His skin makes the best and hardest leather in the BIOGRAPHY. "The Rhinoceros feeds upon herbs, thistles, prickles, shrubs, and he prefers this wild food to the sweet pasture of the verdant meadows; he is very fond of sugarcanes, and eats all sorts of corn. Having no taste whatever for flesh, he does not molest small animals, neither fears the large ones, living in peace with them all, even with the tiger, who often accompanies him, without daring attack him: I doubt, therefore, whether the battles betwixt the elephant and the Rhinoceros have any foundation; they must, however, seldom happen, since there is no motive for war on either side; and, besides, no sort of antipathy has been observed between these animals. Some have even been seen in captivity, living quietly together, without giving offence or provocation to each other. The Rhinoceroses do not herd together, nor march in troops, like the elephant; they are wilder, and more solitary, and perhaps more difficult to be hunted and subdued; they never attack men unless provoked; but then they become furious, and are very formidable: the steel of Damascus, the scimitars of Japan, cannot make an incision in his skin; the darts and lances cannot pierce him through: his skin even resists the balls of the musket; those of lead become flat upon his leather, and the iron ingots cannot penetrate through it: the only places absolutely penetrable in his body armed with a cuirass, are the belly, the eyes, and round the ears; so that huntsmen, instead of attacking this animal standing, follow him at a distance by his track, and wait to approach him at a time that he sleeps or rests himself. There is in the King of France's cabinet a fœtus of a Rhinoceros, which was sent from the island of Java. It was said, in a memorial which accompanied this present, that twenty-eight huntsmen had assembled to attack its mother; they had followed far off for some days, one or two men walking now and then before, to reconnoitre the position of the animal. By these means they surprised her when she was asleep, and came so near in silence, that they discharged all at once their twenty-eight guns into the lower parts of her belly. "We have seen that this animal has a good ear; it is also affirmed that he has the sense of smelling in perfection; but it is pretended he has not a good eye, and sees only before him: that his eyes are so small, and placed so low, and so obliquely, and have so little vivacity and motion, that this fact needs no other confirmation. His voice, when he is calm, resembles the grunting of a hog; and when he is angry, his sharp cries are heard at a great distance. Though he lives upon vegetables, he does not ruminate; thus it is probable, that, like the elephant, he has but one stomach, and very large bowels, which supply the office of the paunch. His consumption, though very great, is not comparable to that of the elephant; and it appears, by the thickness of his skin, that he loses less than the elephant by his perspiration." We give the following article relative to a Catholic saint, merely to show what some men believe. All that Butler can affirm of him is, that making a pilgrimage from Montpelier to Rome during a pestilence, he devoted himself to the sick, became infected, made a shift to crawl into a neighbouring forest, bore incredible pains with patience and joy, returned to France, practised austere penance and piety, and died at Montpelier. In the "Golden Legend" he is called St. Rock; and it relates that when infected by the pestilence, and lacking bread in the forest, a hound belonging to one Gotard daily took bread away from his master's board, and bare it to Rock, whom Gotard thereby discovered, and visited, and administered to his necessities; wherefore the hound came no more; and Rock was healed by revelation of an angel; and with touching and blessing he cured the diseased in the hospital, and healed all the sick in the city of Placentia. Being imprisoned, and about to die, he prayed that he might live three days longer in contemplation of the Passion, which was granted him; and on the third day an angel came to him, saying, "O! Rock, God sendeth me for thy soul; what thou now desirest thou shouldst ask." Then St. Rock implored that whoever prayed to him after death might be delivered from pestilence; and then he died. And anon an angel brought from heaven a table whereon was divinely written, in letters of gold, that it was granted-"That who that calleth to Saynte Rock mekely, he shall not be hurte with ony hurte of pestylence;" and the angel laid the table under Rock's head; and the people of the city buried St. Rock solemnly, and he was canonized by the pope gloriously. His life in the "Golden Le gend" ends thus: "The feest of Saynte Rocke is alwaye holden on the morowe after the daye of the assumpcyon of our lady, whiche life is translated out of latyn in englysshe by me, Wyllyam Caxton." It is supposed by some that the Rhinoceros is the unicorn of the scriptures. It is generally admitted that the various qualities therein assigned to that animal are combined in the Rhinoceros, viz. rage, untameableness, and strength. The Rhinoceros, likewise, has a single horn, thus corresponding in this particular. There is, however, as has been seen, a species of this There is an entry among the extracts of the churchanimal which has two horns; and it appears that the wardens' accounts of St. Michael Spurrier-gate, York, unicorn sometimes had two:-"His horns are like the printed by Mr. Nichols, thus: "1518. Paid for writ horns of a unicorn." We leave the subject for each ing of Saint Royke Masse, 01. Os. 9d."