3. Throttle fings.-4. Filberts in flower.-5. Laylock buds turgid. Infects fporting in abundance. A beautifully ftriped horizon at fun fet.-6. Goffamer floats. Infectsin prodigious number: the air very fragrant-7. A mist prevails most part of the day. -8. Palms appear on the willow.-9. Mezereon flowers.-11. The effects of evaporation have been very evident in the fpace of last week.-13. Crocus flowers, sweet briar foliates. A fmall black fly comes out to the candle.-21. A very tempestuous night, the storm continues till about 4 P.M. the following day.-23. Gooseberry bush foliates.28. Elder foliates.Fall of rain this mouth 0-45 inch. Walton, near Liverpool. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for March, 1798. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. J. HOLT. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer 27 32 45 36 30,28 fair 13 32 41 28 32 M.1 30 47 35 ,26 fair 14 33 39 12 fair 15 38 55 44 14 fair 16 45 39 48 47 ,22 fair ,20 cloudy 56 45 14 cloudy 72 fair 24 38 48 IL 35 39 34 ,76 rain at night 39 33 ,38 thowery 44 33 ,67 fair 3730,01 fair W.-CARY, Optician, No. 182, near Norfolk-Street, Strand THE (183 Gentleman's Magazine: For MARCH, 1798. BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF VOL. LXVIII. PART I. To T. P. W. Efq. a Gentleman young of Fortune, on his Travels in Italy. DEAR SIR, "March 3, 1790. I am extremely obliged to you for your polite and entertaining letter from Vicenza. I almost envy you the pleasure you must receive in treading on claflic ground. As you intend to fee all the curiofities of the neighbouring country, and have an exquifite tafte for mufick, you will certainly vitit Cremona, which deferves to be held in fupreme veneration by every fiddling dilettante; and Azezzo, the birth-place of Aretine, the Benedictine, who invented the mufical ladder, ut, re, mi, fa, fol, and fo forth. You will make an excurfion to the little town of Andes, where young Maro firft eat his bread and cheefe, while his father was employed in making pipkinst. You will take a trip to * Pinguis et ingratæ premeretur cafeus urbi. Ecl. I. 35. + Quem quidam opificem figulum fuiffe tradiderunt. Virg. Vita à Donato. The author of the Biographia Claffica fays, "he was by trade a basket-maker." He 1 At Verona, where fome virtuofo may probably thew you a wing of Lef bia's favourite fparrow, and the bower in which Catullus gave and received his "mille bafia." Modena you will take a view of the Secchia rapita, celebrated by Taffoni, and preferved in that city as a glorious monument of the victory which the inhabitants obtained over the people of Bologna. But you will take care not to venture into their piazzas or their dark walks by night; for, you will remember the obfervation of the poet: "A town there stands in Lombard air, Is fure to be b-." But, if any disaster of this kind fhould befall you, you may step to Abano, and get a dip in one of the baths, for which that village is famous, particularly the bagno di fango*, which will wonderfully perfume and refresh your limbs. You will pay a vifit to the little cottage at Ferrara, which was built by Ariofto; and perhaps one of their curious Antiquaries may thew you fome of the pots which the Poet broke in a paffion, when he chaftized the potter for repeating his verfes with a vulgar accent. At Ferrara, or Padua, you may poffibly meet with the inkhorn from which Taffo extracted his Gerufa lemme liberata. You will collect fome of the precious gum "Where trees weep amber on the banks" of Po." has probably mistaken the meaning of figu- You will undoubtedly be pleased to lus, which is not a basket-maker, but a potter. *A mud-bath. ftroke ftroke a lady's lap-dog and eat a favoury faufage at Bologna*. And, as you return home, you will take particular notice of the place where Hannibal, when he parted the Alps, diffolved a fupendous rock with vinegar; or, as Livy expreffes it, "ardentia faxa infuío aceto-putre fecit +." All the world has heard that the inhabitants of Padua have the honour to preferve a bone of Livy's ano, which was discovered in a fe pulchre 1450 years after the death of that hiftorian. Gudlus and Mofhoff have indeed expofed their miftake; but notwithstanding all that these and other fcepticks have faid, the gold people of Padua firmly believe the authenticity of the bone. It is now 3000 years fince Antenor came into Italy, if in reality fuch a man ever exifted; yet, for the amufement of ftrangers and travellers, who view every curiofity with a foolith face of wonder (I fpeak with due refpect to yourself), the tomb of that old Trojan is still fhewn at Padua. You feem in raptures with Venice. Is it the city itfelf which you admire? Do you look upon it with the enthufiafm of Sannazarius, who tells us, that the spectator would fay, "the gods have built it?" Or is it the ladies with whom you are captivated? Have you been at the carnival? Or have you enjoyed the "lenes fub noctem fufurri" in a gondola? And do yout defign to fee the Doge perform the annual ceremony of marrying the Adriatic feat? You will fay that it is difficult to meet with fome of thefe curiofities. Lanfwer, that ingenious and inquifitive travellers, and efpecially good Catholicks, have found no diffculty in making more notable difcoveries than thefe. Many fage, pious, and refpectable perfons have Teen feveral heads of John the Baptift; and as much wood of the crois as would have broken the back of Simon