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Mlill 



uml squash-trimis. He 

 i In- English Amateur Rao- 

 'li.iiii[)ions)iip in 1!)()2 

 i-iiiL'l''S and doubles), 1904-0 

 was amateur tennis 

 Is'.is l!m:i 15)05-6, and 

 I'.MI'.I 10. and won the gold prize 

 IviT '.'.!. 1' (01 -6, and 1908-12. He 

 was amateur champion of the 

 world at racquets, 1902, and at 

 t mms is'.is !'.ii>:;.-md l'.M>.-> Kustace 

 Mile* wrote many works on 

 sjMirt. Injury, food reform, etc. 

 He pave practical illustration of 

 Ins faith in his dietetic theories by 

 starting a restaurant in London. 

 Miles, NKLSON APIUETON (1839 

 American soldier. Born at 

 Westminster Moss., Aug. 8, 1839, 

 he was for some years in business at 

 Boston. During the Civil War he 

 fought on the Federal side as a 

 volunteer, and rose to the rank of 

 brigadier-general, especially dis- 

 tinguishing himself at the battle 

 of Chancellorsvilie. He was in 

 command of the operations against 

 Porto Rico in the war with Spain, 

 liiv.mir u lieutenant - L'i'iiciai in 

 IDito, and died May 15, 1925. 



Milesian. legendary name of 

 an early Irish race. It Is a latinised 

 form of Miled, perhaps an equiva- 

 lent of a Celtic gulam, "warrior." 

 Tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed Goidelic 

 Celts, they mingled with and sub- 

 dued the earlier population. One 

 tribe, the Scots, whose name was 

 given in Latin annals to the whole 

 people, migrated to northern 

 Albion (Scotland). See Celt ; Firbolg. 

 Miles Platting. Suburb of 

 Manchester, England. It com- 

 prises the ecclesiastical districts of 

 S. John and S. Luke, and its 

 suburban rly. station on the L. & 

 Y. Rly. is 1$ m. N.E. of the ter- 

 minus at Victoria 

 Station, Manchester. 

 Pop. 16,000. See 

 Manchester. 



Milestone (Lit. 

 lapis miliarius). Stone 

 set up to mark dis- 

 tances along roads. In- 

 scri'.-d pillars erected 

 at equal distance of 

 1,000 passus 5,000 

 Roman ft., equivalent 

 to 4,850 English ft. or 

 1,617 yds. and mark- 

 ing the distance from 

 the gate at which the 

 road emerged from 

 Rome, were a regular 

 feature of the military 

 roads constructed by> 

 the Romans from the 

 middle of the 2nd 

 century B.C., and per- 

 haps earlier. Julius 

 Caesar began the 



measurement of all the roads of 



the empire. 



Fragments of the first milestone 

 on the Appian Way have been 

 discovered about 120 yda. outside 

 the modern 

 Porta 8. Sebaa- 

 tiano at Rome, 

 and some RO- 

 OT a n m i 1 e- 

 etones remain 

 i n Palestine, 

 where the Ro- 

 man mile was 

 applied to the 

 roads under 

 the empire, as 

 recorded in the 

 Milestone, Clapham Antonine and 

 Common. London j erusalem itin . 



eraries. In the forum at Rome 

 Augustus erected a bronze-gilt 

 pillar, known as the aureum 

 miliarium, golden milestone, 

 mounted on a square pedestal, 

 upon which were inscribed the 

 names of the chief towns on 

 the roads leading out of the 37 

 gates of the city. Similar central 

 stones were set up in provincial 

 capitals, e.g. London Stone in what 

 is now Cannon Street. 



Milestones. Comedy by Arnold 

 Bennett and Edward Knoblauch. 

 Produced at the Royalty Theatre, 

 London, March 5, 1912, it had a 

 run of 607 performances. In effect 

 a family history r nging over 50 

 years, it contrasts \ he fashions of 

 thought, speech, dress, and life of 

 1912 with those of 1860 and of 1885. 



