The founding at Jamestown of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in America was celebrated in 1907 by the Jamestown tercentennial exposition, held on grounds at Sewell's Point on the shore of Hampton Roads. About twenty foreign nations, the federal government, and most of the states of the union took part in the exposition. See L. G. Tyler, _The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River_ (Richmond, 2nd ed., 1906); Mrs R. A. Pryor, _The Birth of the Nation: Jamestown, 1607_ (New York, 1907); and particularly S. H. Yonge, _The Site of Old "James Towne," 1607-1698_ (Richmond, 1904), embodying the results of the topographical investigations of the engineer in charge of the river-wall built in 1900-1901. JAMI (NUR-ED-DIN 'ABD-UR-RAHMAN IBN AHMAD) (1414-1492), Persian poet and mystic, was born at Jam in Khorasan, whence the name by which he is usually known. In his poems he mystically utilizes the connexion of the name with the same word meaning "wine-cup." He was the last great classic poet of Persia, and a pronounced mystic of the Sufic philosophy. His three _diwans_ (1479-1401) contain his lyrical poems and odes; among his prose writings the chief is his _Baharistan_ ("Spring-garden") (1487); and his collection of romantic poems, _Haft Aurang_ ("Seven Thrones"), contains the _Salaman wa Absal_ and his _Yusuf wa Zalikha_ (Joseph and Potiphar's wife). On Jami's life and works see V. von Rosenzweig, _Biographische Notizen über Mewlana Abdurrahman Dschami_ (Vienna, 1840); Gore Ouseley, _Biographical Notices of Persian Poets_ (1846); W. N. Lees, _A Biographical Sketch of the Mystic Philosopher and Poet Jami_ (Calcutta, 1859); E. Beauvois _s.v._ Djami in _Nouvelle Biographie générale_; and H. Ethé in Geiger and Kuhn's _Grundriss der iranischen Philologie_, ii. There are English translations of the _Baharistan_ by E. Rehatsek (Benares, 1887) and Sorabji Fardunji (Bombay, 1899); of _Salaman wa Absal_ by Edward FitzGerald (1856, with a notice of Jami's life); of _Yusuf wa Zalikha_ by R. T. H. Griffith (1882) and A. Rogers (1892); also selections in English by F. Hadland Davis, _The Persian Mystics: Jami_ (1908). (See also PERSIA: _Literature_.) JAMIESON, JOHN (1759-1838), Scottish lexicographer, son of a minister, was born in Glasgow, on the 3rd of March 1759. He was educated at Glasgow University, and subsequently attended classes in Edinburgh. After six years' theological study, Jamieson was licensed to preach in 1789 and became pastor of an Anti-burgher congregation in Forfar; and in 1797 he was called to the Anti-burgher church in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. The union of the Burgher and Anti-burgher sections of the Secession Church in 1820 was largely due to his exertions. He retired from the ministry in 1830 and died in Edinburgh on the 12th of July 1838.