q a 
metans call God Abdi. The Gauls Dieu. 
The Tufcans Efar. The Spaniards Dios. 
The Teutones Golf. ‘The Hetrufci call 
him Signor Jdio, that is Lord God. The 
Arabians, Turks, and Saracens Alla Ibel, 
that is, God the Fuj?. In the Sclavonian 
tongue he is called Boeg, from Goodne/s. 
Yn Chaldea and India he is called E/gz 
Abir, that is the fabricator of the unti- 
verfe. ‘The name of the fupreme Jupiter 
among the Egyptians is Amuz, which by 
corruption came to be called Ammon. 
This word, according to Manetho, fig- 
nifies the concealed and concealing. Ac- 
cording to Jamblichus (‘* De My/feris, 
fect. $.°°), this god is the demiurgic in- 
telleét, who preiides over truth and wil- 
dom, defcends into generation, and leads 
into light’ the unapparent power of con- 
cealed reafon. By the Greeks God was 
called Theos; and by the Romans Deus. 
The proper name of God with the He- 
brews is Adon, or Adni. By the Dutch 
he is called Godt: and with us the word 
Lord is fynonimous with God. By the 
Chinefe too, the fupreme God is called 
Tien, and by the Danes Goed. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
“ISIR, 
PRESUME it will not be unaccept-. 
able to you to receive fome additions 
to, and corrections of, the account of 
_George Foriter, printed in your laft Ma- 
gazine. You may rely upon their accu- 
yacy. 
M. PoucEns feems very ftrangely ig- 
norant of the hiftory of JOHN REINHOLD 
Forster, the father of George, a man 
more diftinguifhed as a literary charaéter 
than.his fon. He did not fend, but brought 
his fon George, along with the reft of his 
numerous family, into Engiand, in fearch 
of a better fettlenient than his own coun- 
try afforded. It was one of thofe fpi- 
rited, though finally wnfuccefsful, at- 
tempts to promote the profperity of the: 
Warrington Academy, to engage this 
perfon as tutor in the modern languages, 
with the occafional office of lefturing in 
various branches of natural hiftory.. For 
the firft department he was by no means 
well qualified ; his extraordinary know- 
ledge of languages, ancient and modern, 
being unaccompanied by a particle of 
tafte 5 and his ufé- of them all being bar- 
barous, though’ fluent. As a natural 
hiftorian, acritic, geographer, and anti- 
guary, he ranked much higher ; but, un- 
saa os thefe were acquilitions of 
hittle value in his academical department. 
; 
Life of Fobn Rheinhold Forfter’ 
403 
George refided with him fome years. at 
Warrington, and foon,acquired a very 
perfe&i ufe of the Englith tongue. He 
alfo diftinguifhed himlelf greatly by his 
attainments in fcience and literature in 
general ; adding to an excellent memory, 
quick parts and a fertile imagination, 
His temper was mild and amiable; in 
which he much differed from his father, 
one of the moft quarrelfome and irritable 
of men; by which difpofition, joined_ta 
a total want of prudence in common con- 
cerns, he loft almoft all the friends his ta- 
lents had acquired him, and involved him- 
felf and family in perpetual difficulties. 
At length John Reinhold obtained the 
appointment of naturalift and phzlojopher 
(if the word. may be fo ufed) to the fe- 
cond voyage of difcovery undertaken by 
the celebrated Cook ; and his fon George 
was affociated with htm in his. office. 
hat M. Poucewns fhould entirely have 
loft fight of the father, the undoubted 
principal on this occafon, is not a little 
extraordinary ; nor would it be eafy te 
parallel the abfurdity of the epithet of the 
<¢ illuftrious rival cf Cook,” beftowed by” 
that writer on his young hero, not a z4=.- 
vigator, but a zaturali/? of inferior rank, 
On their return, the two Forfters pub- 
_lifhed jointly a botanical work in Latin, 
containing the characters of a number of 
new genera of plants difcovered by them’ 
in their circumnavigation. The account 
of the voyage itfelt was published in the 
name of George alone, in evafion of fome 
obligation under which the father lay, not- 
to publifh feparately from the. narrative, 
authorifed by government. ‘That the lun-. 
guage, which was correét and elegant, 
was furnifhed by the fonalone, could not. 
be doubted ; any more than that the mat-. 
ter proceeded from the joint ftock of their, 
obfervations and reflections. Several parts, 
particularly the elaborate inveftigaticns- 
relative to the languages f{poken by the 
natives of the South-fea iflands, and the. 
fpeculations concerning their origin and. 
fucceflive migrations, were ftrongly im- 
preffed with the genius of the elder Forf-, 
ter. I have nothing to add to the fubfe- 
quent hiftory of George, : as given _by., 
M. Poucens. .To criticife on the 
French fentimentality difplayed in the de- 
licately ambiguous relation of his’ con- 
hexion with Mifs HEYNE, is far beyond 
my reach; noram J at all difpofed to in- 
quire into the juftnefs of his ** Fevolu- 
tionary principles.”” But with refpect.to 
his travels. into Brabant, Holland, &c. 
(sn the’preface to his French tranflation 
of which, M, Pougens has. given the 
biogra- 
