"... That wond'rous stone, which the swallow,
Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings;
Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow!"
Longfellow's Evangeline, Part I. i.
May I ask for information respecting the allusion contained in these lines?
W. S. T.
Quotation from Arthur Hopton.
—Arthur Hopton (Baculum Geodæticum, 1610, preface) says:
"If this hold, it is time to ... take the globe out of the king Ptolomies hand, and there place a poore Siquis, such as forlorne forreiners use to have in Paul's Church."
What does this mean?