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MORE PAR'K. See the article Watford. 
MORE'A, a country of European Turkey, forming a 
peninfula united to the reft of Greece by a narrow neck 
of land, called the TJihmus of Corinth, fo famed for the 
ifthmian games celebrated there, in honour of Neptune. 
It was anciently called Peloponiiefus; and, in more re¬ 
mote times, rfSgialea and Apia. It once confided of the 
following fmall kingdoms : Sicyon, Argos, and Mycene ; 
Corinth, Achaia Proper, Arcadia, and Laconia. Its pre- 
fent name of the Morea, is faid to be derived from morns, 
a mulberry-tree, either from its refembling the leaf of 
that tree in fliape, or from the great number of mulberry- 
trees it produces. It has not only feveral rivers, lakes, 
and mountains, but alfo many fertile and delightful plains. 
At the treaty of Carlowitz, the Turks ceded all the Morea 
to the Venetians; but, In the year 1715, again difpoffeffed 
them of it. It is divided into four diftridts. 
M. de Pouqueville, in delineating the charadler of the 
Greeks of the Morea, appears to hold a proper medium 
between the unfavourable reports of M. de Pauw, and 
the too flattering opinion of M. Guys, who imagined that 
he had found ancient Greeks in the abodes of their fore¬ 
fathers. In point of perfonal appearance, the Moreans 
are well made, robuft, diftinguiftied by animated features, 
gay, fond of amufement, and make themfelves agreeable 
companions, their converfation abounding with orna¬ 
ment and metaphors. On the other hand, they have no 
regard to veracity, and perjure themfelves without fcruple 
for a trifling advantage in trade or othervvife. They ex- 
prefs their hatred to the Turks in a ftrain of great exag¬ 
geration, and they affebt to talk in fimilar manner of their 
love of liberty; but the fabl is, that they are ftrangers to 
zeal of any kind, except in behalf of their religion. Be¬ 
lieving, like their Mahometans oppreffors, in predeftina- 
tion, they are ready to lacrifice the Turks without fcruple 
in a moment of fuccefs; and, when fortune becomes un¬ 
favourable, they bow their own necks to the (laughter in 
the full afiurance that they are earning a crown of mar¬ 
tyrdom. Such was the cafe throughout the Morea, dur¬ 
ing the unfortunate invafion of the Ruflians in the war of 
1770. With all this hatred of the Turks, they bear a (till 
greater jealoufy and diflike to the Catholics; ajealoufy 
moll afliduoufly cheriftied by their priefts, who are con¬ 
tinually alarming them with the maledictions that are ut¬ 
tered by the pope againll all who are not of the number of 
his difciples. The community of religion may be at a 
future time a confiderable bond of union between them 
and the Ruflians, fince we may take it for granted that 
the triumphs of their church will be always their chief 
incitement to infurrebtion. 
A great obftacle to the improvement of this country 
confifts in the unfortunate circumftance that the inftru- 
ments of exabtion for the Turks, the codja-bachis, are 
generally felebted from the Greeks, which has the effebl 
of creating divifion among themfelves; and, if to this 
we add the fpirit of intrigue and quarreling, which feems 
to be innate in the Greeks, we mull entertain but very li¬ 
mited hopes of their abling with union. Dr. Pouqueville 
is fomewhat more courteous to the Morean females, 
among whom he was able to trace feveral of the models 
which called forth the powers of Apelles and Phidias. 
The portion of labour to which they are fubjebled is mo¬ 
derate, apd the climate of the Morea is pure and vivifying. 
The Greek women, however, he admits, are miferably 
deftitute of knowledge, and keep up converfation only 
by a natural vivacity of imagination. They believe al- 
moft invariably in (orcery, and pay money to gipfey for¬ 
tune-tellers, with as much credulity as if thefe impoltors 
were the oracles of fate. They are unacquainted even 
with the proper method of houfe-keeping, being much fe- 
queftered from fociety after they are grown up. The men 
retain mod of the exercifes of antiquity, with the excep¬ 
tion of the difcus: they prablife wreftling exactly in the 
manner defcribed by Homer; and the rage for dancing is 
almoft univerfal, Rhapfodifts Hill exift among them 3 who 
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celebrate the exploits of warriors in fongs, accompanied 
by the lyre; but feveral of their airs are borrowed from 
the Italians. 
