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and place.) within one another in - v that the 



water which runs down th aided 



baton Thu Uur* then swell out and form a rewnoir or 

 botth 'ted "I tlio neck, prcve.its the 



het ill' tb> a evaporating th, 



vain will each hold ubuut a <ju: .-. and during the 



dry M-amin they arc the resort of all kuuU of uniiuals lor 

 >be take of the water, and travellers are often able to oh- 

 tain stipplv o: i this source when all oth, 



Dampicr. iii his Travel-, gives the folio -nt of 



tin* plant : ' The wild pine is a plant so i 

 somewhat resembles the Imsh of MM rround the 



true pirn -apple. The \vild pines commonly grow from 

 some hunch, knot] or excresci 'rec, where they 



lake ring upright. The root is short and thick, 



from whence t> one within the 



other, spreading ofcii to the top of the tree. They are of 

 a good tin v, and so compact as to c-atch and 



i he nun-water when it falls. They will contain a 

 pint, or a pint and a half, or a quart; and tl 

 frc-hcs the leaves and no:,. mot. When \vc tind 



these pines, we stick our knives into tile leaves just above 

 the roots, and let out the water, which we catch in our 

 hats, as 1 have done many times myself to my great relief.' 

 Tin 1 s,-e(U of these plants are furnished with whiffs, by 

 which they are blown from tree to tree, on which they 



, I'nlcss they possessed such means of transportation, 

 they would fall to the ground, where, being parasitical, the 

 i, 011111: plants would perish. 



T. iniirniili-ii. the Long-Moss Tillandsia, or 



1 iril of the French, the .' ri/nphylltiidet of 



Sloane, has a twisted, thread-slur, -tern, much 



branched, with channelled leave.-. This plant is a native of 

 the forests of .North America, fioiii Virginia to Florida. 

 also of the \\Y-t India Islands and the liiazils. It has 

 \ery minute roots, and its long wiry icms creep 



the stems and branches of old 'trees, sometimes hang- 

 ing down in a bunch like the hairs of a horse's tail. The 

 flowers are small and of a blue colour, and are developed 

 at the ends of the branches. This plant grows on other 



in dry and arid plains, as well as in alpine di- 1 

 It attains a larger si/c in the mure temperate localiti- 

 filamcnton- steins, when deprived of their bark. 1.1 

 used for the -nine puiposi s as horsehair, and are used in 

 this manner in America. They are also in some places 

 made into cordage. The only preparation thuy require 

 previous to being used is being put into water for a fort- 

 night or more, according to the temperature, when, on 



; taken out and diied. the bark easiU from 



the t'ibie-. and they are lit for use. In medicine this plant 

 hat been recommended as a remedy in hn-morrhoii 1 



. tl'cctnal diaphoretic. 



T. .>/. Single-spiked Tillandsio, has the- radicle 



leaves linear, channelled, recurved, broad, and sheathing 

 at the base; the stem simple, clothed with imbn 



imple ; the hractca 'icave. 



This plant is a native of the AVest Indies. The flow, 

 of a snow-white colour. \ils of the 



bract-, which surround a rachis two or three inches lonir, 

 and this ari-es from a mass of 1, ,:i the form 



(if a \sthelea\esaiid bracts are eolouied \ ari- 



-,nd white, the whole plant loo! 



r ; and when numerous upon the 



Hi which t: , odnce a very handsome and 



,1 this as well as most 



of II,.- oil' serve as reservoirs for water, 



thin* its: most of 



then III America, especially o! 



and of th, tin 1 Audi-: two or three of the 



speci "ind in the southern states of North 



America. 



