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MORANiD (Jean-Francois-Clement), a Parifian ph y- 
fician of diftinftion, was the fon of the. preceding. He 
was. born, at Paris in April 1726, received the degree 
of doitor in medicine in 1750, and was foon alterwards 
appointed profelfor of anatomy in the fame fchool. . He 
obtained a high reputation in his profeflion, and received 
many honours, having been eleited into the Royal Aca¬ 
demy of Sciences of Paris, the Royal Society of London, 
and many other learned bodies; and he was likewife 
appointed phyfician in ordinary to Staniflaus, king of 
Poland, and duke of Lorraine. He died in 1784- The 
following are the chief of his writings. 1. Iiilloire de la 
Maladie finguliere, et de Pexamen d’une femme devenue 
en peu de terns contrefaite par un ramollifl'ement ge¬ 
neral des os, Paris 1752. 2. Lettre a M. le Roi au fujet 
de l’Hiftoire de la femme Suppiot, Par. 17S3. Suppiot 
was the woman affefted with the foftening of the bones, 
defcribed in the foregoing work. 3. Eclairciffement 
abrege fur la Maladie d’une fille de St. Geofme, Paris, 
1754.. 4. Lettre fur l’Inftrument de Roonhuyfen, 1755. 
5. Du Charbon de Terre, et de fes Mines; fol. 1769. 
This forms the fortieth number of the arts defcribed by 
the Academy of Sciences. Coal was then little known 
in France; and Morand took a journey to Liege, for the 
purpole of examining the mines; and in 1770 publilhed, 
6. Memoire fur la Nature, les Effets, Proprietes, et Avan- 
tages, du Charbon de Terre. Gen. Biog. 
MORAN'KER, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Aurangabad: fifteen miles north of Aurangabad. 
MORAN'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayne and Loire, on the Sarte: five miles north of 
Chateauneuf. 
MORA'NO, a town of Naples, in Calabria Citra: ten 
miles weft of Caffano. 
MORAN'T, a river of the ifland of Jamaica, which 
runs into Morant Bay. 
MORAN'T (Philip), an induftrious writer and anti¬ 
quary, was born in 1700, in the ifle of Jerfey. He re¬ 
ceived his education at Pembroke-college, Oxford, and 
took the degree of M.A. in 1724. He was fucceftively 
prefented to feveral benefices in the county of Effex, 
one of which was in Colchefter. Of that town he pub¬ 
lilhed a hiftory in 1748. His antiquarian knowledge, 
and his acquaintance, as a native of Jerfey, with Norman 
French, caufed him to be appointed in 1768 to fucceed 
Mr. Blyke in preparing for the prefs a copy of the rolls 
of parliament. In this fervice he diligently employed 
himfelf till his death at South Lambeth, in 1770. Mr. 
Morant’s literary labours w r ere chiefly in the way of 
tranilation and compilation. Several of them related to 
Englifli hiftory; among which was the comparing of 
Rapin’s Hiftory with Rjouer’s Ftedera, and all the 
ancient and modern hiftorians; the refult of which fur- 
nilhed molt of the notes to the folio edition of 1728, 
1734. He wrote a Hiftory of Efi’ex, in two volumes, 
folio, 1760, 1768; and he compofed all the lives marked 
with the letter C. in the Biographia Britannica. Mr. 
Morant was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. 
KichoUs's Aiteed. of Botvj/cr. 
MORANT BA'Y, a bay of the ifland of Jamaica, on 
the fouth coaft. Lat. 17. 54. N. Ion. 76. W. 
MORANT KE'YS, or Ra'nas, fmall illands or rocks 
in the Caribbean Sea, about thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft 
of Jamaica. Lat. 17. 35. N. Ion. 75. 40. W. 
MORANT PO'INT, or East Point, a cape of the 
ifland of Jamaica, on the eaft coaft. Lat. 17. 56. N. 
Ion. 75. 52. W. 
MORAPA', a town of South America, in the province 
of Tucuman: fifteen miles weft of St. Miguel deTucuman. 
MORA'RIA. See Cape Moraria, vol. iii. 
MO'RAS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ifere: fixteen miles north-weft of La Tour du Pin. 
MO'RAS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Drome: fifteen miles north of Romans, and fifteen north- 
north-eaft of Tain. 
