that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find, that during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; that many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian; and his reign is disgraced by a visible decrease of the human species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe.* experience of Evagrius. *After some figures of rhetoric, the sands of the sea, &c. Procopius (Anecdot. c. 18) attempts a more definite account: that pvpiádas μvoiádwv μvpias had been exterminated under the reign of the imperial demon. The expression is obscure in grammar and arithmetic, and a literal interpretation would produce several millions of millions. Alemannus (p. 80) and Cousin (tom. iii, p. 178) translate this passage "two hundred millions; but I am ignorant of their motives. If we drop the μυριάδας, the remaining μυριάδων pvpías, a myriad of myriads, would furnish one hundred millions, a number not wholly inadmissible. END OF VOL. IV. RECEO of the Erbyggia Saga, by SIR WALTER SCOTT. Edited by J. A. BLACKWELL. 6. CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADERS: Bichard of Devizes. Geoffrey de Vinsauf. 7. EARLY TRAVELS IN PALESTINE. Willibald, Sewulf, Benjamin of Tudela, 8, 10, & 12. BRAND'S POPULAR ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. By 9 & 11. ROGER OF WENDOVER'S FLOWERS OF HISTORY (formerly ascribed 13. KEIGHTLEY'S FAIRY MYTHOLOGY. Enlarged. Frontispiece by CRUIKSHANK. 17, 19, & 31. MATTHEW PARIS'S CHRONICLE, containing the History of 20 & 23. ROGER DE HOVEDEN'S ANNALS OF ENGLISH HISTORY, from from the Roman |