English name of the Raphanus. It is a very troublesome weed among corn, being more frequent than almost any other. There are two principal kinds of it: the one with a yellow flower, the other with a white. Some fields are particularly subject to be overrun with it, especially those which have been manured with cow-dung alone, that being a manure very favourable to the growth of it. The farmers in some places are so sensible of this, that they always mix horse dung with their cow dung, when they use it for arable land. When barley, as is often the case, is infested with this weed to such a degree as to endanger the crop, it is a very good method to mow down the charlock in May, when it is in flower, cutting it so low as just to take off the tops of the leaves of barley with it: by this means the barley will get up above the weed: and people have got four quarters of grain from an acre of such land as would have scarce yielded anything without this expedient. Where any land is particularly subject to this weed, the best method is to sow it with grass seed, and make a pasture of it; for then the plant will not be troublesome, it never growing where there is a coat of grass upon the ground.

Queen Charlotte's Island, an island in the South sea, first discovered by Captain Wallis in the Dolphin, in 1767, who took possession of it in the name of King George III. Here is good water, and plenty of cocoa nuts, palm nuts, and scurvy grass. The inhabitants are of a middle stature and dark complexion, with long hair hanging over their shoulders; the men are well made, and the women handsome; their clothing is a kind of coarse cloth, or matting, which they fasten about their middle.

Queen Charlotte's Islands, a cluster of South sea islands, discovered in 1767 by Captain Carteret. He counted seven, and there were supposed to be many more. The inhabitants of these islands are described as extremely nimble and vigorous, and almost as well qualified to live in the water as upon land: they are very warlike; and, on a quarrel with some of Captain Carteret's people, they attacked them with great resolution; mortally wounded the master and three of the sailors; were not at all intimidated by the firearms; and at last, notwithstanding the aversion of Captain Carteret to shed blood, he was obliged to secure the watering places by firing grape shot into the woods, which destroyed many of the inhabitants. These islands lie in S. Lat. 11°. E. Long. 164°. They are supposed to be the Santa Cruz of Mandana, who died there in 1595.