Boundaries between Europe and AJih. 337 



and loathfome difeafe was extinguilhed — a fa£b well known, 

 time immemorial, to almoft every farmer in half a dozen 

 counties of England, bul negleiled till Jcmur had the cou- 

 rage to indicate the advantages of it to fociety. If I were to 

 name a parallel inftance of inattention or prejudice, it ftiould 

 be the neglecl of inoculation for the fniall-pox, till it was in- 

 troduced into England from Conflantinoplc;' ahhough it had 

 been praclifed, time immemorial, in the Barozzo moun- 

 tains, on the frontiers of Gallicia, in the fame rude manner 

 as it is at this dav *. 



XVIII. Querj refpetltng the natural Boundaries between 

 Europe and Ajia. 



To the Editor of the Pbilofophieal Magazine, 



JL HE varcty of ufcful creographical communications in 

 your valuable fcientitic mirccllany, encourages me to hope 

 that fome of your correfpondcnts may be ab'.e to inform me 

 of what many of the geographical publications, to which I 

 have had rccourfe, give no fatisfactory account: it is, What 

 are the boundaries between Europe and Afia ? The laft edi- 

 tion of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, to my great furprife, 

 gives nothing but a firing of contradictions. Under the ar- 

 ticle Ohy, that river is laid to form the boundary between 

 ■Europe and Afia; yet, in the wretched maps given in this 

 expenfive work, the rano;e of mountains known by the name 

 of Oural is marked a* the boundary. Neither are the Ourul 

 moimtains mentioned at all in their proper placcjbut, ujider 

 the article Mountain, " the Ouralic chain is laid to form a 



• 1 his iiucliij^ciKe \v;is CDmniuniciitcii to nie bv a Portuxutre noble- 

 ■man, whofc opportur.itits of iiiformaiion anil accuracy auth -rife mc to 

 mention the tatt ,-but an attcftcd ikcouiU from Ibiiic of the inh.ibtants is 

 kiLcndcd tw rne. Stt alio a \»v^'. written by 'JucoiiHi a Cajiio Sarniruio. 



Y 4 naturU 



