Scientific Intelligence. — Miscellaneous. 373 



§ 21. Permutations of sounds. 



§ 22. Comparison of Definite, Segregative, and Generic words or 



particles. 

 § 23. Pronouns. 

 § 24. Numerals. 



§ 25. Names of parts of the body. 

 § 26. Names of Domesticated animals. 

 §27. Miscellaneous words. 



Conclusion. 



Several extensive extracts were read, to illustrate, first the relation 

 which the author's historical views bear to those of previous inquirers 

 in the same field ; and, secondly, the theory, on the origin and 

 progress of language, upon which his arguments are mainly rested. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



7. Statistics of London. — Peace, however, also has its surveys, and 

 grand surveys too, as well as war ; and within the last few days, a 

 remarkable instance of the peaceful class has come to hand, in the 

 shape of two maps of London, a contemplation of which will afford 

 food for every reflective mind. 



The first of these, is a large map of the cities of London and 

 Westminster, in the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 

 This was presented to us by Messrs Taperell and Innes, the pub- 

 lishers ; and, by its dimensions and characteristics, it is evidently a 

 copy, but with additions, of the one engraved by George Vertue in 

 1737, for the Society of Antiquaries, '* to oblige the curious of 

 his age," from the map which then belonged to Sir Hans Sloane. 

 The date assigned it, was 1660, on the inferential testimony of cer- 

 tain piers and buildings, though at first it was reported nmch 

 older. London was already so large as to create an uneasiness in 

 the royal mind, as to the etfects of its probable extension ; and. in 

 the reasonings which followed, we perceive, that though calculation 

 on precise data may be esteemed as truth in the c(?ncrete, arithmetic 

 loosely applied to ordinary affairs may prove inexact. The fallacy 

 of prediction on such subjects is eminently displayed in Sir William 

 Potty's " Political Arithmetic," a work printed in 1683, after much 

 study of statistical returns and the bills of mortality. Duly pon- 

 dering over the whole results — and by the " City of London," mean- 

 ing " the housing within the walls of the Old City, with the liberties 

 thereof; Westminster, the Borough of South wark, and so much of 

 the built ground in Middlesex and Surrey whose houses are con- 

 tiguous thereto" — he demonstrates that the growth of the metropolis 

 must stop of its own accord before the year of grace 1800 ; at 



