partially caufe a fimilar appearance, as does the flaming rock at Setacoon. It is a little ridge of laminated stone, calcareon in texture, whence fire iffues at various fpots fpontaneously or excita ble, fometimes by clearing with a cane the crumbling particles, often by appli, cation of a lighted reed; fome parts burn faintly, others with greater vigour; nor is every point inflammable : a fimilar oxygenated hydrogenic gas muft here exhale from crevices between the ftrata, and pervade the porofities of this loofe textured rock; which near the burning parts is ever moift; the natural confequence of fuch combuftion: the feparated ftone will never burn; the flame is real culinary fire, lights fraws, &c. There I have tried with pleafure and fatisfaction, but by no means aftonifhed thereat, though the Faguirs, the holy guardians of this place, endeavour to perfuade us, that it burns everlaftingly, without the help of art. I brought away fome fragments, in defiance of the fuperftition of the Hindoo Priefs, and menacing denunciations of vengeance from their Deity. I affirmed that it was ever God's pleafure to beneft mankind, and if, as they declared, men could recover health by wifiting that fpot, I should do good by carrying away parts thereof, for the advantage of thofe that could not come themfelves; but my refolution, not my arguments, forced them to acquiefce. I retain the pieces in my portmanteau, and believe them amulets equally efficacious with a martyr's garment or the Pope's great toe. T. J. To the Editor of the European Magazine. SIR, TH HE late fpring tide on the 10th in- does not govern the ocean, and that the caufes little or no alteration in the tide. If the fun had been in the fame pofition as the moon, at the late full, he would have caufed a very high tide; for the fun, according to his pofition, accelerates and retards the motion of the waters; he gives motion to the air, and cautes the wind to blow upon the earth; he is the cause of the feafons; and it is the fun that produces the day by his prefence, and the night by his abfence: in fact, it is the fun, and not Ὁ Φρύξ δ' ἀδελφῆς αἷμα τιμωρούμενος, THE HE reader is here entertained with the triumphs of Midas, king of Phrygia, and with the story of the afs's ears. He fubdued Thrace; a country of greater extent than any other in Europe. Αὐτοίτε Θρηϊκες, απείροια γαῖαν ἔχοντες. Dionys ἀδελφῆς αἷμα τιμωρούμενος. A like expreffion occurs in the prophet Hofea ἐκδικήσω τόαιμα τοῦ Ιεζραήλ. the mother of Minos by Jupiter. By Europa, according to the fable, was the fifter not Cleopatra, but Afia is meant. The Scholiaft has entertained his readers with allegorical explanations. To tell the fabulous ftory, as it ufually is told, was our poet's bufiness; to allegorize was foreign from it. Canter in his Prolegomena obferves; that "apud Lycophronem hiftoriæ multæ extant, quas nemo, quod fciam, alius attigit, ut Mnemonis, Prylis, Mide: et vocabula non pauca, quæ, fi quis quærere velit, operam, credo, omnem luferit." Yet, as if willing to augment European Magazine. VIEW OF WYKE CHURCH & THE ISLE OF PORTLAND. Engraval by Rawle augment the number of those words, which, he tells us, are no where elfe to be found, he has withdrawn a from κυβέλλα, and, joining it to καλλυνεῖ, has framed the word καλλυνεί But Caffandra fpeaks ironically, as the cast of the fentence fhews. His ears are fo beautiful, that flies are afraid to approach them. They are ornaments that repel, more than they attract. His hoftile courfe fhall Phrygia's monarch speed, And for the lifter's blood fhall Europe bleed. GVLIELMI: IONES: EQVITIS. AVRATI: He o'er that land fhall defolation spread, QVI:CLARVM: IN: LITERIS: NOMEN: A: Which early nurs'd the ruler of the dead; (Whofe rigorous laws the fhades of night revere, And fhrink appall'd at manners fo auftere :) He, Phrygia's king, who from an afs's head Sever'd those ears, that o'er his temples fpread: Blood-fucking flies, aftonish'd at the fight, Flew round, but fear'd on fuch an head to light. Him fhail all Phlegra's land obeifance show; Thrambufa's cliff, and Titon's craggy brow, Skirting the beach; and the Sithonian plain, And where earth's fons, the rebel giants, reign, Near Brychon's flood, whofe winding horn expands, PATRE: ACCEPTVM: MAGNA: CVMVLAVIT: GLORIA: INGENIVM: IN: ILLO: ERAT: SCIEN TIARVM: OMNIVM: CAPAX: DISCIPLINISQUE: OPTIMIS: DILIGEN TISSIME: EXCVLTVM: ERAT: INDOLES: AD: VIRTVTEM: EXI MIA: ET: IN: