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LEFT MACON 69 KcREYNOLDS the Georgia Academy for the Blind. There are electric light and street rail- road plants, waterworks, National and State banks, daily and weekly news- papers, a hospital, public library, a United States Government Building, and interesting Indian mounds. It has large cotton and knitting mills, foundries, agri- cultural works, lumber and planing mills. Pop. (1910) 40,665; (1920) 52,995. MACON, a city and county-seat of Macon co.. Mo.; on the Burlington Route and the Wabash railroads; 20 miles N. of Moberly. It has the County Insane Asylum, St. James' Military Academy, waterworks, gas, and electric light plants, State and National banks, and several weekly newspapers; carriage and wagon factories, flour mills, and foundry. Pop. (1910) 3,584; (1920) 3,549. MACON (Matisco of Caesar), the capi- tal of the French department of Saone- et-Loire, on the right bank of the Saone, 41 miles N. of Lyons; a dull, modernized place, it has a 12-arch bridge, with a view of Mont Blanc; a fragment of an old cathedral, demolished at the Revolu- tion; the fine Romanesque church of St. Pierre (rebuilt 1866) ; and a statue of Lamartine, who was born here; carries on an extensive trade in wines known as Macon, like but lighter than Bur- gundy, as well as in corn, cattle, etc., and has manufactures of watches, brass, faience, etc. Pop. about 20,000. MACON, NATHANIEL, an American statesman; born in Warren co., N. C, Dec. 17, 1757. He was educated at Prince- ton College; in 1777 left college. While yet in the army, in 1780, he was elected a member of the Senate of Noi'th Caro- lina; and when the Constitution of the United States was submitted to the vote of the people of that State he firmly opposed it, as conferring too much power on the new government. He retained till the end of his life this dislike of the Constitution, and his unlimited confi- dence in the capacity of the people for self-government. He was elected a mem- ber of the United States House of Repre- sentatives in 1791, and continued in that office by successive re-elections till 1815. In 1816 he was elected to the Senate, where he served till 1828, when he re- signed his seat, having been then a mem- ber of Congress for 37 successive years, the longest term of service that had then fallen to the lot of any legislator in the United States. He died on his plantation, in the same county where he was born, June 29, 1837. MACPHERSON, JAMES, the trans- lator of Ossianic poems; born in Ruth- ven, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Oct. 27, 1736. After a study of ancient Gaelic poetry he produced "Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem," in six books, together with several other poems (professedly trans- lated from originals), by Ossian, the son of Fingal, a Gaelic prince of the 3d century, and his contemporaries. Dr. Johnson treated him as an impostor, and a violent controversy ensued concerning their authenticity. In 1764 he accom- panied Governor Johnstone of Florida as secretary. After his return he trans- lated the "Iliad" into Ossianic prose; wrote a "History of Great Britain from the Restoration to the Accession of the House of Hanover." He was afterward appointed agent to the nabob of Arcot, became a member of Parliament, and died Feb. 17, 1796. MACQUARIE (ma-kwor'e), a tribu- tary of the Darling, a river in Aus- tralia and a small island in the South Pacific, belonging to Tasmania, named from Gen. Lachlan Macquarie, governor of New South Wales 1809-1821. MACRAUCHENIA (-ke'-), a genus of South American fossil herbivorous animals forming a connecting link be- tween the palaeotherium and the camel family; in form they nearly resemble the llama, but were as large as a hippopot- amus. MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (-re'di), an English tragedian; born in London, England, March 3, 1793. His father, the lessee and manager of several provincial theaters, sent him to Rugby and Oxford to be educated, but his cir- cumstances became embarrassed, and the youth had to join his father's company at Birmingham in 1810. _ Aftei-ward he played in the provinces with considerable success, and appeared at Covent Garden in 1816. In 1820 he made his first visit to America, and in 1828 played in Paris, with great success in both countries. He undertook the management of Covent Garden in 1837, and Drury Lane in 1842, but though he did much to reform the stage and cultivate the public taste for Shakespearean drama in both theaters (he himself taking the leading parts in Shakespeare's plays), his pecuniary losses required him to retire from man- agership. He revisited the United States in 1849; returned to England; gave a series of farewell performances, and finally retired from the stage in 1861. He died in Cheltenham, England, April 27, 1873. His "Reminiscences" appeared in 1875. McREYNOLDS, JAMES CLARK, Justice of the United States Supreme