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pounds, in the fhape of an horfe’s bit, and 
was fuppofed to be worth five or fix hun- 
dred pounds to the miller, who was fo luc- 
ky to find it, and who difappeared with 
it. A large bit of melted bronze lay over 
the gold, as big and thick asmy hand. 
A brenze fpoon, the bowl flattith, with 
a piece ftanding up at the further end of 
the bowl, to prevent its going beyond the 
teeth: the handle fmall, and about five 
inches long. 
Six or feven fmall dark urns: one ftood 
upon a whole fkeleton. One of them was 
large, with burnt bones, which they igno- 
rantly flung away, and unfurnifhed of its 
proper furniture Another of them was 
white, two inches high. 
A bronze head, an inch high, and hel- 
meted, with an hole through the upper 
part of the creft to hang it bys it was 
hollow, and thick as half-a crown. 
A bronze fibula. : 
A bronze pin, fix inches Jong, with a 
fmall head, and twocircles belowit. _ 
Silver denarii fixteen, cr twenty-two, m- 
cluding bafe filver. Vefpahan, Trajan, 
Adrian, Verus, Luciila, Gratianus, 
Valens. 
Twelve large bronze, Domitian. Re- 
verie.. Yovi vittori. Jupiter fitting. 
Six middle fized. 
IMP. CAE. C. VI Bins. TREBONI- 
ANVS. Bafe fiver, O, made like G, 
feems to be curious, for all in Wile are, 
IMP.CAE.C.VI.B. TREB. GAL- 
LVS. AVG. 
DUKE OF ROSS. 
The divine Ariofto having defcrided the 
perfons of two beautiful young ladies, con- 
cludes his fixty-ninth Ranza of the VIth 
Canta of his Orlando Furiofo with this 
charming thought. 
e tal faria 
Belta, s’aveffe corpo, e Leggiadra. 
And thus incomparably defcribes the 
perfon of the Scotch Duke of Rofs, whom 
he fays nature having made moft complete, 
broke the mold in which fhe had formed 
him. ' 
Non éun fi bello in tanto altre perfone 5 
Natura il fece, e poiruppe la ftampa 5 
Non éin cui tal virtue, tai grazia luca, 
Otal Poflanza: ed é di Rofcia Duca. 
DEBDEN ESSEX. 
«s When I was here at Dr. Cock’s induc- 
tion, they were taking the bones and coffins 
out of the old vault belonging to the family 
of Stonehoufe, and putting them into an hole 
in the church-yard, in order to fit it up for 
2 : 
Coliana. 
[Nov. I5 
Mr. Chifwell’s family. This made me 
often reflect on the folly of vaults and 
leaden cofins. Once in an hundred or an 
hundred and fifty years, and families fel- 
dom laft longer, a new proprietor takes 
poffeffion for himfelf ; and the old inhabi- 
tants, even of a grave or retting place, are 
turned out to make room for new comers 3 
who in their turn are ferved in the fame 
way. If the bodies are put in leaden cof- 
fins, thefe are fent to the plumbers, with 
part of their inhabitants, and melted down 
for other purpofes. So that a man hasa 
» 
better chance to keep poffeffion of his grave . 
undifiturbed, if fix feet of mother earth 
are allotted him in fome obfcure corner of 
the church-yard, than in the moft fumptu- 
ous vault that can be prepared.” 
To the honourable and ingenious AUTHOK 
of the CASTLE Of OTRANTO. 
Thou {weet enchanter ! at whofe nod 
The airy train of phantoms rife 5 
Who doft but wave thy potent rod, 
And marole bleeds, and canvas fighs. 
By thee decoy’d, with curious fear, 
We tread thy caftle’s dreary round: 
Though horrid all we fee and hear, 
Thy horrors charm, while they confound. 
Full well haft thou purfued the road, 
T’ne magic road thy matter laid ; 
And haft, with grateful fkill, beftow’d 
An offering worthy of his fhade. 
Again his manners he may trace, 
Again his characters, may fee, 
In foft Matild, Miranda’s grace, 
And his own Profpero in thee. 
PHILOTRANTUWS. 
VERSES ON A SILK WORMs. 
Addreffed to Mr. Tuoompson, on his unfine 
ifhed plan of a poem, called the Caftle of 
Indolencey in imitation of Spenfer, by 
Thomas Morrell, D.D. formerly Fellow of 
King’s College Cambridge. 
As when the filk-worm, erft the tender care 
Of Syrian maidens, ’gins for to unfold, 
From his fleek fides, which now much 
fleeker are, 
The gloffy treafure, and foft threads 0 
gold : 
With various turns, and many a winding fold, 
He fpins his web, and as he fpins decays 5 
Till within circles infinite enroll’d, 
He refts fupine, imprifon’d in the maze, 
The which himfelf did make, the gath’ring of” 
his days. 
So thou, they fay, from thy prolific brain, 
A Caftle hight of Indolence, didft raife 5 
Where liftlefs fprites withouten care oF 
pain, os? 
In idle pleafaunce, fpend their jocund. 
days - 
Y53 Nos 
