OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 597 ' 



"The same year" (. . . . Cockayne iii. 453), Sledda succeeded by his son Sseberht as king of 

 Essex. — He was converted and baptized in "604." 



" From the Sixth century" (Julien, and Pouchet), wood-engravings in use among the Chinese : — 

 and "from the end of the Fourteenth century,'' in Holland. 



Manuscripts of the "end of the Sixth century" (De Wailly pi. ii. 5), presenting the following form 

 of the letter y. 



600 A. U. = " 525 an. jav." (of Adi Mang'gala = omitting the two kings of Guj'rat "491 — j— 3 — |— 

 2 7 + 5 years " of Nata Kasuma, Raffles ix. and x.), death of Jaya Misana, and founding of Brambanan 

 the " first capital of Java " by Sawela Chala. Who came with a fleet of vessels from Guj'rat and made 

 an alliance with Aru Bandan "recently arrived from the Moluccas," to whom he confirmed the "east- 

 ern provinces including Balambangan." — The temples at Brambanan "are stated to have been con- 

 structed during" the first three reigns "by artists invited from" Hindustan, and (as appears from the 

 very extensive ruins) are exclusively Braminical. 



One hundred and forty-seventh generation. Jan. 1st, 601, onward mostly beyond youth : the 

 Chinese historian Li-yan-tcheou (Klapr.) : the Arab poets Tarafa, Lebid, Antar, Zohair, Amru, and 

 Hareth (six of the seven authors of the Moallakat preserved at Mecca), Ascha d. 628-9: the Greek 

 grammarian Joannes Philoponus ; Secundus historian of the Lombards ; the Greek writers, Joannes 

 of the Climax, Anastasius «5inaites, Joannes Moschus: the Latin ecclesiastical writer Jonas Hybernas 

 of England (Alst. p. 404). 



"The same year = 'jin-cheou,' 1st year of Wou-ti VII., of the Soui" or Fourteenth dynasty — ■ 

 (Chinese chron. table). 



" The same year " (Alst. p. 369), Hesychius or Isychius bishop of Jerusalem enumerating various 

 evidence of the truth of Christianity in his " Commentary on Leviticus." 



Pterocarpus dalbergioides of Tropical Eastern Asia. Called in commerce Andaman redwood, in 

 Telinga " erra-vegisa " (J. F. Watson); and the crimson "andami" wood of Zohair — may be com- 

 pared: P. dalbergioides is described by Balfour for. ind. 196. 



"The same year" = "20th year of Mauricius" (Clint, iii. p. 574), the last year marked in the 

 Alexandrian chronicle : — the chronicle ending " Nov. 22d " in the following year. 



" 602, Nov. 23d " (Clint, iii. p. 574), Mauricius succeeded- by Phocas, thirteenth Byzantine emperor. 

 Who issued an edict for the "baptism of all the Jews in his dominions " (. .). 



"603 A. D." (Bed. hist. eccl. i. 34), by Aedilfrid king of Northumbria, the Scots defeated at 

 "Degsastan" i. e. " Degsa lapis," and compelled to quit English territory. The name of the battle- 

 field includes an early example of an English word. 



" 604 A. D. = 4th year of the 'jin-cheou' of Wou-ti VII." (Chinese chron. table), beginning of 

 the Fifty-fifth cycle. 



" In the time of the Soui" (topog. Cant., and Pauth. 473), Chinese ambassadors sent to the sur- 

 rounding nations. "Mention is also made of a tribe Mozin" (Ainos) "living in the mountains 

 Northwest of" Japan (Sieb. elucid. Vries p. 122). 



"In the reign of Suiko " (Jap. centen. comm. 116), "the first notions concerning gardening" 

 introduced by a Corean into Japan. 



"March 12th" (Clint.), death of Gregorius Magnus, sixty-second bishop of Rome. He was 

 succeeded by Sabinianus. 



"605 A. D. = 'ta-ye,' 1st year of Yang-ti, of the Soui " or Fourteenth dynasty (Chinese chron. 

 table). He constructed the Southern and earliest portion of the Great canal; from Hang-tcheou 

 North, as far as Hoai-ho in Kiang-nan (Pauth. 280 and 365). 



"The same year" (Nicol.), a synod at Canterbury; "to confirm the foundation of the abbey of 

 St. Peter and Paul, the first" one built in England. 



"606 A. D." (Alst., Blair, and Nicol.), precedence granted by Phocas to the bishop of Rome. 

 And Sabinianus succeeded by Bonifacius the third, now made head-bishop of the Christians, or arch- 

 bishop. A column standing in the Roman forum, has recently been ascertained to be dedicated to the 

 emperor Phocas (Hillard trav. in Ital. x. 3). 



"607 A. D." (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Bonifacius the third succeeded by Bonifacius the 

 fourth, second archbishop. 



"610 A. D." (Pauth. 282), by the emperor Yang-ti, an expedition sent against the Lieou-khieou 

 (Loo-choo) Islands : and " more than five thousand " of the islanders of both sexes transported into 

 China. A treaty of peace also concluded with the Coreans, recognizing their independence. 



" The same year" (Alst. pp. 346 and 392), in a synod at Rome, the institution by the fourth Boni- 

 facius of " All the saints " festival ; after, by leave of the emperor, removing from the Pantheon the 

 statue of Cybele, and substituting the Virgin Mary. 



" Oct. 5th, Monday " (Clint, iv. p. 827), Phocas slain. He was-succeeded by Herachus, fourteenth 

 Byzantine emperor. 



