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For cpébavte Mr. F. would read cxiyavre, 
the former word apearing too weak when 
applied to thunder. 
answered, that, though cxxmrs is often 
used by the best authors, and particularly 
by the tragic poets, to express thunder, 
hghtning, orstorm jitmay much be doubted 
whether it will be altogether proper in 
ecoujunction with Bian, he word éaror 
_is frequently used by the Greek writers 
to express thunder; and, therefore, epepes 
B2d4 may properly bd rR uly signity to 
cast the weapons, er to cast the: thunder. 
Your’s, de. 
Ravenstondale, 
November 9, 1807. 
J. ROBINSON. 
ea 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SER, j 
BEG the favour of you to correct a 
mistatement which occurs in yeur 
Literary Intelligence for the last month, 
378. The late Mr. Gilbert Wake: 
field’s collections for his intended Greek 
and English Lexicon, are there stated to 
have been destroyed by fire. So far from 
this being the case, his interleaved copy 
of Hederic’s Lexi icon, which contains all 
those collections, is nae as it has always 
been, in the possession of Mis. W ake- 
field, exactly in the state mm which Mr. 
W. left it at his decease. 
The Memoiis of bis Life (vol. 1, p. 216) 
so fully mention the collections for the 
Lexicon as preserved by his family, that 
t know not how your informant could 
have been led to send you an account so 
erroneous. Ee inay possibly have con- 
founded the Lexicon with Mr. W’s. Lu- 
cretius, the remaining impression of 
which, consisting of a large number of 
copies, was destroy ed in the fire at the 
printing-otfice of Mr. Hamilton. 
Persuaded that you will give: this the 
earliest insertion, I am, Sir, 
Yours, &c. 
Clapton, Nov. 4, 1807. J. Down 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
OBSERVATIONS made during @ TOUR 
through the UNITED STATES Of AME- 
RICA.—NO, XIX. 
AM informed that I was ‘guilty of an 
error when I stated that the four ci- 
tizens forced from the Chesapeak were 
natives of the United States.. One of 
them, if seems, was a Spaniard by birth, 
who came to at in the United Brites 
when but seven years of age, and has con- 
WW akefield’s Greek and English Lexicon. 
Yo this it may be 
LDecot, 
stantly remained therein, or been in the 
service of our government or merchants, 
from that age. 
If my speculations are correct, the 
country on the southern shore of Lake 
Brie, at no very distant period, will, be~ 
come one of the most interesting 
tracts within the extensive territories 
of the Uinted States. A correct know- 
ledge of its present state, I conceive, 
therefore, to be important to every en- 
quiring statist of the present day, as well 
as tu ‘uture generations, whom it will 
enable, correctly, to appreciate its pro- 
gre 2ssive improvement. It is therefore, 
*, that Ltal:e the hberty of forwarding 
you some extracts froma pamphlet lately 
published in Washington city, which I 
hope you will not consider unworthy of a 
place in your Magazine, nor your readers 
that I have trespassed too much on their 
time and patience, 
The pamphlet to which T allude is en- 
titled “ A Letter addressed to the Peo- 
ple of Maryland, giving a short account 
of the country on the South shore of Lake 
Erie, including a brief description of its 
situation, climate, soil, productions, trade, 
commerce, manufactures, and exports, 
shewing the advantages it offers to the 
middling people of Maryland to emigrate. 
By James Yongue, M. D. &e. of Mary- 
land. Wa ashington, printed 1807.” 
‘The Doctor begins his letter with as- 
serting that “€ The virtue and happiness 
ofa people require not only that proper- 
ty and knowledge should be equally dis- 
tributed, but that each one’s portion of 
property should be sufficiently large to 
support and maintain his fainily.: The — 
greater the equality is, both in knowledge 
and property, the g greater the general hap- 
piness; aud in proportion as ; inequalities 
between the rich and the poor merease, 
the nation falls into misery and vice. Of | 
the two extremes, poverty and wealth, 
the former is probably the most perni- 
cious; but both are doubtless fruitful 
causes of degeneracy. 
“ A middle state of society 1s certainly 
the most desirable: a state, in which the 
want of sufficient means will prevent a 
family from ranning ito extravagance, 
idleness, and dissipation; whilst, at the 
same time, such measure of wealth is en- 
joyed by the-family, as yields them every 
solid comiurt, as secures them from de- 
pendance and penury, as enables the pax 
rent to educate every child, and give hina 
a decent setting-up in fife, and to provide 
for the comfort or bis own and his part. 
ner’s old age, 
66 It 
