[520] Louis XVI. was arrested at Varennes on the 22nd of June 1791.--T. [521] VIR., _Æn._, I. 302-303.--B. [522] These predictions have been verified with wonderful accuracy. According to the census of 1 June 1880, the population of the United States on that day amounted to 50,445,336 inhabitants.--B. [523] Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), discoverer of the identity of lightning and electricity.--T. [524] Robert Fulton (1765-1815), one of the first to apply steam to the propulsion of vessels; he built a steamboat to navigate the Hudson River in 1807; it made five miles an hour.--T. [525] Issued 17 September 1796, before his retirement from his second presidency.--T. [526] Thomas Jefferson (1743-1816), third President of the United States, 1801-1805, and again, 1805-1809. Jefferson died at Monticello, Virginia, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1826. John Adams, the second President of the United States, died at Quincy, Massachusetts, on the same day.--T. [527] Henry M. Brackenridge (1786-1871), author of, among other works, the _History of the late War between the United States and Great Britain._ Baltimore, 1817.--T. [528] Tah-Gah-Jute (_circa_ 1725-1780), a famous Cayuga chief, named John Logan, after James Logan, secretary of Pennsylvania. The famous speech was not spoken in person, but sent by an interpreter in October 1774. Logan was eventually shot by an Indian through a misunderstanding.--T. [529] John Murray, fourth Earl of Dunmore (1732-1809), Governor of Virginia at the outbreak of the American Revolution.--T. [530] Captain Michael Cresap (1742-1775). His memory was attacked by Thomas Jefferson, and vindicated by his son-in-law, J. J. Jacob.--T. [531] John K. Townsend (1809-1861), author of _Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chile_, &c., 1833-37 (1839).--T. [532] Thomas Say (1787-1834), author of an _American Entomology_ (1824) and an _American Conchiliology_ (1830).--B. [533] Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), a Scotsman by birth, emigrated at an early age to America. He was by turns a weaver, a schoolmaster, and a pedlar. He applied himself to the study of birds, and eventually published his _American Ornithology_ in seven volumes, containing the finished illustrations referred to by Chateaubriand.--T. [534] Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), author of several novels, of which _Wieland_ was the most popular.--B. [535] _Caleb Williams_, by William Godwin (1756-1836), father of Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley's second wife, appeared in 1794, one year before the publication of _Wieland._--T. [536] James Fenimore Cooper (1780-1851), probably the most popular of American novelists.--T. [537] Washington Irving (1783-1859). He was American Minister in Madrid for a short period (1842).--T. [538] Fitz-Greene Halleck (1795-1867), author of _Marco Bozuaris._ The curious will find a criticism of his work in Poe's _Literati of New York._--T.