them engraved, in fome measure to authenticate the ftrong affertions in this letter. I obferd that most of the fubjects which are carved on the thells were taken from pictures which adorn his humble cottage, and that the outline in moft of them excelled the examples he had to work from; and, therefore, had he had better copies, I have no doubt but that his performance would have been more exquifite than it is. I have been encouraged, Mr. Urban, to forward thefe particulars to your Mifcellany, that it may be graced with one more trophy than it already bears, for being the vehicle whereby unknown or neglected merit has been conveyed to the notice, and brought forward to the comfort, credit, or pleafure, of the community at large: for, if the genius which has here been defcribed could be affitted by the rules of art, and inftruments proper for its employment, what might -not reafonably be expected from it! Z. COZENS. Yours, &c. P. S. Since writing the above, I have been favoured with the fight of another wonderful effort of his genius, in the carving of a most beautiful female figure on a flint, which he picked up on the margin of the fea; but the exquifite attitude of the figure and flow of the drapery will fpeak for themfelves*. Z. C. Mr. URBAN, IN Aug. 24. N confequence of the letter by H. D. p. 610, I have twice vifited that pleasant spot, Stean park; *We readily give place to this letter; and the rather, as a trip to the Ifle of Tha net has given us an opportunity of inspecting fome of Mr. Longley's original car vings. We are of opinion, however, that it would be difficult, by an engraving from the tinfoil impreffions, to give any adequate idea of the excellence of the workmanship. The carvings, though highly improved, are copied from ordinary prints, which it would be ut lefs to multiply.-Far diffe rent, however, is the little figure noticed in the poftfcript; which shall be given in ene of our next month's plates. Edit. anno Chriftianorum C15 15 CLXXIV.” The Common Prayer, mentioned in the infcription as having belonged to Charles II. is a fmall folio, bound and ornamented uniformly with the Bible. The bishop's autograph, N. DUNELME, CREWE, is at the head of the Table of Contents in another copy of the fame edition, without any royal decorations on the cover. There are five other Common Prayer-books, large folio, bound in red Morocco, and one in purple Morocco; which, having W. R. furmounted with a ing, probably belonged to fome of crown in different parts of the bindthe royal chapels in the time of King William. They are printed at Oxford 1681; but the Prayers in the Litany, &c. are for "William and Mary, our most gracious king and queen." A new title to an old book is faid to be no uncommon trick in the mystery of bookmaking; making; but here is apparently a new book with an old title; unless perhaps only the first part of the book, which is most apt to be worn, was reprinted after the Revolution. Bishop Crewe's arms, 1703, are in all the books except the purple Common Prayer. I fuppofe his lordship's library was difperfed. I have feen in the neighbourhood a fmall Bible with his arms in it; and I have one of Stillingfleet's tracts on idolatry, 1671, 2d edit. neatly bound, with Lord Crewes arms, and "ex dono authoris," perhaps his autograph. The words over the Weft door of the chapel are, "Holines becometh thine houfe, O Lord, for ever;" which, no doubt, the original builder "caused to be engraven" there, and not Dr. Grey, who preached on that text at the re-opening of the chapel, as faid by Polyxena in vol. LVI. p. 451; and fo P. T. (the fame Polyxena, I fuppofe, metamorphofed into Philip Thickneife) feems to intimate in vol. LX. p. 993, b. where, p. 494, for "durate" read "curate," as it is in the plate, P. 420. But there (fo difficult is it to be perfectly correct) the infcription fhould be at the base of the fmall obelifk above the arch; where "fuperna" remains, but "curate," with its ftone, is gone. The fame flone on the other fide probably had faid to have used when he attended the chapel. For farm-houfes," p. 610, b. r. "farm-houfe," there being only two in the parish, and the other is a mile from Stean Park In p. 619, b. 1. 32, dele" in her left-hand." R. C. Mr. URBAN, CONFI Sept. 8. ONFIDENT that you would with, as would doubtlefs any of your correfpondents, to correct any erroneous account delivered to the publick in your much-efteemed Magazine, I take the liberty of obferving that Lord Mendip did not leave his villa, late Pope's (as ftated in D. H.'s account of that cele brated place in p. 705), to his heir and fucceffor Henry Welbore Agar, Viscount Clifden. His Lordfhip had no fuch power vested in him. It was entailed by Sir Wm. Stanbope on whoever fhould be Earl of Chesterfield at the time of the deceafe of the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis (late Lord Mendip); and the prefent Earl of Chesterfield confequently did inherit it; and it was his Lordship, and not Lord