Maynard
Maynard, Sir Jottn, 1602-90; B. At Tavistock, England; Educated At Exeter Col Lege, Oxford. After The Regular Course Of Study In The Middle Temple He Was Called To The Bar, Having Been Made A Member Of Parliament In The Previous Year, 1625. He Was Aubsequently Made A Sergeant-at-law And King's ...
Mayo
Ma'yo, A Maritime County Of The Province Of Connaught, Ireland, Is Bounded On The N. And W. By The Atlantic Ocean, E. By Sligo And Roscommon, And S. By Galway. Area, -1,363,882 Acres, Of Which 497,587 Are Arable; Population, Which In 1861 Was 254,449, Had Fallen In 1871 To 246,030, ...
Mayotta
Mayotta, One Of The Comoro Isles (q.v.), Ceded To France In 1843, Lies In Lat. 12° 34' To 13'4' S., And Long. 44° 59' 15" P) 45° 23' East. It Is Of Irregular Form And Measures 21 From To S., With An Average Breath Of 6 Or 7 M.: If, ...
Meadows
Meadows (ante). The Propriety Of Confining The Word Meadow Either To Moist Er To Level Lands Covered With Grass Is Doubtful, For Though Moisture Is Essential To The Growth Of Grass As To All Other Crops, And Level Ground Is Preferable To Rugged, No Greater Moisture Or More Level Surface ...
Meagher
Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-67; B. Waterford, Ireland; Educated At The -jesuit College Of Clong,owes Wood, And Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, Eng. He Was A Mlose And Earnest Student, And In 1842 Was Awarded The Silver Medal For English Compo Sition, Defeating More Than Fifty English Students. On Completing His Studies He ...
Measles
Measles (known Also As Rubeola And Morbilli) Is One Of The Group Of Blood-dis Eases Termed Exanthemata (q.v.), Although, From The Eruption Which Appears On The Surface Of The Body, It Is Sometimes Classed-with The Skin-diseases. It Is Communicable From Person To Person, And Seldom Occurs More Than Once In ...
Measure Of Damages
Measure Of Damages, The Body Of Rules Which Governs The Amount Of Pecun, Iary Compensation Axvarded By Courts Of Justice For Violation Of Personal Or Property Rights. In Its Most Extended Sense It Might He Said To Cover Almost The Whole Ground Of Le„.0n1 Procedure; Hut Is Used Not To ...
Meat Extract
Meat Extract, A Substance Of A Composition Varying With The Process Employed, Extracted From Beef Or Mutton Or Other Animal Flesh, And Used As An Article Of Diet. The Well Known Common Beef Tea Is Made In Various Ways, And Differs Greatly In Strength. A Common Method, And Perhaps The ...
Meath
Meath, A Maritime Co. Of The Province Of Leinster, Ireland, Bounded On The E. By The Irish Sea And The County Of Dublin; Area, 906 Sq.m., Or 580,083 Acres, Of Which 547,391 Are Arable. About 30,000 Waste, Bog, Etc. Pop. '51, 140,748; '61, 110,575: '71, 95,558, Of Whom 89,140 Are ...
Mecca
Mecca (om Al Kora, Mother Of Cities), One Of The Oldest Towns Of Arabia, -the Capi Tal Of The Province Of Hedjaz, And, Through Being The Birthplace Of Mohammed, The Central And Most Holy- City Of All Islam. It Is Situated In 21° 30' N. Lat , And 40° 8' ...
Mechanical
Mechanical Machines Are Instruments Interposed Between The Moving Power And The Resistance, With A View Of Changing The Direction Of The Force, Or Otherwise Modifying It. Machines Are Of Various Degrees Of Complexity; But The Simple Parts, Or Elements Of Which They Are All Composed, Are Reducible To A Very ...
Mechanics
Mechanics Is The Science Which Treats Of The Nature Of Forces And Of Their Action On.: Bodies, Either Directly Or By- The Agency Of Machinery. The Nature Of Force Will Be Found Treated Of Under,fonce. The Action Of Forces On Bodies May Be In The Form Of Pressure Or Of ...
Mecklenburg Schwerin
Mecklenburg-schwerin, A Orand Duchy Of Northern Germany, Bounded On The A. By The Baltic, E. By Pomerania, Sby Brandenburo; And W. By Lauenburg. The Area Is About 5,136 Sq.m., And The Pop. '75, 553,734. Mbecklenburo.-schwerin Is Watered By Several Rivers, The Most Important Of Which Are The Elbe And' The ...
