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therefore be estimated at about seventy-five pounds per an- 

 num on each double house, a sum but trifling when compared 

 with the money at present sacrificed in obtaining that degree 

 of warmth and regularity of temperature which the establish- 

 ment above described may be anticipated to supply. It may 

 also be fairly expected that such an inclosed space would be 

 capable, under good management, of producing fruit to no 

 inconsiderable amount ; and the privacy of the houses would 

 be so secured by the appropriation of a small shrubbery to 

 each, that, without materially detracting from the comfort of 

 the place, a considerable revenue might be derived both from 

 persons in the vicinity taking annual tickets for the privilege 

 of promenading there m severe weather, and from the admis- 

 sion of strangers for the gratification of their curiosity. 



Persons embarking capital in such a speculation, would, if 

 successful, possess a description of property endowed with 

 such peculiar advantages as it would be impossible to com- 

 pete with by their extension to any house property already 

 erected; while even assuming that from prejudice or some 

 cause not capable of being anticipated it should be deemed 

 expedient to uncover the interior, they would still possess a 

 delightful square, surrounded by excellent houses, having its 

 grounds perfectly retired, and secure from those violent cur- 

 rents of wind to which squares laid out in the usual manner 

 are so peculiarly liable. Nor is it to be supposed that Go- 

 vernment would look with apathy upon a speculation, which 

 would not only be a convenience to the public, but which, as 

 far as it was carried, would have a direct tendency to decrease 

 the number of absentees. There is probably no speculation 

 to which the Government would be more disposed to grant 

 assistance in the way of a charter, particularly as it would be 

 in perfect accordance with the prescribed rule which restricts 

 charters to those undertakings which cannot be conducted 

 with advantage by individual enterprise. 

 Langton, near Spilsby, John Stephen Langton. 



Lincolnshire. 



LVII. On the Arabic Names of the Stars. By A Correspon- 

 dent. 



To the Editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. 



Gentlemen, 



THE names of the stars inserted on celestial globes and 

 maps are generally such violent corruptions of the Arabic 

 names for which they are intended, that perhaps the following 

 catalogue (with Bayer's Greek Letters annexed) of the names 



given 



