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 form-
ed by nature, which give it a beautiful appearance,
they being as white as snow, and almost transparent.
The bottom is of the same substance, insomuch that a
person may fancy himself to be walking among the ruins
of an enchanted castle, surrounded with magnificent pil-
lars, some entire and others broken.