YUNTAI, an island near the coast of China, in the Eastern Seas, thirty miles in circumference, about two miles and a half from the continent. Long. 119. 19. E. Lat. 34. 35. N.

1 Burney's Memoir of the Life of Thomas Young, M.D., etc. p. 41. Lond. 1831, 8vo. To this Memoir he has subjoined "A Catalogue of his Works and Essays of the late Dr Young," which had been prepared by himself in 1827.

2 Éloge Historique du Docteur Thomas Young, par M. Arago: Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France, tom. XIII. 1831. Of the life and scientific labours of Dr Young, an ample and satisfactory account is expected from the able pen of Dr Peacock, Dean of Ely.