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maritime situations and for twenty miles inland. You have, indeed, in that 

 position, the delightful and bracing, but rare north-wester, known more by 

 description than by actual feeling; then you have the horrid north-easter, pre- 

 vailing more than a third, probably near half the year, penetrating walls, and 

 doors, and windows, and raiment, crucifying every fruit tree and ornamental 

 shrub on your wall exposed to it. In short, you select a predominant dose 

 of the worst winds, and a very short allowance of the best. And, as to the 

 sun, the meridian sun which falls on a south front, being so high before it 

 directly impinges on the wall, shines very obliquely downwards, and never 

 heats a south front much in summer; and in winter, when the sun is lower, 

 you get the most sun on that front : and the more you can then have, so 

 much the better. The direct east and west fronts are less heated in the 

 morning and evening of a summer's day, than the south-east and south-west 

 fronts ; and the northern aspect is much preferable in summer to the north- 

 western, which, in that season, is rendered very oppressive by the setting 

 sun. Now, with fronts to the four cardinal points, the two worst winds 

 and most prevalent in duration, viz. the north-easter and south-wester, fall 

 on the angles of the building, and thereby waste their force and their cold, 

 and their wet, in an oblique attack. 



It is stated by Mr. Felton (Vol. II. p. 481.), that Mr, Hollis ordered his 

 body to be buried in one of his fields at Carscomb, in Devonshire. The 

 fact is not correctly stated. Mr. Hollis's estate was at Corscombe, not 

 Carscomb, in Dorsetshire ; and the circumstance ought to be deeply fixed 

 in the memory of every man of taste, by the recollection of the beautiful 

 and enthusiastic allusion to the fact, contained in the Rev. Wm. Crowe's 

 poem of Lewesdon Hill, p. 21. 



" Fain would I view thee, Corscombe, fain would view 

 The ground where Hollis lies; his choice retreat, 

 Where, from the busy world withdrawn, he lived 

 To generous virtue, and the holy love 

 Of liberty a consecrated Spirit ; 

 And left his ashes there : still honouring 

 Thy fields with title given of patriot names. 

 But more with his untitled sepulchre. 

 That envious ridge conceals thee from my sight, 

 Which, passing o'er thy place north-east, looks on 

 To Sherburne's ancient towers." 



Now, Devonshire is all far to the west. 



Conium is not derived from kovis (conis), dust, which is a wholly different 

 word, and of a different root, being spelled with an omicron, or short o ; 

 whereas Kcaueiov (coneion), cicuta, is spelled with a long o, or omega, and is 

 derived, according to the etymologist quoted by Robert Stephens, in his 

 Thesaurus, 4. 1531., from an old verb Koiveca (coneo), signifying to turn round 

 like a top, which again is derived from mivos (conos), a cone : and the 

 name was applied, because the effect of drinking the juice of hemlock, which 

 was an ordinary mode of executing criminals at Athens, was to induce 

 giddiness and reeling, and a turning round of the person affected by it. The 

 learned Scapula concurs in this derivation; see Koivos. 



Your very valuable communication on limekilns, from Air. Menteath, 

 (Vol. II. p. 599.) does not convey any satisfactory information to me 

 in one very essential point, which he no doubt omitted from not ex- 

 pecting that any of his readers would be so stupid and ignorant as I am. 

 I want to learn how the heat is communicated from the fuel-chamber to 

 the lime, and how the fuel is replaced ; viz. whether there is an iron grate 

 or bars over the fuel-chamber, through which the flame and heat pass up- 

 wards to the lime, or whether the burning lime sustains itself in an arched 



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