Medal
Medal (fr. M'idaille, Lat. Nzetallum), A Piece Of Metal In The Form Of A Coin., Not Issued Or Circulated As Money, But Stamped With A Figure Or Device To Preserve The Portrait Of Some Eminent Person, Or The Memory Of Some Illustrious Action Or Event. The Study Of Medals, Interesting ...
Medicinal Plants
Medicinal Plants. Those Plants Of Which Some Part Or Product Is Used Hi .raedicine, Are Very Numerous, And Belong To The Most Widely Different Orders. In Soine Orders, Particular Propertie-s Are Prevalent; Other Medicinal Species Are Exceptional As To .their Properties In The Orders To Which They Belong. Important Properties ...
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterra'nean Sea, So Named From Its Being Almost Entirely Iucloed By The •continents Of Europe, Asia, And Africa, One Of The Greatest Inland ,seas In The World, -extends (inclusive Of The Sea Of Marmora, But Exclusive Of The Black Sea And Sea Of Azof) To About 1,000,000 Sq. Miles. Its ...
Meeting
Meeting, Is The Name Applied By- The Society Of Friends To Their Various Assernblies For Worship And For The Management Of Official Business. 1. To Their Usual Gatherings On Several Days Of The Week For Worship, Meditation And Instruction. 2. The Monthly Meeting Is An Assembly Of Members From Several ...
Megara
Meg'ara. (meg-ants, Ante)was About 20 M. N.w. From Athens And Built At The Base -of Two Hills, Caria And Alcathous, Each Defended By A Citadel. Two Walls, Built By The Athenians During Their Protectorate Over Megara, Between 461 And 445 B.c., Ran Down From The City To Its Harbor, Nisam. ...
Megatheriidie
Megatheriidie, A Family Of Extinct Mammals Of The Order Edentata, Named By Prof. Owen, And Containing Several Genera. Pictet Gave It The Name Gravigrades, Placing It Between The Sloths And The Armadilloes. There Are Nine Or Inore Genera, 1 Megatherimn, 2 Cmlodon, 3 Lestodon, 4 Rnegalonyx, 5 Mylodon; 6 Scelidotherium, ...
Megrim
Me'grim (gr. Hemierania, The Migraine Of The French) Is The Popular Term For Neu Ralgia Occupying One Half Of The Head, Or More Commonly Only The Brow And Forehead Of One Side. It Is Often Periodical, Coming On At A Certain Hour, Lasting A Certain Time, And Then Entirely Disappearing ...
Mehemed Or
Mehemed Or Menemor Am, Also Mon_km3ren Alt, Viceroy Of Eg,ypt, Was B. In 1769 At Kavala, A Little Town In Macedonia. Entered The Turkish Army At An Early Age, And, In 1799, Was Sent To Egypt At The Head Of A Contingent Of 300 Troops To Co-operate • With The ...
Meiclin
Meiclin, Falco Asalon Or Hypottiorchis Asalon, The Stnallest Of The British Faleonidcs, Scarcely Exceeding A Blackbird In Size, But Very Bold And Powerful, And Possessing All The Characters Of The True Falcons, With The Distinction Of Large Hexagonal Scales On The Front Of The Tarsi. It Is Of A Bluish ...
Melancholia
Melancho'lia, As' A Disease, Is The Exaggeration Of The Natural And Legitimate Feel Ings Of Grief, Despondency, And Apprehension, Which Become Morbid Where The Emotion Is Without A Cause, Disproportioned To The Actual Cause, Or So Intense As To Disturb And Destroy The Exercise Of The Other Mental Powers. This ...
Melanchthon
Melanchthon, Pniur, Luther's Fellow-laborer In The Reformation, Was B. Feb. 16, 1497, At Bretten, In The Palatinate Of The Rhine, Now In The Grand Duchy Of Baden. Iiis Name Was Originally Schwarzerd (black Earth), Of Which Melanchthon Is A Greek Translation. He Was Educated At The University Of Heidelberg, Where ...
Melbourne
Mel`bourne, Capital Of The British Colony Of Victoria, Iu Australia, Is Situated Chiefly On The D. Bank Of The Yarra-yarra, About 9 M. By Water And 2 M. By Land Above Its Mouth, In The Spacious Bay Of Port-phillip. Lat. 37° 48' S. Long. 144" 58' East. Its Streets Are ...
