STELLA mea, observans stellas. Dii me æthera | Elandam lanifici sociam sine fine loquacern, Quam tenet hic, cunctas quæ manet,alta quies. PRIMA parit terras ætas, siccatque secunda, Evocat Abramum dein tertia: quarta relinquit Pro-Egyptum; templo Solomonis quinta supersit; Cyrum sexta timet; lætatur septima Christo. ILLA triumphatrix Graiûm consueta procorum CRETHIDA fabellas dulces garrire peritam Prosequitur lacrymis filia mosta Sami: * His Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem, Cum sex centuriis Judæo millia septem. To the above Lines, (which are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment) in the Doctor's manuscript, are prefixed the words, "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has been accordingly consulted, the title of which is, 'A New Myrias Ægypto cessit bis septima pingui. Myriadas ter mille homini dat terram colendas. Ter sex centurias Hollandiat jactat opima. Survey of the Globe," and which professes to give an miles.-Arabia, at 700,000.-Persia at 800,000.-And Naaccurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and ples, at 22,000.-e. Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they 9,400.-f. The Pope's dominions, at 14,968.-g. Tuscany, respectively contain. On comparison of the several at 6,640.-h. Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson like. numbers in these verses with those set down by Temple-wise, is set down at 2,400.-i. Lucca, at 286.-k. The man, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is set the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done. For down at 3,303,495 sq. miles.-1. Sardinia, in Templeman, the convenience of the reader, it has been thought right as likewise in Johnson, 6,600.-m. The habitable world, to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at 30,666,. works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it. 806.-n. Asia, at 10,257,437.-0. Africa, at 8,506,208.a. In this first article that is versified, there is an accup. Europe, at 2,749,349.-q. The British dominions, at rate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Temple- 105,634.-r. England, as likewise in Johnson's expresman's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at sion of the number, at 49,450.-s. Ireland, at 27,457.— 7,600.-b. The square miles of Egypt are, in Temple-t. In the three remaining instances, which make the man, 140,700.-c. The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at 960,057 square miles.-d. In the four following articles, the numbers in Templeman and in Johnson's verses are alike. We find, accordingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square whole that Dr. Johnson appears to have rendered into Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with those of Templeman; who makes the square miles of the United Provinces, 9,540; of the Province of Hol. land, 1,800; and of Wales, 7,011. |