MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
No. 376. ] 
JANUARY 1, 1823. 
[6 of Vol. 54. 
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SIR THOMAS ABNEY’s, ar NEWINGTON GREEN, wueErRe DR. WATTS 
LIVED AND DIED. 
Ir was the good fortune of this amiable man, in 1712, to secure the friendship of 
Alderman Sir T. Abney ; and, being invited to pass a week at his house, he continued 
there till his death in 1748. Cherished by the knight's family, he enjoyed in the above 
mansion greater ease and luxury than usually falls to the lot of men of genius. In 1723 
he lost his friend by death, but Lady Abney survived the Doctor a year. During this 
period he wrote those varions works, which, for good sense, sound morality, and 
rational piety, have nothing superior to them in our language, and here he enjoyed the 
friendship and society of all the eminent men of his time. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACT of @ LETTER from an OFFICER 
on the EXPEDITION sent to SURVEY 
the EASTERN COAST of AFRICA; con- 
sisting of the PUBLIC SHIPS, LEVEN 
and BARRACOUTA: dated Simon’s Bay, 
Cape of Good Hope, July 1822. 
Ww: arrived here after a tedious 
passage of five months from 
England; yet during that time had 
scarcely any calms, only three or four 
days foul wind, and, on one occasion 
alone, a spurt of wind that could be 
denominated a gale, and that blowing 
on our quarter. You will ‘ask, then, 
what could be the cause of detention? 
Montu_y Mac, No. 376. 
Why in visiting half the places in the 
Atlantic, to examine latitudes and 
longitudes, to ascertain particulars of 
site, to correct the errors of others as 
well as our own, and “ to make as- 
surance doubly sure,” that no latent 
dangers remain unnoticed to form 
stumbling blocks to future unwary 
navigators. 
Lisbon, our first destination, we 
reached very speedily from England, 
and remained there ten days, getting 
the rates of going of the chronometers 
with all possible accuracy; and pro- 
curing, lL understand, or endeavour- 
ing to procure, (for the jealousy of the 
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