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CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



On the following "Jan. 25th," Shepard, commanding the State forces at Springfield, discovering a 

 body of "eleven hundred" insurgents under Daniel Shays advancing towards the arsenal, gave warn- 

 ing, That if they approached nearer they would be fired upon : the insurgents replying, " That is all 

 we want," continued to advance against firing over their heads; but at length received a volley, and 

 in spite of the efforts of their leader, retreated precipitately. By Lincoln, the State commander in 

 chief, the main body of the insurgents was surprised and dispersed Feb. 4th ; many seeking refuge in 

 the surrounding States. 



"The same year" (Nicol.), Frederic II. the Great succeeded by Frederic William II., fourth 

 king of Prussia. 



" The same year " (Kobell ii.), by Lord Dundonald, first experiments on the illuminating power 

 of the carburetted hydrogen of coal. — After three years or thereabouts, gas-lighting was rendered 

 practicable and profitable by Murdoch : but more than twenty years elapsed before the lighting of 

 streets was effected. 



"In this year" (Spreng.), Joh. Sim. Kerner publishing his Flor. stuttgard. 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith), Villars publishing his Plant. Dauph. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), Vahl publishing the Sixth volume of the Flor. dan., — the Seventh 

 " in 1794." 



" In this year " (Pursh), C. Fr. Rottboll publishing his Icon. rar. plant., enumerating Cypents 

 kyllingaeoides-p\. 4. f. 5, C. autumnalis pi. 17. f. 3. — He continued publishing until his death "in 1707." 



"In this year" (append. Sibth., and Winckl.), Jacquin publishing his Collect., and continuing his 

 Icon, rar., enumerating* Plantago Pala^omca ic. ii. pi. 306: — the third and concluding volume of 

 his Icon. rar. "in 1793," and the concluding volume of his Collect. " in 1796." 



" 17S7 A. D." (Holmes), government by a Congress proving inefficient: ordinances being dis- 

 regarded, many States neglecting or refusing to furnish their quotas of expenditure, treaties with for- 

 eign nations being in some States openly violated, and the danger of insurrections being now manifest, 

 a convention of all the States except Rhode Island assembled in " May" at Philadelphia; and "Sept. 

 17th," unanimously agreed on a federal constitution. In accordance with the prescribed plan of action, 

 Congress " Oct. 4th " unanimously resolved, " eleven States being present," That the new constitution 

 be transmitted to the State legislatures, to be submitted to conventions chosen by the people. 



"The same year" (Drayton iv. 155, and Holmes), by the Legislature of South Carolina, the 

 Western territory of that State toward the Mississippi ceded to the general government. Baltimore 

 at this time containing "one thousand nine hundred and, fifty-nine houses." 



" Aug. nth " (Sieb. elucid. Vries p. 72), the strait separating Yeso from Krafto (Saghalien), dis- 

 covered by Lapeyrouse. 



"In this year" (Winckl.), David Heinrich Hoppe publishing his Ectyp. plant. Ratisb.,f — the 

 eighth volume "in 1793." 



As early as this year (see Ph , and Winckl.), Retz publishing the fourth volume of his Obs. botan., 

 enumerating Pedicularis Groenlatutica n. 760 : the sixth and last volume " in 1791. " 



" In this year" (Winckl., and append. Sibth ), Ehrhart publishing his Beitr., enumerating Equi- 

 setum pratense, Carer chonwrhisa, Comus paniatlata (Pursh), — the Seventh fascic. "in 1792;" 

 died " in 1795." 



As early as this year (see Spreng., and Winckl ), Scopoli writing his Del. insubr. — He died 

 "in 1788." 



" In this year" (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Curtis publishing the first volume of his Bot. Mag. 

 — He completed fourteen volumes ; died in " 1799," and the work was continued by Sims as far as 

 the forty-second volume inclusive. 



"In this year " (Winckl.), J. Dav. Schdpf publishing his Mat. med. amer. ; — " in 1788," his 

 travels in North America. 



* Euxohis caudalus of Western Equatorial Africa. Received from Guinea, and termed 

 "chenopodium caudatum " and " c. Guineense " by Jacquin rar. ii. pi. 344, 345, —and col. ii. 325 

 (Pers.). By European colonists, was carried to Tropical America, Bengal, Java, and Australia (Moq., 

 and A. Dec. 



f Braya alpina of the Arctic region and alpine summits farther South. Observed by Hoppe on 

 the Carinthian Alps — (Koch, and A. Dec); by Fries 29, in Lapland only. Westward, according to 

 Hooker, growing on the Rocky mountains from 57 to 52 



Liisnla glabrata of Arctic Europe and the mountains of Switzerland. Observed by Hoppe,— 

 and Rostkow, on the Salzburg Alps (Pers.); termed "j. intermedius " by Host, " j. montanus" by 

 Lamarck ; observed by Mougeot on the Yosges ; by Lecoq and Lamotte, on the mountains of 

 Auvergne : growing also according to A. Decandolle in Arctic Europe. 



