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Volume 6 · 64 words · 1778 Edition

in ornithology, a species of turdus. See Turdus.

MAUBEUGE, a town of the Netherlands in Hainault, with an illustrious abbey of canonesses, who must be noble both by the father and mother's side. This place was ceded to France in 1678; and fortified after the manner of Vauban. It is seated on the river Sambre, in E. Long. 5. o. N. Lat. 50. 15.