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fociety. The obfervatory is under the 
direction of three famous aftronomers : 
Oriani, De Cesagis, and PREGGIO. 
Father Soave, ’an able metaphyfician, 
and an elegant writer, is a profelior in 
this college. He has Mecha a philo- 
fophical grammar, like that of our Har- 
ris. From the fchool of Beccaria two 
great philofophers have rifen, Count 
CARLE, who, befides a number cf works 
on economics, has cbtained a great repu- 
tation by his writings on coins; and 
Count*VeRRI, well known by his phi- 
lofophical works, as well as by his 21 if- 
tory of Milan. SPALLANZANI lives in 
Pavia: it is to be regretted, that rhis 
excellent naturalift, like tke wet of his 
countrymen (SOAVE excepted) 1s ex- 
tremely defective 1 in ftyle, 
Theré are feveral periodical Pease 
fions in LD Rael rs of the Matbhema- 
uy and Phyfrcs, in Verona; Tran/actfions 
f the Patriotic Saciety, and the Opujcoli 
Seelti in Milan ; the Journal of Modena, 
planned by the late Tirabofchi; the 
uibliotbeca eee in Turin; the 
Fournal of P 1a, the Ephemerides of Rome, 
and the Ava/y/is Raifonnée of New Books, 
in Naples. 
London, Fune <7. J. DaAMIANI, 
re 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, 
OUR correfpondent upon accents, in 
your Magazine for May laft, p. 356, 
feems to labour under a great miitake.— 
He fuppofes, that the acute accent, over 
whatever vowel it is placed, necefarily 
dengthens the fyllable. Had he atten- 
tively confidered the nature of the acute, 
he would, I am perfuaded, immediately 
have feen his error. Neeonitne to the 
definition of Suidas, 02d is co eux tws eveoyay 
quod crlevitcy agit, and he foon aiter 
adds, OLD Aeyoeev aby Tey ANS Mawr LyOMneVoV 
ant THY dic Snzy, not TOY F025 TOT LUOAEYOY : 
acutum Vocamus eum gui celeriter ad fen- 
fun perver iit, et celeritcr definit. It is 
certain, that ¢2y, fignifies and implies 
fomething Wee and “that, in a mutical 
ue oppoted to Pacis, it is univerfally 
fed for a high tone, without any regard 
ts length. Lipfius t properly diftincuithes 
_the acute, “ie celsri« quadam fublatione 
vocis efferendus cit, fine inflitione ulla 
aut mora. Arifioele, Plato, and the rett 
of the Greck writers. give thts interpre e- 
tation of the word Hae And the reafon 
why we.are altvays for joing the acute 
with a long found, is, becaufe in our 
language the times and toncs perfectly 
eoimcide 5 bout «24s coimcidence happens 
Greek Accents... Mickle’s Lufiad. 
f Aug. 
not fo ae in the: Latin tongue, and is 
Rill lefs frequent in the language of the 
Greeks. I believe there are few, if any 
nglifhmen who are able properly to read 
the Latin and Greek languages. Not 
but we mighc overcome this erroneous 
manger of pronunciat/on, did we endea- 
your todo it. Mr. Fofter, who wrote 
upon Greek accents, fays, ‘that he 
knew one perfon, who, after a few trials, 
was able to perform it.’’ Your corre- 
{pondent, I think, pronounces the words 
wap 70x96 an d poroténocerroneoutly, when 
he reads Wow TOT TOXGS and < WywToTannos6 In- 
fiead of lengthening the vowel, it fhould 
be pronounced with a higher and quicker 
tone of voice than the reft of the fylla- 
bles, The acute will make a long Vowel 
to be pronounced higher and quicker, 
and a thort one more quick. If we add 
length to a fyllable that fhould be fhort, 
* and thereby take away from fome other 
fyllable of the fame foct, or even of the 
fame word, we certainly injure, by our 
Englith pronunciation, the rhythm of 
profe,and the melody of verfe.”’ I alte, 
except to his manner of marking the 
words in the Latin tongue. Jt may do,: 
nace) for an ignorant boy, who is juft 
arning the rules of his profody ; but 
ae accuracy of pronunciation is 
fought after, it is entirely infignificant 
and ufelefs. In mott of the words which 
he has marked, the vowel to which the 
acute belongs is made to be pronounced 
with a /ovger tone of voice, when it ought 
to be with a quicker. Iam, your's, 
Rawvenfionedale, Fuly 13. CLERICUs. 

For the Mintbly Magazine. 
REMARKS ON MICKLE’s TRANSLA- 
TION OF THE LusI4D (CONTE- 
NUED). 
A PORES has read the Lufiad only 
in Mr. MIcKLe’s poem, mui con- 
ceive a pomp and luxuriance of delcrip- 
tion to be the chara¢teriftic excellence of 
Camoens: 
Now fiom the Moorifh town the fheets of fire, 
Wide blaze fucceeding blaze, to heaven afpire 5 
Black rife the clouds of fmoke, and, by the 
gales 
Borne down, in fireams hang hovering o’er the 
vales, 
And flowly floating round the mountain’s head, 
Their pitchy mantle o*er the landfcape f{pread. 
Unnaniber 4 fea -fow] vifing from the fhore, 
Beat round j In whi is at every cannon’s roar 5 3 
Where o’er the fmoke the mafts’ tall heads 
appear, 
Hovering they fcream, then dart with fudden 
fear, 
L On 
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