unpleasant doubts and furmifes; and I had everything to dread, and but little to expect to cheer me on. The demeanor of thote I paffed on my route, and of those with whom I fojourned at hours of refreshment, was molt d fcouraging. Fron, certain nods. half whifpers in half Welth half English, they made ufe of, indicative of my being a foreigner, a fpy, a morial of firange figure, the flocks, prifons, hanging, and a thousand other fignificant hints. my befieged intellects would never have been able to have held out against fuch inrefiftible terrors, had not fome propitious fiar, bleffed angel, or the like, flood me in good Read, lo as to recruit my flock of refolution, weakened by fo many repeated affaults. It was well the memory of St. David, Giraldus, and other diftinguished names, drew me the fame of the Saint's exifting fhrine, the cathedral, tombs, and other precious relicks, to invigorate my mental faculties; or I must have funk under my weary pilgrimage. Although many miles lay before nie to St. David's, yet every thing was dreary and uncomfortable; few houfes; and as for trees, it was with difficulty one could be difcerned; on the left the fea; on the right, a wide extensive plain with mountains in the diftance. I came up at laft to the remnant of aCafile, placed on a piece of rock juli fufficient to fuftain the walls, and known by the name of Roch Cafile. This bafement for the building is rather remarkable, as no other rocky eminence is any where near to be met with. A curious ftory goes with this fhell; the founder having on him one of the horrors of life, an untimely death, believed he fhould perifh from the bite of an adder; and, in order to avoid this calamity, erected his dwelling thus on high, the perpendicular and fmooth faces of which, he concluded, would prevent The crawling approaches of his poifon ous adverfary. This architectural precaution, however, did not fave the unfortunate Knight from the dreaded catastrophe, as will be thewn in its proper place. While nicely examining this extraordinary memorial of predeftined fatality, and preparing pencil and paper for my imilation, being (as I conjectured) in an uninhabited wild, and free from all thoughts of obftruction, I chanced to look into one of the arches which entered into the ruin. What an object prefented itfelf! an old withered creature, with bloodflained eyes and palfied lips. "Begone," he cried, (in English he spoke,) your prefence forebodes the downfall of this my wretched fhelter, and my exiftence; as an adder did of old the end of him who firft bade rife this nodding tower. You come to Cambria's fhores to gather reputation, an Artift's reputation; in giving to futurity the fhadows' of mighty ftructures, the labour of ages paft; to tell of innovations wrought on them by poffeffors; and to endeavour to raife in their inat tentive minds a defire to preserve, not deftroy, fuch architectural glories as blind chance has thrown into their power; but your endeavours will be delufive; your delineations, your remonftrances, fruitlefs, vain; and difcouragement fhall follow all your labours even unto the laft. A few enthufiafts like yourfelf, who prefume on the merit of doing well for the caufe of Antiquity, may hail you • fellow' in the useless purfuit, may pilgri mages go, be laughed to fcorn, be fcouted, held as men deranged;' what then? your performances will foon be forgotten and you will live to fee ere long more havock made on antient piles, than what has been perpetrated for thefe forty years paft. You will be compelled to witnefs fuch devoted works as may be permitted to ftand, modernized, improved, and be under the mortification to bow to the new fantastic erections ufhered forth to the world as 'chafte imitations' of your adored antient Architecture. Once more fay, begone, return and feek your native clime!" Here a fudden guft of wind, a fweeping cloud of duft, a violent shutting of iron creaking doors, a loud fcream, and a hollow groan, bore the wizard from my fight, and put an end at once to my intended imitation; my refolves deferted me; and, in fpite of all my affumed floutnefs of heart, my fleely guife, and all the rest of it, I put my profeffional implements into my pouch, tucked up my garb, cocked my beaver, and with any ftaff put the best foot foremost towards St. David's. Bad was the beft, as the precipices were in many fituations fo fteep and dangerous; fo deftitute of human tread, and fuch black and frightful crags to invite me on, that with a fort of forlorn hope I was compelled 1 7 compelled to brave the scenes before (To be continued) Mr. URBAN, 7Ents As July 23. PERHAPS fome of your readers who are verfed in biographical hiftory could inform me what became of the family of Dr. Peter Heylin, who died in 1662, and was at that time chaplain to King Charles II. prebendary and fub-dean of Weftminfier, &c. &c. He had been chaplain to King Charles I. and during the Rebellion fuffered much in his caufe. I fhould wish to know whether any defcendants of his family now exift. Any information refpecting the antient family of Highgate or Heygate, of Hayes, co. Middlefex (one of which family married the above-mentioned Dr. Heylin), would be very acceptable. The family of Highgate came originally from