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((implicit y in a plot against Napo- 

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 in Ameiir.i. In 1H12 he joined the 

 Allied service, and was tin-rein 

 when he \\a> mortally wounded at 

 the I tittle of Dresden, Aug. 27, 

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 iii.-in ied a Creole lady. 



Morecambe. Mun. borough 

 and watering-place of Lancashire. 

 It stands on Morecambe Bay, 3 m. 



T _,. from Lancaster, 



and is served by 

 theL.&N.\V.and 

 Mid. Rlys. There 

 is a fine pro- 

 menade, and the 

 attractions in- 

 clude good bath- 

 ing and fishing. 

 Morecambe arms There are two 

 piers, theatre, and two golf courses. 

 Near is Heysham, with a harbour 

 belonging to the Mid. Rly., which 

 has vessels sailing to Belfast, 

 Dublin, Londonderry, and the 

 Isle of Man. Morecambe, having 

 developed from a village, was 

 incorporated as a town in 11)02, 



Moree. Township of New South 



\V;iles, Au-tr;ih;i. On the (Jwydir 

 river. it is m m. by rly. N.N.W. of 

 Sydney on a branch with n railhead 

 at Mun^iii'li "ii the Queensland 

 border. It has medicinal baths 

 and a state experimental farm. 



pop. 3.100. 



Morel ( MarcheUa esculenta). Ed- 

 ilile fungus of the natural order 



A-' -iini v -etes, it is a native of tern- 



Morecambe, Lancashire. The Crescent and clock towe 

 on the sea front, looking south 



and in 1919 was given a separ- 

 ate commission of the peace. Pop. 

 (1921) 19,182. 



Morecambe Bay. Extensive 

 inlet on the coast of Lancashire 

 and Westmorland, England. It ex- 

 tends 17 in. inland to the mouth of 

 the river Kent, and measures 10 m. 

 in breadth from the S.E. point of 

 Walney Island to Fleetwood. Be- 

 sides the Kent, the Lune, \Vyn-, 

 and several smaller rivers empty 

 into Morecambe Bay. At high tide 

 a bore runs up the river estuaries ; 

 at low water much of the area is 

 bare sand, the rivers forming nar- 

 row channels which are not per- 

 manent. 



Morel. Specimens o! the edible fungus 



perate regions in both hemispheres. 

 It has a short, white, tapering stem, 

 and a swollen head, whose surface 

 is broken into a network of ribs 

 enclosing deep polygonal pits, 

 varying in colour from yellowish, 

 through brown, to olive. Both stem 

 and head are hollow. There are 

 several allied species, equally good 

 as food, one of them, Smith's Morel 

 (M . crasjipes, var. Smithiana) at- 

 taining a height of a foot, with a 

 diameter of 7 ins See Mushroom. 

 Morelia. City 

 of Mexico. The 

 capital of Michoa- 

 can state, it stands 

 in a mountainous 

 district, 6,400 ft. 

 alt.,230m.W.N.W. 

 of Mexico city by 

 a branch of the 

 National Rly. Its 

 most prominent 

 buildings are the 

 handsome cathe- 

 dral and the state- 

 house. Chief 

 among its educa- 

 tional establish- 

 ments is San Nicolas de Hidalgo 

 college, the oldest institution of the 

 kind in Mexico. Cotton and wool- 

 len goods, sugar, cigars, cheese, and 

 pulque are manufactured. Founded 

 as Valladolid in 1541, it became the 

 state capital in 1582, and received 

 its present name in 1828 in honour 

 of Morelos, the revolutionary. 

 Pop. 40,000. 



Morelia. Town of Spain, in the 

 prov. of Castellon. Perched high up 

 in the mts., 36 m. W.S.W. of Tor- 

 tosa, it is built in the form of 

 an amphitheatre, and girdled by 

 Moorish walls and towers. It was a 

 medieval fortress protecting Valen- 

 cia against Aragon, and has a 



Gothic church. 

 founded in 1317. 

 Blankets and 

 R&ahea are made. 

 Mon-lla WM the 

 < hi'-f stronghold of 

 the Carlixt Cab- 

 rera, who twii c 

 defeated the 

 Morelia arms f orcC8 of Q uetn 



Christina here, in 1838, but it was 

 bombarded and taken by Espartero 

 in 1840. Pop. 6,700. 



Morelos. Inland state of Mex- 

 ico. It is situated immediately 8. 

 of the Federal dist. which sur- 

 rounds the city of Mexico. Moun- 

 tainous in the N . . where the climate 

 is cold, the 8. occupies part of the 

 slope of the Mexican plateau, and 

 has a hot climate. The first sugar- 

 cane plantations were established 

 here by Cortes, and the sugar in- 

 dustry is still predominant ; rice, 

 coffee, cereals, and fruits are grown. 

 Silver, copper, and zinc are mined. 

 Cuernavaca is the capital. Area 

 2,773 sq. m. Pop. 184,000. 



More Pork. Popular name for 

 a cpeciea of night jar, Podaryus 

 cuvieri. It occurs in Australia and 

 Tasmania, and is so called from the 

 sound of its cry. It is also called 

 ffogmouth, in allusion to its large 

 mouth. It is dull grey in colour. 



Mpresnet. Village and dist. of 

 Belgium. It lies on the E. frontier 

 of the prov. of Liege, 4 m. S.W. of 

 Aix-la-Chapelle, and contains rich 

 zinc deposits, under the Vieille 

 Montagne, or Altenberg, worked 

 by a Belgian company. From 

 1816-1919 Moresnet was a neutral 

 state, until 1841 under joint 

 Belgian and Prussian administra- 

 tion, and from 1841 onwards, 

 under the government of its own 

 burgomaster and council, the in- 

 habitants making choice of Belgian 

 or German legal rights and military 

 service. The village of Neutral- 

 Moresnet, or Kalmis, was the centre 

 of the state. In 1919 Moresnet 

 was incorporated with Belgium. 

 Pop. 2,850. Pron. Mor-ay-nay. 



Moreton Bay. Harbour of 

 Queensland, Australia. It measures 

 49 m. by 17 m., and is enclosed by 

 the narrow sandy islands of More- 

 ton and Strad broke. Brisbane 

 River enters it, Brisbane being 25 

 m. S. of the bay. The neighbouring 

 locality developed into Queensland. 



Moreton Bay Chestnut (Cast- 

 anospermum australe). Tall ever- 

 green tree of the natural order 

 Leguminosae, and a native of Aus- 

 tralia. It has a smooth bark, and 

 the largo leaves are broken into 

 two rows of pointed oblong leaflets. 

 The flowers are at first canary- 

 coloured, becoming a rich scarlet, 

 and hang in loose sprays. The 

 large, oblong, woody pods contain 



