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receives the Leven, the Kent, and the Lune. The 

 depth of water in the hay is never great except in 

 the channels of the rivers. 



Moreen. See MOIRE. 



Morel ( Murckella ) is a genus of Discomycete 

 fungi, of which a number of species ( .17. esculetita, 

 i/i-lii-in.tit, bohemica, &c. ) are commonly eaten fresh 

 and preserved in central and southern Europe. In 

 Germany the morel is so highly prized that, as it 

 often springs up where trees nave been burned, the 

 forests were often destroyed for its sake, till this 

 hail to 1* restrained by severe penalties. 



Morelia. capital of the Mexican state of Mich- 

 oacan, is situated, among. gardens and orchards, in 

 a valley 6400 feet aliove sea-level, 115 miles (234 

 by rail) W. by X. of Mexico city. It contains a 

 cathedral and seminary, and manufactures cotton, 

 tobacco, and candles. Morelia, which from 1541 

 to 1828 was called Valladolid, was the birthplace 

 of the patriot Morelos, in whose honour the name 

 was changed, and of Iturhide, the short-lived 

 emperor of Mexico. Pop. 25,(KK). 



Morelia, a town of Spain, 80 miles N. by E. 

 of Valencia, was the stronghold of Cabrera,' the 

 Carlist general, who scaled the castle on 25th 

 January 1839. It wis retaken in July 1840 by 

 Espartero. Pop. 7190. 



More Pork. See PODARGUS. 



Moreri, LOUIS ( 1643-80), was bom in Provence, 

 took orders, and was for five years a noted preacher 

 at Lyons, where in 1674 he published L< '.'/<!</ 

 Dictionnaire Historique, ou It Melange Curieux tie 

 I'Histoire sacree et profane (in 1 vol. folio). In 

 1675 he went to Paris, ami laboured at the expansion 

 and improvement of this important work till his 

 death. The b-st edition is the 20th ( Paris, 1759), 

 in 10 vols. folio. It was translated into Spanish, 

 Italian, and English, Jeremy Collier adding to 

 this an appendix or supplement filling a folio 

 volume. The geographical and historical articles 

 have liecome obsolete, but the biographical part is 

 still valuable. 



Moresnet. a small neutral territory between 

 Belgium and Prussia, 5 miles S\V. of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, ami containing alxmt 70 acres. There is 

 on it a village of 3000 inhabitants. 



Moretoil Ka.V. on the east coast of Queens- 

 laud, Australia, is formed inside the islands of 

 Moreton and Stradbrokp, the former '2O miles and 

 the latter : miles in length, and both about 5 

 miles in greatest breadth. The Iwiy is 40 miles 

 long by IT broad ; its southern half is dotted with 

 islands and sandbanks. It receives the six consider- 

 able streams, Nerjing, Pimpama, Logan, Brisbane, 

 Pine, and Calioolture. The entrance at the north 

 end is practicable at all times for vessels of the 

 large-t si/e ; the entrance between Moreton and 

 Stradbroke Islands is narrow, and less safe. 



Moreton-bay Chestnut, a genus of plants 

 so named tMOMM of the supposed resemblance in 

 form and qualities of the seeds to the sweet chest- 

 nut of Europe. Qaitcmetptrm*tm mintrale is the 

 only species of the genus known. It belongs to 

 the suborder Papilionaceif of the natural order 

 linosir. and is a native of Queensland, 

 Australia. The tree grows to the height of from 

 70 to 100 feet, with spreading branches clothed 

 with pinnate leaves about a foot long. The flowers 

 bright yellow, and re<l are succeeded by 

 cylindrical pendulous pods of a bright brown 

 colour, 6 to 8 inches long generally, containing 

 about four seeds each, which are 'roundish but 

 somewhat flattened on one side. Though likened 

 to the sweet chestnut, they are much inferior in 

 delicacy of flavour, lieing very astringent ; but they 

 are somewhat improved \vheii roasted. 



