184. 
may prove interefting to fome of your 
Eeaders:- .. | 
Saltzbach, where the celebrated Mar- 
fhal Turenne was killed, I apprehend to 
be the place defcribed in our geographical 
‘books and maps—fpelt ‘¢ Sultzbach—a 
fmall town in Nortgow (a province of 
Germany) in the upper palatinate of the 
Rhine, one mile diftant from Amberg to 
the fouth-eaft, which gives the title of a 
prince to fome branches of the palatine 
family.” The ** Excyclopedia Britanica” 
gives the name of the place “ Safpach.” 
In our literary defiderata, a true ortho- 
graphy feems particularly wanted in 
maps and geographical books, where the 
names are often {fo egregioufly mis- fpeit, 
as to make it difficult to reeognize them 
as the places meant; and this error, 
efpecially in maps, I iufpect to be princi- 
pally owing to furveyors adopting the 
provincial pronunciation, which, in many 
inftances, is quite foreign to the {pelling. 
_ There is too, a fhameful negleét in the 
compilers of our modern gazetteers, which 
is that of copying the defcriptions of 
places from former publications, without 
giving themfelves the trouble to enquire 
what alterations may have taken place in 
the courfe of time, what improvements 
may have been made in public buildings, 
trade, or manufactures, &c. or their de- 
cline; by which means error becomes 
perpetuated frem one generation to an- 
other. Some curious fpecimens of which 
‘might be feleéted, that would prove thefe 
etherwife ufeful publications to be, in 
general, mere catchpennies and the fources 
of much mifinformation. 1 am, your’s, 
Norwich, Auguft 9, 1798. S.* 
. Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, | 
F the following practical remarks on 
the fea-fickneis, (a diforder which, 
as far as my limited knowledge extends, 
has been little treated of) fhould appear 
worthy of a place in your valuable mif- 
cellany, I fhall feel highly flattered by 
their infertion. 
Granting that the fea-ficknefs is not 
attended with fatal confequences, and 
may even, in certain cafes, be beneficial 
to health, yet, during its continuance, 
few diforders are more diftrefling and irk- 
fome to the patient. ‘There is, indeed, 
yeafon to believe, that the apprehenfion 
of this malady has frequently proved a 
ferious obfacle to the advancement of 
{cience, efpecially to the ftudy of natural 
* We thank M. 1. fora fimilar anjwer to 
she fame enquiry. 
Geographical Orthogtaphy....Sea Sicknefs. 
nefs. 
hiftory; by deterring men of talents froma 
embarking in thofe refearcthes to which 
the naturel bias of their mind inclines 
‘them, and which, if purfued, might have 
been produftive of great and interefting 
difcoveries. Thus the wide expanfe of 
ocean, with its infinity or inhabitants 
and productions, remains, comparatively 
{peaking, unexplored. : 
Medical gentlemen being themfelves 
equally expoied to the effeéts of this dif- 
order with the reft of the paflengers, they 
have not been able to make exaét obferva- 
tions on the fymptoms which precede and 
accompany it, nor fatisfa€torily to afcer- 
tain the refult of their prefcriptions. It 
will not, therefore, it is prefumed, be 
deemed arrogance in the writer of the pre-= 
fent article, to offer 2a few remarks on the 
fubjet founded upon experience and long 
acquaintance with the fea. 
The feas, in which this diforder at- 
tacks the paflenger with the greateft vio- 
lence, are thofe where the waves have a 
long uninterrupted freedom of action; of 
courfe, bays, guiphs, and channels, may 
be navigated with lefs inconvenience, as 
the waves meeting with more frequent 
refiftance, and the repercuflion being conii- 
derably ftronger, the veflel does not ex- 
perience that gentle uniform vacillation,- 
‘which fickens the ftomach, and renders 
the head giddy. By the fame argument, 
a_perfon feels lefs inconvenience from the 
diforder on the wide ocean in a fmall vef- 
fel, on which the flighteft motion of the 
waves makes a {trong impreflion. He is 
likewife lefs expofed to it in a very large 
veffel, as in a fhip of the line, or a large 
merchantman deeply laden; as the waves, 
in this cafe, fcarcely affe&t the veflel. It 
is in fhips of the middling fize, and 
which carry but a light cargo, that the 
paflenger fuffers moft from the fea fick- 
It has beem obferved, that this 
diforder affeéts people in years lefs than 
young perfons; thofe of a dark lefs than 
thofe of a fair complexion, and that it 
{eldom attacks infants. The duration is 
not limited to any fixed period of time ; 
with fome it lafis only a few days, with 
others weeks, months, and even during 
the whole courfe of the voyage. The 
fooner it takes place after embarkation, 
the greater probability is there of its con- 
tinuance. It does not always ceafe im- 
mediately on landing, but has been 
known, in fome cafes, to continue fora 
confiderable time. Even the oldeft and 
mof {kilful feamen have experienced ~ 
arelapfe, efpecially if they have quitted 
the fea-fervice for along term of years. 
In 
