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Rh firm step to the place of execution, and, when the order was given that he should be blindfolded, he tied the handl-erchief himself. As a military leader, Morelos is considered one of the best of his time. His memory and name are greatly revered by the Mexicans, and his remains, which were buried after the execution in the church of San Cristobal, have been transferred to the cathedral of Mexico, and are there preserved, together with those of Miguel Hidalgo and other heroes of the independence. His native city was called Morelia in his honor, and the state that has been formed from a part of the former state of the Valley of Mexico, containing Cuautla, where he distinguished himself, has been named Morelos. Several districts in other states have also received his name.

MORENO, Francisco (mo-ray-no), Argentine explorer, b. in Buenos Ayres, 7 Oct., 1827. He began his studies in the University of Cordova and finished at Buenos Ayres, where he was grad- uated in 1854 as doctor in natural science. He taught this branch in the latter university, but his favorite study was anthropology, and in 1872 he began a series of exploring expeditions that have made him well known. In January, 1876. he ex- plored Lake Nahuel-Huapi, in the southern Andes, and discovered, on 14 Feb., 1877, Lake San Martin. He also explored numerous rivers in Patagonia, and on 4 March of the same year discovered the volcano Chalten. In 1880 he went on a second ex- ploring expedition to the teri'itory of Patagonia, where he was taken prisoner by the Pehuelche In- dians and condemned to death, but escaped on 11 March, one day before the one that was appointed for the execution. In 1882-'3 he explored the Andes from Bolivia southward, and in 1884-'5 he made new explorations of the territory south of the Rio Negro and of Patagonia. He is director of the Anthropological museum of Buenos Ayres, chief of the Argentine exploring commission of the south- ern territories, and member of numerous European scientific societies. He has published " Description des cimetieres et parages prehistoriques de Pata- gonia " (Paris, 1874) ; " Noticias sobre algunas an- tigiiedades descubiertas en la Provincia de Buenos Aires " (Buenos Ayres, 1874); " Viage a la Pata- gonia Septentrional " (1876) ; " Sur des restes d'in- dustrie humaine prehistorique dans la republique Argentine " (Stockholm, 1876) ; " El estudio del horabre Sud-Americano " (Buenos Ayres, 1878) ; " Descripcion fisica de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego : Las razas estinguidas de la Repiiblica Ar- gentina " (1881) ; and several other works.

MORENO, Mariano, Argentine lawyer, b. in Buenos Ayres, 23 Sept., 1778: d. at sea, 4 March, 1811. He studied law in the University of Buenos Ayres, and in the year 1800 finished his studies at Charcas or Chuquisaca, where he was graduated as doctor in law. and admitted to the bar. In 1805 he returned to Buenos Ayres, where he presented a noteworthy memorial to the viceroy about free trade, and was appointed attorney of the audiencia. He took an active part in freeing the colony from Spanish rule, and was appointed on 25 May, 1810, secretary-general of the first governing junta. At the same time he was editor of " La (raeeta." He was the moving spirit of the junta, but, being an advocate of centralization, he was soon opposed by its president, Cornelio Saavedra, and, as he pro- tested in vain against the admission of deputies from the interior states to the junta, he resigned on 18 Dec. In January, 1811, he was appointed the first representative of the new nation to England, but died on his way thither. — His brother. Manu- al, Argentine diplomatist, b. in Buenos Ayres in ; d. there in 1857. studied law in his native city, and had attained reputation at the bar when, in 1811, he was appointed secretary of legation in England, but did not serve on account of the death of -his brother. He remained two years in England, and after his return to his native country partici- pated in the political events of 1815. and was ban- ished to the United States, where he resided till 1821. On his return he was elected deputy to the junta de representantes, which place he occupied till 1826, when he became representative of the Provincia Oriental, or Uruguay, to the constituent congress, and was also secretary of foreign relations of the province of Buenos Ayres. In 1828 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary of the Argen- tine Federation to England, where he remained for more than eight years. On his return he was ap- pointed librarian of the National library of Buenos Ayres, which post he held till his death. He wrote " Vida y memorias del Dr. Mariano Moreno, secre- tario de la junta de Buenos Ayres. eon una idea sobre las revoluciones del Rio de la Plata, Mejico, Caracas, etc." (London, 1812; enlarged ed., 1836), which was translated into English. He was also the author of pamphlets on diplomatic questions.

MOREY, Samuel, inventor, b. in Hebron, Conn., 23 Oct., 1762 ; d. in Fairlee, Vt, 17 April, 1843. He was a son of Israel Morey, who moved with his family from Hebron to Orford, N. H., in 1766. The son was endowed with great ingenuity and superior mechanical and scientific talents. He acquired large landed estates on both sides of Con- necticut river, at Orford, N. H., and Fairlee, Vt. The last seven years of his life were spent on his Fairlee estate, where for many years he had been extensively engaged in lumbering. There his en- gineering skill is traceable in the remains of chutes built on West mountains to slide the pine logs from inaccessible steeps to Fairlee pond years before Napoleon procured lumber in the Alps by the same means. When an attempt was made to open the Connecticut to navigation from Windsor, Conn., to Olcott's Falls, Lebanon, N. H., he planned and built the locks at Bellows Falls. As early as 1780 he began to devote his time to the investigation of steam, heat, and light. He was early in correspondence with Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of Yale college, and contributed articles to the " Journal of Science," in which he described a revolving steam-engine, patented by him, 14 July, 1815. As early as 1790 Capt. Morey turned his attention to the matter of " improving the steam-engine, and in applying it to the purpose of propelling boats," at Orford, N. H., on the Connecticut. He built a boat and placed in it a steam-engine of his own manufacture, and with one companion navigated the river at a speed of four miles an hour. The boat was propelled by a paddle-wheel in the prow. When arrangements were sufficiently matured for exhibition, he went to New York, on request, built a boat, and spent three successive summers there in experimenting with it and propelling it. Family sickness called him home, and he had the boat taken to Hartford, Conn., as a more convenient place, and ran it in the presence of many persons. The next season, having made improvements in the engine, he returned to New York and applied the power to a wheel in the stern, which impelled the boat at a speed of about five miles an hour. With this steamboat he made a trial-trip from the ferry to Greenwich and back, accompanied by Chancellor Robert R. Livingston and others, who expressed great satisfaction at the boat's performance. Chancellor Livingston had visited Morey at Orford, where he had seen and ridden in his first