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had produced two beautiful drawings of the mummy; and 
that both Mr. Wakeman and Mr. Burton had presented 
their drawings to the subscribers. 
The Secretary read a letter from Joseph Lentaigne, 
Esq., on the subject of a Manuscript Translation of Part of 
Virgil’s Aneid. 
**A manuscript, in three volumes, containing the third, 
fourth, sixth, eighth, ninth, eleventh, and twelfth books 
of the Aineid, in English verse, has been lately placed 
in my hands by F. Comyn, Esq., of Woodstock, in the 
county of Galway, who discovered it among the books 
of one of his ancestors, formerly a physician at the court 
of Louis XV, of France. It bears the following date :— 
** Ended at St. Germains the 18th day of 7°", 1692;” 
being two years prior to the commencing of Mr. Dry- 
den’s great translation, which (as he informs us) he 
__was “ three years doing,” and which was completed in 
- 1697. That this manuscript is genuine cannot reason- 
ably be doubted. The orthography, the fabric of the 
paper upon which it is written, the date of printed papers 
used in the binding, and many other circumstances, prove 
that it is the production of the period at which it bears 
date. The name “ Lauderdail” is written on the fly-leaf, 
and is still legible notwithstanding an attempted oblitera- 
_ tion. The author’s name is not given; but the Episode of 
_ Nisus and Euryalus is marked, ‘‘ by Mr. Dryden;” that of 
~ Camilla, by “ Mr. John Stafford ;” and, at the end, are the 
following among other memoranda: — “ Eighty-six errors 
since sent to Mr. Dryden, after Bryarly wrote it; 162 errors 
corrected since Mr. Bysh wrote this book; 122 errors cor- 
rected since Mr. Dallon wrote this book; 486 lines cor- 
rected and altered since this book was first sent to Mr. 
Dryden.” It is, therefore, most probably the work of se- 
veral contributors, but corrected and altered by Lord Lau- 
