1803.] 
than of Homer, though no one was a more 
ardent admirer of the chafter beauties of the 
ancient Epic than Mr. Hole. The poem 
itfelf difplays a warm imagination, and the 
lines are lefs monotonous, and the meafure 
more varied in its paufes, than thofe of 
his formet poetical works.. The notes, 
though fhort, are valuable, and difptay a cor- 
rect knowledge of the Northern mythology. 
When Mr. Poiwhele projected his publication 
of the Devonfliire and Cornwall Poets, Mr. 
Hole could not be overlooked in his nume- 
rous applications; and fome of the very 
highly-finifhed poems in that colle@tion are 
from his pen. “The Ode to ‘Terror and to 
Melancholy are thought to be little inferior 
to tholé of Gray, Mafon, or Akenfide. ‘They 
feem, however, to have been the production 
of an earlier period. When the Literary So- 
ciety at Exeter was formea, Mr, Hole -was 
one of its firft members; and nis later exer- 
tions were chicfly commufications to that 
inftitution. To this fociety he addrefled the 
“* Remarks onthe ‘Arabian Nights Sn 
tainments, in which the Origin of Simbad’ 
Voyages, and other Oriental Fictions, is a 
ticularly confidered,” and ’publithed feparately, 
1797, 12mo. in RE he endeavours to thew 
that the marvellous events in thofe voyages 
were believed in the Eaft,*and not fo extra- 
vagantly inconfiftent, with- what the obfer- 
vation of later travellers have fupplied, as 
bas becn generally fuppofed. In the pub- 
lifhed volumes of Effays,. though no names 
are affixed, an humorous poem on the origin 
of clubs, and the ironical vindications of the 
charater of Shylock and Iago, are atiributed 
to his pen, The irony of the vindicztions’is 
fo well preferved, that many attacks have 
been made on thefe articles, on the fuppofi- 
tion of their being ferious, not uniike to 
Swift’s advice ro the Irith péafantry, “to eat 
the'r chitdren, which was, at firft, from the 
grave manner in which it was propoted, mif- 
taken in the fame way. In Mr. H. his family 
have Joit a moft excelient hufband and parent, 
Religion an exemplary votary, and the world 
an example of a truly worthy man. He was 
a native of Exeter, and admitted of Exeter 
college, Oxiord, where he proceeded B.C. L. 
5771. 
CORNWALL. 
Many of the tin mines in eis county,: 
have at length become exhaufted, and others 
are nearly fo, or at leaft are Grorieed to little 
advantage.  Pofgooth, fuppofed to be the 
largeft tin mine in the world? though it 
producesa confiderable quantity of ore, yet it 
is attended with fo great an expence, by 
reafon of its very great depth, that ‘t yields 
but little profit to the proprietors, Some 
Miines near the Land’s End, which, for a 
number of years, produced but little, are 
now working to more account. The manu- 
facturers complain pretty generally, that 
the metal brought to market_is lefs pure 
Cornwall—Wales. ' 
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than heretofore. Of the copper mines, 
fome have been abfolutely relinquithed, in 
confequence of their extreme depth. Dol- 
wath, at an enormous expence, has been 
brought into work, and yields an abundance 
of metal, indifferent in its quality. The 
mine of Wheal Towan, in the. ditri& of 
St. Agnes, is itill produdtive; and that of 
W heal Crowndale, near ‘Yaviftock, in Devon- 
fhire, yields pretty large quantities of ore, 
and at no great diftance from the furface. 
Married | At Lower St. Columb, Mr, 
E. Benny, (the bridegroom is both deaf and 
dumb,) to Mifs Hore. 
At St. Ives, Mr. R. Refugzan, to Mifs 
J. Harvey.—Mr. W. Quick, to Mifs E, 
‘Thomas. dl 
At Padftow, Mr. Chapman, aged 89, to 
Mrs. Pryan, a buxom wicow, of 47. Mr. 
Chapman, on his return from church, 
gravely obferved to ofe of his friends, that 
‘© he hoped he fhould not be troubled with 
many young children; one of each fort was 
all he withed for.” 
At Falmouth, Mr. Platt, printer, to Mifs 
Williams, of Plymouth Dock. 
Died.\| At Kaimouth, Mr. W. Inglis. 
At Helftone, Mrs. Pelglafe, mother of Mr 
J. Pelglafe, merchant. She was found deade 
in her bed, to which fhe went, apparently 
well, the preceding evening. 
At Bodmiyn, in his 76th year, Mr. Cock, 
late of St. Mawes. Aged 45, Mrs. 
E. Harry, widow of the iate eminent Je 
Harry, M.D. 
At Camborne, fudataly. while walking in 
his garden, Mr. S$. Swyne, butcher. _ 
At Leftwythiel, aged 84, Mrs. Walker; 
a liberal bemeiaaceh to the poor, and a 
moft ref{pectable character in other refpedts. 
At Kenwyn, aged 78, Mrs Wilton; 
and onthe following day, aged 34, Mrs.- 
Hodge, her daughter: they were both in- 
terred in one grave. 
WALES. ,; 
Lately, at Merthyr Tydfil, in Glamorgan- 
fhire, «at Mr. Crawfhay’s iron works, an 
over-fhot wheel was conftruGed, {uppofed to 
be, beyond comparifon, the jareett in the 
world. It is above 59 feet in diameter, and 
made entirely of caft iron, which alone coft 
above 4oool. The water that turns it is 
brought from a ftream in the hills, diftane 
about five miles, on an aqueduét or platform 
of wood, fupported chiefiy by ftone pillars, 
except in one place, where it crofles a 
bridge, on fupports of waod, for the {pace of 
above 3co yards, and elevated 80 feet above 
the bed of a river. 
Married.} At Swanfea, Mr J. Flexman, 
druggift, to Mifs E. Upcott, milliner. 
Died.| At Swanfea, Mrs, Howell, wife 
of the Rev. Mr.. Howell. 
At Bridge End, Glamorganfhire, aged 73, 
Mrs, Morgan, relié&t of the late Mr, Morgana, 
formerly 
