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with which it is connected by rail- It is pleasantly situated on the famous and the ancient Tralles stands ona neigh hill. The district is very fertile, and pro great quantities of figs, which are dried and to Europe. A good general trade is done the bazaars. igues Mortes (AgUz MortTuz), so called the neighbouring lagoons caused by the mouth the Rhone, a town in the department of the France. It is 3 miles from the Med i terra and 21 miles 8.W. of Nimes. The inhabitants principally occupied in fishing, and the produce exported v/é the Grand Roubine Canal. Aikin, Jonny, biographer and popular scientific was born at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicesteron January 15th, 1747; was educated at the Academy, at the University of Edinand under Dr. Wiliam Hunter in London, graduated M.D. at Leyden, in 1784. Not very succe ful as a physician, he devoted to literature. In 1780 he had published Memoirs of Medicine, and between and 17965, in conjunction with his sister, Mrs. i ued six very popular volumes entitled at Home. Y¥rom 1796 to 1807 he edited Monthly Magazine, and from 1807 to 1809 a Atheneum. Besides various separate he published between 1799 and 1815 Biographical Dictionary in ten volumes. He at Stoke Newing ton, 7th December, 1822. is a memoir of him by his daughter, Lucy with an engraved portrait by Englehart, and is also an engraving of him by Knight, after Donald son, and a silhouette in Kendrick's War- Worthies. The genus Aikinia was dedito him by Salisbury. His son, Arthur (1773- ( 89 ) heeeeretinanuerseaennnaminemmaianeaeenimmnennsenmememenmminetineman 1854), 1817 His 1781, historical Lorimer; Aikman, nence, He then returning Edinburgh Argyll, speedily friend ing upon Thomson, attest on wrote Ailantus, order known vated found Japan di It reaches alternate small involute bases, samaroid Asiatic it is United bad ing Ailsa Firth Ch which feet. Ailsa Cruig. er nrg erin en ne OO was secretary to the Society of Arts from to 1840, and was well-known as a geologist. daughter, Lucy, mentioned above, was born in and died in 1864. She was a well-known writer, and author of a Life of Add i a on, a Tale, and other works.