Meleager
Mele'.ager, A Legendary Greek Hero, Whose Name Is Connected With The Argo Nautic Expedition, And More Conspicuously With The Hunting Of The Calydonian Boar. Ile -was The Son Of Oeneus, King Of /etolia, And Altlita, Daughter Of Thestius. Upon The Seventh Day After His Birth The Three Fates Came To ...
Melfi
Mel'fi, An Ancient Episcopal Town Of Southern Italy, In The Province Of Potenza, 3t M. S. Of Foggia, On A Feeder Of The Ofanto (anc. Aujidus). It Is Situated On A Bed Of Lava To The N.e. Of The Lofty (3;000 Feet) Volcanic Monte Volture, Uow Extinct, From Which It ...
Melilot
Mel'ilot, Melilotus, A Genus Of Clover-like Plants Of The Natural Order Leguminosce, With Ternate Leaves, Differing From The Clovers In The Generally' Elongated Racemes Of Flowers, The Stamens Not Adhering Te The Corolla, And The 1 To 4 Seeded Tumid Pods Alt The Species Have A Strong- Peculiar S-veetish Smell, ...
Melon
, Melon, Cueumis Melo, A Plant Of The Same Genus With The Cucumber (q.v.), Much "cultivated For Its Fruit, Which Is Sweet, With A Delicious Though Peculiar Firivor And Smell. The Melon Is An Annual, With Trailing Or Climbine• Stems, Lateral Tendrils, Rounded Angular Leaves, Small, Y-ellow, Moncecious Flowers, And ...
Melrose
Melrose', A Pleasant Village At The Foot Of The Eildon Hills, On The S. Bank Of The T-weed, Having A Population Of .1405 At The Census Of 1871. It Is Famous For The Ruins Of Its Nobie Cistercian Abbey, Founded By King David I. In 1136. The Original Pile Hav ...
Memory
Memory. 'phis Is One Name For The Great And Distinctive Fact Of Mind, Namely, The Power Of Retaining Impressions Made Through The Senses, And Of Reviving Them At After Times Without The,originals, And By Mental Forces Alone. The Conditions Of This Power Have Been Already Stated (see Association Of Ideas, ...
Mempfiis
Mempfiis (ante), Capital Of Shelby Co.; The Chief City In Tennessee, And The Largest City On The Mississippi River Between St. Louis And New Orleans; Pop. '80, 33,593. It Is Situated On The Fourth Chickasaw Bluff, 800 M. Above New Orlmns. The View Of The .city From The River Is ...
Mendicancy
Mendicancy. (see Poor And Poor Laws, Ante.) Mendicants Are Practically All Persons Who Gain A Livelihood By Beggary; A Definition Excluding Those Who Are Will Ing To Work But Cannct, Owing To Lack Of Demand For Labor; And Those Who Temporarily Receive Assistance Because Of Ill-health Or Other Misfortune. The ...
Mennonites
Men'nonites, Deriving Their Name From Simon Menno, Are Clahned By Some Bap Tists As T-heir Predecessors, Coming Down Directly Front The Waldenses; But This Blaim Is -denied Generally By Other Protestant Denominations, Who Regard The Mennonites Simply Zas The Followers Of Menno, Who, In The 16th C. Drew Together The ...
Mensitration
Mensitra'tion, The Name Of That Branch Of The Application Of Arithmetic To Geometry Which Teaches, From The Actual Measurement Of Certain Lines Of A Figure, How To Find By -calculation, The Length Of Other Lines, The Area Of Surfaces, And The Volume Of Solids. The -determination Of Lines Is, However, ...
Mercantile Law
Mercantile Law. This Is The Only Branch Of Municipal Law Which, Front The Necessity Of The Case, Is Similar, And In Many Respects Identical, In All The Civilized And Trading Countries Of The World. In Determining The Relations Of The Family, The Church, And The State, Each Nation Is Guided ...
Mercersbutig Theology
Mercersbutig Theology Is The Name Given To A Philosophical Representation Of Christian Doctrine Emanating From The Theological Seminary Of The German Reformed. Church Formerly Located At Mercersburg, Penn., And Especially From Dr. John W. Nevin,. One Of The Professors There. Critical Students Of Theolog,y Regard It As Presenting Sub Stantially ...
Merchant Shipping Act
Merchant Shipping Act Of 1854 (stat. 17 And 18 Viet. C. 104), A Measure Which In Many Impormut Respects Amended, And At The Same Time Consolidated, The Law Of This Country Relative To Merchant Shipping. By The Merchant Shipping Repeal Act Of The Same Year (stat. 17 And 18 Viet. ...
