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534 On Stones, Sc. faid to have fallen from the Clouds. [Jan. 15° 
ther than upon his origin? I think he 
fhould have confidered firft what Horace 
puts into the mouth of Macenas, 
~————quali fit quisque parente 
Natus, dum ingenuus. 
However I may differ with Mr. Robinfon 
on his religious tenets, I cannot but agree 
with the late virtuous Bifhop Shipley, that 
there are many amongft the Diflenters, who 
would be an ornament to the bench of 
of bifhops. At the fame time, I do not 
think myfelf inconfiftent in agreeing molt 
cordially with the fentiments of William 
Frend, in his tra€t on Peace and Union 
(for which he was fo. violently perfecuted 
by the univerfity of Cambridge.) ‘That 
‘<the Diffenters view with an evil eye the 
vifitations of archbifhops, bifhops, and 
arch-deacons, &c. but the aflemblies of 
their minifers, whether at the opening of 
a chapel, the ordaining of a brother mi- 
nifter, or for various other purpofes, de- 
note as much love of fpiritual pre-emi- 
nence as is to be foundjin the Eftablifhed 
Church.”’ 
One word more, Sir, and I fhall finifh. 
Tf Mr. Cole were ftill living, I would afk 
him, in anfwer to his queftion as to the 
re{pect Cromwell or King William had 
for talents; what he thought of Milton, 
who was Oliver's Latin fecretary ;~ Sir 
Matthew Hale, one of his judges; or 
Thurloe, fecretary of ftate? And I 
would alfo afk him to compare the ftate 
of learning under James and the reft of 
the Stuarts, with that in the reign of 
William. si 
I trvft, Sir, to your known candour 
and liberality, for inferting this article, 
which has for its ebjeét nothing but a tri- 
bute of juftice to the memory of man fo 
illiberally attacked. I am Sir, 
Your humble fervant, 
December 1803. PHILALETHES. 
— 
To the Editor of the Moutbly Magazine. 
SIR, 
CONSTANT reader of your Maga- 
zine is defirous of afking F. A. what 
we are to underftand by the following 
paflage, in his account of a portrait of 
Mr. Pove, painted by Benjamin Arlaud : 
See page 303, Mag. for November. 
‘© Benjamin Arlaud, befides the above, 
had the felicity of painting another great 
genius, Shakefpeare ; which, I fuppofe, 
mutt bea true likenefs, though it is over- 
lcoked.”” 
Now, Shakefpeare died in 1626, and 
therefore the fame Benjamin Arlaud 
could not have painted him, and alfo Mr. 
Pope. D: 
Nov. 4, 1803. 
‘ Sa ee 
An ACCOUNT of the CHEMICAL ANA- 
LYSIS of certain STONES and other 
SUBSTANCES faid to have fallen from 
the CLOUDS, and of the feveral THEO- 
RIES adopted by PHILOSOPHERS 70 ae- 
count for the PHENOMENA. 
(Concluded from p. 438.) 
HE concordance of a variety of facts 
which we brought together in our 
Jaft Number, feems to render it almoft in- 
difputable, that certain ftones and other 
fubftances have, at different periods, fallen 
on the earth. Many chemifts-and natural 
philofophers have fo far given credit to 
the documents upon which the feveral 
hiftories are founded, as to feek after and 
obtain fome of thefe fubftances, in order 
that they might examine and analyze their 
component parts. It remains, therefore, 
for us to prefent the reader with a brief 
account of what has been done in this 
refpect, and then to lay before him the f- 
veral theories adopted to account for their 
origin. 
According to Count de Bournon, un- 
der whofe notice feveral of the ftones, faid 
to have fallen on the earth, have heen 
brought; the ftones from BeNares are 
entirely covered with a thin black cruf, 
without the fmalleft glofs ; and their fur- 
face is fprinkled over with {mall afperities, 
which caufe it to feel like fifh-tkin. 
Their internal appearance is of a greyifh 
afh colour, and of a granulated texture, 
fimilar to that of a coarfe gritfione ; 
they appear to be compofed of four dif- 
ferent {ubftances, which may be eafily 
diftinguifhed by making ufe of a lens. 
One of thefe fubftances appears in the 
form of fmall globular bodies of various 
fizes, from that of a fmall pin’s head to 
that of a pea, or even larger. ‘They are 
of a brown or grey colour, and com- 
pletely opaque. When broken, they thew 
a fine, {mooth, compact, grain, having 
a fimall degree of luftre, refembling, in 
forme mealure, that of enamel. ‘Pheir 
hardnefs is fuch, as to aét in fome degree 
upon glafs, and they will give faint {parks 
when ftruck with fteel. 
Another of them is a martial pyrites, 
of an indeterminate form ; its colour is a. 
reddith yellow, flightly inclining to hg 
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