learned Bifhop. The right reverend au- 
thor fays, “Hinc uiu venit, ut fyllaba 
acute proxima pro correpta habeatur, 
breviorgue acuta videatur, etiam cum ipla 
quoque brevis eft.” If 1 underftand this 
dentence aright, I would tranlate it thus : 
—“ Hence it happens, that the fyllable 
on which the acute accent falls is ren- 
dered fhort, and one which is. naturally 
fhort becomes more fhort by being ac- 
centeu.” The. fyllable nearef? or next 
the acute aecent muit doubtlefs be that 
over which the accent is placed. If Mr. 
P. fhould difpute this, f will endeavour to 
give him an inflance in point : Some of 
the Cumberland papers lately ailerted, 
that bills had been potted up in the city 
of Carlifle, announcing that a gentleman 
on a certain day and hour, would walk 
over the river Eden, very near the bridge. 
Numbers were induced by curiolity to 
attend at the time appointed, that the y 
inight witnefs this extracrdimary action. 
Accordingly, the, gentleman appeared, 
and, in “conformity with his promife, 
walked over the Eden fo very near the 
Pier. that he paffed over it, to the no 
fall confufion and . difappointment of 
the fpectators.—I am not aware that the 
word proximus conveys a meaning dift 
ferent from that which I have given i. 
‘The fentiments of Dr. Valpy, of Read- 
ing, in his Greek Grammar lately pub- 
Hihed, agree fo well with my own.on the 
fubject of Greek accents, that I foruple 
not to make an extract from that yaln- 
able work, in confirmation of what I have 
before advanced: * For,the proper mo- 
dulation of {peech, it is neceffary that one 
Jyllable in every word ih ould be di fijn- 
guifhed by an clevation of the voice. Gn 
this fyllable, the accent is marked in the 
Greek paps ace, This elevation does not 
Jengthen the time of that fyilable, io that 
accent and guantity are confidered by 
the beft critics as perfectly diftinét, . but 
by no means inconiitient with each other. 
That it is poflible to obferve both accent 
and quantity'is proved by the practice of 
the modern Greeks, who may be fuppoted 
to have retained in fome degr ee, the pro- 
nunciation of their anceftors. ‘Thus in 
gummousiny they lengthen the firft and the 
laft fyllable, and elevate the tone of the 
enultima. 
“In our language the diftinction be- 
tween accent and quantity is obvious, 
The accent falls on the antepenultima, 
equally in the words liberty and library, 
yet in the former the tone only is elevated, 
in the latter the fyllabie is alfo lengthen- 
ed. The fame difference will appear in 
On Greek Accents—Horse-Chesnuts. 
(Feb. t, 
béron and bacon; in’ lével and léver, ni 
Reading, the name, of the place, i which 
thete obfervations ‘are written, and the 
participle redding.”* 
Tam, &c. 
Ravenftonedale, J. Ropinson., 
Jan. 5, 1807. 
a 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIRs > 
N antw er to the query of J. P. of Ted- 
dington, in your Magazine for Novem- 
ber, p. 353, Lwill be obliged by your ine 
fertion of the following, as it may, in cafe 
no other of your correipondents an{wer it 
more fatistactorily, be acceptable to him. 
4n one of my manuteript! Receipt-books, 
I find the fol! owing obfervations on the 
ufe to which “ Horfe-Cheinuts” may be 
applied. Mr, Marcendie, having expe- 
‘rienced the ellicacy of horle chefnuts, in 
the bleaching of hnen. and cleaning of 
woollen f{tutfs, made likewife ule of an in- 
fufion of them in water, as a lye for saad 
paring hemp. 
ihe manner of making this lye i is to 
peel the chefnuts, and ratp them as fine 
as polfible into foft water, in proportion 
of two or three nuts to every quart of 
water. This.is done ten or twelve hours 
before the mixture is to be wfed, and in 
the mean while it is ftirred from time to 
time the better to diiiolve thefe rafpings, 
and impregnate the water. - The:laft ftir- 
ring is given about a quarter, of an hour 
before the water is drawn off from: the 
thickeft part of the rafpings which dub- 
fide, and thisis done, either by inclining 
the veftel and pouring off the lye gently, 
or by ladhng it owt by hand, while: the 
water is yet “white, and froths like foap- 
fads, In order to ute this lye, itis made 
rather hotter than the hand can. well 
bear, and the hemp is then fteeped and 
-wafhed in it as in foap-fuds. | Linen 
may alfo be wailed in this lye, and even 
when very dirty, much lefs foap wil be 
required than is commonly ufed, it being 
futicient to rub the dirtieft parts only 
with the foap.—He adds, that the rafpings 
of the chefnuts which fink to the bottom | 
of the lye, are good food for fowls and 
pigs. Hemp,.as above prepared, may be 
dyed hike alk, wool or cotton, and may 
be made into flu® and garments of ail 
dunds, and that-agreat advantage attend- 
ing the:ufe of this material is, that it will 
not be deftroyed by thofe infects: which 
devour woollen cloth. 
7 * Elements of Greek Grammar. -. / 
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