therefore it is not intended to find any fault with the delay, or even to stimulate the Authors, much less to endeavour to take the Work out of their hands, even if it were practicable. There are also many who, for various reasons, are very desirous of knowing if this long-wished-for History be in progress, and the state in which it now is. If it be proceeding, it is probable that some useful communications would be made from various quarters. Perhaps some of your Correspondents will be able to give some information on this subject, so interesting to all Sussex men, and even, it might be presumed, to the Country at large, since Topographical writings have of late come into such high estimation with the publick.

It is curious, that of the adjoining County of Kent there are no fewer than five Histories, of worth and authenticity, viz. Lambarde's, Kilburne's, Philipot's, Harris's, and Hasted's, besides some of inferior uote; whilst there is no account of Sussex except what is contained in Camden, in the Magna Britannia, and the Beauties of England.

E. J. C.

Mr. URBAN, Sussex, Aug. 30. IN the Eighth Volume of Literary Anecdotes, page 642, is the following paragraph: "Dr. Goodenough is preparing a very learned Work, called Botanica Metrica, containing the etymology of all botanical names, both technical and also of the plants." This work has not been, nor, indeed, as I believe, is it likely to be published. This is the more to be lamented, as it would not be easy to find a person so well qualified to be the editor of such a book as the Bishop of Carlisle, who, to very considerable and acknowledged qualifications as a general scholar, unites an accurate and profound knowledge of the science of Botany.

A work of this kind is, however, much wanted; and, if executed in a familiar and popular manner, and published at a moderate price, it would become a manual to all Botanists and Florists, and must obtain a considerable sale, as the study of Botany has of late become very general, and it cannot be doubted that it must be agreeable and satisfactory to every one to understand the terms of a science on which all are occasion

ally obliged to converse, and to pronounce the words which they are using with the true accent and in a proper manner.

The book might be intituled, "The Etymology and Accentuation of the Terms and Language of Botany; or, A Botanical Glossary, on the Plan of Dr. Turton's Medical Glossary." A moderate knowledge of the Greek and Saxon Languages, and a slight acquaintance with French and German, would be requisite to an Author of such a work, who would derive great assistance from the Etymologicon Botanicum of Skinner's Saxon Lexicon, and from the Article Nomina in Milne's Botanical Dictionary, and also from Martyn's Language of Botany.

I would recommend the careful accentuation of all the words, so as that we may no more hear of the Arbutus, Clematis, Philyrea, or Tragopogon. It is the lot of many a good Botanist to be sneered at on account of his ignorance of language; but how should a person conversant with the English Language only be aware that the proper pronunciation of these words is Arbutus, Clemătis, Philyrea, and Tragopogon. There may be a few words so entirely naturalized and Anglicized, that the use of the proper accent, as to them, might seem to partake of affectation and pedantry: no scholar even, would call an Anemoue by its proper and right name of Anemone. Words of this kind, however, should be noticed, and the Botanist should be left

to his choice.

Goodenia Modern Latin-Goodenough: the name of the present Bp of Carlisle, Cauliflower-Latin-Caulis, a Cabbage, and Flos, a flower. Radish - Latin ---Radix, a Root.

As there are few to whom a book of this kind would not occasionally be useful, it may be presumed that the circulation would be so general as to render it advantageous to the Editor: I would, therefore, Mr. Urban, recommend it to you, or to some of your learned associates (in the language of the trade) to get up a book of this kind, as expeditiously as may be consistent with the proper execution of the task; and, if notice should be given of such an intention, several your Correspondents would readily contribute their assistance.

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Botanist, who planted the large Cedar in the garden of Queen Elizabeth's Palace at Enfield, and concerning whom your Correspondent Caradoc, p. 24, requests information, was Fellow of Trinity-college, Cambridge, and Rector of Orpington, in Kent*. He was born May 25, 1642, and was nephew of Sir William Uvedale, of Horton, co. Dorset, and father of the Rev. Robert Uvedale, D. D. Vicar of Enfield. As an account of him, and a pedigree of his family, may be seen in Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire, vol. II. second edition, I shall only add a few circumstances respecting him which are not mentioned in that Work.

At the time of his election to a Fellowship of Trinity-college, he was not only a good classical scholar, but bad a considerable knowledge of the Hebrew, a language important for its utility, and venerable for its sanc

tity, and the study of which, and other parts of theological learning, it was the primary intention of the Founder of Trinity-college to encourage and promote t.

Linnæus has called some plants af ter his name, Uvedalia; and, in the British Museum (Bibl. Sloan. 4064, Plut. 28. F.) are fifteen Letters from him to Sir Hans Sloane; also Letters from him to Dr. Sherard, and Mr. James Petiver, F. R. S. author of Gazophylacium Naturæ et Artis, 1711, fol. an important and valuable work, with numerous Plates, some of which are dedicated to Dr. Uvedale.

