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forefts, gardens, houfes, palaces, are all 
whelmed beneath the burning deluge ; 
and the very {pot where they exifted ts fo 
changed, that it can no longer be retog- 
nized. The ardent river continues ad- 
vancing with a duli and difmal noife, rell- 
ing along with it calciced {tones and bil- 
lows of glowing afhes. It has already 
crofled the road, and is proceeding to- 
wards the fea; and when it has pafled 
the rocks on its fhore, the fiery mafs 
plunges intothedeep. The collifion of 
thefe hoftile elements throws up to the very 
fkies torrents of vapour, whofe roaring, 
whofe dazzling colours, and the Barrie 
agitation they produce in the air, caule 
the terrified {pectator to imagine that the 
world is about to be diffolved, and to be 
reduced to that chaos from which it 
fprung. 
«< Tf to the fpeétacle of an eruption you 
row add that ofa ftorm; if accident pro 
duces at the fame moment one of thofe 
tremendous tempe!ts which are alone {uff- 
cient to defolate nature, what pencil can 
then trace the horrors of the fcene ?— 
what pen can defcribe them ?” 
mee 
To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
SIR, 
IVE me leave to requeft you to make 
public the following correétions and 
additions to the Tabular Index to the 
Vowels and Diphthcngs, which ycu did 
me the honour to infert in your lait Num- 
ber. 
Page 10, in the column numbered IT, 
the fecond referential maik « a fhould 
| cael ale 
In the loweft divifion of the fame co- 
lumn, for * were” read “6 wert,”” which 
wiil avoid the finai ‘‘e. 
Page 11, in the ae divifion of the 
column numbered XIV., after ** worftea”’ 
a reference ** |”* fheuld be inferted. 
Page 12, note (*) on Column J.— 
¢ Threfh,” I find, is not the right ortho- 
graphy ; but I think that the found here 
indicated is (ufficiently eftablifhed. 
Page 13, at the end of note (*) on Co- 
Juma LY. add: 
«¢ And in its narrow circle gathers 
Nothing but chaff, and ftraws, and feathers.” 
Swirt : Cadenus and Vaneffa. 
Page 14. (fecond column), line 20, in- 
fert the mark ¢¢ || at the beginning of 
the line ** As a monofyilable.” 
Page 15, end of note (+) on Column 
VIII., inftead of ** See note ¢ on Column 
jy.’ read * See note {| on Column I,” 
. 
Corrections to the Index of Vowels. 
»pdd: <“ay.”- 
{ Marck ly 
To note (¢) on the fame Column (VIITI.) 
add : 
“‘ This is gratefully own’d by each boy in the 
college 5 
Whom if I in{pire, it is not to my knowledge.”* 
SwIFT. 
I do not think, however, that this pronun- 
ciation needs any written authority to 
thofe who have ears uuftopped by affecta- 
tion ; and as to our pronunciatory refor- 
mers in the pulpit and the theatre, I fear 
they are incorrigible.” 
Line 4 of note (+) on Column XIII. 
after ‘* u’’ add ** eu, ew, and we.” 
In the note (¢) on Column XIV. dele 
“ So Worcefter ;*’ and let thofe words con- 
ftitute a feparate’ note immediately follow- 
ing the prefent, with the reference (1) 
prefixed. - 
Page 16, Abftra&t I.3 in the feventh 
line of this, denoted by ‘¢i,”" after ¢* oi” 
In the tenth, denoted by 
‘66,” the inftance ‘* ewe’’ fhould be in- 
clofed in a parenthefis, thus : ** (ewe).”” 
Same page, Abfiraét II. In the 
eighteenth line, denoted by “ey,” the 
ce” after a”) in iy apes appears 
unaccented : it fhould be **é.”’ In the 
twenty- -feventh line, Pm) bys" ay," 
after ** a? infert © 7." In the thirty-third 
line, denoted by “‘ ewe,” the * 6” fhould 
be inclofed in a parent shells, aes big GOP 
I thall now mention a few additions. 
Page1o, column ITTI., in the vacant divi- 
fion on the line numbered 7, write * plaif 
ter*,” re“erring to a nete as annexed *, 
Ssme pages column IV., in the vacant 
divifion on the lise numbered 18, write 
‘‘yeynard@,”” referring to the note ale 
nexed +. 
Same page, column VI., in the vacant 
divifion on the line numbered 15, put the 
referential mark ** **,’" indicating the 
note annexed {. 
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Same 
* ¢¢ This orthography indeed is not agree- 
able to the etymolegy, but is in very genezal 
ufe: and I believe a difference of fignifica- 
tion is commonly denoced by the two ways 
of {pelling ; plaiffer being taken exclufively 
for an operation in the conftru@tion of houfes, 
In oppefiticn to the medical application writ- 
ten plafter.”” 
+ ‘*So the furname of Reymnelds.” 
f= ‘* Each wight who reads not, and but 
fcans and fpells ; 
Each werd-catcher, who lives on fyllables ; 
Ev’ n fuch fmall critics fome regard may 
claim, 
Preferv’d in Milton’s or in Shakfpeare’s 
hame o 
But 
