South fide has, on the piers between the windows, long narrow pedeftals, on which rife niches. Thefe decora tions take their place alfo at the angles of the tower. If we look for compleat proofs of delicate workmanship, either in carving or mafoury, it is to be met with here. Moft certain it is, fo much of that which we call worthy of notice awaits the curious on this chapel, that it fhould never be pafled by without a certain degree of attention beftowed on it. Its merit has made us defcant thus much in its behalf. To think the inhabitants of this town will be interefied from our recommendation to pay due refpect for its ruins, would be as idle a fuppofition, as to depend on the promifes of a furveyor, who has told his employer, after having received orders to erect a new mansion by felections from fuch and fuch antient piles, that his copies fhall be faithfully made, and his work fo put out of hand as to be the very counterpart of that model on which his patron had fet his admiration they, thefe profeffional prototypes, fo adore our antient pointed ftyles of architecture!-Some few feet more to the Weftward of this chapel is an erection, which once, no doubt, was the body of that church to which the chapel was attached, conftituting the chancel, or choir. The mafonry is very fimple, and of a much older date than the pleafing defign we have been defcribing as above.

A fort of retrograde impulfe now induced me to turn from my Western direction, Salisbury at the diftant point. It may be afked for what reafon? In truth, my "nerves" were not fufliciently firong at this time to adventure on fo arduous a trial on my peace of mind." I rather thought, that, if I went ftep by step, from one rage of innovation to another, I might imbibe fire by fire, to intiil into my mind that due eflence of recital which it appears fo celebrated a place as Sarum now demands.

ODIHAM.

I fearched in vain here for the veftiges of that palace which once made the name of Odiham rank in the minds of men as of high renown. Each bulwark, gate, and tower, are now no more. Odiham, thy name alfo fades in recollection; remote as is thy fituation, fo in memory is all thy pafted

pomp; an empty marvel, fignifying nothing. Barren is that foil which brings forth nought either good or bad. Hence it is incumbent on me to notice (as it were afide), that at the angles of a manfion (fome hundred years old) in the town, a remnant of a larger pile, are wooden figures as large as life, ferving as Caryatides. I fhall not debase my theme by diftinguishing them under any ftyle of Architecture; notwithstanding the Pans and Priapus's of the Heathen fchool may have been the ap propriate model when they were fet up. Men of Odiham, where are your blushes? Are they buried with the remnants of your royal walls, which piece by piece within thefe late years you have torn down and trodden under foot?

Paffing from this place, a mile the diftance, I came to Warmborough. Here, by chance, I faw a prodigious octangular tower, or keep. The walls and windows had their heads circular; fome chimney openings fhewed likewife the fame turns. As the entire facing-ftones of the work were gone, and the rubble, or interior of the wall itfelf, the only portions left to judge of dates or flyles, we muft wave all conclufions on the fubject; fuffice it, that it bore the marks of diftant ages on its lines, and did not fail to give that ef fect which fuch objects ufually pro duce. That watery grave to modern infatuation, canal-cutting, has drawn its ruinous courfe clofe by the fofs of the above antient work. Two of the men engaged in the digging part of the undertaking one night made up their reft within the cattle. We will call it fo for diftinction, as I was given to underftand on the fpot, that King John here had held his court. (This king, who, by-the-bve and tradition together, had as many palaces in his kingdom as villages, little thought while living how much futurity would honour him thus by mention of his architectural paironage.) Thefe two fleepers, then, awaking in a terrible fright, faw, as they maintained by their Bible oaths (and ale-houfe oaths), their tears witneffing for them alfo, there, and then, the very perfon of King John himself; defcribed his features and dress, and repeated the exact words which he then delivered to them; as follows: "Good men and true, hear, mark, and remember. Hafte, and tell your mafters,

miftreffes, and townsfolk, as they have defpoiled and overthrown my palaces here and at Odiham, and have almoft forgot my very name, your two towns fhall farther dwindle, wafte, and pine; and this new ftream, finuggled from out my plealant Stour, thall foon become as ufelefs and dry as are the pockets of the fubfcribers and encouragers to fuch a mad undertaking."—" Here," cried my guide and informant, his terror renewing from his tale thus told, fo full of fupernatural eloquence and information, "here is the fpot where the two men lay; and here is the fione whereon the king ftood," pointing at the fame time to each ominous particular: then, cafting his eyes on me, he faw me pointing in a circuitous direction to the two towns, the cafile, and the stagnant trench before our feet! AN ARCHITECT. (To be continued.)

Mr. URBAN,

VERY hufband, father,

O&. 9.

Ether, in his Majefty's dominions, owes thanks to the author of "Remarks on Female Manners," reviewed in p. 846; and you, Sir, muft alfo elaim a due share of praife, for your endeavours to für up the public indignation against fuch levities as feem now to be fyftematically introducing amongst us. We were informed by the Newfpapers the beginning of lait fpring, that a lady of exquifite beauty and elegance, juft arrived from France, wonld walk in Kenfington-gardens on the following Sunday. The next week we were told in the fame papers, that the public curiofity was fo excited, that the lady fuffered the greateft inconvenience from the throng which furrounded her, whofe rudeness was fo great as even to lift up her veil that they might gaze upon her face. Now, Mr. Urban, was not all this confequence intended by the previous notice? and has not the fame lady left behind her an infamous proof of her own defire to draw afide the veil? Witnefs the expofure of her indecent portrait now exhibiting in all the print-thops of the metropolis: but which, I truft, will not find its way into the houfes of any of our English families, who have the leaft regard to chaltity, and the prefervation of that characteristic modefty which heretofore diftinguished the British female.

