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fragr&ncy when nibbed, renders them as worthy of a place 
in the dove as any other tender exotic plant which is pre- 
ferved for ornament. 
As thefe plants do not rife fo readily from feeds in 
England, the bell way to obtain them is to get fome per- 
fon of Ikill in America, to take up a number of young- 
plants, and plant them dole in boxes of earth, fetting 
them in the fliade till they have taken new root; then re¬ 
move them into an open fituation where they may have 
time to edablifli their roots before they are fhipped for 
England ; and in their paffage they mull be guarded from 
the fpray of the lea, and Ihould have very little water 
given them ; for moll of the plants which are fent to Eng¬ 
land are killed in their palfage by having too much wet. 
If thefe diredions be obferved, the plants maybe brought 
in good health to England, provided they come over any 
time in the Cummer, that they may have time to get frelh 
root before the cold feafon begins; and, when once they 
are well ellablifhed in their roots here, they may be pre- 
ferved many years in vigour. See Calyptranthes, 
Eugenia, Melaleuca, Metrosideros, and Myrica. 
MYS, an artid famous in working and polifhing lilver. 
He beautifully reprefented the battle of the Centaurs and 
Lapithae, on a Ihield in the hands of Minerva’s llatue 
made by Phidias. Pauf. c. 28. 
MY'SA, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Muldau a little above Prague.—A river which riles in 
Bohemia, on the confines of Bavaria, and runs into the 
Muldau near Prague. 
MYSCEL'LUS, or Miscel'lus, a native of Achaia, 
who founded Crotona in Italy, according to an oracle, 
which told him to build a city where he found rain with 
fine weather. The meaning of the oracle long perplexed 
him, till in Italy he found a beautiful woman all in tears, 
which circumllance he interpreted in his favour. Ac¬ 
cording to fome, Myfcellus, who was the fon of Hercules, 
went out of Argos without the permilfion of the magif- 
trates, for which he was- condemned to death. The 
judges had put each a black ball as a fign of condemna- 
tioh, but Herciiles changed them all, and made them 
white, and had his fon acquitted; upon which Myfcellus 
left Greece, and came to Italy, where he built Crotona. 
Ovid. 
MY'SECROS, in ancient geography, a river of Arabia 
Felix, placed by Pliny in the fouthern part of that pro¬ 
vince. 
MYSEL'F, f. An emphatical w'ord added to I: as, I 
myfelf do it; that is, Not I by proxy ; not another : 
As his hod, 
I Ihould againft his murderer Ihut the door. 
Nor bear the knife mjifelf. Shahefpeare's Macbeth. 
The reciprocal of I, in the oblique cafe.—They have 
miffed another pain, againfl which I Ihould have been at 
a lofs to defend myfelf. Swift.—I is fometimes omitted, 
to give force to the fentence : 
Myfelf Ihall mount the roltrum in his favour, 
And try to gain his pardon. Addifon. 
MY'SHAL, a fmall poll-town of Ireland, in the county 
of Carlow-, at the foot of Mount Leinller. It is forty- 
feven miles fouth-by-weft from Dublin. 
MYS'IA, in ancient geography, a fmall country of 
Afia Minor, is faid to have derived its name from the 
Lydian word myfos, fignifying a beech-tree, with which 
tree the country abounded. It was divided, according to 
Strabo, into major and minor. Myfia Minor lay on the 
Propontis, and from thence extended to Mount Olympus, 
bounded by Bithynia and the Propontis on the north and 
well, by Phrygia Minor on the fouth, and by Phrygia 
Major on the eaft. Myfia Major was bounded on the 
north by-Phrygia Minor, on the fouth by dSolia, on the 
eall by Phrygia Major, and on the well by the TEgean 
Sea. What Strabo calls Myfia Minor, Ptolemy denomi¬ 
nates Myfia Major 5 the former is alio named Olympenu, 
MYS 4G3 
from Mount Olympus, and Hellefpontiaca, becanfe fome 
towns anciently belonging to it were feated on the Hellel- 
pont. That part of Myfia which lay between'Ancyra of 
Phrygia and the river Rhyndacus, is called by Strabo 
Abrettaua, and the remaining part Morena. The former 
denomination is often given to all Myfia. In the part of 
Myfia which lay on the Propontis were the following 
cities, viz. Cyzicus, Parium, and Lampfacus, which is 
Hill in a tolerable good condition, fituated in a pleafant 
plain, and lurrounded with vineyards that produce ex¬ 
cellent wine. The Midland Myfia lay between the river 
Rhyndacus and Mount Ida. Here Stephanus places the 
city of Apollonia, on the banks of the Rhyndacus, which 
rifes from a lake bearing the name of the city ; now called 
the Lake of Abouillon, twenty-five miles in compafs and 
eight miles wide, interfperfed with feveral ifiands, the 
larged of which is three miles in circuit, and called Abou¬ 
illon. 
