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was hazardous beyond meature; and to fcale the flone-wrought mounds impoffible. Several times did I call on my abfent friend; when Echo answered with her hundred tongues, that my voice (which, like the babbling reeds, told nought but hateful truths) fill cried out in vain, for no one heeded what I faid. In this dilemma, looking into an avenue cut through the thickness of the wall on the left within the portal, fo bewildered and deftracted as I was, I pictured to myfelf that I faw hollow eyed Envy, pufhed on by unwieldiy Arrogance, ftalking through the gloomy aperture to end at once nay labours and my troubles. Determining, however, (thus apparently deferted) to fight my own caufe, I advanced forward to meet the hideous fpectres, when, aiming to feize the Furies by their fealy throats, I received fuch a death-dealing blow from fome unfeen adverfary, that I fell fenfelets to the ground. On recovering my tenfes, I found my kind guide with foine refiorative cordials (which he had taken with him at our outfet) ready to adminifier confolatiou and relief. foon as I had made my friend acquainted with my nif-hap, he, after a hearty laugh, eafily brought me to own that I had been overcome by wearinets, and had laid down to indulge me in a fhort flumber. He then pointed out to me on the oppofite fide of the court another gate of entrance, through which he had without the leaft difficulty (after having firft been to a neighbouring hamlet on fome agricultural matters) made his entry to me. Through this fecond outlet at laft we returned; and in our way back to Abergavenny we were induced to look at Lanvethrin church; the tower of which, forming the Weft front, is remarkable, as are inany other particulars both on the exterior as well as the interior of the church. We were moft attracted by a very antient monumental fiatue of a religions, placed in a filly way on its edge againfi the South exterior or wall of the building. There are fome readings on it, which have exercifed the learning as well as the wit of many literary nien. Here Sir H. Spelman's "Hiftory and Fate of Sacrilege" reminds me to follow his example, by repeating a circumfiance which the clerk of the church acquainted me with, relative to this ftatue. About an hundred years ago, a grave was dug at the Eaft end within the fabric, when, coming to a certain depth,

the ftatue before us was difcovered. Four men employed themfelves to raife it up, who afterwards caft it out into the church-yard, and otherwife facrilegiouily ufed it. Some time after this tranfaction, thefe four perfons all met with violent deaths; one was loft at fea, another was drowned in Lincolnfhire, a third drowned himself in an adjoining brook, and the fourth hanged himfelf. Whether from these warnings, or from whatever caufe it may be, this flatue has a fhew of much veneration paid to it; which is fufficiently made appear by the very perfect fiate it is in at prefent, although placed in the way above (pecified.

We Autiquity-tollowers now prepared to reach our quarters. Enlivening converfe on the business of the day held us out until we arrived at that turn where we were defined to bid each other farewell. Night faw us part: and under her wings I paffed the reft of the way (fome half mile or fo), liticning by turns to murmuring brook, or rushing tide; to whilpering breeze, or nightbird's fong.—I was cheerful, was cou◄ tented! AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.)

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Mr. URBAN, Dec. 20. NOW beg leave to trouble you with a few remarks upon Clericus Leiceftrienfis's account of Gouda and Rotterdam. The road from Utrecht to the former place paffes through Woerden, a very firong fortrefs, and Bodegraven. (This village was burned by the French in 1672, in their retreat froin an expedition which they had taken upon the ice against Leyden). Here the road divides; one branch leads to Leyden and the Hague, the other through a very fwampy country to Gouda. Several of the windows of the church, fo juflly celebrated for their beautiful paintings, were greatly damaged fome years ago by a violent fiorm of hail, thunder and lighting, which fet fire to the fleeple, and threatened the whole building with deftruction. The flames were extinguished by great exertions, and the windows re

ired as well as poffible. The pott waggon, which goes from this place to Rotterdam, is the worft vehicle which I ever faw. In Holland the public carriages are in general very bad, and in the fame fate in which they were 100 years ago.

