. APPENDIX. (MADISON-MICA.) 591 esteem for virtues social, domestic and is held once in four years, and has power personal. His manners were simple, but to make rules and regulations for the courteous and winning. He was a de- churches, with certain limitations. Each voted friend to our revolution and to lib- society is divided into classes of about 12 eral principles of government. The eulo- persons, under a leader, whose duty it is gium which bishop Madison pronounced to see each person in his class at least upon general Washington is one of the once a week, to exhort, reprove, advise finest discourses called forth by the death them. The band societies are composed of that illustrious man. of three or four true believers, who have Methodist EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN confidence in each other, and must be all THE U. STATES. The first Methodist men or all women, all married or all unsociety in the U. States was formed in married. They meet at least once a week, New York, in 1766, by some Methodist to engage in religious exercises, and ademigrants from Ireland. Their numbers vise and exhort each other. The whole increased so rapidly that, in 1768, they number of members (in 1831) is 513,114; erected a meeting-house. Several preach- preachers, 2010: the whole number of ers were soon after sent out from Eng- hearers who attend Methodist preaching in land, and the first conference was held at the U.States is about 1,000,000. The MethPhiladelphia, in 1773, under the superin- odists in this country are Wesleyans. A tendence of Thomas Rankin, who had Methodist theological seminary has been been appointed, by Wesley, to the general opened at Middletown (Ct.), during the oversight of the societies in this country. present year. (See the Doctrines and DisDuring the war, all the English preachers, cipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, except Mr. Asbury, returned home. At and the Yearly Minutes of the Annual the close of the revolution (1784), the Conferences.) societies having been hitherto dependent Mica, the name of a very familiar on other churches for the administration species in mineralogy, often improperly of the ordinances, as their teachers were called isinglass, is possessed of the followmerely lay preachers, Wesley sent out ing properties : primitive form, an oblique doctor Coke with directions to consecrate hombic prism of 60 and 120°; its ordinaMr. Asbury superintendent or bishop of ry forms are a regular six-sided prism, the American church, which was done at so short as to be called a sir-sided table; a conference held in Baltimore, in 1784: a six-sided table in which the termitwelve of the preachers were, at the same nal edges are truncated, and an oblique time, ordained elders. The form of gov- six-sided pyramid, with alternate broader ernment is Episcopal; the title, the Meth- and narrower lateral planes; cleavage odist Episcopal church. Three orders highly perfect; lustre pearly, often inof ministers are recognised-deacons, el- clining to metallic; color various shades ders and bishops. Any person who of gray, generally passing into green, thinks himself moved by the Holy Ghost brown, and black, also into white and red; to preach the gospel, on application to his streak white gray ; transparent or transpreacher, is licensed, if judged fit, to ex- lucent. It is less transparent in the direchort; after exercising his talents as an ex- tion of the axis than perpendicular to it, horter for sufficient length of time, he is and presents different colors in these dilicensed as a local preacher by the local rections, for instance, oil-green in the first, preachers' conference, and may be ad- and liver-brown in all the others; sectile; mitted as a travelling preacher by the thin laminæ are elastic; hardness rather annual conference. After travelling two below that of calcareous spar; the acute years, he is ordained a deacon, and in two edges of the laminee, however, will someyears