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‘fome one of your intelligent Correfpon- 
dents to favour the world with an account 
of the town or village of Clofterhayn, in 
Germany. This place, I am informed, 
ts fituated in the midf& of a wood, about 
two and a half German miles from Frank- 
enburg, in the Landgraviate of Hefle 
Caffel, and may be called the Bedlam of 
that part of Germany. So many very 
ftrange and interefting circumftances are 
coeeed with it, and with its Governor, 
the Herr von Stamford, that if an accu- 
rate defcription could be obtained, it 
would be a great cratification to thofe. 
of your. readers pofieffed of minds and 
hearts. 
A gentleman now refident in Norfolk, 
who vilited Clofterhayn the latter end of 
the year 1800, could, were he fo difpofed, 
give a minute account of it; and his va- 
luable notes on this fubjéét, if fabmitted 
to the world, would, Iam certain, from 
a {pecimen which I have feen, be highly 
entertaining and infructive. Probably he 
may be induced to gratify the curiofity of 
your readers, and by fo doing he will at 
the fame time confer an obligation on me. 
I am, Sir, 
Hackney, Your's, &c. 
April 15, 1802. Ros. STEVENS. 
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o the Editor of the ee Magazine. 
SIR, 
EARLY eight Hiindred years have 
elapfed fince a mon ment, under 
the appellation of Sweno’s Stone, was 
erected near Ferros, in Scotland, by King 
Malcolm. Its infcription eonfifted of only 
two lines, but as each letter was an initial 
only of a Latin word, antiquarians have 
long been puzzled as to the explication of 
the true hiftory of this ftone. A gentle- 
man, however, well verfed in ancient in. 
{criptions, is {uppofed to have lately de. 
veloped it, finding the initials to fignify as 
follow: — i 
Lege Obelifci Hujus Hieoroglyphicis 
1s noftro regno extin&tionem Swenone invya- 
fionis. 
hus tranflated—‘* Underftand that 
the hieroglyphics of this obelitk 1e- 
prefent the extinétion of the invafion under 
Sweno.”” 
The letters L. O. H. H. compofe the 
firf line, and are all Roman Capitals, ex- 
cept theO. ‘The Jetters of the fecond 
line, viz. i. Nn. r. €. s. i. aye common lef- 
ters, but of the fame fize with the capi- 
tals in the firft line. ‘The obelifk has 
four jaces, two of which meature its 
Sweno’s Stone,—= Rooks proved granivorous: 
f May 1, 
breadth, and the othér two its thicknefs, 
and ,the infcription is about four feet 
higher than the pavement. The monument 
ftands on the above-mentioned {pot,becaule 
the Danes had attempted to form their 
fettlement in this quarter, where, indeed, 
they gave battle to and defeated the Scots, 
previoufly to their ultimate expulfion from 
the country. I fhould be glad of the . 
opinion of fome of your learned Cor- 
refpondents on this curious fubject. 
“FS. A. 
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To the Editor of the Moathly Magesine 
SIR, 
N common, I doubt not, with many 
_ of your ‘readers, I have frequently 
read with much pleafure the communi- 
cations of Dr. Pike, and in relating the 
following faét I am very far from wifhing 
to counteract the benevolent purpofe of his 
letter in your Jaft; buat will merely ftate a 
circumftance to prove that rooks are not 
entirely carnivorous. Adjoining to fome 
Jand which I have fowed with barley, and 
which is juft coming up, I have other 
Jand which we were ploughing i in order to 
fow with oats; as ufuail, a number of 
rooks followed the ploughs, but they oc- 
cafionally, as we. pafled them, left the 
newly ploughed land, and fettled on that 
where the barley was coming up, and I 
obferved they were not idle there. On 
going to the {pot I could find many grains 
of barley ftocked'up, and the fhoot gone: 
that I might be certain of the faét, I fhot 
one of the rooks, and in the pouch I found 
a great quantity of the young fhoots of 
barley. 
I imagine that rooks in “general prefer 
worms, ‘grubs, &c. and that it is only 
from neceflity that they refort to vegeta- 
ble food, as I think may be inferred from 
this.inftance; fer now 1s the time when 
the young are about to be hatched, and 
it is well known that. the male bird faads 
the femaie during the time of incubation: 
but, owing to the continued dry weather,. 
fuppo: @ they could not get a fupply of 
their ufual food, and were obliged to have 
recourie to the young corm. I have alfa 
remarked in harveit, that the rooks and 
jackdaws have Gone much dantage amongft 
the ripe corn, perhaps becaule there -1s 
but httle ploughing going on during that 
feafon. 
Tam’ Sy 
Bedford, Your obedient fervant, 
Aprit 9; 180%. G. AlKiN, 
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