57. In a very short time. Sometimes written giffats
58. It is almost in the exact latitude of Gaboon Bay.
59. Our author is wrong. Morocco lies between the annual Isothermal lines of 68º Fahr. (or 20 Cent.), whilst the mean temperature at the Equator was considered by Humboldt to be 81.4° Fahr. and by Atkinson (Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society) 84.5°.
60. Our author means the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, the celebrated Pons Asinorum.
61. John Holywood, so named after the place of his birth near York, after studying at Oxford, settled in Paris where he became famous. He died in 1256, leaving two works of rare power considering the century they were written in, viz, de Spheri Mundi, and de Computo Ecclesiastico. They are to be found in one volume 8vo, Paris, 1560.
62. John Gonzalvo d'Oviedo, born 1478. Was Governor of the New World, and wrote a Summario de la Historia general y natural de las Indias Occidentales. Best edition, Salamanca 1535, and Toledo, 1536, folio. This is the work here quoted.
63. This is not the case.
64. Blank in original.
65. Kirkwall.
66. Blank in original.