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language incorrectly rendered in English l3y a single word, 

 namely, Sun : one is skaimesh, the orb or body of that 

 luminary; the other cJiaumo, its heat, the last Tsaur, its 

 light ; whilst there are two for the moon, one yoriaucJi, 

 signifying the orb, the other L'vono, her pale or white light ; 

 but there is not any implying her heat ; the word choudesh 

 is sometimes given in English as the moon, but this literally 

 signifies new, in reference to her change only. Thus the 

 knowledge of Philosophy amongst the Jews appears to have 

 been coeval with their very existence as a people ; and the 

 instances I have brought to your notice are but a drop in 

 the ocean of similar cases occurring in the language. 



XIV. — On Two Alpine Utiryhice of the AtiMralian Continent. 

 By Dr. Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist of 

 Victoria, Sfo. 



The present splendid elaboration of the Tasmanian Flora by 

 Dr. Joseph Hooker, together with the light thrown by this 

 laborious and learned botanist on the vegetation of New 

 Zealand and the Antarctic Islands, render the knowledge 

 of the Alpine Flora of these Islands, which was formerly 

 but so scantily investigated, now nearly complete. 



In three successive seasons I attempted to ascertain the 

 analogies and the differences of the alp-plants of the Austra- 

 lian continent compared with those of the adjacent Islands, 

 and in the transactions of the Philosophical Society of the 



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