CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF AFRICA, &C

P. 498. “ But the exchange, with an invisible people, of salt for gold is described ‘ by Cadamosto on the faith of the itinerant Arabs.”

Gold was first met with by Henry’s navigators at Rio d’Ouro, under the tropic of Cancer; and the sight of a few ounces brought home by them was the immediate cause of establishing an African Company at Lagos. The spirit of adventure was roused, and the prosecution of discovery ensued, which never ceased till the circumnavigation of Africa and the voyage to India were accomplished. V.

Ib. “ But the views of a soldier are not those of his general.”

That the views of Prince Henry were directed to India, is evident from his exertions to procure maps and information from Venice, at that time the great mart of e L oriental commerce. V.

P.499. “ A planisphere, or map of the world, was delineated in the Convent of “Murano at Venice.” A fac simile copy of this map 1s now placed in the British Museum, procured from Venice at the suggestion of W. V. and obtained by a subscription of £200 and upwards, The subscribers were the

India Company, ; = The Bishop of Durham, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Mr. Strahan, Earl Spencer, W. Vincent.

Earl Macartney, It is a splendid performance, and contains a termination of Africa in 1459, thirtynine years previous to the voyage of Gama. V.

P. 501. “ Castaneda (1553), a laborious historian, who might converse with Gama “ himself.”

~ Jt may be justly supposed that Castaneda wrote from the Journal of Gama, for the narrative often adopts the first person. It has nothing of the marvellous of Osorio. V.

SELECTIONS |

SELECTIONS FROM MR. GIBBON’S COMMON. PLACE BOOKS, MEMORANDA, &c. . a

N. B. The earliest of these common-place books is entitled “ Recueil dans lequel je me propose d'écrire ce que je trouverai de remarquable dans mes Lectures Historiques.”"*

Commencé à Lausanne, 19 de Mars, 1755.

Nihil legit quod non excerperet, dicere enim solebat nullum esse libram tam malum at non aliqua parte prodesset. - :

Plinius junior ita loquitur de avunculo suo.

Puy Junior.—Le traducteur François des Lettres de Pline à fait quelques méprises que je relèverai. II dit dans sa vie de Pline “ que le royaume de Bithynie avoit été légué aux Romains par Attalus fils de

(1) Lettres de Prusias, un de ses rois, et quise disoit affranchi du peuple Romain.”’(1)

pata vie I= Le prince qui légua la Bithynie aux Romains ne s’appela point

de l'uteur Attalus; son nom étoit Nicoméde. II™=* Il n’étoit point le fils de

(2) Appian. in - Prusias, (2) III™** Faut-il entendre les mots ‘‘ qui se disoit affranchi ell. Mithrid

p. 175.218. du peuple Romain” de cet Attale, ou de Prusias? c’étoit seulement du Steph. Vell. dernier qu’on pouvoit le dire avec vérité. Ce même traducteur dans un

b. ® , . eo, / 6 . . oe e . | e °

p.4.39. . autre endroit (3) traduit le mot Forojulii par celui de Frioul. Mais il it. 1%. it. ° an ‘ j e * Û e ° 7

lib. 93. est certain que l’endroit en question étoit une ville en Provence, près

Epist. lib. de Marseilles. (4) On l’appèle à présent I'réjus. Ep. 19. or oc:

(4) Cellar. .

Notit. Orbis

Antiqua,

tom. i. p. 130. to fe si . .

Mémoires pour | . . .

serviral'His- “-CROMWELL.—=L’Europe avoit accordé le titre de grand alors à trois

, toire de Bran-

denbourgs | 5. printces: à Louis Quatorze, à Cromwell, et à Fréderic Guillaume. A Cromwell pour avoir sacrifié tous les devoirs d’un bon citoyen à la gloire de régner sur |’ Angleterre; pour avoir perverti ses talens, qui, au lieu de devenir utiles à sa patrie, ne servirent qu'à son ambition; pour

* Only the few extracts in French are taken from this Recueil. | avoir