a strong sea port, and the richest town of Provence, in France. Here is a good harbour, where the French galleys are stationed; for it will not admit large men of war. Before the revolution 4500 vessels entered the harbour every year. The entrance, which is extremely narrow and surrounded by lofty mountains, protects and shelters vessels during the most violent storms. The port itself forms a delightful walk, even in the middle of winter, as it is open to the southern sun, and crowded with vast numbers of people, not only of all the European nations, but of Turks, Greeks, and natives of the coast of Barbary. The whole scene is one of the most agreeable that can be imagined, if the chains of the galley slaves heard among the hum of business did not tincture it with the hateful idea of slavery. The gallicys themselves rot in their respective stations: and it is said that no others will ever be constructed to supply their place, as they have long ceased to be of any utility to the state. Marseilles pretends to the most remote antiquity; a colony of Phocians, in ages unknown, having given it birth. It is divided into the Old Town and the New; which are separated by a street, bordered with trees on each side. The Old Town is one of the worst built of any in Europe. The New has sprung up since the commencement of the 18th century, and has all that regularity, elegance, and convenience, which distinguish the present times. It is said to contain 100,000 inhabitants, and is one of the most trading towns in France. Without the walls is the castle of Notre-Dame, which is very well fortified. It is a bishop's see, and there is a French academy; it having been noted at all times for men of learning. There is also a cabinet of natural history. In 1665, Louis XIV. built the citadel and Fort St John to keep the inhabitants in awe, because they pretended to be free. The Jesuits had a very fine observatory here; and in the arsenal, built not long ago, there are arms for 40,000 men. In the House of Discipline they weave gold, silver, and silk brocades. The drugs are brought thither from all parts of the world. It is seated on the north shore of the Mediterranean, in E. Long. 5. 22. N. Lat. 43. 18. The surrounding country is rocky and barren, but covered for several miles on all sides with villas and summer houses, which commerce has erected.

MARSII, Narcissus, a learned Irish prelate, was born at Hamington in Wiltshire in 1638. He was made principal of St Alban's hall, Oxford, in 1673, but removed to the provostship of Dublin college in 1678, promoted to the bishopric of Leighlin and Ferns in 1682, translated to the archbishopric of Cashel in 1692, to Dublin in 1694, and to Armagh in 1703. While he held the see of Dublin, he built a noble library for the use of the public, filled it with choice books, and settled a provision for two librarians. He repaired, at his own expense, several decayed churches, besides buying in and restoring many impropriations, and presenting a great number of oriental MSS. to the Bodleian library. He was a very learned and accomplished man; was well versed in sacred and profane literature, in mathematics, natural philosophy, the learned languages, especially the oriental, and in both the theory and practice of music. He published, 1. Institutiones logicae. Manuductio ad logicam, written by Philip de Trieu; to which he added the Greek text of Aristotle and some tables and schemes. 3. An introductory essay on the doctrine of sounds, &c. He died in 1713.