Ahologus Inv By his Spirit he hath garnished the Heavens. સવા Christall del For Heaven Is as the Book of GOD before thee set, Barlow Kulp! Job. THE Embellished with the following elegant Engravings by BARLOW, all accu- rately copied from LAVATER-1. Indolence and Drunkennefs. 2. A Small Head, determinable from the Outline of the Forehead and Eye- brows. 3. and 4. Sixteen Heads in Profile, Plates I. and II.- 5. Engraved Title Page to the Aftrologer's Magazine. 6. Elegant Fron- tifpiece. 7. Beautiful Engraved Title Page to the Phyfiognomy, with a Printed for W. LOCKE, No. 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn; and fold by COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEW VOLUME. THE completion of the Second Volume of the CONJUROR'S MAĠAZINE, furnishes us with an opportunity of repeating our thanks to our numerous Friends, and Subfcribers, who have enabled us to contribute to the revival of the fcience of Aftrology; a fcience which was ftudied by Patriarchs of the firft ages, but which, by the craft or the ignorance of Pretenders, has been expofed to much calumny and error. As the pleafures of gratitude are fcarce lefs than thofe of generofity, we are impatient to express, and defirous to have occafion to continue, the homage of our refpectful acknowledgments to all the Subfcribers and Contributors to the CONJUROR'S MAGAZINE, a Work which, by general defire, will be continued, with many improvements, under the title of the ASTROLOGER'S MAGAZINE, AND PHILOSOPHICAL MISCELLANY. Thofe fubjects which were begun in the former part of the undertaking, shall be completed in this, as foon as our room will allow, for it is our defign to promote, as far as our limits will permit, useful knowledge in all its most interesting branches, having, befides an extended correfpondence, which will yield an ample fupply of Original Matter, collected a new stock of materials, which will enable us to rescue from oblivion many valuable little pieces-treasures of art and philofophical literature-which lay concealed in bulky and expenfive volumes, among other things of a different nature. In fine, this Magazine. fhall contain more inftructive entertainment, and ornamental embellishment, than any other publication at the fame price. And as we have fo fully detailed our plan in the Title-page, what need we add more, but our respectable asfurance to the Public, that --Our Miscellany fhall unite All that the Sons of Science can delight. This month has brought us an account of the fhipwreck of the Win. terton Eaft Indiaman, Captain Dundas, by which it appears that the Captain and many of the paflengers and crew were unfortunately loft. We fhould be glad if any of our correfpondents would favour us with the time when that vefiel (the Winterton was launched, for the feems to have been marked for misfortune. On her firft voyage fhe sprung a leak; on her fecond she was nearly loft within fight of port; and on the voyage before laft, the loft fifty of her crew by fickness. IN a former number of your monthly Mifce lanyt, the title of which, in my humble opinion, you have judiciously improved, I explained the nature of Lunar Eclipfes, and endea. voured to point out the probable ef fects of that which happened the twenty fifth of February lait, in the affairs of thofe countries and cities which, according to the best authors on the predictive fcience, were likely to be obnoxious to its influence. Thursday, the fifth day of the enfuing month, the most notable eclipfe of the Sun will be viable which we have feen in thefe parts fince that of Sunday, the first of April, 1764; and although there will be an eclipse of the greater luminary the 31st of next January, another the 25th of next Au. thofe a fourth, which will be the last guft, a third July 16, 1795, and after folar eclipfe during the prefent century, not any of them will be equal to that which will first happen, for that begins 9. 37 The middle II 8 45 End of the ecliple Digits eclipsed 9 20 on the Sun's north limb. This phenomenon will be first feen. to affect the Sun's vertex on the right hand, beginning at the Sun's rifing near the great fishing bank of New foundland; the central fhade will firft take the carth near the northern parts of Hudfon's Bay, from whence its path will be fouth-eaft, over the southern parts of Greenland leaving Iceland a little to the north) towards the Western Inlands; from whence it paffes over the northern parts of Scotland, over Denmark, Sweden, and Poland, A digit is a twelfth part of the diame + No. XX. Vol. II. p. 268 of the Conju ter of the Sun and Moon, Sixty minutes make one digit. ror's Magazine, A.2 towards |