There is no other printed copy of the A.-S. _Orosius_ than the very imperfect edition of Daines Barrington, which is perhaps the most striking example of incompetent editorship which could be adduced. The text was printed from a transcript of a transcript, without much pains bestowed on collation, as he tells us himself. How much it is to be lamented that the materials for a more complete edition are diminished by the disappearance of the _Lauderdale MS._, which, I believe, when Mr. Kemble wished to consult it, could not be found in the Library at Ham. Perhaps no more important illustration of the Geography of the Middle Ages exists than Alfred's very interesting description of the _Geography of Europe_, and the _Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan_; and this portion of the _Hormesta_ has received considerable attention from continental scholars, of which it appears Mr. Hampson is not aware. As long since as 1815 Erasmus Rask (to whom, after Jacob Grimm, Anglo-Saxon students are most deeply indebted) published in the _Journal of the Scandinavian Literary Society_ (ii. 106. sq.) the Anglo-Saxon Text, with a Danish translation, introduction, and notes, in which many of the errors of Barrington and Forster are pointed out and corrected. This was reprinted by Rask's son in the _Collection_ he gave of his father's _Dissertation_, in 2 vols. Copenhagen, 1834. Mr. Thorpe, in the 2nd edit. of his _Analecta_, has given "Alfred's Geography," &c., no doubt accurately printed from the Cotton MS., and has rightly explained _Apdrede_ and _Wylte_ in his Glossary, but does not mention _AEfeldan_; and Dr. Leo, in his _Sprachproben_, has given a small portion from Rask, with a few geographical notes. Dr. Ingram says: "I hope on some future occasion to publish the whole of 'Alfred's Geography,' accompanied with accurate maps."