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46 execution of abbot Whiting; effays on paintings and painters,and on Gothic architecture and caftles; at Salisbury 7 pages introduced from Bentham on Gothic architecture; a panegyric added on Alfred; an extract or two from Leland, Camden, Whitehurst, and Shakspeare; an elegy on the death of a fellow traveller; the adventures of a French lervant badingging with his companions, and the forenade of a gentleman roaring for his breakfast on cold fowl and ale at four in the morning; the pig's ftone near Newcastle from Grofe; Verftegan on Burgb; a new Erfe fragment; extract from an itinerary poet, and another whofe name is forgotten; "the beart frings melted, and who'e air "rivetted us to the spot." All that we bad, therefore, was filently to withdraw, and from our fouls depre- cate comforts on the head of fo harmlefs and benevolent being," the thanks of whofe cows are most unfortunately omitted in the fecond edi

Critique on the Second Edition of Sullivan's Tour, &

rion.

TRITE REMARKS. "The prevention of an evil you know is much more eafy, as old C-n used to tell us, than the ftopping of it."

Lord Lyttelton "winged his foul to immortality;" and his grotto feemed "the fecret cell of fome minifter of. goodnefs. The great merit of his park is, that there the tender fawn finds a brow for play, and the little lambkin fkips about for joy."

The turpitude of bafeness.

Every thing breathed the air of calmnefs and ferenity; first edition, harmony and love.

AFFECTED PHRASES.
Our regenerated Hecate, for the old
woman who fhewed the Okey hole.
Wells caftle is rudely Gothic.

A bundle of papirus bound together according to the cuftom of the Egyptians, or of the Palmera, according to the Hendoos of this day.

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Care that Mr. Lewis pays to it.
A centrical point of view feized hold of

A Dives gnawing his own exiflence

in Fairford windows.

Mark the poetic rife! in defcribing a wet morning, omitted in the fecond edition, and every thing promifed as unfavour

The Monthly Reviewers can find nothing in the 3d and 4th volumes of the Antiquarian Repertory, but a quaint Scotch epitaph, which certainly fuggefted a hint to Mat. Prior.

ably as our most adverse stars could poffibly entail.”

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Witty remarks on figns; but we have loft the little woman at York; and the monsters; and the Amen intuitively whifpered the little orphan; fecond edition, my companions.

HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL
ERRORS.

Canute's charter to Glaftonbury does not forbid the king or his fubjects coming within any part of the bounds without leave of the abbot, but exercising jurifdiction there, and interfering with that of the abbots. See his charter, Stevens' Monaft. 11. App. 114. from Malmbury the choir walls were not remaining 10 de geft. reg. Ang. p. 42., Great part years ago; nor was St. Mary's chapel then a ftable. St. Jofeph's, which is entire except the roof, is totally unnoticed, and only one of the abbot's inus mentioned. It may be doubted if there ever was a church on the Ton.

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What a dreadful mistake is it to say, and to repeat, that Edward the CONFESSOR lies buried at Shaftsbury, when every Cockney must know he lies, buried at Weftminster! Edward the Martyr was buried at Shaftsbury about 100 years before.

pieces at Fonthil is fupported by terms One of the elegantly finifbed chimney of Galen and Hippocrates, the former having his lap full of phials with labels, like an apothecary's runner.

of the ruins of Glastonbury-abbey.

At Stourhead a good painting dug out

St. Peter's Pump, a little building, carried from Bristol to Stourhead, and placed round the head of the round Stour.

In the fecond edition we are told, gallows it fignifies the banging ones, Stonehenge fignifies, in Saxon, a Stone which is very different from itones on which people are to be hanged.

