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MAUSOLEUM

Volume 6 · 72 words · 1778 Edition

a magnificent tomb or funeral monument. The word is derived from Mausolus, king of Caria, to whom Artemisia his widow erected a most stately monument, esteemed one of the wonders of the world, and called it, from his own name, Mausoleum.

ST MAWES, a town of Cornwall in England, seated on the east side of Falmouth haven, in W. Long. 5. 26. N. Lat. 50. 30. It sends two members to parliament.