The climate of the Morea holds a medium between the 
fcorching heat of Egypt and the cold of the northern part 
of Europe; its winter is fhort, and a beneficent dew fer¬ 
tilizes the foil in the early days of fpring. The prevalence 
of unhealthinefs is local, and is chiefly to be afcribed to 
the long and miferable negledt of cultivation. While in 
the courfe of ages the rivers have overflowed and formed 
vaft marflies, the woods have been deftroyed by the (hep- 
herds, and the hills confequently deprived in a great 
meafure of frublifying fhowers. The winter comes on 
with falls of rain, and thunder-ftorms; the cold begin¬ 
ning to be felt in December, but not being fevere until 
January. In February, vegetation returns, and fpring 
may be faid to begin with the firft days of March. The 
fummer is fully (et in by the month of May, and continues 
to Oblober. At this time, much unhealthinefs prevails 
in particular fituations ; fuch as the low grounds of Elis, 
or the Valley of Argos, with its rice-grounds and poppy- 
fields. Other places, fuch as Coron on the coaft of Mef- 
fenia, Caritena in the interior, and elevated fpots in La¬ 
conia, are in general exempt from the vifitation of mala¬ 
dies. In Oblober, the rains come on, and feem to bring 
with them a kind of new fpring. Unfortunately, the water 
in many parts is not pure, the wells being frequently 
(hallow, and having the bad qualities of marlh-waters. 
In winter, they are troubled, and overflow; in the dry 
leafon, they are either exhaufted or fetid. The water of 
the rivers is fit for ufe only in the latter part of winter and 
the early part of fpring ; the channels being at one time 
filled with quantities of fand and mud, at another almoft 
dry, or affording little elfe than ftagnant pools. The (late 
of medical knowledge is very ill calculated to counterabl 
the effebts of unhealthy fituations; the chief practitioners 
being travelling doblors, of Italian origin, who affume 
the plaufible name of xaXoi tar^ot, or “ good phyficians.”' 
Each is accompanied by a (ervant, who executes the feveral 
offices of interpreter, page, fteward, and puffer; and 
who, trained up in the fecrets of his mailer’s art, after 
a few years lets up for himfelf as a fuccell'or of the great 
Hippocrates. A good dole of jalap, of manna, or of 
Glauber falts, and above all bleeding, (for nothing is 
to be done without,) are their great weapons; fo that one 
might conclude them to be of the lame faculty with Mo- 
liere’s phyfician. No lefs impudent than ignorant, they 
are continually bonding of the cures they have performed 
at fuch or fuch a place, taking care however that it (hall 
always be one at confiderable diftance. There is not a 
town in the Levant, be it ever fo inconfiderable, that has 
not its Aifculapius. In confidence and perjury thefe Ita¬ 
lians do not yield to the Greeks; and, too much of the 
fame fpecies to have any complacency towards each other, 
no one ever mentions a brother but in terms of the moil 
fovereign contempt. They are befides for the mod part 
conjurors; nay, by an extraordinary combination of ta¬ 
lents, almoft any thing that may be defired of them. 
Poiujiieville's Travels in the Morea, 4to. 1813. 
MOREADGONG', a town of Hindooftan, in the dr¬ 
ear of Ellickpour: twenty-four miles fouth-well of 
Akowla. 
MOREAU', f. [French.] A fpecies of bag which the 
mule-drivers ufe to carry their hay. James's Mil. Dili. 
MOREAU' (Rene), an eminent French phyfician, was- 
born at Montreuil, in the province of Anjou, in 1587, 
and was admitted to the degree of dobtor in the faculty of 
medicine at Paris in 1618. He was diftinguiftied as a man 
of general erudition, as well as by his profeifional talents, 
and was in great favour with the court. He was appointed 
profeflor of medicine and furgery at the Royal College, 
and filled his pod with great reputation; and, during the 
years 1630 and 1631, held the office of dean of the fa¬ 
culty of medicine. He died in Oblober 1656, at the age 
of faxty-nine. His principal writings were, 1. De Milfione 
Sanguinis 
