-5,20 Cornucopia :— Earthquakes in Spaninh America. fJaji. 1, 



acas assented. — " And is not fiie whole Ireland, nnd the dominion of Francif, 



Athenian people," said Socrates, " niade In tlie 9tli of Hc^nry V. tl)e revenues 



lip of this sort of persons? If you arc amounted to i>5,734/. 10*. \()d. In the 



ilidifi'creiit about them singly, you may 12th of Queen Eliziibetii, the profits of 



surely be iudillercnt about them in the the kin<;dom (besides the Wards and 



mass. 



S.4X0N LAW. 



Tlie Sixxons Iiad a law, that who- 

 soever hud committed theft. ifliic2:oods 

 were foiuid in the liouse, all his family 

 vere made bond, even to the children 

 ill the cradle. 'I'his law was abrogated 

 by Caiuitc, the Dane, who ordained, 

 that oidy the malefactor, and such as 

 aided him, shoidd endure the punish- 

 ment; and that the wife (uiiless the 



Duchy of Lancaster,) were 188,197/. 4i'^; 

 the payments and assignments, 116,612/. 

 1 3s., of wh ieh tlie household wiis 40,000/. ; 

 private purse 2000/.; admiralty 30,©00/. 

 in Mny, 1604, the admiralty was 

 40,000/. 



ALPHABET. 



Now that schools for the instniclion 

 of the common people are about to he 

 ojicned all over Europe, which cau 

 hardly fail to give a new impulse to 



tiruig stolen were found niidcr her lock,) P'dilic mind, analogous 4o the introdac 

 should not be deemed guilty of her 

 Lu$baud's oli'cucc. 



POINTS. 



Fabretti, in his collection of ancient 

 inscriptions, published at Fonie in 1(J99, 

 observes, that " the ancients phiccd 

 Points at the end of every ■word ; but 

 scarcely ever at the end of a line, tiiongli 

 sometimes after every syllable." This is 

 exemplified in — ad. riNinusi ob. vkxi:- 

 RiT. DUM. TAXAT. This singular mode 

 Mas used in the Third century. 



It has been said that these Points 

 were placed iu ejiitapiis, in order to ex- 

 cite sympathy and grief in the mind of 

 the reader by these frequent pauses. 

 I'ut we find in Luj)! ( Epiiaphium Stve- 

 rce) the following inscription, which is 

 full of Points, without any sentiment of 

 pity or sorrow : 



IMF. CAES. M. AN. TO. NT. O. 

 GOR. DI. A. NO. PI. O. FE. IJ. CI. 

 AVG. P. R1. TKIH. POT. li. COS. PP. 

 roil. "NE. LI. A. PR;E. TEX.TA. TA, 

 IVL NAM. PI. E.TA.TEM. E. IVS. 

 «VE. SVOS. ET. 

 DI. CI.VM. 

 EN. Ti. AM..SV.AM. 

 BA.\'1T. 

 It would have been scarcely less in- 

 telligible had it stood without sepa- 

 ration — 



TOTIIEE;»iPEnORCAEi=An5r.ANTONIOCOR- 

 niAIMr-IOVSFORTVNATfcAVGVSVVS, &e. 



Ib this mode the most ancient manu- 

 scripts now exi.int were written. 



Rl^VBT<t'ES. 



Iu the 12th of Henry IV. the reve 



tion of printing; a continental projector 

 suggests the adoption of a new anil 

 rational alphabet, and the re|)rintal in 

 it of all elciuenfary books. I'his will 

 at once obliterate all extant literature, 

 diid enable the rising generation to 

 use cpurated editions of alt standard 

 books. 



SlNGl'I.JlR CUSTOM. ' 



The Scots had a custom (which be- 

 gan in the time of Ewen III.) that th« 

 king and his successors should sleep tlia 

 fast niglit w ith e^cry woman whose hus- 

 band held lands immediate ly from tli« 

 crown ; and tiie lords and genllemeii 

 with those whose husbands were their 

 tenants and homager. This was their 

 knight's service tenure, and continued 

 till the days of jNlalcolm'Conmor, who, 

 at the request of his wife Margaret (sis- 

 ter of Edgar lltiieling), abolished this 

 law, ordaining that the tenants, by way 

 of cominntation, should pay unto their 

 lords a mark in money, which is yet 

 in force, and is called Marc/iela Mu~ 

 lierce. 



EARTHQirAKES IN SPANISH AMERICA. 



There is a nice gradation in the se- 

 veral senses, in which an atUntion to 

 the labours of scientific and capable 

 travellers and voyagers is beneficial. 

 An extended knowledge of physical 

 nature, is [trobably the first in impor- 

 tance, — of political and social properties 

 and ca]lallilil)c^r, the second. But tiier* 

 is also a third kind of instruction, which, 

 if inferior to the two former in primary 

 consequence, is, probably, still nnwc 



mies and profits of Ihc kingdom, toge- delightlul to the general enquirer. This 



ther .willi the subsidies oi' wool and may be denominated, the li^Iit thrown 



tenths of the cl«M-gy, amounted to no by the works of accomplished fravellcis 



niore than 48.000/., of which 24,000 on the extensive compatibility of tlje 



iHarks v.cve allotted for the household hinnan mind. How many terrors in 



cxpcnce; most of tlie rest to guard iiie the eye of imagination, nay, in the sober 



g<^" ayid defence of this kingdom iu coutemplation of reason^, vauisli before 



daily 



