ftands the famous Mount Ida, where Jupiter is faid to have been educated, now no better than a barren rock; and Lethe, the river of oblivion, is a torpid ftream.

We will now go northward to the Archipelago, which has in it, on both fides, a large feries of iflands even to the Straits of the Hellefpont by Conftantinople. The ifles on the left hand of the Archipelago are European, thofe on the right are reckoned Afiatic, quite up northward. The island Salamis, now Coluri, where Themiftocles defeated the Perfian fleet; and Ægina, where money was first coined, lying in the Saronic Gulf, oppofite to Athens, are European. After these lies fertile Negropont, the ancient Eubæa, an island in length about ninety miles, and in breadth twenty-five. Here the Turkish gallies lie. Further up are the iflands Sciro, where Achilles lay concealed to prevent his going to Troy, till he was difcovered by Ulyffes; and lofty Papa, ethus, and others. Afterwards lies the dry fcorched-up Lemnos, the ifland on which Vulcan is feigned by the poets to have fallen, when he was kicked out of heaven by Jupiter, for his deformity, and lamed by the fall; and nigh it the ancient Thafos, or fruitful island of Ceres. Further on lies mountainous Imbros,

abounding with hares; and Samothracia, the fabulous ifland of Corybantes.

Here our long voyage terminates. In my next four or five letters I fhall give you a more detailed account of your own country, and then proceed to Asia.

Adieu !

Your's, &c.

Questions formed for the Exercife of the Pupil.

FROM what circumftance did ICELAND derives its name?

What is the name of the burning mountain upon this inland ?

Which are the British islands?

By whom is Great Britain inhabited ?

What are the three chief cities of the united kingdom?

What are the islands north of Scotland?

What are thofe to the weft of Scotland?

How is the Ifle of Man fituated?

Where are the Scilly islands ?

How is the Isle of Wight fituated?

Where are Guernsey and Jersey?

How are the Azores fituated?

For what are Ivica, Majorca, and Minorca, eelt brated?

What is the capital of Sardinia?

Where is Mount Etna, and how is it defcribed?

Where are the Straits of Meflina, and for what are they celebrated?

For what is Malta celebrated?

What was the ancient name of Cerfu, and for what is it renowned ?

What iflands conftitute the republic of the feven ifles?
For what is Crete or Candia celebrated?

Where did Themiftocles defeat the Perfian fleet?
Where was money first coined?

Where is Negropont, and what was its ancient name?
Point out Sciro, and tell me for what it is famous ?
For what is Lemnos celebrated?

Where is the ifland Thafos?

LETTER XXIII.

I AM now, my young friend, to give a

more particular account of your own country, with which it is neceffary that you should be better acquainted than with those that I have already described.

The British empire includes Great Britain and Ireland, befides its foreign dominions which are very extenfive in the northern parts of America, in the West Indies, in Afia, and in Africa; and though I fhall confine myself in this and fome following letters to the description of what is remarkable with regard to Great Britain and Ireland, it may be proper to enumerate the territories belong. ing to the United Kingdom, in the four quarters of the globe.

In Europe, are England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, with the Ifles of Wight, Anglefea, Man, Orkneys, and Hebrides. The ifles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Malta; and the rock of Gibraltar.

In Africa: Cape Coast Castle and inferior dependencies on the coaft of Guinea; Sierra

Leone, and the ifles of Goree; St. Helena, and the cape of Good Hope.

In Afia: Bombay; the chief part of the peninfula of India; Bengal, and fubordinate. dependencies in Hindoftan; Trincomale, and Columbo in the island of Ceylon; Botany Bay and other parts of New Holland.

In America: Nova Scotia, Canada, the Labrador coaft, and part of Yutacan; alfo Demerara, Surinam, lately taken from the Dutch: Newfoundland; St. John; Cape Breton; Bermudas, Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Chriftopher, St. Vincent, Antigua, Barbadoes, Nevis, Montferrat, Anquilla, Granada, Tobago, and other smaller islands.

Great-Britain includes England and Wales and Scotland. The fouthern and most important divifion of this island has for many centuries been diftinguished among furrounding nations by the name of Anglia, or England, which took its origin from the Angles, a nation of the Cimbric Cherfonefe, or modern Jutland, who conquered a large portion of the country.

If you turn to your map you will fee that England is bounded on the eaft by the German Ocean; on the fouth by the English

*Part of Denmark.