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 gh is 2,420 feet."--Ib.. "In Sutherland and Caithness, are Ben Ormod, Ben Clibeg, Ben Grin, Ben Hope, and Ben Lugal."--Ib., 311. "Benvracky is 2,756 feet high; Ben-ledi, 3,009; and Benvoirlich, 3,300."--Ib., 313. "The river Dochart gives the name of Glendochart to the vale through which it runs."--Ib., 314. "About ten miles from its source, the Tay diffuses itself into Lochdochart."--Geog. altered. LAKES:--"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, Loch-Katrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."--Scott's Lady of the Lake. GLENS:--"Glenfinlas, Glen Fruin, Glen Luss, Ross-dhu, Leven-glen, Strath-Endrick, Strath-Gartney, Strath-Ire."--Ib. MOUNTAINS:--"Ben-an, Benharrow, Benledi, Ben-Lomond, Benvoirlich, Ben-venue, and sometimes Benvenue."--Ib. "Fenelon died in 1715, deeply lamented by all the inhabitants of the Low-countries."--Murray's Sequel, p. 322. "And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king."--SCOTT, FRIENDS: 2 Kings, xxiii, 34. "Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her Good Fortune; but the others, who weep and wring their hands, Bad-fortune."--Collier's Tablet of Cebes.

UNDER RULE VIII.--OF COMPOUNDS.

"When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the valley of salt."--SCOTT: Ps. lx, title.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the words valley and salt begin with small letters. But, according to Rule 8th, "When any adjective or common noun is made a distinct part of a compound proper name, it ought to begin with a capital." Therefore, "Valley" should here begin with a capital V, and "Salt" with a capital S.]

"Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill and said," &c.--SCOTT: Acts, xvii, 22. "And at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives."--Luke, xxi, 37. "Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy land with Charlemagne."--''Univ. Biog. Dict. "Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain coast from the Ivory coast."--Dict. of Geog.'', p. 125. "The North Esk, flowing from Loch-lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose."--Ib., p. 232. "At Queen's ferry, the channel of the Forth is contracted by promontories on both coasts."--Ib., p. 233. "The Chestnut ridge is about twenty-five miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel ridge, ten miles further west."--Balbi's Geog., p. 65. "Washington City, the metropolis of the United States of America."--W.'s Univ. Gaz., p. 380. "Washington city, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826."--Ib., p. 408. "The loftiest peak of the white mountains, in new Hampshire, is called mount Washington."--Author. "Mount's bay, in the west of England, lies between the land's end and lizard point."--Id. "Salamis, an island of the Egean Sea, off the southern coast of the ancient Attica."--''Dict. of Geog''. "Rhodes, an island of the Egean sea, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades."--Ib. "But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea."--BRUCE'S BIBLE: Ps. cxxxvi, 15. "But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea."--SCOTT: Ps. cvi, 7.[107]

UNDER RULE IX.--OF APPOSITION.

"At that time, Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus."--ALGER: Matt., xiv, 1.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word Tetrarch begins with a capital letter. But, according to Rule 8th, "When a common and a proper name are associated merely to explain each other, it is in general sufficient, if the proper name begin with a capital, and the appellative, with a small letter." Therefore, "tetrarch" should here begin with a small t.]

"Who has been more detested than Judas the Traitor?"--Author. "St. Luke, the Evangelist, was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul."--Id. "Luther, the Reformer, began his bold career by preaching against papal indulgences."--Id. "The Poet Lydgate was a disciple and admirer of Chaucer: he died in 1440."--Id. "The Grammarian Varro, 'the most learned of the Romans,' wrote three books when he was eighty years old."--Id. "John Despauter, the great Grammarian of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520."--Id. "Nero, the Emperor and Tyrant of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death."--Id. "Cicero the Orator, 'the Father of his Country,' was assassinated at the age of 64."--Id. "Euripides, the Greek Tragedian, was born in the Island of Salamis, B. C. 476."--Id. "I will say unto God my Rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?"--SCOTT: Ps. xlii, 9. "Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York City."--Univ. Gaz. "When the son of Atreus, King of Men, and the noble Achilles first separated."--Coleridge's Introd., p. 83.

"Hermes, his Patron-God, those gifts bestow'd,   Whose shrine with weaning lambs he wont to load." --POPE: Odys., B. 19.

UNDER RULE X.--OF PERSONIFICATIONS.

"But wisdom is justified of all her children."--SCOTT, ALGER: Luke, vii, 35.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word wisdom begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 10th, "The name of an object personified, when it conveys an idea strictly individual, should begin with a capital." Therefore, "Wisdom" should here begin with a capital W.]

"Fortune and the church are generally put in the feminine gender."--Murray's Gram., i, p. 37. "Go to your natural religion; lay before her Mahomet, and his disciples."--Blair's Rhetoric, p. 157: see also Murray's Gram., i, 347. "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?"--1 Cor., xv, 55; Murray's Gram., p. 348; ''English Reader, 31; Merchant's Gram.'', 212. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Matt., vi, 24. "Ye cannot s