236 
‘¢ Gale MSS.” See Mr. Gough’s Cam- 
den, vol. 4, page 107. It is also stated 
by a late author, ‘* that the Caledonians 
were merely the inhabitants of the Ceyd- 
don, the Coverts, or the Woodlands, The 
Picti, Pithi, or Peithwi, &c. (for so it is 
said the name denotes,) were the people 
of the open country.” Now. the old 
names of places describe the chief features 
of the lands; but Caledon, rendered 
woods, distinguishes not the chief fea- 
tures of the country; and therefore the 
Woodlands cannot be a translation. In 
like manner Pight, rendered the open 
country, marks no chief feature of such 
country, and is therefore no interpre- 
tation. A great part of the globe is 
allowed to have been formerly covered 
with woods; they were the clothing of the 
hills, valleys, and plains; . but they were 
neither the hills, valleys, nor plains; and, 
being the attendants on these parts of 
nature, which were subject in all ages to 
removal, they were wisely omitted by 
those who originally gave names. [ will 
say nothing of the open country; in our 
times, to avoid research, every chiming 
word has been adopted. On the deri- 
vation in Camden, from hard, or hards, 
and cold, or.colds, I will be silent. “ 
A. B. 
ss 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
ANT of access to books and lite- 
rary persons, occasions me to 
trouble you with the following inquiries. 
For an answer to them, I should be much 
obliged to any one of your correspon- 
dents who has the ability and inclination 
to give me the desired information. 
With a just sense of the liberal and im- 
partial spirit which distinguishes your 
Magazine. N. 
March 4th, 1811. 
In Beausobre’s History of the Reformation, 
reference is frequently made to some remarks 
which it was evidently in the author's con- 
templation to affix to that work. Qu. Were 
they ever printed, and, if they were, have 
they found their way into this country ? 
Dr. Currie (Works of R. Burns, vol. ii. 
476, 2d edition) speaks of ‘‘the beautiful 
story of the Paria,” as being translated in the 
Bee of Dr. Anderson. Qu. In what volume 
of the Bee is this translation printed ? 
' Dr. S Johnson, in his Life of Pope, (Mur- 
phy’s edition of Johnson's works, yol. xi. 
i 
tern therefore implies the hills: the T in’ 
Chilt, is used for adding to the sound of the 
word. 
New Property of a Plane Triangle. 
[April g 
132,) says, that the ‘* Memoirs of Scrible= 
rus,” contain particular imitations of the 
History of Mr. Ouffle.” Qu. What is the 
nature, and who was the writer, of **the 
History of Mr. Ouffle;”’ and are copies of it to 
be purchased ? 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
> MONGST the Proceedings of 
Learned Societies in your Nun 
ber for the month of February, 1809, 
you have very correctly stated a commus 
nication of mine to the Royal Society, 
VIZ. 
“In every plane triangle the sum of 
the three natural tangents of the three 
angles, multiplied by the square of the 
radius, is equal to the continued procuct 
of the three tangents. “ii 
But in the succeeding Number, for 
the month of March, a correspondent, 
who signs himself Mathematicus, says, 
“The discovery of this property does 
pot belong to Mr, Garrard, for you wilt 
find it in page 38 of the mathematical’ 
part of the Ladies’ Diary for the year 
1797, in an answer to a trifling question, 
Now, Sir, I would wish you to insert this 
forthe information of your corresponds 
ent, as well as for my own vindication. 
The property of tangents, which 
have communicated to the Royal So- 
ciety, is a general prope of an un- 
limited radius, whilst that which is in- 
ferred by the correspondent to the Ladies’ 
Diary, is confined to the question pro- 
posed, where the given radius is unity. 
Also [ have farther to observe, that the. 
property there used is a postulate, drawn 
from my original proposition in the se- 
cond Number of the Scientific Recep- 
tacle, in the year 1792, which Mathe- 
maticus may see if he apply to Gale 
and Curtis, in Paternoster-row, and 
then I trust he will admit that the disco. 
very of the property does belong to me. 
W. Garrard, 
Royul Naval Asylum. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Smithfield Club, of whose prizes 
for the best cattle you have an- 
nually given an account in your Maya. 
zine,* at present consists of 277 mem= 
bers, of whom there are twenty peers, 
seven baronets and knights, and thirteen 
members of the House of Commons; the 
remainder 
* See a similar account last year, vol. xxixs 
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