HISTORIE DES SÉVARAMBES

The authorship of *Gaudentio di Lucca* has recently been discussed by some of your correspondents, and it has been shown that this *Voyage Imaginaire* {5}was written by Simon Berington, a Catholic priest, and the member of a family resident for many years in Herefordshire. The following Query will relate to another work of the same class, but of an earlier date. The *Histoire des Sévarambes* is a fictitious account of a nation in the Southern Ocean, visited by a supposed navigator named Siden. It's first appearance was as an English work, with this title: "The History of the Sevarites or Sevar…