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painting; confifting of feveral grotelque pieces and com¬ 
partments promifcuoufly intermingled, not containing 
any perfeft figure of a man, or other animal, but a wild 
refemblance of birds, beafts, trees, See. Thefe are alfo 
called arabefques, and are particularly ufed in embroide¬ 
ries, damafk-work, See. 
Moresque Dances, vulgarly called Morrice-dances , 
are thofe altogether in imitation of the Moors, as fara- 
bands, chacons, &c. and are ufually performed with caftu- 
nets, tambours, &c. See Morrice, vol. xvi. 
MORET', a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Marne, on the canal of Orleans, near the Seine : 
nine miles north-eaft of Nemours, and twelve fouth-eaft 
of Melun. 
MORETEL', a town of France, in the department of 
the Ifere: feven miles north of La Tour du Pin, and 
twenty-feven eaft of Lyons. 
MO'RETON, a village of England, in Shroplhire, with 
a medicinal fpring : four miles welt of Drayton. 
MO'RETON’s BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of New 
Holland, between Cape Moreton and Point Lookout. 
MO'RETON IIAMTSTED, a market town in the 
county of Devon, fituated on a fmall eminence furrounded 
by high hills except towards the weft, and in a dry healthy 
fituation. It is twelve miles from Exeter, a hundred and 
eighty-five from London, and about four miles from the 
foreft of Dartmoor, through which a good turnpike-road 
was made about thirty years fince, Ihortening the diftance 
from Exeter to Taviftock and the fouthern parts of Corn¬ 
wall more than eight miles; and on the faid foreft is a good 
inn, erefted by the late judge Buller. Moreton Hamp- 
ited is a populous town, lupported chiefly by a very ex- 
tenfive wooden-trade. In it is a handfome church, and 
three meeting-houfes. The Wefleyan-methodift meet- 
ing-houfe w r as burned down on Sunday the ift of De¬ 
cember, 1816. Here is a market on Saturday, (noted for 
yarn;) and three fairs ; viz. firft Saturday in June, third 
Thurfday in July, and laft Thurfday in November. Vif- 
count Courtenay, who is patron of the church, is the 
lord of this borough and a pretty large manor here, in 
refpedt of which he holds courts-leet, where a portreeve 
and other officers are annually fworn. In this town is a 
ebarity-fehool endowed with a fmall yearly fum by the 
truftees of the will of E. Hele, efq. of this county. It has 
a bye-poft from Exeter every Monday, Thurfday, and Sa¬ 
turday. Travellers may be accommodated here with good 
chaifes, able horfes, See. See. In this place are the veftiges 
of two caftles or forts; and in its neighbourhood are a 
druidical temple, a cafcade, a very large logan or rock- 
ing-llone, (fo nicely poifed that it can be moved by a 
Angle perlon,) and a cromlech, all which are worthy the 
view of an antiquary. Wilkes's Britijk Direftory* 
MO'RETON-HEN-MA'RSH, or Moreton-in-the- 
Marsh, a well-built village in the county of Gloucefter, 
fituated on the Roman fofs-way, about two miles weft 
from the place where an ornamented pillar, inferibed 
“This is the Four-Shire Stone,” marks the point of meet¬ 
ing of the counties of Gloucefter, Oxford, Warwick, and 
a detached part of Worcefter. Moreton was anciently 
the property of the abbey of Wdtminfter, and continued 
fo till the diflolution, when it was granted to the dean 
and chapter of Weftminfter, whofe property it ftill re¬ 
mains. The abbots endeavoured', by various means, to 
increafe its importance ; and procured the charter of a 
market, and the privileges of exempting the burgefies, 
as they were then called, from tolls in the feveral coun¬ 
ties above-mentioned. But the place never attained any 
confiderable confequence; and the market has been Tong 
difufed ; an ancient building, lupported by pillars, in the 
middle of the village, is faid to have been the market- 
houfe. Two annual fairs are ftill held here; viz. March 
25, and November 12. The church is a chapel of eafe to 
Burton-on-the-Hill. Moreton is diftant from London 
eighty-two miles, Warwick twenty-three, Chipping Nor- 
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ton eight, Campden feven, Shipfton feven, Stow four, and 
Gloucefter thirty miles. 
