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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2n* S. VI. 140., Sept. 4. '58. 



Kal ii.i-yd.K-i] irpoaayopivoixivr) ddkaaaa, (in. 38.) The 

 term " Great Sea " Was that most frequently used 

 to designate the external ocean : thus Scymnus 

 says that the Argonauts sailed by the river Tanais 

 into the Great Sea, and thence into our sea ; that 

 is to say, they made their way by the Tanais into 

 the northern ocean, and coasting westwards en- 

 tered the Mediterranean by the Straits of Gibral- 

 tar. (Schol. Apollon. Rhod. iv. 284.) Stephanus, 

 in Kacrm'fi SiaKaffffa, states that the inhabitants of 

 Asia call the Atlantic the Great Sea; and Arrian 

 applies the same terra to the sea which washes the 

 shores of India. {Anab. v. 6. 3. ; Ind. 2. 3. 43. ; 

 Tuct. 19.) Cicero, in the following passage, re- 

 presents the language usual in antiquity : " Om- 

 nis terra, quiB colitur a vobis, angusta verticibus, 

 lateribus latior, parva quaadam insula est, circum- 

 fusa illo niari, quod Atlanticum, quod 7nagnum, 

 quera Oceanum appellatis in terris." (De Rep. 

 vi. 20.) Pliny likewise makes the Great Sea sy- 

 nonymous with the Atlantic (iii. 5.) ; which term, 

 it must be observed, was not used in its present 

 limited sense, but was applied to the entire cir- 

 cumambient ocean (see Forbiger, HandMich, vol. 

 ii. pp. 11 — 14. 333.; Bernhardy, ad Dion. Per. p. 

 532.) 



The term /.(.eyd^T] SidAcura-a is applied to the Me- 

 diterranean by the ancient logographer Hecatajus, 

 in a passage cited by Arrian, Anab. ii. 16. It is 

 likewise used in the same sense by the author of a 

 Periplus, subsequent to the Christian era, which 

 has been published from a Madrid manuscript 

 (see Geogr. Grcec. Min. vol. i. p. 428. ed. Miiller). 

 This usage of the term is, however, uncommon ; 

 and there can be no doubt that Heraclides meant, 

 as he was understood by Plutarch, to designate the 

 great external sea. The words eVer vov KaT<i>Kriii(- 

 vr]v, appear to imply that Rome was situated near 

 the country of Hyperboreans, that is to say, in 

 some part of northern Europe, adjoining the ocean. 

 It is diflicuU to reconcile this interpretation with 

 the epithet " Hellenic." which Heraclides applies 

 to Rome ; for the Greeks in general confined their 

 colonies to the shores of the Mediterranean and 

 the Black Sea : nevertheless, such seems to have 

 been the meaning of Heraclides ; and we must 

 suppose that the Athenians, at the beginning of 

 the fourth century before Christ, were so little in- 

 formed respecting Rome as to be ignorant that it 

 was in Italy, or even on the shore of the Medi- 

 terranean, and to be capable of believing that it 

 was situated on the northern coast of Europe. 



G. C. Lewis. 



CHATTERTON. 



An interesting Chatterton relic has lately come 

 into my possession in the following singular man- 

 ner. Stepping into a little village piiblichouse in 

 the neighbourhood of Oxford, after a country 



walk, to procure some refreshment, my attention 

 was attracted to some half-dozen volumes on a 

 bookshelf. Amongst these I found Catcott's Trea- 

 tise on the Deluge, in two parts, (1756-68) ; at 

 the beginning and end of which were several 

 leaves filled with MS. verses, and having at the 

 end of the first poem the name of Chatterton 

 faintly written in a different hand. For a trifle 

 I became possessor of the volume ; although, 

 being totally unacquainted with the poet's hand- 

 writing, as well as with his compositions, I had 

 little idea at the time of the real interest of my 

 acquisition. Upon comparing the verses, however, 

 with facsimiles in editions of Chatterton's WorKs, , 

 the identity of writing was apparent to all who 

 saw them, and any possible doubt has been since 

 entirely removed by my having had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining one of the Chatterton MSS. 

 in the British Museum. I find also that Chatter- 

 ton has written his own name at the foot of one of 

 the pages of the volume, beside a roughly tricked 

 coat of arms. The following are the poems of 

 which copies in, therefore, the autograph of their 

 unhappy author (unhappy, were it only for the 

 miserable character of these productions of scof- 

 fing unbelief,) are hero found. 



1. "Epistle to the ReV* Mr. Catcott, Dec. 16, 

 1769," with the note in prose at the end, on seven 

 leaves at the beginning of the volume. The only 

 variation from the printed copies which is worth 

 notice consists in the blank in the line commenc- 

 ing " * » * wants learning," &c., and in those 

 which follow, being filled up with the name of 

 Burgum, as in the corresponding passage in the 

 poem of " Kew Gardens." (All that follow are at 

 the end of the volume.) 



2. The " Sentiment." 



3. The verses headed " The Methodist " in the 

 printed copies, but which here are without a title ; 



dated 1770. The blank "C 1" is filled up 



with the name of Catcott at length. 



4. Eleven (unprinted) lines without a heading ; 

 of a nature which too well forbids their publica- 

 tion. (Several leaves appear in this place to have 

 been torn out, then follows : — ) 



5. " The Defence." In this poem the following 

 variations deserve notice : — 



Taylor, edd. : T**l*r, MS. 

 Notio7i just : notions. 

 Dreads the path : treads. 

 A line appears ? appeals : 

 (i. e. a colon after " appears," instead of an inter- 

 rogation). 



The passage from " Why to be sure," &c., to 

 " Every strain," is within inverted commas. 



There is no stop after "I can testify." (Two 

 more leaves have here been removed.) 

 (Upon the cover) : — 



6. The six last lines of " Hecca and Gaira," 

 dated 3 Jan. 1770. 



