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the Welfh tongue. I now point out the 
name BRABANT as one of that defcription,, 
of which no etymologift has been able to 
find out the import; and toexplain it, I give 
you the Welth appellation of Bro-3 ANT, 
which is literally the Low Country; 
and therefore fynonymous with its other 
names of Netherlands and Pais Bas. In 
Welth, the inhabitants of the Brobant, or 
_the Low Country People, would be called 
Brobanti, Brobantiaid, Brobantion, Bro- 
bantwyr, Brobantwys, Brobantwy ion, Ero- 
bantweis, and Brobantzweifion. 
I remain, Sir, Your humble fervant, 
Nov. 5; 1799+ MEIRION- 
=a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Rois. Y believe, * an eftablithed rule in 
Jt the Latin language, that two words, 
each of a negative ' fignification, coming 
together, in the fame: fentence, conftitute 
an affirmative. An exception, however, 
to this rule is to be met with in Virgil's 
#Eneid ix. 428,429. 
‘* O Rutuli; mea fraus omnis, wibil ifte, 
BEC oti 
Nee potuit: 
T with to be qe med by fome one of 
vourlearned friends, more converfant with 
Latin authors than I am, whether this be 
not an unique acceptation of Latin phrafe- 
ology ; and if not, fhould be gratified by 
feeing other places in the Latin claffics 
poi inted out, where fimilar modes of ex- 
prefiion are to be underftood in the fame 
' *fenfe. i 
IT remain, Your humble fervant, 
Hanflope, 
OG, 2351799 W. SINGLETON. - 
aE 
To the Editor of ‘i Menthly Magazine 
SIR, 
AM induced to trouble you with this, 
T in order to relate a~ circumftance 
which, I hope, may be a means of intro- 
ducing fome beneficial. change in the cul- 
ture, or rather propagation, of TURNIPS. 
Laft year,. wifhing to fave fome Swedith 
turnips for feed, 1 tranfplanted a quantity 
ofa very eueel ent aay and at the fame 
time I alfo (unthinkingly) {et fome of the 
common fort clofe tothem. In due time 
the feed perfected, and was remarkably 
fine. This year I fowed about feven acres 
of Swedifh; they came up very well, bug 
to my turprizé, when in rough leaf, I per- 
ceived the fort entirely changed, and in- 
ftead of the real ‘ruta-baga I expected, I 
have turnips in every variety, froma Nor- 
_ folk white, to a good Swedith. At firt I 
-was a good deal puzzled to account for 
Brabant—Negatives——Turnips. 
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this variety ; but on reflecting, I folye my 
difficulty, by fuppofing that as both forts 
of turnips were in flower at the fame time, 
the bees (or perhaps the wind, as is the » 
cafe, I think, with the palm) mutually 
impregnated the forts with the farina of 
each. 
From this fa& I am led to hope that 
fomething> new and beneficial may be de- 
rived.—As we know that plants. of. the 
fame fpeciesy (and efpecially the Brajica) 
are extremely liable to run into varieties, 
why may not a fort of turnip be produced 
which fhall unite the excellencies of each 
{pecific variety ? Why, for inftance, can- 
not a fort be obtained by a due admixture 
of the ruta-baga, and the common turnip, 
which fhall receive from one a degree of 
folidity {ufficient to enable it to bear our 
winters ; and from the other an enlarge- - 
ment of fize, and, perhaps, a quickne/s of 
growth, which at prefent apparently is 
wanted. I give thefe hints not without 
rather fancuine expectations of fome im- 
portant benefit being derived to the public, 
and alfo in the hope that, perhaps, tome of ° 
your readers have, like me, experienced 
_the fame circumitances, and have additi- - 
onal remarks to make. 
I intend to mark fome of each variety, 
and note how they ftand the winter: if I 
can come to any certain conclufion, I fhall 
be happy to communicate it. 
; Iam, &c. Gi, 
Bedford, Nov. 1, 1799. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly ae 
SIR, 
HATEVER hopes were once en- 
tertained by many, who with zeal 
promoted the pafiing of the act for the 
further fupport and maintenance of cu- 
yates within the church of “England, a 
few years ago, (and who were, without 
doubt, friendly to the caufe for which it 
was intended,) that this bill would be 
likely to produce very beneficial effe&s 
in tavour of the inferior clergy, byaal- 
lowing them more liberal ftipends on 
which they might be able, after a man- 
ner fuitable to the dignity of their facred 
profeffion, to provide for the maintenance 
of their refpeétive families; I fhould — 
imagine time has fufficiently moderated 
thefe fanguine expectations, and taught 
them that their confidence was placed 
upon a wrong foundation. TI would not, 
however, be underftood to intimate, that 
it has been attended with no beneficial 
confequences ; ‘nor that it has not, upon 
fome occafions, been carried into, proper 
exccution. Ina few dioceles, it has re- 
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