MACGILLYCIID'DY REEKS, the highest mountains in Ireland, forming a group in the w. of the county Kerry, and rising front the western shores of the lakes of Killarney, to the beauty of which their lofty heath-covered summits add an element of grandeur. The reeks cover au area of about 28 sun.; and Carran-tual, the loftiest peak, is 3,404 ft. in height.
McGREADY, JAMES; supposed to have been b. in Pennsylvania about 1760; after being educated at Jefferson college, entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church; labored for a time in North Carolina; in 1796 removed to s.w. Kentucky, where he vvas proininently connected with a remarkable revival of religion, which continued for sev eral years, leading to the ordination of men to the ministry who had not received a reg ular theological training. These ordinations led to controversies which culminated in 1810 in the organization of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a denomination of much strength and influence in Kentucky, Tennessee, and some other states.
McGREGOR, a village of Iowa, capital of Clayton co., on the Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota railroad; pop. 2,074. It has excellent schools, 6 churches, 2 weekly newspapers, and manufactures of carriages, wagons, etc.
McGREGOR, Jonx, 1797-1857; b. Scotland; after engaging in business in Can ada, returned to England and was sent by the government on commercial mission to seveml states on the continent. In 1840 he was made a secretary to the board of trade, which office he gave up in 1847, to accept a seat in parliament as a member for Glasgow. In parliament as previously he was a supporter of free trade. He was the author of, among other books, Commercial and Financial Legislation of Europe and America, 1841; Comniercial Statistics of all Nations, 1844 50; and History of the British Empire from the Accession of James IL, 1852.