874 CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 



appeared the familiar name of our own Dominion, expressed in Greek 

 characters, and helping to form a foot in a Homeric hexameter of excel- 

 lent rhythm. On closer inspection I discovered that Dionysius had 

 found an Oxford oontinuator in the person of a writer on Geography 

 rather eminent in his day, Edward Wells, who, intending his edition of 

 the Periegesis to be of practical use in the work of education, and to 

 be committed to memory like the rules for the gender of nouns and the 

 conjugation of verbs in the common grammars of the day, not only cor- 

 rected the matter of Dionysius Periegetes, but also added to his poem 

 some hundreds of lines, likewise in excellent Homeric Greek, descriptive 

 of the portions of the earth disclosed to the knowledge of men since 

 the days of Columbus. I transcribe as a specimen some of the lines 

 which refer to America. It will be seen that Canada, Quebec, Hudson's 

 Bay, Boston, New York and several other familiar cisatlantic names, 

 wear a singular aspect in the guise in which they here appear. We are 

 to observe that when our pseudo-Dionysius wrote, Canada was still a 

 French possession, and the territories dov/n to Florida were English. 



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1004—1029. 