Mercury And Mercurials
Mercury And Mercu'rials, Mei:nem-al Uses Of. Liquid- Mercury Is No Longer Used In Medicine, Although, Until Lately, It Was Occasionally Given With The View Of Over Coming, By Its Weight, Obstructions In Tl3e Intestinal Canal. There Are, However, Many Preparations Which Owe Their Value To Extinguished Mercury; That Is To ...
Merger
Merger, In Law, Is The Absorption Of One Right, Estate, Interest, Or Offense In Another -of A Higher Degree Vesting In Or Committed By The Same Person. The Doctrine Of Merger Is Most Commonly Brought To Bear In The Case Of Real Estate. Thus, Where There Is No Intervening Estate ...
Meridian Measurement
Meridian Measurement. The Determination Of The Form And Size Of The Earth From The Measurement Of An Arc Of A Meridian Has Been A Favorite Problem With Mathematicians From The Earliest Times. But Up To The Middle Of Last Century Their Opera Tions Were Not Carried On With Exactness Sufficient ...
Mermaids Glove
Mermaid's Glove, Halichondria Palmata, A Sponge Pretty Common In The British Seas, And The Largest Of British Sponges. It Grows In Deep Water, And Is Sometimes Two Feet In Height. It Receives Its Name From The Somewhat Finger-like Arrangement Of Its Branches. It Is Not Slimy, And Has A Very ...
Merostomata
Merostom'ata (gr. Meron, Thigh; Stoma, Mouth), An Order Of Crustaceans Com Prising Two Sub-orders, Eurypterida (gr. Eurus, Broad; Pteron, Wing) And Xiphosura (gr. Ziphos, Svvord; Oura, Tail), The Latter Including The Only Living Representative, The King-crab, Or Horse-shoe Crab. The First Of These Sub-orders Is Extinct, And Their Fossils Are ...
Mersey
Mersey, An Important River Of England, Separates, In Its Lower Course, The Counties Of Cheshire And Lancashire, And Has Its Origin In The Junction Of The Throne And Goyt, On The Borders Of Derbyshire, E. Of Stockport. It Flows In A W.s.w. Direction, And Is Joined On The Right By ...
Mesmerism
Mesmerism (ante). The Following Is The Account Given By Mesmer Of The Agent By Which He Claimed To Produce The Phenomena Which Distinguished His Experience And Practice: "animal Magnetism Is A Fluid Universally Diffused; It Is The Medium Of A Mutual Influence Between The Heavenly Bodies, The Earth, And Animated ...
Mesquite Tree
Mesquite Tree. See Mezquite Tree, Ante. Mess (fr. Mets, Old Fr. Mes, Ital. Messo, A Dish, From Lat. Missum, Sent Or Served Up), Criginally Signified A Dish Or Portion Of Food; Hut Is Used In The British Army And Navy In The Sense Of A. Number Or Association Of Officers ...
Messiah
Messi'ah (heb. Lfashicteh), Equivalent To The Greek Christos, The Anointed, Designates, In The Old Testament, The Great Deliverer And Savior Whom The Jews Expected To Be Sent. By God, Not Only To Restore Their Country To The Power And Splendor Which It Exhibited In The Days Of David, But Even, ...
Messina
Messi'na, A Province In N.e. Sicily Separated From The Province Of Calabria, In Italy, By The Straits Of Messina, And Supposed To Have Been Cut Off From The Main-land By An Earthquake Before The Historic Period; 1768 Sq.m.; Pop. 420,649. It Includes The Lipari Islands, Lying N.w. Of It, In ...
Metalliirgy
Met'alliirgy Is The Art Of Extracting Metals From Their Ores. The Operations Are• Partly Mechanical And Partly Chemical. Those Processes Which Depend Principally On Chemical Reactions For Their Results Have Reference Chiefly To The Roasting And Smelting Of Ores, And Are Described Under The Heads Of The Different Metals. But ...
Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks. Few Of The Deposits Forming The Crust Of The Earth Remain In The Condition In Which They Were Deposited. By Infiltration Of A Cementing Fluid, By Pressure, Or By Some Other Indurating Agency, Sand Has Become Converted Into Sandstone, -and Clay And Mud Into Shale. In Some Strata, ...
