8. Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress. Octavo.
9. Publick Employment and an Active Life, prefer’d to Solitude and its Appanages, &c. Octavo.
10. Terra: Or, A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, the IIId Edition. Folio and Octavo.
11. Numismata, a Discourse of Medals; to which is added, A Digression concerning Physiognomy. Folio.
12. Acetaria: Or, A Discourse of Sallets. 2d Edition.
Naming the last Discourse (save one) I take this Opportunity to acquit my self of some Omissions and Mistakes, left out in the Errata of Numismata; but, upon discovery, immediately after, notify’d, and reform’d in the next Philosophical Transactions of that Month.
Amico carissimo Johanni Evelyno,
Armigero,
e Societate Regali Londini, J. Beale, S.P.D. In Silvam.
Fare age quid causae est quod tu Silvestria pangis,
Inter Silvanos, capripedesque Deos?
Inter Hamadryadas laetus, Dryadasque pudicas,
Cum tua Cyrrhæis sit Chelys apta modis!
Scilicet hoc cecinit numerosus Horatius olim,
Scriptorum Silvam quod Chorus Omnis amat.
Est locus ille Sacer Musis, & Apolline dignus,
Prima dedit summo Templa sacranda Jovi.
Hinc quoque nunc Pontem Pontus non respuit ingens,
Stringitur Oceanus, corripiturque Salum.
Hinc novus Hesperiis emersit mundus in oris,[cii:1]
Effuditque auri flumina larga probi.
Hinc exundavit distento Copia cornu,
Qualem & Amalthææ non habuere sinus.
Silva tibi curae est, grata & Pomona refundit
Auriferum, roseum, purpureumque nemus.
Illa famemque sitimque abigens expirat odores,
Quales nec Medus, nec tibi mittit Arabs.
Ambrosiam praebent modo cocta Cydonia. Tantum
Comprime, Nectareo Poma liquore fluunt.
Progredere, O Sæcli Cultor memorande futuri,
Felix Horticolam sic imitere Deum.
[cii:1] Gen. 1. c. 2.