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ful meuntain-ftream,* overflowed itsbanks 
with a violence unknown fince the remark- 
able winter of 1771. Fair weather fuc- 
ceeded for About three days ; after which 
fhowers and drizzling rain to the end.— 
Mean mid-day temperature 55.6. 
November beganDy a continuation of 
the damps of Ottober, continued fhowery 
till the sth, when the heavens were again 
illuminated by the Aurora Borealis.— 
Fair and pleafant weather fucceeded.— 
‘Towards the middle of the month, mild 
and open weather, with fhowers of rain.— 
On the 22d the Aurora Borealis was ex- 
tremely grand ; immediately after twilight 
a broad luminous arch was obferved in 
the north, the eaftern end of which was 
Weather at Carlifie.—Univerfity Dunne. 
extremely bright; its top extended nearly 
to the zenith, with its center apparently 
in the magnetic meridian. Columns of 
“denfe light appeared before this arch, 
running to and fro with fingular unifor- 
mity. There was an extraordinary cir- 
cumftance attending this phenomena, viz. 
that the motion of thefe columns of light 
was only horizontal, without any particu. 
Jar flafhings or corrufcations. ‘This beau- 
tiful {pectacle continued nearly three 
hours. Aurora Borealis likewi‘e on the 
24'h and 25th ; a faint Rill light. Mean 
mid-day temperature 46. _ . 
Decenber began with fair weather, in- 
clined to froft; fair and pleafant, with 
very mederate fro ; continued in gene- 
ral fine and dry tillthe 16th, when we ex. 
perienced a ftrong tro; fnow-fhowers 
fueceeded, with very cold weather ; the 
ground retained its hoary covering ; con- 
tinued with the intermificn of a few 
fhowers ; very iatenfe froft, with the hea- 
vens bright and clear, contmued to, the 
end of the month. Loweift declenfion of 
the thermometer 7°; on the goth, at 
eight in the morning. Mean mid-day 
temperature 38°. / 
Tam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
Carilifle, Wa @itr. 
January 8, 1805. 
We ee 
To the, Editor of the Monthly Mavaxziae. 
SIR, e 
ORAGING the other day among 
. the book-ftalls in the neighhourhood 
of Holborn, I met with a rare little work 
intitled Microcofmographia, by Edward 
Blount. It was printed fo long back as 
* For a defcription of this charming river 
fee Monthly Mag. Sepz. 1803. 
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1629, and appears to have ferved the 
fame purpofe to our great-great-grand- 
fathers that the Moral Charaéters of 
Theophraftus did to his contemporaries. 
The character of an univerfity dunne 1 
have extracted ; and am convinced it will 
be acknowledged in our two great femi- 
naries of learning as a portrait taken from 
the life. It at Jeaft ferves to fhow that 
dunning is an ancient ae that 
credit was given to the ft ts with as 
mouch facility in the days of Charles the 
Firft, as in the days of George the Third. 
‘¢ AN UNIVERSITY DUNNE, 
*‘Ts a gentleman’s follower cheaply pur- 
chas’d, for his own money has hired him. 
Hee is an inferiour creditor of fome ten 
fhillings or downwards, contraéted for 
horfe-hire, or perchance for drinke, tco 
weake to be put in fuite, and he arrefts 
yourmodefty. Hee isnot very expeniive 
of his time, for he will waite upon your 
ftaires a whole afternoon*; and dance. 
attendance with more patience tian a 
gentleman-uther. Hee is a fere beleaguerer 
of chambers, and aflaultes them fometimes 
with furious knockes ; yet finds ftrong re- 
fiitence commonly,and is kept out. Hee isa 
great complayner of fchollers loytering, 
for he is fure rever to find them within, 
and yet he is the chiefe canfe many times 
that makes them ftudie. Hee grumbles 
at the ingratitude of men that fhunne 
-him for his kindnefle, but indéed it is his 
owne fault, for he is too great an up. 
brayder. No man puts them more to 
their brain than he ; and by fhifting him 
off, they learn to fhift in the world. Some 
choofe theire roomes a-purpofe to avoide 
his {urprifals, and thinke the beft commo- 
dity in them his profpect. Hee is like a 
rejected acquaintance, hunts thofe that 
care not for his company, and he knows 
it well enough ; and yet wiil not keep 
away. The fole place to fuyple him is 
the buttery, when he takes grievous ufe. 
upoa your name, and he is one much 
wrought with good beere and retorike. 
He is aman of moft unfortunate voyages ; 
and no gallant walks the ftreets to-lefs 
purpote,”” 
Your’s, 
ACADEMICUS. 
ee 
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* The lacenefs of the dinner-hour in our 
univerfities, and the imptopriety of dunning 
a gentleman over the bottle, furrounded by 
his friends, now ufually limits the affiduity 
of the dunn to what is called the morning.— 
Epit. 
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