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Fairfax was reprinted at Dubliz, 2 vols. 
S$vo. 1726.—Modernized, 1749, (and in 
earlier edit.) Gent. Mag. Aug. 1764.— 
Reprinted in folie, 1624, by Fohx Bill, 
. the King’s Printer, by his command ; and 
dedicated to Prince Charles, with a Sonyget 
to him, and the Life of Godfrey. See 
_ Emanuel Library. 
Thus far from Dr. Farmer’s MS, 
I have a copy of Bill’s edition, folio, 
2624; but it contains no Sozmet to Prince 
Charles, nor any other verfes befides the 
Poem itflf; excepting four ftanzas ** To 
her High Maieftie.”” [Queen Elizabeth] 
figned “ Your Maiefties humble Subject, 
Edward Fairefax ;” that being the ortho- 
graphy of his name in the title-page to 
this edition; in that of edit. 1600, in 
which thefe four ftanzas firft appeared ; 
and in the fubfcription to the ftanzas in 
both. In the Efi/tle Dedicatorie to Prince 
Charles, by Bill, he fays ** All ornament I 
could adde to this edition, was to illuftrate 
thechiefe fubje&t of the booke, thatis God- 
frey of Bullen, the-great Champion of 
Chriftendome, which I have done as well 
as I could, by prefixing his pourtrai¢t, as 
it was brought from Hier ulalem, and by a 
briefe defcription of his life, out of the 
beft writers.” The life, containing five 
pages, is inferted, but there is no ce pour- 
trait’ of Godfrey in my copy. 
' In the Mouthly Magazine, it is faid that 
the fecond edition, 1624, having been 
edited by Mr. Bill, is an indireét proof of 
‘the previous death of Fairfax. 
' The Epifile Dedicatorie in Bill’s edition 
contains no intimation of the death of Fair- 
fax ; Mrs. Cooper, in her Mufe’s Library, 
fays, that ‘* the year he died in is uncer- 
tain ; and the laft we hear of him is, that he 
was living in 1631.” 
In the preface to the §vo. edition, 
1749, after fpecifying the editions of 1600, 
and 1624, it is faid ‘¢a third impreffion of 
this work appeared in the year 1686, re- 
_ commended to the public by Sir Roger 
LEfirange, who at that time was the 
Licencer of the Prefs : but the fearcity of 
the firft and fecond of the editions, the in- 
corretnefs of the third, and the excellence 
of the work itfelf, have given reafon to 
imagine, that a new imprefiion of it would 
aut be unacceptable.” Fe 
Tam, &c. F.G.W. 
~—SS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
"SPR? 
HAVE long thought that Homer was 
merely a copyift from the ancient po- 
ems of Hindoftan; through the medium of 
ghe Egyptian prietts 5 but not having at 
Decription of the Countries adjoining the Gafpian Sea. 
[April x, 
prefent an opportunity to confirm or dif- 
prove the idea, I fhall be much obliged to 
any of your corre{pondents, poflefling more 
leifure than myfelf to purfue fuch an en- 
quiry, for their fentiments on the fubject. 
I alfo with to devote a little time to 
tranflating from the Latin of the Pere No- 
el, printed at Prague, 1711, the three 
books of Confucius the Ta-Hio, Tlhong- 
Zong, and Yun-Lu, together with the ad- 
Bee ae of Mentius (his “ beloved 
difciple’’), and called from him Mengtiee ; 
but I with for the-advice of your corre. _ 
{pondents, how I may procure thofe books, 
where the ‘moft authentic accounts of the 
lives of thefe two famous Chinefe may be 
got, and how to obtain the beft drawings 
of them as, at this length of time, is pof- 
ise I am, Sir, yours, &c. 
Newcajtle-upon-Tyne, J. CLENNELL. 
Dec. 21, 1800, 2 gedit ane 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
Defcription of the COUNTRIES between the 
| Rivers TEREK and KUR, 0” thé CASPIAN 
SEA.* 
HE Caucafus (Kawcas,) an Alpine 
ridge whofe higheft parts are covered 
with ice and fnow,—and which extends in 
length, from its weftern extremity at Ghae- 
kae to Targhu, 95 German miles, and in 
breadth on “the’ fide adjoining the Cafpian 
fea 53, in the middle (where the river 
Terek to the north and the Arakui to the 
fouth form a divifion between the eaftern 
and weftern half) 96, and in the weftern 
part, along the Porta Cumana, a celebrated 
narrow pals, 150 miles,—juftly delerves 
to be reckoned, both in a geographical and 
hiftorical point of view, among the moft 
remarkable regions of our hemifphere. 
It was from time immemorial, and {ill is; > 
the feat of bold and valiant warriors, who 
with determined 1efolution refifted the rei- 
terated attacks of the Mongols, Arabs, 
Perfians, Tartars, and Ruffians, and 
maintained their freedom and indepen- 
dence. On the ridge of Caucafus, and 
in the elevated and almoft inacceffible val- 
lies, we meet with a moft fingular mix- 
ture of {mall peoples, fuch as the Inqufch, 
the Kifti (with their tribes, the Zichet- 
{chens, Bilittli, Adti, Bafli, and Kighi), 
the Gigi, Karabulak, Burtunnaeh, Unzu- 
kull, Gumrah, Atibojunn, Karapdugh, 
* Extracted from FR. AUG. MARSHALL 
VON BIEBERSTEIN’S ‘© Befchreibung der 
Lander zwifchen den Fliffen Terek und Kur am 
Cafpifchen Meere ;—mit einem botanifchen Ar- 
hang ’—Frank fort, Efslinger, 18cO, 211, pp. 
1, S v0. 
Akulcha, 
