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ployments. In his profefllons he was fincere; and, whe¬ 
ther he be confidered as a public or private individual, 
his notions will be found to have ever been of the utmoft 
purity. 
“ No one, fays Dr. Granville, ever exerted himfelf with 
greater afliduity, 'during a very long feries of years, in 
public and private life, than Guyton de Morveau.—Pre- 
cureur-general for the fpace of two-and-twenty years 
at Dijon—folicitor-general of one of the French depart¬ 
ments—member of the legiflative body—of the national 
convention—of the council of five hundred—occafionally 
upon the committees on financial, diplomatic, and legis¬ 
lative, fubjedfs—commiffary to the armies and to the fron¬ 
tiers—and, finally,.diredlor-general of the mint, he might 
fairly be fuppofed to have had no time for any other 
occupation. But, when we reflect that he was ftill better 
known for his Services to Icience—that he was a public 
profeffor of chemiftry at Dijon and Paris for upwards of 
thirty years—that he fulfilled the duties of diredlor-ge- 
neral of the Polytechnic School for a confiderable fpace 
of time—and, finally, that during twenty-fix years, as 
member of the National Inftitute, he furnilhed feveral 
important memoirs and reports to that Scientific body, 
publifhed in its tranfadlions, befides many other papers 
printed in the Annales de Chimie, of which he was one 
of the earlieft and moft indefatigable editors—we cannot 
withhold that tribute of praife and admiration which his 
memory demands.” Dr. Granville’s Memoir in the 
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Inftitute. 
MORVE'E, a town of Guzerat: forty miles north-eaft 
of Noanagur. 
MOR'VEN, a diftridt of Scotland, in the county of 
Argyle; extending in length about twenty miles along 
the found of Mull, and ten at its greateft breadth. The 
country of Fingal and his heroes. 
MORUGLIEN'GO, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Sefia : twenty miles north-north-weft of 
Vercelli. 
MORU'GO, a river of Surinam, which runs into the 
fea, north of Effequibo. 
MORVIE'DRO, or Murviedro, a town of Spain, in 
the province of Valencia, fuppofed to be eredled on the 
ruins of the ancient Saguntum, founded about two hun¬ 
dred years before the Trojan war by a colony of Grecians, 
and deftroyed by Hannibal, is a long and narrow town, 
a league from the fea, at the foot of a mountain of black 
marble veined with white. The name of Murviedro is 
faid to be derived from Muri veteres, or Micros 'viejos, 
il Old Walls,” from its fuppofed fcite. This town is 
furrounded by lofty walls, and flanked by fmall round 
towers. Its inclolufe has feveral gates, defended by 
fquare towers. The ftreets are narrow', crooked, and deep; 
and the houfes exhibit a bad appearance. The fuburbs 
are extenfive, more agreeable and airy than the town, 
and perfectly level. The inhabitants amount to about 
5000. It has one parifh-church, three chapels of eafe, 
two convents of monks, a convent of nuns, and a cor- 
regidor. Its commerce partly confifts in brandy, which 
is exported to the north of Europe and to America: but 
its more certain refource is the produ&ion of the neigh¬ 
bouring lands in oif, wine, wheat, barley, hemp, and 
carobs. It abounds with veftiges of antiquity, which 
remind the palling obferver of its original inhabitants, of 
its vi&ors the Carthaginians, and of its pofleflors the 
.Romans. Several Celtiberian and Roman infcriptions 
are feen ; but of the numerous ftatues that ornamented 
the temples and other public edifices of Saguntum, one 
only remains, of white marble without a head, and a 
fragment of another. The traces of the walls of its circus 
are ftill d'fcernible : but its mofaic pavement is deftroyed. 
A greater portion of the theatre remains than of any 
other Roman monument. It is thirteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Valencia. Lat. 39. 38. N. Ion. o. 22. W. 
MORVIE'DRO, a river of Spain, which runs into the 
fea below the town fo called. 
MOR'VILLE, a fmall ifland in the Englilh Channel, 
near the coaft of France. Lat. 48. 50. N. Ion. 3. 28. W. 
MOR'VILLE sur NIE'D, a town of France, in the 
department of the Meurte : feven miles north of Chateau 
Salins, and feven weft of Morhange. 
