show in a future communication; and this is my excuse for
trespassing so much upon your space and your readers' patience.

SAMUEL HICKSON.

St. John's Wood, Jan. 26. 1850.

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NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. 6.

In a copy of Burnet's _Telluris Theoria Sacra_ (in Latin),
containing only the two first books (1 vol. 4to., Lond. 1689), there
is the following entry in Bishop Jebb's hand-writing:--

"From the internal evidence, not only of additional matter
in the margin of this copy, but of frequent erasures and
substitutions, I was led to suppose it was the author's copy,
illustrated by his own annotations and improvements. The
supposition is, perhaps, sufficiently corroborated by the
following extract from the _Biographia Britannica_,
vol. iii. p. 18.

"'It seems it was usual with Dr. Burnet, before he published
any thing in Latin, to have two or three copies, and no more,
printed off, which he kept by him for some time, in order to
revise at leisure what he had written _currente calamo_,
and sometimes, when he thought proper, to be communicated to
his particular friends for their opinions, &c.'