[February, 
Edmund Halley . 
voyaged throughout the Atlantic Ocean from the Arftic 
to the Antarctic regions, until the ice stopped his progress. 
He revisited the well-known scenes of his early scientific 
success on the isolated rock of St. Helena, which doubtless 
inspired him with the thoughts of old Robert Herrick, whose 
lines aptly apply to this now barren spot : — 
“ Rockie thou art, and rockie we discover 
Thy menne, and rockie are thy wayes all over. 
O menne ! O manners ! now, and ever knowne, 
To be a rockie generatione ! 
A people currish, churlish as the seas, 
And rude almost, as rudest salvages ; 
With whom I did, and may resojourne whenne 
Rocks turn to rivers, Rivers turn to menne.” 
The voyage of the Paramour included the coasts of the 
Brazils and the West Indies on the West, together with the 
West Coast of Africa, Madeira and the Canaries, &c., and 
lasted a whole year : the result was speedily made public by 
the production of the much-cited “ Halley’s Magnetic Chart’’ 
(on which the isogonal magnetic curves or “ Halleian lines 
were laid down), the original of which is m the British 
Museum. By the assistance of Mr. Winter Jones, the 
principal librarian, copies in a reduced size have been pro- 
duced from this chart, and they were inserted as an Appendix 
in the Magnetical and Meteorological volume of the Astro- 
nomer Royal’s Report at Greenwich for the year 1869. 
In April, 1701, Capt. Halley was employed as Hydro- 
grapher to His Majesty, and surveyed the British Channel, 
an accurate chart of which was published under his super- 
intendence, besides a systematic series of observations on 
the tides was undertaken with satisfactory conclusions. By 
this time the fame of Halley as astronomer, discoverer, and 
engineer, had spread throughout the civilised world, and the 
Emperor of Germany (Leopold), desirous of forming a har- 
bour for shipping in the Adriatic, applied for and obtained 
from Queen Anne the services of Captain Halley, who em- 
barked for Holland on November 22nd, 1702, and proceeded 
to Istria. In consequence of the political opposition of the 
Dutch, Halley’s designs were not carried out as to the con- 
struction of two ports in Dalmatia ; but the approval of the 
Emperor Leopold was signified by the present of a diamond 
ring and an especial letter of recommendation to the Queen 
of England, who again sent him to Istria, where, in con- 
junction with the Emperor’s engineer, he added to the forti- 
fications and harbour-works of Trieste. On this occasion, 
passing through Hanover, he supped with the Electoral 
