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“ permit it. I wifti to glide on a tranquil ftream; but
“ I am hurried along by a torrent.”
Manjt proofs occur in hiftory of the little intercourfe
between nations during the middle ages. Towards the
clofe of the tenth century, Count Bouchard intending to
found a monaflery at St. Maur des Foifes near Paris, ap¬
plied to an Abbot of Clugny in Burgundy famous for his
fanttity, intreating him to conduit the monks thither.
The language in which he addrefifed that holy man is lin¬
gular : he tells him that he had undertaken the labour of
fuch a great journey ; that he was fatigued with the
length of it, therefore hoped to obtain his requeft, and
that his journey into fuch a diflant country Ihould not be
in vain. The anfwer of the abbot is Bill more extra¬
ordinary : he refufed to comply with his delire, as
would be extremely fatiguing to go along with him ' -C
a lirange and unknown region. Vita Burchardi "• <nto
bilis comitis ap. Bouquet Rec. des Hill. vol. y venera-
Even fo late as the beginning of the twelfth *• P- 3SI*
monks of Ferrieres in the diocefe of Sens century, the
that there was fuch a city as Tournay ^ not know
the monks of St. Martin of Tournay <n Flanders > and
quainted with the lituation of Fer . Were equally unac-
in which they were both concer r,eres. A tranfadlion
them to have fome iotercourr ‘le„.rnac*e *t necelTary for
both monalieries prompted e' ^ le n,utual intereft of
of the other. After a 1 , ,t0 find out the fixation
deferibed, the djfcove ^ fearc'1’ ,whieh is particularly
mannus Abba's de F ? WaS made by accident. Heri-
ap. Dacher. ^pic, ‘eftauratione St. Martini Tornacenfis
the middle, . r''.,™ ',X“aP' 1°°; The 'Suorance of
phy of rem.- , " WUl‘ the fituation and geogra-
moft -r Jte countnes "'as Bill more remarkable. The
a «'or “Z* fgraphical chart which now remains as
t!’e °f 'e ',atejofthat feence in Europe during
Mi d ® as®s’ 15 r°und in a manufeript of the Chro-
. ,ue de St. Denys. There the three parts of the earth
nen known are fo reprefented, that Jerufalem is placed
■n the middle of the globe, and Alexandria appears to
be as near to it as Nazareth. Mem. de 1’Acad. des Belles
Lettr^s, tom. xv,. p. lis. There feems t0 have bee[i
no