more becomes an elder." The local times scratch glass ; specific gravity 2.949. preachers above-mentioned are persons Mica is not common in well defined crysoccupied with some secular business, who tals, but more often occurs massive, havpreach on Sundays. The annual con- ing a columnar or granular composition, ferences are meetings composed of all the the faces of composition being irregularly travelling preachers, in full connexion, or streaked and rough. Much diversity exwho are to be received into full connex- ists among the analyses which have been ion. There are at present nineteen. The made of mica, froin various localities, by general conference is composed of repre- different chemists, as will be seen from sentatives from the annual conferences, and the annexed table. a 66 Fron a trace Peschirr. Rare Mica from From Siberia. From St. Gothard. Kimito. Alumine 20.00 34.25 22.00 0.00 30.80 Silex 47.00 48. 40.25 19.50 46.36 Oxide of iron 15.50 4.50 8.75 26.50 4.53 titanium 0.00 0.00 13.00 25.40 0.00 manganese 1.75 a trace 2.00 25.25 0.00 Magnesia 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 Lime. 0.00 0.00 0.00 Potash 14.50 8.75 7.25 0.00 9.22 Fluoric acid and water. 0.00 0.00 3.24 0.00 1.81 Klaproth. Klaproth. Peschier. Before the blow-pipe, several varieties authors as a distinct species, but without first lose their transparency, and then melt any sufficient reasons. It occurs in into a scoria, white or colored, or even granular compositions, of a peach-blossom black; others are infusible; and they show, red color, sometimes passing into several in general, as much difference in this re- pale shades of green. Its chemical conspect as in their composition. Mica forms stituents are, according to Wenz, one of the constituent parts of various rocks, as granite, gneiss, mica-slate and Alumine . 33.61 porphyry. It sometimes occurs in masses Silex .. 49.06 of considerable dimensions, containing Oxide Manganese 1.40 imbedded crystals of garnet, tourmaline Magnesia. .41 and topaz. Remarkable varieties of mica Lithia 3.60 are found in Siberia, particularly at a Potash 4.18 place called Witim, where it exists in Fluoric acid 3.45 plates one or two feet broad, and which Water 4.18 are perfectly cleavable, and nearly or quite transparent, in thin laminæ. At Zinn- and a trace of iron. Before the blow-pipe, wald, in Bohemia, it is found in very per- upon charcoal, it intumesces, and fuses fect crystals, possessing two axes of double very easily into a transparent globule. It refraction. It also occurs in the Horlberg is found near Rozena in Moravia, and at in Bavaria, in Moravia, in Switzerland, at Uto in Sweden, in primitive rocks. In Mount St. Gothard, and at Mount Vesu- the U. States, it occurs in Maine, at Paris, vius. At the last mentioned locality it is in large pieces of unusually fine colors found in the drusy cavities of the ejected and frequently embracing crystals of red, specimens of lava, in crystals with one green and blue tourmaline. It is cut into axis of double refraction, and often pos- snuff-boxes and various ornaments. Persessed of remarkable transparency. ' In fectly cleavable varieties of brown and the U. States, handsome varieties of mica gray mica are used in Siberia, in Mexico have been discovered in numerous locali- and Peru, instead of window glass. It is ties, among which may be mentioned the particularly employed in the construction distinct prismatic crystals of Acworth, of lanterns, and where glass would be New Hampshire, implanted on feldspar, liable to crack from sudden changes of and shooting into quartz; the dark-green temperature ; also on board ships of war, distinctly cleavable variety, forming a where its elasticity enables it to withlarge vein at Monroe, New York; the stand the concussion produced by the rose-red rhomboidal crystals of Goshen, discharge of artillery, which would be Mass.; and the emerald-green variety, in sufficient to shatter ordinary window glass. scales, from