J.H.M. 
Bath.

Julin, the drowned City (Vol. ii., pp. 230. 282.).—­I am sorry I did not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate of Julin, which DR. BELL has been so good as to notice.  This is partly the printer’s fault.  I spoke of the drowned, not the doomed city.

The drowning was what I desired some account of.  “A flourishing emporium of commerce”, extant {380} in 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, and in “records” of ships wrecked on its “submerged ruins,” does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity.  I knew of the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence of a legend (legendum, something to be read) describing a catastrophe that must have been widely heard of when it happened.

This I conjectured might be found in Adam of Bremen; to whose mention of Julin DR. BELL referred.  But it seems that in his time the city was still existing, and flourishing ("urbs locuples").

The “excidium civitatis,” if the Veneta of Helmold were Julin, must have taken place, therefore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter account was written.  If Veneta was Julin, and “aquarum aestu absorpta,” there must, I suppose, be some account of this great calamity:  and as I have seen in modern German works allusions to the drowning of the great city, and to the ruins still visible at times under water, I hoped to find out the where of its site, and the when of its destruction—­as great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without some report of their fate.

V.
Belgravia.

Dodsley’s Poems (Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).—­THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is informed that the first edition of Dodsley’s Collection of Poems, by several Hands, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo.  A fourth volume was added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope, Tickell, Thomson, &c.  Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous.  The four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755.  The fifth and sixth were added in 1758.

AMICUS CURIAE.

Shunamitis Poema (Vol. ii., p. 326.).—­The titlepage to the volume of poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows: 

    “Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College,
    Oxford.

    ‘Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.’  HOR.

    London:  printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan’s
    Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI.”

I know not the author; but I suspect either that the title of an Oxford man was assumed by a Cantab, who might fairly wish not to be suspected as the author of several of the poems; or that the author, having been rusticated at Cambridge, vide at p. 84. the ode “Ad Thomam G.” (whom I take to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred himself and his somewhat licentious muse to Oxford.