the act of transferring or removing a thing from one place to another; as we fay, the translation of a bishop's fee, a council, a seat of justice, &c.

Translation is also ufed for the verfion of a book or writing out of one language into another.

The principles of translation have been clearly and ac- curately laid down by Dr Campbell of Aberdeen in his inva- luable Preliminary Differtations to his excellent translations of the gopfels. The fundamental rules which he establishes are three: 1. That the translation should give a complete transcript of the ideas of the original. 2. That the style and manner of the original should be preferved in the translation. 3. That the translation should have all the eafe of original compoftion. The rules deducible from these general laws are explained and illustrated with much judgment and talfe, in a late Effay on the Principles of Translation, by Mr Tytler, judge-advocate of Scotland.