ng the ancient Britons, and there still remains a strong tradition of it in Wales. The account Pliny* gives of it is as follows: "Præterea est ovorum genus in magna Galliarum fama, omnium Graecis. Angues innumere-

*Lib. xix. 3. Anhelatio story. Joachim Ernelt, who died in 1386, left five sons, who divided the principality among them. All of them having children, and being of equal authority, they unanimously agreed to submit to the eldest of the family, who has the supreme government, which is Anhalt Dessau. The others are, Anhalt Bernburg, Anhalt Schaumburg, Anhalt Cothen, and Anhalt Zerbst. The Saxons acknowledge that the inhabitants of these little independent sovereignties live in the land of milk and honey. These petty princes possess lands sufficient for their expenses, the revenues being reckoned about half a million of dollars. The tax on lands is four per cent, which, rating them at 20 years purchase, is not quite one shilling in the pound. Upon an emergency the subjects are able to raise half a million extraordinary. The towns in these little states are not so numerous in proportion to the extent of country as in Saxony, but better peopled. It is bounded on the south by the county of Mansfeld, on the west by the duchy of Halberstadt, on the east by the duchy of Saxony, and on the north by the duchy of Magdeburg. It abounds in corn, and is watered by the Saale and Mulda; its principal trade is in beer.or Anhelitus, among Physicains, a shortness of breath.