MO 



MOON 



MOOltK 



I In- German people were fund of speaking of ' Fran 

 tie' ami ' Hrrr Mond' ( ' lady sun' ami ' lord 

 iiKMin'). The winic invention (as it apjx-ar- to 

 us) of gender i- found union;; the Lithuanian- and 

 Arabians, ami even tlie ancient Mexican Meztle 

 ('moon') was masculine. Among the Slavs, ac- 

 linn, tin- iin Kin is masculine, a star 

 feminine, and the HUH neuter. See the Hev. 

 T. Harley'.. Moon-lore (1886), itaelf containing a 

 good bibliography. 



M"l NT.MNS OF THE, have ['laved a 



mysterious iMirt in Africnn geography since the 

 days of Ptolemy. who indicated them .- contain- 

 ing tin' -onto of tlie Nile. Their exact position 

 was not known : they were generally figured on 

 medieval maps as a high range cro ing the entire 

 continent from Abyssinia to the (Milt of Guinea. 

 As modern enterprise has o|>cned n|i the interior <if 

 Africa, diHerent i ...... ntain chains and peaks have 



lieett identified a- Ptolemy's Mountains of the 

 Mo.ni lor in-tanee. the mountains of Abyssinia. 

 the groups of Kenia and Kilima-N jaro, the so-called 

 Kong (<|.v.) Mountain- inland from the Gulf of 

 i. n in. -.1. ami finally Mr Stanley's Kuwenzori and 



it- fellows. 



a term in popular use in 



America. e-|-. -i-illy in the -ouih ea-tt-in states, for 

 illicit di-tiller- of whisky. 



Moonstone. s.><- FH.SPAR. 



Monnwort i Itiitri/rhiam lunariii), an interest- 

 ing tern, nntive of liiitain. and widely distributed 

 over northern Europe, |>enetrating to within the 

 ii- legion- and Asia, and along with the few 

 other specie- of which the familv is composed 

 ap|H-aring also in North America, The plajit is of 

 simple structure, consisting of a root-stock bearing 

 a single erect stem from 3 to 6 inches high. A 

 -ingle pinnate leaf springs from the stenf about 

 midway from root to apex. the segments being half- 

 moon slut|>ed. pale green, and of thick consistence. 

 The fnn-tilieation is dcvclo|>ed on a branched spike. 

 pyramidal in outline, from 1 ti '-' inches long, the 

 lirancln-s all turning to one side. It. ririfinii-mn. 

 the largi'st -rowing s|iecics, is named the Knttlc- 

 snake Kern, from the circumstance that it generally 

 abounds in places frequented hy that reptile. 



Moor. See HIM;. I'KAT. \V.\STK LANDS ; and 



for Grouse Moots and Moorfowl, see Gi:<n DC, 



Moore, Hit .Imtv, the author of Zeltico, was 

 born in I (eecmlicr 17-J!! at Stirling, a minister's 

 win. Kducated at Glasgow, he there studied t ..... li- 

 cine, and there began to practise, with Smollett's 

 and his own old master, I)r Cordon, for his partner, 

 after s|-nding -omc time in Holland las army Mir 

 geon ), in l^mdon. and in I'aii-. A- medical attend. 

 ant t<i the \oting Duke of Hamilton he travelled 

 -i\ \ear- on the Continent, and on his return 

 (1778) wttiad io London. Hi- rim- ,,/ *,;,/,, ,/ 



Munnrrs in l-'nni" 'mil, tlrriinimi. iin/l 



Italy (4 vols. 177!l HI I wax well received ; hut the 

 novel Xrlnr,, ( 178), which suggested Myron's (/,//</, 

 HnnJil. is to day the leant forgotten of his w<irks. 



Til.--.' include two other novels. M,,I.,:,ISI..- 



and n couple of liooks on the l-'rcnch Kevoltitioti. 

 I'r M.H.ri- died at Michmond. Jl-t January 1WC2. 

 Seethe Memoir l.y Hr 1!. Anderson prefixed to his 

 Complete Works (7 vols. 1820). 



