520 
Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N confequence of Mr. Robinfon’s com- 
I munication on the Greek accents, I 
take the liberty to acquaint thofe of your 
claffical readers who may not be at pre- 
fent poffeffed of the information, that fome 
‘ very curious remarks on the fubject are to 
te found in Hermannus’s Treatife on the 
Metres of the Greek and Roman Poets; a 
very ingenious work of a very acute and 
learned man, which it is to be hoped will 
fpeedily find a place in the library of every 
Britifh fcholar. I am, Sit, Your’s, &c. 
Sune 7th, 1800. : E. CoGaNn. 
P.S. In reading the Medea of Seneca the 
other day, I could not help remarking, that 
Gronovius, in his note on verfe 335, affirms 
of the verb recludo that it fignifies both to /hut 
and to open. But he produczs no examples. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiRy 
OUR correfpondent M. P. defires to 
_ be informed how he may feparate 
the neutral falrs from Kelp or Barilia. I 
apprehend it may be done thus. Add to 
the Barilla a fufficient quantity of quick 
lime to deprive it of its carbonic or aerial 
acid, and Jixiviate the mafs with water. 
“Then run off the lees, and boil them down 
till they are of a proper ftrength to be fet 
by for the falts to cryftallize. When cold, 
the neutral falts will be found in cryftals 
feparate from the mineral alkali, which 
Jatter being by the lime rendered cauftic 
and incapable of cryftallization will remain 
fufpended inthe mother water. This may 
afterwards be evaporated, and the alkali 
preferved for ufe. If it is requifite to have 
the mineral alkali in cryftals, all that is 
neceflary, is to give it the carbonic acid, 
of which it had been deprived by the cal- 
careous earth, and it will then be as capa- 
ble of cryftallization as other falts.. 7 thal] 
be glad if M.P. will favour me with his 
addrefs by poft, and am, Sir, Your's, &c. 
, SAMUEL PaRKEs. 
Stoke upon Trent, May 10th, 1800. 
en 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, at 
OUR correfpondent Meirion may be 
\L- willing to inform yourCambrian read- 
és, how far the Welch langeage, which is, 
_ Ttaney, exclufively ufed by the Lyric, may 
be adapted to convey the productions of 
Purification of Barilla—Punétuation. 
[July 1, 
the Epic Mufe. Permit me to tranfcribe 
the well known fimile of Homer, and ac- 
company it with a tranflation into Welth 
blank verfe: : 
“On mee puAhay yeven Ton de nat avdewv. 
QuAAG Ta Ev Tavenos yopadss yee, BAAS OE’ 
J vAn 
Tnrevowra putt, eagor d’emyiyverat wen. 
“2g avdewy yeven ny prev puss nD agrodrnyet. 
As is the race of leaves, is that of men. 
The wind blows down the leaves, and then 
the wood, 
Budding, with others decks 
{pring : 
So plooms one race of men, another fades. 
WELSH. © 
Fel dail y coed, yw oefoedd dynobry-w. 
In hilo ddaila gwymp, gan ’auaf wynt3 
dil arall, yn y gwanwyn, dardd ar frys ; 
Felly tn oes o ddynion gwiwa, ’nailladyf. 
the time of! 
Tf motives of diftance and curiofity fti- 
mulate us in infpeéting the diale&ts of 
Madagatcar or of Japan ; thofe of approx- 
imation and excellence might be expeéted 
to induce the admirers of poetic lore to in- 
veftigate the magnificent language of the 
bards of Cambria. W1L. EVANS. 
Taviflock, March 6, 1800. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the thirty -fixth Number of the 
_ Montbly Magazine, Mr. Warburton 
has referred to a paflage of Suidas, in tef- 
timony that, for the invention and intro- 
duction of punétuation, we are indebted 
to ‘Thrafymachus, who lived about the 
three hundred and eightieth year before 
the Chriftian zra; but, if the following 
paflage in Huetius be genuine, and found- 
ed upon proper authority, the invention 
of this {cience is not to be afcribed to 
Thrafymachus, but to Ariftophanes of 
Byzantium, a learned grammarian,and who 
is faid to have been fuperintendant of the 
famous library at Alexandria, and to have 
lived in the one hundred and forty-fifth 
Olympiad, or about two hundred years 
betore Chrift: ‘¢ Triplici punéterum fitu 
orationis diftin&tio omnis abfolvitur, col- 
locato punéto vel ad {ummum literze, vel 
ad medium, vel ad imum. Pofitura prior, 
quz eft ad fummum liter, fententiam 
perfecté claudit, ut nihil preeterea ad ejus 
abfolutionem leCtoris animus requirat. Al- 
ter fitus ad medium liter, fententiam 
quidem claudit, fed non perfeSté ; ut ad 
explendum lectoris animum et abfolven- 
dam 
