THE Edinburgh Magazine, or LITERARY MISCELLANY. VOL. XX NEW SERIES. In tenui labor, at tenuis non, gloria, si quem Virg. GINBURGH Printed by & for J. Ruthven & Sons. Merchant Court- Cy EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, Remarks on the Benevolent Affec- Critical Rules of Novel-Writing, Memoirs of the Life of John Casper Lavater, the celebrated Phyfiogno- mist, Extract from Baron De Zach's Letter to the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. F. R. S. on the New Planets Ceres and Pallas, together with Dr Herschel's Sentiments on the fame Letter from Christopher Columbus to Facts and Obfervations tending to Ex- 26 Neceffary Precautions for ftopping the Progrefs of Infectious Fevers, 31 Extracts from the Diet Books of King Account of the Soho Manufactory, near Birmingham, belonging to the View of the Conftitutional Principles Obfervations on the Progrefs of the Abftract of the Population of Eng- land, taken 1801, in conformity to an Act of Parliament, and copied Abstract of the Population of Wales, taken 1801, in conformity to an Act of Parliament, and copied from the Abftract of the Population of Eng- land and Wales, taken in 1801, in conformity to an Act of Parliament, ib. Lift of all the Cities and Towns in Supplement to the Table of Towns, 74 A Lift of the County Towns in Eng- land and Wales, whofe Population Morn. Even. State of the BAROMETER, in inches and decimals, High Water at LEITH 1802. Barom. Thermom. Rain. M. 26 29.455 52 4 H. E. 4 15 4 30 445 5 16 5 48 6 24 Rain Fr. 6. 6 46 7 10 27 29.715 54 59 850 10 29 9.39 II 18 July 28.85 48 57 0.181 Rain 2 29.058 3 29.181 Ditto Sa. 14. 3 5 323 51 60 0.152 Rain Su. 15. 6 29.35 48 62 0.1 Ditto M. 16. 7 29.701 Clear Th. 19. 6 11 6 37 Rain Fr. 20. II 29.65 48 53 0.35 Ditto Sa. 21. 8 18 9 12 29.821 49 13 29.75 46 96 62 0.155 Ditto T. 24. W. 25. II 40 16 29.711 46 67 Th. 26. I 18 O 57 1 38 18 29.601 49 63 2 46 Su. 29. 3 I 3 16 Clear M. 30. 3 31 T. 31. 4 I 346 4 17 48 N 24 29.8 51 RSI VERS Quantity of Rain 2.749 1802, August 1. Lammas 12. Muirfowl fhooting begins The |