one of the seven fates of Greece, and of the ephori of Sparta the place of his birth, flourished about 556 years before Christ. He was accustomed to say, that there were three things very difficult: "To keep a secret; to know how best to employ our time; and to suffer injuries without murmuring." According to Pliny, it was he who caused the short sentence, Know thyself, to be written in letters of gold in the temple of Delphi. It is said that he died with joy, while embracing his son, who had been crowned at the Olympic games.

an island lying near the coast of Chili, in South America, under the 43° degree of south latitude. It is the chief of an archipelago of 40 islands, and its principal town is Castro. It rains here almost all the year, insomuch that nothing but Indian corn, or some such grain, that requires but little heat to ripen it, can ever come to perfection. They have excellent shell-fish, very good wild-fowl, hogs, sheep, and beesves. As also a great deal of honey and wax. They carry on a trade with Peru and Chili; whether they send boards of cedar, of which they have vast forests.