1803.7 
nifhed. Hence, by thefe combined infti- 
tutions, we may reafonably look forward 
to a decreafe in the deaths of about three 
thoufand fellow-creatures annually ; a 
refleStion that mutt be gratifying to every 
friend of humanity, and to every true pa~ 
triot. 
Bajinghall fireet, 
Dec. 10, 1802. 
aE “ 
‘To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WW EYNE’s Homer having reached me 
within thefe few days, Y turned with 
fome impatience to the paflage in the 19th 
book, on which I made a remark in your 
Jaft. This admirable Editor has obferved 
that epyov aemes is uled, miro modo, for Epyet 
aeizi, but that spyov fometimes fignifies 
labor, erumnofus labor. He has not noticed 
the epyov mox8av of Mofchus. He allows 
us to conneét epyoy aerav, but propofes 
that the words fhould be joined as@awy i’ 
EvpucSnos. But if aebawy is to be joined 
with -€pyov, I fhould ttill prefer my old 
conftruction, as ‘vmo, mpoc, and ££, are fre- 
quently conftrued with neuter and adfive 
werbs. 
All yourclaffical readers will.thank Mr. 
Dawes for his communication. He hand- 
fomely fuggetts that it might‘not be from 
overlight that I did not take notice of the 
hiatus introduced into the line of Euri- 
pides by Mr. Porfon’s correétion. I point- 
ed it out ina letter fent to you, Sir, but 
for which you allowed me to fubftitute 
that which you publifhed. To the fug- 
geftion of afriend I am indebted for the 
Knowledge of a faét which Iwas not aware 
of, namely, that tuyyavw occurs again in 
the Eleétra of Sophocles, without the par- 
ticiple, V. 3135 vu Sayport Tuy avete Here, 
however, it might be read aypess wy tolyavety 
in which order the formula, I think, oc- 
curs elfewhere. The expreffionv. 993, is 
of a different kind. 
In Euripid. Hecuba, v. 1038, 
n yap raberhes Opakay Kas pavers Zeve 5 
I fome years ago conjef&tured Zev. The 
correction was at that time approved by 
Mr. Wakefield, and Herman has fince 
given it inthe text. ‘Thecaufe of the de- 
pravation, allowing it to be fuch, is ob- 
vious. ; 
As theaccufative appears to have been 
here fupplanted by the genitive, I have 
fometimes fufpeéted that it has been fup- 
planted by the dative in Sophocles GEdip. 
Col, v. 1096. 
TO CHOW PLEY UN EPESS 
Ge Wevdopeayris 5 
J.C. LettTsom. 
Mr. Cogan’s Letter.—Adr. Salmon’s Glaim, &5'c. Ar? 
voy cxo7e would exhibit an elegant Grz- 
cilm. Vide Eurip. Med. v. 250, Aeysos 
Mnras, <2 anvdvvey CrovEwuev. Inf. v. 4535 
Euripides might have written, if he did 
not write, Asyeo” law’, wo naxigoges” aYnps 
The elifion of the vowel, after a fhort fyl- 
Jable in the c@/fura, is liable to no objec- 
tion. Vide p. 24 of Profeffor Porfon’s 
Supplementary Prefaceto the Hecuba. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Higham Hill, E. CoGan. 
Dec. 6th, 1802. 
—e— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
1 is your laft Magazine, page 406, you 
have inferted an account of the method 
employed, under the direction of a Com- 
mittee of the National Inftirute of France, 
for transferring a painting by Raphael 
from a pannel of wood to canvas. The 
celebrated Guyton, Berthollet, and others, 
who compofed that Committee, and drew 
up the Report, muft, Iam inclined to 
think, from their known liberality in ac- 
knowledging the inventions of others, 
have been ignorant at the time, that the 
procefs they defcribe had been invented 
and fuccefsfully practiled in this country 
in the year 1796, and a full account of 
the fame publifhed in the XVth volume of 
the Tranfations of the Society for the 
Encouragement of Arts, &c. p. 243 to 
262 ; which Society alfo adjudged an ho- 
norary reward to Mr. Robert Salmon, the 
inventor of the fame. The procefs for 
pictures on pannels which Mr, Salmon 
ufed, differs in nothing material from that 
detailed in your,laft number, except that 
he cements by oil-colour the canvas which . 
is in future to bear the picture, immedi- 
ately after clearing the wood from it, and 
applying a new priming of oil-colour ; 
whereas Mefits. Guyton, &c. firft pafted 
a canvas on the new priming, then re- 
moved the cartonage, or fecuring-canvas, 
and after leveling by a heated iron the 
inequalities occafioned by fhrinking, ap- 
plied a new cartoaage, and then affixed on 
the priming the canvas intended to bearthe 
picture. ‘This double operation, and the 
applying of a hot iron, mutt, itis eafy to 
conceive, endanger the painting, and, with 
the precautions Mr. Salmon has prefcribed 
for preventing fhrinking, by properly fix 
ing the edges of the fecuring-canvas, is 
unneceflary. 
It may not be unentertaining to fome 
of your readers to be informed of fome 
further particulars of Mr. Salmon’s inven- 
tion and procefs, which J had an oppor- 
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