X I. Long, long, thy stone, and pointed clay, SPRING. Verse 754. THE farthest of the western island of Scotland. SUMMER. 564. A young lady, well known to the author, who died at the age of eighteen, in the year 1738. 641. 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. 645. 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. 710. The hyppopotamus, or river - horse. 738. In all the regions of the torrid zone, the birds, though more beautiful in their plumage, are observed to be less meIodius than ours. Verse 827. 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. 840. The river of the Amazons. 984. Typhon and Ecnephia, names of particular storms or hurricanes, known only between the tropics. 86. Called by sailors the ox-eye, being in appearance at first no bigger. 1001. Vasco de Gama, the first who sailed round Africa, by the cape of good-hope, to the east-indies. 1010. Don Henry, third son to John the first, king of Portugal. His strong genius to discovery of new countries was the chief source of all the modern improvements in navigation. 1055. These are the causes supposed to be the first origine of the plague, in Dr. Mead's elegant book on that subject. 1346. The Venus of Medicis. 1407. The old name of Richmond, signifying in Saxon shining or splendor. 1410. Highgate and Hamstead. 3427. In his last sickness. Verse 1527. Algernon Sidney. 1550. Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury. AUTUM N. 791. The Moscovites call the Ripheun mountains Weliki Cameny poys, that is, the great stony Girdle: because they suppose them to earth. encompass the whole 8oo. A range of mountains in Africa, that 1040. The seat of the lord Viscount Cobham. 1048. The temple of Virtue, in Stowe-gardens. WINTER. 559. The Jail-committee, in the year 1729. 457. Leonidas. 464. Themistocle. 476. Pelopidas et Epaminondas. 507. Marcus Junius Brutus. 5.3. Regulus. 655. A caracter in the conscious lovers, writ ten by sir Richard Steele. 808. The old name for China. |