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Mount Auburn 



Cjiuil'ii.l.'.-, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 



>. m. W. of Boston, on the 



;uul Maine Hly. Here arc 



ivea of Longfellow, Lowell, 



Motley, Charles Sumner, Phillip* 



Brooks, Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



ami dtlicr famous Americana. 



Mount Barker. Town in S. 

 Australia. It is a rly. junction, 22 

 in. !'.. of Adelaide, on a plateau of 

 Mi unit Lofty Ranges, in a rich 

 agricultural and vine-growing dis- 

 trict. I 'op. 2,100. 



Mountbatten. Name taken in 

 1917 by the English members of 

 the family of Battenberg, i.e. the 

 descendants of Prince and Princess 

 H. my of Battenberg and of Prince 

 Louis of Battenberg, created mar- 

 quess of Milford Haven. See 

 Battenberg. 



Mount Bischoff. Tin mine in 

 Tasmania. It is situated in the 

 N.W., 90 m. W. of Launceston. 

 Discovered in 1871, it is the richest 

 in the world, with from 70 p.c. to 

 80 p.c. pure ore. The township 

 Waratah, 1 m. from the mine, has 

 a pop. of 2,300. 



Mount Carmel. Bor. of Penn- 

 sylvania, U.S.A., in Northumber- 

 land co. It is 48 m. N. by E. of 

 Harrisburg, and is served by the 

 Philadelphia and Reading and 

 titlu-r rlys. An extensive trade is 

 carried on in anthracite coal mined 

 in the neighbourhood. Organized 

 as a town in 1848, Mount Carmel 

 was incorporated in 1862. Pop. 

 17,500. The hill in Syria is known 

 as Carmel (q.v.). 



Mount Clemens. City of Michi- 

 gan, U.S.A., the co. seat of Ma- 

 comb co. On Clinton river, 20 m. 

 N.N.E. of Detroit, it is served by 

 the Grand Trunk Rly. A summer 

 resort, it has noted mineral springs 

 whose waters are efficacious in 

 rheumatism, etc. It has carriage 

 works, and manufactures beet 

 sugar, agricultural implements, 

 etc. Settled in 1802, Mount Cle- 

 mens was incorporated in 1837 and 

 became a city in 1879. Pop. 9,500. 



Mount Desert. Island of Maine, 

 U.S.A., forming part of Hancock 

 co. Lying to the W. of French- 

 man's Bay, its surface is hilly, the 

 highest elevation being about 1,500 

 ft. Its beautiful lakes and rugged 

 coast make it a favourite summer 

 resort. Among the places chiefly 

 frequented are Bar Harbour on 

 the N.E. coast, Southwest Harbour 

 and Northeast Harbour at the 

 mouth of Somes Sound, and Seal 

 Harbour. The island is joined to 

 the mainland by a bridge, and 

 there is also ferry communication. 

 Pop. 8,500. 



Mount Edgecumbe, KAKL OF. 



Mnt i-h title lioitu- since 1789 by 

 tli<- family <>f l-Mjrecumbe. An old 

 Cornish fami- 

 ly, the Edge- 

 cumbes were 

 represented 

 early in the 

 18th century 

 by Richard 

 Edgecumbe, 

 .M.I', for the 

 county. He 



4th Ear! ol served under 



Moiiiit-EdKciunbe. Walpole, and 

 British diplomatist m 1742 was 



Utath made a baron. 



His son Richard, the 2nd baron, 

 also an M.P. and lord-lieutenant of 

 Cornwall, was succeeded by his 

 brother George, an admiral, who 

 obtained the earldom in 1789 and 

 was the ancestor of the later earls. 

 William Henry (1832-1917), who 

 became the 4th earl in 1861, was 

 lord chamberlain and lord steward 

 to Queen Victoria, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son, Piers Alexander 

 Hamilton (b. 1865). The family 

 seat is Mount Edgecumbe, near 

 Plymouth, and the earl's eldest son 

 is called Viscount Valletort. 



