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Mi TV land ban a well-develo|>eil system of free 

 public school*. In Is'.ir, <H1 there were in attendance 

 219.302 pnpiU, will, 4016 teacher* (*alari $1,790, 

 74O.VJ tin' total excuses fur public school puri>oses 

 l-ing for tin- yi-ar ?-J.r^l.-Jr,..V.I. There is in Haiti 

 more n Mate iinrninl school. nml in every county a 

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i M-IHNI! or academy. The colleges MHMftM in 

 whole or in part by the Mate are Si John'l Col 

 lege, Anna|M>lin (originally King William's School) ; 

 Wellington College. Ch.--tcrtown, Kent county, 

 to the foundation of which (ieorge Washington 

 contributed t'lut) sterling; the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, near Itladenshurg ; anil tiie Western Mary- 

 liKl College, Westminster. There are also several 

 denominational i-ollegi-s. The foiemost of the edu- 

 cational institutions of M.uyland is the JoluiH Hop- 

 kins l'ni\i-rsit\ . in Baltimore. There is n school 

 for tln> feebleminded at Pikcsville ; a school for 

 tin- deaf ami ilunil) at Frederick ; and in Baltimore 

 a whool for the Miml, anil a school for coloured 

 lilinil children and deaf-mutes, all 8iipporte<l hy the 

 tale at an annual c\j. -n ..... : aUmt .Hi<),oOO. ' The 

 asylum for the insane at Catonsville is admirably 



Maryland return* nix members to congress. Thn 

 Legislature U styled the General Assembly, and 

 consist* of two hotue* the Senate and the House 

 of Delegate*. The Senate is composed of one 

 inciiilicr fniru each of the twenty-three counties 

 and three from the city of Baltfaon, elected by 

 the j>eople. The HoiiNe of Delegates lion ninety- 

 one member*, eighteen from Baltimore city, and 

 tin- remainder fioni the counties in projiortion to 

 their re|MftiM> imputation. The sent of govern 

 meiit in at Anna|iolis. Baltimore had in 1900 a 

 Iip. of ."is,<i.->7. The other |>i mcip.-il towns arc 

 Cumberland, Hagerstown, Frederick. Westminster, 

 on the western shore ; Salisbury, l-loston. and Ciim- 

 Mdffc on the eastern. I'oii. ( KS3O ) 447,030 ; ( 1800 ) 

 687,049; ( 18SO) WM.IM.t ; (1900) I.ISS.IM4. 



'y.-In lift! Charles I. of F.ngland issn,..| ;l 

 patent to (Wil C.iheit. I,ord llaltiinore, ^nintin^; 

 him all the land ' from Watkiiw Point on the Hay, 

 northuntd to the 4Dlli decree of latitude, and froiii 

 the Atlantic Ocean and I)clawarc K-iy on the cant 

 to the Potomac ISiver on the v.i-st,' This grant 

 included not only the present Maryland, hut also 

 parta of Pennsylvania and Ilelaware. which led to 

 many \e\at imis ili.puii-, some of which were setthtl 

 only in In9o. The district wan namiil in honour of 

 "'' 'lariat's queen. In March 1034 



a party of Kn^lih p'ntlemcn and their .servants 

 and retainers, under the command of Leonard 



rt, n brother of I^ird liiiltimore, landed on 

 the shore of a IIMT now calliil St Marx '-. a branch 

 of the Potomac, and houxht from the Inilians 

 a tract of land. The friendly relations thus cum 

 inrnc^l with the Indians, and but rarely inter- 

 rti|>tl. t<vtherwitli the toh-nition uml pmtoOtlOl 



diil t nil hh.id.-i of Christian l>elief, led to the 

 rmpidand|i<-occfiil},-rowlliof thcncwcolony. M 



"i ..... I lhelii-t of the ei.li.nicH to take an 



" |..nl in (he lieioliiii.tn. hnriny the civil war 



|..pnlnr M-ntinieiit * divided, hut the HUU- held 



I MI..I, : (I,.- Utilc .,f Sharimhnrx (or An- 

 .in) wa fcmxlit ( IWJ-J , in Maryland. S,^ .1. T. 



fcharf, Uittory of Maryland (3 voU. Baltimore, 



Maryport, a e.-\|iri of Cumberland, at the 

 mouth of the Kllen. W mile. S\V. of Cailir.|e 

 b railway ( 1X37). The town K ei ii, name from 

 the fact that Mary (^m-ti of S.,,1. hmde<| her- in 

 her flixht from Scotland, though it wan ralhil 

 KllenfiHit down to I7.VI. when it* harbour wan con- 

 A new dock won o|iotied in IHH4. Ship. 

