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publications of Macphenon, who, aboat 1760, gavo to the world, as the ' Poems of Ossian/ a rexnark» ' able flerioB of ballada on the deliverance of Eria from the haughty Swaran, Einfc of Lochlin, by Fingal.'* — Gates, " Dictionary of General Biography."

6I9 8. Le Piréâ, Pirœns, a town of Qreece, dep. Attica, and BcDotia, the port of Athens, and 6 m. S.W. that city. The modem town, built sînce 1834, and called Porto Leone, is an isthmus connected with the mainland, a hîlly peninsala, on which are the remains of the tomb of Themistocles. The first railway of Greece, Connecting the town with Athen?, was opened in March, 1869.

11. Agamemnon^ etc. For ail the classical names and allusions in this chapter, look in a spécial dictionary with instructive detaiU.

28. Pygméeêy pigmy, a dwarf. Latin piçmaui, from wy/AoÛos, which comes from wy/aA, a measure, a span of about nine inches, from vvl^, fist.

62y 23. J*ai beau réfléchir, in vain I consider.