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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



the remnant of Dutch colonists were sent to France; leaving behind "more than one thousand and 

 sixty" colonists White and Black, including "not forty" women. In regard to the climate, not a 

 drop of rain fell from the " 10th of July to the 10th of November." In Indian Guayana, nearer to and 

 as far as the Equator, rains are more frequent and abundant, the native tribes in general living by cul- 

 tivating the soil, making and drinking several kinds of beverages : the Aracarets are enumerated as 

 baving & no enemies ; the Palicours are continually warring against the Caribs ; and the Arrouagues, a 

 considerable tribe on Berbice river, have had long wars against the Caribs, and have often defeated 



them. 



"Nov. 17th" (Josselyn, and Holmes), a very large comet : which continued visible in New England 



— until "Feb. 4th." The comet "was conspicuous to the whole world." 



"In this year" (Linn. fl. suec), after his Hort. Upsal. "in 1658" Olaus Rudbeck publishing his 

 Delic. Hort. Jacob. — He published Auct. Hort. Upsal. "in 1666," Hort. Botan. "in 1685," com- 

 menced Camp. Elys., and died "in 1702" (Spreng.). 



1665 A. D. (= "3d year of Kinsen," art de verif.), the inquisitorial tribunal Jesumi established 

 by Kinsen and the cubo : by which every inhabitant of Nangasaki and of the province of Bungo, the 

 only parts of Japan where there remained suspicion of Christianity, was compelled to trample on the 

 cross. 



"July'' (Blair), London desolated by pestilence. 



"The same year" (Spreng.), founding of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. — The first meet- 

 ings were held in the following year (Blair). 



"In this year" (Spreng.), John Rea publishing his Florilege, enumerating Erythronium Ameri- 

 cana in. 



"The same year" (tradit. by Z. Macy, hist. coll. iii.p. 159), Metacom or Philip having come alone 

 to Nantucket, to kill a native for "speaking the name of the dead," it was supposed, of a near con- 

 nexion (see R. Williams' key) : the English interceding, all the money they were able to collect "was 

 barely sufficient to satisfy" Metacom for the native's life. 



"The same year" (Maunder), the French obtain footing on the West const of Haiti or Hayti. 



" 1666 A. D." (Pauth. 434), in China, one of the four regents dying, the cares of government 

 assumed by Khang-hi, now "thirteen" years old. — P. Yerbiest was appointed by him chief of the 

 Bureau of astronomers. 



" Sept. 2d " (Blair), the great fire in London. 



" In or about this year " (Harris voy., and Holmes), beginning of the depredations of the "buc- 

 caneers : " adventurers combined together, principally English and French, for the purpose of plunder- 

 ing Spanish settlements in the West Indies. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), after his Hort. Stud, in " 1657," Hyacinth Ambrosini publishing his 

 Phytol., enumerating * Passiflora hederacea 91, Anthemis tomentosa 100, and Caitaarea ambcrboi 1S7 '. 



— He died in " 1672." 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Chabre publishing his Stirp. Sciagraph., taken principally from 

 J. Bauhin. 



Selinum Chabraci of middle Europe. Described by Chabre" — (Spreng.) ; observed by Cranlz, 

 and Jacquin austr. i. pi. 72, in Austria ; by Moench, in Cirmanv ; by Allioni, in Piedmont; by Vil- 

 lars, in Dauphiny; by Thuillier, as far as the environs of Paris (Steud.) ; and within 6ftv years, after 

 the opening of the Doubs canal "to [822," made its appearance in the environs of Montbelliard (Bern., 

 and A. Dec). 



1667 A. D. = "6th year of Khang-hi " (topog. Cant., and Pauth. p. 473), reception of an ambas- 

 sador ; bringing a letter written on leaves of gold, the king's portrait, a sword ornamented with gold, 



* Triftsacum dactyloides of North America. The gama grass, reedy with leaves an inch wide, 

 transported to Europe described by Hyacinth Ambrosini 516 — (Spreng.), Miller, and Linnaeus. 

 Westward, was observed by Torrey, and A. Gray, from 41 in Connecticut "near the coast," "some- 

 times used for fodder at the South ; " by Pursh, in Virginia, Carolina, and Illinois ; by Nuttall, from 

 40 on the Atlantic and the "prairies of the West" to Red river of Louisiana; by Schweinitz, at 36 

 in Upper Carolina; by Walter, and Elliot, in South Carolina; by Chapman, in "rich soil, Florida, 

 and northward;" by Baldwin, as far as 29 ; and according to Kunth, grows also as far as Hayti, 

 Mexico, and California. " T. monostachyum," regarded by Nuttall as only a variety, was observed 

 by him on the Arkansas ; by Pursh, near salt water from New York to Carolina. 



Colladea monostachya of the West Indies. A grass, transported to Europe, described by Hyacinth 

 Ambrosini 235 — (Spreng.), termed " tripsacum hermaphroditum" by the younger Linnaeus, "ante- 

 phora elegans " by Schreber and Beauvois (Steud.). Westward, is known to grow wild on Jamaica 

 (Pers.). 



