or Pyrenees, are the mountains which divide France from Spain, and are the most celebrated in Europe, except the Alps. They reach from the Mediterranean Sea as far as the ocean, and are about 212 miles in length. They have different names, according to the different places wherein they stand. Some think they are as high as the Alps; but the passageways over them are not so difficult, whatever some travellers may think who have not crossed the former.

Banksia pyriformis, in botany, is a species of Banksia, which see. It was unknown to Linnæus; and Gaertner, who has mentioned it, gives no specific character of it. It has solitary flowers, ovate downy capsules, and lance-shaped entire smooth leaves. The capsules larger than in any other known species. See White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, p. 221—225.