a river of the fame name : three miles fouth-eaft 
of Lodi. 
MUT'ZIG, a town of France, in "the department of 
the Lower Rhine : tw'elve miles w'eft of Strafburg. 
MUX, f. [a corruption of much.'] Dirt; Exmore dia¬ 
led. Grofe. 
MUXACAR'. See Mujaxar. 
MUXADABAD', [i. e. the town of one’s choice.] See 
Moorshedabad, vol. xv. p.758. 
MUXILLO'NES, a fmall ifland in the South Pacific 
Ocean, near the coaft of Chili. Lat. 29. 30. S. 
MUXOODPORUM', a town of Bengal : fourteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Mahmudpour. 
MUXOODPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: 
thirty miles fouth-weft of Bahar. 
MUX'Y, adj. [from the corrupt word mux.] Dirty ; 
gloomy. Lemon. 
MUY (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Var : fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Draguignan. 
MUY'DEN, a town of Holland, lituated on the river 
Vecht,-near the Zuyder See; there is a fluice here, by 
means of which all the adjacent country can be laid un¬ 
der water. The chief trade carried on is making of fait. 
It is fix miles weft of Naarden, aTid fix eaft of Amfterdam. 
Lat. 52. 23. N. Ion. 4. 55. E. 
MUY'DERBERG, a town of Holland: three miles eaft 
of Muyden. 
MUYS (Wyer-William), a phyfician of the mathema¬ 
tical fed, was born at Steenwyk, in Overyflel, in January 
1682, where his father pradiled the fame profeflion. His 
early education was obtained in his native town ; and he 
then palled three years at the college of Kempen, for the 
ftudy of the claffics, and afterwards was inftruded in the 
firft principles of medicine, algebra, and geometry, at 
Vollenhove. At the age of fixteen he commenced his 
ftudies at Leyden, and went from thence to Utrecht, 
where lie received the degree of dodor in 1701. He fet¬ 
tled at firft in his native town, and afterwards removed to 
Arnbeim, where he pradiled with reputation and fuccefs. 
An offer of a profefforlhip at Groningen was at firft ren¬ 
dered void by the difputes of a cabal; but his difappoint- 
inent was repaid by an eledion to the mathematical chair 
in the univerlity of Franeker in 1709, and to the medical 
chair in the fame fchool in 1712, which he exchanged for 
that of chemiftry in 1720. He was afterwards chofen 
profeffor of botany, which comprehended the infpedorlhip 
of the botanic garden. The houle of Orange lubl’equent- 
ly retained him as confulting phyfician, with a cor.fider- 
able falary, which he received to the end of his life. He 
was cut off by a lingering difeafe, iii April 1744, at the 
age of fixty-two. He had been five times redor of the 
univerfity of Franeker, and was a member of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Berlin. His writings were partly 
medical and partly philofophical, and bore the following 
titles ; 1 • Oratio de Ufu Mathefeos in perficiendo ingenio 
et judicio; Franeker, 1711. 2. Elementa Phyfices me- 
thodo mathematico demonftrata ; Amft. 1711. -3. Oratio 
inaugurafis de Theorise ufu, atque reda illam excolendi 
ratione ; Franc. 1714. 4. Differtatio et Obfervationes de 
Sails Ammoniaci prseclaro ad febres intefmittentes ufu, 
Vein. XVI. Mo. 1124. 
425 
1716. 5. Difpntationes dutc, de Materia Luminis, feu 
Ignis Caloris, et Lucis naturfi, 1721. 6. Inveftigatio 
Fabrics quae in partibus mufculos componentibus e.xltat; 
Leyden, 1738, 1741, and 1751, 4to. This is a laboured 
and copious compilation of all that had been previouily 
- difeovered refpeding the ftrudure of the mufcular flelh 
and its fibres, the divifions and fubdivifions of which he 
had traced with extreme minutenefs, and illuftrated by 
three good microfcopical plates, drawn by himlelf. 7. 
After his death a work of his was publiflied in French, 
entitled, Differtation fur la Perfedion du Monde corporel 
et intelligent, See. Leyden, 1745 an ^ 1750, 12010. 8. 
Opufcula pofthuma, feu Sermones Academici de leledis 
Materiis, 1749, edited by his fon. 
John Muys, the father of the preceding, who removed 
to Leyden, and pradifed phyfic there, was author of a 
work entitled “ Praxis Medico-chirurgica rationalis, 
which was publilhed in twelve decades, between the years 
i684and 1690 ; and “ Podalirius redivivus,” a fupplement 
to the former work, in 1686. Eloy Did. Hill, de la Med. 
MU'ZA, in ancient geography, a port of Arabia Felix, 
in the country of the Elilari, placed by Ptolemy between 
Sacacia and the port of Soiippus. Arrian places it 12,000 
ftadia feuth of Berenice. 
MUZA'NA, a town of Afia, fituated north of Melitene, 
on the bank of the river Melas, and near the mountains. 
MUZILLAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Morbihan : feven miles north-weft of La Roche Ber¬ 
nard, and twelve fouth-eaft of Vannes. 
MUZIM'BAS. See Zimsas. 
MU'ZIO (Girolamo), a copious Italian writer, was 
born at Padua in 1496, of a family fettled at Capo d’lftria. 
The family-name was Nuzio; but he affumed that of 
Muzio in conformity with the pedantic tafte of antiquity 
which then prevailed. Fie ftudied at' Padua ; and, his fa¬ 
ther dying when he was eighteen years of age, he found 
himfelf obliged to feek fora maintenance in the courts of 
different princes. For a number of years he lived a wan¬ 
dering life ; and in one of his letters he complains, that 
“ it has always been his lot to gain his bread by ferving 
fometimes in armies, fometiines in the courts of popes, 
emperors, kings, and other princes ; now in this, now in 
that, Italian capital; now in France, now in Upper or 
Lower Germany.” The nature of his fervices is not 
clear ; for, though he is faid to have been a dodtor of laws 
and an eminent jurift, none of his writings turn upon 
legal topics. He was honoured by Leo X. with the title 
of Cavalier. For fome time he was at the court of Ferrara, 
where he became an ardent lover of the celebrated Tullia 
of Arragon, whom he celebrated in his verfes; but his 
love appears to have been merely fentimental. The ac- 
complithed marquis del Vafto had him in his fervice fe- 
veral years, and lent him to refide with the duke of Savoy. 
After the death of the marquis, he paffed into the fervice 
of Don Ferdinand Gonzago, whole affairs he managed 
at feveral Italian courts. The duke of Urbino next ao- 
pointed him governor to bis-fon, afterwards duke Fran¬ 
cis II. In this court, about 1550, he married a maid of 
honour of the duchels, by whom he had noiffue. In his 
younger days he had two natural children, whom he de¬ 
corated with the noble names of Julius Casfar and Paul us 
Emilius. About the year 1569 he w'as at Rome, where 
pope Pius V. retained him with a handfome penfion, to 
be employed folely in writing, for he had now made him¬ 
felf diftinguilhed as a vigorous adverlary of the reformers. 
The death of that pontiff, how'ever, deprived him of his 
penfion ; and he was again reduced to that poverty which 
w'as the fubjedl of his complaint during the greateft part 
of his life. He was afterwards in the fervice of cardinal 
Ferdinand de Medici. He died in 1376 at the age of 
eighty-one, at the houfe of Lodovico Capponi, in Tuf- 
cany, who had kindly invited him to repofe under his roof. 
Of the numerous works of this writer, it will futfice to 
notice a very few. In 1551 he publilhed, along with other 
Italian poems, his “ Arte Poetica,” in three books, com- 
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