1809.] 
157, the words, *¢I do, however, acknow- 
Jedge, that I think with Major Cartwright, 
that” appear to have slipt out of their place ; 
they should be at the head of the following 
paragraph, p. 158, ** Person,” not ‘6 pro- 
perty.”” And in p. 158, 1. 12 from bottom, 
for ** Sth plan,” reac ‘* Sth Article.” 
ae 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING observed in a late number 
H of your interesting miscellany, a 
Jeiter from Dr. Lettsoim, mentioning a 
method of taking off impressions of 
leaves, plants, &c. I beg leave to men- 
tion to you a way which, though not so 
expeditious as that mentioned by Dr. L. 
is, I think, more accurate in taking oif 
the most minute veins and fibres. 
The method J allude to is this:-—Take 
half a sheet of fine wove paper, and oil 
it well with sweet-oil: after it has stood a 
minute or two, to let itscak through, rab 
off the superfluous oil with a piece of pa- 
per, and let it hang in the air to dry: after 
the oil is pretty well dried in, take a 
lighted candle, or lamp, and move the 
paper slowly over it, in a horizontal di- 
rection, so as to touch the flame, till it is 
perfectly black. When you wish to take 
off impressions of plants, Tay your plant 
carefully on the oiled paper, and lay a 
piece of clean paper over it, and rub it 
with your finger, equally in all parts, for 
about aif a minute: then take up your 
plant, and be careful net to disturb the 
order of the leaves, and place it on the 
book, or paper, on which you wish to 
have the impression: then cover it with a 
piece of blotting-paper, and rub it with 
your finger for a short time, and you will 
have an impression superior to the finest 
engraving. The same piece of black pa- 
per, will serve to take off a great number 
of impressions ; so that when you have 
once gone through the process of black- 
ing it, you may make an impression in a 
very short time. 
‘he principal excellence of this me- 
thod is, that the paper receives the im- 
pression of the most minute veins and 
hairs; so that you may take the general 
character of most flowers, much superior 
to any engraving. The impressions may 
afterwards be colored according to na- 
ture. Your’s, &c. 
Hull, Sept. 28, 1809. Wolke 1. 
—*aae 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
STR, 
HAVE now been employed five 
years in writing a poem, called the 
Outline of a Poem on the Deluge. 
469 
Deluge, having taken that grand over- 
throw of Nature for the basis of a poeti- 
cal story, which, perhaps, in five years 
more, will be presented to the public. 
To give reasons for the bolduess of the 
attemptis not now my intention. Every 
man thinks himself capable of doing 
something ; the public alone can judge, 
whether he is able to do any thing as it 
ought to be done. During the progress 
of my work, I have occasionally noticed 
in new publications incidents and ideas, 
bearing a nearly parallel direction to 
those I have introduced ; and by Mr. 
Cumberland’s sketch of Armageddon, 
I perceive there are, and will be many, 
coincidences, both of scene and thought, 
between Mr. Townsend’s work and mine. 
That I may not be charged with drawing 
succour from more scurces than I really 
have, (as Mr. T.’s work will, in all pro- 
bability, appear before my own,) T have 
ventared to send to your publication an 
outline of the poem, of which not a 
page is quite finished, though the matter, 
as far as the sixtu book, is formed. [ 
shall just add an extract, in which there 
appears a great similarity to the one from 
Mr. Townsend, given in the Review, and 
observe, that we both seemto have drawn 
copiously from Milton, 
Your’s, &c. 
Boox 1st. 
fntroduction.—Rising of the last day ; local 
description ; Noah’s reflections on the Anish- 
ed ark; the Archangel Uriel and another 
angel descend in a celestial car; Uriel’s 
speech and instruction to the family of Noah 
—leads them to the ark—directs the other 
angel, by the sound of a trumpet, to collect 
from all regicns, in pairs and sevens, the in- 
habitants of air, and the beasts; descrip- 
tion thereof; entry into the ark ; Uriel shut- 
ting the door—puts on it the burning seal of 
God; the angels ascend, wrapt in intolerae 
ble brightness; having gained the middle ree 
gion, Uriel assembles round him the spirits 
who have charge over the powers and Opera- 
tions of this globe; their avpearance; Uriel 
describing to them the irreclaimable condition 
of man ; relates the high decree ; commands 
them to resign. their different trusts, to loose 
the elements of earth, to break open theden 
of the central sea, release the internal fires, 
&c. then to ascend to their native heaven 3 
hallelujahs ; Uriel rises to the second heaven; 
the others disperse to their several charges. 
Boox 2d. “af 
Description of the gathering storms in all 
parts of the world; trembling of the earth 3 
terrors of m&sakind in the different hemi- 
spheres 5 various descriptions of characters, 
and scenes of horror ; Satan, seeing the depar- 
ture of the celestials, is apprehensive of some 
great convulsion, and gathers his demons in 
the 
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