is 16.] 



Cornucopia, 



Si 



passengers, each way, still seem com- 

 pelled to keep the right side of tlie 

 path; even there, you frequently see 

 females and children creeping close to 

 the shops and obstmcting the file : but in 

 the western part of the town, Piccadilly, 

 Bond-street, and Oxford-street, though 

 often crowded, tlie multitude seem so 



sity, in walking, of keeping constant 

 watch to avoid being jostled, and of 

 making a zig-zag cruise from one en4 

 of the street to the other. If you think 

 these remarks arc likely to be attended 

 to, and induce the walkers of the metro- 

 polis to liie observance of a rule so evi- 

 dently condusive to their own conve- 



«ntirely ignorant of the existence of any nience, pray insert them in your next 

 Snch rule, that you are under the neces- Numlier. X. 



CORNUCOPIA. 



Under this svperscription U is intended to scatter detached flotcem and fruits of literature, 

 similar to those deposited in the first fmty volumes <f the Monthly Magazine, tcilh the 

 title Port-fidio. — Ovid tells 71s, in his Fusti, that the she-gout which suckled Jupiter brokt 

 irff one iwrn against a tree ; that his nurse Amalthea picked it up, wreathed it tcith gar- 

 lands, filled it with grapes and oranges, and thus presented it to young Jove, who made it 

 his favourite play-thing. When he was grownup, and had acqui7-ed the dominion of the 

 heavens, he remembered his horn of sweetmeats, made a constellation in memory of it, and 

 promoted Amaliliea to be thegoddess of plenty, or fortune, whose symbol it became, Tliis 

 horn is called cornucopia, and is feigned by the mythulogists incessantly to shed a to- 

 viety of good things. 



NKPHELOLOCY. 



THE classers of clouds adopt three 

 main divisions. Some vapours, 

 they observe, float in a solvent atmos- 

 phere, and tend to disappear. These 

 5irc called cirrous clouds, from the hair- 

 like pointed form of their extremities. 

 Some vapours float in a saturated atmos- 

 phere, and tend to preserve their volume. 

 These are called cumidous clouds, from 

 the enduring heaps they form ; they ex- 

 hibit circular contours. Other vapours 

 float in an atmosphere overcharged with 

 moisture, and tend to precipitation. 

 These ate called stratous clouds, from 

 their sinking fjuashed appearance. 

 The cirrous clouds have a bristly, the 

 cumulous a fleecy, look ; the stratous 

 Lave a likesu^ss to combed wool. The 

 cirrous ail'ect a straw colour, the stra- 

 tous a gray, and the cumulous a garish 

 mixture of both hues. 



It sonintinies happens that clouds 

 "arc floating between two currents of air, 

 fir layers of atmosphere, of unequal tem- 

 perature, and solvent power. In this 

 case, the upper surface of a cloud may 

 tend to .solution, and to a cirrous si\)- 

 pcarance; while the under sinface tends 

 to preci|;itatioii, and to a stratous ap- 

 pearance. Sucii clouds are aptly called 

 cirro-stratoits. J5ut the reverse may be 

 true; the np[)er surface may (end to 

 precipitation, and the lower to solution. 

 And here tlic received nomenclature is 

 deficient; such clouds should bo called 

 Mtrato-cintut : the fir&t half pf thu com- 



pound epithet describing the state of 

 the upper surface. 



Sl'PF.RlICIALITY OF ADDISON. 



The example of Quadratu.s, observes 

 Mr. Gibbon, may give us an idea of tha 

 blind, or, perhaps, artful credulity, with 

 which Mr. Addison composed liis ad- 

 mired little treatise of the Christian 

 religion. He describes this apologist 

 as a famous philosopher, a convert, and a 

 martyr. See Addison's works, vol. iii. 

 p. 290. 



Dr. Cave (Hist. Lit. p. 32,) w as not 

 half so well acquainted with liini. I do 

 not find the least trace of his conversion. 

 His martyrdom is founded only on th» 

 modern martyrology of the Greeks. 

 There is no other proof of liis philosophy 

 than his being an Athem'an. 



jNfr. Addison boldly asserts, (p. 301,) 

 that there never was a single martyr 

 among the primilivc heretics, jind even 

 draws inferences from this assumed fact, 

 in favour of the truth of orthodox Chris- 

 tianity. To connect different degrees 

 of persuasion wi(h dift'crent modes o^ 

 ojiinion, appeared to me (adds IMr. Gib- 

 bon,) highly unphilosophical ; however, 

 I consulted Dr. Middleton, who had 

 placed the Ciiristian Martyrs (works 

 vol. i. p. 1G2 — 173,) jn his I'Vee Inquiry, 

 under anew and curious light. He im- 

 mediately informed me, from the au- 

 tliority of all history, and particularly 

 that of F.usebius, (Hist, liccles. v. 16,) 

 that tlio heretics had their martyrs a» 

 wcU an the orthodox. Upon vciifyina 

 V 2 tUo 



