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MILLSTONE GRIT 



Millom. Urban dist. of Cum- 

 berland. It stands on the W. side 

 of the estuary of the Duddon, 9 m. 

 from Barrow-in- 

 Furness, with a 

 station on the 

 Furness Riy. The 

 chief building is 

 the church of Holy 

 Trinity, partly 

 Norman, with 

 some very interest- 

 ing features. Mil- 



Millom arms 



lorn grew up around a castle built 

 here about 1100 ; this was long the 

 residence of the Huddlestone fam- 

 ily, and in the Middle Ages its lords 

 had the power of sentencing their 

 dependents to death. It was be- 

 sieged during the Civil War, and is 

 now a ruin. Millom owes its mod- 

 ern growth to the development of 

 the Furness coal and iron field. 

 Iron ore is mined here, and there 

 are large furnaces and ironworks. 

 Top. 8,600. 



Mill on the Floss, THE. Novel 

 by George Eliot (q.v.), published in 

 1860. Her third work of fiction and 

 second long novel, it is a companion 

 work to the earlier Adam Bede, as 

 a close and detailed picture of 

 English provincial life. Its prime 

 interest is as a study of a brother 

 and sister, preserving some of the 

 most charming recollections of 

 childhood to be found in English 

 literature, and further it contains a 

 series of portraits of the other 

 members of the Tulliver family, 

 which are so many masterly 

 etchings. 



Millport. Police burgh and 

 watering-place of Buteshire, Scot- 

 land. It stands on the S. side of the 



^ y island of Great 



Cumbrae, 24 m. 

 from Greenock. 

 The chief build- 

 ing is the epis- 

 copal cathedral. 

 Here is a marine 

 biological sta- 

 tion, and for visi- 

 Millport arms tors go if H n ks 



and bathing. Millport has a regular 

 steamboat service with the ports on 

 the Clyde. The opening of the sea 

 on which it stands is called Mill- 

 port Bay. Pop. 1,600. 



Mills Bomb. Hand grenade, 

 designed during the Great War, 

 and used by the British and Allied 



Safety pin 

 Striker lever 

 Striker 

 spring 



Detonator 



Striker 



Filling pit 



Cast iron 

 body 



Explosive 

 Charge 

 Cap 



Mills Bomb. Sectional diagram 

 showing principal parts and ex- 

 plosive mechanism 



troops. Deriving its name from 

 its inventor, it consists of a serrated 

 cast-iron body, with an internal 

 striker, surrounded by a strong coil 

 spring. The spring is maintained 

 compressed, and the striker held 

 away from the cap by the external 

 striker lever, which pivots in slots 

 in two lugs cast on the body, one 

 end of the lever engaging with a 

 slot in the striker. The striker 

 lever is prevented from rising by a 

 safety pin which passes through 

 holes in the lugs. The cap is fast- 

 ened to one end of a If -in. length of 

 safety fuse, the other end of which 

 is secured to 

 the detonator by 

 crimping. The ex- 

 plosive is loosely 

 stemmed amatol 

 or ammonal, and 

 the weight of the 

 complete grenade 

 is about 1 Ib. 



When required 

 for use, the gren- 

 ade is held in the 

 right hand, the 

 striker lever being 

 pressed against 

 the side of the 

 bomb. The safety 

 pin is withdrawn, 

 and the gren- 

 ade thrown with a motion like 

 overhand bowling. As soon as it is 

 released from the hand, the striker 

 lever flies up and leaves the 

 grenade, the striker is driven down 

 on to the cap by the spiral spring, 

 thus igniting the safety fuse, 

 which burns for about four seconds, 

 and , then fires the detonator, ex- 

 ploding the charge. These grenades 

 may also be fired from the rifle by 



attaching an 8-inch rod to .the 

 base plug, and inserting the rod in 

 the barrel. A cup is fixed to the 

 rifle muzzle to hold the striker 

 lever until the grenade is dis- 

 charged, a special blank cartridge 

 being used. From the rifle the 

 grenade has a range of about 300 

 yds., as compared with 40-50 yds. 

 when thrown by hand. See 

 Ammunition; Grenade. 



Mill Springs, BATTLE OP. 

 Federal victory in the American 

 Civil War, Jan. 18, 1862. The Con- 

 federate lines defending the South 

 from invasion by the Federals were, 

 at Mill Springs, a village some 10 

 m. W. of Somerset, Kentucky, held 

 by General J. B. Crittenden. With 

 the opening of the 1862 campaign 

 Gen. George H. Thomas advanced 

 towards this place with a force of 

 4,000 men. Crittenden hastened to 

 meet him, and launched an attack 

 which developed into a fierce fight. 

 The Confederate forces, despite 

 their valour, were driven back and 

 routed with heavy loss. It is some- 

 times called the battle of Fishing 

 Creek. A national cemetery was 

 afterwards set up here, over 700 

 bodies being interred therein. See 

 American Civil War. 



Millport, Buteshire. 



View oi the town and southern shore of Great Cumbrae 

 Island 



Millstone used by women in Palestine for grinding corn 

 by hand. This form is of great antiquity 



Millstone. Wheel or circular 

 mass of rock used for grinding 

 grain. The best rocks for the pur- 

 pose are the burr stones of France, 

 being hard and porous. They are 

 found in the Tertiary of the Paris 

 basin, and large millstones are 

 usually built up. The German mill- 

 stones are a basaltic lava found 

 near Cologne. Sandstones and grits 

 are used for millstones, the charac- 

 teristics of which should be open 

 or cellular structure, toughness and 

 hardness, as the coarse granular 

 sandstone found in New York and 

 other parts of the U.S.A. Mill- 

 stones are being gradually super- 

 seded by steel rollers in the manu- 

 facture of flour. See Milling. 



Millstone Grit. In geology, 

 name given to a hard siliceous con- 

 glomerate rock. Millstone grits are 



