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Rh request he wrote and published a work, entitled, "The History of Poland," in the form of letters. He lived to publish only one volume, the second not appearing till after his death, which latter volume evidently bears many marks of precipitation; but the book was the best that was published on the subject, and was read with great pleasure and avidity. In these volumes may be found an uncommonly curious account of the salt mines, of the diseases peculiar to that country, and a satisfactory account of some young children who were carried away and nourished by bears.

Connor would, in all probability, have become an eminent man in his profession; but, in the flower of his age, and just as he began to reap the fruits of his learning, study, and travels, he was attacked by a fever, which, after a short illness, put a period to his existence, in October 1698, when he was little more than thirty-two years of age. He had, as we have observed before, been educated in the Romish religion, but had embraced the Protestant faith upon his first coming over from Holland. It has, nevertheless, been a matter of doubt in what communion he died; but from his funeral sermon, preached by Dr. Hayley, rector of St. Giles' in the Fields, where the was interred, it seems reasonable to conclude that he died a member of the Protestant church.

observantine Franciscan, justly distinguished for his patriotic exertions in procuring the establishment of the Irish college at Louvain, by Philip III. of Spain, was born in Connaught, about the year 1560. He received his education in Spain and the Netherlands, and became very eminent for his great progress in the study of philosophy and divinity. In the latter department of science, he applied himself with peculiar zeal to the works of St. Augustine, in which he succeeded so well, as to be