CONCERNING THE WIND. 171 



This letter is evidently a posthumous publication, and there- 

 fore may have been copied from that quoted by your corres-^ 

 pendent Mr. Webster. However, lest there be any doubt, one 

 being by John, the other by James Clayton, it is but fair to 

 make both authorities known, i"n order that the merit of this 

 discovery may no longer be disputed, nor claimed by any per- 

 son living. 



I am. Sir, 



With much respect. 



Your obedient Servant, 

 Long Acre, Feb. 10, 1807. Jos. Hums. 



IV. 



Curious Observations on the Wind, iyRoGERAsHAM. In 4i 

 Letter from a Correspondent 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



N the English works of Roger Ascham, which were re- introductory 



printed at London, in quarto, anno 1761, under the care of .^"^5.^^P*:*^* 

 ' T. ' ' ^ ing aQuotatioia 



James Bennett, I find a number of curious particulars; one of from Roger A&- 

 which I am tempted to send, for the information of your cham, 

 readers. In his Toxophilus, or School of Shooting, which 

 relates to Archery, the subject is handled in a manner truly 

 scientific and orderly, and such as is eminently calculated to 

 show by what care and attention our ancestors obtained their 

 pre-eminence in that celebrated art. The passage I now send 

 you constitutes part of a dissertation on the effects which the 

 direction and force of the wind, and the state of the air, may have 

 in preventing the archer from striking his maik. In our time, 

 these observations will be taken as bearing a more general 

 relation to the mass of atmospheric phenomena. But I will 

 not detain you with longer preface. I copy from p. 168, but 

 ^o not follow the ancient orthography. 

 I am. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 R. B. 

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