IVSTITIA: LIBERTATE: RELI GIONE: VINDICANDA: QVICQVID: AVTEM: VTILE: VEL: HO NESTUM: PRESTANTISSIMVM: HVNC; VIRVM. CVM: A: PROVINCIA: EENGALA: VBI: IVDICIS: INTEGERRIMI: MVNVS: PER: DECENNIVM: OBIERAT: REDITVM: IN: PATRIAM: MEDITARETVR: INGRVENTIS: MORBI: VIS:OPPRESSIT: And plenty pours thro' all Pallene's IX: KAL.: JVN.: A.; C.: MDCCLXXXXIII: 1 Toot of the way thither. While the King ftood, I was of his religion, made my fon wear a caffock, and thought to make him a Bishop; then came the Scots, and made me a Prefbyterian; and fince Cromwell entered I have been an Independent. Thefe, I be lieve, are the kingdom's three eftates; and if any of thefe can fave a foul, I may claim one; therefore if my executors do find I have a foul, I give it to him who gave it me. Item.-I give my body, for I cannot keep it, to be buried. Do not lay me in the church-porch, for I was a Lord, and would not be buried where Colo nel Pride was born. Item.-My will is, that I have no monument, for then I must have epitaphs and verses, and all my life long I have had too much of them. Item.-I give all my deer to the Earl of Salisbury, who I know will preserve them, becaufe he denied the King a buck out of one of his own parks. Item.-I give nothing to the Lord Say; which legacy I give him, becaufe I know he will bestow it on the poor. Item.-To Tom May I give five fhillings: I intended him more; but whoever has feen his Hiftory of the ParJiament thinks five fhillings too much. Item.I give Lieutenant-General Cromwell one word of mine, because hitherto he never kept his own. Item.-I give up the Ghoft,cordat cum originati. NEW INVENTIONS. -Con A MACHINE for cleaning gravel walks has been invented by a man of the name of Thompson, a private in the Peeble hire Volunteers. It turns, rakes, and rolls the gravel by the fame operation; and has this peculiar advantage attending it, that it can be wrought by a fmall poney, at the fame time that it does as much work in an hour as a dozen men can do in a day. The new mode of reefing now generally adopting through the Navy, promises to be attended with incalculable advantages. By this plan, the main fail of a first-rate fhip is reefed by two men on the yard with more facility than when forty were employed to effect it. WYKE-REGIS CHURCH. [WITH A VIEW.] THIS is a large and very ancient struc ture, confifting of a chancel, body, two aifles, a fmall aifle on the north fide of the chancel, and a high tower of Portland ftone embattled, containing four bells, and ferving by its lofty fituation as both a fea and land mark. It is the mother church of Weymouth, whofe inhabitants generally bury here. The parish receives its name from its fituation; for the Saxon word pyc fignifies finus ripæ, i. e. a curving or reach of the fea, or winding of the fhore; as well as a village, town, caftle, or fortification. It has its additional name of Regis, from its being part of the demefnes of the Crown. It is fituated on very high ground, about a mile welt from Weymouth, and almost encompaffed by the fea, except on the Eaft fide. The most early account that we find of it is in Edward the Confeflor's time; when, and perhaps long before, it belonged to the Crown. That Prince gave it, with the ifle of Portland, and the manors of Waymouth and Elwell, to the church of Winchefter, by way of atonement for his fevere treatment of his mother 'Emma. After the Con queft, one of the Clares, Earl of Glou cefter and Hereford, exchanged it with the church of Winchester for fome other lands. From his defcendants it paffed to the Burghs, Earls of Ulter; Lionel Duke of Clarence; the Mortimers, Earls of March; and the Plantagenets, Dukes of York. Edward the IVth brought it back to the Crown; and it was afterwards granted to fome of the Blood Royal, and made part of the jointure of feveral Queens of England. In Wyke church-yard were buried, November 24, 1795, the remains of Lieutenant Afh, and Mr. Kelly, SurCaptain Ambrofe William Barcroft, geon, of the 63d foot; Lieutenant Jenmer, of the 6th Weft India regiment; Lieutenant Stains, of the 2d West India regiment; Lieutenants Sutherland and Chadwick, of Colonel Whyte's Weft India regiment; Cornet Burns, of the 26th light dragoons; Cornet Graydon, of the 3d W. I. regiment; Lieutenant Ker, of the 40th foot; 215 foldiers and feamen, and nine women, who perifhed by fhipwreck on Portland Beach on the 18th. [See the particulars in our XXVIIIth Volume, p. 427—9.] 5 VESTIGES, |