418 RING OF SATURN* 



to afcertaln) when m the the opinion of fome who pretend td 

 be connoifi'eurs, the females are equal, or nearly fo indelicacy. 

 Crabs are in feafon nine months in the year; May, June, 

 and July are the only months in which they are not. Some 

 pifcatory epicures pretend to certain marks for diftinguifliing 

 good crabs, but they are very far from being infallible; per- 

 haps the moft general diftinflion is, that a good crab has a 

 lliell of a dufky red colour, with a certain degree of rough- 

 nefs, particularly on tiie claws ; while the bad ones have fliells 

 •white, clear, fmooth, and watery ; but the diftindion is much 

 better underftood from obfervation than any detailed account. 

 Trufting that you, Mr. Editor, will have the goodnefs to in- 

 fert this communication, and that your correfpondent, ** the 

 Enquirer," will do me the jufiice to believe that my fole mo- 

 live for troubling you was to give information, I am with 

 efteem, Sir, 



Your moil obedient fervant, 



AMICUS, 

 Arbroath, March 4^, 1806. 



VII. 



■Frohahiliiy that the Hindoos ivere acquainted ivith Saturn's Ri7ig, 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



1 TAKE the liberty of requeuing the infertion of the 

 following quotation in your Philofophical Journal, from the 

 7ih vol. of Mr. Maurice's Indian Antiquities, page 605. If 

 it does really mean the ring of the planet Saturn, perhaps fome 

 of your readers can explain how ii could have been difcovered 

 by the Brahmins in fuch remote ages. 



Your*s refpe6ifully, 



April 7 y 1806. . A. B. C. 



Ijitraft from ** ^ have already intimated in a former volume, that the circle 



MauricK's In- formed around Sani (the Saturn of the Hindoos) by inter- 



n iqui les. j^jj^jj^g. ferpenis, was probably intended to denote his ring. 



1 have fince had the figure engraved for the reader's infpection 



and decifion. It is iinpoffible to afcertain the-exad age of the 



pidured jmage in the Pagoda, from which the portrait was 



taken J 



