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elements, or, to borrow’ fome of the inte- 
refting traits in the author’s piéturefque 
defcription, ‘¢ Old rocks, all petrified with 
carcales ; crefts furcharged with the ices 
of an eternal winter ; an auguft monument 
of venerable fpoils ; an immenfe cemetery 
of the inhabitants of the aficient world ; 
a lugubrious-diadem and funeral-girdle of 
fnow, where time pafles on without ever 
growing young again ; where death, by its 
fubftance and iorms, is every where; from 
whole awful precin&ts every thing that 
Jives is rejeCted,”” &c. &c.) to fee thefe 
grand and terrible objects of nature.. In 
this fecond expedition, the author made 
many important obfervations. By digging 
leifurely in the promontory of the lake, 
and in the rocks round about, he difco- 
vered a multitude of new teftaceous ani- 
mals, the {pecific characters of which he 
endeavoured to point out ; he found others 
which he could not refer to any known ge- 
, nus; and, laftly, he thought he perceived 
even the bones of quadrupeds, exactly re- 
prefented by the filex, both in their exte- 
terior and interior conformation. Foffil- 
bones on the higheft mountains of the Py- 
yenees? ‘This queftion opens a vaft field 
of conjecture to Citizen Ramond, who, 
however, did not direét all his obferya- 
tions to the mineral kingdom only; the 
beautiful and rare plants of thefe moun- 
tains attracted likewife his regards, and 
this occupation made an agreeable diver- 
fion to his other refearches. To ftudy bet- 
ter the chain of the Pyrenees, he traverfed 
the vallies of Gavarnie and of Héas; he 
vilfited le Coumelie and le Pimené; and, laft- 
ly, makes the following refieétions on the 
chain of the Pyrenees, as diftinguifhed 
from the Alps, and other mountains, the 
firu€ture of which- is better known. 
1. The chain of the Pyrenees is effentially 
more fimple. 2. There appears, however, 
to have been more trouble in the formation 
of the mountains fuperimpofed on the pri- 
mitive chain. 3..The calcareous matter, 
whether primitive or -fecondary, is. here 
more fenfibly abundant. 4. The fecondary 
calcareous matter is here elevated to a 
more confiderable height. And, 5. The 
ivafion (/'7vafion) has been eficétuated in 
a contrary direéticn. : 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS Of fome of MR. HORNE-TOOKE’S 
ETYMOLOGIES. 
(Continued from aS ae | 
F.. The word arona offspring, from 
which Mr. Tooke derives of, is 
Remarks on Mr. Horne Tooke’s Etymelogy: . ~ [O&ober 15 
merely a compound of a from, and fonans 
to go; fo that his whole explanation con- 
fifts in referring our Englith prepofition of; 
to the A. Saxon prepofitiona. — 
For. Notwithftanding the ingenuity 
whichMr. Tooke has ditplayed, in interpret- 
ing the ufe of this prepofition by the noun 
F2ipina, caufe, E cannot agree with him in 
referring it to fuch an origin. -In the firft 
place, faipiua is a very obf{cure word, and 
tar from having that vulgar notoriety, 
which Mr. Tooke himfelf teaches us to 
lock for as the neceflary qualification of 
words employed in fo extgnfive a capacity. 
‘¢ All particles are in truth, in all lan- 
guages, the figns of the moft common and 
familiar ideas, and thofe which we have 
moft frequently occafion to communicate. 
They had not -otherwife become par- 
ticles.”"—~** The particles are always the 
words which were the moft common and 
familiar in the language from which they 
came.” Dio. of Purley, p. 334. 
2. Mr. Tooke thould have told us what 
we are to underftand by the word which he 
thus employs in his interpretation of for. 
Ashe ulesit, it certainly does not correfpond 
with what either philofophers or the vulgar 
have been accuftomed to underftand by 
caufe. Let us take only a few inftances 
out of the numerous colle€&tion which he 
has given us.  Chrifi died for us, i. @ 
we being the caufe of hisdying.’’ Surely 
no one can fay that thefe expreffions con- 
vey the fame idea. ‘* Chelfea Hofpital 
was built for difabled foldiers, i.e. dif- 
abled foldiers being the cau/é of its being 
built.”” Whatever idea of caufe Mr, 
‘Tooke may attribute to our Saxon ancef- 
tors, we furely muft fuppofe, that when 
they {poke of one thing being caufed by 
another, the neceffary exiftence, at leaft, of 
that caufe muft have been implied. But 
Chelfea Hofpital might be faid, without the 
leaft impropriety, to have been built for 
difabled foldiers, though there had never 
been a dilabled foldier in the world. ‘He 
Speaks one word for another, i. e. another 
word being the cau/e of his {peaking that 
word which he {peaks.’? What fpecies 
of caufality this alludes to, I cannot di- 
vine. + He fets down twelve acres for 
every man, i.€. every, or each man, being 
the cauje of his fetiing down twelve 
acres.’ But, if a narrator were to exprefs 
himielf fo, would he not be immediately. 
afked, whom they were fet down for? 
“Shall I think the world was made for 
one ©”? Notwithftanding the depravity of 
the times, I fhould be forry to believe this 
fo popular a doétrine as Mr. Tooke’s in- 
terpretation would make it. According to. 
S him 
