INGENIOUS TYPOGRAPHY. 103 



There, from his radiant car, the sacred sire 

 Of Gods and men, released the steeds of fire. 

 Blue ambient mists th' immortal steeds embraced ; 

 High on the cloudy point his seat he placed ; 

 Thence his broad eye the subject world surveys, 

 The town, and tents, and navigable seas." 



Certainly Jupiter, as a general, could not have chosen 

 a better position than Mount Ida, in order to survey 

 a battle in the plains of Troy. But where are the 

 Trojans? what has become of Baylon, Nineveh, 

 Thebes, and other great cities built in plains ? Alas ! 

 they have fallen a prey to the conqueror ; and have 

 disappeared before the sword of the destroyer. But 

 Athens, with its little acropolis, still exists among 

 its attic mountains ; and the banners of freedom are 

 again floating over the venerable remains of Minerva's 

 temple. 



W. 



INGENIOUS TYPOGRAPHY. 



Considering the rapidity with which matter for newspapers is 

 collected, written, printed, revised, and published, the general 

 and great accuracy of their typography cannot be sufficiently 

 commended. English newspapers rank higher than any others 

 in the world in this respect, whilst the majority of those of 

 Ireland, the sister island, may be known at a glance, by the 

 inferior paper used, their slovenly printing, and random arrange- 

 ment. 



Typographical errors in English newspapers seem generally 

 the result of accident, but the mistakes of a Hibernian compositor 

 very often appear as if they had been made on purpose, for the 

 pure fun of the thing, under the enlivening influence of mountain 

 dew. In one or two late numbers of the "Cork Southern Re- 

 porter," may be found the following choice sentences : — 



" That gallant corpse, the Galway volnnteers." 

 " His wife kept a diary which supplied excellent milk." 

 "To give up the privilege oi shelling (feeling) for ourselves." 

 ^ " West end Heels." (Hells) 



" Dying as he thought of aseites and oe of the lower extremidities." 

 " Sio AustUy Coopss's Lectneres." 

 ** Laid down on our cJiear tc." (charts) 

 " Eight sail of sels.'* (vessels) &c. &c. 