Dryden, Dr. Uvedale, and other learned men, having agreed to translate Plutarch's Lives from the origi nal Greek; Dr. Uvedale, accordingly, translated the Life of Dion, and the work was published in 1684.

Dr. Uvedale's eldest daughter, Joanna, married a gentleman of the name of Bullen (descended from the family of Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wiltshire); and her principal descendant and representative is Richard Frewin, esq. of Great George-street, Westminster.

Dr. Uvedale died in 1722, and was buried in Enfield church. A wholelength portrait of him, and another of his wife, were in the possession of the late Admiral Uvedale §, of Bosmere House, co. Suffolk.

Mr. URBAN,

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N the course of my reading two very entertaining and useful works, I remarked a singular coincidence of customs in two Nations far distant from each other, and at periods as remote as 1583 from 1812; these are, England and India. Stubbe's "Anatomie of Abuses," printed in 1583, well known to the amateurs of antient literature, and recently of fered to public recollection and notice

and of the other eighteen hours, all, except the time of going to, and being at Divine Service, was spent in my studies and learning." That he was, moreover, weak and wrong headed, that he lived in a sort of continual childhood, and that he was all but an ideot withal, may be easily deduced from the same source: "I was out of St. John's College, chosen to be one of the Fellows of Trinity College, at the first erection thereof by King Henry VIII, I was also assigned there to be the Under Reader of the Greek tongue, Mr. Pember being Chief Greek Reader then in Trinity College. Hereupon I did set forth, and it was seen of the University, a Greek comedy of Aristophanes, named in Greek Eipnun, in Latin Pax, with the performance of the Scarabæus [Scarabæus], or beetle, his flying up to Jupiter's palace with a man and his basket of victuals on her [his] back, whereat was great wondering, and many vain reports spread abroad, of the means how that was effected."

This magnanimous exploit was nearly paralleled by another of the same sort, which was performed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; who, on her visit to the University of Cambridge, was offered the representation of Sophocles's Electra in Greek, which she, with her usual politeness, declined, or (as it would be understood now-a-days,) intimated her desire or determination to be excused the torture of hearing; thereby placing in the scale her own good sense against the combined sense of the whole University, and preponderating too. The spirit (we should suppose), which suggested the acting of the Electra, was much of the same sort with that which prompted Mamma to tease and pester Doctor Johnson to hear her little boy repeat Gay's Fables. -Dee, however, was the sufferer by his oddities; for, what with mathematical instruments, and what with acting Greek Plays, he had well nigh been hanged for a conjuror. He was an honest, inoffensive, and well-meaning sort of man, I dare say; and ought to rank high among that species of beings termed Wisemen; of whom every village, in the North of England at least, produces one. I well recollect being once entertained with an interview with a creature of this sort; who, determined to kill

two birds with one stone, had the sagacity to unite breeches-making with astrology. When visible, be was ever discovered up to the knees in compasses, scissars, triangles, and washleather.

2. Doctor Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (a book, which would have been just twice as good, if its compiler had properly availed himself of Lloyd's edition of Charles Stephens's Dictionarium Poëticum, &c.) is, as every schoolboy knows, interspersed with anecdote as well as instruction. We recommend to our growing poets to study well what is said of that versifier, who received, from Alexander the Great, a piece of gold for every good line in a certain composition, but for every bad one a box on the ear. If this system of reward were introduced into our schools, in which boys are forced to write verse, whether it be in their nature or not, we should be not a little apprehensive of the speedy appearance of a new distemper, which might, not improperly, go by the name of febris auricularis.-Several other facts, there recorded, are admirably well-calculated to try a man's belief; as, for instance, where we are told that * Calchas died through grief, because he found himself unable to number the figs on a certain fig-tree; and that one Drusus, au historian of great promise and high notions (though G-d knows who he was), being one day, during his infancy we suppose, missing from his cradle, was on the next found on the highest part of the house, with his face turned towards the sun. Poor man! he was determined to get as near to it as possible. But, alas! like the rest of us, he could not do more than he could.-The story of Parrhasius and the curtain may be entitled to some degree of belief; but he must be a man of sworn credulity and unqualified deglutition, who can swallow, whole, or by piece-meal, the account of a lamp burning 1500 years in Tulliola's tomb. And yet I have heard even this defended as feasible, and supported with instances pretended to be authentick.

*If the young scholar will read Lempriere's account of Mopsus, he will find out, perhaps to his surprise, that even Homer is not always to be believed. See Iliad. A. 69.

Mr.