It was not the difcovery of the figure rife to the inititution; but the monuof the boy bishop at Salisbury that gave plained by and referred to that inflitution. ment of a boy in epifcopulibus is ex

The amende bonorable is made to that Wilton is devoid of every principle Lord Pembroke; for, inftead of faying of elegance or tafle, we are now told, that it is rather calculated for conveniency than fhew; which is furely the highelt compliment that can be paid to any house: the road to it, instead of being dirty, is indiferent; and the " wonderful collection of antiquities not to be equalled by any perfon's in England, or perhaps in

Europe."

Critique on the Second Edition of Sullivan's Tour, &c.

Europe." It has been long fufpected, that the bufts and ftatues, however valuable in themselves, had that value enhanced by falfe names *. Our traveller has new chriftened fome, and put others together, fo as to make one of two. Afinius Pollio, Lucilla the wife of Elius †, but really the wife of Lucius Verus, as Portia the wife of Brutus is fome later emprefs. Buft of Berenice mother of Alexander Severus. The bufts of Hoace, the confular of Corumodus 1.

Át Castle Howard we have bufts of Antoninus Galba, and Jeta, Lucella fifter to Commodus.

The pavement faid to have been found at Chepflow, 1698, was really found at Caerwent.

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cially when an adventure attends it, and a new acquired friend in its owner, an old bunks.

The most wonderful of all Mr. Sullivan's adventures in the defcent into the three mile cavern, which we fuppofe, for we never heard of it before, must be between Sheffield and Castleton. Previous' to this hazardous attempt, a paper of memorandums was left in their efcrutores,

and a card in cafe of accident.

They defcended 980 feet, and travelled about three miles, in which they crawled a mile on all fours; forded an ocean up to their waifts, efcaped a fall into a yawning gulph, with one knee bruifed, the other almost worn out, and both fides and back torn and renched, with a fingle candle's end for fome space.

Q. Where at Tintern, or Fountain's Abbey, are the infcriptions that inform Mr. King has carried Coningburgh us of their dedication and erection and caftle back as far as any of our Antiwhat are the curious figures carved on quaries; yet does not venture to carry it the fides of the ball windows at Caer-higher than the Saxons*. But Mr. Sulphilly? The coins found there are Nuremburg tokens.

Newport on the river Usk, between the mouth of that river and the Caerleon. Caeriton is not a river.

The magazine of Cardiffe caftle for the keep, as it is vulgarly called §. Is not this caitle the property of Lord Cardiff? Akefmancester the city of Valetudina

rians.

Bath furrounded by walls. Certainly not in 1778. The town remarkably elegant and clean, means the upper town. William the Conqueror had feveral lodges in Windfor Foreft.

The idle story of a bishop fafting the whole Lent, because he is reprefented as a fkeleton on his tomb at Wells, in which church the figures removed from Glaftonbury are called monumental figures, dug out of the ruins, one in particular of friar Milton. Who was he?

A Chinete Mf. in the library at Wells, puzzles our traveller more than the verger; for might not fuch a Mf. be "compofed and printed by wooden blocks, which it is known the Chinese poffefs, and bound before the invention of paper, of which we so much boast." But a paper-mill is bighly entertaining to our traveller; efpe

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livan pronounces it "an old Roman pile; and fays, the well-known rhyming epis taph in Doncafter cathedral is a monument of an earl of Doncafter."

Not a file of Beverley minfter, but the north end of the north tranfept gave way.

Pickering is made as inconfiderable a village as Thornton, when it is a wellknown market town.

The charnel houfe is the leaft curiofity at Ripon.

Our traveller is perpetually opening views and objects, fingle and in a prodigious fine affemblage; of the refervoir at Studley the thores are well fwelled in lawn and planted.

Inverary is the county town of that name. Query, "of the fhire of that

name."

"Deluged with rain almoft the whole year round, his Grace of Argyle is [as we were told] obliged to frew [fome of] his meadows with tarpaulins to dry his hay." Thus the fecond edition faves the credit of the firft.

Leatherby, the feat of lord Graham, is Netherby, the feat of Mr. G.

