These labours of my cotemporaries are about to be augmented by a comprehensive and very useful publication of the veteran geologist Dr. Bigsby, who, with unwearied assiduity and acumen, has tabulated the results of the labours of palæontologists of various countries, and combined them with his own extensive observations on the Silurian rocks of North America, in his work ‘Thesaurus Siluricus.’

That preacher gave a real fire and brimstone sermon!

Is it then any wayes probable that this ſhould be chosen for a Metropolis, in ſuch an abundance of fair and rich Cities as lay thereabout? But a Salvo is found out for Plinyes not mentioning them as Metropoles, because the addition of theſe two in other Cities, ſeemeth to have been made when Veſpaſian added thoſe many new Provinces to the old Government which Suetonius ſpeaks of;

Even he that has the most of all is nevertheless oblig'd to be Frugal and Husbandly, and not to lavish or squander away what he has ….