imagination, nor hindered thofe foarins © 
flights of fancy, which diftinguith the man 
who is born a poet. His Latin poem on 
eclipfes is remarkable, both for intrinfic 
poetical merit, and for the ability and per- 
{picuity with which he has explained in 
_it_the moft difficult rules of calculation, 
“and the moft abftrufe and intricate aftro- 
nomical theories. Barruel tranflated this 
poem into French. 
influence which he enjoyed in feveral Euro- 
pean Courts, implicated him likewife in 
politics. Therepublic of Lucca entrufted 
to him a very difficult negotiation con- 
cerning a moft important ftate affair; and 
he executed the commiffion with fuch ability 
and prudence as to render moft effential 
fervices to his employers. -Bofcevich was 
a great traveller, and had vifited Turkey 
and-mott of the countries of Europe Ok 
the account of his travels, entitled Faurnal 
aun Voyage de Conflantinople, two editions 
have been publifhed, in 1762 and 1772, 
befides a German and Italian tranflation. 
Merits fo diftinguithed could not long 
efcape the attacks of envious malignity and 
detraction: in Paris, accordingly ’, he fuffered 
numerous mor tifcations from fome ef’the 
literati, which he felt but too fenfibly, and 
took more to heart than they deferved. 
This induced him, in the year 1783, to 
‘leave Paris and repair to Italy, with 
the intention of printing there a colle€tion 
of all his works ; which were publifhed in 
3786 at Baflano, in four volumes, quarto, 

ORIGINAL POETRY. 
A TRANSLATION OF THE INTRODUC- 
TORY VERSES TO THE,SIXTH HOOK OF 
LUCRETIUS. 
FROM Athens, fplendid onthe rollof Fame, 
~The gift of corn to wretched mortals 
came: 
Life from her fource its beft refrefhment draws 
Of wholefome food and falutary laws. 
There the glad fun of confolation rofe 
‘To cheer our journey through this vale of 
Woes 5 
That fage unrivall’d, from whofe breaft di- 
vine, 
Thy temple, Science! and of Truth the 
fhrine, - 
Thofe precepts bloom’d, which round him | 
living thed 
Their fragrant honours, and embalm him 
dead. 
He, when by ancient lore he faw made 
known 
Thofe arts that pledge the life of fenfe our 
OW); . 
Original Portry. 
The confideration and 
2 i. 
[ November, 
unde the title of Opera ad Opticam of 
“Abronamiam pertinentia. The _ nautical 
alt tronomy in the fifth volume was, in 1787, 
tranflated into German by M. von Ef-ben- ; 
bach of Leipzig. Bofcovich wrote like- 
wife Elements of Mathematics and Phy- 
hes, and a Treatife on dioptrical tele- 
fcopes : the latter of which was tranflated 
into German by the Jefuit father Charles 
Scherfer of Vienna, in the year 1765. 
In 1786, our philofepher went to Milan ; 
“where; at the defire of the Emperor Jos 
feph, he undertock the fuperintendence of 
fhe admeafurement of a degree, and of the 
formation of a new map of Lombardy. 
While employed on an edition of his Com- 
mentarics on the two laft volumes of the ~ 
celebrated afironomical poem of Stay, a 
firoke of the palfy put aperiod fo his la-° 
bours and life, on the z2th of February | a 
1787, in, the 76th year of his age. 
M. re Zach, editor of the Allgemeine 
Geograph Ephem. pofleffes a long and. 
intereitin - lecter-from Bofcoyich on the ad= 
meafurement of degrees, efpecially on the 
degree meafured in Hungary and Auftria. 
This letter M. von Zach intends to com- 
municate to the public. It is remarkable 
that the eaftern coaft cf the Adriatic has 
produced fo many eminent men diftin- 
guifhed by their genius for mathematics: — 
the Befcowichs, Pafquichs, Vegas, Cagaolis, 
Bogdanichs, are Dalmatians, Carinthians, 
‘Albania and Croats, and rank high 
among the luminaries of that {cience, 
Saw blifs Se roll the copious tide 
‘To drench our paffions, and tofwell our pride : 
Wealth, titles, fame, to folace or to grace, 
And are bloffoms of a numerous race 5 
Yet view’d the mind, to cares at homea pref _ 
And heart-born cane pine the live- longa 
day j— 2 
Found by the fream, that from the veflel 
flows, <4 
Each outward blifs copa as it rofe: 
In part, the vefiel, bruis’d and leaky too, 
Fill’d up in vain, let every blefling through; 7 
in part, the blits: infus’d, no more the fame, ‘a 
Merr’d by the tincture = the veffel came. ‘. 
Hence his wife lips thofe fearching truths i ins. 
art ig 
That sae the deep ‘pollutions of the heart ; = 
The bounds precife of Hope and Fear defin’ds — 
Taught the true blifs that fills _up all the 
mind d; ; e 
Nor left unm: piled the prone and eafy way, 
Which our quick footfteps to that blifs convey. ~ 
Our ills he thew’d, and of thofe ills the caule, © 
Or chance, or force, or nature’s ftable laws: 
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