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with an ease and elegance which no language either, antient or mo- 
decn Qu. is the writer acquainted with all these) ever attained. 
The few authors of the Augustan age, (an era sacred to fine writing,) 
who have survived the wreck of ages, and who are thoroughly refined 
in the furnace of time, bear ampie testimony to this afsertion. The 
writings ot Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and Livy, are models which we can 
neither excel nor equal. ‘Chey are monuments of antient literature, 
with which fortune has honoured the labours of industry, of taste, and 
of genius; and which, in her goodnefs, the has deigned to transmit 
to us as objects worthy of our praise and admiration. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The second favour of Criticus is received: As are also the two com- 
munications by Mica, and the communications by Aristides—all of 
which fhall be duly attended to. 
The critique by Trath Lover is too severe,—but with a little soft- 
ening fhall have a place. Y 
A Reader, if at all inserted, must find a place in the Index Indica- 
. tors. ‘5 
The remarks by Mica fhall appear when a corner can be spared 
which will snit them: 
If the performance figned Pematef, be intended for irony, it is not 
sufficiently pointed to answer the purpose.—TIf it be serious, it is too 
absurd for publication. 
The printed communication, signed Exstache de S: Pierre de la Val, 
does not pofsefs so much originality as would be required to intitle it 
toaplace asarepublication. — pes 
The additional remarks by 4 Rider are received, and fhall appear 
with thé firft conven ency. 
The favour by Extractor fhould have been sooner acknowledged,— 
but it was overlooked, having slipped unobserved between the folds of 
another paper: 
A Correction. ; 
The Editor is much obliged to R. J. for cotrecting an error respec= 
ting the little filh which was figured, Bee, vol. 15. p. 153. which 
is there said to be a non-defcrip,—though this. obliging correspond-' 
ent says it has been described by Gmelin, in his excellent edition of 
the works of Linnzus, under the name of Perca Polymna, and has 
been figured by Blosch, Tab.325, and Klein, Tab.2. F.8.—As the 
Editor is ‘so profefsed naturalist, and has no opportunity of consulting 
the best books on that subject, he does not pretend to guard against 
mistakes of th.s kind, as he must, in uncommon cases, rely upon the 
information of others. But where he is misled at any time, he will 
always be ready tocorrect his mistakes. Indeed it isno part of his plan 
to teach natural history scientifically —though’ it be entirely compa- 
tible with it to throw in siight notices on this subject occasionally, that 
may have 4 tendency to excite the attention in a certain degree to this 
Important branch of science, | 
