Fine AtH. $qs 



fld in Derbyshire," (the result of much local research and 

 patient investigation,) and of a paper on Roltenstone, in the 

 Manchester Memoirs, 8cc. ; and he is sorry to learu by a 

 recent ktter from Mrs. Martin, that the generous contribu- 

 tions of her late husband's friends, (for which she desires 

 to express the utmost gratitude.) and the small income that 

 she has from her situation as Librarian to the Macclesfield 

 Reading Society, have proved ralher inadequate to the sup- 

 port of her family, and necessitate her to another appeal 

 to the generosity of the public, for enabling her to meet the 

 increasing difficulties of her situation. 



7'he Editor understands that some copies of the two first 

 mentioned works remain yet on sale for the benefit of 

 Mrs. M. in the hands of Messrs. White and Cochrane in. 

 Fleet-Street, and who likewise receive and remit the con- 

 tributions of the ffelmg and humane; as does also Mr. 

 Wilson Lowry, of No. 57, Great Titchfield-Sueet ; and 

 the Editor would gladly do the same by any sums that may 

 be sent to his Office in'Pickett-Place, Temple-Bar. 



Mr. W. Davis has in the press a fifth edition of his 

 Treatise on Land Surveying by the chain, cross and off-set 

 staff*; a description of the new invented plan and map 

 meters, and a supplement on conducting subterraneous 

 surveys, greatly improved, enlarged, and newly arranged j 

 10 which will be added a portrait of the author. 



Also No. XVI. of the Gentleman's Mathematical Com- 

 panion for 1813, is in great forwardness. 



THE FINE ARTS. 



The lovers of Grecian sculpture must be pleased to hear, 

 that this country will receive a great and inipurtani acces- 

 sion to its stores, in a frize of alto relievo, JOO feet lon<r, 

 found by Messrs, Leigh, Cockerell, Foster, Biron Haller, 

 and Monsieur Linkt, at the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, 

 Phigalia, evidently one of ihe works of Phidias. From the 

 unconnected state in which the different parts were found, 

 the gentlemen who h^ive examined it have not yet been able 

 to uinte it sufficiently well to form an idea of the subject; 

 but, from every opinion formed at present, it appears to' 

 contain the two subjects of the quarrel which arose at the 

 marriage of Pirithou;.- with flippodainia, and the battle be- 

 tween the Amazons and the Athenians. Of the former 

 ^herc can be no doubt, since many of the events which 

 there occurred aic too remarkable to be mistaken, particu- 

 larly 