Mounted Infantry. Foot sol- 

 diers mounted on horses. They 

 differ from cavalry in carrying a 

 rifle as weapon and in the slower 

 speed of their mounts. The dra- 

 goons, as at first established in the 

 17th century, were mounted in- 

 fantry. Napoleon unsuccessfully 

 endeavoured to organize a similar 

 body, and in both Russia and 

 Prussia something of the kind was 

 attempted. Some units usually re- 

 ferred to as cavalry were in reality 

 mounted infantry, as those used 

 in the American Civil War, 1862- 

 64, and the Boers in the S. African 

 War, 1899-1902, gave proof of the 

 value of mobile infantry. The 

 British had battalions of mounted 

 infantry in the same war. 



Previous to the Great War the 

 British had a scheme for the raising 

 and training of definite units of 

 mounted infantry, and a mounted 

 infantry school was established at 

 Longmoor. Trench warfare fur- 

 nished little opportunity for their 

 use in France. In Palestine and else- 

 where, under different conditions, 

 the Australian mounted divisions 

 and others answered thedescription. 



Mount Gambler. Town in S. 

 Australia. It is situated near the 

 Victorian border, 305 m. by rly. 

 S.E. of Adelaide. Its volcanic soil 

 makes it a rich grain producer. 

 Pop. 7,900. Mt. Gambier is an ex- 

 tinct volcano of which much of the 

 original crater cone has collapsed, 

 leaving its S. portion as the present 

 summit. Valley, Blue, Crater, and 

 Leg of Mutton lakes have formed 



with tin- hollow, ; i ',h,,. Lake, about 

 L'.Vift. ili-i-p. in at the foot of 

 Hiffn 250 ft. hii-li. See Crater Lake. 

 Mountgarret, ViacousT. Irish 

 title borne since 1550 by the family 

 of Butler. Hi. hard Butler. 2nd 

 son of the 8th 

 earl of Or- 

 monde, was 

 created vis- 

 count in 1550. 

 Richard, the 

 3rd viscount, 

 lost all by re- 

 belling against 

 Elizabeth, but 

 his estates 14th Viscount Mount- 

 were restored I** !**" peer 

 to his son ***n*r<>x 



Edmund, the 4th viscount. Rich- 

 ard, 5th viscount, was outlawed 

 for rebellion, but pardoned in 1715. 

 In 1793, Edmund, 12th viscount, 

 was made earl of Kilkenny, but 

 this title died with him in 1846. 

 His nephew, Henry Edmund, then 

 became 13th viscount. The latter' s 

 son, Henry Edmund, 14th vis- 

 count, was in 1911 made a baron 

 of the United Kingdom. In 1918 

 Piers Henry (b. 1903) became 16th 

 viscount. The family residences 

 are Ballyconra, Kilkenny, and Nidd 

 Hall, Knaresborough, which, with 

 some Yorkshire estates, came into 

 the family through the marriage 

 of the 13th viscount. 



Mount Grace. Ecclesiastical 

 ruin about 3J m. from Northaller- 

 ton, Yorkshire. It is the remains 

 of a Carthusian priory, regarded as 

 the most perfect of its kind in 

 England. It was founded in 1397 

 and dissolved under Henry VIII. 

 The existing buildings consist of 

 the church and chapter bouse, 

 and some separate houses or cells. 



Mountj oy, CHARLES BLOTTNT, 

 STH BARON (1563-1606). English 

 administrator. Son of James, 6th 

 Baron Mount- 

 joy, he was 

 educated a t 

 Oxford Uni- 

 versity, e n - 

 tered the 

 Inner Temple, 

 and about 

 1583 began to 

 attract the 

 Baron Mount joy, favour of 

 English administrator Q uee n Eliza- 

 beth. He sat as member for 

 Beeralston, Devonshire, from 1586, 

 and took part in the campaigns 

 in the Netherlands and Brittany, 

 1586-93. Made K.G. in 1597, 

 he succeeded the earl of Essex 

 as lord-deputy in Ireland, in 

 1599. He suppressed the insurrec- 

 tion of O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, 

 notably by his victory at Kinsale, 

 Dec. 24, 1601, and after Elizabeth's 

 death received x the submission of 



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