A moft happy conjecture, that the old crofs in Penrith churchyard was a pillory. Arthur's round table, which fands near

that town, is a circular earth-work. "The ditch round Lancafter caftle is faid to have been made by the emperor Adrian, and Conftantinus Chlorus, who commanded in Britain about the beginning of the 4th century, caufed two

*Archæol. VI. p. 244.

towers

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Critique on the Second Edition of Sullivan's Tour, &c.

towers to be built, of which fome traces are ftill remaining."

Mr. Lloyd's adventurous defcent into Elden hole feems to have made no im preffion on the neighbourhood. He found the depth but 62 yards from the mouth, and 14 juft below this covered up; confequently it should not be fuppofed bottomlefs any longer.

The flight of fteps at Ilam are now counted, and amount to scarcely nineteen ; and the infide passengers at Buxton left

out.

Birmingham Aruck him with incbantment, the first edition; but the impreffion is worn off in the fecond; and the pretty addrefs to Courtesy is left out.

Is not Pensford a market town on the river Chew? and the place of druidical worship in its neighbourhood, fo flightly paft over, the Wedding at Stanton Drew? Southampton is degraded to a village. At Berkeley caftle Mr. Sullivan found an animated portrait of Mary wife of James I. but this did not make amends for the neglected state in which the castle is kept, or the fhewing Sir Francis Drake's bedstead, or Lady B's work, or for fetting the steeple fo far from the church, which, however Mr. Sullivan may have conceived, he will find was not the whim of the vestry.

MISNOMERS.
Workingham for Oakingham.
Eaton for Eton.
Longleath.

Deptford, Wilts, for Catford.
Abresford, for Alresford.
Land-caught, for Llancot.
Tentern, for Tintern.

Carwent and Kerwent, for Caerwent.
Debigot, for de Bigot.
Ponteprietbe, for Pontytypridd.
Althrington, for Althringham.
Ludlow was a mifprint for Lumley,
and is corrected.

The boldest of all is Barnard for Barnard cafile.

Kin Rofs, Lock Leaven.
Emont, for Emmot.
Prefs inn, for Prestoun.
Boxbour, for Cockburn.
Cammelfworth, for Camblesforth.
Efcirk, for Efcrick.
Thurfk, for Thirsk.

Ferrby, for Ferriby.

Howdon, for Howden. Courick, for Cowick.

* See Pail, Tranf. Ixi, art. 31. Gent, Mag. XLII 583.

Fountaine's Abbey.

After defcribing the pictures at Wardour caftle, 25 pages are added, with a lift of paintings and painters, though our traveller can hardly fpell one of their names right; but talks of Holemberg, Carlo Moratti, Roza de Tivoli, Salvato Roza, Luccotelli, Domenicini, Tennailly, Verepirl, for Verepail.

Michael Angelo. Pacci (Pace) di Campidoglio.

Sabas and Marco Ricei, for Sebastian and M. R.

Guileppe Chiari, for Giofeppe.

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A young woman holding a bundle of fchalken is actually retained in the fecond edition for a young woman holding a candle. By Schalken.

Manilella Scantilla, for Manlia S.
A Pieta, for a Pieta.
Baptisto, for Baptifta.
Brifeius, for Brifeis.

Henry II. on his pilgrimage by Chiaroferri, for Ciro Ferri, afterwards called Cerri Ferri.

Tilippe Lauri, for Filippo L.
Skimmicar, for Scheemaker.
Leley, for Lely.

Strozzi, for Strozzi.
Canoletto, for Canaletti.
Pollinberg, for Polemberg.
Jeta, for Geta.

Parfon Souple. Mr. Walpole calls him Scruple; and fays, this portrait of Lacy in Windfor caftle was drawn by Michael Wright. Q. Is this at Lord Foley's a copy? Dr. Nafh takes no no tice of it. The windows in the church annexed to the house, painted by Price, came from the chapel at Canons.

