1804. | 
agreeably to this refemblance in the pri- 
mitive forms, who can have been tne 
people by whom thefe forms were thus 
reprefented. Accor‘ing to him, it can 
have been no other than the loft people, 
to obtain a knowledge of whom, feveral 
philofophers and naturalifts, more parti- 
cularly the learned and unfortunate Bailly, 
have taken a different route. He does not 
confine himlelf to the couformity of the 
monuments, but grounds his obfervations 
likewife on that of the cuftoms, and on 
the primitive founds of languages. It 
mult be acknowledged, however, that his 
explanations are frequently more fngular 
than folid; that bis etymologies are, for 
the greater part, fomewnat forced ; and 
that there is 2 tireforne accumulation of 
proofs, in adducing which he oftentimes 
begs the queftion. The work difplays, 
notwithitanding, a vaft eradition and 
much originality,’ combined with many 
ingenious remarks, particularly on the 
belemnite, or thunder-ttone, and on the 
conformity between the worfhip of the ox 
and that of the ferpent. 
Francois Dujon, known by the name of 
Francifcus Funtor, at the fequel of his 
‘© Hifgory of the Painting of the An- 
-cients,”” has given an alphabetical cata- 
logue of Greek and Roman fculptors, 
engrav-rs, wood-cutters, and architects. 
Tt has a greater reference, however, to 
the hiftory of the artifts, than to that of 
the arts. 
Profeffor Chrift, of Leipfic, publifhed, 
in 1776, his elements of archeology, with 
the title of ** Obfervations «n Literature 
and the Arts.?” The work of Efchen- 
burg, entitled ‘* Claffical Literature,” 
appears to be of the fame defcription. 
(To be concluded in-our next. ) 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SiR, 
S you have thought proper to infert 
feveral articles relative to domeftic 
economy, I truft you will not think the 
following obfervations totally unworthy 
the netice of your readers. 
Amongft many popular errors, began 
without reafon, and continued from cuf- 
tom, few are more common than the cuf- 
tom of putting an inverted tea-cup into a 
fruit pie, with intention to preferve the 
fyrup from boiling over. A perfon may 
eafily be fatisfied of the confequence of 
this abfurd practice by the following fim- 
ple experiment. Place an inverted glafs 
or cup in a difh of hot water, the in- 
cluded air being rarified by the heat, will 
MONTHLY Mas, No. 119, 
Obfervations-and Queries. 
latives. 
Ti? 
prefently efcape in bubbles through the 
weter, but the remaining air will fo effec- 
tually keep out the water that not a drop 
will enter the veffel till the heat decreafes, 
when the confequent condentfation of the 
air will make reom for the liquor to be 
forced inta the cup by the preflure of the 
ambient atmofphere. From the above 
experiment, it appears that no l.quor en- 
ters the cup till it isin a preat meafure 
cooled; that while in the act of boiling 
the cup is entirely empty; and that, con- 
fequently, the fpace it occupies is the 
mean of promoting, inftead of preventing, 
the waite of fy:up. 
T. Boote, 
Nose amc i 
To the Editor of the vionthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE receipt for a pot-pourri, inferted 
in the Coliana of yoor iaft month’s 
Magazine, tempted me aod a number of 
my female acquaintances to make an im- 
mediate trial. We accordingly ftripped 
our rofe-trees for the purpofe, putting the 
leaves frefh into the jars, and following 
the receipt implicitly in every refpect. In 
the courie of two or three weeks, how. 
ever, to our very great mortification, we 
found the contents to be nothiag better 
than a putrified mafs. From this we are 
led to iu!p-é& Mr. Gray muft have omitted 
mentioning fome very effeatial ingredient 
or precaution, and fhould, therefore, be 
glad to have the matter explained in your 
next Magazine. Iam, Sir, 
Hull, Yours, &c. 
Auguft 4, 1804. ROsaLBa, 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
a SERS 
OUR Correfpondent, S.F.M. ob- 
ferves, (page 414) that Walth ad. 
vifed Pope to corredcine/s in his poetry, as 
a bafis of fame ; but does not fay in what 
refpcct. In regard to verification and 
rhyme, Popeis probably more correét than 
any preceding poet, but in his verfes, as 
well as thofe ot his predeceflors and cone 
temporaries, are many inftances of faile 
grammar. ‘Tae two which your Corre- 
{pondent thinks he has firft diicovered in 
the Univerfal Prayer, be will find noticed 
long ago to many thoulands; the p:flage 
quoied having been introduced, as an ex- 
ample, by Dr. Lowth into his Enelith 
Grammar, in that part which trea’s of re- 
In the jame work he will alla 
find many more examples of bad Englith 
from Pope and other great authors. ~ 
B. W, 
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