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Marne (HAUTE hot m rn a department)

HAUTE (hot märn), a department in the N. E. of France, formed chiefly out of the old province of Champagne, and embracing land in the upper basins of the Marne and the repute.

MARQUETTE the persecutions they have suffered at the hands of the Druses. In 1860, 1,300 Maronites were killed, and 100,000 driven from their homes. In 1920 the Maronites numbered about 300,000. Arabic is the vulgar, and Syriac the liturgical language.

MAROS-VASARHELY (mor'ōsh-vä'shär-hely), the former capital of the Szekler districts in Transylvania, now a province of Rumania, on the Maros 20 miles S. E. of Klausenburg; contains a fortified castle, an old Gothic church (Reformed), a library of 70,000 volumes, and a collection of minerals and antiquities, and has a trade in timber, tobacco, wine, corn, and fruits (particularly melons). Pop. about 25,000. MARQUESAS (mär-kā'säs) ISLANDS, a group in Polynesia, N. of Tuamotu or Low Archipelago; area, about 500 square miles. The name strictly applies to four or five islands discovered by Mendaña in 1595, but usually includes now the Washington group of seven islands to the N. W., which were discovered by the American Ingraham in 1791. The whole archipelago is volcanic. Hiva-oa and Nuka-hiva are the largest islands. Nearly all are shaped into several narrow valleys, in which the bulk of the population live. In Cook's time there were 100,000 inhabitants, but these had dwindled in 1920 to less than 3,000. They were perhaps the finest race of the brown Polynesian stock, and, though courteous, were cruel and revengeful. Since 1842 the islands have been a French protectorate.

MARQUETTE (mär-ket'), a city and county-seat of Marquette co., Mich., on Lake Superior and on the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic and the Munising, Meuse; rises in the S. into the plateau Marquette and Southeastern railroads; of Langres and the Monts Faucilles 53 miles E. S. E. of L'Anse. It has a (1,500 to

1,600 feet); area, 2,402 square beautiful harbor, with a 3,000-foot breakmiles; pop. about 220,000. Cereals, water finished in 1894 by the United wine (12,000,000 gallons annually), States government. The city contains fruits and potatoes are the principal the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. products; the department yields 200,000 Paul, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of tons of iron ore annually, and there are St. Peter, a United States government numerous furnaces; the cutlery is in high building, Northern State normal school, public high school, the Peter White Public Library, a branch of the State prison, the Upper Michigan Children's Home, waterworks, electric street railroads, National banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. Marquette has a celebrated brownstone quarry, iron and brick works, railroad machine shops, flour and lumber mills, several of the largest iron ore docks in the world, etc. In 1913 the city adopted the commission form of government. Pop. (1910) 11,503; (1920) 12,718. MARONITES (mär'on-its), a body of Eastern Christians of Mount Lebanon, probably deriving their name from one Maro, a Syrian monk contemporary with Chrysostom. They adopted Monothelite errors, but were united to the Roman Church in 1182, though they soon fell away through Greek influence. In 1216 they again submitted, and the connection has subsisted ever since. They have excited more attention in Europe than Publishers' Photo Service FORTRESS AND TOWN AT MADEIRA, WITH DATE PALMS IN THE FOREGROUND Enc. Vol. 6-p. 132 E. M. Newman MADRID, SPAIN. A VIEW OF THE GRAND VIA BRANCHING FROM CALLE ALCALA International Film Service OLD AND NEW METHODS OF TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS IN A MARKET PLACE OF MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Keystone View Company NEW ZEALAND MAORIS READY FOR A WAR DANCE IN FRONT OF THEIR CHIEF'S HOUSE © Underwood & Underwood THE MATTERHORN Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE PYRAMID OF THE SUN, AZTEC PYRAMID AT SAN JUAN, TEOTIHUACAN எஎஏ 已包 Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE HALL OF MOSAICS IN THE RUINS AT MITLA THE WALLS ARE DECORATED WITH AZTEC CARVING Photo, Sumner W. Matteson AZTEC RUINS AT CRUSERO ON MT. GIRAN, NEAR MITLA, OAXACA Photo, Sumner W. Matteson THE GREAT FEATHERED SERPENT, CARVED BY THE AZTECS MARQUETTE