with great certainty. 
THE 
MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
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No. 94. | 
DECEMBER 1, 1802. 
[INo. 5,,0f Vox. 14. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N my paper, which you have obligingly 
. inferted, on Affercids, as aterm iately 
introduced into Afranomy without, I ap- 
prehend, fufficient reafon, there is an inad- 
vertence of mine at the end of it, either 
in writing indiftingtly, or in fome other 
way. The Herfchelian planet is, L be- 
lieve, about one-third of the diameter of 
Jupiter; and fo I thou'd have exprefled 
it. I requeft you, therefore, to notice it, 
and make this correétion accordingly. 
The fpots of the fun have been remark- 
ably numerous, large, and cluftered, thefe 
laft two months ; and there is now a very 
large one over the fouth-eaft limb of the 
©, with more extent of {coriaceous ap- 
pearance than ufual to the north-eaft of 
it. I think this has appeared two .or 
three times before. The other hemifphere 
of the fun has appeared nearly without 
f{pots. 
Trofions 
O. 24,1802. Caren Lorrr. 
a . 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SI Rs e 50 
HE following obfervation of the tran- 
fit of Mercury over the fun was 
made at Carlifle. . 
The ingrefs could not be feen, the fun 
at the time being below the horizon. 
November 8, at 20h. 4om. 18s. mean 
time, Mercury paffed its node. 
The middle of the tranfit was at 2th. 
2m. 43S.meantime. I rather doubt the 
accuracy of thefe two obfervations, but 
they Wi be of ufe to compare with cor- 
xefpondent ones. 
or 5? 
Interior contaétz3 29 38 mean 
Egrefs dpe tacaltts 2331 4f time. 
The time of the egrefs may be relied on 
The obfervation 
was taken by two obfervers, each having 
a rigs and an affiftant to note the 
time. The inftruments ufed were a three- 
‘Feet reflecting telefcope, the magnifying 
Montruty Mac. No, 94. 
. 
p> 95-4. will not allow it to be 
power 300, an acromatic refraftor, one 
of Cavalio’s mother of pearl micrometers, 
a tranfit-inftrument, and a pendulum 
clock, gcing exactly mean time. The 
morning was exceeding bright and f4- 
vourable duripg the whole time of the ob- 
fervation. I am, &c. WM. Pitt. 
Carlifie, Nov. 10, 1802. 
_ To the Editer of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Agree with Mr. Cogan, that the 
paflages of Euripides and Sophacles 
fufiiciently defend one another, and prove, 
at leaft in poetry, the legitimate ufe of 
the verb rvyxdvew without the participle 
wy. 
My friend’ Mr. C. Falconer,’ jun. 
pointed out to me another miitake in’ Mr. 
Porfon’s note, which Mr. Cogan nas omits 
ted to correét, either through forbearance 
or overfight. If in Euripides, An- 
drom. 1116, we read [EtZeirs OoGm] ervye 
& ay ev.ésmvpoc, there will be an hiatus 
valde deflendus, which Mr. Porfon will) I 
dare fay, retraét, when it is mentioned to. 
him. I draw this conc!ufion from'two'of 
his own notes, one upon the s7rft verfe of 
the Hecuba, where he quotes with appro~ 
bation my namefake’s (Dawes. Mile. - 
Crit. p. 276, 217.) cenfure of 4 fimilar 
miftake of King’s ; the other on Oreftes, 
Vv. 792, where Mr. Porfon propotes a'con- 
jeture to remedy the fame fault in’ a 
comic poet. 
While I am on this fubjeét of the Aia- 
tus, it may not be improper to refCue 
another pafflage from the ‘attacks ‘of erd- 
tics. Machon (Athenaeus xiii. p, §80. 
D.) tells us, thac Gnathena;" feeing’ a 
young butcher, faid to’ him, Mé:paxioy 
Hants, pucl, mac terns, dodoov ; ** My pretty 
Jad, tell me how ‘you fell (your meat).?’ 
Your Readers, Sir, who recolieét Shal- 
low’s queftions, “ How! a good yoke of 
bullocks at’ Stamford fair??? '™™* How a 
fcore of ewes now ??” Jwill reddily acree, 
that me terug is at leaft’ oodd Eng’ith, 
But Lennep, in a note upon Phalris, 
gcoi 
3B Greék 
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