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* MORRISBUEG. 26 States consul. Population, in 1891, 1859; in 190', 1093. MORRIS DANCE (from OF. morisquc, mo- rv.sijiii, Ir. iiiijrcsijiic, fioui Sp. morisvo, Moorisli, from iiioro, Moot, from ilL. Mortis, Lat. Maurus, Gk. MaPpos, Miiiiios, Moor). An obsolete English danci- of Moorish orifjin. it seems to liave heeii introilueed into England about the time of Edward 111., but it did not become universally popular until the time of Henry 'll. During the suc- ceeding reign it reached its highest development. Wlien danced in connection with ,May Day it was an ehiborate costume (hmce, and llie characters of Robin Hood. Eriar Tuck, Maid Marian, Little John, a dragon, and hobby-liorse were intro- duced. The costumes of the performers were generally decorated with scores of small bells which were tuned in musical intervals. There were several variations of the Morris Dance, the two most notable being a sword dance, where the performers leaped over swords, and a ribbon dance, in which the girls danced back and forth between colored streamers. At the Restoration the Morris Dance was revived for a time, but soon died out. There is at present in Yorkshire a country dance called the Morris, but the time ( [ ) is the only feature which it has in common with its prototype. MORRIS ISLAND. An island at the south- ern entrance to the luirbor of Charleston, S. C. Three small batteries on Cumming's Point, at the northern end, took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12-1.3, 1801. Later the works were strengthened and called Battery Oregg, and Battery Wagner was constructed to the south. In the spring of lSfi.3 .Admiral Du Pont and General Hunter made unsuccessful attempts to reduce these defenses. When these officers were succeeded by Admiral Dahlgren and General Gillmore, early in .Tuly. a landing was eflTected on the southern part of the island, but on the 11th and 18th desperate assaults failed. A regular siege was established and five parallels were constructed.- The gims of Fort Sumter, which were trained to protect the island, were .silenced by the Feileral lleet. and on September 7th (Jeneral Beauregard ordered the evacuation of the island. Later Battery Gregg was re- mounted by the Federal forces and did mtich damage to the city. MOR'RISON. A city and the county-.seat of Whitesiile County. 111.. 124 miles west" of Chi- cago: on the Chicago and Xorthwestern Railroad (Map: Illinois. B 2). II is surrounded by n sec- tion interested largely in farming, stock-raising, and dairying, and manufaelures refrigerators and school furniture, flour, carriages, and wagons. !t has a public museum and library. Population, in IS'ii). iOH^: in 1900. 2.108. MORRISON, Artihr (ISfi,-?— ). An English novelist, widely known for the remorseless realism with which he depicLs London life. His publications comprise: Tnlrit of .Vrnii fUrrrtn (1894): .V«r/in ftfiritt. Inrextiqntor (1804): Chrotiirirs of Mnrlin Uririll (189.5) : AilirnturrK of Mnrliii nnrilt (ISOfi) ; 1 Chilfl of thr .Inqo (1890); Thi- Dorriiiqliin nrrd-fioT (1897): To London Toirn (1809) : Ciiimintj MurreU (1900), the scene of which is laid in Essex; and Thr note in the Wall, n .storv of Wappinjt (1902). MORRISON. MORRISON, .James Dow (1844—). An American Episcopal bishop, burn of Scottish par- ents in W addinglon, N. Y. Ue received his early educatiou in Canada, graduated from MuGill University, Montreal, in 1805, and three years afterwards was ordained a deacon in Quebec. Be-« coming a priest in 1870, he took a charge in Canada, but the following year was called to Herkimer, N. Y'., and thence to Ogdensburg in 187.3, where he was archdeacon from 1881 until 1897, when he was consecrated first Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Duluth. In 1898 he was appointed Paddock lecturer by the General Thculogical Seminary of New Y'ork. MORRISON, KOBKRT (1782-1834). The first Protestant missionary to China, born at BuUer's Green, Jlorpeth, England. Three years later his father removed to Newcastle. He learned the trade of boot-tree maker after leaving school. In 1797 he was converted, joined the Preshyterian Church, and began to improve himself by study. In 1803 he was admitted to Hoxton Independent Academy, and in the following year entered the Mission College of Gosjjort. The London Mis- sionary Society decided in 1807 to begin mission work in China, and Morrison, having been or- dained, was sent out as the first missionary, L'ndcr the protection of some merchants from the United States settled at Canton, he assumed Chinese dress and began the study of Chinese. In 1809 he was appointed translator to the East India Comimny's factory here, and while in this position he ])repared a (Inimmnr of the Chinese lAimiUiiye, published in 1815. Between 1815 and 1823 appeared the six thick quarto volumes of his Dictionary of the Chinese Language, a work of great learning.' btit now superseded. He also produced several vocabularies of Canton-English and English-Canton. His New Testament in Chi- nese was published in 1815. and the Old Testa- ment appeared in 1818. In that year he founded the .Vnglo-ChiiH'se College at .Malacca. It was re- moved to Hung Kong in 1S4.'>. He died in Canton. Consult: the Memoir by his widow (2 vols., London, 1839) : and Townscnd, Robert Morrison (New York and Chicago, 1888), MORRISON, William (c.1783-1866). A Canadian explorer and fur trader, born at Montreal. He began trapping and trading for Sir Alexander MacKenzie & Co. at Fond du Lac in 1802, and joined the Northwest Company in 1805. .fler .John .lacob Astor gained control in 1818 of the business in the United States. Mor- rison worked for him until 1826. Morrison claimed to have explored during the winter of 1803-04 Lac La Biche. or Elk Lake, which was long afterwards (1832) identified as the source of the Mississippi by Schoolcraft and renamed Itasca. He was probably naturalized as an American citizen, but spent the last years of his life in Canada. Consult ]tinnesota Historieal Soeieti/ Collections (vol. i.. Saint Paul, 1S72: vol. vii.. Minneapolis, 1893; vol. viii.. Saint Paul, 1S!)S). MORRISON, William Kai.ls (1825- ). An .American politician and Congressman, horn in Monroe County. 111. He was educated at McKen- dree College, but left before graduation tn enlist as a private in an Illinois volunteer resinient fur the Mexican War. and participated in most of the battles of Tavlor's campaign, .fter bis re- ttirn he studied law, was admitted to the bar.