 building nn.l it* kindicd em|.loyment are carii.--! 

 on, and there are iron-foundnm'and iron fnrn 

 awmillp, flour -mill*, taunciie., brcwerie*, 



The annual value of the total export.*, ehiellv coal 

 and inm, varies from I'Td.lHMI to ,V>0,000 ; the iin- 

 IK. ii- of fniei^n and colonial nierchandi-e i.m-je 

 from l'7(i.(NN) to A'1.VI,(KH). The average iniml.er 

 of \essels enlei in^.' the liailHinr is about 15oO per 

 annum, of some '.'-..'O.OOO tons burden. Pop. ( 1S.M ) 

 5608; (IS'.II i .S7S4. 



Mnrvsvillo, capital of Yuba county, Califomiu, 

 on the Vuha Uiver, at the head of navigation. .".-J 

 miles by rail N. of iSacramento. It is a great resort 

 of pilil-niiiiers. and though somewhat declining, 

 baa an extensive trade, and contains Hour-mills, a 

 foundry, woollen factory, &c. Pop. (1900) .'M'.iT. 



MasJH'cio. a 1'lorentino painter, whose proper 

 name was ToM.MASo (il'IDI, was Innn in 1401 or 

 MH-J in the Arno valley, probably at Castel San 

 ( . iovanni. He was nicknanieil Masnccio ( ' Slovenly 

 Tommy') because of his ungainly a|)pearance nml 

 careless manners. A lepnted pupil of Masolino, 

 he was enrolled in the Florentine guild of painters 

 in 1424. Whilst still a young man he seems to 

 have executed a fresco of ihe Crticilixion and wenes 

 illustrating the lives of some of the later saints 

 in the church of St Clement. But his greatest 

 achievements were wrought on the walls of the 

 Carmine church, especially in the Brancocci cha|>el. 

 It has l.een matter of controversy as to which 

 pictures precisely were from the brush of Masaceio ; 

 Slasoliiio worked at the same walls before him 

 ami Kilippino Lippi after him. Those which are 

 assigned to him lieymnl doubt or question are 

 ' Kxpulsioii from Paradise' (greatly admired by 

 lEapfmcl, who repeated the design in the loggie of 

 the Vatican), 'Peter and the Tribute money,' 

 'Temptation of Adam and Kve,' 'Peter Preach- 

 ing,' and the same saint ' Baptising,' ' Healing the 

 Sick,' 'Giving Alms,' and (in part) 'Hestming 

 the Young Man to Life.' These works mark an 

 advance in Italian painting, in that they exhibit 

 a more vigorous and correct representation of 

 nature, with improved perspective and harmony 

 of arrangement between the figures and the back- 

 ground. Many of the subsequent 15th-century 

 painters of Italy were greatly influenced by the 

 study of them. Towards the end of 1428 Masaceio 

 suddenly left Florence, and is reported to have 

 gone to Koine and to have died there before the 

 year 1429 run out 



Masai, a people of East Equatorial Africa, 

 dwelling in a district that stretches from 1 N. to 

 "> S. hit,, and from 34 to 38 E. long., and includes 

 Kilimanjaro, Kenia, and Lake Itaringo. The 

 southern half of the district is low ami barren, 

 with no rivers and little rain, whilst in the north 

 it lises into a plateau-region (5000 to 9000 feet), rich 

 in running streams, forests, and grass-land. The 

 Masai are not a Negro or Bantu race ; they resemble 

 the Gallas. being men of magnificent stature and 

 AjMillo like forms, though their faces are ugly and 

 l.-ioeious in expression. This is due to the warlike 

 habiix of their youth, when, for nearly a score of 

 years, they live in military kraals, spending their 

 time in alternate idleness and on the war-path, eat- 

 ing nothing but 1>cof, drinking nothing but milk, 

 and having indiscriminate intercourse with the un- 

 married girls of the tribe. After marriage, which 

 takes place when they lay aside the habits of the 

 warrior, they settle down as cattle-breeders. The 

 arms of the warriors consist of an ox-hide shield, a 

 "(war with a blade 2 to 24 feet long and 3 inches 

 broad, nllixed to a shaft of 15 inches, a sword, and 

 a knohkerrv. They are an aristocratic race, and 

 clever public speakers. The work is done by 

 slav.M. n nd l,v the women and Imya, They speak 

 a Hamilic language. See Joseph Thomson, 

 lhr<,ii<il, M,,*,,i /.(/ (1885), and compare H. H. 

 Johnston, Kilimanjaro Erjtedition (1886). 



