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Do we believe that Erasmus and Fracastorius wrote Latin as well as Dr. Robertson and Sir Walter Scott wrote English? And are there not in the Dissertation on India, the last of Dr. Robertson's works, in Waverley, in Marmion, Scotticisms at which a London apprentice would laugh?
The dark interior includes a small central mountain. Its companion on the S.W., Magelhaens a, slightly overlaps it. This also has a central hill, and a crater on the outer slope of its E. wall. SANTBECH. A very prominent ring-plain, 46 miles in diameter, on the S.E. side of the Mare Foecunditatis, W. of Fracastorius.
It is evident that this bay, and the larger part of the "Sea of Nectar," have been created by an outwelling of liquid lavas, which formed a smooth floor over a portion of the pre-existing surface of the moon, and broke down and submerged a large part of the mountain ring of Fracastorius, leaving the more ancient walls standing at the southern end, while, outlined by depressions and corrugations in the rocky blanket, are certain half-defined forms belonging to the buried world beneath.
BEAUMONT. A ring-plain about 30 miles in diameter, on the S.E. side of the Mare Nectaris, midway between Theophilus and Fracastorius, with the N.E. side of which it is connected by a chain of large depressions. Its border is lofty, regular, and continuous on the S. and E., but on the W. it is low, and on the N. sinks to such a very inconsiderable height that it is often scarcely traceable.
The Mare Nectaris, again, in the south-western quadrant, presents some fine examples of concentric ridges, which are seen to the best advantage when the morning sun is rising on Rosse, a prominent crater north of Fracastorius.
The celebrated poem of Fracastorius deserves to be read both for its fine Latinity and for its information. One of the earliest works issued from the Aldine press in 1497 was the Libellus de Epidemiâ quam vulgo morbum Gallicum vocant. It was written by Nicolas Leoniceno, and dedicated to the Count Francesco de la Mirandola.
It was really a very old view, the germs of which may be found in the Fathers, but which was first clearly expressed so far as I know by Fracastorius, the Veronese physician, in the sixteenth century, who spoke of the seeds of contagion passing from one person to another; and he first drew a parallel between the processes of contagion and the fermentation of wine.
Under a high sun they generally appear as white spots, more or less ill- defined, as on the floors of Archimedes, Fracastorius, Plato, and many other formations, which include a great number, all of which are probably crater cones, although only a few have been seen as such.
Adjoining it on the W. is a mountain mass, projecting from the coast-line of the Mare, on which there is a peak rising to more than 14,000 feet above the surface. FRACASTORIUS. This great bay or inflexion at the extreme S. end of the Mare Nectaris, about 60 miles in diameter, is one of the largest and most suggestive examples of a partially destroyed formation to be found on the visible surface.
A ray from Tycho, striking along the E. wall of Fracastorius passes near this object. A rill from near Bohnenberger terminates at this crater. POLYBIUS. A ring-plain, about 17 miles in diameter, in the hilly region S.E. of Fracastorius. The border is unbroken, except on the N., where it is interrupted by a group of depressions.
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