* His festival one to judge for himself, remarking as we leave it, on this day was kept like a wake, or general harvestthat there have been various opinions as to the uni-home, with dances in the churchyard in the evening.† corn, some supposing it to be the wild goat, others the wild bull, others again the wild ass, and so on. The phrase, "sound as a roach," may have been de- | ces against such an Association, and others of a simirived from familiarity with the legend and attributes of this saint. He is esteemed the patron saint of all afflicted with the plague, a disease of common occurrence in England when streets were narrow, and without sewers, houses without boarded floors, and our ancestors without linen. They believed that the miraculous interposition of St. Roche could make them as "sound" as himself. The engraving of St. Roche at the head of this article is from a print published by Marriette. He gathers up his garment to show the pestilence on his thigh, whereat the angel is looking; the dog by his side with a loaf in his mouth is Gotard's hound. There is a rare print of this saint, with an angel seeing the wound, by D. Hopfer.-London Every Day Book. PENNY DAILIES. Within a very recent period, a new species of periodials has sprung into existence answering to the title aDove, affording every individual who can spare one cent a day the opportunity of furnishing himself with a daily paper. We deem the commencement of this mode of disseminating intelligence an era in its annals. It will enable thousands, nay, millions, who have not heretofore enjoyed access to the daily news, now to gratify themselves in this respect. The consequence will be, that good papers of this description will obtain a circulation altogether unparalleled in the history of the daily press. And co-extensive with their vast circulation will be their means of exerting an influence for good or for evil. Viewed in this light, these papers assume an importance hitherto unknown to periodicals. They reach the very depths of the social state, and move the mighty waters which lie undisturbed and stagnant below the reach of our daily mammoth sheets. Pre-eminently conspicuous at the head of these penny dailies, stands the New-York Sun, the great progenitor of the whole tribe. This little paper has not completed its first three quarters, notwithstanding which, it has a circulation of nine or ten thousand copies. This circulation, extensive as it is, is constantly becoming more so. In relation to this paper, we are gratified to find that its moral bearing is decidedly good, both negatively and positively-negatively, in excluding from its columns certain things deemed demoralizing by many, but which are generally admitted into secular papers; and positively, by lashing vice and crime with unsparing hand. Such a terror is it to evil doers, by blazoning their names to the world, that it has materially diminished the number of daily cases tried at the Police Office, very few being so utterly reckless and shameless as to be willing to find their names at every street corner in connexion with deeds of infamy. Add to this, that the Sun is conducted with unusual sprightliness, enlivening its paragraphs by exquisite sallies of genuine pleasantry, such as all admire and few can equal; and we feel perfectly warranted in recommending it to the community as a paper well worthy of universal acceptance. We wish we could say as much in favour of all the little dailies. But this we cannot do. There is one at least against which we would put the public on their guard. It is the one which raises the senseless clamour of Church and State against Temperance Societies, and whose whole moral bearing is of a similar nature. Most assuredly, a paper that will at this time of day denounce the Temperance Association as a Church and State concern-a Society sanctioned by men of all parties, whether religious or political; a Sorety which knows no party, but which seeks the moral, intellectual, and physical welfare of the whole community-a paper, we say, which at this time of day will address self to the basest passions and prejudi lar description, ought to be spurned from the door of every decent citizen. And the individual who pub lishes such a paper, thereby encouraging vice, is a monster unworthy of the name he assumes-unworthy of the name of Man. In conclusion, we have only to caution the community that they look well to the moral bearing of these penny dailies before subscribing for them, instead of merely taking into consideration their price. The London Morning Herald says, the city of London has 194,000 houses, and 1,474,000 inhabitants. Paris has 45,000 houses, and 773,000 inhabitants. Petersburgh has 95,000 houses, and 449,000 inhabitants. Naples 40,000 houses, and 360,000 inhabitants. Vienna 7,500 houses, and 390,000 inhabitants. Paris has, according to the Herald's statement, nearly fifty people to each house. POETRY. SPRING.