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* His Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem, 1 Cum sex centuriis Judæo millia septem.

Myrias Ægypto cessit bis septima pingui.
Myrias adsciscit sibi nonagesima septem
Imperium qua Turca3 ferox exercet iniquum.
Undecies binas decadas et millia septem
Sortitur4 Pelopis tellus quæ nomine gaudet.
Myriadas decies septem numerare jubebit
Pastor4 Arabs: decies octo sibi Persa requirit.
Myriades sibi pulchra duas, duo millia poscit

* To the above Lines (which are unfinished, and can therefore be only offered as a fragment), in the Doctor's manuscript are prefixed the words "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has been accordingly consulted, the title of which is, "A new Survey of the Globe," and which professes to give an accurate mensuration of all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the square miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the several numbers in these verses with those set down by Templeman, it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest are not quite so exactly done.-For the convenience of the Reader, it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in Templeman's works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to it.

In this first article that is versified, there is an accurate conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who sets down the square miles of Palestine at 7,600.

2

The square miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700. 3 The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at

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In the four following articles, the numbers in Templeman and in Johnson's verses are alike.-We find, accordingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square miles.Arabia, at 700,000.-Persia, at 800,000.—and Naples, at 22,000.

Parthenope4. 5 Novies vult tellus mille Sicana.
6 Papa suo regit imperio ter millia quinque.
Cum sex centuriis numerat sex millia Tuscus.
Centuriâ Ligures augent duo millia quartâ.
Centuriæ octavam decadem addit Lucca9 secundæ.
Ut dicas, spatiis quam latis imperet orbi
10 Russia, myriadas ter denas adde trecentis :
11Sardiniam cum sexcentis sex millia complent.
Cum sexagenis, dum plura recluserit ætas,
Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra 12 colendas.
Vult sibi vicenas millesima myrias addi,
Vicenis quinas, Asiam 13 metata celebrem.
Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit
Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa 14 doctæ.
Myriadas septem decies Europa 15 ducentis
Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit.
Myriadas denas dat, quinque et millia, sexque
Centurias, et tres decadas Europa Britannis 16.

5 Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400.

"The Pope's dominions, at 14,868.

7 Tuscany, at 6,640.

Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson likewise, is set down at 2,400.

9 Lucca, at 286.

10 The Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is set down at 3,303,485 square miles.

11 Sardinia, in Templeman, as likewise in Johnson, 6,600.

12 The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at 30,666,806 square miles.

13 Asia, at 10,257,487.

14 Africa, at 8,506,208.

15 Europe, at 2,749,349.

16 The British dominions at 105,634.

Ter tria myriadi conjungit millia quartæ, Centuriæ quartæ decades quinque17 Anglia nectit. Millia myriadi septem fœcunda secundæ Et quadragenis decades quinque addit lerne 18. Quingentis quadragenis socialis adauget Millia Belga 19 novem.

Ter sex centurias Hollandia 19 jactat opima Undecimum Camber 19 vult septem millibus addi.

17 England, as likewise in Johnson's expression of the number at 49,450.

18 Ireland, at 27,457.

19 In the three remaining instances, which make the whole that Dr. Johnson appears to have rendered into Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with those of Templeman; who makes the square miles of the United Provinces, 9540-of the province of Holland, 1800-and of Wales, 7011.

POEMS WHICH HAVE NOT HITHERTO BEEN PRINTED AMONG JOHNSON'S WORKS.

FRIENDSHIP,

AN ODE.

It was

[This Ode originally appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1743. See Boswell's Life of Johnson, under that year. afterwards printed in Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, in 1766, with several variations which are pointed out below.-J. B.]

FRIENDSHIP, peculiar boon of Heav'n,
The noble mind's delight and pride,

To men and angels only giv'n,
To all the lower world deny'd.

While Love, unknown among the blest,
Parent of thousand wild desires, a
The savage and the human breast
Torments alike with raging fires; b

With bright, but oft destructive, gleam,
Alike o'er all, his lightnings fly;
Thy lambent glories only beam
Around the fav'rites of the sky.

a Parent of rage and hot desires.—Mrs. W.
Inflames alike with equal fires.

Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys
On fools and villains ne'er descend
In vain for thee the tyrant sighs, c
And hugs a flatterer for a friend.

C

d Directress of the brave and just,
O guide us through life's darksome way!
And let the tortures of mistrust
On selfish bosoms only prey.

Nor shall thine ardours cease to glow,
When souls to blissful climes remove
What rais'd our virtue here below,
Shall aid our happiness above.

• In vain for thee the monarch sighs.

d This Stanza is omitted in Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, and instead of it we have the following, which may be suspected from internal evidence not to have been Johnson's:

When virtues, kindred virtues meet,

And sister-souls together join,
Thy pleasures permanent as great,
Are all transporting-all divine.

e O! shall thy flames then cease to glow.

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