222. 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Mugazine. 
SER, 
DOUBT having arisen in my mind, 
concerning the correctness of the 
quantity of a syllable, used by the cele- 
brated Ainsworth, in the epitaph written 
n himself and his wife, I have taken the 
liberty to iasert my suspicions, and on 
what reasons they are founded, m your 
hterary Repository. 
To the 4to andsecond edition of Ains- 
worth’s Latin Dictionary, a short Ac- 
count of the Author’s Life is prefixed, 
in which is inserted the above-mientioned 
Epitaph. 
s¢ Rob. Ainsworth et Uxor ejus admodum 
senes 
Dormituri Vestem detritam hic exuerunt, 
Novam primo mané sargentes induturi. 
Dum Fas, Mortalis, sapias et respice Finem ; 
Hoc suadent Manes, hoc canit Amramides.” 
Now with respect to the word Amra- 
mides, the quantity is thus marked in the 
Gradus, 
Aniramides. 
Whereas, used in the latter end of a 
pentameter ‘line, it must of necessity be 
thus accentuated, 
Ani rimidés. 
Hoc suadéent Manes, hoc canit Ani- 
ramidés. 
Trusting that amongst your learned Cor- 
respondents, ene of them may conde- 
scend to give me his opinion on the sub- 
ject, LIremain, Your’s, &c. 
Camden-town, C. WESLEY, jun. 
March 10, 1808. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly 
SIR, 
BSERVING in your useful Maga- 
zine of February last (page 8), Mr. 
Farey’s invitation to publish my piacti- 
cal remarks on pisé-walling ; with the 
same I would willingly comply: but as mo- 
dels, with descriptions and observations 
(exceeding the limits of your Magazine) 
appear to me the best means of convey- 
mig to the public the proper Informa- 
tion, I conceive that through the channel 
of the Society of Arts it wiil be best 
communicated. 
For this purpose I have ordered mo- 
dels to be made, which with my observa- 
tions on the modes of perfurming the 
work, will I hope be feand worthy of a 
place in the Society’s collection, where 
the putlic can at all times refer to them 
free of expence. 
Notwithstanding this my itention, if 
you think a few observations worthy of 
uisertion, they may possibly be cf use to 
Magazine. 
Quantity of Amramides,—Pisé- Walling. 
[April ‘, 
some of your readers inclined to adopt 
pisé-walling. 
Of the utility of this mode of building 
in some situations, I am fully satisfied, 
and shall be happy to hear, that any gen- 
tleman who practises it, may improve’on 
what I have done; and sincerely wishing 
it success, I cannot perhaps better sup- 
port it, than by giving some precautions to 
prevent failures, which must tend to bring 
it Into disrepute 
in the communication to the Board of 
Agriculture (page 395, vol. I.), it is laid 
down as a rule, that almost any soil will 
answer the purpose, and that such may 
be réadily known. Again, page 401, itis 
recommended, to cover the outside with 
a coat of stucco, or rough-cast, and this 
without any previous preparation, in the 
formation of the wall. , 
In ‘these particulars I most materially 
differ in opinion; for although I think 
earth, apparently good for walling, may 
be commonly met with, yet such as will 
make sound work is hot so frequent, nor 
is it easy to convey a proper idea thereof 
by a written description, so as to distin- 
guish it. 
With regard to facing the outside with 
a regular coat of stucco or roughcast, the 
saine as is usually laid on brickwork, 1 
have made many experiments, and find 
that so done, it always fails, and comes 
off in large pieces together. and partieu- 
larly so, if no previous composition be 
used in the formation of the wall. 
The sort of soil which I have found 
best, is a coarse gritty sand, with a little 
tenacity, so as sutiiciently to adhere toge- 
ther when compressed, 
‘The serapings of roads, where gravel 
free ofcalcareous atdaas sea willmake . 
hard and durable walls, and the siftings 
of some gravel, where there is but. little 
{enaciousness, wall also answer; butthat 
any sort of mould, loomy earth s clay 
will do, is a mistakes and to make good 
walling, or a good face thereto, will re- 
quire a ‘different process from any that I 
have seen published: to detail this would 
exceed the present limits, but they shall 
be given, with the models, &c. suffice 
it here to say, that whatever be the soil 
or composition, it’ is a matter of the 
greatest consequence, that it be put in 
the mould and pertectly well rammed, 
in very thin layers: if this be omitted, 
the best of soil will make very bad alll 
ing. Somuch does this prevail, that I think 
it the greatest bar to extensively introdu- 
cing of pisé, for if the labour be performed 
by measure, the workman, for expedition, 
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