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cladus Canadensis, Illiciiun Floridanum, Boltonia asteroides. — He published an account of the excur- 

 sion "in 1751," and died "in 1777" (Holmes). 



"The same year" (Spreng.), Toren arriving in Malabar. — Where he remained until "1753." 



" The same year" (Spreng.), Griffith Hughes publishing Ms history of Barbadoes. 



Perhaps "about ninety years ago" (see Hale ethnogr. Expl. Exp. p. 148), Chatham Island colo- 

 nized by New Zealanders ; in canoes driven out to sea from the East Cape of New Zealand. — Addi- 

 tional emigrants from New Zealand " have lately been carried thither by trading vessels." 



" 1751 A. D." (Crawfurd vii. 11), by the Spanish colonists at Manila, an expedition sent against 

 Sulu : war declared, and a Second expedition disgracefully beaten. 



"April 4th " (trav. p. 20, 33, to 375), Bossu by the way of Cape Frangois arriving at the mouths 

 of the Mississippi. Leaving New Orleans "Aug. 20th" he proceeded up the river to the Illinois, 

 meeting with vines climbing high Vitis izparia 349, "jalap" 353 Ipomcea Michauxii. — After visiting 

 New Orleans and France "in 1757," he returned to the Mississippi "Aug. 12th 1758," he ascended 

 the Alabama as high as the junction of the Tombigbee, meeting with the "battledoe" common about 

 Mobile 347 Nyssa candicans, and was in New Orleans "June 1st, 1762." 



"July 12th" (trav. transl. by J. R. Forster), Osbeck arriving "in sight of the East part of Java." 

 "Aug. 22d," he was "off Macao" in China. — He published his Trav. in "1765." 



"In this year" (title-pages), Schmiedel publishing Gesner's botanical works. — The second 

 volume "in 1771," and he died "in 1783." 



" In this year " (Linn. sp. pi.), F. Sauvages publishing his Flor. monspel. — He died "in 1767." 



" '7S 2 i J an - 1st" (Blair, Holmes, and Nicol. 38), New year's clay by act of parliament, instead of 

 the ensuing " March 25th." New Style was at the same time adopted ; by deducting from this year 

 "eleven days," calling what would have been the "3d of September, the 14th." 



"In this year" (Spreng., and Pritzel), after his first edition "in 1731," Second "in 1732," Third 

 "in 1737," Fourth "in 1741," Fifth " in 1747," Philip Miller publishing the Sixth edition of his Gar- 

 deners' Dictionary, enumerating Ixia grandiflora, bulbifera,flexuosa pi. 156. f. 2 to 239. 2; Gladiolus 

 rec'urvus, slric/us, and Millcri 40 to 235. 2 ; Antholyza cunonia 113, Moraea iridioides 239. 1, Iris 

 ochroleuca 154, Verbascum Boerhaavii 273, Nicotiana pusilla 185. 2, Physalis arborescens 206. 2, 

 Tetragonia decnmbens u. 3 and ic. 263. 1, Phlomis Nissolii 204, Calendula fruticosa 283, Tilia 

 pubesccns n. 4, Solidago pi/osa, S. elliptica, Populus angulata * n. 5. 



"June2oth" (Hewet ii. 43, and Holmes), the charter of Georgia surrendered to the king: 

 removing the prohibition of Negroes, and enabling settlers to acquire larger tracts of land. 



"The same year" (coll. hist. iv. 216, and Holmes), the small pox in Boston, where of "five 

 thousand five hundred and forty-four " persons attacked, "five hundred and fourteen" died ; while of 

 " two thousand one hundred and nine " inoculated, only " thirty-one " died. 



"The same year" (life of Frankl. 118, and Holmes), at Philadelphia, the identity of electricity 

 with lightning demonstrated by Franklin ; by constructing an'd experimenting with an electrical kite. 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Pontoppidan publishing his Norw., including the plants collected by 

 Lange. — He died in " 1764." 



" '753 A. D." (W. W. Hunter), Marhattas under a Muslim chief acquire possession of Orissa. 



" In this year " (Marshall i. 375, univ. hist., and Holmes), the Ohio company surveying lands 

 granted as part of Virginia as far as the Falls of the Ohio ; the country on this river claimed by the 

 French of Canada : who built a fort at Presqu'isle on Lake Erie ; another, about " fifteen miles 

 south " on a tributary of the Alleghany ; a third, at the mouth of this tributary ; and a fourth, at the 

 mouth of the Wabache. 



" In this year " (Smith ed. fl. lapp. 238), Solander visiting Lapland, meeting with Apargia 

 taraxaci. 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Linnaeus publishing his Sp. Plant., enumerating 

 "seven thousand three hundred plants," including Allium striatum (Ph.), Hydiastis Canadensis, 

 Ricotia Aegyptiaca i. p. 656. 



" 1754, April 17th" (Blair, Minot, and Holmes), war between France and England initiated by 

 French Canadians capturing from the Ohio company an unfinished fort on the Monongahela. "June 



* Popuhts tacamahaca of Canada. A lofty tree called tacamahac, from transported specimens 

 described by Miller — (Steud.). In its wild state, was observed by F. A. Michaux from 49° to 47 , 

 and rare on Lake Champlain ; by myself, from 47 to 43° along the Atlantic ; by Longs' Expedition ii. 

 81, from Lake Superior to Pembina and Lake Winnipeg (Schw.) ; by Drummond, near the Rocky 

 mountains ; and according to A. Gray, grows from " N. New England to Wisconsin, and northward," 

 its "laro-e buds varnished with a fragrant resinous matter." Transported to Europe, is described by 

 Miller, and Linnaeus. 



