NOTES 331 



came so great, that the profit from them alone is ex- 

 ceeding great." 



Cf. Smyth, Tour in the United States. London, 

 1784. 11,78-79: 



P. 114 Achard, Franz Karl [1753-1821]. Founder 

 of the beet-sugar industry; from 1782 Director of the 

 Natural Philosophy section of the Academy of 

 Sciences, Berlin. 



P. 120 John Banister, the Virginia botanist, lost 

 his life at the Roanoke Falls, in 1692. Cf. Goode, 

 Beginnings of Natural History in America [Smith- 

 sonian Institution Report, 1897, II], p. 385-386. 



P. 123 " In the streets and suburbs of Wilmington 

 [North Carolina] the Pride-of-India tree (Melia aze- 

 darach) in very conspicuous, some of them twenty-five 

 years old, having survived many a severe frost, espe- 

 cially that of the autumn of the present year, the 

 severest since 1835." 



Lyell, Second Visit to the United States of North 

 America. New York, 1855, h 2I 9- 



P. 128 See also, John Lawson, History of Carolina, 

 containing the exact description and natural history of 

 that Country. London, 1714. 



P. 131 There were very few planters (possibly but 

 one) in North Carolina at this time owning 200 

 negroes. See, Heads of Families 1790 North Caro- 

 lina, Bulletin, United States Census Bureau. 



P. 142 This operation is described at length in 

 American Husbandry. London, 1775. I, 343-44. The 

 pipe ran from the depressed-centre floor to a barrel, 

 set in the ground some two feet away. 



