poem.

I have observed already that three or four of the creatures here
described are Egyptian; the two last are notoriously so, they are
the river-horse and the crocodile, those celebrated inhabitants of
the Nile; and on these two it is that our author chiefly dwells. It
would have been expected from an author more remote from that river
than Moses, in a catalogue of creatures produced to magnify their
Creator, to have dwelt on the two largest works of his hand, viz.
the elephant and the whale. This is so natural an expectation, that
some commentators have rendered behemoth and leviathan, the elephant
and whale, though the descriptions in our author will not admit of
it; but Moses being, as we may well suppose, under an immediate
terror of the hippopotamus and crocodile, from their daily mischiefs
and ravages around him, it is very accountable why he should permit
them to take place.

44 Though the report was propagated without the least truth, it may be
sufficient ground to justify a poetical fancy's enlarging on it.

45 Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was the eighth son of the Duke of St. Albans,
who was one of the sons of King Charles the Second. He was born in
the year 1711; and, being regularly bred to the sea service, in 1731
he was appointed to the command of his majesty's ship the Ludlow
Castle; and he commanded the Prince Frederick at the attack of the
harbour of Carthagena, March 24, 1741. This young nobleman was one
of the most promising commanders in the king's service. When on the
desperate attack of the castle of Bocca Chica, at the entrance of
the said harbour, he lost his life, both his legs being first shot
off. The prose part of the inscription on his monument was the
production of Mrs. Mary Jones of Oxford; who also wrote a poem on
his death, printed in her Miscellanies, 8vo, 1752.--_R._

46 Lord Sommers procured a pension for Mr. Addison, which enabled him
to prosecute his travels.--_R._

47 The publication of his Works.

48 The invader affects the character of Charles XII. of Sweden.

49 Mrs. M----.

50 Whilst the author was writing this, he received the news of Mr.
Samuel Richardson's death, who was then printing the former part of
the poem.

51 Mrs. Montague.

52 Mrs. Montague.

53 Mrs.