Note 79 — PART I. LETTERS WRITTEN BEFORE HIS MISSION TO EUROPE 1773-1783.

The lady here alluded to is manifestly the Miss Rebecca Burwell mentioned in his first letter; but what suggested the quaint designations of her is not so obvious. In the first of them, Belinda, translated into dog Latin, which was there, as elsewhere, among the facetiæ of young collegians, became campana in die, that is bell in day. In the second, the name is reversed, and becomes adnileb, which, for further security, is written in Greek characters, and the lady spoken of in the masculine gender.