MAGDALENA, one of the Marquesas islands, about five leagues in circuit, and supposed to be in S. Lat. 10. 25. W. Long. 138. 50. It was only seen at nine leagues distance by those who discovered it.
MAGDALENE'S CAVE, a cave of Germany, and in Carinthia, 10 miles east of Gortz. It appears like a chasm in a rock, and at the entrance torches are lighted to conduct travellers. It is divided into several apartments, or halls, with a vast number of pillars formed by nature, which give it a beautiful appearance, they being as white as snow, and almost transparent. The bottom is of the same substance, inasmuch that a person may fancy himself to be walking among the ruins of an enchanted castle, surrounded with magnificent pillars, some entire and others broken.