MORASS', f. [mantis , Fr. but Somner derives the word 
from the Saxon Dieppe, a lake; Salmaftus from mare, a 
collection of waters ; others from marefc, of maricetum, 
a marifeis, i. e. rallies.] A marlh, fen, or low moilt ground, 
which receives the waters from above, without having 
any defeent to carry them off again.—Landfcapes point 
out the faireft and molt fruitful fpots, as well as the rocks, 
and wildernefles, and morajfes, of the country. Walts on 
the Mind. 
Nor the deep moral's 
Refufe, but through the fliaking wildernefs 
Pick your nice way. Thomfon's Aututnn. 
MORASTEE'N, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Upland : eight miles fouth-eaft of Upfal. 
MORASS'Y, adj. Moorilh ; marfliy; fenny.—Thefides 
and top are covered with morajfy earth. Pennant. 
MORAT', or Mur'ten, a town of Swifferland, in the 
Vaudois, fituated on the fouth-eaft fide of a lake, to which 
it gives name. Near it is a chapel, filled with the bones 
of the Burgundians who perilhed in the fiege of this town, 
in a battle with the Swifs in 1476. It is the capital of a 
diftrift. Morat is twelve miles w'eft of Berne, and twen¬ 
ty-two fouth-louth-weft of Soleure. 
MQRA'TA, a fmall ifland in the Bay of Honduras, near 
the eaft coaft of Ruatan. Lat. 16. 25. N. Ion. 86. 58. W. 
MORA'TA (Olympia Fulvia), an Italian lady, was 
born at Ferrara in 1526. Her father was a learned pro- 
fefl’or, and gave her an excellent education. She became 
tutorefs to the princefs of Ferrara ; and declaimed pub¬ 
licly in Latin and Greek. Olympia married Grunthler, 
profelfor of medicine at Heidelberg, where Ihe died in 
1555. Her works, confifting of Orations, Letters, Dia¬ 
logues, and Tranflations, were printed at Balle in 1562,8vo. 
MORATALAZ', a town of Spain, in New Caftile : 
twenty-two miles eaft of Civdad Real. 
MORATAL'LA, a town of Spain, in Murcia: thirty- 
four miles fouth-louth-weft of Chinchilla. 
MORAU', a river of Auftria, which gives name to 
Moravia, riles in the Sudetic mountains ; and, pafling by 
Olmutz, joins the Danube not far to the weft of Prelburg. 
MORAVA', a town of Servia, on a river of the fame 
name : fix miles north-weft of Parakin. 
MORAVA', a river which riles in the north part of 
Bulgaria, palfes through Servia, and runs into the Danube 
eight miles eaft of Semendria. 
MORAVA HI'SAR, a town of European Turkey, in 
Servia : forty miles north-north-weft of Niffa. 
MORA'VIA, a river of Turkey, in Europe, which 
rifes in Bulgaria, runs north through Servia by Niffa, and 
falls into the Danube at Semendria, to the eaft ward of 
Belgrade. 
MORA'VIA (Marquifate of), a country belonging 
to the emperor of Auftria ; bounded on the north by 
Bohemia and Silefia, on the eaft by Silefia and Hun¬ 
gary, on the fouth by Auftria, and on the weft by Bo¬ 
hemia; containing about 1400 fquare miles. Towards 
Hungary, Bohemia, and Silefia, it is partly environed 
by mountains, and partly by woods. Above one half 
of it is mountainous and woody ; and many of the former 
are fo rough, as to be almoft defolate. In the more 
champaign parts are many moraffes, bogs, and lakes. In 
the mountainous regions, the air indeed is rough and 
cold, fo that, in many places, for near the whole fummer, 
the inhabitants mult ufe a ftove ; but thele parts notwith- 
ftandingare wholefomer than the above-mentioned cham¬ 
paign territories. More corn grows here than the inha¬ 
bitants confume. In it is alfo plenty of hemp and flax; 
nor are fruit-trees or vegetables wanting; it produces, 
likewife, good faffron. Some white and red wine is made 
in thofe trails lying towards Hungary and Auftria, which 
are in no refpeit inferior to the Auftrian territories. The 
pafturage is good, and maintains all forts of cattle. It 
is remarkable, that in fome places they alfo dig frankin- 
cenle and. myrrh out of the earth- Game is plentiful. 
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