ecades quinque addit Ierne[s].
Quingentis quadragenis socialis adauget
Millia Belga[t] novem.
Ter sex centurias Hollandia jactat opima.
Undecimum Camber vult septem millibus addi.

[a] To the above lines, (which are unfinished, and can, therefore, be
only offered as a fragment,) in the doctor's manuscript, are
prefixed the words "Geographia Metrica." As we are referred, in the
first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the
numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has
been, accordingly, consulted, the title of which is, a new Survey of
the Globe; and which professes to give an accurate mensuration of
all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the
square miles that they respectively contain. On comparison of the
several numbers in these verses, with those set down by Templeman,
it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest
are not quite so exactly done.--For the convenience of the reader,
it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in
Templeman's works, to that in Dr. Johnson's verses which refers to
it.
[b] In this first article that is versified, there is an accurate
conformity in Dr. Johnson's number to Templeman's; who sets down the
square miles of Palestine at 7,600.
[c] The square miles of Egypt are, in Templeman, 140,700.
[d] The whole Turkish empire, in Templeman, is computed at 960,057
square miles.
[e] In the four following articles, the numbers in Templeman and in
Johnson's verses are alike.--We find, accordingly, the Morea, in
Templeman, to be set down at 7,220 square miles.--Arabia, at
700,000.--Persia, at 800,000.--and Naples, at 22,000.
[f] Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400.
[g] The pope's dominions, at 14,868.
[h] Tuscany, at 6,640.
[i] Genoa, in Templeman, as in Johnson likewise, is set down at 2,400.
[j] Lucca, at 286.
[k] The Russian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is set down at
3,303,485 square miles.
[l] Sardinia, in Templeman, as likewise in Johnson, 6,600.
[m] The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in square miles, at
30,666,806 square miles.
[n] Asia, at 10,257,487.
[o] Africa, at 8,506,208.
[p] Europe, at 2,749,349.
[q] The British dominions, at 105,634.
[r] England, as likewise in Johnson's expression of the number, at
49,450.
[s] Ireland, at 27,457.
[t] In the three remaini