Rotterdam derives its name from the
Rotte

Rotte, a fmall river which empties itself into the Maeze, which fometimes overflows part of the town, and occafrons a great deal of damage. This river is compofed of the Maeze, or la Meule, in Dutch de Maas, which takes its origin in the Bishoprick of Liege, paties by the walls of Maeftricht, Venlo, Grave, and Dordt, and of two branches of the Rhine. This river feparates into three branches at Scheakenfhans; one branch paffing through Gveryffel, joins the Zuyderzee; another paffes by Arnhelin, Wyck by Danritecde, (here a fmall branch goes to Utrecht-pafs, where it is again divided into two faller freams, the one forms the Leyden canal, retaining the name of the Rhine, and at laft lofes itfelf in the finds near Egmont it is faid that formerly the principal branch of the Rhine paffed by Utrecht, where there was a ferry, which gave rife to the name of Trajectum ad Rhepum, which was given to it by the Romans), and falls into the Maeze three miles from Rotterdam: the third branch pailes by Nymegen (where it is called the Waal), and falls into the river Maeze, fix miles from Rotterdam. When the flow melts in Switzerland and Germany, the river rifes very much, and the water is very muddy. When this is the cafe, attended with a North-welt wind, which, being right in apon the coast, throws in a great additional quantity of water, occafioning great inundations, and a great preffure upon the dikes, Clericus Lei ceficienfis would have found the fluices at Delfs-haven well worth looking at. The prevent the Maeze from overflowing all the country between Rot4erdani and Amfterdain. The water was within two inches of it in the year 1791. To fee a town inundated is a curious but a very unpleafint fight. A mach more agrecable one is the Maeze when frozen, covered with booths, with thousands of ikaiters, with fledges, and by, in fhort, all the Dutch in high glee.

The name of the firect facing the Maeze is the Bombjes, or fmall trees, not Boomb kay; and it ftrikes me that 4his fireet was not originally intended for a quay, but as a walk for the inhabitants. On the Eaft fide of the town there are large dockyards belonging to the East India Company, and to the Navy. Some years ago a compleat fet GENT. MAC. January, 1899,

of storehoufes were built for the utter and form a handfome building facing the river.

In Holland the lower claffes are utter ftrangers to delicacy; and, as fuch, I am not at all afonifhed to find that the anatomical hall had been shown by a woman.

I heartily join in the praifes beftowed upon Mr. George Craufurd; he, and his brother his Majetty's agent, were always ready to fhow every attention to firangers in general, and in particular to those recommended to their very refpectable houfe.

The reverend paltor of the Epifcopal church was prefented in 1795, by the lord bishop of Ely, to a living in Čambridgeshire; upon which he refides, and difcharges the duties of a parithprieft with great zeal. He was married 15 months ago to one of his former parishioners.

The English merchant in queftion full continues his experiments in animal magnetifin, and upon the fame woman, whom he confiders as an Gracle. Credat Judus, Aprila non

ego.

The trade of Rotterdam being principally carried on with Great Britain, many of the inhabitants fpeak English. It is alfo a very good place for a young man to learn bufinels; and in order to acquire knowledge and expericace in this profetlion, he must banita from his mind all that foolish pride and vanity with which the heads of English youths are frequently filled. To be a Briton is, I acknowledge, a title of which every man ought to be proud; but that ought not to make young man defpife nis fellow clerks, or think it beneath him to fweep the desks, to carry money, or to do any thing he is defed to do. Difcipline is as neceffry in the counting-houfe as in the Geld.

In aufwer to one of your Correfpondents, I beg leave to obferve, that the game of Mail is quite different from cricket; it is merely friking a wooden ball a given diftance, in as few ftrokes as pollible. In the Uni verfal Magazine for November, there is a defeription of the game, played by Charles II, in the Mall, which is exactly the fine as that played at Utrecht. In Scotland the boys "play at a game very like cricket, ca led Cat and Dog. Yours, &c, SCOTUS, Mr.