Metamorphosis Of Organs
Metamorphosis Of Organs, In Botany, A Subject Of So Much Importance That It Has Been Exalted To The Rank Of A Distinct Branch Of Botanical Science, Under The Name Of Morphology Or Vegetable Marphology. Attention To It Is Essential To A Philosophical Study Of Botany; Yet It May Almost Be ...
Metaphysics
Metaphysics, A Word Of Uncertain Origin, But First Applied To A Certain Group Of The Philosophical Dissertations Of Aristotle (see Aristotle). As Since Employed, It Has Had Various Significations, And More Especially Two—a Larger And A More Confined. In The More Confined Sense It Is Allied To The Problems Of ...
Metastasio
Metastasio (originally Trapassi), Pietro, One Of Italy's Most Admired Poets, Was B. At Rotne In 1698, Of Humble Parents, And Gave Early Evidence Of His Genius By His Boy Ish Improvisations. Metastasio Having Attracted The Casual Notice Of Gravina, A Famous Jurisconsult Of The Day, The Latter Undertook The Entire ...
Meteorology
Meteorology (ante). The Advancement In Meteorological Science In Recent Years Ha.s Been Mainly In The Direction Of The Application Of The Laws Of Storms To Practical Use, In Foretelling Perturbations In The Interest Of Commerce And Navigation. In This Direction Great Progress Has Been Made, Eis To Width, Soo Signal ...
Meteors
Meteors. The Whole Subject Of Meteors Was Treated In The Body Of The Work Under The Head Of Matolvres. The Subject, However, Has Since Occupied A Great Deal Of Attention, And There Is At Present A Tendency On The Part Of Astronomers And Physicists. To Separate That Class Of Meteors ...
Meter
Meter, The Basis Of The "metrical" Or Modern French System Of Weights And Measures, And The Unit Of Length. The First Suggestion Of A Change In The Previous Sys Tern Dates As Far Back As The Time Of Philippe Le Bel; But Up Till 1790 No Important Change Had Been ...
Meter
Meter (gr. Measure) Is That Regulated Succession Of Certain Groups Of Syllables In Which Poetry (q.v.) Is Usually Written. A Greawr Or Less Number Of Groups Forms A Line .or Verse (lat. A Turning), And In Modern Lang,uages, The Verses Usually Rhyme With One Another; Although This Is Not At ...
Meter_2
..meter (ante). It Is Probably That In Reality The Meter Of The French Archives Is Not Exactly What It Was Supposed When Determined; For The Measurement Was Made Upon The Supposition That The Earth Is A Reo.ular Spheroid Having An Ellipticity Of Ad-, But It Is More Probable According To ...
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Cnurtcu, The Name Given To The Society Of Wesleyan Metho Dists In The United States, Where The First Members Of That Body—immigrants From Ireland —established Themselves As A Reliolous Society In New York In The Year 1760. In The Course Of A Year Or Two Their Numbers Had ...
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church (31=oursts, Ante) Is The Name Assumed By The Wesleyan Methodists In This Country When, After The Attainment Of National Indepen Dence, They Were Organized As A Denomination, Under Rules Proposed By John Wesley And Adopted By Themselves. I. Their Doctrine Is Set Forth In 25 Articles, Formed ...
Methodist Protestant Church
Methodist Protestant Church, Organized In 1830 By A Portion Of The Methodist Episcopal Church Who, Agreeing With The Majority In Doctrine, Were Opposed To The Episcopacy And To The Exclusion Of The Laity- From A Voice In The Government Of The Churn. Each Annual Conference Elects By Ballot Its Presiding ...
Methodists
Methodists, The Name Originally Given, About The Year 1729, By A Student Of Christ Church To The Brothers Wesley And Several Other Young Men Of A Serious Turn Of Mind, Then Members Of Different Colleges Of Oxford, Who Used To Assemble Together On Particu, Lar Nights Of The Week Chiefly ...
Methyl
Meth'yl Is An Organic Radical Homologous With Ethyl (q.v.), Being The Lowest Term In The Series C.h. N In This Case Being Equal To.2. Its Formula Is C2hs ; But In Its Free State, Two Atoms Unite To Form A Single Molecule, So That Free Methyl Is Mom Accu Rately ...
Meton1c Cycle
Meton1c Cycle, Ante. The Discovery Of The Metonic Cycle Forms An Era In The History Of The Early Astronomy Of Greece. The Chaldeans Established Several 'luni-solar Periods; And The Difficulty Of Reconciling The 'notions Of The Sun And Mood, Or Of Assign Ing A Period At The End Of Which ...
