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it appears that he had, fince the above- 
mentioned deed, written two other vo- 
Tumes of colleétions, which in confidera- 
tion of one guinea, paid him by Mr. Wan- 
ley, he had agreed fhould belong to Lord 
Harley, upon the fame terms as the twen- 
ty-one volumes, and he authorizes his ex- 
ecutors to deliver them upon demand to 
Lord Harley or his agents. 
' The Editor of Cantabrigiana might alfo 
have added two lines, which are at the bot- 
tom of the page, below the verfes on Fifher, 
Bifhop of Rochefter,and which Mr. Baker 
evidently intended fhould apply to himéfelf 
and eftablifh, pretty decifively, the whcle 
to be his own compofition. 
Purpura mi nocuit; nocuit queque libera 
lingua ; : 
Dum Regis Thalamum damno, fub Enfe 
cado. ; 
There is, fomewhere in this collection» 
an original letter, from the celebrated an- 
tiquary Thomas: Hearne to Mr. Baker, 
from which it appears that the latter had 
in contemplation a work very fimilar to 
A. Wood’s Athenz Oxon. 
The lines below are contained in Mr. 
Baker’s tran{cript of the Life of Sir Tho- 
mas More. vol. 7030 of the Harleian Ca- 
talogue, and as I do not recolleét to have 
feen them elfewhere, I have thought them 
worth tranfcribing. 
Lines written by Sir Thomas More, on 
occafion of the King’s fecretary having 
vifited him in the Tower, and affured him 
«* that the King minded not any matter, 
wherein he fhould have caufe of fcruple 
from henceforth to trouble his confcience.”” 
To exprefs the comfort which he received 
from thofe words, Sir Thomas wrote the 
following ‘¢ with a cole, for incke he had 
none.” 
Ly flattering Fortune, look thou never fo fair, 
Nor never fo pleafantly begin to {mile, 
As thou wouldet& my Ruin all repair, 
Daring my Life thou fhalt not me beguile : 
Truft I fhall, God! toenter, in a while, 
Thy Heaven of Heavens, fure and uniforme 5 
“Ever after the Calme look I for a Storme. 
Panton-fquare. J. WILsON. 
——ae Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE Admirers of ancient Egypt will 
T perhaps read with pleafure a fhort 
account of the monuments lately depofit- 
ed in the Britifh Mufeum. They were 
taken from the French army, in Alexan- 
dria, and fent to England in September 
lat, under the charge of Colonel Turner, 
Egyptian Monuments in the, Britifh TLufeum. 
[ Feb. °7, 
and are now placed under flight tempo- 
rary coverings in the court-yard of the 
Mufeum. 
At either end of the firft thed is a. fta- 
tue of white marble, evidently Roman ; 
the firft fuppofed to be Marcus Aurelius, 
the fecond Septimus Severus ; but beth of 
very inferior workmanthip. They were dif- 
covered im the refearches at Alexandria, 
and it is not known whence they origi- 
naliy came. The next fragment is a 
Ram's Head about four feet in length, 
carved from a foft red ftone, called by the 
French rouge grais, and was brought from 
Upper Egypt. It has part of the right 
horn broken off ; but the workmanfhip 
is exquifite, and the expreffion of the eyes 
exceeding good. The Ram’s Head repre- 
fented the Deity called Amoun, whom the 
Greeks (who borrowed much of their My- 
thology from Egypt,) afterwards adopted 
by the name of Ammon. Amoun de- 
noted to the Egyptians the creative power 
of God, his beneficence and diffufive in- 
fluence through the works of nature. 
His chief temple was at Thebes ; whence 
the epithet of Yseban was given to the 
Ram; which was alfo a reprefentation of 
the Sunin Aries. They who defirea fur- 
ther acqaintance with the fymbolical at- 
tributes of Amoun, may confult Jablontky’s 
Pantheon Egyptiacum. We next come 
to two Obelifks, richly charged with hie- 
roglyphics, and much refembling in their 
general appearance the one at Mattareah, 
engraved in Dr. Shaw’s Travels. Thefe 
Obelifks, it is fuppofed, were erected by 
the Egyptians as gnomons for alfronomic 
ufes, and had anciently a ball on the top 
fupported by a very fmall fhaft, the pro- 
jection of whofe fhadow on the ground 
near that of the gnomon, formed an ellip- 
fis, by which the middie determined by its | 
potition exa€tly enough the height of the 
centre of the Sun. ‘They are of balaltes, 
and were likewife brought from Upper 
Egypt. Between the Obelifks ftands a 
large fquare Sarcophagus or cheft, compol= 
ed of what the French cail dreche verte, 
and appears to be of an aggregate kind, 
with which our mineralogifts were before 
unacquainted. It was brought from the 
mofque of St. Athanafius, in Alexandria. 
The hieroglyphic language infcribed both 
infide and out, denote it to have been ufed 
for facred purpofes. But whether as a 
cheft for the images of the Egyptian deities, 
or as aciftern for the holy-water ufed in 
the facred myfteries, does not appear, In 
form and fize it feems to reprefent the great 
cheft in thelargelt ofthe pyramids of Egypt, 
ns except 
a 
