Not only, hQcmCQ England was, at that time, as fameus 
for Navigation as a«y Nation that I Know0ov thQ Holland 
Sea-trade was not then inBdng, nor for a long time after.) 
But even from the Name of Mariners Compafs^ (for what, 
in Latin ^ is called Ctrculm NaHticus. ) For the word Ci?^* 
fafs, is an ancient Englijh word, for what we othervvife 
call (by a French name) a Circle. 
And f am fure that, within my Memory, ("in the place 
where I was Born and Bred,) it was wont to be commonly - 
fo called, (however, of later times, the word C/r^-Ze is more 
in ufe^ ) And,.Jf ^we confult Minfiew's Diaionary, we 
Cball find, that he takes Circle, and Compafs, indifferently 
to fignifie the fame with Circulm. 
And hence it is thditCircinm, is, in E^^//)7j, called aCvm- 
fafs, ( ox a pair vfCompdJfes, ) as being the Inftrument by 
which we defcribe a Compafs^ or Circle. 
Now I do not know, that the word G?;%']7^y} then was, 
("or now is,) in my other language, fo ufed for a Circle fif^- 
definitely, or for any other Circle than the Circulm Nauti- 
cm. But now, in all Languages, {French^ Italian^ German^ 
&c.) the Circulm Nauticm hath the Name of Compafs, (ot ' 
fomewhat analogous, J compafs^ compajjo^ %ee kompas^ &c. 
Which Name, I guefs, together, with the Art^ they bor- 
rowed from England. 
I might urge the fame, ixom another Name, Bojfoloy 
BojJoU, &c. For, as Circulm Nauticm is the Mariners 
Compafs'^ fo Vyxk Nautica is the Mariners Box, (for the En- 
gliCh Box is from the Latin Pyxk -y) And Pyxidula (as a 
Diminutive from Pjxis) muft be Boxel (or feme wwd like 
it,), v/hich eafily pafTeth into the French Buxole, Boujfok ^ 
and the lta\im Bojfola, Boujfola, Boffola 5 which all feem 
to.be from the Englifh Boxel (Fyxidala') a little Boxy^oit- 
ening the found of the letter x \i\ Jf-^ as in Alejfandro for 
Alexandro. 
A\l which, though it be not a direft Demonftration (in 
the Ulcnce of Hiftory 5 J is at leaft a Probable Cor/jcSure, 
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