940 
the objet of my admiration, a fmall tract, 
written by that diftinguithed fcholar Jacobi, 
whom I am proud to have had fer my pupil ; 
fince he both highiy honours me, and enter- 
tains the greatelt efteem for you, and in many 
particulars treads in your footiteps. I fpare 
no trouble to make myfelf acquainted with 
any literary ebje&t in which you may, from 
time to time, be engaged, as far as it isin my 
power, either by hints in your own works, 
or by information from others. The great 
efteem and affection, therefore, which | have 
conceived for you, ought by no means to be 
confidered as haftily taken up, or as founded 
upon flight and trivial confiderations. Fare 
well, and may you meet with fuccéfs and 
profperity in all your concerns. 
Cu. G. Heyne, Prof. Acad. Ge. Aug. 
Gottingen, Dec. «2th, 1797. 
My bofom previoufly glowing with a certain 
undefinable affection for you, mof learned 
Sir, I now feel its warmth very confiderabiy 
Increafed on my pervfal of your Lucretius. 
For, although I fcruple not to avow that the 
kind and friendly fentiments expreffed in your 
polite letter to me, had on my mind an influ- 
ence fofficient even to have overcome a ae 
fition averfe to you, if fuch adifofition coul 
have exified, and therefore unavoidably tend- 
ing to give a decifive impuife to my heart, 
already biafied in your favour 3 yet, fo power- 
fully did the contents of thofe volumes excite 
‘my admiration of your genius, and of your rare 
and univerfal erudition, that I have even felt 
2 doubt, whether the fenfations produced by 
the pleafures and improvement which I reaped 
from your pages, could bear any comparifon 
with it. So ftrong, indeed, has been the unit- 
ed effe& of both, that I reckon as one of the 
moft grateful boons of fortune, her kindnefs 
in favouring me -with an opportunity ef ad- 
drefiing you; and of thus entering with you 
into the inttmacy of literary correfpondence, 
Heaven grant that your aftonifhing exertions 
in ferving the cau/e of antient literature, may 
prove preductive to you of a rich harveft of 
advantage ! I cannot anticipate any event of 
which the intelligence will come more pieaf- 
ing to my ear, than that you have experienced 
the public countenance in a degree commen- 
furate with what your merits entitle you to 
expect ; and that you have received the moft 
ample rewards of the attention and labour 
which you have beftowed upon Lucretius. How 
ferventiy do I with, that the unpropitious af- 
pect of the times may not frown upon your 
undertaking, and darken the profpect of its 
fuccefs ! for, from the example of other coun- 
tries, it becomes eafy to conjeGture what fhare 
of efimation the Ze//es Jeti#@s are tikely to en- 
joy.in great Britain. But the all gracious 
and all-provident Being will not fail to extend 
his benign prote€tion to laudable intentions. 
Farewell! and fince you have thus entered 
upon the career of good-will and kindnefs to- 
wards me, may it be your care fo fteadiiy to 
purfue it, that te your other praifes may he 
French Weights and Meafures. 
[Jan. 1, 
added that of conftancy in affectionate regard 
for hima whom you once have honored with 
a valuable tefimony of your friendly cifpofi- 
tioa. So foon as the tumuit of war fhall- 
have fubfided, I will fend to you a a plecge 
of my affeétion, a fecond edition of my Pin- 
dar, 2nd a third of my Tibuilus. I have one 
of the Iliad at this time in the prefs. 
Adieu, 
—S- 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS RELATIVE 
TO THE NEW FRENCH MEASURES 
AND COINS. 
(Continued from p. 883, of our laff.) 
ENGTH of a pendulum vibration 
feconds 2t Paris, reduced to the freez- 
ing point and the vacuum, 0,99385 métre 3 
The are 26,3245 fquare toifes. 
The litre 50,4125 cubic inches. 
Fhe flére, or cubic metre, 2931739 
eatne feet ; 
The- “gramme, or weight of a cubic 
eenti metre of water at the freezing-poia 
18,327 grains, | 
The loweft denomination, or unit, of 
coin, called a frau, is a filver Bee of 
5 grammes, contains = alloy, and =, of 
pure filver, and is wortn £ livre 3 deniers 
tournois. 
The proportion of the new money to 
the old is, as 8r to 80. It is divided into 
decimes and ceutimes. The gold ag 
the fiver, has the fame alloy of 3. 
A hefogramme of geld is worth 25 
francs.— 
It the old pied du Roi contain 324.8: 
# i EO the Englifh foot contains 
304.8; the Rhineland foot, 314.0; the 
fect of Vienna, 316.1. 
If theold French pound (poids deMre) 
contain 489.2 ee the Englith pouad 
troy will contain 372.6 ; the peund avoirs 
dupois, 453.13 the pound of Cologne, 
467.43; the pound of Vienna, 558.6. 
New French meafures reduced to the 
Englifo,—In addition to the values of the 
French new meafures, as reduced to the 
Eaglith, in our jaft Number, p. 883, 
may be taken the following. The htre 
ice age inches, or 1 pint 493, or 
A $ pint, ale meafure. The gramme 
43} Ib. avoirdupeis, cr sg of an cunce, 
or £2 of a dram ne arly. “thie arc, of 10Q 
fquare métres, is Tees {quare feet, or 
1lo= — yards, or +3> of an acre, or | 
neariy = of an acre, 
Fuagis In our laf@ No. p. 882, col. ty 
line 12 from the bottom, for r paling Paris 
read pafing through Paris. Page $83, 1. 20 
for 3.090444, read 3.078444. 
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