Medu'sa, one of the three Gorgons.
Mello'na, the goddess of honey.
Melpomene, the Muse of tragedy.

Mi'das, a king of Phrygia, to whom Bacchus gave the power of turning whatever he touched into gold. Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.

Mars, the son of Juno, and god of war,

Miner'va, or Pal'las, daughter of Jupiter, and goddess of wisdom.

Mercury, the messenger of the gods, and the god of eloquence,

Mo'mus, the god of raillery.

Morpheus, the minister of Somnus, and god of dreams.

Mors, the goddess of death.

Mu'ses, the nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemos yne, and mistresses of the sciences; named Calli'ope, Cli'o, Er'ato, Euter'pe, Melpomene, Polyhym'nia, Terpsich'ore, Thali'a, and Ura'nia.

Mi'nos, one of the judges of hell, famed for his justice.

Nai'ades, nymphs of rivers and fountains.
Nectar, the drink of the gods..

Nep'tune, god of the sea.

Nere'ides, sea-nymphs, the fifty daughters of

Nereus.

Ni'obe, a woman, who, having her fourteen chil dren killed, wept herself into a statue.

Nox, the most ancient of all the deities.

Oce'anus, the god of the sea.

Og'yges, an ancient king of Thebes, in whose time a great deluge overflowed Greece.

Ori'on, a great astronomer, raised to a constellation. Orpheus, the son of Jupiter and Calliope, who, by his music, could make rocks, trees, &c. follow him,

Pacto'lus, a river in Lydia, said to have golden sands. Pa'les, the goddess of husbandry.

Pallas, the goddess of wisdom and arms.

Pan, the god of shepherds

Pando'ra, a woman made by Vulcan, upon whom every god and goddess bestowed a gift; and whose box contained all sorts of evils, with hope at the bottom.

Par'cæ, the poetical fates or destinies.

Pegasus, the name of a winged horse, raised to a constellation.

Pena'tes, small statues, or household gods.

Per'seus, a son of Jupiter, performed many exploits with Medusa's head, and was raised to a constellation. Pha'eton, the son of Sol and Cly'mene, who asking the guidance of his father's chariot, set the world on fire.

Phlegethon, a boiling river in hell.

Phoebe, and Phœ'bus, names of Diana and Apollo. Pier'ides, a name of the Muses, from mount Pierius. Pin'dus, a mountain of Arcadia, sacred to the Muses.

Pi'tho, a goddess of eloquence.

Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas, changed into stars.

Plu'to, the god of hell.

Polyhym'nia, the Muse of rhetoric.

Polyphe'mus, a Cyclops, the son of Neptune, with only one eye, and that in the middle of his forehead.

Pomona, the goddess of fruits and autumn. Prometheus: the poets feigned him to have formed men of clay, and to have put life into them by fire stolen from heaven.

Pro'teus, a god who could change himself into all shapes.

Pros'erpine, daughter of Jupiter, wife of Pluto, and queen of the infernal regions.

Psy che, the consort of Cupid.

Pygmies, a people of Lybia, only a span high, carried away by Hercules.

Pyr'amus and This'be, two fond lovers, who killed themselves with the same sword; and the berries of the mulberry tree under which they died, were turned from white to red.

Python, a huge serpent, which Apollo killed, and, in memory of it, he instituted the Pythian games.

Rhadaman'thus, one of the three judges of hell.

Sat'yrs, the attendants of Bacchus, horned monsters; half men, half goats.

Si'rens, poetical sea monsters, partly virgins, partly beasts, who enticed passengers by their music, and then devoured them.

Sisyphus, a man doomed to roll a large stone up a mountain in hell, from whence it returned on his head.

Som'nus, the son of Er'ebus and Nox, and god of sleep.

Sphynx, a poetical monster, with the face of a virgin, wings like a bird, body like a dog, and claws like a lion.

Sten'tor, a Grecian, who had as loud a voice as fifty men together,

Sylva'nus, a god of the woods and forests.

Styx, a poetical infernal lake, by which, when the gods swore, their oaths were accounted sacred.

Ta'cita, a goddess of silence.

Tan'talus, a king of Lydia, who, for his barbarity to his son, was plunged up to his chin in a lake of hell, and doomed to everlasting thirst..

Tartarus, the deepest part of hell, according to the poets.

Tem'pe, a beautiful vale in Thessaly, the resort of the gods.

Terpsich'ore, the Muse of music and dancing.

Te'thys, the wife of Oceanus, and mother of the river nymphs.

Thali'a, one of the Graces, and the Muse of comedy and lyric poetry.

Tisiph'one, one of the three Furies.

Ti'tan, the father of the giants who warred against heaven.

Tri'ton, Neptune's son, by Amphitri'te. His bust is that of a man, his lower parts of a fish, his fore feet like those of a horse, and his tail forked in a lunar form: he was Neptune's trumpeter.

Tropho'nius, the son of Apollo, who gave oracles in a gloomy cave, into which, whoever entered, laughed no more.

Ve'nus, the goddess of love, beauty, and marriage. Vulcan, the husband of Venus, and god of subterraneous fires; noted for his deformity.

Zeph'yrus, the son of 'olus and Auro'ra, who loved the goddess Flora; also a name for the west wind.

PART II.

QUESTIONS ON MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.

ON THE HUMAN STRUCTURE.

Of what is the Human Structure composed?-The human structure is composed of bones, muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, cartilages, membranes, glands; also of chyle, milk, blood, &c.

What are the Bones? They are white, hard, and almost insensible parts, and the support of the animal fabric. The marrow they contain is a soft oily substance.

What are the Muscles?-They are the organs of motion, and composed of flesh and tendinous fibres. The tendons are white tenacious parts contiguous to the muscles.

What are the Nerves?—They are cylindrical whitish parts, like cords, composed of fibres, deriving their origin from the brain and spinal marrow. They are distributed over all parts of the body.

What are the Arteries?—They are hollow canals, appointed to receive the blood from the ventricles of the heart, and distribute it to all parts of the body.

What is a Vein?-A vein is a vessel or canal which receives the blood from the several parts of the body to which the arteries had conveyed it, and carries it back again to the heart.