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would be more curious, if given exactly as it Randsin the Journal.

I hope I fliall not be thought to have publifiiedtoo much : in truth, there Rill remain in my pof-feflion many Papers which I think equally worthattention.

Mr. Gibbon’s manufcript Obfervations weremuch detailed, from the year 1754 to 1764; andhe afterwards continued to write remarks and hintson allfubjedls, in various common-place books,on detached papers, and even on cards, till a fhorttime before his death, although not fo copioufly,nor fo regularly and methodically, after his returnfrom Italy , in the year 1765. His common-placebooks are voluminous. One of the largeRhas fortitle, «c Common-place Book ; in which I propofeet to write what I find moR remarkable in myu Hifiorical Readings ; begun at Laufanne the<e 19th of March 1755.” In this he introducesa great variety of Obfervations on almoR everyfubjeâ, particularly on Hifiory.

In another Book, dated the 1 gth of January 1756,he fays, J’ai pris la réfolution de lire de fuitea tous les Clafliques Latins, les partageant fuivantçt les matières qu’ils ont traité. 1. Les Hifloriens.a 2. Les Poètes. 3. Les Orateurs ; dans laquelleet claffe je renfermerai tous les autres auteurs qui

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