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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"In this year" (title-page, and iii. 22), De Laet publishing his Nov. Orb., having received from 

 the Hudson river Polygonum sagittatum, and P. arifolium iii. 10. pi. — The date " 1635 " occurs in 

 the French edition xvi. 2, issued "in 1640." 



Advent in Plymouth colony of the seventeen-years locust, Cicada stpUmdeciht, witnessed in this 

 year by Bradford p. 198. The insect is peculiar to Northeast America, and is remarkable for its 

 longevity; known to extend throughout the whole intervening seventeen years. 



One hundred and seventy-eighth generation. May 1st, 1634, onward mostly beyond youth : the 

 Chinese historians Fou-y-tchang, and Kou-yng-tai (Pauth. 400): the Jewish writers, Manasseh ben 

 Israel; Zacutus Lusitanus ; Chajjim Benevniste : the Greek writers, Agapius of Crete d. after 1643, 

 Andreas Troilus d. 1647: Riccioli; Fabri de Peiresc ; Caspar Barthius ; Henry Spelman ; cardinal 

 Bentivoglio ; Gerard John Vossius ; Ericius Puteanus ; Quevedo ; Grotius : archbishop Usher; 

 Gabriel Naudd; John Selden ; Descartes; Famianus Strada; Petavius ; Voiture ; Balzac; Chilling- 

 worth ; Salmasius ; Paul Scarron ; Henry Hammond ; Samuel Bochart ; Blaise Pascal : the botanists, 

 Balthas. and Mich. Campius, Joseph Bonfiglioli, Petrus Carrera d. 1647, Ovid. Montalbanus, Io. Ant. 

 Bumaldi, Thomas Brown, Kenelm Digby d. 1665, Levinus Fischer, loach. Jungius d. 1657, P. Dionys. 

 Vellia, Bartholomjeus Ambrosinius d. 1657, Io. Bapt. Ferrarius d. 1655, Petr. Castellus, Io. Royerus, 

 Adolph. Vorstius d. 1663, Io. Chemnitz d. 1651, Sim. Paulus d. 1680, Petrus Firens and Dan. Rabel, 

 Antonius Vallot and Dionysius Joncquet d. 1671, Otho Sperlingius d. 1681, Thomas Pancovius d. 1665 : 

 the painters, Guido Reni d. 1642, Rubens d. 1640, Vandyck d. 1641, Nicholas Poussin d. 1665, Adrian 

 Brower or Brauwer d. 1640, Diego Velasquez de Silva d. 1660, Dominico Zampieri called Domenichino 

 d. 1641 : the architect Inigo Jones. 



'■The same year " (Chalmers, Hubbard, and Holmes), Roger Williams, a clergyman of Salem, 

 holding tenets regarded as heretical and seditious, "tending equally to sap the foundation of the 

 establishment in church and state," and being found irreclaimable, banished from Massachusetts. In 

 Boston, select men first chosen to manage the town affairs ; a market established ; a house of enter- 

 tainment set up ; and the first merchant's shop opened. 



"The same year" (relat. Jes. i.), letter from Quebec of the Jesuit Paul le Jeune, enumerating 

 among the animals of the surrounding country "orignaux" (Cervus Canadensis, moose), "caribous" 

 or "asnes sauvages" (Cervus rangifcrinns), "blereaux" (Gulo lusais), " sifneurs ou rossignols " an 

 animal "plus gros qu'un lieure " (A? ctomys Marilandica), and three species of " ecurieux " (Sciurus 

 cinerens, S. ru/us, and Tamias striatus). 



"In this year" (Klapr. mem i. 324), by permission of the Japanese, Fort Zelandia built by the 

 Dutch at the entrance of the harbour of Thay ouan in Formosa. — The Japanese soon afterwards 

 abandoned the island and all their foreign possessions. 



"In this year" (Stirling, and W. W. Hunter), a firman granted by the emperor Shah Jahan, 

 allowing the English to trade with their ships in Bengal. But Azim Khan, governor of Orissa, Behar, 

 and Bengal, restricted them to the single port of Pippli, where they built their first factory. 



" i<>35 A. D." (univ. hist., and Holmes), landing of French colonists under M. Bretigny on 

 Cayenne Island and the adjacent continent. 



"The same year" (Winthrop i. 162, archseol. Amer. iv. 229), sailing from Massachusetts Bay of 

 "Mr. Graves in the James, and Mr. Hodges in the Rebecka, for the" outlying "Isle of Sable for 

 sea-horse, which are there in great number." — In 1642, John Webb "with his company," sailed for 

 the Isle of Sables "with commission from the Bay to get sea-horse teeth and oyle " (Lechford, hist, 

 coll. iii. 3d ser. p. 100). And even in the days of Josselyn voyag. p. 106 and rar. p. 97, " morse, or 

 sea-horse" (Trichecus rosmarus), "smooth-skinned, and impenetrable," having "tushes as white 

 as ivory," continued "frequent at the Isle of Sables." 



"About this year" (narrat., and Murdoch hist. Nov. Scot. i. 130 to 536), Denys, one of the 

 companions of Razilly "in 1632," remaining or again visiting Nova Scotia: — "in 1636" he was 

 appointed "governor in the bay of St. Lawrence and isles adjacent: " he founded Miramichi in the 

 " Bay des Chaleurs ; " published his account of the country "in 1672," and was living at Miramichi 

 "in 1690." 



"In this, year" (Spreng.), Cornuti publishing his Plant. Canadens , enumerating of North 

 American plants, " filix baccifera " (Cystoperis bulbifera) pi. 4 ; * " origanum fistulosum Canadense '' 

 (Monarda fi-stulosa) pi. 14; " eruca maxima Canadensis" (. . . . ) pi. 17; "Valeriana urticaefolia 



* Archangelica atropurpurea of Canada. The great angelica transported to Europe is termed 

 "angelica atropurpurea Canadensis" by Cornuti pi. 199, — described also by Linnaeus. Westward, 

 "wild angelica, majoris " was seen by Josselyn rar. 45 in New England: and A. atropurpurea has 

 been observed by myself from 45 to 42° in Eastern and Western Massachusetts ; by Darlington, as 

 far as 40 near West Chester ; by Michaux, in Canada ; by Pursh, from Canada to the Alleghanies of 