MOR'VILLE sur SE'ILLE, a town of Franca, in the 
department of the Meurte: three miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Pont a Mouflon, and three north-weft of Nomeny.' 
MORVILLIE'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Vofges 1 four miles fouth-weft of Neufchateau, and 
three north of Bourmont. 
MO'RUM, /. in furgery, an excrefcence on the furface 
of the Ikin, fo called from its fuppofed refemblance to a 
mulberry. 
MORUMGA'NI, a fea-port on the weft coaft of Mada- 
gafear. Lat. 15. S. 
MORUN'DA, in ancient geography, a town of Alia, 
in Media, placed by Ptolemy between Larrafla and 
Tigrana.—A town of Alia, in Atropatene, fituated on the 
northern part of the lake Spauta.—A town of India, on 
this fide of the Ganges, inhabited by the people called 
by Ptolemy Aii. 
MORUN'G, a country of Afia, dependent on Thibet, 
on the banks of the Cofa, a little to the north of the 
country of Bengal, and fouth-weft from Bootan. 
MORUN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Mansfeld : four miles fouth-weft of Wippra. 
MORUN'GEN. See Mohrungen, vol. xv. p. 620. 
MORUNGU', f. in botany. See Guilandina. 
MO'RUP, a town of Sweden, in the province of Hal- 
land: twenty-five miles north-north-weft of Halmfted. 
MO'RUS, / [derivation uncertain.] The Muleerrt- 
tree; in botany, a genus of the clafs monoecia, order 
tetrandria, natural order of fcabridae, (urticie, Juff.) Ge¬ 
neric characters—I. Male flowers in an ament. Calyx : 
perianthium four-parted; leaflets ovate, concave. Co¬ 
rolla; none. Stamina: filaments four, awl-fhaped, ere£t, 
longer than the calyx, one within each calycine leaf; 
antherae Ample. II. Female flowers heaped either on the 
fame or a different individual from the males. Calyx: 
perianthium four-leaved; leaflets roundifh, blunt, per¬ 
manent, the two oppofite outer ones incumbent. Corolla; 
none. Piftillum : germen cordate; ftyles two, awl-fhaped, 
long, reflex, rugged ; ftigmas Ample. Pericarpium: none; 
calyx very large, flefhy, becoming fucculent like a berry. 
Seed : Angle, ovate, acute.— Ejj'ential Character. Male. 
Calyx four-parted ; corolla none. Female. Calyx four¬ 
leaved ; corolla none; ftyles two; calyx becoming a berry; 
feed one. There are ten fpecies, befides varieties. 
1. Morus alba, or white mulberry-tree : leaves ob¬ 
liquely cordate, even. This is a middie-fized tree, with 
a whitifh bark, of which a coarfe fort of paper may be 
made, and fpreading branches. Leaves broad-lanceolate, 
obliquely cordate, fubferrate, undivided, or three-lobed, 
fome cut, fmooth, petioled, fcattered. Berries lateral, 
juicy, infipid, pale, oblong. Gtertner deferibes the fruit 
as a capfule covered with the leaflets of the calyx con- 
ferruminated into a white turbinate berry, ovate-acumi¬ 
nate, membranaceous, full of foft pulp, one-celled, finally 
drying up into a thin pellicle drawn over the feed. Seed 
fingle, (one of the two being conftantly abortive,) ovate, 
drawn to a point upwards, fublenticular, rufefeent, fixed 
to the apex of the capfule by a filiform chord. Native 
of China, Cochinchina, and Japan, and according to 
Gmelin of Perfia. Cultivated by Gerard in 1596. It 
flowers in June. 
There are two or three varieties of this tree, which 
differ in the fliape of their leaves, and in the fize and 
colour of the fruit; but, as it is of no other ufe but for 
the leaves, the longeft-fliooting and the largeft-leaved 
fhould be preferred. Thunberg fays it varies with entire 
leaves Amply lobed, and with the lobes cut or gafhed. 
The white mulberry is commonly cultivated for its 
leaves to feed filk-worms in France, Italy, See. (See 
Phal^na mori, and the article Silk.) In Spain, as 
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