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Plants," is now confidered as an accomplishment to the female mind. But, though Dr. Darwin, and a few others, poslessed of genius, may recommend their vegetable hobby to the polite world, our young women may be affured that they only expose themselves either to the ridicule or fedustive allurements of coxcombs, who pretend to imitate them in the mysteries of Botany.

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These fantastical amusements, and trifling purfuits, ever leave the mind unfatisfied, as thousands of our lovely countrywomen daily experience. But the lover of elegance exclaims, Would you have our young ladies to remain in ignorance, why should not their minds be cultivated?" No; but let the lighter accomplishments, which now wholly engross their attention, be made the fecondary, not the primary objects of the mind. Let decency of manners accompany that fincerity and candour which is now fupprefied by what is called good breeding. Let benevolence be cherifbed in the glowing bofom, instead of that ridiculous affectation of feeling, which only tends to harden the heart! Let piety be the basis on which the focial virtues are raised; and let the tender and amiable propenfities of the youthful breast be regulated by decorum, and fanctioned by virtue. Then shall the lovely daughters of Britain combine, with their unparalleled beauty, that purity of heart, and modefty of demeanour, which will exhibit the fairest portrait of angelic perfection.

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lowing fact may tend to elucidate the subject, and be thought a presumptive proof in favour of the same opinion. On the oth of the present month (being a cold frosty day) my man observed to me, as a fingular thing, that he had juft seen a Swallow flying about the house; on my looking about, I foon obferved the poor folitary being flying with great rapidity and apparently in great distress; the made short excurfions in every direction, never, however, approaching the ground. I faw her on every fucceeding day, till the 12th inclusive, always exhibiting the fame appearance, flying high and rapidly; but, on the last day on which I faw her, the appeared very weak and languid. Is it not probable that this folitary Swallow, by fome accident or other, had been left behind by her companions when they fought another climate? And though inftinct might fuggeft to her the neceflity of feeking a warm climate to preferve her life, yet, probably, instinct also might convince her of the impoffibility of her ever accomplithing to long a journey in her folitary flate, and the might chute to exift as long as portible here, rather than rush on certain death by attempting what she knew to be impoflible. If, as fome maintain, Swallows do not migrate, but, during winter, lie in a state of torpidity immeried in water or concealed in clefts of rocks or caverns, till fummer reanimates them; if, I say, this opinion was founded in truth, the abovementioned folitary being would probably not have experienced fo much distress on being deferted by her companions, but would have preferved her life (for I strongly fufpect the is now dead) by following their example in fecking out fome fuch place of fecurity, and finking into the fame ftate of torpitude; for there appears no impoflibility nor even difficulty in having recourse to fuch an expedient to preserve her life. A CONSTANT READER.

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Mr. URBAN, Waterford, July 18. TAVING occafion to visit Ennifcorthy and Ross, in the county of Wexford, a few weeks fince, herewith tranfinit you (Plate I. fig. 1.) a sketch of Vinegar hill, which I took from the bridge of Enniscorthy, with a short defcription of each place.

This hill, or rather mountain, so celebrated for the bloody battle fought upon it in the late rebellion, lies on the North bank of the river Slaney, close to the town of Enniscorthy. There are two fuburbs at the foot of the hill, called Temple Shannon and Drum gald, which are connected to Enniscorthy by a fubftantial ftone bridge of fix arches. This hill rises with a gentle fwell from a plain till it becomes very steep on all fides, and ends in a craggy summit crowned with the ruins of a windmill; from which spot there is a wide and extended profpect of the counties of Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow, with the Slaney meandering in ferpentine directions through a rich and variegated country to the town of Wexford, where it difembogues itself into the Irish sea. At the declivity of the hill there is a vast pit, in which the bodies of the unfortunate men who were killed in this ruinous and fatal contest are deposited, to the number (as I was informed) of five hundred. The South fide of the hill next Enniscorthy is for fome yards covered with the bones of men and animals, which are bleached as white as ivory by the weather.

Near the fummit of the hill there is a gibbet, on which the bodies of three men who were active in the rebellion are fufpended; this fight is very difgutting to the inhabitants, as the bodies can be very distinctly seen from the town; and a certain description of perfons, yclep'd Orangemen, amuse themselves by firing at the gibbet, and running their bayonets through the bodies. To such an height has the envenomed spirit of party-prejudice arrived in this once happy county, the fairest and best portion of this beautiful ifland, and heretofore remarkable for the spirit of industry, peace, and good order of its inhabitants!

Enniscorthy is the property of the Earl of Portsmouth; it is a market borough and port town, and returned two members to parliament. It is divided into two parts by the river GENT. MAG. November, 1801.

