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@ Cor. vii. 6. 
Gal. vi. at top. 
comforted for comforteth. 
liberal teachers for /iberad 
to teachers. 
rest for wrest. 
bare for dear, 
2 Pet. iii. 16. 
3 John v. 12. 
T have not had an opportunity of exami- 
ning any other stereotype editions of 
books, but a friend has pointed out to me 
an error in the Oxford stereotype New 
Testament, 8vo. Heb. vii. 21, where 
*¢ was an oath,” is stereotyped for “* with 
an oath.” ah 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR 
1 K 7 ILL any of your obliging musical 
correspondents inform me, though 
the medium of your excellent miscellany, 
who was the original inventor of that 
beautiful instrument the violin; which 
has for many years past attained its per- 
fection. 
_ As there are so many contradictory 
reports respecting its inventor and im- 
provements, I dare say many of your 
readers, who, like myself, are ignorant 
in this respect, will be equally thankful 
with me, in ascertainig its true origin, 
Greenwich. D. D,. Bacn. 
‘ ———— 
*Ta the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Sa friend in Scotland, whose only 
son was bitten lately by a mad dog, 
is extremely anxious to procure the best 
recipes for preventing the hydrophobia, 
‘and the dog-days are approaching, in 
which some of your readers may be in- 
terested in the matter, permit me to 
send you the following recipe, which I 
found hung in the parish church of Ley- 
ton, Essex, and which, with some others, 
T have transcribed and sent to my friend, 
For the bite of a mad dog.—Take the 
Jeaves of rue, picked from the stalks and 
Druised, six ounces; garlic, picked from 
the stalks and bruised; Venice treacle, 
or mithridate; and the scrapings of 
pewter; of each four ounces.’ Boil all 
these over a slow fire, in two quarts of 
strong ale, till one pint is consumed; 
then keep it in bottles, close stopped, 
and give of it nine spoonfuls to a inan or 
woman, warm, seven mornings together, 
fasting. 
This, if given within nine days after 
the biting of the dog, will prevent the 
hydrophobia. Apply some of the ingre- 
dients, from which the liquor was strained, 
to the bitten place. 
_ This receipt was, some years ago, 
Stereotype—Bite of Mad Dog. 
[July 4, 
taken out of Calthrop Church, Lincoln= 
shire, the whole town being bitten by 2 
mad dog; and all that took this medi- 
cine did well, while all the rest died mad, 
In a P.§. itis added, many years ex- 
perience have proved that this is an ef+ 
fectual cure. James Hart. 
St. Martin's-lane. 
: aE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR, 
F the following observations, in ad- 
dition to what has already been ad- 
vanced, in answer to the Query respect- 
ing the Moon, which appeared in one of 
the late numbers of your respectable Ma- 
gazine, be worthy of a place therein,. 
will esteem myself honoured by the in= 
sertion. 
The inference drawn from the moon 
always presenting the same face to us ; 
that, her seas are thus restrained from 
rising to too great a.heiyht over the land. 
on the side next the primary; affords a 
pleasing illustration of the provident 
care of the greatcreator; butI have often 
thought that such illustratfons would make 
a more permanent lnpression upon the 
mind, if accompanied with an investi- 
gation of the causes or instruments 
whereby such effects are produced. 
Your correspondents take it for granted 
that there is water in the moon; but be-. 
sides the inequalities discovered in the 
darker parts of her disc, there are much 
stronger reasons for believing there is no 
water. The light of these obscute re-. 
gions, supposed to be water, varies aca, 
cording to the angle of illumination, 
the altitude of the sun above their horie 
zou; and when the moon is near her 
conjunction, they are not much less lu« 
minous than the other parts of her dise, 
which could never happen if they were 
covered with water; for when a fluid 
surface is not ruffled by the wind, the 
light of the sun, or rather the image of 
the sun, could not be seen unless, when 
the eye of the observer was in the ling 
of reflected rays. 
La Grange has shown, that while the 
lunar surface ought to be elevated at the 
equator ; yet the elevation is four times 
as great in the direction of the diameter 
ofthe equator, that is directed to the 
earth; in the same way as the wa ers of 
the earth are always of a spheroidal form, 
the axis of the spheroid being directed - 
towards the moon; and, as Laplace ob. 
serves,* “ we may easily conceive that 
. System of the World by Mr. Pond, p. 218, 
vol, 2, 
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