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1808.] 
his nobles and warriors falling on that 
‘memorable day— 
*€ Trauiuon, legend, tune, and song, 
Shali many an age that wail proiong 5 
Still rom the sie the son shali hear 
Oi the stern strive, and carnage drear, ~ 
O; viodden’s fatal held; 
Where shiverea was fair scotland’s speary 
And vioxen was her snieid “ 
The story, as the poet observes, is now’ 
at an end, ior he would disdain to write fur 
that’ dull elt”, who caunot image to 
his own mind, that ‘alter the figut of 
Flodden, De Wiltou’s taith was made 
plain, that’ he recovered bis rank, bis 
reputation, and his land; and that <iie 
was rewarded for all his suiteriigs in ihe 
affection and constancy of the tur aud 
virtuous Claya de Clare. 
Upon the whole, the most rigid critic 
mist allow the’ fabie of this poew, to be 
radicaily interesting: the strain of poetry 
to be vigorous and animated, and the 
catastrophe to be strikingly impressive. 
On-the other hand, the most partial-ad- 
miver of Mr. Waiver Scott must adiit 
that the conduct of tie story is aukward, 
embarrassed, audubscure. Many of the 
ineidents are. wild atid extravagant; the 
poem itseif is exteuded toa tedious and 
Insuflerable leugih; aud an fie, the 
genius which pervades the work-is not 
accompanied with that degree of taste, 
of skill, or of Judginent, “which is €s- 
sential to the acquisition of a high and 
périmanent reputation, 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
fq S a proof of the uncommon lateness 
of the spring of the present year, I 
here send a list of all the British plants I 
could find iu this neighbourhood previous 
tothe first of May, the insertion uf which, 
with the foliowing remarks, in your Maga- 
ze, may be acceptable to some of your 
readers. i made a memorandum of the 
day when I tirst obsetved each of them 
in flower. 
Jan. 9, Thlapsi—Common shepherd's 
purse. 
Feb. 29, Drabaverna.—W hitlow-grass. 
> March3, Beilis.—Daisy. 
Marcel: 12, Corylus.—fasel nut-tree, 
March 16, Senecio vulgaris, —Common 
groundsel. 
March 22, Primula vulgaris.—Common 
Pritirose, 
‘March —Lamium purpureum.—Red 
archangel. 
“April 7, Ficaria verna.—Pilewort. 
Apt 9, Viola odorata,—Sweet violet, 
Uncommon lateness of last Soring. 
‘middle of the forehead, 
229 
Ape 9, Veronica hederifolia.—Ivy- 
leaved dspeedwell. 
April 11, Anemone nemorosa. —Wood 
avemone, 
Apri 14, Leontodontaraxacum.—Come 
mon dandelion, 
April 14, Tussilago farfara. —Coltfoot. 
April 19, Glechoma.—Ground Ivy. 
April 20, Mercuri: alis perennis.—Peren- 
nial mercury, 
April 23; 
archangel. 
April 30, Tussilago petasites. 
terbur, 
These are all the British plants I dis-’ 
covered, a smaller number thanI ever 
recollect, within the time specified The’ 
plants which were observed iu flower in 
tle month of January 1806, were far. 
more numerous than ‘in, the first four 
months of the prescott year, which shews 
the uncommon variations of the seasons. 
to which this country is liable,” I have no 
doubt that the state of vegetatiun was’ 
forwarder, the last spring, in the southern 
parts of the Kingdom, as [ tind from your’ 
Naturalist’s Report, that many plauts are 
usually in flower in Hampshire, from 
whence it is dated, two-or three weeks 
earlier than in the vicinity of ‘this place,’ 
which may be attributed to the difference 
of elevation and of soil as well as of la- 
titude. Were a list of the plants in 
flower in the early part of the year, pub-' 
lished annually, with the day when tirst. 
observed, it would form perhaps a better 
rule of comparing the ftorwardness or 
backwardness of the seasons in diiferent 
years, than any other, supposing it to be 
made from the same or a similar situation, 
Your's, &c. 
Duventry, 
September 7, 1808. 
P.S. Imyour Naturalist’s Report for March 
last, there is a mistake, the Fragaria sterilig: 
is there called, Fragaria wesea. 
Lamium album,—White 
But- 
G. Watson. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
An arremprT to explain the monstrous: 
FIGURES upon the FRIZES in ANGLO-, 
SAXON CHURCHES, Wc, 
NE of the most remarkable sees 
cinens of this kind of exhibinon 
is the north front of Adderbury clrarch 
in Oxfordshire, engraved in Mr. Grose’s 
Antiquities of Eng sland and Wales, voli. 
p. 112. 
the thid figure in the front (upper 
rew) is a head with only an eye in the 
T shalt not 
quote any authority for a fact so well 
known 