Thiefs, for Thieves.
My Lord Scarfdale.
Iflots.

Corredores, Labon for Laban, Haram for Hagar, Bacchanalean, Mercury's petasies, petrifacted, Pietra for Pietra, Marcus Modicas for Modius, Appolonius Tyanæ, St. Sebastion.

I conclude this critique on the moft flippant of all tours, which I could not, however, forbear making an example of:

"Adieu, therefore, my friend. The patience with which you have borne the rougheft poffibly of all rough attempts at delineation, demands my warmest acknowledgements." Yours,

TOPOGRAPHUS.

* Anecd. of Paint. vol. III. p. 42.

MR.

Review of New Publications.

1. Richardi Relhan, A. M. Collegii Regalis Capellani, Flora Cantabrigienfis; exbibens : Plantas Agro Cantabrigienfi indigenas, fecundum Syftema Sexuale digeftas, cum Charac teribus Genericis, Diagnofi Specierum, Synonimis felectis, Nominibus trivialibus, Loco natali, Tempore inflorefcentiæ.

HE author of the Flora Cantabri

publick by a fhort yet fufficient preface,

d

which clofes with a declaration. that he
thall reft fatisfied if his labours tend to
facilitate the ftudy of botany. It is a
well-founded affertion, that the generic
and fpecific charac.crs of Linnæus are
Frequently too concife to lead the ftu-
dent to a certain knowledge of the
plant examined. Recourfe, therefore,
must be had either to the longer de.
fcriptions which he has occafionally
fubjoined, or to the works of other
writers. Books of fcience are too ex.
penfive for general purchase; and the
fatigue of fearching for information,
when good libraries are acceffible, is
too apt to difcourage the student. Mr.
Relhan has removed thefe difficulties
by giving the generic and fpecific cha-
racters of Linnæus, and adding a de-
fcription of every plant, either original,
or judiciously felected from the works
of the best authors, viz. Linnæus, Ray,
Haller, Dillenius, Curtis, Hudfon, Sco-
poli, Pollich, Weis, Weber, Leers, &c.
The botanist, therefore, refident in the
county of Cambridge, may with cafe ac-
quire a knowledge of its vegetable pro-
ductions; nor do we mean to limit the
utility of this valuable performance to
fo narrow a circle, for, as the far greater
number of plants it contains is undoubt-
edly indigenous to the other counties of
England, it will be highly ferviceable
to the botanist, wherever he may be
fituated. But, in order that our readers
may form a correct opinion of the in-
duftry, and accuracy of the author, we
will prefent them with a fpecimen of
his method, which is entirely new, and
perfectly unexceptionable.

N.Elaria

Sem.

MYOSURUS. Gen. Plant. 394. Cal. pentaphyllus, bafi adnatus." quinque, fubulata, pecaliformia. numerofa. MYOSURUS Spec. Plant. 407. Syft. Plant. R. 778. Huds. Ang. 136. Hall. Minimus.] 1159. Raii Syn. 251. P. Cont. Holofeo affinis, Cauda muris. Baub. Pin. 190. Fr. Lond. Flor. Dan. 406. Miller, Illuft. Petiv. t. 39. f.. 7. Ger. 426.

Moufe-tail.

GENT. MAG. January, 1786.

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Borders of Corn Fields. A. IV. V.
Folia radicalia multa, gramine, angufta ad-
modum; verfus extremum latiora, 3
4 uncias longa.

