incident which occurred to the party whilst they occupied this Rhætian station. Through the whole of the immense tracts which they had traversed, they had met with no inhabitants, and they now concluded themselves quite past the confines of the peopled world. However, to their very great surprise, before they had seen the moon once pass through all her variations in their new abode, they were visited by a party of strangers of rather a reserved and sullen aspect. The Kithriss people had, however, recourse to that which they esteemed a specific for all evils, and moroseness amongst the rest. The little infant lyrists were immediately set to attack the strangers with the most divine airs; and the good nature and affability which was manifest in the musical tribe contributed to soften down the sterner party, and soon to produce that cordiality between them which it was desirable to establish. The adventurers from the East communicated to the strangers the nature of their lives; and the circumstances which had conduced to their migration; all with unreserved candour; and in return they were intrusted with the history of their visitors. They stated themselves to be members of a small nation, dwelling at a distance towards Kum-Naht (the Vale of Night); their notion being, that night was occasioned by the sun descending into a deep valley. Their little colony lived, they said, at no great journey from the place they then were,upon the border of another fine river which came from some impassable, mountains, and went off in a different course from the Kithrister river, near the source of which they then were. Having, as they stated, heard new sounds in the air, they became disturbed at home, fearing that they might have approached too near the habitations of immortal Woden (the Deity they served). They however were much delighted with the dulcet murmur which floated over their dwelling; and were, at length, encouraged to trace the sounds, if possible, to their source. Having thus succeeded in discovering the cause of the novelty, they expressed themselves wonderfully gratified. Notwithstanding, however, the urbanity that manifested itself on both sides, still a latent jealousy seemed to be visible in the strangers, which before they departed was still more evident by their often retiring to consult privately; and when they were just about to leave, the Kithriss people asked if they had any thing to request; upon which, one signified, that it would be better to reside at a greater distance. It ought to be said, that these visitors were from a detached colony of Celts, who had traversed Gualle, or Gaul, towards the East, until they came to the Rhenus, or Rhine, where they had been seated but a few years. What they described as the extremity of the world, seems, therefore, to have been the Western coast of France. As the lyrists were very much delighted with their new abode, what had been suggested by the other party tended very much to disconcert them at first; but rather than have any squabbling, they resolved upon setting forth again in pursuit of some further abode; prudently, however, making inquiry of the Celtic deputation regarding the country, and how it was occupied. They were all averse to a retrograde movement; and being informed that, towards the North, all the whole was free, and that the noble river upon which the Celts had stationed themselves would, if pursued far enough, conduct them to some eligible abodes, they determined that their further emigration should be in that direction. After having struck camp, it was agreed to accept an invitation, civilly made by the Celts, to pass through the country in which their little fraternity was settled; and this was consequently the first movement. The astonishment of the Celtic females and children at the dexterity of the infants of the other party, on their musical instruments, and the pleasure it gave the lyrists to be thus able to requite considerable favours which were contributed towards facilitating their future progress, are things easy to be imagined; and thus loaded with ample supplies, the Reader will have the goodness to conceive them cheerfully descending the borders of the Rhine. It need scarcely to be observed either, to the intelligent Reader, that in these early migrations it was customary to pursue the course of some considerable stream, which supplying one of the most indispensable articles of existence, compensated for any of the inconveniences to which the route would be otherwise liable. The emigrants having after a persevering march, reached and traversed a considerable extent of the Belgic coast, as they are arriving towards a part of the world more immediately interesting to Britons, it is hoped that the patience of the Reader will find itself a little recruited with what is now about to be disclosed. Not finding the flat and swampy districts of Belgium capable of affording a seat sufficiently romantic, they continued to rove on towards the south-west, along or near the coast, until they found themselves, much to their astonishment, between two immense seas. The seas which they had formerly seen in the East were tranquil, and