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1800.] 
higher ftations of life. I obferved a 
young lady to-day in a fafhionable drels, 
with a white gown, and veil over her face, 
firetched, like a fhepherdefs, at full lengih 
on the fade ofa green hill, a few yards trom 
the road. She was reading a book, from 
which my approach fcarcely drew any at 
tention ; fhe juft turned more on one fide, 
adjutted the bottom of her petticoat, and 
continued her application te her book. 
This incident, though tr fling in itfelf, 
marks, in fome degree, a trait in the man- 
ners of the people. 
I purfue my rout upon an excellent road 
(but with the fame general fault I econ 
ed before) along the margin of the Tweed, 
which divides the picafant vale, to Bee 
bles. Betcre I reach that town, the moun- 
tains recede a little, and make room for tne 
the vale to expand itfelf. 
Peebles is the principal town of Peeb'e- 
fhire or Tweedale. Its fituation is excel- 
lent, and buildings generally good. The 
town chiefly confilts of one long ftreet, 
which is clean and open: the Tweed wahhes 
one fide, and Eddleftone water, a {maller 
river, the other. “The church is modern 
and neat, and a new prifon is now ereciin 
The tower of an cold church itands a little 
way out of the town, where there is alfo 
the burial ground. About a quarter of 
a mile from thence, another ruin of a 
large church or abbey remains. Buildings 
are formed of white freeftone, and blue rag; 
and partly covered with ftraw, but gene- 
rally with blue flate. The country around 
this town is very agreeable, the furface, 
as far as the bale of the hills, is tolerably 
Jevel, and the foil a gravelly loam, and 
very Fertile in the produétion of turnips, 
potatoes, barley, clover, peas, and oats. 
Edinburgh is at the diftance or 21 miles 
from hence. 
I have all along taken notice of a pecu- 
liar mode of wathing praétifed by the 
Scotch women. They put the cloaths to 
be wafhed into a tub, and take them to 
the fide of a river; then fill 1t with water 
from thence. Being already divefted of 
ftockings and fhoes, they pull up their pet- 
ticoats, at lcaii as high as the knee, get 
into the tub with their feet, fometimes two 
at atime, and paddle about, with great 
exertion, firft one way and then the other, 
After ufing this exercife for about ten 
minutes, they defcend from the tub, 
change the water, and proceed as before, 
repeating this operation till the cloaths are 
fufficiently clean. 
(To be continued.) 
7 
Defence of the common ane in E neid y 1.2 
uae 
To the Editor oF the ay Migacine 
SIR, ~ 
HOUGH eyer ready ‘to allow due 
credit to the ingeniousefforts of cons 
jeétural criticiim when exerted with cau- 
tious moderation and in cafes of ac- 
knowledged neceflity, yet I cannot equally 
approve cuy unneceflary attempts at the 
emendation of evidently found paffages in 
the clafiic text. Upon this ground, I pro- 
fefs mytelf mo very warm admirer of /Mr. 
Cogan’s propofed alteration of fEneid vi. 
2426 . ‘ 
Unde locum Graz dixerunt nomine Aornon, 
to Unde locum Grajo*— , 
an aiteration which to me appears notonly 
unneceflary, but even detrimental. 
To be convinced of its noa-neceflity, we 
have only to advert to 
crudelem nomine dicit.-Georg.iv, 3560 
fic illos nomine dicunt.—En. Vi. 44.1. 
Chaonios cognomine campos, 
Chaoniamque omnem, Trojanoa Chaone,dixit. 
Ze Oui) 23a 
A quo poft Itali fluvium coguomine Tybrim 
Dixinmus.—A&n, vil. 331- 
Hefperiam Grail cog nomine dicunt. 
fn. 1. 534, and again Ain. iii, 116. 



Hence we fee that ‘* zomine (or coguo- 
mine) dicere,”’ without any adjeciive, 1s a 
phrafe Cali to Virgil, in the fenfe of 
fimply naming ox calling, confequenily not 
objectionable on the feare of propriety im 
the line wiich Mr. Cogan wifhes to alter. 
I confider his propofed alteration as de- 
trimental, mafmuch as it deftroys the dif- 
tinGtion which Virgil intended between the 
Greek and the Latin name; becau/ fe, de- 
priving us of the particular nominative 
Graii to dixerunt, it gives us to underfand 
that mankind z”7 general had befowed on 
the place the name of Aorzos, and that the 
fame appellation was itill univertally pre- 
valent, which is contrary to fact, fince the 
Italians did not ufe the Greek name 
Aornos, but the corrupted term 4vernus. 
Virgil’s meaning evidently is, ‘* The ori- 
ginal Greck fettlers gave the name of Aor- 
nos to that place which we modern Itals- 
ans call Avernous,”’ as, in one of the above , 
quoted paflages, 
- Itali fluvium cognomine Tybrim 
Diximus— 
not Italo: and thus 

— Hefperiam Grait cognomine dicunt-= 
becaufe the Greeks alove gaveto the coun- 

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