that we meet with so beneficial an encouragement for astronomy and

all parts of the mathematics, for physic, for researches into

antiquity, for painting, sculpture, and architecture. Louis XIV.

has immortalised his name by these several foundations, and this

immortality did not cost him two hundred thousand livres a year.

I must confess that one of the things I very much wonder at is, that

as the Parliament of Great Britain have promised a reward of 20,000

pounds sterling to any person who may discover the longitude, they