the Cyrenian. They have feen the flippers, the hair, the milk, and the thift, of the Virgin Mary; a piece of the holy crib and the cradle; Jofeph's axe, faw, and hammer the lantern and a few inches of the rope of Judas Iicariot; the bodies of the three Magi at Cologn, in excellent prefervation; St. Chriftopher's ftone boat; St. Antony's tongue and chin in the Francifcan church at Padua, and the millstone on which he failed to Mufcovy. Some learned travellers have likewife viewed the twelve holes which fupplied the twelve tribes of Ifrael with water out of the rock at Rephedim ; they bave kiffed the ftone, retaining the marks of our Saviour's feet, which is ftill preferved at Rome; they have feen the rent in the rock at Calvary; the tracks of the wheels of the Egyptian chariots, "tractus rotarum," fays Orofius §, which appear at low-water in the Red fea; and the ftatue of Lot's wife, of the pillar of falt, which, if we may believe Tertullian and other pious Fathers, ftill performs its pe-age 1 This cara fpofa, notwithstanding her riodical evacuations. Moil. de Patavinitate Liviauá, c. 3. Our Afcenfion-day the Dsge, in a fplendid barge, attended by a thoufand barks and gondolas, proceeds to a particu lar place in the Adriatic. In order to compofe "the angry gulph," and procure a calm, the patriarch pours into her bofom a quantity of holy water. As foon as this charm has had its effect, the Doge with great folemnity, through an aperture near his feat, drops into her lap a gold ring, repeating thefe words: "Defponfamus te are, in fignum veri perpe.uique domini We elpoufe thee, O fea, in token of a real and perpetural dominion over thee." But, alas! how precarious are all ma trimonist contracts in the prefent licentious repeated engagements, has been lately guilty of crim. con. to a flagrant degree, and now refigns herself to the poffeffion of the moft infmous debauchiees. It is, therefore, moft probable, that this annual ceremony will be no more repeated. The har let will be divorced for ever. While you are travelling in Italy, pray keep on safe ground, and do not let your intrepidity carry you too near the crater of a burning mountain. I am, dear Sir, Yours, &c. Mr. UREANS T EUSEBIUS. March 6. HE thanks of the publick are due to the inferter of the paper on Mr. Scott's mole plough, p. 96. And the Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, receive a polite monition for adverting more correctly to fuch matters as are intended for the public ufe, and not for patent monopoly, or individual protit. Your enquiring correfpondent, P. 114 will receive ufeful information in hufbandry matters on reforting to Marthall's Rural Hufbandry and Economy, in that volume which includes the district where he cultivates his farm. A man of plain understanding, obferving his neighbour's mode of hufbandry, and comparing it with Marfhall's inftructions, will foon be able to regulate his own bufinefs. Tar-water, p. 129, will affuredly relieve and prevent chilblains, by wafhing the feet, in fevere weather, once a week, in tepid tarwater; but tepid falt-water, in like manner, will be as efficacious. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, E VERAX. March 17. VERY one with whom I have converfed on the fubject of the letter refpecting Mr. Scott's mole plough, inferted in p. 96, agrees in the propriety of publishing the account contained therein; but, as the evident tendency of inferting a cut of the inftrument, and giving a defcription of it, is, that workmen in every part of the kingdom nay be enabled to make them, I hope to be excufed giving you the prefent trouble, which is merely to communicate the dimenfrons of the plough in the Society's Repofitory, as taken by me fince my coming to London. The handle. (a) is in length. 6 feet; the beam (c) 6 feet 11 inches long, and about 4 inches fquare; the coulter (d) 15 inches long, 24 inches wide; the cone or mole (e 20 inches long, and at the bafe 24 in diameter; the upright, iron. rifing from the mole 2 feet long, 3 inches broad, with a sharp edge. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, IN E. S Fan 15. N the Life of Richard Carew of Antonie, who died Nov. 6, 1620, prefixed to his Survey of Cornwall, is the following passage: "Mr. Carew fubfcribes himself to the Dedication of the Survey to Sir Walter Raleigh] bis fordfbip's poore Kinman, Richard Crew, of Antonie; but how he was related to him I could not yet find. Sir Wal ter Raleigh had a fon, whofe Christen nime was Carew; and probably our author was his god-father*.” The truth is, that Sir Walter Raleigh first feduced (a circumftance which made a great noife in Elizabeth's court), and afterwards married, a lady of rank about the queen-Elizabeth, daughter of the celebrated Sir Nicholas Throgmor ton, by Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Nicholas CAREW, of Beddington, in Surrey, knight of the garter; which Sir Nicholas Carew was defcended from a common anceftor with Mr. Richard Carew, of Antonie, viz, Sir Nicholas Carew, who died in 1308, leaving iffue by Amicia, fifter and heir of Sir John Peverell, four fons, of whom Sir John, the eldeft, was ancestor to the Carews of Haccomb and Antonie; and Sir Nicholas, the third was ancestor to the Carews of Bed-dington. Carew Raleigh undoubtedly derived his name from his maternal grandmother, and not from Rich, Carew the Antiquary. Reginald Pole Carew +, M.P. for Fowey, defcended by the male line |