[This literary curiosity was completed in nine volumes, which are
sometimes bound in three. In 1841 Mr. H. G. Bohn advertised a copy
with all the names filled up in manuscript, the initials being no
doubt sufficiently intelligible at that time. For a notion of the
work on its first appearance, see the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol.
xlviii. p. 130.]
_Paul Hoste._--Paul Hoste, a Jesuit, published early in the seventeenth
century a small quarto with diagrams on "Breaking the Line," so much
discussed, as being first done in Rodney's action. If any one can give
me some account of Paul Hoste and his _scientific_ views on naval
architecture, the information will be acceptable to