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excellent character; have neither king, princes, nor lords, but in each hamlet the most respectable 

 old man is the chief and has charge of public affairs. 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Joh. Fr. Gmelin publishing his Stirp. Tubing, indigen.— 

 He died "in 1802." 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Joh. Jac. Reichard publishing his Flor. Moeno-Francof. 

 — The publication was completed "in 1778," and he died "in 1789." 



"In this year" (Pursh), G. Wolffg-Knorr publishing his Thesaur. rei. herb. 



About this time ("Jan. 7th 181 1 — near forty years," lett. to Baldwin reliq. 15 to 181), after 

 returning from the University of Halle "in 1770," Henry Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania at the age of 

 nineteen turning his attention to Botany. 



" In this year " (Pritzel), Schreber publishing the Second volume of his Gram., enumerating 

 Muhlenbergia diffusa n. 103 (Willd.), Bracliyelytrum aristalum, Trichodium laxiflorum, — com- 

 pleted "in 1779 : " the Third volume was issued 'in 1810," the year in which he died 



" 1773, March " (Holmes), a committee of Correspondence appointed by the Virginia Legisla- 

 ture : To extend communications beyond the province to the sister colonies. On the arrival of ships 

 laden with tea : at Charleston, the tea was stored where it could not be used ; at Philadelphia and 

 New York, the ships were sent back ; and at Boston, after vain attempts to send back the ships, per- 

 sons in disguise forced an entrance and threw the tea into the harbour. 



" April," Wm. Bartram (according to his own account) leaving Philadelphia on his journey 

 South, as far as Florida, meeting with Kalmia hirsuta, Scutellaria serrata, S. canescens, Salvia 

 asurea, Calamintha grandifiora, Sabbatia stellaris, S. calycosa, Ixia coelestina, Lycium Carolinianum 

 trav. 59, Azalea calendulacea p. 321, Oenothera grandifiora (Ph.), Clethra acuminata, Hydrangea 

 querafolia, Chrysobalanus oblongifolius ; lithium parvijiorum, Magnolia pyramidata, Gerardia ? 

 cuneirolia, Hibiscus incanus, Liatris graminifolia, L. heterophylla, L. gracilis, L. pauciflora, Acti- 

 nospermum anguslifolium, Actinomeris alata, Coreopsis acuta, C. angiistifolia, Rudbeckia discolor, 

 Helianthus radtila, Berlandiera tomentosa, Myrica inodora, Asimina grandifiora and A. pygmaea, 

 both on the South side of the Alatamaha (B. c. 332) ; Mylocaryum ligustrinum near Savannah p. 31 ; 

 Pinckneya pubetis near Fort Barrington on the Darien road p. 16 with Gordonia pubescens (B. r. 

 333) ; Hypericum aureum ("frondosum" of Mx., B. r. 107), Satureja? rigida (B. r. 281). 



"April 21st" (trav. iv. 56), Pallas on his return from Siberia leaving Sarapoul for the South, to 

 observe the vernal plants between the Yaik and Lower Volga ; " May 8th," he crossed the Samara, 

 continuing South along the Yaik, meeting with Cachrys odontalgica, Poly cue mum sclerospermum, 

 and on the "23d" reached Soundaef. Leaving the Yaik on the "24th," and proceeding Southeast, 

 he entered the Naryn Desert ''in 49 " on the "31st," meeting with Spartium aphyllum, Delphinium 

 puniceum, Anabads monandra, Ornithogalum circinnatum, "June 8th" came in sight of the 

 Vol^a, and on the "nth" reached Astrakan ; where he met Gmelin jun. preparing for his second 

 visit to Persia. Leaving on the " 16th," he returned along the Volga and on the " 25th" reached the 

 Moravian settlement of Sarepta, in existence "eight years," and "twenty-two versts " beyond at 

 Zarizyn passed the month of July. Leaving " Aug. 4th " he continued up the Volga as far as Saratof, 

 and returned to Zarizyn on the " 28th," to pass the winter. 



Soujef among the Inderski mountains meeting with Molucella tuberosa, Plantago minuta, Bunias 

 Tartarica, Leontice vesicaria, and Amaryllis Tartarica, rejoining Pallas " May 23d" at Soundaef. 



"The same year" (Pemberton ms., Morse geogr. i. 122, and Holmes), the settlement of Ken- 

 tucky commenced by Daniel Boon and family, with five other families, and forty men from Powell's 

 Valley. Said to be in violation of a government treaty with the aboriginals. 



" Between sixty and seventy years " before our visit to the Pacific (Hale ethnogr. Expl. Exp. 

 p. 140), Temoe or Crescent Island, a coral-islet "about thirty miles" Southeast of Mangareva, peo- 

 pled by Mangarevan fugitives " on rafts ; " the drifting, it should be observed, being directly against 



the trade wind. After many years, Catholic missionaries arrived at Mangareva: through whom the 



fugitives were brought back to their homes. 



° " In this year " (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), after his Flor. Monsp. "in 1765," Gouan publishing 

 his Illustr. of rare plants growing on the Pyrenees, including Seseli elatum. 



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"In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Chr. Friis Rottboll publishing the thesaurus Tranqueb. 

 f J. G. Konig. — KSnig's Scitamin. were published in Retz. Obs. ; and he died "in 1785." 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Jacquin publishing his Flor. Austriac, enumerating 

 Arenaria fasciculata ii. pi. 182, Hieracium molle pi. 119. — Completed, with his Hort. Vindobon. "in 



1776." 



•' In this year". (Spreng., and Winckl.), Tobias Konr. Hoppe publishing his Flor. Gera esculent. 



" 1774, towards the end of winter " (Pall. v. 362), leaving Pallas at Zarizyn on the Volga, Georgi 

 returning by the way of Kasan to Moscow. — " In the following year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), he 

 published the travels of Falk and himself from Orenburg to Lake Baical and Daouria. 



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