NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO. 6

In a copy of Burnet’s *Telluris Theoria Sacra* (in Latin), containing only the two first books (1 vol. 4to., Lond. 1689), there is the following entry in Bishop Jebb’s hand-writing:— “From the internal evidence, not only of additional matter in the margin of this copy, but of frequent erasures and substitutions, I was led to suppose it was the author’s copy, illustrated by his own annotations and improvements. The supposition is, perhaps, sufficiently corroborated by the following extract from the *Biographia Britannica*, vol. iii. p. 18. “‘It seems it was usual with Dr. Burnet, before he publ…