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the route unfolds a treafure of marbles that aftoniflics the 

 beholder, and demonftrates, that, on any future occafion, the 

 quarries may be again wrought, and modern architeaure 

 equal that of the beft ages of Greece or Rome as to richnefs 

 and durability of ornament, if ever it fliall in juftnefs of 

 proportion, fimplicity of tafte, or unity of parts in one lub- 

 lime whole, which, indeed, feems fufficiently problematical. 

 On the 31 ft of November Mr. Brown returned to Affiut, 

 and on the 30th fet fail for Kahira, which he reached on the 



8th of December. 



[To be continued.] 



IV. Means propofid for faving the Crews of Veffels fhip- 

 ■ wrecked near the Coajl. By an anonymous Author *. 



JtLlGHT or nine years ago, being much ftruck by an ac- 

 count which I read of the Ihipwreck of twenty-four perfons 

 who perifhed fo near the fnore that their cries could be dlf- 

 tinftly heard, an idea inmiediatejy occurred to me, of endea- 

 vouring to difcover fome means proper for faving the crews 

 of fliipwrecked veffels, at leaft under fuch circumftances, 

 that is to fay, at the diftance of forty or fifty fathoms from 

 the fliorc ; for I did not then imagine that it could be done 

 at the diilance of two or three hundred, as I afterwards dif- 

 covered. I perceived at firft that the only means to fave the 

 crew of a vefTel in fuch a f^atc, would be to eftablifli a rope of 

 communication from the fliore to the fliip. After examin- 

 ing a number of means, both ancient and modern, I fixed 

 on a bomb or cannon-ball (a bomb I think preferable), to 

 which fliould be faflened the end of the rope, extended after- 

 wards in a zig-zag direaion before the mortar or cannon, or 

 fufpended on a pi'jcc of wood raifcd feveral feet. But as it 

 was nccelTary to know if the cord would not break by the 



* From a late French Journal. 



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