808 
it was agreed that a compromife fhould 
take place between the Athenians and 
the Goths, and plenipotentiaries were ap- 
pointed by both parties to arrange the mu- 
tual conceffions that fhonld be made. 
from this negociation criginated, perhaps, 
the moft complete folecifm in architeCture, 
that is any where to be found, even in this 
Jand of whims and oddities. To crown 
the anecdote, economy next ftepped in, 
and, without any attention to breadth or 
proportion, cut off a part of the intended 
ljength of the building, which is now found 
not to be nearly large enough for the au- 
dience it was intendedtocontain. 
After dining with a family-party, we 
returned to Bath, in the afternoon, by a 
return-poit-chaife; but not till I had 
yielded my promife, to the entreaties of 
fome friends, to repeat my vifit before I 
quitted that fide of the country. 
Having {pent two more days in contem- 
plating the beautiful buildings, and ftill 
more beautiful females, of the city of Bath, 
and in focial reciprocations with a fmall 
circle of friends; on 
Saturday 15, my companion took his 
farewel of me, direGting his courfe home- 
ward in the Southampton-ftage; and fhortly 
after I took my farewell of Bath, thence- 
forward to purfue my way with folitary 
ftep—far from each endearing intercourfe 
—feeking from without for the happinefs 
that was not within, and exclaiming, every 
time that the fmoke of the lone cottage 
from fome fequefiered dingle chanced to 
rife upon my view—** When—when fhall 
I be the peaceful lord of fuch a manfion, 
and repofe me again in obfcurity !”” 
( To be continued.) 
——a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIRs 
OUR Correfpondent (p. 100. of the 
prefent Volume) objects ‘to the 
word Corival, and would expunge it from 
the Englith language ; becaufe, ‘* ag the 
word vival includes the idea of competi- 
tion, the co is redundant.’’ I beg leave 
to diffent from fo general a conclufion, 
grounded upon fuch partial reafoning. 
All that can fairly be inferred from the ar- 
gument here adduced is, that co-riwal 
ought not to be admitted into compofition 
where nothing but the fimple rivalry of in- 
Gividual again{t individual is meant tobe 
defcribed. But furely there are initances 
in which the prefix ce not only would not 
be expletive ; but where it would be high- 
ly expreflive and comprehenfive :—for ex- 
ample, the fuitors of Penelope. might very 
Ox the word Co-vival— Ferro Tfles. 
[ Nov oly 
properly be called the co-rivals of Ulyfles ; 
and any one of them, fpoken of feparately, 
might very properly, in reference to the 
affociation or combination that exifted 
among them, be called, in this fenfe, a co- 
vival. ‘The fame rule may be applied-to 
any of thofe inftances in which combina- 
tions and affociations are formed to rival any 
trader, or fet or defcription of traders; 
as the New Flour Company (for ex- 
ample) may be called the co-rivals of the 
fair independent trader in that article. I 
wifh it may not ultimately indeed ceafe ta 
be an illuftration in point; and by the 
extinction of all rivalry, place the neceflary 
article of bread in the fame fituation in 
which the luxury of tea has fo_long (and, 
for the Eait India Company, fo happily) 
remained. "  SaRPi, 
Sept. 225 1801. 
SE 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
DESCRIPTION of the ISLES of FERRO, 
TRANSLATED jrom LE NORD LITE- 
RAIRE, Ge. 
HE little ifles of Ferro, Fero, or 
_Feroen, fituated between Norway 
and Iceland, are but very little known, 
and undoubtedly merit to be more fo; 
their prefent ftatemay furnifh matter to 
an interefting and curious defcription, if 
undertaken by a fkilful hand. ‘This has 
been lately executed by the Rev. Mr. 
Landt, who from the year 1791 to 1798 
has officiated as minifter in thefe iflands, 
and has juft publifhed in Danifh, under the 
title of an Effay, a defcription of them, 
accompanied with engravings, plans, me- 
moirs, &c. relative to his work. The 
author, who is an accurate and well-in- 
formed obferver, has travelled the whole 
country, to colleét all the rare objets of © 
natural hiftory which it offered ; thefe, it 
appears, he has fent to the Society of Nae 
tural Hiltory at Copenhagen. 
The iflands of Ferro are fituated between 
61° 15’ and. 62° 21’ of north latitude; 
they have Norway to the eaft, at about 
168 leagues diftance; at the S. W. lie the 
iflands of Shetland, diftant about gg 
leagues ; on the S. lies Ireland ; on the 
W. Greenland ; and on the N. W. Ice- 
land... Seventeen of thefe iflands are in- 
habited and the three others are defart ; 
they extend from S. to N. about 30 leagues 
and about zo from W. to E. 
The afpect which they prefent, is that 
of a groupe of rocks, elevated, fteep, and 
almoft contiguous, moft of them in form, 
of-a pyramid, or like truncated cones, 
proceeding from the bofem of the aa 
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