TII.I.KMl'Vr. SKHASTIKN I.KNAIN DK. U b 

 ral writer of coiiMdeiable no! n at Pans liotli 



November. Hi.'t". II- i I.enain. i 



yftb- R 



a child he alwii\ > hicvous pranks 



in which children commonly indulge. \Vhen be 1 



nine are of age he w.i 



of tt icty then established 



*M the vacant al anil under these in- 



strin ' him-clf to the e\ci< 



w>d ] ,'ithor, while at school, was I 



a prclcicnce indi 

 studies. He studied logic and , 

 Nicole ; and ln- 



cvinucd the carne-tnt--, with which he pursued it, and put 

 the knowledge of his instructor to He 



i the tin iiom which, when about 



eighteen years uf age, he turned with mm ! 

 the .study of the Scriptures tin msehes, and oft I, 

 and while thus cngau a to collect the hi-toiical 



notices of the Apostles and Apostolical Katheis, and to 

 arrange them alter the plan of L - 



- of his conscience, anil the stricl 

 notions of duty, kept him lor some time imdetermined 

 the choice of a |- Al llie age of '-{ 



the Episcopal seminary of licau-. . 



with such respect from his for historical k 



. fearing it migh 'us humilit . 



contemplated leaving it. but was pcisiiadcd to rein:.,' 

 le of the members of the Society ol 



Royal, whom he had cho.-en t'oi his spiri: H,. 



remained three or four years in 

 and then spent rive or six with Godet'roi Hermant, e 

 of that city. He was much respected ami 

 bishop of licauvais, Choart de l!u/anval. and i 

 that this estimation would male him \ain, In 

 left the place and leturned to Paris, win 

 two yeais with his intimate friend and school-fell 



Uoval, Thomas du Foss.' ; but not findin 

 that retiremenl which he desired, he witlnl- l.am- 



X-rt, a country parish in the neighbourhood of thai city. 



In September. \f>7'2. at the mature age of thirty-fiv 

 became subdeacon. and iifteen nionlhs ait 

 The following extract from a letter an 

 Pierre Lenain, then or an 



evinces at once his piety and his humility. After htiiting 

 that it was at the desire "of Isaac de Sacy, his friend and 



guide, that he had become 'Subdeacon and v.,-, 

 take on him the dcaconship, he goes on. I 

 dearest brother, that it is with great agitation ai. 

 I have resolved to comply with his wish, for 1 

 am far from those dispositions which I in 



-ary for entering upon this ofh'ce : and n 

 am obliged to confess that I have profited little from Ihe 

 grace which I might have received from the 

 duties of the subdeaconship. Hut on the ol: 

 could not resist one whom I believe I ought toolny in 



:hing, and who, I am well aware, has 11: 

 love forme. I beg of you then, my dearest : 

 pray to God for me, and to ask him either to can 

 de Sacy to see things in a different light. , lo me 



such dispositions that the advice of my friend may be for 

 my salvation and not for my condemn 



In \.D. KiTli lit received pric . at the further 



,sion of De Sacy, who contemplated making him his 

 or in the office of spiritual director of the li 

 dine nuns, now re-established in their original scat, tin; 

 abbey of Port Hoyal. to the immediate' neighbourly 

 which establishment Tillemont removed. He was how- 

 ever, in I(i7!l, obliged to remove, and he took up his 

 residence at the estate of Tillemont, a sho:t distance from 



near Vincemie.-, which belongidto his familv 

 from which he too\ his name. In \.n. Kisl he visited 

 Flanders and Holland : and in ,v.i>. Kis-j undcitook the 

 charge of the parish of St. l.am! 



I. but soon gave it up at the desire of his fall: 

 whom he ever j 



Having prepared the first volume of his irical v.ork OH 

 d luston. .lout to publish il when it 



was stopped by the censor, under wlu>.-c notice, as a 

 '.vitfi theology, it had to pass, ami who : 



Vuactcr. Tillc 



mciiit rel'usi-d to alter the parts specified, deeming them 

 not justly within the censor's province- ; and chi 



I he work, uponwhicl. he continued to 



labour diligently, though without any imni ntion 



of publishing it. 



This e\erci-e of the censorship led to an alteration of 



his plan : he determined ; from the rest of hii 



work Ihe history of the Koman en .nces 



ere inter- in of the 



Clni-tian church, and to publish ii 



volumi of this work, which, as not being theological, was 

 exempt from tho censorship, appeared in 1090, and was 