Slaney, over which is (as I mentioned in the description of Vinegar hill), a stone bridge; the market-house, the court house, and the principal streets, are on the South fide of the Slaney. It is about twelve miles from the town of Wexford, from which the river is navigable for finall lighters, as the tide ebbs and flows to the bridge. The population before the rebellion was about five thousand inhabitants. The town was originally fortified, but not a vestige of the walls remain at present except the castle, which is entire and a very noble structure; it ftands on a craggy hill in

the centre of the town, at the South fide of the Slaney, oppofite Vinegar hill, from which it is about a mile diftant. It confifts of a regular square, battlemented, and fanked with four round towers of confiderable height; it was built in the thirteenth century by the ancestor of the antient family of Sution, who were once the lords of this town, which family are now nearly extinct. I forgot to mention, that just above the bridge of Ennifcorthy, the Slaney is divided into two branches by a beautiful little ifsland, which gives additional intereft to the scenery on the banks of the river. New Rofs, in contradistinction to Old Ross (a village about four miles from it), is a borough market and poft town, in the county of Wexford, situated at the foot of a hill at the confluence of the Nere and Barrow. It was formerly walled, and fome of the gateways still remain; i. e. Priory gate, Irith Town gate, and the Three Bullet gate, where Lord Mountjoy was flain when charging at the head of the county Dublin militia. There were formerly many religious houses in this town, the remains of which are still visible. The monastery for Franciscans, called St. Saviour, was founded by Sir John Devereux in the reign of Edward III. At the fame, or an earlier period of time, there was a priory of Auguftines founded by Sir Walter Synnote. There is a Charter house here for forty poor children, and a school for poor children of every denomination. The town is greatly improved fince the rebellion, and the houses that were demolished rebuilt in a better tafle. This town is extremely well situated for commerce, the river being very deep, and ships of great burthen can come up to the quay. The Cuftona house is

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978 St. Michael's Mount. - Bridgenorth.-St. Martin. [Nov.

well constructed and adapted for bufi-
nefs; the barracks neat and conve-
nient; and the bridge over the river,
which connects the Kilkenny fide with
the Wexford fide, is extremely elegant.
In this town are three churches, two
Romish chapels, a Methodist and Qua-
kers meeting-houses. One of the most
defperate battles that ever was fought in
Ireland took place here; the carnage
was dreadful, there being upwards of
two thousand bodies left in the
streets.
ANTHONY SINNOT.

Mr. URBAN, Cornwall, July 10.

I SEND you a sketch of

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antient

capital (fig. 2) now lying amongst an heap of ruins at St. Michael's Mount, in this county. It appears

to have been an

irregular hexagon, though now much mutilated; fome of your antiquarian correfpondents may probably be able to throw fome light on the figures, the dress, and the time

of its erection.

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Mr. URBAN,

В. М.

Nov. 6.

SEND you a flight sketch (fig. 3) of the building that was made to fucceed to the old collegiate church of St. Mary, within the castle at Bridgnorth. When the church of St. Chad, at Shrewsbury, fell down about 1792, the parithioners of this church took it into their heads that it alfo threatened

ruin, and accordingly rebuilt it, of which they now heartily repent. Mr. Grofe has given a diftant view of the old firucture in his print of the castle; and the different views of the town preferve the remembrance of it. In the church-yard are no monuments of consequence; and in the porch of St. Laurence, or the upper church in the town, is fixed up an inscription, removed from hence with the remains of John and Samuel Dickinson, who died 1773 and 1779, and were depofited in a vault, Nov. 7, 1798.

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The only remain of the cafile is " part of a tower, which by undermining made to incline so much, that it appears to threaten destruction to fuch as approach it. It makes an angle of 18 degrees with the horizon, or 17 from the perpendicular." GROSE.

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SIGILLVM MAIORATUS POSTUS (qu.

PORTUS) DOVORIE.

Sandwich, in a plate with other AntiQu. If not engraved by Mr. Boys, of quities?-Wihtred, king of Kent, fo early as the seventh century, removed the canons from the caftle to a church built by him in the town, dedicated to St. Martin. The irregular behaviour of these canons obliged Henry I. to give their church to the archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Corboi, who built a new monaftery of Auguftines near the town, still known by the name of the Newark; of whose ruins and gate Mr. Grose has engraved two views. These circumstances are mentioned as an additional proof that St. Martin was the patron fäint of Dover. M. BROWNE.

Mr. URBAN,

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ROM the letters and the orthogracopper coin, fig. 5, it was not edited, phy of the infcription of the small I believe, later than some time in the 17th century. Whether it was ftruck upon fome naval expedition, or on what other occafion, I will not attempt

nion our ancestors entertained of the to conjecture; but it evinces the opipower of the Three Kingdoms when united; and conveys a lefion to us in the present happy period of the accomplishment of this Union, to confider it firmly united for our mutual fupport as the palladium of our fecurity, W hilft and defence, we may ftill bid defiance to all the fature ambitious attempts of that gigantic power which was so lately K. L.

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Mr. URBAN, Ansley, Hants, Aug. 6. HEREWITH will be left for yous tion-copy of the works of King James I. infpection the original prefentaSeton, knt. (eques auratus). It is in to his preceptor, Sir Peter Young, of the original binding in red Turkey, and tied with blue ribband; and being a royal gift, the printing, binding, gilding, royal arms on the fides, &c. the fide those arts in this country could then as fuperb and elegant as the state of produce.

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