The chief rivers of Myfia Minor are the Rhyndacus 
(which fee), and the Granicus, which rifes in Mount Ida, 
and difcharges itfelf into the Propontis below Parium and 
Cyzicus, This river was eroded by Alexander, at the 
head of 30,000 Macedonians, in face of the Perfian army, 
which was 600,000 llrong, and notwifhdanding the height 
and deepnefs of its banks. It is now called the Soufoug- 
lnrli, the name of a village which it waters. In this part 
of Myfia Hands Mount Olympus, called Olympus MyJio- 
rum, to didinguilh it from feveral other mountains of the 
fame name. It is one of the highed in Afia, and for a great 
part of the year covered with finow. 
The city of greated note in Myfia Major w.rsPergamus, 
which fee. On the coad of this Myfia were feated the 
cities Antandrus, Scepfis, Affus, Adramyttium, and Pi- 
tane. The foil of this country was one of the fined and 
riched of Afia, and is celebrated as fuch by the ancients. 
It abounded in corn and wine, and was well docked with 
cattle, and had a great many large plains for padure. It 
was plentifully watered with fmall rivers running down 
from Mount Ida and Olympus. 
As to the origin of the Myfians, Herodotus informs us, 
that they were Lydians by defcent. Others derive them 
from the Phrygians ; and tell us that Mylus, from whom 
their name is laid to originate, was not a Lydian, but a 
Phrygian. Strabo deduces the Afiatic Myfians from thofe 
of Europe, inhabiting that part which lies between Mount 
Hermus and the Danube, and is now known under the 
names of Bofnia, Servia, and Bulgaria. As to the cha¬ 
racter of the ancient Myfians, it mud be confidered at dif¬ 
ferent times, for they feem to have been once a warlike 
people. However, in later ages, they degenerated from 
the valour of their ancedors, fo as to be looked upon as 
the molt contemptible and infignificant nation on earth ; 
infomuch that the Greeks had no exprellion to fignify 
more emphatically a perlon of no worth or merit than to 
call him “ the lait of the Myfians.” They were addicted 
to tears ; and on that account employed by the Greeks to 
attend their funerals, and lament over the deceafed. 
Their language was probably the fame as the Phrygian 
and Trojan, with fome variation of dialed. Nothing is 
known concerning their manners, cudoms, arts, and fei- 
ences. That they were commercial, we may infer from 
their fituation and their wealth; for they are reprefented 
by Philodratus as being in ancient times the mod opulent 
nation of all Afia. As to their religion, it was much the 
fame with that of the Phrygians, with whom they vied in 
fuperdition. They worlhipped the fame deities, and ufed 
the fame religious ceremonies; whence fome have con¬ 
cluded, that they were originally Phrygians. Cybele had 
a dately temple at Cyzicus ; and there was another dedi¬ 
cated to Apollo Adaeus near Parium. Nemefis was alfo 
one of their deities ; and Priapus was worlhipped by the 
more modern Myfians, but unknown to them even in the 
time of Heliod. The Mylian priefts abdained from fielh, 
and were not allowed to marry. Upon their initiation 
into the prielthood, they facrificed a horfe, and ate his en¬ 
trails. 
