814 Notice by Copel Loft—Hunter’s Elucidation of Virgil. [May 1, 
him bring me; in facceffion, every article 
of furniture in his room, and ‘even afcer- 
tain the external qualities of things as well 
as their number. : 
You fee, Sir, that we are not altoge- 
ther confined within the fphere of abftrac - 
fions. His faculty of fpeech has-made no 
progre(s during the laf fix months. This, 
E-contefs, has been my fault, and has 
been owihg entirely to my having adopted 
abad method. I have, fince that, taken 
a different fiep, and I hope to obtain, in 
confequence of it, the object of my withes. 
My objeét is to exercife his ear in compa- 
rifuns fimilar to thefe in which I have al- 
Feady exereifed his eyes. In the fame 
manner-as I contrived, at the commence- 
ment of his education, that the fenfe of 
hight fhould be exerted in diftinguifhing 
the diterence of figures, the moft fimple 
and the moft difimilar, fo now I exercife 
his ear in diftinguifhing the difference of 
two founds, which are not at all analagous 
to each other.. En this kind of exercife I 
fatten a bandage over his eyes ; at diftant 
intervals, I fometimes ftrike on 2 bell, 
and fometimes on a tambourine, and be- 
come fatished that he diftinguithes thefe 
two different founds, when he gives me 
the figns which were previoufly agreed on. 
Thele figns’confift in raifing the right 
hand when the tambourine is ftruck, and 
the left when it is the bell. I intend, 
after thefe more palpable comparifons, to 
advance to others more delicate and varied, 
and at length to the different tones and 
combinations of the human vpice. I am 
almoft fure that when he has reached this 
point, the power of articulate utterance 
will {peedtly follow. 
E have ill} Sir, many interefting things 
to inform you of, but they would induce 
the necellity of entering into details, for 
which there is no room within the feanty 
iemits of a letter, Indeed I think it right 
at prefent te pafs over ia filence a_parti- 
caiar account of thefe means which I have . 
made ule of in order te arive at thefe laft 
‘efults, although they would not have 
“3. unworthy of your attention. I will 
omyfelf the honour of making you ac- 
sainted with them on fome future day, 
when I mean to publif: the refult of my 
new and, perhaps, laft experiments. 
-E will content mylelf with inferming 
you, in the mean time, that the a@ive 
powers of Victor have acquired.a confi- 
devable degree of cxpanfion. “The friend - 
tity he has imbibed for me is genuine and 
ardent, and I make him an arnple return. 
i have at leaf given repeated and un- 
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queftionable affurances, that the lot of this ~ 
interefting orphan fhall be for ever the 
object of my care. 
Health and profound efteem, 
ITARM 
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Io the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, peli 
S the Bookfellers have not thought 
é proper to notice it, I could with 
you to inform THE Pustic, that in the 
new edition of Popse’s ODYSsEY, pub-— 
lifhed with. the ILiap in five volumes 
large 3vo. by Vernor and Hood, &c. there 
are additional Notes by me, from the be-= 
ginting of the xvth Boce: to the end of. 
the Odyfiey. ; ol 
. : Caren LOFFT. 
To the Editor. of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sik, 
Vat Y HILE I was perufing the beauti- 
ful edition of Horace and Virgil - 
lately publifhed at St. Andrew’s, with 
Notes by Proteflor Hunter ; the laft two 
Numbers of your valuable Mifcellavy tell 
into my hands, in which that excellent 
{cholar Mr. Cogan propofes a conjectural 
emendation of Aineid. v. 373, ef /eqg. and 
fupports it by the authority of Heyne. Mr. 
Cogan is requefted to, confult the St. An- 
drew’s Virgil ad locum, where he will find 
a pretty interpretation deduced from a 
new punctuation different from that which 
he fuggefis, This is not the only inftance 
in which the ingenious editor, Dr. Hunter, 
has elucidated, with nsuch acutenefs and 
fuccefs, fome ef the moft obfcure paflages 
of the above-mentioned Claffics. In the 
preface to Virgil, and notes to Horace, 
the Critic will find ample information of 
the truth of this remark. i : 
‘ ‘Yam, si: 
Your’s, 
SCIOPPIUS. 
; eT, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T is not to be doubted that the bio- 
eraphical article in your Mifcellany 
for March, relative to the late Rev. 
Jofeph Robertfon, will be entertaining 
and intereftine to your literary readers. 
This will recommend to them any infor= 
mation, fupplemental to the detail of that 
learned gentleman’s publications, which 
Mr. Damiani. has given. There ts a 
Traé&t now befere me, without the -au- 
thor’s name, which, I have, on good au- 
thority, been told, came from Mr. Ro 
berif{eh’s pen, with which, LE prefumes 
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