MORET'TA, a town of France, in the department of 
the Stura, on a fmall river which runs into the Po : fixteeu 
miles fouth of Turin, and nine louth-weft of Pinerola. 
MORE'TUM,j! [Latin.] A kind of wine made front 
mulberries. 
Moretum, among the Romans, a kind of falad, com- 
poled of the eight following ingredients, viz. garlic, par- 
lley, rue, coriander, onions, cheele, oil, and vinegar. 
MOREU'IL,. a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme: nine miles north-weft of Montdidier, and 
twelve fouth-eaft of Amiens. ** 
MORE'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Jura: ten miles north-north-eaft of St. Claude, and fif¬ 
teen fouth of Nozeroy. 
MORE'Y VIEI'LLE EGLI'SE, a town of France, m 
the department of the Upper Saone: nine miles fouth- 
weft of Juffey. 
MOREZ'ZO, or Maurice, a town, or rather village, 
of Swifierland, belonging to the Grifons, in Upper Enga- 
dina, is agreeably fituated upon the fide of a hill, over¬ 
looking a fmall lake, which lies in the bottom of the 
mountains, and is bounded by riling banks, ftudded with 
wood and pafture. This village is remarkable for a co¬ 
pious fpring of mineral water, much efteemed for its effi¬ 
cacy in the cure of feveral dilorders: it ifl'ues from the 
ground at the diftance of half a mile on the other fide of 
the river Inn, and is ftrongly impregnated with vitriol. 
It is twenty-five miles north-north-eaft of Chiavenna. 
MOR'GA, a river of Perlia, which runs into the Sihort 
on the borders of Bukharia. 
MORGA'GNI (Giambatifta), a very eminent phyfi- 
cian and anatomift, was born in 1682, at Forli in Ro¬ 
magna. He loft his father at an early age ; but his edu¬ 
cation was conduced with great care by his mother, and 
he made a rapid progrefs in all preliminary ftudies. At 
the age of fifteen he was fufficiently advanced to com¬ 
mence his medical courfe at the uniyerfity of Bologna. 
He diftinguilhed himfelf at that feminarv, as well by his 
extraordinary capacity as by his indefatigable applica¬ 
tion. His mailer in anatomy was the celebrated Valfalva, 
whom he affifted in his refearches into the organ of hear¬ 
ing, and whofe place he fupplied as lecturer during his 
abfence at Parma. His ready eloquence, and the num¬ 
ber of preparations by which he illuftrated his anatomi¬ 
cal demonftrations, engaged the attention of his auditors, 
while his amiable difpofition and plealing manners con¬ 
ciliated the friendfhip of all within his fphere. Ardent 
in puffuit of improvement, he vifited Venice, where he 
cultivated feveral branches of phyiics, with the afliftance 
of Poleni, Zannichelli, and other men of fcience. Thence 
he went to Padua, to attend upon the ledures of the pro- 
fefiors of that univerfity; and it was not till he lfad com¬ 
pleted his extenfive plan of inftruftion that he fettled in 
his native place. That was, however, too narrow a field 
for his talents, and he followed the advice of Guglielm.ini 
in returning to Padua. The death of that friend, in 1710, 
who was fucceeded by Valifnieri, left vacant the fecond 
chair of the theory of phyfic in the univerfity, to which 
he was elefted in 1711. He had already diftinguilhed 
himfelf as an anatomift of great promife by the publica¬ 
tion of his Adverfaria Anatomica, Part I. 1706, 4'to. of 
which w'orlc Haller fays, that it contained fcarcely any 
thing which was not either entirely new, or given in an 
improved form. His continually-increafmg reputation 
caufea him in 1715 to be railed to the firft anatomical 
chair at Padua; and from that time to the dole, of a very 
long life he ranked as one of the firft anatomifts in Eu¬ 
rope. Nor was his knowledge confined to medicine and 
its branches; he was well acquainted with literature in 
general, and a proficient in hillory and antiquities. He 
had the happinefs of poflefling an excellent memory, which 
gaye him the power of bringing his extenfive reading to 
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