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which took place in 1638. The original edition is doubtless 

 very rare, the copy in the Cambridge University Library, 

 made use of by Professor Newton, being, Mr. Robert 

 Gladstone tells me, the last but one of the Latin editions. 

 By the kindness of Mr. H. Gladstone, Professor Newton's 

 translations have been collated with some which were more 

 recently made for Mr. Gladstone from a Dutch edition of 

 the " Geographise " published in 1654, but I have here 

 adhered to the original. 



Translation" of the First Passage.* 



(Page 40.) "At the beginning of autumn so great is the 

 take of herrings for some weeks near Dunbar that not only 

 are the poor people of the neighbourhood fed upon them, 

 but pickled in salt they are kept for the use of the rich against 

 the following seasons of the year. Besides this, by a special 

 favour of providence, at a certain time of year sea-fowls 

 like Geese, and hence commonly called Geese, fly hither 

 to us from the outer world and take up their abode on a rock 

 in the Firth of Forth, named the Bass, where they lay their 

 eggs, and when laid brood them the appointed time, and 

 hatch them. No where else in the whole of Europe will 

 you find Geese of this kind except on a high rock to the 



* Mr. Robert Gladstone, to whose assistance I am greatly indebted, 

 informs me that tliis first passage is by Sir John Scott. 



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