1803.] 
it may therefore be efteemed, on this ac- 
count, as a work of the Greeks. 
Citizen Villoifot’, famous for his Greek 
learning, has celebrated the fcience of 
aftronomy in Latin verfe ; which fhews 
his talent for poetry, and his great tafte 
foraftronomy. He addrefled the poem to 
me on my birth-day, and publifhed it in 
the Magazin Encyclopéedique. In the 
notes, he {peaks of the labours of both 
uncle and nephew, and of thole of the 
niece of Citizen Burckhardt, their very 
learned co-operator, and moft intimate 
friend. 
Boulaye, of Troyes, has addreffed a 
very excellent epiftle to Piazzi, onthe Dif- 
covery of his Planet; it may be feen in 
No. 4. of the Memoirs of the Acade- 
mical Society of the Department of the 
Aube. 
M. Coulomb read to the Inftitute an 
Account of his Experimentson Magnetic 
Needles—See Monthly Mag. vol. xv. p. 
261. ‘The declination of the needle at 
Paris has been obferved by Citizen Bou- 
vard at the Obfervatory: on the 2d of 
May, it was 22° 3’, and on the 22d of 
July it was only 21° 45’. By Lenoir it 
was found to be, on the zoth of June, 
22° 6’; but the changes which happen at 
_ different hours of the day, and in different 
parts of the year, give a variation of more 
than 10/; it may therefore be taken at 
22°, and fo it was found in the years 
1792 and 1800 ; fo that it appears ftatio- 
nary, whilft, for ten years before, it in- 
creafed at the rate of-6 or 8’ perann. I 
Extraés from the Po 
VALENTINE GREATRAKS. 
Extra€ts of Letters from Mr. Herbert Alex- 
ander Phaire, of St. John’s, near Ennifcor- 
thy, in the County of Wexford, inJreland, 
relating to Mr. Greatraks*, the famous 
Trith Stroker.—From the Originals in the 
Britith Mufeum. 
February 29, 1743. 
R. Valentine Greatraks was born at 
StokeGabriel,in Devonfhire, where he 
had an eftate, which he fold, and then 
* See the following pamphlets publifhed 
* refpecting this extraordinary man :—Greata- 
vick (Valent.) Account of his ftrange Cures, 
London, 1666, 4to. Wonders no Miracles 5 
or, an Examination of Greatarick’s Cures, 
London, 1666, gto. Enthufiafmus Trium- 
phatus, written by Philophilus Parrefiaftes, 
with the Obfervations and Reply of Alazono- 
maftix, London, 1656, $vo. 
MONTHLY Maga. No. r00. 
| From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. Boe 
obferved it, forty years ago, to be 184—— 
Connoiffance des Temps, 1762. 
M. Simonin, Profeffor at Croific, fends 
us the refult of a thou‘and Obfervations 
on the Tides, with the neceffary tables to 
keep an account of the variations that the 
fun and moon produce upon them, with 
regard to the height and diftance of thote 
bodies. 
EE 
To the. Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
: Shall feel much obliged by the infer- 
tion of the following in your truly 
valuable Mitcellany : 
‘© What is the fafeft and leaft ex- 
‘penfive method of heating, and keep- 
ing up a regular heat, in an extenfive 
printing-office, fixty-three fe.t long, twen- 
ty-feven feet wide, and divided into three 
apartments, twelve feet high, by three 
floors? In the rooms are always ful- 
pended large quantities of damp ‘heets o£ ~ 
& . . ad 
paper, and the heat is to be diffuled as 
equally as poffible in each room. Asa 
great number of workmen will be employ- 
ed, and feveral printing preflcs, it is ex- 
pedient, that whatever means ate employed 
for heating the apartments fhould afford 
the feweft obfacles to the carrying on 
of the bufinels.”” Your’s, &c. 
- S. HAMILTON. 
* * Gentlemen who may be qualified and 
difpofed to anfwer this queftion, are requefted 
to addrefs themfelves either to the Editor for 
the ufe of the Magazine, or privately to Mr. 
HamitTon to the care of the publifher. 
rt-folio of a Man of Letters. 
<a t 
lived and died at his eftate of Affane, 
within a mile of Cappoqueen, in the 
county of Waterford. He. was the eldeft 
fon, and educated at Oxford. There is 
fome account of him in A. Wood’s 
Athene Oxon. He-was a lieutenant of 
horfe (I think) in Ludlow’s Troop. He 
was a man of great parts, and ftrictly 
virtuous. He married the fifier of Sir 
William Godolphin, who was King 
Charles the Second’s Ambaffador at Ma- 
drid. He had but two children, both 
fons. The eldeft, William, married Col. 
Wheeler’s daughter, in the Queen’s 
County, and died foon after. The fecond, 
Edraund (after Sir Edmundbury Godfrey) 
married the daughter of a glafsman inBrif- 
tol, and died foon after, There is one of the 
name, a diftant relation, that now lives at 
Affane, where Mr, Greatraks one night 
+ a dreamed 
