17, 545 Wisbech, Female Society 83. Tradefmen, defended against Mr. Godwin Varieties, Literary and Philofophical, including 51, 131, 210, 289, 370, 445 Ventilating of Ships, Mode of Living Authors, &c. whofe Names occur in the following Volume : 297 Beatfon 513 Beddoes, Dr. 290 Bechstein 494 Bell Belsham 222 Bellamy 139 Buning 85, 161 Burton 426 Wolverhampton, defcribed 39 272 Works in Hand, Notices of-fee Varieties 421 443 51, 131, 210, &c. Wortley Montague, Lady, Anecdote of 197 Wye, Phenomena of the 343 York, an Account of a Girl's Charity-school there 319 Aikin Adelung Allwood 380 Congreve 494 297 506 THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE. XXVII.] FOR JANUARY, 1798. [VOL. IV. A few days fince was published (price One Shilling) the SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, completing the FOURTH VOLUME of this Work. The Articles contained in it are conceived to be highly valuable and interefting; among them are the following::---1. The half yearly Retrofpet of the State and Progrefs of Domeftic Literature.---2. A curious Tranflation from Plato, by Mr TAYLOR, on the Atlantic Hiftory and on the State of Athens, nine thousand Years prior to Solon, which has never before appeared in any modern Language--3. Experiments on Pruffian Blue, by M. PROUST;---4. Mr. RICHTER on neceffary Connection :---5. On Exchanges ;---6. Proportion of Light from Combustible Bodies, by J. H. HASSENFRATZ;---7. LALANDE's History of Aftronomy for 1796; ---8.The Medals of the French Revolution, &c.--9. Defcription of the Marine School at Amfterdam;---10. Lives of Vandermonde and Flandrin;---11. Account of the Perfon who committed Suicide at Briftol;---12. Conclufion of Mathematical Queflions, &c.&c. With the Title and Indexes to the Volume. The four Volumes may now therefore be had complete, af every Bookfeller, price One Pound Nine Shillings, neatly half bound. THE For the Monthly Magazine. OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER IN LONDON IN 1797. HE thermometer, hung out of the window of a room in the first floor, with a north-west exposure, gave the following averages at nine in the morning: January 381 February 354 March 39 April 48 May 523 7 July 66 Auguft 631 September 56% October 48 November 41 June 59 December 424 Average of the year, 49 That of the year 1796 was 4912: fo that the difference of heat in the two years confifted almoft folely in the diftribution, not in the fun. In 1796, the first months were warmer, the middle of fummer cooler, and the end of the year more frofty, than in 1797. With refpect to heat, the year 1797 offers little remarkable, except that February was colder than March, almoft as cold as January; and that December was warmer than November. The excefs of July above June is alfo fomewhat uncommo.. The wetness of 1797 has been the moft obfervable circumftance attending it, in which it has furpaffed all the years for a confiderable period. As no actual measurement of rain has been taken by the prefent writer, he can only give the loofe refult of his daily obfervations on the state of the weather. From thefe it appears, that the four first months of the year were by no means unufually wet. February, on the contrary, was uncommonly dry; but fog was confiderably prevalent in it and the other cold months, MONTHLY MAG. No. XXV. May began with much rain; but became fine, with a high degree of heat, in its advance; and ftrong lightning was an earlier occurrence than ufual in it. June was very variable: it had a fufficient number of fine days to engage the farmer in cutting down all the grafs, which the preceding month had brought to unusual ranknefs of growth, but had alfo fuch alterations of heavy rain, that hay-making was a very difficult and uncertain bufinefs. July had great heats and fome tremendous thunder: it was, on the whole, a tolerably fair month; but was liable to occafional ftorms of wind and rain, which did much damage in beating down the corn, which from the length and thicknefs of its stalk, was generally unable to recover itfelf. Auguft afforded very unfavourable weather for getting in the harveft. Its nights were for the moft part rainy, and prevented the benefit of many drying days. September began pretty fair, but ended rainy. One perfectly fair week in the beginning of October was the whole of the ufual Michaelmas jummer. The reft of the month was warm, and variable. Cold and wet, and warm and wet, were the respective characters of November and December, with occafional tempeftuous weather, fog, and an uncom mon moisture in the atmosphere, even when it did not rain. The prevalent winds in the whole latter part of the year were from the south and west quarters. If a northerly wind one day gave an appearance of the fetting in of winter, a change on the next, railed the temperature of the air to autumnal warinth, and co 2 Dr.Rennellon the Pursuits of Literature......Mr.Blair on Nitrous Acid,&é. Septem. 