( 235) 
He adorns Che whole, ^switk nuxiy othtrv try fdir Schemes ^ fo 
with thofe of the twoMemifpberes of the Stm's the one fervingfor 
the JSforthernCoxiiitilmom^ the other for the wherein the 
Stars are exprefs'd according to their {'tva^l Mdgmtudes^ as ap- 
pears in the Scale thereof,fec down in the Southern^ Heiiiifphere. And 
th^ Conjle^mons are only /r/V^^"^ out, wherein (with Gdhcius) the 
Middle way is taken, betwixt not placing them in any, or repre* 
ftnting them in too dark fliadow'd Figures,as fooie have done, 
IV. AVONAi(?r 4 iraiifient View of the B^mfit $fmMng RIVERS of 
this Kingdom NAVIGABLE ; communicatedby Letter to d Frief^d 
London; ^/R.S. London, 1675, m^"". 
TH I S Letter, it feems, was occafion d by obferving the Sci- 
tuatipn of the City Salisbury upon the AVON, and the 
Confequence of opening that River toxhe faid City. The Author 
fliews the manifold benefits, which will redound to the rich and 
poor,by making our Rivers navigable, to promote the vvearth,navi- 
•gation,commerce3and ftrength of this great Ifland ; and to advance 
Ingenuous Arts and Ufeful Knowledge, Inventions, Accommodati- 
Gns,and Difcoveries \ and particularly reprefenting the advantages 
of fnland'Cities above our Portson the fhore,by navigable Rivers, 
by the health/ulnefsofflowry and wholefom Air from the environ- 
ing fields, paftures and groves. 
On the by, he pleads for the Savages, that our E^gbjh Colonies 
would permit and invite them to beChriftians, as L/^<?/« endea- 
voured to perfvvade. 
V. A/^ EJfay to facilitate the Education ofTouth, by bringing dovpn the 
Rudiments of Grammar to the fenfe ofSte]V\g\which ought to be tm- 
frovdby Syncrijls, fitted to Lhildrens capacities for the learning efpe- 
cially of the EngliJb^Latin and Greek Tongues: In three parts \/ n Ac* 
cidence^ a Middle Grammar ^ and a Critical or Idiomatic al Gram- 
mar, £^ Mr. Lewis ^/Tottenham, in t\ London. 
GRammar is the Foundation to the other Liberal Arts \ Langua- 
ges the Keys to Knowledge,and the Expedient for all humane 
Commerce ; And Letters^ by judicious Antiquaries acknowledged 
the moft wonderful and the moft beneficial of all the Old Inventions. 
And now by the afiive genius of this prefent Age, Men and Chil- 
dren may in far lefs time learn piany of the moft confiderable Lan- 
guages, than by the ufual Pedantry they could lately be taught an 
imperfeft fmattering in Latin only. 
Next to Grammar^ inolcjaccompt, and for ftrongeft influence, 
and for the higheft advantages in all humane Societies, both in 
Peace 