small in comparison to those which seemed frightfully contending as they dashed one on their right hand, the other on their left. But what added still more to their amazement concerning this novel and perplexing spectacle was the alternation of fury from side to side-tossing, beating, and swelling as if it would overwhelm them from the north; and when that seemed to have subsided, a no less terrific perturbation commencing on the south-each side alternately presenting a deep precipitate gulph, or a fearful and furious deluge. The earth beneath their feet, however, appeared firm. In this extremity, and debating whether to further proceed or to retreat, on surveying the prospect before them, they distinctly descried wider tracts of elevated country. This was quite sufficient to stimulate them to examine whether so remote a world could be a human habitation. The desire to reach the stupendous summits before them was eager, and soon accomplished The reader will already have conjectured that the eminence upon which these inoffensive strollers had now seated

an isthmus by which this island communicated with the continent: but philosophers have strongly suspected, not only that England and France were thus united, but that they were once cemented by a stronger contact, the stratification of their respective cliffs indicating that they have sometime formed one entire rock. I shall now recount a few of the early incidents which occurred to our adventurers upon their arrival in Britain. The naturally roving disposition of these people would not suffer them to remain stationary whilst so novel a scene presented itself before them: and though they were beyond measure elated at what they already saw, still that beyond, which had not been seen, was contemplated with an energy, which a spirit of research can only experience. They perceived themselves upon the borders of another Arcadia; and seeing the luxuriant fictions of poetry surpassed by real sylvan grandeur, they laughed heartily to think of Pan and his oaken groves, and wondered he did not remove his court to a region so superior. Curiosity soon set them into motion, and before much time elapsed they fell in with a party of the native people. The Druidical classes were at first seriously enraged at the intrusion; but when they found their numbers not great-that they were so docile and submissiveand withal, so competent to afford the mind a new species of rapture, instead of expelling the lyrical rovers, they treated them as acceptable guests, and soon began to introduce music at festival ceremonies. The minstrels being in all respects so conformable to the rites and customs of these rigid sects, a most desirable unanimity was established; and the wanderers resolved never more to quit a country which offered them so delightful an asylum. The Aborigines, upon being informed of the route they had pursued, and of the isthmus which conducted them into their territories, as they had no idea of such a communication, felt considerable alarm and no time was lost in taking such measures of defence, as might secure them from further encroachment. It was now, for the first time, discovered, by what way so many wolves, boars, and other beasts of prey, infested them constantly from the south-east; and it became certain, from traces which were apparent, that they prowled across this neck of land. The opinion of those appointed to fortify from irruptions of all kinds, was, that to destroy the isthmus altogether would be best. The project received the sanction of the supreme council, and preparations for effecting it were immediately commenced. In the course of a few years, by dint of persevering labour, the bridge was so far weakened as to totter between the violent force continually rushing, first on one side, and then on the other; thus it became dangerous for human means to be farther applied, and it was resigned to the contending power of these opponent fluctuations to effect the complete insulation of Britain. The monstrous barrier at length, unable to withstand the front and rear attack perpetually maintained by rival oceans, crashed; and to its adamantine core perplexed the rifted earth; whilst stupendous cliffs, on either side, down pealing midst pelagian thunder out-thundering the storm of Heaven's artillery, waging its direct horrors, shattered and crumbled into nothing, sink!---Words oft-times stifle, oft-times aid the mind; and well is it to ascertain whether your subject overpoise description. Imagination ranging shades profound to borrow from the terribly sublime, can never paint the madly-violent vehemence which the embattling elements on one another wreak. To tell of mountains buried; mountains born---of rocks uprooted here; transplanted there---of forests overturned, and deep ingulphed---of seas transformed to lands---of lands to seas---of strange encroachments---awful annihilations---these, and much more, would a relation tame and puny be---a gentle tale indeed of what is done; but, to display the frightful action of the mighty engines working such prodigies, is not a human task. -The inhabitants designated the straight they had thus opened