591 26th October 51 26th Novem. 45 24th. 71 56 43 1ft to 5th 32 N. E. 59 35 6, 7, 8 53 Decem. 433 11th 37 17 & 19 51 Average of the year, 524 Hotte day, July 17, at 81° wind S. W. Coldeft day, Jan. 9 From a comparison of the above with the obfervations inferted in the Monthly Magazine for Jan. 1797, it appears, that, notwithstanding a great variation in particular months, the average of the whole year 1797 differs but from that of 1796, which was 524. The months, January, April, June, Auguft, September, were colder in 1797 than in the year preceding; the other months were hotter in a greater or lefs degree. July 17th, 1797, was 6°. higher than July 15th, 1796, but the thermometer never funk fo low as in fome of the days preceding the Christmas of 3796. DR For the Monthly Magazine. R. RENNELL having feen in the Monthly Magazine, a public mention of a report of his being concerned in the Purfuits of Literature, is perfectly convinced that the Editors will have the juftice to contradict, from him, in the moft diftinct pointed manner, fo groundlefs and injurious a report. In no part of that production had Dr. Rennell the moft diftant co-operation. Satirical writing of every kind, particularly of an anonymous nature, is perfectly alien to his habits and -occupations. Dr. RENNELL will confider the infettion of this declaration in their next Magazine as a confiderable obligation con ferred upon him by the Editors. London, Dec. 15, 1797, ་ To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, TT is well known that many medical men have been lately engaged in making experiments to afcertain whether, or not, the venereal difeafe, in all its complicated forms, can be radically cured by medicines containing a large proportion of oxygen, or vital air; and particularly by means of the nitrous acid and oxygenated muriate of pot-afh. The very refpectable teftimonies which have already appeared in favour of these remedies, and the mild as well as expedi tious manner in which they are faid to operate, have induced me to give them a fair and unprejudiced trial, in a great variety of cafes; and alfo to folicit the comunications of other gentlemen in London, who have had opportunities of exhibiting them: but I am forry to obferve, that our experience obliges me to differ in opinion from thofe phyficians and furgeons who have railed our expectations on this fubject. This diverfity of opinion being found. ed on actual obfervation, and not on any preconceived notions, has emboldened me to use the freedom of circulating a printed letter, to recommend the trial of the new medicines in advanced ftages of the difease; where well marked blotches, nodes, ulcerated fauces, ozana, and other characteristic symptoms of a genuine fyphilis appear: fince, in thefe cafes only can we be fully affured that the fyphilitic poifon exifts in the conftitution, and indubitably requires the administration of an anti-venereal medicine. The mott judicious practitioners, and thofe of the largest experience, are ready to confefs, that although it be ufually advileable to give mercury in recent stages of the venereal difeafe, with a view to prevent the farther progress of the fymp toms, or the occurrence of a confirmed lues venerea, yet, in very many fuch inftances, the patients would escape and recover their health, by a proper plan of treatment, without the ufe of mercury: and, notwithstanding this fact may be denied by fome fpeculative perfons, it is too well authenticated for us to reft the proof of an anti-venereal remedy folely, or even chiefly, on its efficacy to remove the primary fymptoms. All deductions from fuch premifes muft, therefore, be extremely fallacious and questionable. I have taken the liberty to trouble you with thefe curfory hints, for the attention of medical men in the country, in