1. IdLeR[(a)]
2. R I O[(b)]
3. IoLaS[(c)]
4. StYlE[(d)]
Iris—Lily—Rose.
[(a)] One of the periodicals which, like the Spectator, Rambler, Tatler, &c., were so popular in the early part of the eighteenth century.
[(b)] One of the finest and safest ports in the world. The city was founded in January, 1565, by the Portuguese, who mistook the beautiful bay for the mouth of a large river, and gave it the name of Rio de Janeiro.
[(c)] The companion of Hercules, when he destroyed the Lernœan Hydra.
[(d)] The Roman stylus or style was a sharp point, used for writing on a waxen tablet. The old style was altered in 1582 by Pope Gregory XII. and consisted of passing over ten days in the October of that year; but the new style was not adopted in England until 1752, when the omission of eleven days became necessary in order to rectify the Calendar.