Sel-Bruh, in the Sythic signifying Great Breach. A fort also which they erected upon the mountain, they called Dunc-Bruh-Tre (literally Mountain-Breach-Fort): and hence may be evidently traced the etymology of Dubris, the ancient name of Dover, and Bruh-Tre, of Britain. The philosopher in his contemplations of the geological phenomena of the several coasts affected by this very extraordinary disruption and cataract, both upon the North-sea and British channel, but particularly those of the southern coast of Britain, which happened, from its aspect, to be most exposed to the brunt of the licentious waters, will perceive, at every. point, such visible testimonies of these mighty doings as will no doubt assure him of the veracity of those documents whence the foregoing particulars have been extracted. These geological phenomena, indeed, seem to erect themselves as monuments, speaking forcibly to posterity, concerning what has been here related of Sel-Bruh, now the Strait of Dover; as do the present features of Livadia vouch for the story of that desolating inundation which in the days of our father Ogyges, when first the floodgate of the Euxine was unbarred, rushed with spumid fury, whelming Boeotia's hills; or, as those legible indications which Ossa and Olympus yet present, throughout their boundless views, of that tremendous all-devouring flood which the Thermeian Lake, bursting its confines, whirled with Charybdian force athwart Deucalion's Land!---The Kithrisses were, as already said, peculiar for their innate gentleness and urbanity; and although he is not himself a beauty, the stock from which your author descended, have ever been remarkable for this perfection of nature. The amiable soul of a Kithriss maid was outwardly expressed by a very rare, though not formal precision of feature, except that the eye, if at all out of exact proportion, was rather large than small; was, though it swam in liquid fire, mild---two brilliant gems in sable crescents set; their hue, a middle tint 'twixt jet and amber; their flashes indicating ardency of soul that in a moment melts; diffusing heat and melting other souls: lips, with

delicious ruddy sweetness charged; in curves so beautiful contained; so well defined; enlivened with such artless simpers; so sweetly pouting; and then, the even, delicate, white teeth within, contrasting with such lips, through which a grateful and inspiring fragrance, softly breathed! Complexion, neither pale nor red; neither of a waxy cast nor tawny brown; but somewhat of all these partaking, worked up to beauteous with a healthy glow, whose every tuberance and concave trait blended harmoniously. The hair, a glossy brown of darkish shade, round the smooth forehead and about the neck dangled in tendrils loose, that love-snares seemed; in which the hampered heart fluttered, and panted like a lured bird looped in the wily springe. Of those luxurious hemispheres whereon bewitching sprites seducing dally, better not say much, but merely, as they heave and shrink by turns, alliance with the cheek of warm desire, they innocently seem to sue---for other points; foot, ancle, leg, &c. a finely polished arm, of perfect mould, sleeveless displayed, vouched every thing; and of all hidden charms the full perfection pledged. Thus was each Kithriss maid, whose every gesture was an air divine, a very Sappho, save that each was chaste !---The British youth were also remarkable for a warmth of heart, without that impetuosity which distinguishes the natives of lower latitudes; they were nevertheless rugged and uncourteous by nature: but the tempting loveliness which had been brought amongst them, stirred within them the innate gallantry that had been before half dormant---national prejudices were soon obliged to give way, and an incorporation of the two distinct societies was happily promoted. In consequence of this union the stern manners of the original Briton were softened down to the genteel affability and generosity of disposition which, in these times, characterise all true born natives of the island.- -The time had now arrived when the population of the East had greatly increased, and nations began to be jealous of each other. Expedition after expedition was contemplated, and as Greece seemed disposed to embroil herself in hostilities, it was not difficult to augur that she must ultimately become the theatre of war. The Kithriss government beginning to experience these serious apprehensions, resolved to secure, if possible, their literary treasures.. They had been informed of the comfortable asylum which Britain afforded to their brethren: and upon envoys being sent to consult them concerning some securer settlement, the Britons, being so truly partial to their lyrists, and probably anticipating a still further supply of that transcendent beauty and suavity which had produced so much delight and happiness among them, it was generously proposed that all the genuine families should retire hither. The proposal was gratefully accepted, and the plan for carrying it into effect concerted. The chief difficulty was the removing to so great a distance the two chests before mentioned; with much labour