Apri 10, 1858.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
291 
e a oning them to 
“to be understood a: 
the 
is or a Westwood. ta as 
a 
periods so remote that although the 089 and 
| for as sone as men ho ete thei hungered ageyn : f 
cinders of ae — eo. recent volca 
jus ted farn: 
whero 
umme deied for hungir; re ir 
were g oute of how went into the cuntr 
So m 
hungir grew in the "ond, 
f br ed was not sufficient to feed 
that $ 
a man 0 day.” 
“< oF =a 1317. Murrain among Catile.—In that same 
yere was gr eka moreyn of oo whech began in re 
and aftir it spred thorw the lond. It regned mos 
and whan 
oxen 
are remarkably good mply |as if ace, no roe 
es of all general naturalists. | of their adden sii to have remained, 
with a general des on of i. Asi s fee visited thi Sard 
under the orders Orthoptera, | c “rh ese grand scenes from the 
i tera, Rha ph , Lepi- spots Selected, by he a r for his panoramic illustra 
Coleoptera; he go proc explain e have be een particule struck ect the force 
in Dining the ety and iis words. Minas par hich our narrow 
ividing them into families. apprehension, and compar 
instructions for collecting pre- ar te “ncalenable Pte Pits are in. all proba- 
pen of Dr. the bility gr in the calendar of Nature. It is 
“pea collection of the W urtem- rw that, aor all other sciences, ma quain- 
nh s important though h ting fact 
y genus has a short 
tial An by one or more i fee 
r with a list of the species 
figured ni or described. The whole concludes 
ital Index. 
be followed by others illustrating 
“steh work i is a complete answer to our English 
ists who maintain | the impossibility of publish- 
Let us hope that the present 
the | fi 
the asar were ded, dogges wold oot 
ete of the flesch. 
“A.D. 1334. Great Inundat 2 London.—This 
a were so Spore wateres, that thei eels down walles 
n Temse and othir places, ovireured the londis, and 
kyl llid many bestes.” 
“hes Dı] 
© 
Time!” pp. 208, 209. 
The first edition of Mr. Scrope’s work, published i in | 
1348.. Gr eat Rain—I ni the XXII. yere were 
Baptist on itn irine 
“ Pestilence in the East.—And aftir that reyne 
ere folowid a grete —- specialy in the Est 
e of the world amongst the Sarasines. So 
die that there left searsly among hem the X. man, 
X 
. woman. Thei, seyng t 
} 
any str 
oe ; for r if those of all Europe can thus be Ht with, 
iaae with ‘those of Tals, which h h 
»eposed veryly to be Cristen. But whan thei 
1 
our own afford a less diffieult tas k. We 
1 1 1 1 1 
it a reproach to o 
hem do for their own 
dson, Lightfoot, Wither! ring, 
d others have successively 
the progress of the 
t| hs 
e 
During: = um- 
mer E taat year Mr. g= crope again Morni vergne, 
and taking advantage of the additional Tights which 
e science during more than 30 
dy urpe sesed. 
AD. 1319. Th e Great Pestilence ravages England. 
Lee ye XXIII yere was mpais es at ap of puple. 
First it a, goa n the nort pe south; 
and so forth thorw oute the rem his pestilens 
olowed a moreyn 
For, as it ws 
least, were as ad thrown upon the subject, has SeA revised his his 
now. Dr. Calwer | book on the spot. Tti is repr inte ted in ore p 
some man of spirit, | form, with imp ypog and iostestions ; the 
i in latt ll very well executed don w nage and ga pan- 
Sue ticul and, t is 
es, pili geet sc 
g 
worthy of Mr. Stainton, The figur: 
jon, might be at first page only 
oint peban 
upo; 
ig 
al illustration; the great 
= lete) ya 
obtain a comp! “oi ec inecomple 
amd systematical pr 
rye and Extinct Volcanoes ie Central France. 
By G. Poul rope, M.P., F.G.S., 
heat enlarged and i Aira of with ‘Mastra. 
ge views, and panoramic sketches. 8vo., 
%8 pp. Murray. 
The voleanic districts of “aged rie ce, the ancient 
provinces of Auvergne, Vela; Vivarais, or the 
ae of Montdore, Ci Cantal, Haute- -Loire, 
p: 
e 
of essential | importance, ing pe ae agg We gn à in pintan 
confidently speak of the work as having well ful- 
| filled the benign s ghost e “ afford that pe Poe view 
and detaile of i 
tithes. 
an untillid. So mec 
ST Chronicle of England.’ 
. F. C. Hingeston. 
Edited by the 
Large 8vo, pp. 482. Long- 
Sir > Jot Romilly, the present learned Master of the 
Roll Mesias succeeded in neck! the ury to 
ach of t 
eause 
t of Mont- 
mi Ardèche, offer er many p 
teligent tourist. 
