High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

The survey vindicated the politician's assertion that there were few persuadables among his constituents.

On the morning of the 23d ultimo I left the harbor of Kelung, island of Formosa, for Manila, in the island of Luzon, leaving the “Supply” to sail soon for Hong Kong.

If factors that contribute to a tree-like pattern of the variance–covariance matrix dominate the evolutionary picture over those that tend to destroy it, one can expect treeness to be reasonably high. Only if this is true, reconstruction of the evolutionary process by tree analysis and a tree representation for descriptive purposes can be useful.