Julin DR. BELL referred. But it seems that in his time the city was
still existing, and flourishing ("urbs locuples").

The "excidium civitatis," if the _Veneta_ of Helmold were Julin, must
have taken place, therefore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter
account was written. If Veneta was Julin, and "aquarum aestu absorpta,"
there must, I suppose, be some account of this great calamity: and as I
have seen in modern German works allusions to the drowning of the great
city, and to the ruins still visible at times under water, I hoped to
find out the _where_ of its site, and the _when_ of its destruction--as
great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without
some report of their fate.

V.
Belgravia.

_Dodsley's Poems_ (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).--THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is
informed that the first edition of Dodsley's _Collection of Poems, by
several Hands_, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A fourth volume was
added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope,
Tickell, Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous. The
four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755. The fifth and sixth were
added in 1758.

AMICUS CURIAE.

_Shunamitis Poema_ (Vol. ii., p. 326.).--The titlepage to the volume of
poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows:

"Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College,
Oxford.

'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR.

London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's
Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI."

I know not the author; but I suspect either that the title of an Oxford
man was assumed by a Cantab, who might fairly wish not to be suspected
as the author of several of the poems; or that the author, having been
rusticated at Cambridge, vide at p. 84. the ode "Ad Thomam G." (whom I
take to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred himself and his
somewhat licentious muse to Oxford.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

_Jeremy Taylor's Works_ (Vol. ii., p. 271.).--It seems desirable that an
advance should occasionally be made in _editing_, beyond the mere
verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages
cited are _applicable_ to the point in hand, and properly apprehended.
Bp. Taylor, in his _Liberty of Prophecying_, sect. vi., for instance,
seems incorrect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome, _rejected_ the
Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs are directed against