London to afcertain the fact. The following is Sir Jofeph's answer:

"Sir J. Banks has for more than a year taken two tea-ipoons heaped up of ginger powder in a pint of milk boiled with bread, and fweetened with fugar, for his breakfaft; the weight of the ginger i. between two and three drachms; at brt this quantity was difficult to fwallow, if the ginger was good. Sir Jofeph then was guided in his quantity by the effet it had on his fom.ch. If it made him hic-cough, he thought the dafe too large. Sir Jofeph fourd occafionally that it profaced ardor urine; but this went off without any ill Confequence whatever.

"Sr Jofeph has not yet found it neceffary to create his dofe; but he now ufes rather a coat fer powder than he did at fith, which mixes more eafily with his milk, and poffibly produces more effect than the fine. He his, fince he used it, had one fit of the gout, but it was confined entirely to the extremities, and never affailed either his head, his loins, or his ftomach, and it lasted only fever teen or eigh

teen days; but the last fit he had before he took the ginger affected his head, ftomach, and loins, and lafted with intervals from the end of October to January. Sr Jofeph's pulfe ufed to intermit one stroke in five or fix: it is now quite regular, and has been fo for feveral months.

"Lord Rivers has taken ginger in large dofes for more than thirty years; he is now more than eighty, a hale, upright,

and healthy old man.”

I could have wifhed that Sir Jofeph had been more circumftantial. How ever, I immediately began the ufe of ginger in fine powder, but in a much fmaller quantity; as, from Sir Jofeph's own account, his dofe teemed to me to be too large for him, and by nature he is of a nuch ftronger conftitution than I am. I therefore began with about a drachm, equal to fixty grains daily, which I found enough for me, as it fometimes heated me, which was all the immediate fenfible operation I ever felt-but this quantity may be too finall for many constitutions.

I have now to relate the happy confequences that I think have accrued to me from the quantity of ginger which I have taken, and am continuing to take. I have juft recovered from a very flight attack of the gout, which confined me to the houfe for about three weeks only. I might deferibe this attack in Sir Joleph's own words; for I had no part of my frame affected but my feet, and they fo flightly, that I neither loft an hour's Deep nor my

ufual appetite, but what might have been expected from want of my common exercife. To thofe who may be inclined to make the fame experiment, I would advife circumfpection in fo far as to confult a phyfician; especially if they have reafon to think that their conftitutions are liable to any other dif order, which, perhaps, might forbid the ufe of ginger. How far, it may be afked, has the ginger contributed to mitigate this latt paroxyim? only anfwer, that this is a faithful relation, which will enable every one to judge for himfelf. A. STENHOUSE.

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Tthor of a literary journal with the

above title, which commenced in January, 1686, at Amfterdam. I purpofe fending you from time to time felect extracts from it, with occafional illuftrations and remarks of my own. I now fend you fome extracts from the firft article in the Bibliotheque, which contains a Review of the Epifiles of Grotius. SCOTO BRITANNUS.

The Epifiles of Grotius were publified at Amfterdam in 1686, in one volume folio, with the following title,

Hugonis Grotii Epiftolæ, ex officina Blaviana." This volume contains upwards of 2500 letters of that great man, in chronological order. The firft, which is addrelled to M. de Thou, is dated April 1, 1599; and the laft, which is addrefled to William Grotius, is dated July 1645, a month before the author's death. Thefe letters comprehend an immenfe variety of fubjects. Le Clerc arranges his extracts from them under the five following heads: Criticilin, Theology, Jurifprudence, Hiftory, and Politics. The fubject of the first extract, under the head of Criticifin, is the origin of the Latin language; which, according to Grotius, has fearcely any words that can be traced back to Phrygia, whence the Latins derived their origin; nor even to Etruria, whofe language was the most antient in Italy. He endeavours to fhew that the origin of the Latin language muft be fought in a dialect of the Greek language, the Greeks having occupied a confiderable part of Italy as well as of the neighbouring islands, "which went by the one of Alagna