1802.] 
ed by their courage the wreath of fame, 
will repair to Herman’s tomb, and ad- 
mire the trophies by waich it is adorsed ; 
he who imagines himfelt to be a Briton, 
will pore over the urn whole infcription 
promifes him future happinefs ; he who 
is atcached to melancholy retirement, will 
refort to the hermit’s cell ; and he who ts 
-an enthufaft for friendfhip, will love to 
linger on that fpot over which the God- 
defs of Friendthip prefides. While each 
one is thus following the particular turn 
his infanity takes, he will by degrees Jearn 
to attach nimfelf to his favourite objects ; 
Refle&tion wili flowly reaffert her power, 
and bid the firit ray of reafon beam on’ 
their minds. With {uch opinions as thefe 
has Von Stamford laboured, and united 
amufement and utility. He has adorned 
the country in order to render his fellow- 
Creatures happy; and while delightful 
{cenes, whofe charms he has increafed, 
meet every where his enraptured eye, his 
brealt heaves with the tran{porting thought 
that he has contributed as much as he 
could to the happinefs of mankind. I 
know not whether his pian has been at- 
tended with fuccefs’; but ti it fhould not 
anfwer the great end it was intended to 
attain, it mult increafe the happinefs of 
thofe for whom it was projcéted, as it 
enables them to engage in their favourite 
employments, and indulge the bent of 
theirminds. If this end is accomplifhed, 
no one ought to condemn the plan becaufe 
the main objeét is not attained: to render 
thofe capable of fome enjoyment, who are 
deprived of almoft every intelleétual plea- 
fure—to make them fenfible that they ex- 
ift, and procure them fome of the joys of 
exiftence, are not only humare but nobie 
employments, and any meaivre that ef- 
fects this mult every where meet approba- 
tion. Thefe reflections heighten that de- 
light which the beauties of Clofterhayn 
ivipire: never were the works of Nature 
and Art united for a more beneficial pur- 
pole; and though the cold critic may per- 
haps deride their fimple ornaments, never 
were there any {cenes calculated to awaken 
more delighttul fenfations. 
en 
ACCOUNT ofthe EPOCHS to which we may 
affisn ike antient ERUPTIONS of the ex- 
tinguifhed VOLCANOES of antient LA- 
TIUM 3; 74 av EXTRACT Of @ REPORT 
of A MEMOIR made by CITIZEN AMEIL- 
HON, of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE of 
‘FRANCE. 
bi appears that Citizen Petit-Radel has 
relided a long time at Rome, and in 
Epochs of Ancient Volcanoes 
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the vicinity of that illuftricus city.— 
Strack with the f{pectacle which the fight 
of a great number of craters prefeoted to 
him, remains of antient volcanoes with 
which it is furrounded, and which it ftill 
includes, according to this author, in its 
own bofom, he corceived the project, firkt, 
of diftinétly marking out the communica- 
tions eftablithed by Nature between thefe 
different craters, and afterwards of de- 
termining, as nearly as poffible, the time 
wherein they were formed. 
Tn his firft refearches he difcovered that 
they are all fituated on a’ volcanic line, 
which extends from Sicily to Tufcany, 
beginning from /®@tna, which may be 
confidered as the central point of commu- 
nication, and which is prolonged, on one 
fide, as far as the Vicentine, Provence, 
Lanzuedoc, and Spain; on the other to 
Greece and Lydia, through the ifles of 
Crete, of Hiera, Therafta, Anaphe, Nau- 
pacte, and Megara. ‘There is reafon to 
think that the eruptions which formed 
thefe craters took place at atime when the 
countries which they have defolated were 
already inhabited. 
All the hiltorians of antient Rome fay 
that the Capitol borrows its name from a 
human head, wiich was difcovered in dig- 
ging for the foundations of that famous 
citadel. But the Capitoline Mount has 
been formed by a volcanic tuf, or foft, 
fandy (rene, which made part of the cra- 
ter, whoie center is again found in the 
Forum and in the Grand Circus. This 
is a fact of which Citizen Petit-Radel 
confidenily affures himfelf, after a rigo- 
rous examination of the foil and grounds. 
This opinion on the etymology of the 
name of Capitol, which hitherto has only 
been confidered as a conjecture among the 
learned, acquires a great degree of certi- 
tude by th: following ob’ervations. | 
Schilling, keeper of Kircher’s Mufeum 
at Rome, reports that he difcovered the 
fkull of a manina ftratum of volcanic 
cinders at Monte-Mario, near Rome, and 
that this fkoll was very white and very 
heavy. Here are fome traces of ahuman 
habitation, which prove that great erup- 
tions have taken place in thefe countries. 
If any doubt ,as yet remained on this 
point, it would be entirely removed by 
this cther fact. 
Father Revillas, of high celebrity at 
Rome in the mathematical and phyfical 
{ciences, relates that there has been found 
a very large parcel of linen-cloth, in- 
volved ina mafiy fragment of piperino, a 
muddy lava which has proceeded from the 
crater of Albano. Fiom this recital it 
follows, 