Moorr. Sin .IIHIN. Knglish general, born at 

 Glasgow, 13th Novcmlx'r 1701, was eldest -on 

 of the nreeediiig. He entered the army as 

 ensign when only fifteen, and tir-t distinguished 

 liiniwlf in the descent IIIMIII Corsica (1794)- he 

 served in the West Indies (I76), in Ireland 

 during the relicllioii of I7IIM, and in Holland 

 in 17!>. H.- was in Kgypt in ISOI with the 

 .irmy timlei AlT<Toiiiliy. ami obtained the Order 



of the Bath for his services in command of the 

 reserve. When war again broke out in 180-J Moore 

 -i \.-.l in Sicily and Sweden. In 1808 he was -. nt 

 with a corps' of 1(1,000 men to strengthen the 

 Knglish army in the Peninsula. He arrived in 

 Mon. i August 1!. and assumed the chief 



command on the return to Kngland of Sir H. 

 Hurrard. In October he received instruction- to 

 co-i|H>rate with the forces of Spain in the expul- 

 sion of the French from the Peninsula. He moved 

 his army from Lislmn with the intention of ad- 

 vancing by Valladolid to unite himself with the 

 Spani-h general Homana, ami threaten the com- 

 munications In-tween Madrid and France. Hut 

 the apathy of the Spaniards, the successes of the 

 French in various parts of tin- Peninsula, and, 

 alMiveall, the folly and intrigues of his own country- 

 men, soon placed him in a critical position. Yi-t 

 he had determined to make a Imld advance from 

 Salamanca to attack Sonlt when the new- reached 

 him that Madrid had fallen, and that Napoleon 

 was marching to crush him at the head of 70,000 

 men. Moore's forces amounted to only 25,000 

 men, and he was consequently forced to retreat. 

 In December he liegan a disastrous march from 

 Astorga to Coruiia, a route of near 2.~>o miles, 

 through a desolate and mountainous country, made 

 almost impassable by snow and rain, and bknMod 

 by the enemy. The soldiers suffered intolerable 

 hardships, and arrived at Coruna in a very dis 

 tressed state. It was impossible to embark with- 

 out lighting, and Soult was in readiness to attack 

 ta soon as the troops should l-gin to embark. 

 The Iwittle was mainly one of infantrv, for tin- 

 cavalry after destroying their horses had gone on 

 Ikiaid, and the bulk of the artillery, for which the 



S round was not adapted, had also IMM-II withdrawn. 

 n the 16th January 1809 the French came on in 

 four strong columns. A desperate buttle ensued. 

 While animating the 4-Jd Itegiment in a brilliant 

 charge in an early stage of the action, Moon- was 

 struck by a cannon ball on the left shoulder and 



died in tl iment of victory. The French were 



defeated with the loss of 20(K) men; and the dead 

 leader was buried at night just liefore the emhai k 

 at ion of hi- troops. The British army in this 

 expedition lost their magazines and ItOtKI soldier-. 

 Soult, with a noble feeling of respect for his valour, 

 raised a monument to Moore's memory on the field 

 of battle, and at home another was erected in St 



Paul's Cathedral. His unconii i capacity was 



sustained by the purest virtue and governed by a 

 disinterested patriotism, while a certain heroic 

 ascendency of character and the singular beauty of 

 hi- |H-rson |nmerfully impressed every one who 

 came near him. Wolfe's verses on th'e burial of 

 Sir .John Moore have helped to keep hi- memory 

 green. See the Life by his brother (2 vols. 1834), 

 and Napier's I'ntintular Wur (vol. i.). 



Moore, THOMAS, the Hard of F.rin,' was IKUH 

 at 12 Aungier Street, Dublin, on usth May 177!'. 

 the son of a Catholic grocer. From the school 

 where Sheridan had l>een educated, and when- he 

 himself became a 'determined rhymer,' he passed 

 in I7!4 to Trinity College, and thence, after taking 

 his It. A., proceeded in 1799 to Ixmdon to keep 

 teims at the Middle Temple. He brought with 

 him a translation of Anacreon, which came out in 

 1800, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, his pat ion 

 then, but the butt from 1813 of his satire. It 

 pn.ved a great hit, and, with his musical talent, 

 procured him admission to the best society. In 

 1801 tol lowed i\>e Poetical }\'nrl;.tnj the late Tfuimas 

 I. ill/,', whose pretty erotics were a good deal 



''la d. ami very widely read. In 1803, through 



I/ord Moira's influence, he was appointed registrar 

 of the Admiralty court at Beimuda. He went 

 there to arrange for a deputy, and, after a tour in 



