544 
Hebrew Astronomical Sijmhot, 
[Jan. J, 
^liich it would have been far preferable 
for us to retain, with Scotland, and all 
the continental nations, were it only for 
the avoidance of tiiat degree of confu¬ 
sion which ohvays occurs in Latin reci¬ 
tation or colloquy, between an English- 
jnan and a foreigner. In the school 
where I received the Latin rudinients, 
we had a notable confusion from there 
being both Scotch and English teachers; 
part of the boys following one mode 
of sounding the a and r, part the other. 
■L* 
Tor the Monthly Magazine, 
Hieroglyphic a Heh'cea, Astronomica, 
Beoz Here-kalal Dobeh Benachash 
ityn bbp-mn nn ly’nDa 
nna-niiS sip naop dps 
Aor-medah Caph Dag Cassuba Peres 
I REQUEST you to point the above 
astronomical symbol, which I think 
i can prove to be 2748 years old, and of 
Syrophmnician origin, for the investiga¬ 
tion of your Hebrew and astronomical 
readers. 
1 wish to aay that I mean shortly to 
send a translation of it. In the mean 
time I shall only say, that it is formed of 
the names of a series of constellations, 
cliieliy circumpolar, and that it conveys, 
in a clear, connected, sentence, a most 
ancient memorial, as T conceive, of tlie 
process of the invention of the highest 
of human sciences. 
If this be published, and found wor¬ 
thy of regaid, 1 mean to illustrate in 
the same manner the astronomic import 
of Orpheus and Eurydice, the Lyre, and 
Hercules Ophiuchus, whom I take to be 
Orpheus, or the passage of solar light, 
under a ditferent symbol. 
I have given for convenience, and to 
point out to English readers the affinity 
of the names, the Hebrew in Roman as 
well in its own characters. 
Capel Lofet. 
Bury, Kov. 24, 1811- 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazhie* 
request the favour of you to insert 
these few lines, excited by the letter 
of Philo-Justitiae in your last Slagazine, 
it is only justice to the present high- 
Eheritf of Sussex, to accord with the en¬ 
comium on his exemplary conduct in 
office, so laudably conveyed by Philo- 
Jusiitis; but, in commending one de¬ 
serving character, it is liberal to avoid 
giving occasion to suppose that another 
has been negligent, which, by the man¬ 
ner of expression in that letter, and by 
silence on the subject of former visits to 
Horsham goal, by a well-known indivi¬ 
dual, who has spent much of a valuable 
life in the benevolent labour of visiting 
prisons, would lead a reader to suppose 
that no attention whatever had been paid 
to Horsham prison, by that philanthro¬ 
pist. 
If any of your readers will take the 
trouble to refer to the book published by 
James Neild, esq. entitled the “ State of 
Prisons,’' or to the Ger.tleman’s Maga¬ 
zine for September 1808, Letter 54, on 
Prisons, they will find some remarks on 
Horsham goal, and that the defects there 
mentioned, were particularly in the 
sheriff's province.' There it will be found 
that, “ in the debtor’s room, there was 
neither table, chair, or shelf, or any ar¬ 
ticle of furniture whatever, except to the 
fire-place, so that a poor debtor must eat 
bis victuals standing, or sit down on the 
floor; all work was there prohibited.^ 
Other observations occurred to Mr, 
Neild in his two last visits. 
1 trust, sir. that you will consider the 
insertion of this short dispatch as a cour- , 
tesy to a meritorious individual, who has 
devoted so much time and sympathy to 
prisoners, in all parts of our country: at 
the same moment, let me not be sup¬ 
posed to derogate from the merit of tlie 
present high-sheriff of Sussex, who has 
so humanely inspected Horsham goal; 
but, on the contrary, to give my testimony 
to his excellent character, and to hope 
that his laudable example will be imi¬ 
tated by his successors in that important 
and very responsible office. 
JSOV. 11, 1811. JUSTITIA. 
To the Editor of the'Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
1^0R several years past I have not 
jD seen, except in a slight degree, the 
Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, 
Whether in other parts of this island, 
more northward, they have been seen as 
frequently and beautiful as formerly, I 
wish to be informed. It is to be wished 
that registers of this phenomenon w'ere 
regularly kept in diffierent places in Great 
Britain, and elsewhere, and that par¬ 
ticular attention be given to note the 
attitude and place, with respect to the 
meridian; the centre of the canopy^ 
when one is formed, is,-='Paltor!, in Ins 
Meieorologicai 
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