The errors are :

The baronetage of Strange became extinct by the death of Sir Henry, Oct. 4, 1760; and not of his brother Sir Thomas, September preceding.

Mr. William Poyntz, an old gentleman of the fame name and family, is now living at Shepton Mallet, co. Somerfet, who has a fon an officer in the

navy. Melancthon's name is improperly fpelled, and his age was 67. Article Lady Audley, 1. 6, for Cornwall, read Devon.

Article Lady Butts, for Bridewellhofpital read Barber Surgeons'-hall.

A former correfpondent noticed this feuille volunt, in your vol. LXX. p. 710; it is but juft put into my hands this day, after having fome time fince bound up my fet of plates. I think it worth no ticing, for circulation of the corrections of the letter-prefs; for to me the ar rangement of the plates is of no use.

P. 968. In the old map of London by R. Aggas, Strand bridge crofles the Strand between two lanes, between Mylforth-lane and Somerfet-place; and has in the middle of the fireet a fmall building, q. cross or may-pole.

Yours, &c.

D. H. 210. LON

veins were feen paffing through it, making a free communication between the blood-vellels of the two brains. This is a fact of confiderable importance, as it explains the mode in which the upper brain received its nourishment.

V. "Obfervations on the Manners, Habits, and Natural Hiftory, of the Elephant. By Jn. Corfe, Efq." "The ufual height of the male elephant is from 8 to 10 feet, except in one infance, of about 10 feet 6 inches; the young one at its birth is 35 inches; one grew 11 inches in the first year; 8, 6, and 5, in the three fucceeding years. The full growth is at 19 years; and the female produces her young before the has completed her fize, generally growing, in one inftance 18 inches, after the birth of her firft. Elephants that have efcaped from confineinent have not, as vulgarly believed, fagacity to avoid being retaken, and they will breed in confinement; the period of geftation exceeds 20 months, and pregnancy appears at the end of 3. The young begin to nibble and fuck the breaft foon after birth, prefling it with the trunk, which, by mutual inftinct, they know will make the milk flow more readily into their mouths while fucking. Elephants never lie down to give their young ones fuck; and it often happens, when the dam is tall, that he is obliged, for fome time, to bend her body towards her young, to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth; confequently, if ever the trunk was used to lay hold of the nipple, it would be at this period, when he is making laborious efforts to reach it with his mouth, but which he could always eafily do with his trunk if it anfwered the purpose. In fucking, the young elephant always grafps the nipple, which projects horizontally from the breaft, with his mouth. I have often obferved this; and fo fenfible are the attendants of it, that, with them, it is a common practice to raife a finall mound of earth, about 6 or 8 inches high, for the young one to ftand on, and to fave the mother the trouble of bending her body every time fhe gives fuck, which the cannot readily do when tied to her picket. Tame elephants are never fuffered to remain loofe, as inttances occur of the mother leaving even her young and efcaping into the woods. Auother circumfiance deferves notice. if a wild elephaut

happens to be feparated from her young, for only two days, though giving fuck, the never afterwards recoguifes it. This feparation happened, fometimes, unavoidably, when they were enticed, feparately, into the kiddah." In confutation of another vulgar error, proofs are brought of the ability, as well as inclination, of the elephant to propagate his fpecies in a domeftic ftate, without any figns of modefty; but, as he will not readily have connexion with a female while under the influence of fear or diftruft, and is too bold and ungovernable, without reducing him low, it is not eafy to make him ferve as a ftallion. Scarcely one in ten, taken after having attained his full growth, is much dif pofed to have connexion with a female; and thofe that are taken early, in life, and domefticated many years, more readily procreate their fpecies" than elephants taken at a later period.

VII. On the Decompofition of the Acid of Borax, or Sedative Salt. By Dr. Laurence de Crell, tranflated from the German." After much pains, only fome inflammable matter was obtaine ed, which feems to have been produ- · ced in the progrefs.

VII. "A Method of finding the Latitude of a Place by Means of Two Altitudes of the Sun and the Time elapfed between the Obfervation. By William Lax, Lowndes Profeffor at Cambridge."

VIII. 66 A Fourth Catalogue of the comparative Brightnefs of the Stars. By William Herfchel."

IX. "On a fubmarine Foreft on the Eaft Coaft of England. By Jofeph Correa de Seira, LL.D." The iflands difcoverable at fome difiance from the coaft of Lincolnshire, at the loweit ebbs, chiefly coufift of roots, trunks, and branches of trees, intermixed with leaves of aquatic plants; the bark and roots are fresh, but the timber, which is oak, birch, and fir, foft, except at the knots; the trunks and branches confiderably flattened. Leaves of the ilex aquifolium and the willow, and the roots of the arundo phraginites, are diftinguishable. Thefe illets extend about 12 miles in length, and 1 in breadth, oppofite to Sutton fhore; the channels between them from 4 to 12 feet deep; the ftrata around afford fimilar appearances of decayed vegetables; gravel and water are found at 110 feet below the prefent furface.

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