Prima parit terras aetas; siccatque secunda;
Evocat Abramum dein tertia; quarta relinquit
Aegyptum; templo Solomonis quinta supersit;
Cyrum sexta timet; laetatur septima Christo.
[a]His Tempelmanni numeris descripseris orbem,
[b]Cum sex ceiituriis Judaeo millia septem. 
Myrias[c] AEgypto cessit his septima pingui. 
Myrias adsciscit sibi nonagesima septem
Imperium qua Turca[d] ferox exercet iniquum. 
  Undecies binas decadas et millia septem
Sortitur[e] Pelopis tellus quae nomine gaudet. 
  Myriadas decies septem numerare jubebit
Pastor Arabs:  decies octo sibi Persa requirit. 
Myriades sibi pulchra duas, duo millia poscit
Parthenope. [f]Novies vult tellus mille Sicana.
[g]Papa suo regit imperio ter millia quinque. 
Cum sex centuriis numerat sex millia Tuscus[h]. 
Centuria Ligures[i] augent duo millia quarta. 
Centuriae octavam decadem addit Lucca[j] secundae. 
Ut dicas, spatiis quam latis imperet orbi
[k]Russia, myriadas ter denas adde trecentis.
[l]Sardiniam cum sexcentis sex millia complent. 
  Cum sexagenis, dum plura recluserit aetas,
Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra[m] colendas. 
  Vult sibi vicenas millesima myrias addi,
Vicenis quinas, Asiam[n] metata celebrem. 
  Se quinquagenis octingentesima jungit
Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa[o] doctae. 
  Myriadas septem decies Europa[p] ducentis
Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit. 
  Myriadas denas dat, quinque et millia, sexque
Centurias, et tres decades Europa Britannis[q]. 
  Ter tria myriadi conjungit millia quartae,
Centuriae quartae decades quinque[r] Anglia nectit. 
  Millia myriadi septem foecunda secundae
Et quadragenis decades quinque addit Ierne[s]. 
  Quingentis quadragenis socialis adauget
Millia Belga[t] novem. 
  Ter sex centurias Hollandia jactat opima. 
Undecimum Camber vult septem millibus addi.

[a] To the above lines, (which are unfinished, and can, therefore, be
    only offered as a fragment,) in the doctor’s manuscript, are
    prefixed the words “Geographia Metrica.”  As we are referred, in the
    first of the verses, to Templeman, for having furnished the
    numerical computations that are the subject of them, his work has
    been, accordingly, consulted, the title of which is, a new Survey of
    the Globe; and which professes to give an accurate mensuration of
    all the empires, kingdoms, and other divisions thereof, in the
    square miles that they respectively contain.  On comparison of the
    several numbers in these verses, with those set down by Templeman,
    it appears that nearly half of them are precisely the same; the rest
    are not quite so exactly done.—­For the convenience of the reader,
    it has been thought right to subjoin each number, as it stands in
    Templeman’s works, to that in Dr. Johnson’s verses which refers to