Metric System Meter
'metric System (meter, Ante). The Modern Or Decimal System Of Measurement Mkes Name From Its Unit, The Meter. It Should Be Understood That All Indo-european Nations Originally Counted By Twelves. They Were Exposed To The Influence Of Ur-altaic Races, Who Seem To Have Preferred Threes And Sixes. From The Egyptians ...
Mettray
Mettray.' The Reformatory Of Mettray Is The True Parent Of All Institutions Intended -to Reform And Restore To Society, And Not Merely To Punish, Juvenile Delinquents. Mettray Demetz, A Member Of The Parisian Bar, Struck With The Evils And Hardship Attending The Committal To Prison Of Young, And, Considering Their ...
Metz
Metz, The Strongest Fortress Of The German Imperial Territory Of Alsace-lorraine, And Capital Of The Distict Of Lorraine; Before 1871, The Main Bulwark Of France In Her North Eastern Frontier, And Capital Of The Department Of Moselle. It Is Situated On The Moselle At Its Confluence With The Seille. The ...
Mexico
Mexico. [from Supplement.] After The Declaration Of War Against Juarez By The French, They Issued A Proclamation To The Mexican People, April 16, 1862, Setting Forth That One, Of The Objects Of The Contest Was To Rescue Them From' The Tyranny Of The Presi Dent, And Put The Government Of ...
Mexico
Mexico Constitutes The South-west Extremity Of North America, And Occupies A Por Tion Of The Isthmus Which Connects The Latter With The S. Part Of The American Continent. It Is Bounded On The N. By The Territories Of The 'united States, On The W. By The Pacific Ocean, On The ...
Mezereon
Mezereon, The Bark Of Claphne Mezereurn, Lin.; Daphne Gnidum. Lin.; And Daphne Laureola, Lin. Natural Order Thymelacee. These Three Plants Are Small Shrubs From 2 To 4 Ft. High. Daphn,e Mezereum Has Rose-red, Sessile, Fragrant Flowers, In Small Clusters, Preceding The Deciduous Leaves. It Is Indigenous To Hilly And Mountainous ...
Miamis
Miamis, A Tribe Of Indians Of The Great Algonquin Family, And Whose Habitat Was In The Neighborhood Of Green Hay (wisconsin) As Early As 1658, When They Were Found There By The French. They Were Also Discovered In 1670 About The Fox River, To The Number Of 8,000, And Disclosing ...
Miasiia
Miasiia (gr. Pollution; In The Plural, Miasmata), Or _malaria. It Is Proved By The Experience Of All Ages That There Is An Intimate Connection Between Marshy Districts And Certain Diseases, Especially The Various Forms Of Intermittent And Remittent Fever; But The Exact Nature Of The Noxious Agent, And The Circumstances ...
Miava
Mia'va, A Market-town Of North-west Hungary, On The Miava, An Affluent Of The Morava, 48 M. E.n.e.of Presburg City. There Are Manufactures Of Woolen Cloth And Bag2;ing, And Hemp And Flax Are Cultivated. Pop. '69, 9,637. Airca, (from The Same Root With Lat. Mieo, To Glitter), A Mineral Consisting Essentially ...
Michael
Michael, The Name Of Six Emperors Of Constantinople.—i. Succeeded To The Throne On The Death Of Stauracius, In 811, Who Conducted A War Against The Bulgarians, And Was A Great And Just Monarch; He Was Deposed By Leo, The Armenian, A Gen, In His Service, 813, And Retiring To A ...
Michigan
Michigan, One Of The United States, Lying In Lat. 41° 40' To 48° 20' And Long. 82° 23' Fto 90° 34' West. It Is Bounded On The N. By Lake Superior And St. Mary's River; E. By Lake Huron, River And Lake St. Clair, Detroit River, And Lake Erie; S. ...
Michigan
Michiga.n (a,nte) Derives Its Name From Two Chippewa Words, Mitchi And Sairgyegan, -meaning " Lake Country." The Discoverers And First Settlers Of The Territory Were The French Missionaries Anti Fur-traders, Some Of Whom Visited The Slte Of Detroit As Early As 1610, While In 1641 Some French Jesuits Found Their ...
Michigan State Agricultural College
Michigan State Agricultural College, At Lansing The Capital Of The State, Is The Oldest Of All The Institutions Of The Kind In The Country. It Was Established In Obedience To A Direct Provision Of The Constitution Of The State, Feb. 12, 1855, And Opened To Students May 13, 1857. It ...