they conveyed them to Kithrister upon sledges. It was now determined to try rafts, and accordingly two suitable pieces of frame work of this description were constructed, which could be occasionally accommodated with wheels, so as to be used either upon water, or where it better suited, upon land. The rafts being launched, and found to answer exceedingly well, and all other arrangements being now completed, the whole party, some on one side of the Danube and some on the other, set off, playing the most inspiring and merry airs, as was usual with them upon such occasions. The journey was performed by the same route which was described in the account of the preceding emigration, and omitting all intermediate detail, let it suffice to say that they arrived safe on the coast of Belgium. Having announced their arrival by the proposed signal, their relations on the opposite shore soon answered it. Since that period the channel has very much increased in width from the constant force and velocity of the tides, being then at low water not much wider than an ordinary river. The expedient for crossing had been previously prepared by the British colonists, and which proved very ingenious as well as safe. From the center of a square raft of sufficient dimensions was elevated an upright case somewhat similar to a watch-box, capable of holding at once three or four persons with some luggage. A rope was fastened to one corner of the raft, and another to the opposite corner, by which it was to be towed backwards and forwards: and one of the rope-ends having been shot over at low water by means of a cross-bow, the transportation of the guests commenced; and the operations were repeated until the whole party, with their property, was safely imported into the secure depository of the British isle. The incorporation of the Kithriss families with the Aboriginal Britons was thus completely established. In Britain there had always been a certain absolute power vested in one sovereign ruler, who was chosen out of the most exemplary of the Elders, and who was denominated a King; yet there was seldom occasion for the exercise of regal power beyond parental authority: for every household was regulated by such strict moral discipline, and such a conscientious regard to individual duty was inculcated from infancy, that criminal dereliction was almost unknown. To signalise and reward merit of every kind, whether peacefully exercised in science and literature, or industriously employed in the more corporal concerns of life, was one of the chief subjects that engaged the attention of royalty. It was in the liberal administration of this prerogative, that one of the ancient Brachms was installed, "Windex of Truth and Reason," an order of nobility altogether civil; but which, the world having been so metamorphosed by warfare, has been entirely abolished, and a military distinction called Knighthood substituted. It appears that Belinge, one of the very primitive elders elected to the royal dignity, first instituted the honourable order of "Windex," which I humbly conceive is the same as Vindex; and if so, it is no small

the initial W, in spite of the caprice of fashion, is constantly used for V, and vice versa. As the installation of your oracular Mufti will be accounted for in a subsequent part of the memoir, he has only to notice here, that it is not an hereditary honor; as most of those high distinctions enjoyed by his predecessors are obsolete, or converted by fashion into some more modern and chivalric orders. It may be satisfactory to some readers to be informed, that the worthy and well-beloved Monarch Belinge, just before mentioned, had a most delightful palace and domain upon the northern bank of the Thames, contiguous to that site which has been since converted into a Fish-quay, still, however, preserving the memory of its ancient possessor in its name Belinge's gate, or Billingsgate. It is not impossible but some wits may be inclined to sport a pun, by observing, that as the Gate is gone, and only the Key remaining, it ought to be called Belinge's Key. The illustrious character of Britain was now published to the world, and every enterprizing nation was endeavouring to obtain possession of it; yet neither the tribulations which it was destined, from time to time, to undergo, nor the imposition of foreign yokes, were able to extinguish or vitiate its native magnanimity.