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texture remains firm, too hard to receive 
an incifion by a knife; color, inclining 
to black. Near the greater trochanter 
there is an elliptic hollow ; not pertfo- 
‘fated. 
Tt am convinced it is no human bone, 
as the condyle is confiderably too hort. 
"Till T receive more accurate inrormation, I 
fhall believe it tobe the as femoris of fome 
prodigious quadruped; but) as ne other 
_ bones of a correiponding magnitude have 
been hitherto difcovered, it is difficult to 
conjecture, fatisfactorily, how it could be 
conveyed into that fituation. I fhail efeem 
my felf obliged to any of your learned Cor- 
refpondents, to acquaint me, threugh 
your Mifcellany, to what animal it proba- 
bly belonged ; for conjecture atone muft 
determine it, 2s no quadruped, in our de- 
generate days, carries a bone of one-third 
its fize. The public may rely on the ac- 
curacy of the abovedimenfions. 
Your's, &c. 
J. E; Bowman. 
Nantwich, 
Nov. 34, 5303. 
— 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
LLOW me, through the channel. of 
| your ufeful Mifceilany, to inquire 
of any of your readers whois able and 
willing to give fatifattory aniwers to my 
queftions : 
<4. Whether there be any fubftance, 
and what it is, which, being kept ina 
tea-keitle, will, without deieriorating the 
quality of the water, attraét the earthy 
particles floating in it, and prevent them 
from incrufling the bottom and fides of 
the veflel with thofe flony concretions 
which are to be found in every tea-kettle 
that is not frequently fcoured ovt, and 
which fometimes accumulate to the thick- 
nefs of an inch or inch and a half, as I 
recolle& to have feen in two or three in- 
fiances? 
2. What is the eaficft and be& mode of 
clearing a tea-kettle fiom ,thofe incrufta- 
tions, when once they have been futfered 
to accumulate to a confiderable thick- 
ncis ? 
Trifling as the queftions may appear, 
it. is neverthelefs of fome importence in 
domehic ceconomy to have them properly 
anfwered; for a moment’s refiexion will 
convince any man. that a kettle, for- 
tified with an inch-thick lining of folid 
fione, muft receffarily require a much 
Jonger time and a much greater quantity 
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Queries. 
[Dec. 4, 
of coal to. make it boil, than a clean vef- 
fel in which the water is feparated from 
the fire by the interpofition of a thin 
plate of metal only. In winter, the dif- 
ference is materially felt by thofe who 
like early breakfafts;. the owner. of 
the clean kettle’ may have finifhed bis 
breakiaft, before his nceighbour’s ftony- 
kettle has begun to boil, though tne 
maid has been long plying it with the bel- 
lows. Iam, Sir,, 
Nov. 4. Your Conftsnt Reader. 
me. 
=e , 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
F your Correfpendent, who figns Co- 
_ QUINARTUS, will have the goodnefs 
to extend his antiquarian refearches into 
the probable origin of the ftaple beverage 
of this country, beer, and that of the 
art of producing it, “he will oblige a 
gentleman who is colleéting materials 
for an hiftorical account thereof, and 
gratify fome of your readers, as well 
as, Sir, , Moe 
‘Your. humble Servant, 
EBORACENSIS&e 
Serato ee ; 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, | 
T HAVE lately feen a book beating 
Jt the following title “Mémoires de 
Litérature tirez des Regiftres de I’ Aca- 
Gemié Royale des. Inferiptions & Belles 
Lettres.’ 20 volumes, duodecimo, printed 
at Amfterdam, by Francis Changuior, 
1731. I fhall be much obliged-by infor- 
mation, whether this is what is ufuelly 
quoted under the title of ** Memoirs af 
the Academy, of Infcriptions?”’ ,Whe- 
ther it isan abridgement of the twenty 
quarto volumes ? and of any ether parti- 
culars concerni:g it. 
The ‘ Diétionnaire Hiftorique des 
Femmes Celebres,”’ firft printed in 1769, 
and republifhed- with additiovs in 1788, 
appears from the concluding article of 
the tupplement te the frit volume, to have 
been written, at leaft in part, by a woman, 
That article is fubferibed “¢ Marion R.D. 
L.B.” Can any of your Correfpondents 
iniorm me to whoxn this refers, and whe 
were the authors of the whole woik? 
I am Sir, 
Your humble Servant, 
- ong 5 ARINUS, 
THE 
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