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the fish, drawn by Tobias, from the river 
Tigris, must have been of too unwieldy 
dimensions for a place in Raphael’s pic- 
ture ; since it is described in the Book of 
Tobit, as having attempted to devour the 
young man. The story is, at best, but 
apochryphal, and we may consider the 
circumstance of the fish as altogether mi- 
raculous or preter-natural; yet I would 
be glad to learn from those acquainted 
with the ichthyology of Eastern rivers, 
what large and voracious fishes are found 
in the Tigris. 
VII. Who was F. Jacob. Bonaventura 
Hepburn, a Scotchman, author of the 
Virga Aurea, a work which contains se- 
venty-two alphabets of different langua- 
ges? When did he flourish? Of his book 
I know not the date, but it is probably 
eld, as Olaus Wormius quotes it in his 
Literatura Runica, printed at Copen- 
hagen, anno 1651, page 47. 
eer 
To the Editor of ithe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
NEW edition of “ The whole Law 
relative to the Duty and Oilice of a 
Justice of the Peace,” having been re- 
cently published under my name, and 
some surprize expressed by many pro- 
fessional friends and others, that it has 
been presented to the puplic without any 
preliminary observations, asto the manner 
in which it has been carried through the 
press, or thealteratious and improvements 
made in the original copy; I request, 
through the medium of your widely cir- 
culating miscellany, to inform the public, 
that from an ardent desire to improve the 
work, and preserve that high character 
which it had obtained in the opinion of 
some of the first judicial authorities, I 
have, under some considerable pecuniary 
sacrifices, aud the application of a very 
great portion of time, which might other- 
wise have been more beneficially em- 
ployed, carefully revised the copy and 
brought the same down to the 46th of 
George III. inclusive. 
In respect to the reading of the proof- 
sheets, it may be also material for the 
public to know, that those of Vol. I. and 
Vol. I1.'to the end of the Table of Excise, 
have been carefully read and corrected 
by myself, but that the remainder were 
read by other persons engaged for that 
purpose by the proprietors; particular 
circumstances having obliged me, from a 
feeling of personal duty, to decline the 
reading of the proofs further than as above 
mentioned. 
The Table of the Names of the Cases 
Williains’s Justice of the Peace. 
[May 1, 
and Index, have also been prepared by 
another person, as well as the supplement 
generally annexed to Vol, IV. 
But the Addenda, containing the acts 
and cases of 47 Geo. ILI. prefixed to the 
first volume of some few select copies of 
the work, chiefly circulated amongst some 
private friends, have been prepared by. 
myself. 
I transmit this communication from 
a regard for my own reputation, and to 
discharge myself from all responsibility, » 
for any typographical or other errors, 
beyond the sheets which I have actually 
read. J ow Yoursyp&es 
Inner Temple, T. W. Writtams. 
20th April, 1808. 
EE 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
SIR, 
WAS informed the other day in con- 
versing with a glazier who had the 
gout, that most of that tradé, or who had 
been of that trade, were subject to it. 
T could wish (through your useful Maga- 
zine,) to be informed if there exists any 
truth in this statement; and if so, the 
cause, Such information might throw 
some light upon the nature of an excru- ~ 
ciating complaint, so seldom relieved by 
any médical means. Yours, &c. 
April 10,1808.  SitweELy SirweLt. 
Renishuw, Derbyshire. 
se 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BEG ieave to thank your correspon- 
dent, J. A. for the particulars he has 
supplied relating to SarahLyous The name 
of the person called old Ingall, was In- 
gleby; he was 117 years of age at the 
time of his décease. Some account of 
him is given in Easton’s “ Human Lon- 
gevity,” p. 280. Yours, &c. 
April 20, 1808. U Sodas 
Sa 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
PARTICULARS relative to the present 
STATE Of HOLLAND. 
je must be very pleasing for a native 
ot Amsterdam to read in the work of 
a celebrated author,* the following ac- 
count of the industry of the inhabitants 
of this place. “It has been observed, 
that none of the inhabitantsof Amsterdam 
areidle. This is so true, that an mdolent 
person might traverse the city in all its 
parts without finding a companion. He 
* Mr. Pratt’s Gleanings through Wales, 
Holland, and Westphalia, 6th edit. vol. ii. 
P 371. - 5 3 
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