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JAMES, the translator of Ossianic poems; born in Ruth- MACQUARIE (ma-kwor'ē), a tribu tary of the Darling, a river in Aus tralia and a island in the South Pacific, belonging to Tasmania, named from Gen. Lachlan Macquarie, governor of New South Wales 1809-1821.

MACRAUCHENIA (-kē'-), a genus of South American fossil herbivorous animals forming a connecting link between the palæotherium and the camel family; in form they nearly resemble the llama, but were as large as a hippopotamus.

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