Brunswick, Maine. As a va- It is sometimes used for various optical riety of mica, lepidolite requires to be purposes, and enters into the composition mentioned. It has been treated by some of the artificial avanturine. CONTENTS. " Logic 66 nio) Page. Live Oak (see Oak) 22 Locust (Tree) 43 “ Loder (Ferdinand Christian "Liverpool (a town in England) von) Charles Jenkinson, Lodge 4 23 Lodi 45 46 Book Line 25 Logan (James) Lion's Share 47 (Brockholst) 26 Logau (Frederic, baron of) 48 Logge di Raffaello 49 27 Logier (John Bernard) 50 Lippi (several of this name) “Livy (see Livius) “Logthing, 52 Logwood Liquidambar Styraciflua, or Llama von). Liriodendron (see Tulip-Tree) “ Llorente (don Juan Anto- (Department) , 53 " Loiret 32 Lok (see Northern Mythology) Listel Lloyd's Coffee House “ Lokman List “ Lollards (sce Beguines, Fra- ternities, and Oldcastle).. 12 Loango (country of Africa) 31 Lolme, de (see De Lolme).. 54 “ Loch (the Scotch for lake) Lombards, Longobardi, or Leven (see Leven). 36 Lombardy “ Lockman (see Lokman, and Lon, or Lun Londonderry (marquis of) .. 68 64 6 66 Longimetry: 19 « Lovelace (Richard). “ Lusiad (see Camoens) 132 Lusitania 74 Low Countries (see Nether- Lustration 150 Lustre (see Lustration) 75 Low Dutch and High Dutch Lute Luther (Martin) 153 Lutherans Luthern 154 133 Latzen Latzow's Free Corps, or 155 79 Lewry (Wilson, F. R. S.). Luxation “ Luxembourg; 135 (Hôtel du Petit) (duke of) 156 Luxor.. “ Luynes (duke de) “ Luca Giordano (see Gior- Luzac (John) dano) 138 Luzerne (Anne César de la) 157 “ Lucayas (see Bahamas). 139 Lyceum Lycia 158 140 Lycurgus (the Spartan law- giver) · 141 (an Attie orator). 160 “ Lucien Bonaparte (see Ap- Lydia.. 161 85 " Lydus Lying-to « Lucilius (Caius Ennius) Lyman (Phinehas) Lymph.. 102 Luckner (Nicholas) 142 Lynceus (see Danaides) Lynch (Thomas, junior). Lynchburg Lyndhurst, lord (see Copley) 89 Lucretius (Titus Carus). 163 144 Lyonnais Lyonnet (Peter) Lyons (city) (gulf of) 164 165 Lyrics 166 Lysias 167 " Lysimachus. 163 « Lyttleton (lord George) M. 120 Lumpers M (letter) 169 “ Lump-Lac (see Coccus, end Mab Mabillon (John) 170 “ Mably (Gabriel Bonnot de) Mabuse (John de) of Silver) 147 Macaber. Macao 171 125 Mental Derange- Macartney (George, earl) 126 Macassar (city). 128 (straits of) Compos) " Macauley (Catherine) Macaw 172 Macbeth. Maccabees Maccaroni (Peace of). 173 148 Macchiavelli (Niccold). 149 Macchiavellism 176 Macdonald(Etienne-Jacques- Joseph-Alexandre). “ Lynn IV " 64 66 66 66 221 66 992 " Majesty 66 66 Mace (club). 218 178 Magalhaens (Fernando de): Mainland of Shetland (see 219 Mainots Maintenance 220 Magdalena 194 Maintenon (marchioness of) Maio (Angelo): Magdebarg (fortress of). Maiolica (see Faience). Centuries of (see Maire, Le, Straits of Centuries of Maison (Nicholas Joseph). Magdeburg): Maistre (Joseph, count de) Straits of Maittaire (Michael) Maize 224 Maggiore Lake (see Lago Major (in military language) 255 (in music) (in logic) “ Majorano Gaetano. of Arts). 226 Equitum (see Mas- Malabar. ter of the Horse)" Malacca (country) Matheseos (see town) Passage Straits of 227 Malaga " Malagrida (Gabriel). Magnates 198 Mal'Aria Malays. 228 200 Mal de Naples Magnetic Needle 204 Maldive Islands . “ Malea, Cape (see Matapan) 229 Magnificat 208 Malebranche (Nicholas) Malesherbes (Christian'Wil- 184 Magnifying Glass (see Mi- liam de). croscope). Malet (Charles François) 230 Magnisa : • Malherbe (Francis de). « Mall (or Pall-Mall) 231 Magnolia “ Malleability. 209 Mallet (David) - (a weapon. See Mace) “ Magyars 210 Malleus Mallicolo Mahabharata (see Indian Mallouines (see Falkland Islands).. 232 “Malmesbury (William of) “ Malmsey Wine . 189 Maloes (St.). 214 Malone Edmund) Mali. Maia. 216 Malta 234 d'Arc). 235 Malvasia Mamelukes Mail, and Mail Coaches (see Mammalia (Mammiferous 217 Animals). Mammee-Tree. Mammon (Solomon). 218 Mammoth Mammoth Cave 237 Man Isle of. 238 Man-of-war. (province of France) “ Man-of-war Bird (see Alba- et Loire (department tross) Manakin. |