-N. P. WILLIS. THE Spring is here--the delicate-footed May, Wasting in wood-paths its voluptuous hours- We pass out from the city's feverish hum, Like a cool sleep upon the pulses broods. There's no contentment in a world like this, MICROSCOPE. An optical instrument which magnifies objects, so that the smallest may be distinctly seen and described by means of a proper adjustment and combination of lenses or mirrors. MICROSCOPE, Single, is one which consists of a single lens. MICROSCOPE, Compound, consists of two lenses at least, but generally three, and often more. MICROSCOPE, Solar, invented by Dr. Lieburkhun, is employed to represent very small objects on a very large scale, in a dark room. MICROSCOPE, Botanica, is a compact instrument, which particularly recommends itself to the practical botanist and naturalist, as a truly able assistant in their researches through the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and more especially when its facility of management and portability, combined with its extent of magnifying powers, are brought into consideration. The invention of microscopes, like many other ingenious discoveries, has been claimed for different authors. Huygens informs us that Drebell, a Dutchman, constructed the first microscope in 1621; but Borelli states, in a letter to his brother, that when he was ambassador in England in 1619, Cornelius Drebell showed him a microscope, which he said was given him by the archduke Albert, and had been made by Jansen, whom he considers to have been the real inventor, although F. Fontana, a Neapolitan, claimed, in 1646, the honour of the invention to himself, and dated it from the year 1818. SECTION VI HISTORY. EGYPT. Egypt, as we nave seen, was settled by Mizraim, the son of Ham. Upon his death, this country was divided into three kingdoms, over which reigned three of his sons. Ananim or Anan was king of Lower Egypt or the Delta; Naphtuhim or Naph, of the parts near and about Memphis; Pathrusim or Pathrus, of the country of Thebais. From these individuals those countries derived their names. Lower Egypt was denominated Zoan or Zanan, or more properly Tanan; the kingdom of Memphis was called the land of Noph or Naph; and the kingdom of Thebais, the land of Pathrus or Pathros. Ananim, the king of Lower Egypt, was by no means eminent. Very little is recorded of him. According to Syncellus he reigned 63 years. Naphtuhim, who was by the Egyptians called Tosorthrus, and afterwards Esculapius by the Latins, was king of Naph or Memphis. He was more emi Usaphædus his son reigned 29 years. Miebidus his son 26 years. Semempsis his son reigned 18 years. In his reign, a terrible pestilence afflicted Egypt. ber of years" (of this first Thinite dynasty)" amounted Bienaches his son reigned 26 years. The whole numto 253 years." after giving another dynasty of Thinite kings. This Manetho gives a dynasty of nine Memphite kings, dynasty, as if they succeeded the second; whereas it dynasty of Memphite kings he denominates the third is evident that they were contemporaneous with the first, reigning over a different portion of Egypt at the same time. The following is the dynasty under consideration. "Of nine Memphite kings.-Necherophes reigned Egyptians; but on account of an unexpected increase 29 years. In his time, the Libyans revolted from the of the moon, they surrendered themselves for fear. Tosorthrus reigned 29 years. He is called Asclepius by the Egyptians, for his medical knowledge. He built Tyris reigned 7 years. Mesochris 17 years. Soiphis a house of hewn stones, and greatly patronized writing. 16 years. Tosertasis 19 years. Achis 42 years. Siphuris 30 years. Cerpheres 26 years. Altogether 214 years." nent than the brother of his which has just been mentioned, but less so than his brother Pathrusim. Pathrusim was king of Thebais. He is supposed by some to have invented letters. The Egyptians called him Tyoth or Thoth. It was in the reign of Timaus, one of the kings of He was also called Athotes. His Greek name was Hermes, and his Latin Lower Egypt, probably about A. M. 2000, that that name Mercurius. He was a very distinguished monkingdom was invaded by a horde of Barbarians, and arch. He made laws, enriched and improved his lan-subjected to their domination. These new masters of guage, prescribed the mode of public worship, and made astronomical observations. On the death of this celebrated monarch, his dominion was divided into two kingdoms. The portion lying east of the Nile was governed by a person of the same name with himself, and that lying west by an individual named Cencenes. The kingdom of the former retained the name of Thebais; that of the latter took the name of This or Thin. The former is said to have reigned 33 years; the latter 31. The successor of the second king of Thebes was Diabies, who reigned 19 years. Venephes succeeded