---Those particulars which connected themselves with this part of the narrative having now been concluded, it will be proper to come to the inferences which more directly concern the object of the memoir. Instead of quoting the manifold documents, which establish the origin and importance of the Kithriss descent, it will, perhaps, be the shortest and most satisfactory proof to come at once to etymological testimony. In the country of the Wolds in Gloucestershire, your vaticinian friend has still a maternal uncle living, who, though but an humble and obscure hind, is much regarded by his peasant neighbours for his extraordinary proficiency in occult lore. In him, a natural predilection for philosophy was never forced by cultivation; and yet his marvellous talents exceed almost every instance of human sagacity, that any age has produced by all the arts of tuition, and intercourse with the world. The opinions and predictions of this my honest uncle will be frequently cited in this Annual Monitor; but he is only introduced here as a rustic oracle of the Kithriss extraction, and whose name, which is Delfo Kithriss (commonly known in his own neighbourhood as the "Soph of the Wolds") will be useful to those conclusions towards which it becomes necessary to speedily hasten. Another observation, worthy of attention is, that among the females of the Kithriss line, the name of Phoebe appears to have been preserved with an almost superstitious veneration, as the "generation rolls" sufficiently testify. Now these few signal points duly considered with respect to their interpretations, will furnish such genuine evidence as the most incredulous and contumacious will scarcely dare to impugn. First then, does not Kithriss manifestly emanate from KIOPIZ, to play on the harp: Delfo too, esteemed by these select people as almost sacred, has, through a succession of generations of more than ordinary length, descended to this day in many of the genuine families, besides that of my uncle, the Soph, before mentioned; and can it, for a moment, be disputed, that it is from AEA OZ. And lastly, Phoebe we have from OIBOX, or more immediately, perhaps, a derivative of OIBIZA, to divine, or foretell. Hence then, as all these names are characteristic of Apollo, your author cannot hesitate to submit, that the line of his maternal consanguinity is directly and immediately from this illustrious source; an origin which many families would no doubt rate, not only very high, but moreover very splendid. But however much your most respectful Sir W. L. B. may secretly esteem such an honourable propinquity, to brag of a glorious parentage, when we can exhibit ourselves only as a degenerate offspring is, in his opinion, ignoble and worthy only of contempt. It is not impossible, but some may be so cynically disposed as to jeer at what they may please to term divine extraction; and be even so base as to consider the Kithriss progeny a spurious offspring. But such notions can only prevail with those minds which have been perverted by Pagan fable, the absurdities of which are here disclaimed, though it vouches for the positive pre-eminence of our maternal ancestry; and is thus calculated to confirm rather than cast a shadow upon the authenticity of this memoir. The reverential duty which induced Delphus to erect the celebrated Temple of Delphi in honour of his transcendent parent are well known to every classical reader, and the celebrity and veneration which that extraordinary structure obtained throughout the world, in consequence of the famous oracles therein delivered, are no less notorious:---thus far I say is well known.---But how few are they who suppose that the originals of those eminent oracles are still preserved, and in the safe possession of your fatidical preceptor. Those metallic archives imported into Britain by the Boeotian colony, it will be now plainly seen, are the depository in which the celebrated oracles are contained; and not only the dictates received at Delphi, but also those delivered at Delos, Tenedos, Lycia, &c. at least all such as concern the world generally, and which are expressly denominated as before shown, "Mundane Scripts !"---Having thus unreservedly shown his claim to an uninterrupted paternal descent from Adam---also, of a no less genuine maternal extraction from Apollo, Sir W. L. B. considers that these must be sufficient to establish implicit confidence in his predictions and admonitions.-This justly celebrated Island was transferred from one despotic dynasty to another, until the native tribes, disgusted and unable to repel their numerous oppressors, courted, for the most part, the obscurest solitudes. Thus, the southern, and south-eastern districts being most exposed to the rapacity of foreign adventurers, were in time totally alienated by the original inhabitants, as well as all those parts of England easily accessible to invaders. Thus the sterile wilds and rugged steeps of the north, the

[A. D. Tartarean gulphs and romantic recesses of the west, received the abused outcasts.Fidelity being the paramount duty of every historian, your author, impressed with this opinion, is compelled to point out a distinction which, if not made, might lead to very false conclusions. It has been mentioned, that the ancient natives were compelled to retire into solitudes for the sake of better protection from the hostile foreigners, by whom they were vastly outnumbered. It has been also said, that some proceeded to the holds of the north, and others to those of the west. Now it is certainly due to both, to remark, that those who formed the northern cohorts had not previously had any sort of fellowship or cohabitation with those who formed the western. Although they had both occupied parts of Britain, they were as distinct from one another as are the natives of Greenland and China.