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ell, and beseech God to guide you in the ways of righteousness and peace. I have thought fit, upon my further stop in these parts, Chap. XIX.} to throw all into your hands, that you may see the confidence I have in you, and the desire I have to give Minutes, i. 274. you all possible contentment. And, as the council of his province was, at that time, elected directly by the people, that body collectively was constituted his 1690. deputy. Of its members, Thomas Lloyd, from North June 2. Wales, an Oxford scholar, was universally beloved as a bright example of the integrity of virtue. The path of preferment had opened to him in England, but he chose rather the internal peace that springs from mental felicity. This Quaker preacher, the oracle of the patriot rustics on the Delaware, was now, by free suffrage, constituted president of the council. But the lower counties were jealous of the superior weight of Pennsylvania; disputes respecting appointments to Nov. 21. office grew up
on the west, between the latitude of forty degrees and the Esquimaux, there were at least four or five. The Californians derived Ribas, <*> i. c. VI and l. III c. III. their ancestors from the north; the Aztecks preserve a narrative of their northern origin, which their choice of residence in a mountain region confirmed. At the north, the continents of Asia and America nearly meet. In the latitude of sixty-five degrees fifty minutes, a line across Behring's Straits, from Cape Prince of Wales to Cape Tschowkotskoy, would meas- Beechey's Voyage to Behring's Straits. ure a fraction less than forty-four geographical miles; and three small islands divide the distance. But within the latitude of fifty-five degrees, the Aleutian Isles stretch from the great promontory of Alaska so far to the west, that the last of the archipelago is but three hundred and sixty geographical miles from the east of Kamschatka; and that distance is so divided by the Mednoi Island and the group of Behri