Cencenes in the kingdom of Thin. He built some pyramids in a plain towards Libya, in the desert of Cochome. But the kings of Thin never raised themselves to distinction, and have left little more than their names, as mementos to remind us that they once lived. The kings who reigned in those times in the other kingdoms of Egypt, viz. in Memphis and Lower Egypt, were these:-Mesochis, Soiphis, and Tesortasis in Memphis; and Aristarchus and Spanius in Lower Egypt or Tanis. Of the succeeding kings of Egypt during this period, we have little but their names, and the dates of their reigns. The following is from Manetho, the ancient Egyptian historian. "After the dead demi-gods, the first dynasty consisted of eight kings, of whom the first was Menes the Thinite; he reigned 62 years, and perished by a wound received by an hippopotamus. Athothis his son reigned 57 years; he built the palaces at Memphis, and left the anatomical books, for he was a physician. Cencenes his son reigned 31 years. Venephes his son reigned 23 years. In his time, a great plague raged through Egypt. He raised the pyramids near Cochome. VOL. II.-6 the country treated the conquered in the most inhuman manner, pillaging, massacreing, and destroying. They were denominated Hycsos, or shepherd kings, their occupation being, the care of flocks and herds. They is a great mistake. They must have been long prior are sometimes confounded with the Israelites, but this to that nation. They held the government when Abraham visited the country, but were expelled before the time of Joseph. This will explain the circumstance that Abraham, who was a shepherd, was so well relikewise shepherds, were abominated by the Egyptians. ceived in Egypt, while Joseph's brethren, who were The following is Manetho's account of these shepherd kings. OF THE SHEPHERD KINGS. "We had formerly a king whose name was Timaus. In his time it came to pass, I know not how, that God was displeased with us: and there came up from the East, in a strange manner, men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdued it by their power without a battle. And when they had our rulers in their hands, they burnt our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and inflicted every kind of barbarity upon the inhabitants, slaying some, and reducing the wives and children of others to a state of slavery. At length they made one of themselves king, whose name was Salatis: he lived at Memphis, and rendered both the upper and lower regions of Egypt tributary, and stationed garrisons in places which were best adapted to that purpose. But be directed his attention principally to the security of the eastern frontier; for he regarded with suspicion the increasing power of the Assyrians, who he foresaw would one day undertake an invasion of the kingdom. And observing in the Saite nome, upon the east of the Bubastite channel, a city which from some ancient theo logical reference was called Avaris; and finding it | cribed their authorship to the Egyptians, making admirably adapted to his purpose, he rebuilt it, and strongly fortified it with walls, and garrisoned it with a force of two hundred and fifty thousand armed men. To this city Salatis repaired in summer time, to collect his tribute, and pay his troops, and exercise his soldiers in order to strike terror into foreigners. Mercury their inventor. Diodorus, Plutarch, Cicero, Tertullian, and Plato, were of the same opinion. Kircher describes the very shape of the letters which he invented. Philo-Biblíus, the translator of Sanchoniathon's history, quoted by Eusebius and Porphyry, mentions the commentaries of Taautus, or Thyoth, and the "And Salatis died after a reign of nineteen years: sacred letters in which he wrote his books. Jambliafter him reigned Beon forty-four years: and he cus speaks of a vast number of books by this same was succeeded by Apachnas, who reigned thirty-six Taautus. And all antiquity agrees that the use of letyears and seven months: after him reigned Apophisters was very early in Egypt, and that Thyoth or Mersixty-one years, and Ianias fifty years and one month.cury was the first who used them there. Now if ThyAfter all these reigned Assis forty-nine years and two oth, i. e. Pathrusim, the son of Misraim and grandson months. These six were the first rulers amongst them, of Ham was the first in Egypt who used letters, we and during all the period of their dynasty, they made think he must have been their inventor. For it is not war upon the Egyptians in hope of exterminating the supposable that letters would not have been used bewhole race. All this nation was styled Hycsos, that fore, had they been known. We must therefore conis, the Shepherd Kings; for the first syllable Hic, ac- clude, from the tenor of all the evidence before us, that cording to the sacred dialect, denotes a king, and Sos letters were invented by Pathrusim, the grandson of signifies a shepherd, but this according to the vulgar Ham; and that mankind are indebted to Egypt for this tongue; and of these is compounded the term Hycsos: invaluable blessing. The idea that letters must have say they were Arabians. This people, who