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AGE 117, line 21: The general Breeze, etc. Which blows constantly between the tropics from the east, or the collateral points, the north-east and south-east; caused by the pressure of the rarefied air on that before it; according to the diurnal motion of the sun from east to west.

Page 118, line 1: Returning suns, etc.

In all climates between the tropics, the sun, as he passes and repasses in his annual motion, is twice a-year vertical, which produces this effect.

Page 120, line 18: Behemoth rears his head, etc. The Hippopotamus, or river-horse.

Page 121, line 22: Profusely pours, etc.

In all the regions of the torrid zone, the birds, though more beautiful in their plumage, are observed to be less melodious than ours.

Page 125, line 15: From Menam's, etc.

The river that runs through Siam; on whose banks a vast multitude of those insects called Fire-flies make a beautiful appearance in the night.

Page 126, line 4: The mighty Orellana, etc.
The river of the Amazons.

Page 132, line 4: And dire Ecnephia, etc.

Typhon and Ecnephia, names of particular storms or hurricanes, known only between the tropics. Page 132, line 7: Falsely serene, deep in a cloudy speck, etc.

Called by sailors the Ox-eye, being in appearance at first no bigger.

Page 132, line 21: With such mad seas the daring Gama fought, etc.

Vasco de Gama, the first who sailed round Africa, by the Cape of Good Hope, to the East Indies. Page 133, line 6: The Lusitanian Prince, etc.

Don Henry, third son to John the first, king of Portugal. His strong genius to the discovery of new countries was the chief source of all the modern improvements in navigation.

Page 135, line 3: Descends? From Ethiopia's poisoned woods, etc.

These are the causes supposed to be the first origin of the Plague, in Dr. Mead's elegant book on that subject.

Page 147, line 6: So stands the statue, etc.
The Venus of Medici.

Page 149, line 18: Thy hill, delightful Shene, etc. The old name of Richmond, signifying in Saxon Shining, or Splendor.

Page 149, line 22: Now to the Sister-Hills, etc.
Highgate and Hamstead.

Page 150, line 15: The healing God, etc.
In his last sickness-

Page 154, line 19: His friend, the British Cassius. - Algernon Sidney.

Page 155, line 18: The generous Ashley, etc. Antony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. Page 202, line 3: Believes the stony girdle, etc. The Moscovites call the Riphean Mountains Weliki cameny poys, that is, the great stony Girdle: because they suppose them to encompass the whole earth.

Page 202, line 12: And of the bending Mountains. A range of Mountains in Africa, that surround almost all Monomotapa.

Page 212, line 12: The fair majestic paradise, etc.
The seat of the Lord Viscount Cobham.

Page 212, line 20; Or in that temple, etc.
The Temple of Virtue in Stowe-Gardens.

P. 244, line 3: And here can I forget the generous band, etc. The Jail Committee, in the year 1729.

Page 248, line 5: The firm, etc. — Leonidas. Page 248, line 12: Submitting, swell'd a haughty Rival's fame, etc. Themistocles.

Page 248, line 24: And, equal to the best, the Theban Pair, etc. Pelopidas and EpaminondasPage 250, line 7: The public Father, etc. Marcus Junius Brutus.

P. 259, 1, 13: Thy willing Victim, etc.

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Regulus. Page 256, line 11: Or charm the heart, in generous Bevil shew'd, etc.

A character in the Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard Steele.

Page 262, line 20: Bends to the golden coast of

rich Cathey, etc.

The old name of China.

Page 263, line 24: A boisterous race, by frosty The North-West Wind.

Caurus pierc'd, etc.

Page 264, line 4: Drove martial horde, etc.
The wandering Scythian-Clans.

Page 265, line 15: Where pure Niemi's fairy mountains rise, etc.

M. de Maupertuis, in his book on the Figure of the Earth, after having described the beautiful Lake and Mountain of Niemi in Lapland, says - « From >> this height we had opportunity several times to see » those vapours rise from the Lake, which the people » of the country call Haltios, and which they deem >> to be the guardian Spirits of the Mountains. We had » been frighted with stories of Bears that haunted this

place, but saw none. It seem'd rather a place of » ressort for Fairies and Genii, than Bears >>.

Page 265, line 16: And fring'd with roses Tenglio rolls his stream, etc.

The same Author observes

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was surprised to see upon the banks of this river (the Tenglio) roses »of as lively a red as any that are in our gardens Page 266, line 9 Beholds new seas beneath another sky, etc. The other Hemisphere.