1802. ] 
the Poetical Works of Milton, fays, in his 
notes on Manjfus, vol. vi. p. 347, ‘* there 
are two Letters from Loredano to Manfo, 
the former of which relates to Manfo’s 
Life of Marino.’ Can any of your Cor- 
retpondents inform me whether Manfo’s 
Life of Marino ever appeared? I cannot 
find mention of it in the catalogues that 
I have examined. 
It is matter of great furprize to me, 
that no good verfion of Maffei’s Merope 
has yet appeared in the Englifh language. 
Had Aaron Hill attempted it, he would 
certainly have failed; but he did not ;— 
he only adapted Voltaire’s Merope to the 
Englifh ftage—(See his feveral letters 
on this fubjeét, in the 2d volume of his 
Works. Loud. 1754.)——In one of thefe 
he fays, ** You will receive, at the fame 
time, my Merope, upona plan as near 
Voltaire’s as I could bring it with a fafe 
conicience.’’ Whoever reads this paflage 
will be aftonifhed to find Baretti afferting, 
that ** the Merope of Maffei had the ho- 
nour of being tranflated into Englifh by 
Aaron Hill.”—it. lit. p. 102. 
-**In the year 1741, (fays Baretti), I 
faw in Venice a colleétion of old Italian 
tragedies and comedies, made by the 
learned poet and antiquarian Apoftolo 
Zeno, to the number, as he affured me, of 
about four thoufand.’—Ibid, p. 118. 
‘‘ This collection (he adds), was be- 
queathed by Zeno to the Geluati, an or- 
der of monks, refiding in Venice.” What _ 
A Meteorological fournal kept at Leighton. 
) 
Meteorological “fournal of Leighton. $ 
was the fate of this ineflimable collection 
in the revolution that took place in Ve. 
nice ? - Does it ftill remain in Venice; or 
bas it paffed into the Imperial Library of 
Vienna, or the National Library of Paris ? 
Satisfaétory information on this fubjeé 
would be very acceptable to 
A Lover OF THE ITaLian Drama, 
Fanuary 8, 1802. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N your Magazines for September, 
_ 1800, vol, x. page 108 ; for February, 
1801, vol. xi. page 25; and for Septem- 
ber, 1801, vol. xii. page 93, you have in- 
ferted Abftraéts of Meteorological Jour- 
nals kept at Leighton, and Woburn, in 
Bedfordfhire, a continuation of which 1 
now fend you. In my former communi- 
cations, I gave the mean monthly depths 
of rain and evaporation to three places of 
decimals ; but finding, fince Mr. Farey’s 
fix rain-gauges have been in ufe, fucha 
confiderable difference in refpeét of rain, 
in places fo near each other, I have now 
only given them to two places, and fhall 
continue them fo in future. Iam difap- 
pointed in not having had intimation, 
through the medium of your valuable 
Magazine, of an Aygrometer and an 
anemometer eafily to be procured, and which 
would bear a comparifon wath the journals 
kept by others, as requefted in my {e- 
cond Letter above-mentioned. 
Therm. 
ror Barons} sieve) dias | Raw: | Seep NT Be Sco 
Inch. | Deg. | Deg. | Inch. | Inch. |} — } $3 
July < 29.464 | 61.5 | 64.4 | 2.12 | 5.62 || 25 | 24 | 37 | 38 | 1 BE 
Augut - 29.726 | 62.0 | 64.9 | 0.73 | 5-58 |i 4r | 26 | 20 | 37 |] SS 
September - 29.565 57-2 | 60.9 3-36 | 3-38 |} 34 | 32 | 25 | 29 Pa 
October - | 29.497 | 47-5 | 51-7 | 2-50] 2.56 |} 16 | 19 | 54 | 35 | £3 
November - | 29.366 | 38.9 | 41.7 | 3.98 | 1-33 {| 23 | 10 | 37 |] 50 Se 
December - | 29.124 }] 32.1 | 36-0 | 2.66 | 1.96 || 5 | 20] 50 | 49 Je 
Total | 15-35 | 20.4.3 144 1333 223 238 
Means - | 29.457 | 49.9 [ 53-2 | 2-558 | 3-405 | 24 | 22 | 37 | 40 
entities 
Monthly Mean for 
the whole Year 
29-496 | 47.9 
Do. for the Yr. 1800 29-479 47.6 | 49.3 
te AEE TEE ET Rae 
I. for the whole ¥r, 24.474 34.708 
50.7 | 2-039 2.892 
2.297 
314,| 236 | 505 405 
26 | 20 | 42 | 34 
2499 }} 29 | 18 | 43 | 32 
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