Scapi plures. Semina in fpicam oblongam,
caudæ muris æmulam excerrunt. Ratus.
Periantbium pentaphyllum, foliolis oblongis,
obtufis, concavis, herbaceis, patentibus.
Unguibus poftice elongatis, appreffis, acu-

natis. Petala quinque, calyce breviora,
minutiffima, flavefcentia, unguiculata,
limbo patente, bafi fubtubulofa. Curtis.
Filamenta quinque vel plura. Curtis 4-6.
Manch. 7. Pollich. 5-1c. De Necker. 10.
Lyons MS. 7-12. Haller 20. Gmelin,

2. Britain's future Happiness confidered, on the Birth day of His Britannick Mai-fty George the III, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Fath, Duke of Brunfwick-Luneburg, Elector and Hereditary Treasurer of the Roman Empire, etc. etc. etc. Read at the British Coniul-General, Walter Shairp, Efquire, at St. Peterburg May 24, 1785, by a Naturalis'd Englishman, P. H. Printed at St. Petersburg, by Bernhard Theodor Breitkopf.

THE good-will of Mafter Peter Holftein, this naturalized Englishman, is fcarcely fufficient to atone for his inhumanity in torturing the English language. A fmall fpecimen fhall be given: "Then Jupiter bid Mercur, to affemble the Gods,

To bestow on His Reign Felicity below: Becaule He was good!-at which the God always nods;

To guard 'gainst Evil, their influence fhould show.

Then met, he declar'd: if His Ennemys made warr,

Jove's thunderbolts and balls fhould go with his Fleets;

As e're it has done, and triump'd in each jár,

When Comanders, affifted by valour, it meets."

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Review of New Publications.

- 50 3. The Remarker remarked; or, A Parody on the Letter to Mr. Bofwell, en bis Tour to the Hebrides. 800.

THIS knight-errant profeffedly fallies forth in defence of Mr. Bofwell and himfelf; "of Mr. Bofwell," he fays, "becaufe I thought he had been unjustly abufed; and of myfelf, becaufe my patience had been fo long affailed by the vain pamphleteers of this pamphleteering age, that I was determined at length, as Shakspeare fays upon a fimilar occafion, To take up arms against a fea of troubles, and "by oppofing end them."

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The merit of thefe Remarks, whatever it may be, is loft by its diftance from the original object. To underftand their drift, the reader fhould have before him not only the book remarked on, but that alfo which caufed the firft remarks; and hence alone arises a difgufting tedium.-The "Elegy BY Dr. "Johnson's Oak-staff" fhall be extracted, as a compeer to that taken from the Remarks, in our last volume, p. 978. "When first o'er Scotland's hills my courfe began,

With conicious pride as Ham looks down

on Peas,

So my tall head, tho' dock'd by knife of man, Look'd down, elated, on the Highland trees. "But now, my mafter loft, myself defam'd, Fall'n, fallin, fall'n, fall'n, fall'n is my crested pride,

While thrubs lift up their tops, no more afham'd,

And fhouting turse-búshes my woes deride.

"Haply fome pitying twig, that hears those

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4. The Adventures of the Six Princeffes of Babylon, in their Travels to the Temple of Virtue: An Allegory. Dedicated, by Permiffion, to ber Royal Highness the Princess Mary. By fubfcription. 4to.

THE writer fubfcribes herself to the dedication, "Lucy Peacock," and dates at "Lambeth." Glad we are that fuch talents are patronised by fuch a large and refpectable lift of fubfcribers. In, imitation of Spenfer's Fairy Queen, the paffions are here pleasingly and inge nioufly perfonified, with a laudable view to imprefs virtue on young minds, and, In Fairy Land, the good Benigna eduwhile they entertain, amufe and reflect. cates and inftructs fix lovely, exiled princeffes; but informs them that their parents cannot be reftored and reinftated to their dominions without their ob

taining Six Wonders, as a trial of their conftancy. "The firft (for the purfuit "of the eldest princefs, Miranda,) the

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Difaff of Industry, an ineftimable "treafure! for, by applying it to one "end of your right hand, you are in"ftantly put in the poffeffion of the "thing you defire.-The next (for the "care of Florifla) a Bottle of Water, "taken from the river of Good-nature, "endowed with the power of recon"ciling all differences, and being never "exhaufted.-The Spear of Truth to "the next, Clementina, having the.

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