--The western tribes had formerly lived in that part of the country now called Cornwall, being miners who originally came from Tyre or Sidon, or thereabouts, to send home stannum and plumbum, with which that district of England abounds. These people all called themselves Bracca Gualles, or Gwales; and, until some of the straggling Kithrisses, in their summer rambles, convinced them to the contrary, they imagined themselves the sole masters of the Island. All languages were at this time so similar that there was no difficulty in the people of one country conversing with the people of any other; and as the Kithrisses had known Phoenicians before, they very soon discovered of what country they were. The legitimate authorities, however, signified to them that they must either quit the country altogether, or keep within certain limits, and conform to certain laws prescribed to them.-A sort of worldly-minded prudence caused them to chuse the latter alternative. Hence they were permitted to remain in the country, and to carry on their trade unmolested, as there was something too high-bred, and magnanimous in the native gentry to suffer them to engage in traffic; or to envy the submissive colony the profits they were enjoying. It is understood that they called themselves Braccæ, because they invented certain vulgar articles commonly called Breeches, which they constantly wore, and which is another decisive argument that they were totally distinct from the Druids, whose costume was particularly modest and decorous and although their more seemly drapery has, through the caprice of fashion, been rejected for the sake of the less delicate articles now used, yet it is presumed that fashion will again introduce a vest similar to the Druidical indiscernibles, in which a gentleman will appear a being of as much mystery, at least, as a lady.---It can scarcely fail to have been already noticed, that the term Gwales, by which the Tyrian miners specified their race, becomes immediately by aphaeresis, Wales, the evident derivation of that name ever since applied to the western district into which the Cornish refugees resorted. As an observation of some national importance, it also ought to be remarked, that, during the ages when the country was uninfested by hostile armies, the Cornish people were sometimes gratified by visits from the strolling lyrists, whose powers on the harp so captivated their feelings that they were desirous, as they could not perform intuitively, to be instructed in the art; and, as goodwill prevailed in those times amongst all parties, the Kithrisses did teach some of them to play a little; but as far as I find they never made any great proficiency. Some of the most ingenious of them, however, contrived to make them harps, and which they carried with them into the solitudes of the west, where music became one of their chief amusements. From the dreadful proscription which was known to be desolating that part of the country towards which they supposed the Lyrists and native Britons lived-perhaps supposing it impossible for them to escape total extermination---and moreover not hearing of them, nor seeing any of them afterwards, they ventured in the course of time to declare themselves inventors of the harp; and what is still more shameful and intolerable, the inns of that province continue to hang out the harp as being the peculiar national instrument of their ancestors, which must certainly be deemed a gross violation of the law of nations!--It is true that this race had given considerable encouragement to some geniuses of a musical cast, who displayed great skill in recounting their unfortunate vicissitudes in somewhat of the ditty strain, in which kind of song they could certainly describe very naturally and beautifully whatsoever events their grandees were desirous to commemorate, These poetical historians they called Bards. With the remnant of the high-souled Aborigines remained the Apollonian minstrels, having, as before shown, blended their families and fortunes. The particular reverses and hardships to which these worthy tribes were exposed furnished deeply tragical themes; and hence, where talent existed amongst the minstrels, it had the opportunity to display itself in the most pathetic manner: thus the ballads of the minstrels far surpassed the ditties of the bards. Much is it indeed to be regretted that we have now extant so few specimens of the powers of these delightful harmonists, as no doubt every one thinks who has perused " the Lay of the last" of them, which having been most miraculously preserved, was, not a vast while ago, graciously conferred upon the world by Sir Walter Scott; bless his tuneful heart!---From the double stem of parentage have so many collateral branches spread abroad, that in almost every neighbourhood and islet of the surrounding ocean, is your Protean advocate able to discover, in these times, traces of his kindred; who, though much reduced in worldly opulence, are still esteemed for their superior skill in occult lore. Thus conducted to a point from which a clear view may be taken, the reader will be able to perceive the origin, and mark the descent, of the two courses of parentage that connected themselves in the person of