Miletus. Ancient city of Asia 

 Minor. Standing on thp Gulf of 

 Latmos, near the mouth of the 

 Maeander, it was the chief town 

 of the Ionian colonies of Greece. 

 A great commercial city, it was 

 famous for its woollen goods, 

 traded with the whole Mediterran- 

 ean coast, and established many 

 colonies on the Propontis and 

 Euxine, as well as Naucratis, in 

 Egypt. Taken by Croesus, and in 

 557 B.C. by the Persians, it headed 

 the great Ionian revolt against 

 Persia, but was destroyed on its 

 suppression in 494 B.C. Taken by 

 Alexander, it passed to the king- 

 dom of Pergamum, and to Rome. 

 The birthplace of Thales and other 

 Greek writers, it is poorly repre- 

 sented by the modern Palatia. 



Milford OB MILFORD HAVEN. 

 Seaport and urban dist. of Pem- 

 brokeshire. It stands on the N. 

 side of Milford Haven, 9 m. from 

 Haverfordwest 

 and has a sta- 

 tion on the 

 G.W. Rly. Mil- 

 ford owes its 

 origin to R. 

 F. Greville, 

 who, in 1790, 

 planned a port 

 here as a Millord seal 



centre for the trade with Ireland. 

 Soon afterwards the government 

 established a dockyard here, but in 

 1814 this was transferred to a spot 

 on the S. side of the haven, which 

 was named Pembroke Dock, It 

 has good dock accommodation, and 

 from here vessels go to Ireland and 

 elsewhere. Pop. 6,400. 



Milford. Town of Massachu- 

 setts, U.S.A., in Worcester co. It 

 is on the Charles river, 17 m. S.K. 

 of Worcester, and is served by the 

 New York, New Haven and Hart- 

 ford and other rlys. A large 

 shipping trade is carried on, and 

 boots and shoes and foundry and 

 machine-shop products are manu- 

 factured. Granite is extensively 

 quarried in th locality. Settled in 

 1669, Milford was incorporated in 

 1780. Pop. 13,500. 



Milford Haven. Opening of the 

 Atlantic Ocean On the coast of 

 Pembrokeshire, it is regarded as 

 the finest natural harbour in Eng- 

 land and Wales. It extends inland 

 for 17 m., being from one to two 

 miles broad. Milford is on the 

 N. side, and on an inlet on the 

 S. is the royal dockyard of Pem- 

 broke Dock. The estuary of the 

 E. and W. Cleddy rivers, its Welsh 

 name is Aberdaugleddau. Its posi- 

 tion and safety made it in the 

 Middle Ages the chief harbour for 

 intercourse with Ireland. It was 

 fortified in the time of Elizabeth 

 and in more modern fashion in 

 the 19th century. See map overleaf. 



Milford Haven, MARQUESS OP. 

 Title granted to Louis Alexander, 

 prince of Battenberg, who adopted 

 the surname of 

 Mountbat- 

 ten, in 1917. 

 Son of Prince 

 Alexander of 

 Hesse, he was 

 born at Gratz, 

 Austria, May 24, 

 1854. Natural- 

 ised as a British 

 subject, he en- 

 tered the navy 

 in 1868 and rose 

 to be rear-admiral in 1904. He 

 served in the Egyptian War, 1882, 

 was director of naval intelligence, 

 1902-5, and after several lesser com- 

 mands was appointed commander- 

 in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, 

 1908-10, second sea lord, 1911-12, 

 and first lord 1912-14. He died 

 Sept. 11, 1921, and was succeeded 

 by his eldest son, the earl of 

 Medina ('/.('.). 



Milford Sound. Fiord in the 

 S.W.of South Island, New Zealand. 

 It is 217 m. from Bluff, Southland, 

 by sea, and is reached overland 

 from Lake Te Anau. Mitre Peak 

 and Tutoko rise sheer from the 

 water, the former to a height ot 



1st Marquess of 

 Milford Haven 



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