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9. Stone Circles-Tredineck Circles; Boskednan Circle; Boscawen-un Circle; and Senor Circle, p. 198.

10. Botallek Circles in St. Just, p. 199.

11. The Nine Maids; Kerris Roundago; Bodinar Crellas; the Temple in Classerness; and the Hurlers, P. 206.

12. The Amphitheatre at St. Just: Urns found at different places, p. 208.

13. Monument of four Stones at Trevescan; Scilly large

and small Barrow; a Stone Barrow at Tredinek; a Barrow with a Kistvaen near the top; Rock Bason called Arthur's Bed; Rock Bason Quoit at Karnbrê; Boswolas Basons, p. 219.

14. Lanyon Cromleh, and Senar Cromleh, p. 223. 15. Two Views of Kit's Cotty House, p. 224.

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16. Gold Coins found at Karnbrê, p. 259.

17. Plate of Celts, p. 287.

18. Cave called Pendeen Vau; Roman Pateras, &c. p. 293.

19. A Roman Fort at Bossens, in the Parish of St. Erth; Roman Patera, &c. p. 316.

20. Earth Castles-Bartine Castle in St. Just; Caer-bran Castle in Sancred; Plan of Castle Chun in Morva,

p. 346.

21. Tindagel Castle, p. 352.

22. Trematon Castle, p. 354.

23. Plan and Elevation of Restormel Castle, p. 356.

24. Ruins of Launceston Castle, p. 358.

25. View of St. Michael's Mount, p. 379.

26. Inscribed Stone Pillars, p. 391.

27. Ditto, p. 396.

The following Plates are printed on the pages of Letterpress.

1. Headpiece to Book I. p. 1.

2. Tail Piece to Book I. p. 52.-Plan of a Channeled

Rock at Karnleskyz in St. Just-An Ancient Head in a Seal found in Anglesea-Two Druid Amulets. 3. Headpiece to Book II.-Bas Relief on the Portal of the Temple of Montmorillon in France; from Montfaucon, p. 53.

4. Cernunnos, a Deity of the Gauls, p. 107.

5. Altar found in the Cathedral of Paris, in 1711, Dedicated to Jupiter, p. 157.

6. Head Piece to Book III, p. 158.

7. A singular Monument from Wormius, p. 210.

8. Western View of Castle Treryn in the Parish of St. Levin, p. 296.

9. Head Piece to Book IV.

10. Western View of Karnbrê Hill, from Tehidy, p. 411.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE REV. W. BORLASE, LL. D.

He was born at Pendeen, in the county of Cornwall, on the second of February, 1696, and received his early education at Penzance and Plymouth, from whence he removed to Exeter College, Oxford, where he took the degree of Master of Arts in 1719. He was ordained Priest in the ensuing year, and two years afterwards was presented to the rectory of Ludgvan, which with the vicarage of his native parish, St.Just in Pendeen, given him by Lord King, in 1732, was all the preferment he obtained. His genius became directed, on settling at Ludgvan, with all the judgment of a man of science, to investigate the curiosities, the mineral and metallic fossils which surrounded him, and his literary works, relating to the Antiquities and Natural History of his native county, have been deservedly and universally admired. He enriched the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, with several curious remains of antiquity, for which he received the public thanks of the University, in 1758, and they also conferred upon him

the degree of Doctor of Laws. He likewise was the means of beautifying the celebrated Grotto of his friend Pope at Twickenham, with a great variety of Cornish fossils of the more beautiful and rare sorts. He made the Library of St. John's College, Oxford a present of his curious drawings of Cornish monuments, and had an intention of depo siting his other collections in the same place. He employed much time in studies of a more professional nature,-drawing up various paraphrases of scripture, chiefly for his own improvement, and he had prepared for the Press, a" Trea tise on the Creation and Deluge," which the infirmities of declining life prevented him from publishing. After a life spent in these useful pursuits, and the diligent exercise of his pastoral and parochial duties, he died universally rẻspected and lamented, in 1772, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He left two sons, both clergymen.

The Literary Works of Dr. Borlase, are comprised in the following List.

1. Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Oxford, 1754, folio.

