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On the 25th of Yanuary will be publifhed, the SupPLEMENTARY Numzer to the Fifteenth 
Volume of the MontHLY MAGAZINE, containing A comprebenfive Retrofpeét of the Progrefs 
of Baivisu Litzrarure during the laft fix Months—and fimilar Retrofpeéis of GERMAN, 
Frencn, Seanisn, and AMERICAN LITERATURE 3 with INDEXES, TITLE, &c. 
MONTHAL 
THE 
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[Ss SS eT SEE EE. 
JANUARY 1, 
“16, of Vou. 16, 
eee 
1804. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Res 
OU will greatly oblige me, and at 
the fame time gratify the public, by 
affigning a place in your valuable Maga- 
zine to the following Statement refpeéting 
the Oxford edition of Strabo. 
_ T informed Mr. Halliwell, of Brazen 
Nofe College, Oxford, of my intention to 
acquaint the public with the ftate of the 
work in the following letter. 
Sir, 
_I BEG leave to acquaint you with my re- 
folution to lay before the public the ftate- 
ment of your progre(s‘in preparing the Strabo 
for the prefs, and the caufe of tne delay, that 
has occurred during the laft year. 
Iam, Sir, Your obedient Servant, 
Bath, Dec. 10, 1303 T FALCONER. 
I received the following anfwer. 
Sir, 
I HAVE been this morning honoured with 
yourletter, dated Dec. ‘ro. IThaveonly to 
remark, that then will be the proper time 
to ftate to the public the progrefs that has 
been made in preparing the Strabo for the 
preis, when you ¢an convince the public of 
the eafinefs of the tafk. Second thoughts, I 
apprehend, will induce you to defer for a time 
your announced refolution. . Confidering the 
zeal you poffefs, and the intereft you have 
in a work which isto immortalize fo near a 
relative, I cannot but think it an immenfe 
lofs tothe literatiof Europe, that the work 
was not originally placed’ in your hands. 
From the fpecimen I have before me of the 
attention with which you perufe a fheet with 
a view to deteét the blunders of: a compofi- 
tor! there isno doubt of your proceeding 
in the work witha rapidity hitherto unknown 
and unthought-of. In order to be relieved 
from any further importunity, I intead to 
tranfrit per poft, in a few days, or by fome 
other conveyance, the fheets of Strabo in my 
Poflefiion,. Wifhing you every fuccefs in 
your undertaking, 
Jam, Sir, Your moft obedient 
Humble Servant, 
BNC. Dec. 12. H. Harriwere. 
Mr. Halliwell fha!l fupply the explana- 
tion that may be required on my part. 
In a letter of his, dated February 2, 1791, 
and addrefle{ tothe Oxford Editor, he 
Montuty Mae, No. 109. 
fays, “ Mr. P. is jut finifhing the 7th 
book. Two fheets, Ithink, will conclude 
it; when I fhall have the bufinefs entirely 
in my own hands.’ Hence it appears 
that eleven years and a half have been con- 
fumed in capricious application to feven 
books and two-thirds ; for the remainihg 
portion, which conftitutes my divifion of 
the undertaking, contains two books and 
one third. Let Mr. Halliwell {peak like. 
wife concerning the rate of his march. 
In the fame letter he fays: ‘A Latin ver- 
fion of the epitome would, as you obferye, 
make the text more uniform. But all 
thoughts of that muft be given up. It 
would retard us in cur progrefs, and God 
knows we advance flowly enough. One 
fheet per week is\ as much as we can 
get through.’? The computation is eely 
if any one is difpofed to make it, ac 
what time Mr, Halliwell might have A~’ 
nifhed the work upon his own eftimate ; 
and the refult is, that he might have com- 
pleated it very nearly four times over in 
the period which he has actually em- 
ployed in finifhing a little more thaa 
three-fourths. of the ten books. he 
fheet which he fays has been fo inaccurate. 
ly examined, I did not pretend to prepare 
for the printer; and I informed the Board 
of Delegates, that I could not prepare it 
for want.of proper materials. I applied 
for the materials to Mr. Halliwell, and he 
replied in anote ‘that his engagements 
this morning will not. allow of a fingle: 
moment’s leifure to fearch among his 
papers for the page wanted by Mr. Falco- 
NEL ho > 
In November 1802, I had the honour 
of being appointed to fucceed Mr. Hal- 
liwell in the care of this publication, At 
that time he had four printed theets, which 
were to be revifed ; and I received a fuc- 
ceflion of promifes throughout one whole 
year, that they fhould be revifed, but no- 
thing was done during that period. He 
then confented to give up two of them, 
which I received, but without the means 
of preparing them for the printer. I there- 
fore returned them. 
Mr, Halliwell’s perturbation of mind. 
atiles, I imagine, from one among other — 