Viscount Clifden, now Lord Mendip, who directed it to be fold by auction by Mr. Chriftic, May 17. Yours, &c. R. B. Mr. URBAN, Bedford, Aug. 14. " femper ;" anfwering to which, fcription, equally admirable under the dexter and remaining obelisk, "paratus" is ftill legible. for fentiment and claffical eleThis gateway leads to the Western gance, is to be found within the door of the chapel. Polyxena's flory Communion rails of St. Mary's of a fcull at the foot of Lord Crewe's church, at Newmarket in Suffolk; monument turned by the sculptor but, being engraved upon a soft kind into a bunch of grapes, whether of ftone, common in that neightrue or not, is current in the neighbourhood, has long been confide. bourhood; but few who contemplate the monument would difcover the grapes if they had not previQufly heard the anecdote. There are fculls on fome of the earlier monuments, but perhaps not in fight, if his lordship fat oppofite to his own monument in the armchair of crimson velvet (for there is only one, not three) which he is rably defaced. And though the writer of this article, at that time curate of Newmarket, was at fome expence, about a dozen years ago, to preferve it by caufing the letters to be cut afreth, the ftone itself being lately broken into feveral pieces in opening the ground for a church funeral, a great part of the infcription is no longer legible, and the whole whole in danger of going quickly to oblivion, unlets thought worthy of being preferved in fome literary afylum. I beg leave, therefore, to request a place for it in your useful Mifcellany, not doubting but it will prove highly acceptable to your claffical readers. Hic jicet mortale depofitum ROBERTI COOK, nuper hujus parochie rectoris, cujus lingua nefcio an vita foit facundior; utpote qui pietatis fe præconem præftitit et exemplum. Dum vero concionandi officio nervos veheintendit, [mentius venâ interius difruptâ, omnis illi fanguis e corpore paulatim emimox etiam et anima. [cut, Sic vitalem pro Evangelio fanguinem e effudit, fic pulcherrimæ fuccabut merti martyrio non vulgari decorus. *Sed paulum te fille, Viator, nam hicce pulvis nuper doctus et difertus necdum concionari definit,. fed te quoque mortalem prædicat. Abi iguur, et immortalitatem fufpira. Obiit Jan. Anno Dom. 1681, ætat. fuæ 30. A Mr. URBAN, Portfea, Aug. 4. S the pyramids on the African coaft between Memphis and the Delta have been the wonder of the world for ages paft, it is a matter of furprize that their dimentions have been fo varioufly recorded. No doubt many have it now in their power, from the opportunities furnished by the laft fuccefsful expedition to thofe parts, to put us ight as to this curious particular. The Rev. Mr. Barlow, in his dictionary published in the prefent reign, tells us that the height of the largest is 500 feet perpendicular, and the fide of the bafe 693; that it is a perfect fquare, confequently contains 11 English acres and 4 perches (taking the perch liHear at 16). Guthrie again, in his 18th edition, Grammar of geography and hiftory, gives the fame 500 feet height; but adds, that the apex at the top is 13 feet fquare. The Rev. Mr. Banks, in his late folio of geography, gives only the height and the fame 500 feet, but in the plate reprefents a proportion evidently different from Barlow's 693 feet for fide of bate; and rather conformable to what Pliny defcribes as to proportion of height to bafe. But Pliny fays (book 36, c. 12) that the height of the largeft pyramid is 883 feet, which, brought into Englith feet by the proportion of 967 to a thoufand, as on the monument of Coflutius, are equal to 861 and nearly 10 inches: the bafe, alfo, he tells us, covers eight acres of turface and is fquare: the Roman acre is, according to Pliny, bock 18, c. 3, 120 by 240 feet equal 28,800 fquare feet, which eight times taken = 2.0,400 fquare feet, whereof the root is but 480 Roman feet inftead of Barlow's 693 English feet. But Pliny is ftrangely at variance with himself, immediately faying that the fide of the bafe of the fecond pyramid is 737 feet, and confequently would cover alnioft nineteen Roman acres. = Thefe various and erroneous dimentions, it is hoped, will be corrected by the accurate furvey, which, no doubt, has been taken by fome gentleman fo lately on the fpot, the communication whereof would be highly gratifying to many, and inexpreffibly fo to T. G. Mr. URBAN, Y Sept. 2. YOUR Conftant Reader," in p. 415, will perhaps be pleafed with a reference to pp. 705, 971, and 1107, col. 2, of your vol. LX. : P. 468, col. 1, 1. 22, for "Rochftein" r. "Wroxton;" and fee your 419, col. 2. vol. LXVII. pp. 106-110, and p. P. 475. The " affecting and inftruc tive account" of the death of the firft Lord Lyttelton, by Dr. James Johnftone, appeared in p. 604 of vol. XLIII. See alfo vol. LI. p. 421, col. 1, 1. 40, where for Johnfon" read "Johnflone." P. 488, col. 1, l. 47, r. "Crawfurd" and p. 512, col. 1, 1. 2, for "in" read "of." Yours, &c, SCRUTATOR. Mr. 1 |