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 day, like bats in a summer's evening in Europe, without injuring me, who sometimes caught them in their flight." The reader would suppose Thunberg to be outdoing St. George or Baron Munchausen, if the translator had not luckily explained his own English by inserting the name Draco Volans..that is, the flying lizard,..in the text.

 

I know not who was the author of the Telemacomanie: he speaks in the Preface of his profound respect and high esteem for Fenelon, and denies that he had composed a brutal and seditious criticism upon the Telemaque, which his enemies imputed to him, and which infamous and scandalous libel, they said, was the cause of his banishment to Auvergne. Certainly there is nothing either seditious or scandalous in the present work, but it is a most extraordinary compound of heathen learn-