432 
¢he whole. The foundation of the build- 
ing was laid on the 26th of February ; 
and on the 17th of March it was erected 
and covered in. The fiimmer andthe be- 
ginning of the winter were employed in 
the interior work of the building: and 
the news-room was opened for the ufe of 
the fubfcribers on the xf of January 
1799. Belore the room was opened, 
the whole of the fubicription was paid, 
amounting to 3675]. . 
The area of the building contains a 
fpace of 50 feet in front to the itreet, and 
§1 feet in depth: and the whole of the 
ground-floor is appropriated to the news- 
room, except 2 portion cn each fide, ex- 
tending from the back zo feet into the 
room, one of which portions is converted 
into a bar, and in the other, is the ftair- 
_cafe to the library and other apartments, 
which leaves a large recefs in the back of 
the room, feparated frem the main part 
of it by twe handiome fluted Doric co- 
lumns. The rcom is 18 feet in height, 
and is lighted by three chandcliers. Over 
one of the fire places is a clock, and over 
the other .oppofite, is a wind dial.. The 
ornamental finith of the roomis plain and 
fimple, but neat and elegant: In this 
_Yoom are admitted all the reviews, {e- 
veral other periodical publications and 
pamphlets: and arrangements are now 
making for furnifhing it with a collection 
of the befi maps that can be procured of 
every country on the globe, to be at- 
tached to the walis on {pring roliers. When 
the whole of thefe arrangements fhall 
have been finifhed, there is 1eafon to be- 
lieve, that it will be the moft complete 
inftitution of the kind, that is to be met 
with in this ifland. rates ] 
The library, which is over the front of 
the news-room, will not be ready for the 
reception of books until the git of July. 
The dimenfions of the library are 50 feet 
in front by 30.in depth, and 23 feet in 
height. Itis lighted by a large fky-light, 
and galleried all round, at nearly an 
equal diftance between the floor and the 
cieling. 
Behind the library and over the receffed 
part of the news-room and the bar, is a 
very commodicus room intended as a 
mufeum for the reception of fuch fpeci- 
mens in natural hiftory, as may be pre- 
fented to the inftitution. And over the 
mufeum are three good lodging rooms for 
the ufe of the librarian and the fervants of 
the houfe. A part of the cellar room 
is converted into kitchens and properly 
furnithed ; from which, the fubfcribers 
may be at all times accommodated with 
Brilliant Meteor....Origin of Springs. 
s 
[July 
tea, coffee, or foup ; but no liquor of any 
kind 1s allowed *. 
The whole of the infitutien is under _ 
the direétion of a committee of 21 gen- 
tlemen, each of whom is to ferve the of- 
fice three ‘years. Its annual revenue is 
7oo guineas ; the expenditure of which is 
limited and arranged according to the 
mode pointed out in the cutline of the 
pian F. bres 
Se ES 
29 the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sue, re 
N crofling Woburn Park laf Saturday 
4 evening about 36 minutes paft ro, T 
jaw a very brilliant Meteor—its apparent 
couric was nearly ina line from the north 
pole ; in duration about 2 feconds: it made 
-its firlt appearance about 7 a degree from 
¢ Cygni and pafiing between a and » Del- 
phini: leaving 6 Antinor about 30’ to 
the fouth, and beeame invifible about 4° 
‘below x Antinoi: its light was remark- 
ably {plendid, very fim:lar te the ele&ri- 
cal {park on the difcharge ofa large jar. 
Its apparent diameter was 5 or 6’, its 
whole courfe an are of about 48° ; at firft 
there was no vilible tail, but one began to 
appear about the middle of its courie, 2nd 
at the end it was very lucid, extending 
about 3°:—the latitude of the place 51° 
54 = long. 25’ welt from Greenwich.— 
From thefe obfervations compared with 
fimilar made at another place, its mac- 
nitude and diftance may be known. 
Your obedient Servant, 
Woburn, Fuue 26. B. BEVAN. 
To the Editor of the Mentbly Magazine. 
SIR, 35 
EW fubjeés in the ceconomy of na- 
ture are leis agreed on by naturalilts, 
than the origi of /prings, and 1 am ftrongly 
inclined to think that, by a clofer atten- 
tion to the fituation, appearances, &c. 
of iprings themielves, a more {fatisfac- 
tory account might be given of the caufes 
which produced them. 
I hope fome of your correfpondents 
will take this fubjeét into confideration, 
and communicate the reiuit through the 
medium of your valuable publication, 
which will oblige, 
Your humble Servant, 

i Fe 2} 

* An archite€tural defcription of the ele- 
vation of the builiing is here wanted; but 
fr. Rofcoe will perhaps fupply the wants 
The expence of the building, including the 
ground, will, when completed, amount to 
3,580l. 18s. 6d. - 
+ This outline will appear in our next 
number. 
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