ge against
Fortune, is also alluded to by Dio Chrysost. _Orat._, lxiv. Sec. 19., edit.
Emper. It will be observed that Plutarch refers the saying of Timotheus to
a single expedition; whereas Bacon multiplies it, by extending it over a
series of acts.

P. 172. "Cicero reporteth that it was then in use for senators that had
name and opinion for general wise men, as Coruncanius, Curius, Laelius,
and many others, to walk at certain hours in the Place," &c.

The passage alluded to is _De Orat._, iii. 83. The persons there named are
Sex. AElius, Manius Manilius, P. Crassus, Tib. Coruncanius, and Scipio.

P. 179. "We will begin, therefore, with this precept, according to the
ancient opinion, that the sinews of wisdom are slowness of belief, and
distrust."

The precept adverted to is the verse of Epicharmus:

"[Greek: naphe kai memnas' apistein? arthra tauta ton phrenon.]"

P. 180. "Fraus sibi in parvis fidem praestruit, ut majore emolumento
fallat."

Query, Where does this passage occur, as well as the expression "alimenta
socordiae," which Demosthenes, according to Bacon, applies to small favours.

L.

* * * * *

ERECTION OF FORTRESS AT MICHNEE AND PYLOS.

Mr. Dartnell, Surgeon of H. M. 53rd regiment, gives the following account
of the building of a fort which has lately been erected at Michnee to check
the incursions of the Momunds into the Peshawur Valley:

"There was little to be done, except to build a fort, and here the
officers had to superintend and direct the working parties which were
daily sent out.... Laborers from far and near, Cashmerees, Caboolees,
men from the Hindoo Koosh, Afreedees, Khyberees, &c., all working
together with hearty goodwill, and a sort of good-humoured rivalry....
It is only when working by contract, however, that the Cashmeree
displays his full physical powers, and it is then perfectly refreshing,
in such a physically relaxing and take-the-world-as-it-goes sort of a
country as this, to observe him.... And then to see him carry a burden!
On his head? No. On his back? Yes, but after a fashion of his own,
perfectly natural and entirely independent of basket, or receptacle of
any kind in which to place it. I have now in my garden some half-dozen
of these labourers at work, removing immense masses of clay, which are
nearly as hard as flint, and how do they manag