The same, 2d Edition. London, 1769, folio.

2. The Natural History of Cornwall. Oxford, 1758, folio.

3. Observations on the ancient and present State of the Islands of Scilly, and their importance to the Trade of Great Britain. Oxford, 1756, quarto.

Besides which Dr. Borlase printed the following Papers in the Philosophical Transactions.

4. An Enquiry into the original State and Properties of Spar and Sparry Productions, particularly the Spars or Crystals found in the Cornish Mines, called the Cornish Diamonds; vol. xlvi. p. 250.

5. On the Alterations of the Islands of Scilly, vol. xlviii, p. 55.

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6. An Account of a Storm of Thunder and Lightning, near Ludgvan, Dec. 20, 1752, vol. xlviii. p. 86.

7. A Description of the Agitations of the Water in the County of Cornwall, Nov. 1, 1755, vol. xlix. p. 373.

8. An Account of subterraneous Trees at Mount's Bay, vol. 1. p. 51.

9. An Account of an Earthquake felt in the western parts of Cornwall, July 15th, 1757, vol. 1. p. 499.

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10. An Account of some Roman Antiquities found at Bossen, in the parish of St. Erth, near St. Michael's Mount, vol. li. p. 13.

11. A Relation of extraordinary Agitations of the Waters in Mount's Bay, and other places in this County, March 31, and July 28, 1761, and of two Thunder Storms in Cornwall, Jan. 11, 1762, vol. lii. p. 418, and 507.

12. An Account of the late mild Weather in Cornwall, in the winter of 1762, and the quantity of rain fallen there, 1762, vol. liii. p. 27.

13. The quantity of rain at Mount's Bay, and the weather there, in June and July, 1763, vol. liv. p, 59.

14. Two Letters relating to a Specimen of Native Tin, found in Cornwall, the existence of which has always been denied, vol. lvi. p. 35, and lix. p. 47.

15 Meteorological Observations at Ludgvan, 1767, vol. lyiii. p. 89.

16. The same, 1769, vol. lx. p. 230.
17. The same, 1770, voľ. lxi. p. 195.

18, The same, 1771, vol. lxii, p. 365.

A Short View of the Losses which Learning has sustained by the Destruction of the Writings of the Ancients.

The disadvantages which have arisen from the destruction of the Works of the Ancients, will be a sufficient justification for entering upon a short view of the irrepara ble losses which have thereby been sustained.

Many events have contributed to deprive us of a great part of the literary treasures of Antiquity. A very fatal Blow was given to literature by the destruction of the Phoenician Temples, and at the Egyptian Colleges, when those kingdoms and the Countries adjacent, were conquered by the Persians, about three hundred and fifty years before Christ. OCHUS, the Persian General, ravaged those countries without mercy, and forty thousand Sidofians burnt themselves with their families and riches in their own houses. The conqueror then drove NECTANEBUS out of Egypt, and committed the like ravages in that country; afterwards he marched into Judea, where he took Jericho, and sent a great number of Jews into captivity. The Persians had a great dislike to the religion of the Phoenicians and the Egyptians; this was one reason for destroying their books, of which Eusebius (De Preparat Ecang.) says they had a great number.

Notwithstanding these losses, PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, King of Egypt, who reigned about two hundred years before the Christian era, collected the greatest library of all antiquity, which he deposited in his palace at Alexandria, where it was burned by Cæsar's troops.

This, which was called the Alexandrian Library, was first founded by Ptolemy Soter for the use of the Academy or Society of learned n en which he had founded at Alexandria. Beside the books which he procured, his son Ptolemy Philadelphus added many more, and left in this library at his death 100,000 volumes; and the succeeding' princes of this race, enlarged it still more, till at length the books lodged in 'it amounted to the number of 700,000 volumes. The method adopted for making this collection was the seizing of all the books that were brought by the Greeks, or other foreigners into Egypt, and sending them to the Academy, where they were transcribed by persons employed for that purpose. The transcripts were then delivered to the Proprietors, and the originals laid up in the Library. Ptolemy Euergetes for instance, borrowed of the Athenians the works of Sophocles, Euripides and Eschylus, and only returned them the copies,

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