hopes that you will favour me by inferting thems 1798] Miftatements of Profeffor Robifon detected....Site of Paradife, in your Magazine: and I beg leave, at the fame time, to fuggeft, that it is my intention to publish the refult of my experiments and enquiries, (under the title of "Critical Remarks on the Veneral Difafe") together with fuch obfervations and cafes as 1 may be honoured with from ather practitioners. Great Ruffel-Street, W. BLAIR To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, ftatements contained in the book before- AUGUSTUS BOETTIGER, For the Monthly Magazine. D'ANVILLE, in his Geographical Memoir L'Euphrate & le Tigre, page 14, has indicated to the caft of Roha, or Edeffa, a tract of country, elevated and beautiful, which now bears the name of ALATE publication, entitled Proofs Eden. This diftrict lies in the center of of a Confpiracy, &c. by Profeffor ROBISON, has excited my great furprize; and I am at a lofs to conceive how circumflances, long ago buried in oblivion, could, without making any farther enquiry, be reprefented as ftill exifting, by the author of a book, which tends to ftigmatize fome of the most respectable characters in Germany. From the beginning of 1799, EVERY CONCERN OF THE ILLUMINATI HAS CEASED, and no Lodge of Freemafons in Germany has, fince that period, taken the lealt notice of them. Evident proofs of this affertion are to be found among the papers of Mr. Bode, late Privy Counfellor at Weimar, who was at the head of that Order in this part of Germany, and who died in 1794. After his death, all thofe papers were delivered up to the prefent DUKE of SAXE-GOTHA, who, on application, would, doubtlefs, permit the infpection of them. The league of Dr. Barth, known to Mr. Robifon only from the Annals of Gieffen, a very obfcure periodical publication, was a phantom, which no fooner appeared, than it was laid and deftroyed by Mr. Bode himfelf, who printed a pamphlet, entitled, More Remarks than Text, which foon opened the eyes of the public. This league, a poor financial scheme, was planned by a man of more genius than principle, but never carried into execution. This appears from the papers, written during the whole of the tranfaction, which being bequeathed to me by "Mr. Bode, are now in my poffeffion, and true tranfcripts of them may be obtained by any one, who wishes to receive them. Although I was not a member of that fociety, yet I was intimate with Mr. Bode, and prefent at his death; confequently I am enabled to vouch folemnly for the truth of the above; and to Engage, that any perfon in Great Britam, who, being alarmed at the erroneous the lands included between the Tigris and the Euphrates. At its foot arifes, on the eaftern fide, the river Mygdonius, on which are fituate the towns of Nefibis and Sinjar; and on the western fide, the river Chaboras, on which are fituate the towns of Refain and Thallaba. These two rivers now unite, and fall into the Euphrates at Kerkifich; but neither of them appears to pursue its ancient course, the Mygdonius having originally flowed, amid the dry ravine called Tirtar, which meets the Tigris above Hatra; and the Chaboras amid the dry ravine called Sebaa, which meets the Euphrates below Ofara. What forbids our fuppofing this Eden to have been in the contemplation of the author of the fecond chapter of Genefis? Dr. GEDDES, in his note on the paffage (II. 14,) admits, that by Hiddekel is meant the Tigris, and by Perath the Euphrates with the other two rivers only he is embarraffed, and at length fixes on the Araxes and the Oxus, which travel to the Caspian and Euxine feas. The Phifon, however, is faid to bound the land of Havila, where there is gold. Now, a confiderable stretch of the Mygdonius is yet called Al Havali, and thus retains obvious traces of the name and contiguity of that province, which may well have extended as far fouth as the mouth of the Zab, a ftream celebrated for its gold. Of the name Gihon, no traces are indeed to be detected along the banks of the Chaboras; but this river is faid to have bounded the land of Cufh. Now, the land of Cufh (Genefis X. 7,) comprehended the five fubdivifions or townships of Seba, Havilah, Sabtha, Raamah, and Sabthechah. Safa and Zabdicena, (or Gezirat) on the western bank of the Tigris, appear evidently to preferve the names of Sabthal and Sabthechah. Seba, with the prefix |
