2 American MaiLcoacJies.— Population of the East Riding. [Aug. 1, 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SfR, 



SEVERAL of your correspondents 

 have very properly animadverted 



ground ; as, within the sliort space of fiY« 

 miles from IJull, there are tliree parishes 

 omitted, containing upwards of fourteen 

 thousand inhabitants. The nearest 



upon the danger and inconvenience of place, and whicli, by a stranger, cannot 



travelling in or upon our stage-coaches ; be known from a part of Hull, is Scul- 



but, besides tlie many dreadful accidents coates, containing 8,045 iuhahitants; 



to which travellers of this description this parish is iu tlio division of Hunsley 



are liable, many contract incurable dis- Beacon. The next is Cottingham, 



eases by exposure to the extremes of containing a population of 2,W^ ; 



the weather in this variable climate. *'" *— •■ 



I have several times, iu my life, been a 

 great sufferer, and that, too, in the sum- 

 mer monihs, from cold during the night, 

 and heat in the day. I have heard of a 

 number of instances of madness which 

 commenced while travelling in this 

 manner, occasioned, no doubt, by cold, 

 watchfulness, and the excitement of 

 terror. I have lately had two cases 

 nnder my own care, who were both 

 seized while riding on the outside in the 

 middle of the night, iji severe weather : 

 and I had lately a friend who was seized 

 nith a fatal apoplexy while in a like 

 situation. 



A remedy might, I think, be found 

 for the evils complained of in th« en- 

 terprising spirit of coach proprietors, and 

 the good sense of the public, who would, 

 of course, give a preference to vehicles 

 of a more safe and comfortable con- 

 struction. The form of the American 

 mail-coaches may furnish a useful hint: 

 the body of the coach should be set for- 

 warder, indi;ed nearer to the horses 

 than the coach-box is in those on the 

 present plan, a place for the driver's 

 seat being made out of the body of the 

 eoach ; and behind it all the seats should 

 be fixed for the outside passengers, with 

 a light frame-work over them, upon 

 which an awning, impervious to the 

 wet, should be drawn or undrawn at 

 ple?sure, no seat being permitted, or 

 any luggage to be placed higher than 

 the wheels. The coaches now ift use 

 seem only calculated to frighten the 

 timid, and endanger the bold. 



Thos. Bakewell. 

 Spririg Vale, Staffordshire ; 

 MaijG, 1816. 



To the Editor of the Mmithhj Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN your Number of January last, 

 page 486, wliere an exact enume- 

 ration of seven hundred of llie largest 

 British towns is said to be given. I have 

 noticed, that the East Riding of Y ork- 

 shire, particularly in the neighhonrhood 

 of II»iU, with respect to the pupulation, 

 -ts fhjown considerably into tiie back 



this town is in the same district as 

 Sculcoatcs. Sutton, a town in tlie 

 district or division of Middle Hol- 

 derness, contains 3065 inhabitants. As 

 Mr. Farey, in his Report of Derbyshire, 

 intends giving an alphabetical list of 

 the seven hundred towns he has men- 

 tioned, I hope he will see the propriety 

 of inserting the above three places in 

 their proper situation. Hull, with Scnl- 

 coates, contains 32,944 inhabitants. In 

 Mr. Farcy's enumeration, Hull, and tlic 

 villages in the county of the same town, 

 are all added together ; but, separately, 

 they are as follow:— Hull 24,299— 

 Anlaby 271— Hessle 984— Ferriby 315 

 — Swanland 377 — Kirk-Ella 272 — 

 West-Ella 103— Willerby 171 — The 

 whole making, according to Mr. Farcy's 

 enumeration for Hull, 20,792. -pyip 

 Banlis of the Humber ; 

 Juiie 12, 1816. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



HEREWITH you have an account 

 of the lato eclipse, as observed 

 here. 



Ipswich. — Eclipse of the Moon, 

 . Junc9, 1816. 

 Penumbra near to con- 

 tact . . llh. 23' 

 Eclipse commfnwd . 11 t& DifF. t' — . 

 from calcul. at 

 Greenwich. 

 ]) half eclipsed . 12h. O' 

 Appears as about four 



days old . . . 12 12 

 Wholly obscured by 

 the Villi shadow . 12 43 Diff.4'-|-fioia 

 calciil. at Greenwich. 

 Total darkness still 



£Bi«rsioa 