were been known before the Deluge, because there are certhus denominated Shepherd Kings, and their descend- tain short Ante-diluvian annals, finds a ready confutaants, retained possession of of Egypt for the space of five tion in the fact of the great age of the Ante-diluvians, hundred and eleven years. by which means the history of those times could be "After these things he relates that the kings of The- transmitted orally from the father to the son, by passbais of the other parts of Egypt made an insurrec-ing through very few hands; also in the fact, that ansation n against the Shepherds, and that a long and mighty mals can be preserved by symbols and hieroglyphics. war was carried on between them, till the Shepherds were subdued by a king whose name was Alisphragmuthosis, and were by him driven out of the rest of Egypt, and hemmed within a place containing ten thousand acres, which was called Avaris. All this tract (says Manetho) the Shepherds surrounded with a vast and strong wall, that they might retain all their possessions and their prey within a hold of strength. 1 some "And Thummosis, the son of Alisphragmuthosis, endeavoured to force them by a siege, and beleaguered the face with a body of four hundred and eighty thousand men; but at the moment when he despaired of reducing them by siege, they agreed to a capítulation, that they would leave Egypt, and should be permitted to go out without molestation wheresoever they pleased. And according to this stipulation, they departed from *Egypt with all their families and effects, in number not less than two hundred and forty thousand, and bent their way through the desert towards Syria. But as they stood in fear of the Assyrians, who had then dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judæa, of sufficient size to contain this multitude of men, and named it Jerusalem. "(In another book of the Egyptian histories Manetho says) That this people, who are here called Shepherds, in the sacred books were also styled Captives." Much curious speculation has been employed with regard to the invention of letters, both as to their author and the period of their invention. Many have supposed the Egyptians to have been the first nation that used them, and Thyoth of Pathrusim to have been their inventor. Others have supposed them to have been invented prior to the Deluge, and to have been EXPLANATION OF WORDS AND PHRASES, &c. AFFETUOSO. Lat.-" Musical term." Tenderly. AFFIRMATIM. Lat." In the affirmative." AFFLAVIT DEUS, ET DISSIPANTUR. Lat.-"God has sent forth his breath, and they are dispersed." This was the inscription on the medal struck by Elizabeth, on the dispersion of the Spanish Armada. A FIN. Fr. (pron. ah feeng.)-" To the end." A FORTIORI. Lat." With stronger reason." AGATE. "A precious stone composed of various substances, as chalcedony, cornelian, jasper, hornstone, quartz, &c. ;" a very small sized printer's type. GRANDE FRAIS. French phrase. (pron. Ah gron fra.) -"At great expense."-Sumptuously... AIDE-TOI, LE CIEL T'AIDERA. French. (pron. Ade-twa, le ceel taderah.) Fontaine.-"Help yourself, and Heaven will help you."-Depend rather on your own exertions than your prayers, se A A LA BONNE HEURE. Fr. (pron. Ah la bon eur.)—" timed. ALERE FLAMMAM. Lat.-"To feed the flame."-To increase the tendency. MYTHOLOGY. transmitted by Noah to his posterity. We think it a gend untere adr M 16 siderable evidence. Pliny, while he attributes their "Cupid was the son of Venus, and the emblem origin to another source, acknowledges that others as-of love. He was generally painted as a beautiful winged boy, with a bow and arrows, and very often | with a bandage over his eyes. Ancient statues sometimes represent him bestriding the back of a lion, and playing on a lyre, whilst the fierce savage, turning his head, seems to listen to its harmonious chords. "Sometimes he appears mounted on a dolphin; and sometimes he is represented as breaking the winged thunderbolt of Jove. His wife was Psyche-a Greek word, signifying spirit, or soul."/ Although Cupid is stated in the preceding description to have been the son of Venus, yet various writers make him the son of various parents. Plato represents him to be without father or mother. Hesiod says he was born of the earth before Chaos. And others say other things on this subject. The general idea, however, was, that Venus was his mother, and Mercury, or Mars, or Vulcan, his father. As he was the god of love, so he is represented as holding a certain sway over all animate nature. "I have," says Cupid in Lucian, "made myself familiar with lions themselves. I ride upon their backs; I hold their manes, and use them for bridles. They wag their tails and lick my hand in flattery of me." "The Loves" (or Cupids) says an epigram, "take the bow from Phoebus, the thunderbolt from Jupiter, the helmet and other arms from Mars, the club from Hercules, the wings of his feet from Mercury, the torch from Diana, the trident from Neptune, and the thyrsus from Bacchus." THEMIS, ASTRÆA, NEMESIS, * Are three goddesses, who contrive and consult together on affairs of great moment. "Themis, the first of them, is the