IOIO CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"inLat. 53 40' or thereabouts " descried "twelve canoes with as many" natives proceeding to an 

 island not far off, and following in his ship anchored there. On landing, the natives "by their 

 actions shewed signs of fear and amazement ; " but advancing alone " without anything in his hands,'' 

 he was suffered to come near, and after a time succeeded in making them comprehend, that he wished 

 to exchange different articles for whalebone. The natives were dressed, " some in seal skins," but 

 chiefly in "beaver coats" of "many pieces sewed together, being the best patches in the skin;" 

 demonstrating absence of traffic with any civilized people, not even with the Canadian French, nor 

 with the Hudson Bay factories. Their canoes " were made of bark and whalebone, strongly sewed 

 together, covered with seal skin, payed over with a dark sort of gum" ( . . . ). The natives "were 

 well made, and strong, very fat and full of blood ; " their "limbs well proportioned, their complexion 

 a dark red, their hair black, short, and straight, having no beard nor any hair but on their heads. 

 Their behaviour very lively and cheerful; their language guttural and dissonant; their arms were 

 bows and arrows, some of bone and some of wood ; their arrows feathered and barbed ; they sling 

 their dirts through a piece of ivory, made square and fastened to the palms of their hands. Capt. 

 Atkins conceives them to be a very cunning, subtile people, who could easily apprehend his meaning, 

 when he made signs to them, but took no notice of his speaking to them." Proceeding along the 

 coast, he "found the country full of woods, alder" (Aliiits incana), "yew" {Abies balsamea?), 

 "birch'' (Betula papyracea, of large size, since the canoes were in part made of bark), "and witch- 

 hazel, a light fine wood for shipbuilding" (Ulmus AmerkanaT); "also fine large pines for ship 

 masts, of a much finer grain than in New England" (Pinus resinosa). — Capt. Prebble "in 1753" 

 carried with him a young Frenchman, in hopes that some native "might be found who understood 

 the French language," but no one "took more notice of it than of the English ; a plain proof these 

 people had never left their own country to trade with the French." 



"Nov. 28th" (Charlev., Du Pratz, and Holmes), on the Mississippi, conspiracy of the Natchez 

 tribe to massacre the French colonists : and at a signal, "two hundred" Frenchmen killed, and the 

 women, children, and Negroes captured. Of all the settlers at the trading post, "not more than 

 twenty French, and five or six Negroes escaped." — The following year, the Natchez tribe were all 

 captured by the French, the individuals were subjected to solitary imprisonment, and were afterwards 

 transported as slaves to Hayti. 



"In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Micheli publishing his Nov. gen. — He died "in 



1737" 



Najas tetrasperma of Italy. An aquatic annual observed by Micheli pi. 8. f. 1 in the waters of 

 Italy— (Pers.). 



Carer divulsa of Europe and the adjoining portion of Asia. A woodland sedge described by 

 Micheli pi. 33, — and known to grow from Sweden to the Mediterranean (Engl. bot. pi. 629, Pers., 

 and Wats.) : observed by Sibthorp, and Chaubard, from the Peloponnesus to Constantinople. 



"1730 A. D." (art de verif.), Achmed III. succeeded by Mahmood, twenty-fifth Turkish sultan. 

 Coins issued at Cairo by Mahmood, are figured in Marcel p. 229. 



" In this year" (Levchine kirgh. ii. 3 to iii. 6), voluntary submission to the empress Anne of the 

 Kirghiz-Kazaks around the Aral Sea. — The movement though but partial tended greatly to promote 

 their prosperity, by inducing peace with Siberian tribes under the dominion of Russia; traffic com- 

 menced in •' 1736," and though carried on by barter or direct exchanges, soon became very. extensive. 

 "In this year" (Winckl.), Hans Egede publishing his account of Greenland, enumerating 

 Dry as tetiella pi. B. f. 3 (Ph.)- 



"173: A. D." (Hewet ii. 11, and Holmes), arrival in South Carolina of governor Robert John- 

 son, commissioned by the king; and bills if credit continued by the Legislature. The rate of ex- 

 change rose in consequence to "seven hundred per cent" or seven for one ; — where it continued 

 "with little variation upward of forty years." 



In New England, there were now "six furnaces for hollow ware, and nineteen forges" (Dougl. 

 i. log, and Holmes). 



"Nov. 30th" (Pauth. 449), at Pekin, the severest earthquake ever experienced there ; and "in 

 less than a minute," more "than a hundred thousand persons buried under the ruins of buildings." 



"The same year" (Targ.), date of the manuscript Viridarium botanicum Italo-Hyspanum, in 

 which are enumerated "ficoide" Mesembryanthenntm liiiguiforntc. 



"1732, Jan. nth" (Blair), Pragmatic Sanction confirmed by the Diet. 



"In this year" (Linn. fl. suec), Olaus Celsius publishing his Plants growing around Upsal ; — 

 his Auct. Upland, "in 1740," and first investigated the mosses and minute plants of Sweden. He 

 published the first volume of his Hierobotanicon "in 1745," the second "in 1747," and died "in 

 1756" (Spreng.). 



"In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), after his Plant. Giss. "in 1718," his Third edition of 

 Ray's Synopsis "in 1724" (A. Dec. g. b. 645-59), Dillenius publishing his Hort. Eltham., enumer- 



