drawn you a rough sketch of the different parts of a map, or at least of the chief objects you will find either on globes or on charts; which I hope will serve to impress my instructions on your mind, as you will find some of the particulars I have just treated on, fully explained in Plate 1.

DIALOGUE V.

FRIDAY.

ON THE DERIVation of Words, and Geography.

Lady Mary,

I Do not mean, my good Mentoria, to prescribe the subject of your instructions; yet I was so much pleased with the derivation of the word Cambridge, I wish you could recollect any instance of the same nature.

Mentoria. I will readily comply with your request, my dear Lady Mary; and though the instances I may produce, will not, perhaps, answer so literally, their reference will be equally just to some circumstance or word in a foreign language, which expresses the sense and

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constitutes the meaning. For example: your dictionary instructs us, that the word quadrupede, which signifies a four-footed animal, is derived from the Latin, and literally means four feet. The Adelphi was called by that name, because it was built by brothers, which in Greek is expressed by the word adelphos. Virginia was discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and called so as a compliment to her, as she was never married.

Lady Louisa. I hope you will point out some more examples, as I am much pleased with those you have produced.

Ment. Philadelphia, a settlement in America, which is chiefly inhabited by Quakers, took its name from the particular tenets of that sect, which are a system of philanthropy and brotherly love; and the word Philadel phia is derived from the Greek, and means brotherly love. The Cupe of Good Hope was discovered by the French, in endeavouring to find the North-West Passage, which afforded them refreshment, and inspired them with the hope of making other useful discoveries: hence. they called it the Cape de bonne Esperancé.

Lord George. I wish you could tell the