Effex, and left Hayes, where they had long been in the coninition of the peace, about the year 1630. They afterwards, I believe, removed into Northamptonfire or Leicestershire. June, 11, caufe belides mere heat or cold is com cerned in the formation of clouds and condenfation of atmospherical vapours. This caufe I efteem in a great measure the electrical fluid; indeed, electricity is now fo generally ad nitted as an agent in all the great operations of Nature, that it is no wonder to find the formation of clouds attributed to it; and this has accordingly been given by F. Beccaria as the caule of the forma tion of all clouds whatever, whether of thunder, rain, hail, or fhow; but, whether the clouds are produced, that is, the atmospheric vapours rendered vifible, by means of electricity, or not, it is certain, that they do often contain the electric fluid in prodigious quantities, and many terrible and deftructive accidents have been occafioned by clouds being highly electrified. The height of clouds is often not more than 7 or 800 yards above the ground; fometimes thunderclouds appear actually to touch the ground with one of their edges, but the generality of clouds are fufpended at the height of a mile or little more from the ground. The motions of the clouds, though moftly directed by the wind, are not always fo, efpecially when thunder is about to enfue; in this cafe they are feen to move very lowly, or even appear quite ftationary for foure time. The reafon of this probably is, that they are impelled by two oppofite fireams of air nearly of equal ftrength. In fone cafes the mo A excellent Magazine requests fome tions of the clouds evidently depend on of your ingenious correfpondents will Mr. URBAN, A. July 14. IT is now known that a feparation of the electricity, independant of any cur- GENERAL LIBRARY of grafs and other tender vegetables. In of the clouds are alfo probably owing to their electricity; for, in thofe feafons in which a great commotion has been excited in the atmospherical electricity, the clouds are feen affuming frange and whimsical fhapes, which are continually varying; this, as well as the meeting of fmall clouds in the air and vanishing upon contact, is a fure fign of thunder. The uses of the clouds are evident; as from them proceeds the rain that refreshes the earth; and without which, according to the prefent ftate of Nature, the whole furface of the earth must be a mere defart: they are likewife ufeful as a fcreen interpofed between the earth and the fcorching rays of the fun, which are often fo powerful as to deftroy the Meteorological Diary for June 1804, kept at Hull. Lat. 53o. 45'. Long. 14′ W, Meteorological Diary for June 1804, kept at Baldock. Lat. 52°. 2. Long. 5'. W. 81 64 Approxim. of wind to card, points video into 4 108 S 55 12 13R 55 14 29.9 5 63 64.5 3 765 58 57 .6c59258.5 .6861561.5 2 | Sale of Bom. Thermometer within. At z P. M. S 63 .81 R 70 75 St 6 .81 74 174 .715 69 171 5S 65 66 St 63 .72 R 60 62 51 62 165 St 65 71 .09 S 64 68.5 63 52 The equatorial regions of the folar world have this month been pretty productive of fmall macula; and as the e earth about this time (beginning of June) is in, or near, the nodes of the fun's equator, it being then in its plane, the pots appear to deferihe right lines over the folar difk; but as the earth recedes from the nodes, the paths of the spots become more elliptical, and the minor axis of the ellipfe becomes a maximum when the earth is 90° from the nodes, which next happens about the beginning of September. But to return, though the pots were in general finall, yet there were feveral fine clusters of them, particularly on the 17th and 27th. The largeft fpot was on the Suth; it was but finail when it came on; but has increased during the time of its traverfing the fun's face; i has bow almost reached the fun's Wettern limb. The fecule have been very vifible most days this month, and they have always preceded the fpots at their coming on, and follow them at their going off the fun. That the fecule are elevations appears beyond a doubt; for, when they are viewed in an oblique direction, they will often hide the macule fom view until they have pretty far advanced upon the difk, when the Eaftern fide of the penumbra first appears, then the umbra, and so on till the whole becomes vifible; and their going off is marked with the fame phenomena, only the eastern fide firit difappears; and as the obliquity increases, the fpot becomes lefs and lefs, putting on an elliptical form, increafing in eccentricity till the whole difappears, long before it reaches the fun's periphery; while others that are furrounded with lefs or no inequalities, will appear and dif. a pear at the limb of the fun in true projectional figures GENT. MA, July, 1904. T. S. Mr. AREA of the feveral Counties of ENGLAND and WALES, ia Square Statute Miles, and Acres, as measured on the Maps published by C. Smith (of the Strand), under the Title of "The New English Atlas, 1804; the Scale given on each Map having been examined, and correction applied to fuch of the Scales as were found to be erroneous. The Population of each County is annexed, and Number of Perfons to each Square Mile. COUNTIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. |