daughter of Calum and Terra. According to the signification of her name, her office is to instruct mankind to do things honest, just, and right. Therefore her images were brought and placed before those who were about to speak to the people, that they might be admonished thereby to say nothing in public but what was just and righteous. Some say she spoke oracles at Delphi, before Apollo; though Homer says, that she served Apollo with nectar and ambrosia. There was another Themis, of whom Jusuce, Law, and Peace, are said to be born. Hesiod, by way of eminence, calls her modest, because she was ashamed to say any thing against that which was done in right and equity. Eusebius calls her Carmenta; because by her verse and precepts she directs every one to that which is just. But here he means a different Carmenta, who was the mother of Evander, otherwise called Themis Nicostrata, a prophetical lady. She was worshipped by the Romans, because she prophesied ; and was called Carmenta, either from the verse in which she uttered her predictions, or from the madness which seemed to possess her when she prophesied. To this lady an altar was dedicated near the gate Carmentalis, by the Capitol; and a temple was also built to her honour on this occasion: When the senate forbade the married women the use of litters or sedans, they combined together, and resolved that they would never have children, unless their husbands rescinded that edict: they kept to this agreement with so much resolution, that the senate was obliged to change its sentence, and yield to the women's will, and allow them all sedans and chariots again. And when their wives conceived and brought forth fine children, they erected a temple in honour of Carmenta. Astræa, the daughter of Aurora and Astræus the Titan (or, as others rather say, the daughter of Jupiter and Themis,) was esteemed the princess of Justice. The poets feign, that in the Golden Age she descended from heaven to the earth; and being offended at last by the wickedness of mankind, she returned to heaven again, after all the gods had gone before her. She is many times directly called by the name of Jus titia; as particularly by Virgil. And when she had returned to heaven again, she was placed where we now see the constellation Virgo. "The parents of Nemesis were Jupiter and Necessity; or, according to others, Nox and Oceanus. She was the goddess that rewarded virtue, and punished vice: and she taught men their duty, so that she received her name from the distribution that she made.. to every body. Jupiter deceived her, as the story says, in the shape of a goose; and that she brought forth an egg, which she gave to a shepherd whom she met, to be carried to Leda. Leda laid up the egg in a box, and Helena was soon after produced of that egg. But others give us quite different accounts of the matter. The Romans certainly sacrificed to this goddess when they went to war: whereby they signified that they never took up arms unless in a just cause. She is called by another name, Adrastea, from Adrastus, king of the Argives, who first built an altar to her; or, perhaps from the difficulty of escaping from her: because no guilty person can flee from the punishment due to his crime, though justice sometimes overtakes him late. She has indeed wings, but does not always use them; but then the slower her foot is, the harder is her hand: " Vengeance divine to punish sin moves slow. The slower is its pace, the surer is its blow. "Rhamnusia is another name of this goddess, from Rhamnus, a town in Attica, where she had a temple, in which there was a statue of her made of one stone, ten cubits high: she held the bough of an apple-tree many images of deer were engraven. She had also a in her hand, and had a crown upon her head, in which wheel, which denoted her swiftness when she avenges." ÆOLUS. He was a "Eolus was the 'god of the winds,' the son of Jupiter and Acesta or Segesta, the daughter of HippoHe dwelt tas, from whom he is named Hippotades. in one of those seven islands which from him are called Æoliæ, and sometimes Vulcaniæ. skilful astronomer, and an excellent natural philosopher; he understood more particularly the nature of the winds; and, by observing the clouds of smoke of the Æolian islands, he was enabled to foretel winds and tempests before they arose; and it was generally believed they were under his power, so that he could raise the winds, or still them as he pleased. Hence he was styled emperor and king of the Winds, the children of Astræus and Aurora. His children were Boreas, the north wind; Auster, the south; Eurus, the east; and Zephyrus the west. Virgil describes Juno coming to him at his palace, as follows: Thus raged the goddess, and with fury fraught, Would sweep the world before them in their way: In fear of this, the father of the gods To loose their fetters, or their force allay. MOMUS. The name of the god Momus is derived from the Greek, signifying a jester, mocker, or mimic; for that is his business. He follows no particular employment, but lives an idle life, yet nicely observes the actions and sayings of the other gods, and when he finds them |