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Red river of Lake Winnipeg, by Say; is known to grow wild along the Ohio and its tributaries ; and 

 along our Atlantic streams, appeared to me wild on tributaries of the Delaware. The cultivated hop 

 was however brought from Europe by colonists. 



"757 A. D." (Alst, and Nicol.), at Rome, Stephanus III. succeeded by his brother Paulus, 

 twenty-ninth archbishop. 



" 7S 8 A. D." (Pauth 316), disturbances excited at Canton by the Arab and Persian traders ; who 

 after plundering the warehouses, retired by sea. 



" 759 A. D. (= 1419th of Synmu," art de verif.), Kooken succeeded by Fai-tai, great grandson of 

 Tenmu, and now dairo of Japan. 



"760 A. D." (Jap. c. c. 96), "a more elaborate money system" established in Japan, "consisting 

 of gold, silver, and copper coins" (attributed however to "the emperor Sunnin"). 



" 762 A. D." (Marcel), Bagdad, near ancient Babylon, founded by khalif El-Mansur for the new 

 seat of government. — Also, Mansura on the west bank of the Indus for the seat of government of his 

 prefect (Kaswini, and Gildem.). 



"The same year = 6th of the nengo zin-ki = cyclique jin-yn," date of an inscription by Fousi- 

 wara-no Ye-mi-no, general in charge of the forts, placed by him before the gate of the city of Ta-ka- 

 seki, not far from the island of Yeso. — A copy of the inscription is given in the San-kokf (transl. 

 Klapr. p. 216). 



"763 A. D. = 'kouang-te,' 1st year of Tai-tsoung II., of the Thang" or Fifteenth dynasty — 

 (Chinese chron. table). He continued to favour Christianity (inscript. Singanfu). 



"The same year = beginning of the Fourteenth manwantara" among the Hindus — (Graha 

 Munjari tables, and Bentl.). 



In ascending the Nile, the "barns of Joseph " (pyramids) described by Fidelis as looking in the 

 "distance like mountains." On landing, he found near " the group of three " a lion and eight men 

 and women all lying dead ; " the lion had slain them by its strength," and they had slain the lion with 

 their spears and swords. Fidelis afterwards sailed through the canal to the Red Sea, on his way to 

 Palestine (T. Wright early trav. Palest.). 



"765 A. D." (ann. Jap., and art de verif.), Fai-tai deposed, and the government resumed by 

 Ko-ken, now under the name of Sio-tok as forty-eighth dairo of Japan. 



"766 or 767 A. D." (Nicol.), a synod at Jerusalem. In favour of image-symbols in Christian 

 worship. 



One hundred and fifty-second generation. Sept. 1st, 767, onward mostly beyond youth : the 

 Jewish writers, Ishak ben-Jaakub el Isfahani : the Arab writers, Sibawaih, El-Khaleel, Ebn Seiyar 

 El-Khurasanee, Yoonus, El-Kisa-ee (Lane diet.) : Paulinus Aquileiensis : the Greek writers, Tarasius, 

 and Theognostus. 



" In this year " (Dionys. of Telmahre, and Gildem.), the Byzantine territories invaded by Muslims, 

 including Sindian troops. 



" The same year " (T. Wright), Mohammed ben Abdallah having revolted at Medina (Leps.) the 

 canal leading from the Nile to the Red Sea blocked up by khalif El-Mansur (see Ramessu II.). 



"768 A. D." (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Paulus succeeded by Stephanus IV., thirtieth arch- 

 bishop. 



"The same year" (Alst.), Pepin succeeded by his son Carolus Magnus (Charlemagne) as king 

 of France. Where his preceptor Alcuinus of England, became the "restorer of learning" (Blair). 



"770 A. D." (Blair), by the Byzantine emperor Constantinus VI., the monasteries in the East 

 dissolved, and the monks and nuns compelled to marry. 



" The same year" (ann. Jap., and art de verif.), Ko-ken or Sio-tok succeeded by Koonin or Kwo- 

 nin, grandson of Tent-sii, and now forty-ninth dairo of Japan. 



Of woods from early times used in Japan, specimens of " hiba " (T/iuyopsis dolabratd)* nedzuko 

 (Thuyopsis laetevirens), " wabyakudan (Tftuya" ....), "larch tree" (Larix ....), " inugaya 

 (Cephalotaxus dmpacea)," " tsuga {Abies Ihuga)," "tohi {Abies alkokiana), shirabe (Abies Veitchii)" 

 "walnut tree" (Juglans ....), " sawa-kurumi {Pterocarya sorb/folia)," "evergreen oak in two 



* Abies bifida of Japan, as far as Yeso. A spruce called by the Ainos "sunk," in Japan " momi " 

 (Sieb., and Jap. c. c. 30) : known from early times, — and its wood enumerated by Siebold among the 

 kinds especially fit for shipbuilding and supplying masts. 



Quercus dentata of Japan, as far as Yeso. Called by the Ainos "gomuni" (Sieb.), in Japan 

 "kashiwa" (Jap. c. c.) ; and its wood from early times used'by the Ainos "for oars and other instru- 

 ments " — (Sieb. 41 and 170). 



Sophora Japonica of Japan, as far as Yeso. A tall tree called by the Ainos "tokbeni" or 

 "tsikbe," in Japan "jendsju" (Sieb ) or "yenji" (Jap. c. c. 31) ; and its wood used from early times. 

 — From transported specimens, described by Linnaeus (Pers.). 



