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"506 A. D." (Blair), by Anien, chancellor of Alaric II. king of the Western Goths, the Theodo- 

 sian codex of Laws reformed and published. 



"The same year" (Cassiodor., and Clint), letter of Theodoric, endeavouring to mediate between 

 Alaric II. and Clovis ; calling upon the Burgundian king Gundebald to interpose ; also upon the kings 

 of the Heruli, Guarni, and Thoringi, and threatening Clovis with combined forces should he persist 

 in war. 



Hardly earlier than this date (Graha Munjari tables, Puranas, and Bentl.), Dhntiman reigning in 



Hindustan. 



"507 A. D." (Greg. Tur., and Clint.), by Clovis, Alaric II. defeated, Tolosa occupied, and the 



Goths driven from Spain. 



"The same year" (Chron. Pasch., and Clint.), the Long Wall in Thrace built by Anastasius. 



" In this year" (ann. Jap., transl. Tits.), Bou-rets succeeded by KYi-tai, now twenty-seventh dairo 

 of Japan. 



" In this year under the dynasty of Learn" (Nansu, Yen-hien-tum-kao, and lond. sat. rev. 1875), 

 a Chinese vessel blown by a tempest on an unknown island where the people ate small beans, wore 

 dresses made of a kind of cloth,* and the walls of their houses were built of earth raised in a circle : 

 the women resembled those of China, but the men had faces and voices like dogs, and the Chinese 

 could not understand them. (The term "dog" being applied in China to all savages, the above 

 account is regarded by Leland as referring to America: and indeed there seems some correspondence 

 with the Northern extreme of California, provided the "small beans" can be identified with small 

 seeds collected for food by the Sacramento tribes). 



"510 A. D." (Blair), Paris made the capital of the French dominions. 



"511, July 10th '' (Act. Concil., and Clint.), a synod convened by Clovis at Aurelianum (Orleans). 

 In " November," death of Clovis at Paris, and accession of his son Theoderic as king of the French. 



"The same year" (Theophan., and Clint.), Macedonius bishop of Constantinople, the successor 

 of Euphemius, deposed and banished. 



;n A. D. (523 -j- "25 — 35 years " of Cosm. Ind. ii. and xi. = 513). As early probably as this date, 

 the voyage of Sopater to C I 8 A t A I B CI, Ceylon, an island according to the inhabitants three hundred 

 TO U A I a (the Tamil " naliguai ") in length and breadth : a small vessel from Persia arriving at the 

 same time, both parties were summoned before the king of the maritime district, and being asked 

 Which of their rulers was the most powerful ? Sopater by exhibiting gold coins obtained a decision 

 in favour of Puum £ U (Constantinople). He was treated with high honours, and conducted on an 

 elephant throughout the city. — The above particulars were obtained from Sopater and some of his 

 companions by Cosmas lndicopleusr.es at Adule. 



" 514 A. D." (Marcellin., Blair, and Clint.), revolt of the Scythian or Goth Vitalianus ; and his 

 fleet before Constantinople burned by a brazen speculum invented by Proclus. 



"The same year" (Lib. pontif., and Clint.),- Symmachus succeeded by Hormisdas, fiftieth 

 bishop of Rome. 



515 A. D. (Theophan., and Clint.), irruption of Huns through the "Caspian Pylae," and Arme- 

 nia, Cappadocia, Galatia, and Pontus, laid waste by them. 



'516 A. D. (= "491 an. jav. — 50 years " of Nata Kasuma, Raffles x.), at Astina in J,ava, acces- 

 sion of Suyudana as ruler of the Hindu colony. The children of Pandu Dewa Nata being excluded, 

 were sent by their grandfather Abiasa " with a thousand families to establish a new country," which 

 they called Amerta. 



"518, July gth " (Clint.), Anastasius succeeded by Justin, eighth Byzantine emperor. Unlike 



* Apocynum sp. of California. — Closely resembling but appeared to me distinct from our A. canna- 

 binum or " Indian hemp," and said to furnish fishing-lines and the fringe-cincture worn by the women 

 along the Sacramento. The plant observed by myself frequent on the river-flat. 



Linutu pereime of Siberia and Northwest America. — The perennial flax observed by R. Brown 

 jun. near Klamath lake, and used by the natives for making nets, twine, and ropes (bot. soc. Edin. 

 1868) "flax growing wild" was seen by Cornado in 1540 in the buffalo country Northeast of Culi- 

 acan ; " L. Lewisii," by E. James at the sources of the Arkansas ; by Nuttall, as far East as Fort Man- 

 dan on the Missouri ; by Lewis and Clark, in the untimbered valleys of the Rocky mountains ; and 

 according to Hooker, grows along the Pacific as far as the Arctic Sea. Westward, L. perenne or 

 " L. Sibericum " was observed by Gmelin from Kamtchatka throughout Siberia, growing according to 

 Pallas from C9 on the Yenisei. Transported to Europe, was naturalized in Britain before the days of 

 Ray angl. iii. 362 (I'ers.), and Miller (Steud.), and according to Watson occurs also in Switzerland: 

 clearly by European colonists was carried to Southeast Australia, where it has become naturalized 

 even in the Interior (Th. Corder in phytol. 1845, and A. Dec). 



