1803.) 
rent force, and foon. The more epithets 
are added, the mpre difficult it becomes 
to prove any fpecific definition. To place 
the eficnce of matter in its having figure 
sito take for granted its exiftence; and 
this the Enquirer was bound not to do's 
he, therefore, placed its effence in refif- 
svene/s, in its oppofing certain obftacles to 
the organs of {fenfation, becaufe the phe- ~ 
nomena of fenfation are agreed truths, but 
it is not agreed that thefe phenomena ori- 
ginate in the configuration of the external 
worid, 
Mr. Lofft goes ftill further in his ap- 
proximations, and allows that the Su- 
preme Mind accompanies fome  perrep- 
tions with fuch circumftances as prove 
ther not to be perceptions which we ori- 
ginally excite in ourfelves: and adds, it 
is remarkable that we have no perceptions 
which are not at firft thus excited in us by 
external agency: he even afcribes perma- 
mence to this external character—when 
ideas become permanent and extended, 
they approach very near indeed to matter. 
A ftrange paflage follows. Time, fays 
Mr. Lofft, is no real ‘ubfance; and why 
fhould fpace, motion, or matter, have 
any more reality? Why fhould they not 
be all alike modifications of mind and its 
perceptions ? 
Time, fpace, and motion are none of 
them fubftances; they are the length, 
breadth, and thicknefs of the univer(le; 
but matter is the folid itfelf. Becaule 
length, and breadth, and thicknefs, are 
abitra& ideas, it does not follow that all 
things, of which length, breadth, and 
thicknefs can be predicated, are abfra& 
ideas, or, as they are here incorre&ly 
termed, modifications of mind. But this 
form of fophifm has been fufficiently ex- 
pofed before in the feventh and ninth fub- 
‘divifions: it is, however, the favourite 
and charaéterjftic fophif{m of the fchool, 
and is continually recurred to as the fol- 
vent of univerfal entity; it is employed 
firft, it laft, it midft, it without end: 
indeed without it no defence of Berkeley’s 
idealifm is likely to appear very fatisfac- 
tory. 
But methinks I hear the bugle-horn of 
the Dwarf, which calls us from the tilt to 
the feaft; let us leave our lances leaning 
againit the oak, to renew at other hours 
the interrupted conflict. : 
; —Sa— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
] Shall be very much obliged to any of 
your Correfpondents, who will inform 
me, what particular ingredient is made ule 
Queryam Queries anfwered. 323 
of, or what peculiar procefs is purfued in 
the fabrication of mottled foap, fo as to 
caufe that gottled, cloudy, or marble-like 
appearance it aflumes. att i 
This application does not criginate in 
the moft diftant intention-of injuring the 
manufacturer of that article, but entirely 
for the purpofes of experimental chemif- 
try. 
I have applied to two or three maru- 
facturers of this article, but their anfwers 
have been fo unfatisfadiory and myftertous, 
not to fay aliberal, that I was determined 
to embrace the opportunity the perufal of 
your valuable Magazine gave me, of 
making a general inguiry on the fabject. 
Edinburgh, Your’s &c. T. Mw 
March 9, 1894. 
——e 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiR, 
sli your lat Magazine is a letter, under 
dL ihe fignature T. C. requefting to be 
informed, why nightingales are not fouad 
in Devonfhire and Cornwall? 
This queflion is very fatisfaétorily an- 
{wered in White’s Natural Hittory of Sel- 
borne. As the book (now become 
fearce*) may not beat hand to refer to, I 
will give the querilt, partly from mytelf, 
but chiefly from that author, the folutien 
of the difficulty. 
The nightingale is a bird of paflage, 
and comes to us from the Continent. In 
the {pring, nightingales crofs the fea, 
where it is narrowelt, between Calais and 
Dover ; and, upon their arrival, proceed 
forwards, {preading them(elves to the right 
and left, until they have advanced as far 
as they can recover again, when ining 
warns them to return to the countries frora 
which they came.  Tney are feldom 
found more than one hundred and feventy 
miles from Dover. The two weltern 
counties exceeding that diftance are, of 
courfe, beyond their bounds. 
The {mall black infects at Exmouth, 
as your Correfpondent calls them, are nei- 
ther fo fmail, nor fo black as he appre 
hends. It being ‘* fome years fince he 
faw them,” fhould they again engage his 
attention, he will find them haif as large 
as a fhrimp, and rather dufky than black. 
They are called, from their hopping, fea- 
fleas, and are by no means rare or cu- 
rious. . 
Exmouth, 
April 5, 1803. 
* An edition of «* White’s Works in Na- 
tural Hiftory,” comprifing the above, has 
lately been publifhed, in two volumes, {mall 
octavo, Epit. SONA BY 
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