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culty. About ten pofts,-at this fime of 
the year, when the roads, which are not 
paved, are deep and fandy, is as much 
“as can be eafily accomplifhed. 
With refpect to the inns, the beds are 
in general good; and unlefs.a variety of 
difhes, and wines of diftant growth be or- 
dered, the charges are reafonable. It 
cot me and my three companions, for 
three days and nights inclufively, four 
guineas, including fervants. Near Paris, 
win de Beaune, or Volney, or white 
Champagne, are the beft wines. Near 
Calais, win de Bcourdeaux is the beft. 
Good beer is to be had at Calais; and 
the beft beer I ever.tafied was~ at Paris. 
Avoid the water of the Seine at firft ; by 
degrees it becomes wholefome. Thele 
hints are common-place—fo are all ufe- 
ful precepts. But we find, from every 
day’s experience, that they cannot be too 
often repeated. 
March 1803. Rix Es 
ea 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S a friend to the great and valuable 
undertaking of Dr. Rees, (the New 
Encyclopedia) permit me to point out a 
miftake in the article ** Adverfative,”’ 
with refpeét to Mr. Tooke, and the word 
<< But.” Mr. Tooke very plainly fhews, 
that this ene word “‘ But’? is in modern 
‘Enelith corruptly ufed for two words, 
Bot and But ;”” in the Anglo Saxon, of 
very different fignifications-~Bot being 
the imperative of Botan, to fuperadd, to 
fupply, &c. and But, the imperative of 
Beutan or Beoautan, to be out. This is 
fufficiently ftated in the Dictionary ; but 
it is incorreétly afierted, (and the aflertion 
is attributed to Mr. Tcoke) that the dif- 
ferent fignifications of this word depend 
upon its being placed at.the beginning or 
iy the middie of a fentence. In the 
jermer cafe (that is at the begznning of a 
fentence), fays the Encyclopedift, it is a 
corruption of Bot; and prefently an in- 
flance is given of this corruption of Bot 
in the zaddle of a fentence. ** The num- 
ber three is not aneven, but (fuperadd) 
wi is an odd one.” The meaning ex- 
prefied by thefe two members ot this 
one fentcnce is connected by the word 
«But; and therefore it is, according 
to the diftin@tions of grammarians, not a 
prepofition, as it is called in the Diétio- 
nary, but a conjunction. Bat, from Bot, 
is always a conjunction ; But, from Beu- 
tan, always a prepofition. The latter is 
always applied to words, the former to 
fentences. AJ] this will plainly appear, 
if the writer of the ariicle will recur to 
Error in Encyclopedia— Mifcellaneous Matter. . [ A pril 3, 
his authority (EMEA NTEPOENTA, p.232, 
& feq, 8vo. Ed.) < 
It may feem of fmall cenfequence to 
correct an error, which confeunds fuch 
things as prepofitions and conjunétions 3. 
and fo it may be to thofe who think 
grammar of no more value than merely 
to teach them the names of their parts 
of {peech; but to thofe who know the 
real importance of the feience of lan- 
guage, every error, which- is an hinder- 
ance to the perfect comprehenfion of the 
mafterly work of Mr. Tooke, is de- 
ferving of corre€tion. Iam, Sir, 
Vauxhall, Your obedient fervant, 
March 5, 1803. Gu. 
a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CORRESPONDENT, in your Ma- 
gazine for November, 1801, page 
289, afks who was the author of an Effay 
on the Life and Charaéter of Petrarch? I 
believe this very elegant little produétion 
has been lately acknowledged by Mr. 
Frafer Tytler (now Lord Woodhoufelee. ) 
In this eflay the author makes a very in- 
genious attempt to-prove that Laura was 
never married. Your Correfpondent alfo 
afks, what was the fate ef Huggin’s 
tranflation of Danie, and what was his 
motive for deftroying the printed copies 
of his verfion of Ariofio? To thefe in- 
quiries I hope {cme of your Correfpondents 
will be fo obliging as to reply in a fatis- 
fagtory manner; and your Correfpondent, 
Z. R. would confer a favour on your 
readers, by pointing out the refemblance 
between the italian tragedy of Zelinda, 
and the Tancred and Sigijmunda of Thom- 
fon, zhid. 
It is often matter of regret to me, that, 
amonz the many admirable tranflators of 
the prefent day, not one has undertaken 
a complete verfion of the elegant collec- 
tion of modern Latin poetry, publifhed 
firt by Bifsop Aiterbury, and afterwards 
‘by Pope, under the title of Seleéa Poe- 
mata Italorusa qui Latine fcripferunt. 1 
think fuch a work, if well executed, il- 
luftrated with notes, and enriched with 
biographical -prefeces, could not fail of 
yeing well received by the public. If 
fuch an-undertaking fhould be thought 
too hazardous fer an individual beokfeller, 
let it be patronifed by a company. With 
the merit of fomie of the pieces im this 
colleétion, the Englifh reader is already 
acquainted, through the medium of the 
excellent verfions of Mr. Pitt and Mr. 
Grefwell. As the latter gentleman is ftill 
in exiftence, his affiftance might, perhaps, 
be obtained ; I fay affiftance,-for 1 ae 
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