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pis lunati iii. 36. 2, Scorsam-ra graininifolia ii. 21, Lactuca sonchifolia v. app. 36, Chrysanthemum 

 camaim ii. 20, Achillea jilicifolui ii. 19, Ceutaurca nilens ii. 15. 1, C. bahamita pi. 16, Aristolochia 

 Pontica i. 45, Carer Bu'xb.nimii iv. 59, C. secalina i. 54, Smilax excelsa i. 27. 



.•/ t/ra.utitis cmitarmpiicalus of the Uralian plains. Termed "a. repens sihquis undulatis " by 

 Buxbaum "cent. iii. pi. 30 ;— observed by Sibthorp on Cyprus and the plains of Asia Minor; by 

 Gmelin iv. pi. 28, and Pallas i. 224 to v. 325. on the Lower Volga. 



Veronica Buxbaum ii of middle Asia. Termed " v. flosculis oblongis pediculis insidentibus cha- 

 msdryos folio major" by Buxbaum cent. i. pi. 40, — and has since extended itself in cultivated 

 ground into middle and Northern Europe ; was observed by Sibthorp pi. S in the environs of Constan- 

 tinople, by Chaubard in cultivated ground in the Peloponnesus; by Tenore, in Italy; by Martens and 

 Koch in Germany, by Lejeune in Belgium, by Fries in Denmark and the neighbouring portion of 

 Sweden, is known to occur in the Calvados, has become naturalized within the present century in the 

 environs of Geneva, and since "1829" has become known in Britain (A. Dec) By European 

 colonists, was carried to Northeast America, observed in Milton near Boston (D. Murray), and in 

 " waste grounds, Philadelphia, rare" (A. Gray). 



Corispcrmum hvssopi folium of the Uralian plains. An annual observed by Buxbaum cent. id. 

 pi. 55 _ (Pers.): by Sibthorp, along the Black Sea in the maritime sands of Thrace; by Pallas trav. 

 i. 53, along the Volga. And perhaps the same species by Lewis and Clark, Nuttall, and E. James 

 along the Missouri as far as the Platte, and by Nuttall along the Arkansas. 



Salicornia Caspiea of the shores of the Caspian. Described by Buxbaum cent. i. pi. 10; — 

 observed by Pallas trav. i. 076 at the mouth of the Yaik. 



Ornithooalum nauiim of the East Mediterranean countries. Termed "o. humifusum floribus 

 umbellatis albis " by Buxbaum ii. pi. 37 : — observed by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, from the Pelopon- 

 nesus to the Dardanelles. 



" 1726 A. D." (Hutch, ii. 316, and Holmes), treaty of peace with the aboriginal tribes on the 

 Eastern frontier of New England. — " A long peace " followed : and the " treaty has been applauded 

 as the most judicious which has ever been made with the Indians." 



" 1727, Oct. 2tst " (Klapr. mem. i. 59), a treaty concluded between Russia and China : — and in 

 conformity in the following year, the first Russian guard-house established at Kiakhta, now the 

 frontier trading-city. 



" Oct. 29th, about 10 h. 40 min. p.m.'' (Hutch, ii. 326, and Holmes), in a very clear and serene 

 sky. with " perfect calm and tranquillity," a severe earthquake; lasting about two minutes, and extend- 

 ing; from the river Delaware to the Kennebeck. Stone walls and the tops of several chimneys were 

 shaken down. On the same day. many buildings thrown down on the island of Martinico ; where 

 the earthquake continued, with very short intervals, eleven hours (univ. hist. xli. 230). 



"The same year" (coll. hist. v. 206. and Holmes), death of John Thomas, an aboriginal aged 

 "one hundred and ten." He refused, early in life, to join the Pequods against the colonists; was 

 among the first who joined the church, when it was gathered by Eliot at Natick ; and continued 

 exemplary through life. 



" In this year " (Spreng.), Threlkeld publishing his Stirp. Hibern. — He died in " 1728." 

 " 1728. July 14th " (transl. with Du Halde), after journeying from Tobolsk to Okhotski and thence 

 by sea, ascertaining that the Kuriles "burn their dead." while the K.imiehatkans "throw them in 

 the woods to be devoured by clogs," Bering sailing from Kamtchatka river. Following the coast 

 Eastward, he met eight men in a leathern boat who called themselves " Tzukchi ; " and " Aug. loth " 

 discovered an island, whkh from the day he named " St. Laurence." Continuing along the land to 

 " Lat. 67 18'," on the " 15th " he turned back ; having unawares passed through the straits — which 

 afterwards received his name. 



His companion Steller found the Ainos of the Southern point of Kamtchatka* counting with 

 their fingers and toes and having no name for numbers beyond " two hundred," having no idea of the 

 art of writing but making notches to assist the memory, employing besides for the same purpose knots 



* Gvinnaudra borealis of Arctic Asia and America. Observed by Steller from the Lower Lena 

 to Kamtchatka — and on Bering's Island; by Pallas iv. 43 to 6S2 in the alpine region of Daouria ; 

 by Soujef, at the mouth of the Obi (Pall.). Westward, was received by Pursh from the mouth of 

 the Columbia. 



Geiuii antmonoide* of Kamtchatka. Observed by Steller, — - and to the time of Pallas iv. O99 

 not found beyond the limits of Kamtchatka. Termed " dryas pentapctala " by Linnxus, "anemone 

 p/isil/a" by Gaertner nov. comment, petrop xiv. 1. pi. 19 (Pall.); not found in Kamtchatka by 

 Chamisso, but observed by Merk on the Kurile Islands and the Northwest coast of America, and by 

 Egede pi. 2 in Greenland (Pursh). 



