But in such Authors, what is good more than atones for what is not so, and 'tis only where a Writer shews a Defect in Will as well as Judgement, that he renders himself blame-worthy, especially in History. Several of these Blunders are collected by _Marville_ in his _Melange_, &c. 'Tis remark'd of _Pliny_, that in translating _Democritus_, he says, the Camelion is like a Crocodile, and altogether as big--The _Crocodalos_ of _Democritus_ is in the _Jonick_ Dialect, a _Lizard_, which may be about some ten thousand Times less than a Crocodile, and yet a great many Times bigger than a _Camelion_. _Eutychius_ speaking of _Eusebius_ of _Cesarea_, sirnamed _Pamphilus_, calls him _Eusebius_, Bishop of the City of _Phili_. _Quintus Curtius_ mistakes _Arabia Fælix_ for _Arabia Deserta_. He confounds the _Euxine_ with the _Caspian_ Sea, and makes the Rivers _Tygris_ and _Euphrates_ run through _Media_, which they never enter'd. Mr. _Simon_, in his critical History, takes _Suna_ and _Fratela_, two Officers of the _Gothick_ Army, for two _German_ Ladies. The Life of _Charlemagne_, written by _Acciaioli_, having been often joyn'd with _Plutarch_'s Lives, was published by _Vicellius_ as written by _Plutarch_, who liv'd 6 or 700 Years before _Charlemagne_. _Gerard Vossius_ affirms, that the Society of the _Sorbonne_ was instituted by _Robert_, Brother of _S. Lewis_ King of _France_, instead of _Robert_ sirnamed _Sorbonne_ from the Place of his Nativity. _Pallavicini_ in his History of the Council of _Trent_, says _Lansac_, the _French_ Ambassador, was Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, which was not instituted till twenty Years after; but what has particular Relation to us _Englishmen_ is the Charge against _Dodwel_: _Dodowel dans ses Dissertations sur Saint Cyprien prend la Ville d'Olympe pour une Olympiade,_ takes the City _Olympus_ for an _Olympiade_, the Name of the Place where, for the Date of the Year when it was done, which is Matter of much Humiliation to all such as believe it impossible for so learned and orthodox a Man to commit so great an Oversight; and plainly proves to us, that those who write of what past 1000 or 2000 Years ago, are as likely to err, as those who write of what past three or fourscore Years ago. Whoever has a Curiosity to see more of the _Blunderings_, which the most learned are charg'd with, such as the _Port Royal_, _Baronius_, _Vasquez_, _Du Cange_, _Varillas_, _L'Abbé_, &c. may have full Satisfaction in _Marville_'s _Melange_, _p. 208. & seq._ taken from a Book written by _Boileau_'s Uncle, entituled, _Colloquium Criticum de Sphalmætis viromum in re literaria illustrium_. Of what Size would the Book be, if we should examine with the same Exactness, _Nalson_, _Heylin_, _Wharton_, _Collier_, _Dugdale_, _Brady_, the _Grand Rebellion_, the _Histories_, _&c._ And collect and publish the Errours, both of the Will and the Judgement. Nor are these Names by any Means more illustrious, than those we meet with in the _Colloquium_.