1804.) ° 
formation refpe&ting the continuation of 
the cordillera of the Cataracts. Under 
the latitude of from 4° to 5° and longi- 
tude 63°, it becomes fo narrow that it- 
is {carcely fixty miles in breadth. It ai- 
fumes here the name of Cerrania de Qui- 
miropaca and Pacaraimo, and forms a 
chain of not very high ridges, by which 
the waters were divided. The water of 
the northern declivity, the Nocapray, Pa- 
raguamuci, Benamo, and Mazurini, flow 
towards the Orinoco and Rio Efquibo; the 
waters of the fouthern, the Rio Curuicana, 
Parime, Madari, and Mao, pour them- 
felves into the River Amazon. Some de- 
grees further towards the eaft, the cor- 
dillera again.extends in breadth ds it af- 
cends fouthwards towards the Canno Pa- 
raya. along the Mao. It is here that the 
Dutch give to the Cerro d’Ucuamo the 
magnificent name of the Gold Mountain, 
or Dorado, becaufe it confifts of a very 
fhining micaceous fchiftus, a foffil which 
has brought into celebrity the {mall ifland 
of Ypamucena inthe Lake of Parima. 
(To be continued. ) 
mM e : 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
CLII1.—THEOLOGICAL MATTERS. 
LL monattic inftitutions have mani- 
fefted a peculiar fondnefs for the 
{cholaftic divinity ; and it is not furpriz- 
ing, that our prefent colleges, the offspring 
of thefe foundations, fhould bear, in this 
refpect, fome refemblance to their parents; 
for every body knows, that our prefent 
Academical inftitutions rofe, as the young 
phoenix from the afhes of its mother, out 
of the ruins of monafteries. Let this 
remark he received as an apology for in- 
troducing fo much polemical matter in 
thefe papers : the order of events was fol- 
lowed : 
VirG. 
Hitherto we have introduced Lollardi{m, 
Catholicifm, Puritanifm, Methodifm, 
Trinitarianifm, Arianifm, Socinianifm, 
é&c. Neither the one nor the other ts ef- 
fential to the academical body, any more 
than rheumatifm to the human conftitu- 
tion; but all are only accidental.— 
On fome future occafion, Deifm, Cal- 
vinifm, Arminianifm, and even Judaifm, 
fhall be brought forward: and the reader 
will then perceive that the Cantabrigiana 
has not been infected at leatt with the 
herefy of favouvitifm, 
He tibi erant artes. 
Cantabrigiana. 
B85. 
CLIV._-A HINT 4@HARD STUDENTS.—~ 
(From Mr, Whifton’s Memoirs’ of his Life 
and Writings, ‘written by himfelf in the 
qgth, Soth, 8ift, and 32d Years of his 
Age.) “ 
“© While I was an undergraduate, an 
accident happened tome,which may deferve 
to be here related, for the caution and be- 
nefit of others inthe like circumftances.== 
I one fummer obferved taat my eyes did 
not fee as ufual, but dazzled after an 
awkward manner; upon which I imagin- 
ed this might arife only from my too much 
application to my fiudies ; and I thought 
proper to abate of that application for a 
fortnight, in hopes of recovering my 
ufual fight by walking during that time 
much abroad in the green grafs and green 
fields, but found my/elf difappointed,, 
which occafioned fome terror to me, efpe- 
cially becaufe of my father’s lofs of fight 
before. _ At this time I met with an ac. 
count, either in converfation or in writing, 
that Mr. Boyle had known of a perfon 
who had new-whited the wall of his fudy, 
or chamber, upon which the fun fhone, 
and ufed to read in that light, and there- 
by loft his fight for atime, till upon hang- 
ing the place where he ftudied with 
green, he recovered it again ; which was 
exactly my own cafe, in a lefs degree, 
both as tothe caufe and the remedy : for 
I and my chamber- fellow had newly whit 
ened our room, into which almoft’ all the 
afternoon-fun fhoue, and where I ufed to 
read, I therefore retired to my ftudy, 
and hung it with green, by which means 
I recovered my ufual fight, which, God 
be praifed, is hardly worfe now, that IT 
perceive, at four-fcore years of age, than 
it was in my youthful days.” 
CLY.— LADY MARGARET, fhe FOUN- 
DRESS of ST. JOHN’S, COLLEGE. 
(From Baker’s MS. Hiftory of that College.) 
“She was daughter of John Beau- 
fort, Duke of Somerfet, grand{on of John 
of Gaunt, and fo defcended from Ed- 
ward Iil.; confort of Edmund Tuder, 
Earl of Richmond, fon of Catharine 
of France, and fo allied to the Crown of 
France ; and. mother of Henry VII, 
King of England, from whom all our 
Kings of England, as from his elder 
daughter Margaret, who bore her name, 
all the Kings of Scotland are ever fince 
defcended. And though fhe herfelf was 
never a Queen, yet her fon, if he had any 
lineal title to the crown, as he derived it 
from her, fo at her death fhe had thirty 
Kings and Queens allied to within the 
liz fourth 
