130 
8, 1704, gives this very interefing ac- 
count of thedeath of this great man. “ You 
will not perhaps diflike to know that 
the laft icene of Mr. Locke’s life was no 
leis admirable than any thing elfe in him. 
All the faculties of his mind were perfeét 
to the laft; but his weaknefs, of which 
only he died, made fuch gradval and ‘vifi- 
ble advances, that few people, I think, 
do fo fenfibly fee death approach them, as 
he did. During all which time no one 
could obferve the leaft alteration in his 
humour ; always chearful, converfible, 
civil to the laft day, thcughtful of all the 
concerns of his friends, and omitting no fit 
occafion of giving chriftian advice to ail 
about him. In fhort, his death was like 
his life, truly pious, yet natural, eafy and 
unaffected; mor can time, I think, ever 
roduce a more eminent example of reafon 
and religion than he was, living and dy- 
ing.” 
Original Letter from Mr. Addifon, while 
on bis Travels, to a Gentleman unknow7; 
from the Original in the Bodleian Lib- 
rary, at Oxford. 
“S DEAR SIR, 
T hope this will find you fafe at Geneva, 
end that the adventure of the Rivulet 
which you have fo well celebrated in your 
Jafi, has bin the worft you have met with 
in your journey thither. Ican‘t but envy 
Priccedings of Learned Societies. 
[ Sept. ts} 
your being among the Alps, where you 
may fee froft and frow in the dog-days. 
We are here quite burn’t up, and are at 
leat ten degrees nearer the fun than when 
you left us. I am very well fatisfied “twas 
in Augut that Virgil wrote his * O 
quis me gelidis fub montibus Hemi, Sic.” 
Our days, at prefent, like thofe in the firft 
chapter of Genefis, confilt only of the eve- 
ning and the morning, for the Roman 
noons are as filent as the midnights of 
other countrys. But among all thefe in- 
conveniences, the greateft I fuffer 1s from 
your departure, which is more affiicting to 
me than the Caniculi. I am forced, for 
want of better company, to converle mofily 
with pitures, flatues, and medals: for 
you mutt know I deal very much in an- 
Cicnt coins, and can ccunt out a fum in 
fefterces with as much eafe as in pounds 
fterling. I am a greet critic in ruft, and 
can tell you the age of itat fir figh:. F 
am only in fome danger of lofing my ac- 
quaintance with our Englifh money, fer 
at prefent, ] am much more ufed to the 
Roman. . 
If you glean up any of our country 
news, be fo kind as to forward it this way. 
Pray give Mr. Dafhwocd’s and my very 
humble fervice to Sir Thomas Alfton, and 
accept of the fame yourfelf trom, Dear Sir, 
Your mof affeétionate humbic Servant, » 
J. ADDISON. 
a RS 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
. FRANCE. 
MEMOIR on the OBSERVATIONS which 
it is of importance to make on the 
ripres in the different PORTS of 
the REPUBLIC read in the SiTTING 
of tke 26ib FLOREAL, YEAR XI. 
(May 16, 1803.) 
(Concluded from Wil. XVII. Page 564. 
7 OUR committee is of opinion—:f, 
that the obfervations cught to be 
multiplied as much as pofiible—2d, that 
it is highly reqvifite to obferve ail the 
circumftarnces of the tides on the days of 
the fyzygies and of the quacratures, as 
likewife, on the three days which follow 
thofe phafes; and—jd, the obfervators 
ovght to keep a journal of their oblerva- 
tions. This journal ovght to be circum- 
fiantial enough to facilitate the analyfis, 
the compari‘on, and the difcufion of the 
ebfervations. The form of them is not 
fo very material ; but your commiffioneis 
are of opinion that tables diftributed into 
columns, in the menner hereafter mention- 
ed, would be not improper. 
At the head of the page of each month, 
fhould be fet down the true time of the. 
phates of the moon, reduced to the meri- 
dian of the place. 
he firft column fhould contain the 
day of the month; the fecond the true 
time of the piflage of the moon to the 
meridian of the place, in hoursand minutes; 
in the third fhould be marked the true 
time of high water; in the fourth, the 
height of the water, in metre and decimals 
of metre; in the fifth, the true time of 
Icw water; and in the fixth, the degree 
defignated by the fcale at the precife time 
of low water. 
A feventh column fhould contain the 
apparent diameter of the fun-at the time > 
of high water; an eighth, the declinaticn 
of the fun at the fame infant, in degrees 
and minutes only. And laftly, the ninth 
and the tenth columns fhould contain, one 
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