This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...the same name, in the river St. Laurence, in Canada: supposed to contain at present 25,000 inhabitants. A press was established in this city by Charles Berger and Fleury Mesplet, in the year 1775. A " Bib"liothhque Canadienne" is now in course of publication here. Montreuil, a small town of France, six miles east of Paris. In the year 1663, Guy Patin observes in a letter, that the king of France made a seizure of some books which were clandestinely printing at Montreuil for the superintendent Fouquet, who was at that time a prisoner in the Bastile. Montroulles, must be some town within the diocese of St. Paul de Leon, in Bretagne. The Bodleian library contains a volume of Spiritual exercises, in verse and prose, composed in the Breton tongue by a priest of that diocese, which bears for imprint, E Montroulles, 1698. Morgii, Morges, a town of Switzerland, in the canton of Vaud, on the lake of Geneva. Le Long mentions a Latin version of the book of Genesis, printed here in 1568. In the year 1580 John le Preux exercised his art at Morges, styling himself " Printer to "the illustrious body of the Pastors and Professors of Berne.r Morlaix, a considerable town of France, in Brittany.--1626. Moscua, or Mosqua, Moscow, formerly the capital of the whole Russian empire, and the see of the patriarch of Russia, a dignity created in 1588, and abolished in 1721. This extensive and populous city contains an university, founded in the middle of the XVIIIth century. It is asserted upon respectable authority, that printing was introduced into Moscow in the reign of duke John Basilowitz, about the year 1553; but the city being shortly afterwards burnt in an irruption by the Poles, the printing-office was consumed, together with all its materials, and a...