’ with the requeft. 
1803.] 
part of a fingle lot, many of the prime of 
‘which, in point of fituation, were origi- 
ginally purchafed for jol. currency (fix 
fhillings to the dolldi) and three years cre- 
dit. Hf this fud@en increafe had arifen 
from actual fettlement alone, a more unde- 
niable proof would be given of the ro- 
{perity of Wafhington, than by the magic 
appearance of uninhabited ftructures, like 
mufhrooms after a fhower. Fruits forced 
in a hot-houfe anf{wer very well the pur- 
pofe of thofe who bring them firft to mar- 
ket, but they have not the fubftance of 
more natural produfions. 
Anotherand weighty obftacle to the mag- 
nitude of American cities, is the yellow 
fever. This dreadful diforder hath ra- 
vaged almeft every place on that Conti- 
nent, whether on the fea-coaft or inland. 
Doubts may therefore be reafonably enter- 
tained of the juitnefs of the reafons 
given by Dr. Ruth, and other eminent 
“American phyficians, for its being a dif- 
eafe imported from the Weft Indies, and 
not a local affettion. Wafhington has, in 
its infancy, been fubjeéted to its ravages ; 
and to extend it to the fize talked_of, will 
perhaps be to ereét anurfery for future 
carnage. It may be further remarked, 
that this epidemic regularly appears in 
fome part or other of the United States in 
the fultry. months of June, July, Auguf, 
and September, and is checked only by 
the appearance of cold weather. As the 
intercourfe between the United States and 
the Welt Indies, where this diforder always 
prevails, is, more or lefs, uninterrupted, it 
is not probable that a diforder imported 
from the latter fhould be only periodical 
inthe former. But whether the caufe be 
imported or local, the effest muft be more 
or jefs dreadful according to the magni- 
tude of the place which is attacked by it. 
SE 
' fo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHALL be much obliged to any of 
your readers, if they will inform me 
what books have been written either for, or 
again, the dreadful praétice of prefing 
for the navy. The titles of the books 
and the publifhers names are requelted, 
with fuch other particulars as may occur 
to the mind of thole who may comply 
Your's, &c. 
May 16, 1303. A. Z. 
ee 
To the Eaitor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Dh Lg 
OUR ingenious Correfpondent Dry- 
cy fanter was not perhaps aware that 
Dueries and Anfwers. 423 
a great part of his information in your 
laft number, refpeéting the celebrated line 
“* Incidis in Scyllam, ©.” had already ap- 
peared in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 
1794, p. 1182, where I gave the paflage 
from Waiter de Infulis, with fome flioht 
variation arifing from the difference in the 
editions quoted. To what has already 
been faid on this fubje be pleafed to add 
the following remarks. 
The manulcripts of the Alewatlithéte 
are by no means uncommon; for, befides 
thofe mentioned by Dryfanter, there are 
no lefs than sineteen in the French National 
Library, at Paris, and feveral in that of 
Berne. The manucript in the public 
library at Cambridge, was written in 
1364. Moft of thefe have a great number 
of marginal notes, which are probably the 
commentaries of the various {choliafis in 
whole feminaries this once popular work 
was ufed. 
The printed editions are the following : 
1. In quarto, no place mentioned, 1496. . 
The late George Stevens, efq. had a copy 
of this edition, but I think it was not 
quite perfeét at the beginning. 
2. In quarto, Strafburg, 1513. In 
the poffeffion of Dr. C. Burney. 
3. In 12mo, Ingolftadt, 1541. 
poffeffion of the writer. 
+e In quarto, Lyons, 1558. Was alfo 
in 
. Stevens’s library. 
In the 
In the 1 edition the line ftands ¢¢ ae 
cidis in Scyllam qui wult vitare ‘Charyb- 
din.”” 
2d. 
3d. “Tocidis in Scyliam cupiens vitare — 
Charybdin.”’ 
4th. The fame. 
The variations in diétionaries, &c. are 
not worth attending to, the line being 
moft likely, given memoriter : thofe in the 
MSS. might deferve examination. Had 
this been a claffical line, it would no 
doubt have been known to Erafmus, who 
fairly confefles* he knew not whence it 
came; we may therefore infer, that the 
Alexandreis had been in his time long 
forgotten. 
In 1250, Juan Lorenzo, a Spaniard, of: 
Aftorga, tranflated it'into his native lan- 
guage. An Italian tranflation into rhyme 
was publifhed in 1524. 
In the communication to the Gentle- 
man’s Magazine above alluded to, I had 
requefted a reference to a former explana 
tion of “‘ Quem Deus vult perdere prius 
dementat,’ but I believe it was never 
given, though promifed. I have fince 
difcovered it in Dvuport’s ‘* Homeri 
Gnomologia, 1660, quarto.” where it is 
312 given 
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