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At Multon, one of the manors belor g- 
ing to Spalding Priory, the name of Co- 
waz, as a Chriftian one, was by no means 
uncommon. , It was evidently introduced 
by the Earls of Bretagne, who had large 
property in the neighbourhood. 
In fome parts. of Huntingdonfhire, in 
the middle age, Emectug was a comman. 
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name ; andat Blecheley, in Buckingham- 
fhire, thirty years ago, {carcely any name 
was fo common among the women as Fu/- 
tena. 
In the early periods of Englih hiftory, 
Mary is a name that I believe occurs but 
very fcldom. The great veneration. the 
Blefied Virgin was held in at that time of 
day, fofficiently accounts for. its, unfre- 
quency ; bet Luther and Calvin,. by de- 
grading her, made the. nanie more com- 
mon. 
In particular diftrits, the ruz or fa/hi- 
ow of a certain favourite name may be even 
yetobferved. Fobn, however, is by far 
the moft common. “Buta late. Curate of 
St. Giles’s affured me that he hed chriften- 
ed no JefS than thrée children by the name 
ct Bonaparte ; and I have been jut told 
by a phyfician to one of our dilpenfaries, 
that, at the prefent moment, Rejina, Rojfet- 
ta, and Eupbemia, are all inhabitants of 
Drury Jane. The affectation of fine 
names by people of inferior rank was well 
notic¢.d by the late Mr. Bithop in the fol- 
lowing epigram : 
Who wants a wife? I know three fitters 
§2y, 
Not vulgar Margerys, Janes, or Joans, are 
they ; 
No—they have names enough tg fill a 
tub— 
Mifs Barbara, Juliana, Margaretta ; 
Mifs Leonora, Caroline, Janetta ; 
And Mifs Joanna, Seraphina—Grubb ! 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
LLOW me to hazard a conjectural 
emendation.of a paflage in Horace, 
which has tortured fome of the beft mo. 
dern critics, viz. . 
Lata quod pubes, Sec. Od. Lib. x. 25. 
Without troubling you or your readers 
with a long differtation, I fimply propofe 
to read it thus: 
Lata quod. pubes hedere. virenti 
Gaudeat pullo mazis—atque myrti 
.. vidas frondes biemis fodali 
Dedicet Euro. 
Every claffical fcholar-knows that pul- 
dus ignifies @ youmg sooot or twig + and 
Propofed Reading of Horace. River Dart. 
[July 1, 
here we have virenti pullo oppofed to ari. 
das frondes—and hederg ti myrtt. 
Whether, by the heaera and myrtus, 
Horace only meant to! typify a younger — 
miftrefs. preferred to wihered Lydia—or 
alfo intesded a further allufion to the bots 
tle, in making his bucks, now preter the’ 
Srefh ivy of Bacchus to the withered myr= 
tle of Verus—\ thall not here inquire. — 
Tam, Sir, your conitant reader, 
Fune 6, 1805. c. c 
To the Euitor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, gH 
TRIE beautiful little river Dart, which 
ue has its fource in Dartmoor foref, 
flows, after. leaving the hilly country, 
through the moft luxuriant part of Eng- 
Jand, the South-hams, im Devonthire.—< 
A line drawn from its fource'to its mouth 
would run from about N.N.W. toS$.$ BE. 
but it is fo very ferpentine that it fome- 
times purfues a courfe almoft dire&tly op= 
pofite tothis. Jt is navigable for veffels 
of fmall burthen as* far as Totnefs, a 
{mall town charmingly fituated on its 
banks, about ten miles from where it dif 
embogues itfelf into the fea, and about 
thirty miles from its fource. A bridge 
crofles the Dart at Totnefs, and prevents 
veflels from failing above it; but for 
barges it is navigable.as far as the tide 
flows, nearly a mile beyond Totnefs. 
It has been acuftom, time immemo- 
rial, for the lovers of angling to fith in 
the Dart with a rod and line for the trout 
which are numerous in all parts of it.— 
Tiere are alfo great numbers of falmon, - 
which, in the winter, go up the river 
beyond where the tide flows, to, fhed thetr 
fpawn im the frefh water. About this 
feafon of the year thele pawn, grown ta 
the fize of a fmall trout, feck their way to 
the fea. In going down the river, a 
voyase which it generaliy takes them a 
week or fortnight to perform, they afford 
excellent {port to-the angler. The inha- 
bitants of the banks of the Dart have 
‘always been accuftomed te fifa for. the 
fpawn with a rod and line, and never did 
the lords of the manor or the renters of 
the fifhery attempt to prevent any one 
from caching them till laft year, when 
every one was forbidden to fifh on the na- 
vigable part of the river Dart, extending © 
from Berry bond-ftone on the fourth to the 
weir beyond Totnefs on the north, with. 
out leave from the renter of the fishery, 
by whom permifficn might probably be 
given to fifth for trout, but never for 
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