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Macon (City and county-seat of 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 Epic Poem," in six books, together with several other poems (professedly translated 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 accompanied Governor Johnstone of Florida as secretary. After his return he translated 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, died Feb. 17, 1796. weekly newspa newspapers; carriage and wagon became a member of Parliament, and factories, flour mills, and foundry. Pop. (1910) 3,584; (1920) 3,549.

MÂCON (Matisco of Cæsar), the capital of the French department of Saône et-Loire, on the right bank of the Saône, 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 Revolution; 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 Mâcon, like but lighter than Burgundy, as well as in corn, cattle, etc., and has manufactures of watches, brass, faience, etc. Pop. about 20,000.