confession, but with a colleague, 

 Gaufrid de Charney, was con- 

 demned as a heretic and burnt at 

 the stake, March 18, 1314. See 

 Templars. 



Mold. Urban dist. and markets 

 town of Flintshire ; also the county 

 town. It is 13 m. from Chester 

 == ^^ nmmmmnm and 182 m. from 

 London, with a 

 station on the 

 L.N.W.Rly., 

 and lies in the 

 centre of impor- 

 tant lead and 

 coal minea 

 There are 

 m a n u f actures 

 Mold arms o f bricks, tiles, 



nails, beer, etc., and also works for 

 making tinplate. The chief build- 

 ings are S. Mary's Church, the 

 old gaol, now the property of the 

 Jesuits, the county buildings and 

 the town hall and library. The 

 town had a castle in the Middle 

 Ages, and earlier there was a Roman 

 camp here on a hill, now called 

 Bailey Hill. The name is a corrup- 

 tion of Mons Altus, the white hill. 

 Market days, Wed. and Sat. Pop. 

 4,900. 



Moldau OR ULTAVA. River of 

 Czecho-Slovakia, in Bohemia. It 

 rises in the S. of the plateau in the 

 Bohemian Forest, near the Aus- 

 trian frontier, and flows 265 m. 

 northwards to join the Elbe 

 (Labe) at Melnik, through Prague 

 and Budejovice (Budweis), to 



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from them hi high terraces to 

 the Pruth, its frontier on the E. 

 Jassy is the capital, and other large 

 towns are Botosani and Bacau. 

 It is divided into 13 administra- 

 tive districts. Area about 14,700 

 sq. m. Pop. nearly 2,400,000. 



In the 13th and 14th centuries 

 Moldavia, which takes its name 



MOLE 



Mold, Flintshire. Parish church of S. Mary, from the 

 south. Top, right, ruins of the medieval castle 



from the Moldava, a tributary of 

 the Sereth, was an independent 



17 against the 

 Austro - Germans. 

 See Rumania; 

 Rumania, Con- 

 quest of. 



Mole. Pig- 

 mented spot on 

 the skin, usually 

 raised, and 

 covered with hair. 

 Their removal 

 usually involves 

 a surgical or elec- 

 trical operation. 



Mole. Name 

 given to a large, 

 widely distributed 

 family of insect- 

 ivorous mammals 

 (Talpidae). The European mole 

 (Talpa europaed), common in Great 



Moldau. The Bohemian river at Prague 



which it is navigable. Its tribu- 

 taries are the Watawa and Ber- 

 ounka on the left, and Luschnitz 

 and Sazava on the right ; the 

 valley drops in terraces from 2,500 

 ft. in the S. to below 400 ft. at 

 Melnik. Between Prague and 

 Budejovice it flows through a deep 

 and narrow gorge ; this limits the 

 navigability of this section, which 

 has been canalised. From Bude- 

 jovice leads a canal to the Danube. 

 Moldavia. District of Rumania. 

 It is of elongated shape, Wallachia, 

 Transylvania, and the Bukowina 

 bounding it on the W., and Bess- 

 arabia on the E. The Carpathians 

 on the W. are its most striking 

 natural feature, and its rivers, the 

 chief of which is the Sereth, descend 



state, and under Alexander the Britain, is about 6 ins. in length 

 Wise and Stephen the Great it and covered with velvety greyish 

 flourished in the 15th century, the black fur. The hairs are set ver- 

 latter prince defeating a powerful tically hi the skin, a distinct ad- 

 combination of Poles, Magyars, vantage to a burrowing animal, 

 and Turks at Rahova in 1457. as they will lie in any direction ; 

 Conquered by the Turks in 1511, it the body is rounded, and the 

 was farmed out by them to the fore limbs are short and provided 



with singularly long and strong 

 claws. The forward position and the 

 paddle-like action of these limbs 

 make them powerful digging in- 

 struments. The nose is pointed, 

 the eyes very small, and the exter- 

 nal ears absent. A curious skeletal 

 feature of this animal is the breast- 

 bone, which is keeled somewhat like 

 that of a bird, and extended so far 

 forward and upward as to involve 

 the collar bones. The muscular de- 

 velopment of the mole is remark- 

 able for so small an animal. 



The mole spends practically all 

 its time underground, burrowing 



showing the Charles Bridge, built in 1357 



Greek Phanariote princes, who had 

 a certain measure of independence. 

 Partly through the efforts of 

 Russia, Moldavia and Wallachia 

 were liberated from the Turkish 

 yoke in the 18th and 19th cen- 

 turies. 



The union of the principalities 



not far below the surface in search 

 of the worms and grubs on which it 

 feeds. The small heaps on the lawn 

 are not the homes of the animal, but 

 simply the mould cast out in the 

 course of burrowing, whence its 



of Moldavia and Wallachia under popular name, mould-warp, earth 



the name of Rumania was pro- caster. . The hill or nursery of the 



claimed at Jassy and Bukarest '. 



Dec. 23, 1861, but they had been 



virtually united two years before 



under Col. Cuza, later styled Alex- 

 ander I, who had been elected 



hospodar or prince of Moldavia and 



Wallachia in 1859. During the 



Great War the Rumanians, sup- j 



ported by the Russians, success- Mo i e 



fully defended Moldavia in 1916- 



Specimen of the common 

 European variety 



