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LEFT MANZONI 113 MAP to the Pacific, 31 miles W. S. W, of Colima. The country around is equally fertile and unhealthy. Pop. about 2,000. MANZONI, ALESSANDRO (man-z6'- ne), an Italian poet and novelist; born in Milan, March 7, 1784. After 1805 he lived for some time in Paris, and in 1808 he married the daughter of a Genoese banker, under whose influence he settled down into Catholicism. His chief works are: "Sacred Hymns," a series of lyrics; "The Fifth of May," a powerful ode on the death of Napoleon; the tragedies "Carmagnola" and "Adelchi," and his greatest novel "The Betrothed." He died in Milan, May 22, 1873. MAOBI, a Polynesian race found in New Zealand when the island was first celestial. Terrestrial maps are of two kinds, those which represent portions of land and water together, which are prop- erly called "maps," and those which represent portions of the ocean, only indicating the directions of currents, soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, buoys, lighthouses, etc.; these are called hydrographical maps or charts. A map of the earth, or of a portion of the earth, generally shows the physical features of the country. Maps are also prepared for special purposes, as geological, statisti- cal, ethnological, or historical maps. A representation of the meridians and circles of latitude forms, in all cases, the skeleton or basis of every map of an extensive portion of the earth's surface. The principal methods of projection are MAP OF THE WORLD, ACCORDING TO CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY, A. D. 150 discovered by white men. They are physically strong and above the aver- age in stature, fond of bodily exercise, and expert swimmers. The Maori are distinguished for tattooing, ornaments, and decorative art, and for their epic poetry, legends, and mythology. Though relatively a people of culture, they were formerly the most cannibalistic of Poly- nesian people. They displayed such valor and strategy in their long struggle with the British colonists as to win the ad- miration of their opponents. The Maori are now represented in the New Zealand Legislature on equal terms with the white members, and several have been members of the New Zealand Cabinet. MAP, a representation of a portion of the earth's surface, or of a portion of the heavens on a plane. There are, there- fore, two kinds of maps, terrestrial and the orthographic, the stereographic, the globular, the conical, and the cylindrical or Mercator's projection. In the first three cases the plane upon which the map is to be drawn is called the primi- tive plane, and is supposed to be passed through the center of the earth. The various lines are projected upon this plane, by lines drawn through their dif- ferent points and some fixed point, called the point of sight. MAP, or MAPES, WALTER, a British scholar; born in the Welsh Marches, probably about 1150. He studied at the University of Paris, and made an impor- tant figure in the court of Henry II. He became Archdeacon of Oxford in 1199; contributed to the Arthurian cycle of romance the romances of the "Quest of the Holy Grail," "Launcelot of the Lake," and the "Death of Arthur"; was the au-