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under the inspection of iMiton. Tt was 
The also who penned the Parliamenti- 
singh Declarauo,” 
Marvell was more eminent for his 
vitues and his talents, than for his 
wealth. He, however, left behind him 
asmall patrimonial estate, on which, and 
the honourable allowance from his con-=~ 
stituents, paid after the manner of 
anciert times, he subsisted with credit; 
for having but few wants, he was neither 
extravagant, nor expensive... ss he was 
the last representative in this country 
who received pay trom those he repre- 
sented, so he appears to have been the 
enly one, who was ever buried at their 
expense; the corporation of Hull having 
ordered fifty pounds to be issued for 
that purpose, September 80; 1678. 
Mis body was interred, in the church 
of Si. Giles’s m the Fields; and in 1688, 
Account of Mount Athos. 
[Aug. Fy: 
a monument was erected there to his 
memory by the town of Kingston-upon- 
Hull, with an epitaph, at once expres- 
sive of “their grief and gratitude.” 
This having been torn down — by the 
zealous royalists, another inseription was 
placed at the expense of one of his re- 
latives, of which the following are the 
concluding lines : 
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANDREW 
. MARVELL. 
As a strenuous assertor of the constitution, 
Laws and liberties of England, 
And out of family affection, and admiration 
Of the uncorrupted probity of his life” 
and manners, 
Ropert NetTLeton, ‘of London, mer- 
chant, his ; 
Grand Nephew, 
Hath caused this smali memorial of himy 
To be erected in the year 1764. 
A ho et oa 
CARCE TRACTS, WITIL EXTRACTS, AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. : 
Tt is proposed in future to devote a 
few £0 
Pages of the Monthly Maguzine to the 
r. 
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tnsertion of such scarce Lracis as are of an interesting nature, and with the use — 
of which we may be facoured by our Correspondents ; and under the same Head to 
entroduce also sre Analysis of: searce aud curious Books. in : 
———— 
An account of MouNT atuos, taken 
From the LIFE Of DR. GREAVES, 272 DR. 
WARD’s accouNT of the PROFESSORS a 
GRESHAM COLLEGE; 17-10. 
OUNT Athos is a penimsula in 
WN Macedonia, but four days voyage 
from Constantinople, famous among the 
ancients for the extravagant attempt of 
Xerxes, who, digging through the Isth- 
mus, reduced it to an island, as we are 
suformed by Herodotus.* But this ca- 
nal (was it really ever Lk has been 
Jong since filled upagain by the falling in 
of the earth from the higher grounds, 
‘so that no appearance of it now remains 3. 
and therefore the truth of the story has 
been questioned _ by most writers of. 
Jater ages.t There are several monas- 
teries upon this mountain, which were 
seitled there long before the Turks over- 
‘ran the Grecian Empires and being 
wholly possessed by _monks, it is called, 
by the Greeks, @ yscv Sge¢, the secred moun- 
taint As this. place had escaped the 
* Lib. vil. c. o4, "ae 
+ Vid. Is. Voss. Observ. i in Mel. 
Reis a 
t There are two views of the monastery, — 
TB Tavroxp paropag, in this mountain, one from 
the land, and the other from the sea, taken 
in the year 1726, and brought to Oxford, by 
L. ug 
veupr al ravage 2 and valet of Phe Turks, 
Mr. Greaves, not without reason, ima- 
gined, that many valuable remains 
of antiquity might still be preserved 
there, and particularly Greek - manu- 
scripts. This motive strongly aduced 
him to make an excursion thither, but he, 
could not, it seems, accomplish his de- 
sign; which was afterwards the case of 
Dr. ‘Smith, who had the same intention 
when he was in those parts.* 
Belon, who had_ been there; and visited — 
several monasteries, wrote an account 
of it in the year 1553. He says, The 
mountain, .as it extends” ‘itself from the: 
continent westward towards the south, is 
in length three days. journey, and halfa 
day’s in breadth, rising very high and 
_steep, to the south, in the shape of a— 
pear. The top of it is always” covered 
with snow: the north side, where the 
-snow lies longest, is very fertile ; but. to- 
wards the south, rocky and harren.— — a: 
Viewimg it very carefully, he could dis- 
cern no traces of the channel mentioned 
by Herodotus. There are three or four 
and twenty monasteries, founded and = 
Desitheus, archimandrite of that monastery, 
which are now places in the Bia 
lery.. 
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