Eii : 
SEER } 
T 
e important doc ents in his T 
as Mustrate the i ee A this conntry up to the 
y eS e public, 
Mi i the comforts of civilised life ir 
the midst 
d fine mountain scen: 
oming i 
scenery, rich woods, tHe gas 
by lofty peaks ; 
t of pak series = of the 
iden goer csc well edited v apgrave 
iy folk Au; u ustine friar of great reputation in his aes | 
1893, a nd his Chronicle tonny inates with the 
es to matt ers of 
more ag 
we have now ‘ite | 
form 
d descriptio the v very remarkable series reyn on 
the co ne dreid rs So Yoglond, that was 
undoubtedly merit,” and which every ¢ ‘visitor desi t yn to be fed with othir 
of examinin its phenomena would wish to have in his | londis.” 
hand as a guide.” “A. Dil a yee up of a | River in Bedfordshire. 
n. a depe 
—In the XXIE y 
watir in Bedforthschire, that rennyth betwix Snelleston 
and Harles ten se nly eg stille, 
nim onto othir er, that fear wete- 
| before, stood nous ‘tees ed o a i pran 
go ovyr. i rveyle eee men e, gret 
| | dyvy sion that sch faes in the pu 
nundation the Sea on the 
Coast of Kent. —In this ai the se ros so elk ion 
Caleys and F 
and Flaundris, Holl 
« A.D. 1407. pm ari Seer of the Weather.— 
| In the IX. = a this K pema a gret wyntir, ind 
He 
& 
y ries 
hich he may have been personall y cognisant. 
ppaki gari 
a ae po yoo’ iti is for the most, part: occupie ied by t the 
uari, Februari, and March, 
that t the oan oat of s done birdis were ded.” 
1416. _Violent Thu nder Storms. —h the 
relation of great political events, for 
is not t the place. But here and there are also scraps om 
infi hieh h: 
aral matters w ave more 
oceed to 
Ep r yngis that evyr ony man herd.” 
„Finally, the Chronicle closes with the jon of the state- 
interest for our readers, “and which we pr 
extract, 
er fm abe 
altitude, _ cour 
ire of oo and | 
in all botanically rich | 
mal he ea of ‘these oe masses 
ry | 
i=) 
“ A.D. 1228. Great Storm ndon.—In the XIII. 
2 gere of Herry fef a ee thing at London. _ Eor 
Cc 
horrible -> was 
lle ‘athundir, dea a wedyr and so , that | 
supposed the Cherch plete falle Alle re were 
ther ee awey for fere: with the os: xi the 
an but Lage am Ther ech 
ter abod no man 
| h | stym, po man myte su “4 
1255. Great Scarcity in tigate: 
tl hun 
And in| 
ete And that yere 
of that v 
mei Alpine 
Sai 
bly pro a single exclu- 
species ; on its vegetation is, in ag OA 
uriant; and it 
a Saree ok that men 
d 
Pa ungir. 
biegi t the re ogg of yaa ge of the same Ordir.’ 
“ALDI Great Se sites Sas ae XLU. yere was 
y be assumed that hi: 
sg 
« AD. 1 , Children stolen by Beggars at Lynn.— 
In the ame en Til. a stole III. childyr at 
Lenne, and of on thei put his eyne, the othir pp 
brok og ak, 
ee 1274. An Earthquake in the Soth af | 
England. —In the third xe: ee? z on ther 
3 4} 
| told ale the processe, gg g 
wel worthy. 
We i propose to ransack the rest of these paris! 
—an eastern herb or a ees 
Tp be met with elsewhere on the 
for scream and study, more suited 
flin the nyte of Seint Mar 
pa ul levene, tin it distroyed al the 
and other place, and og 
specialy a gret cherch of Seynt Michael, whech stood 
on a hil fast Md Glasconbury, bo e erdqwave threw it fer 
awey, and lefi t the groun nd pleyn 
“AD: s, 
Tn th 
VII. yere, 
te, was por reyne, 
rn ;*for 
argare 
vr 
, in the hope of findi 
nd | manzi relating to rural affairs. In the meanw an 
ot b 
thank Mr. Hingeston for the care with which. 
his editorial gg has been performed, aiies 
his excellen 
We have before us the 2d volume of Prof. Clark's 
t excellent, translation, we mosi 
Vander Hi 
mig 
them. | a buschel of Whete, that cg are but at II pens, ‘oeven’s Handbook of. 
d, the previously | was oar this ja worth iis.: and this same derth | Ist volume of which appeared in our 
ology is here practi- | lastid ni agao (p. 694). The present, which forms av 
eei the effects praca str ‘CAD. Parliament meets in London, The | pages, exclusive of 24 
e, but Tariff low aoe —In the YR. rere of the Kyng was a| tains the vertebrate animals, in 
mow in their operation that tl the | Parlement at Lond don, wher a gret ordinauns to | reptiles, birds, and mam 
1 was ordeyned that | important anatomical, physiological, 
ney igen M ‘huld be weld for XV Vis. ; a tatte | observations, which place the 
Frage from nabs the earth’s | oxe ca XXIIHs.; a fatte cow for XI a good s wyn, | all the more important 
molten torrents over immense | to yere old, for XLd.; pe se sithoaten wolle for | of the animal kingdom, 3 
hardened by time into Xia; a fat schep wi le XXd.; a fat remarks upon theopinionsof writers w. 
sloping gradually from the | IIob.; a , Ild.; a sth sari HIL « dowes, Id. | since the first volume went to plete 
eys have been sub- | And if ony man seld ony othir pris, the vitail be forfete | or well arranged general ious Zoolo- 
nt action, through | to the Kyng. gical classes we are not likely to-see, and we heartily 
e force of streams still]  “ 4.D. 13 14, England.—That tulate Dr. a ination 
ay s, &e. | yere fel pains ante that vitae de not be fe of his double labour of t Pilato and editor. 
ith } t l e 3d. part of the Tustrated Bouquet, E vee 
streams of Java, which i in somo “A.D. 1314. The Crops are Lig y | by Messrs. Henderson, of the St. John o ursery, 
mpi choked the valleys for | R n this y s in thy. enn that | pose ins so par iaa plants a p well repres 
os I myte nde | There is the us Begonia inden. 
up craters@ And all this at 
| it; par the ‘oa that was mad pent ‘led no vertu; | w 
with green, 
white and nt Fees worthy} of its great repair: 
