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IN the year 1773 I tranflated and published King Alfred's 

 Anglo-Saxon Verfion of Orofius, in which the Royal Author 

 hath made fome infertions, which are not borrowed from the 

 Latin Hiftorian. 



Amongft. others an account is introduced of Othere's navi- 

 gation to the Northern Seas, which I have endeavoured to illus- 

 trate by a geographical map, containing the then ftate of the 

 globe, with the Anglo-Saxon names and orthography of the 

 countries, and in which alfo the fuppofed tracts of Othere are 

 particularly marked. 



As I conceive this map to be interefting for explaining the* 

 geography of the 9th century, and may cite no lefs an opinion 

 than that of Monf. dAnviile, for its being fo confidered, I have* 

 directed a proper number of copies to be rolled off from the plate, 

 for the prefent mifcellaneous publication, as alfo great part of the 

 £rfr. chapter from the Anglo-Saxon verfion to be reprinted. 



My principal reafon for doing this is, that the number of 

 copies which I publifhed from King yElfred's tranflation was very 

 fmall, and confequently cannot have fallen into the hands of many 

 readers. 



U R elders have divided all the circuit of the earth into 

 three parts (quoth Orofius) comprehending what is fur- 

 rounded by Oceanus, which men call Garsecg 3 ; and they named 

 thefe three parts Alia, Europe, and Africa, though fome have 

 faid that there are only two divifions, Afia and Europe. Ana is 

 oounded to the fouthward, northward, and eaftward, by the 



Ocean, 



a This word fignifies a vaft trad of Sea or Ocean, and when narrower 

 ■is is always termed rea or fea, as f en&el-rea, the Mediterranean, &c. 

 I take an early opportunity of faying, that I am not anfwerable for the 

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