Morgagni, G. B. ( 1682-1771 ), founder of patho- 

 logical anatomy and professor at Padua. See 

 ANATOMY. 



Morgan, MOUNT. See MOUNT MORGAN. 



Morgan, AUGUSTUS DE. See DE MORGAN. 



Morgan, HENRY. See BUCCANEERS ; also 

 J. C. Hutcheson, Sir Henry Morgan (1890), and 

 I Howard Pyle, The Buccaneers and Marooners of 

 | America (1891). 



Morgan, LADY, novelist, was born (Sydney 

 Owenson ) in Dublin on the Christmas-day of 1780 

 or thereby 'cold, false, erroneous, chronological 

 dates ' she protests against. Her father, a theatri- 

 cal manager, fell into difficulties ; and the clever, 

 l>old, lively young woman resolved to support the 

 I fortunes of tfie family, first as governess, afterwards 

 j as author. She had had ' somewhat mysterious 

 I relations ' with at least one admirer, Sir Charles 

 Ormshy, when in 1812 she was married off-hand to 

 Thomas Charles Morgan, M.D. (1783-1843), whom 

 the Lord-lieutenant knighted for the occasion. 

 For the next quarter of a century, excepting two 

 lung visits to the Continent, the pair made Dublin 

 their honie^ but in 1837 Lord Melliourne gave her 

 a pension of 300, and next year they removed to 

 London. Here she died on 16th April 1859, having 

 continued busy with her pen and her tongue to the 

 last. Her twenty-two works rattling novels, 

 verse, travels, &c. include St Clair (1804), The 

 Wild Irish Girl (1806), O'Donnel (1814), France 

 (1817), and Italy (1821). Her silly but not un- 

 amusing Memoirs were edited by Hepworth Dixon 

 (2 vols. '1862). 



Morgan, LKWIS HKNRY, an American archaeo- 

 logist, was liorn at Aurora, Xew York, 21st 

 Xovemlier 1818, graduated 'at Union College in 

 l>lu, and became a lawyer at Rochester. He 

 served in the state assembly (1861) and senate 

 (1868), and died December 17, 1881. Morgan's 

 earliest work, The League of the Iroquois ( 1851 ), 

 was the first account of the organisation and 

 government of an Indian tribe ; but even more 

 valuable are his Si/sliuta <</' 1'tnixiiiii/uiiiity and 

 Affinity nf the II mini Family (1869), and his 

 treatise on Ancient Snciety (1877). He also pub- 

 lished Houses ami House-life of the American 

 Aborigines ( 1881 ), and an account of the beaver. 



Morgana, FATA. See FATA MORGANA. 

 Morganatic Marriage (perhaps from Goth. 



morgjan, 'to limit;' perhaps Ger. mort/engabe, a 

 gift given by the husband to the wife after 

 marriage; Littre suggests morgen, 'morning' a 

 wedding celebrated privately in the morning), 

 sometimes called Left-handed marriage, a lower 

 sort of matrimonial union, which as a civil engage- 

 ment is completely binding, but fails to confer on 

 the wife the title or fortune of her husband, or on 

 the children the full status of legitimacy or right 

 of succession. In Germany it came in very early 

 times to be accepted as a principle timtEbenbiirtii/ 

 keit, or equality of birth between husband and 

 wife, was essential to a proper marriage. The 

 lower nobility were of course not Kbenburtig with 

 the higher nobility, nor the liest born commoners 

 with the lower nobility. Now the rule only con- 

 cern- teigiiing house- and the higher nobility. But 

 still member- of German princely houses entering 

 into marriages of this kind with their inferiors in 

 rank (as frequently happens) contract merely mor- 

 ganatic unions. The marriage, for instance, in 1851 

 of Prince Alexander of Hesse to the Countess Julie 

 von Hauke, from which sprang the Battenberg 

 family, was a morganatic one. Handfasting (q.v. ) 

 in Scotland had a certain resemblance. The Royal 

 Marriage Act, 12 Geo. III. chap. 11, reduces to a 

 position somewhat like that of morganatic unions 



