* * * * * NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. 6. In a copy of Burnet's _Telluris Theoria Sacra_ (in Latin), containing only the two first books (1 vol. 4to., Lond. 1689), there is the following entry in Bishop Jebb's hand-writing:-- "From the internal evidence, not only of additional matter in the margin of this copy, but of frequent erasures and substitutions, I was led to suppose it was the author's copy, illustrated by his own annotations and improvements. The supposition is, perhaps, sufficiently corroborated by the following extract from the _Biographia Britannica_, vol. iii. p. 18. "'It seems it was usual with Dr. Burnet, before he published any thing in Latin, to have two or three copies, and no more, printed off, which he kept by him for some time, in order to revise at leisure what he had written _currente calamo_, and sometimes, when he thought proper, to be communicated to his particular friends for their opinions, &c.' "This copy, as it does not differ from any of the editions of 1689, was certainly not one of those _proofs_. But the Doctor's habit of annotating on his own Latin books after they were printed, renders it extremely probable that this book was a preparation for a new edition. It would be well to compare it with the English translation." The nature of many of the corrections and additions (which are very numerous), evidently shows a preparation for the press. I have compared this copy with the English edition, published in the same year, and find that some of the {228}corrections were adopted; this, however, but in a few instances, while in one, to be mentioned presently, a palpable mistake, corrected in the MS. Latin notes, stands in the translation. The English version differs very materially from the Latin. The author says in his Preface:-- "This English version is the same in substance with the Latin, though I confess, 'tis not so properly a translation, as a new composition upon the same ground, there being several additional chapters in it, and several new moulded."