When the trumpet founds amain, he fays, ahah! ahal! Then perceives at a distance the battle, The voice of captains, and the noife of foldiers." Notes Explanatory. A waving mane. The word here denotes the mare of a horse waving and fea king in the wind. See Bochart, vol II. p. 117, &c. and Pakhuift's lexicon on the word As the mane of a horse adds great beauty and ftatel nefs to him, the Greek and Latin poets take notice of it. Homer fays, 11. vi. 509, 1 ψε δε καρτ έχει, αμφι δε χαίται And, rearing up his breast onfhigh, weighs with wanton pride, and his waving mane plays on his neck and fhoulders. And in Georg. i 85, [armo. Denfa juba, et dextro jactata recumbit in Thick is his mane, and waving refts on his right fhoulder; and alfo En. xi. 86. Bound as a locuft. See Bochart, vol. II, p. 121, concerning the bounding or leaping of the locuft,nd Mr. Scott's note on the text, The vehemence of his forting; or the vebement loud noife of bis forting. Virgil foys, En. vii, 281, -Spirantes naribus igneni. From their noftrils fnorting fire. And n. xi. 910, -Flatufque audivit equorum. And heard the fnorting of the steeds. From the edge of the fword. " from the fides or edges. Virgil fays, Æn. vii. 526, Sed ferro ancipiti decernunt, But with two-edged steel they encounter, May fake; or dart, may vibrate as an arrow or fpear. Virgil fays, En, ix, 606, Et fpicula tendere cornu. 'And En. x. 552-3 - -Ille hafta reducta. He darting a fpear. See alfo An. x. 339, 562, and 782. And Æn. x. 585, -jaculum nam torquet in hoftes; For against his foe his javelin he hurls. So that the original word may be rendered, hake, dart, or hurl, or brandish. The arrozus. The Hebrew word denotes a quiver full of arrows. botta fignify motion. The ברעש ורגן first strictly denotes a vibratory or bounding motion in a place, and the latter a fhifting from it. See Parkhurst's Lexicon on the word; and fee Virgil's noble defcription of a war-horse when he has heard the found of arms, Georg. iii. 83-53 -Tum, fi qua fonum procul arma dedere, Stare loco nefcit, micat auribus, et tremit ar [nem; &c. Collectumque premens volvit fub naribus igThen, if he hear the diftant found of arms, he knows not to stand his ground, he pricks up his ears, trembles in every joint, and, forting, rolls the collected fire under his noftris [thick is his mane, and, waving, refts on his right shoulder; a double fpiral bone runs down between his loins; his hoof fcoops up the ground, and deep refunds with its folie hor.] Sic curfum in medios rapidus dedit. En. x. 87. Thus with rapid fpeed he drove into the midit, Fremit æquore toto Infultans fonipes, & preffis pugnat habenis, Huc obverfu & huc ; &c. The prancing courfer neighs aloud all over the plain, and curvets on the straightborne reins, this way and that way wheeling about; En. xi. 599—601; and fee alfo ver. 607, 8, 9, 10, and 13. So that the first of these words fignifies the ftate of a horfe when he is kept back by his rider; he prances, and rears with fury and eagerness to get on; and the latter, when he is permitted to go, he wheels about, rushes forwards, trembling with madness and anger. And swallows the ground. The word NDI' fignifies to fwallow, fup up, as one does meat or drink; but here it means that the horse, in fancy, and by his celerity, fwallows up the ground, or the fpace between inm and the enemy; and when he is come near he can hardly believe it for joy. This expreffion contains a very bold figure; yet Thom. fon, in his "Autumn," ver. 485, has ap, plied the fame to hunters; At tuba terribilem fonitum procul ære caIncrepuit. [noro Meanwhile the trumpet founds from afar, with its fhrill-founding brafs rattled the dreadful din of war; follows loud acclaim, and Heaven echoes back the found. Then perceives. The word fignifies to infpire in fmelling, breathe in, or inuff; but here it means to perceive either by the fmelling, hearing, or feeing. The voice of captains, and the noise of foldiers. The word fignifies the command, advice, or exhortation, of officers or commanders to their foldier, before they begin battle, or in the beginning of it, either encouraging them to fight, or how to fight; according to Virgil, Æu. ix. .27, Ultro animos tollit dictis; He brifkly raises their fpirits with his words. Nunc prece, nunc dictis, virtutem accendit amaris ; Now with entreaty, now with bitter expoftulation, he kindles their valour. Æn. x 368; and fee lib. ix. 781, 788-9; Talibus accenfi firmantur, & agmine denfo Confiftunt. Fired by these words, they are fortified with courage, and in a close body stand firm; and the other word denotes the fhout or loud noise of an army beginning to fight. According to Virgil's account; En. ix. 54-5, and 566-7; Clamore excipiunt focii, fremituque fequanHorrifono; [tur With fhouts his friends fecond the motion, and follow with dreadful blustering din. -Undique clamor Tollitur. The fhout from ever quarter rifes. See alfo En. xii. 266. Mr URBAN, IN 7. 08. N answer to your correspondent's enquiries, p 803, as to the appointment, of Mr. Bruce as hiftoriographer to the Eaft India Company, I can only affure you, that Mr. Orme has not vacated the office by death; that gentleman is now living, in a very infirm fate of health, at a pleasant village weft ward of London. H's demand, refpecting the etymology of shrub, p. 843, is not eafily anfwered. There certainly is nothing vegitable in the compofition of that delicious poifon, unless the orange-juice be fo called. Query, whether the word frop, which is the appellation always ufed for the liquor in France, may not help us to the derivation? Or, if we chule to trace it to a greater diftance, may we not, very unexpectedly, find it among the Morifcoes? Dr. Shaw mentions a very beautiful rill in Barbary, which is received. into a large bafon, called SHRUB we krub-" DRINK and away;" there being great danger of meeting there with rogues and affalfins. "He Дeeps like a TOP." Thus, we fay in familiar language of a perfon completely under the influence of Morpheus; and we imagine the fimile taken from the momentary paufe of a peg-top, or humming-top, when its rotatory motion is at the height. No fuch thing, Mr. Urban. The word top is Italian. Topo, in that language, fignifies a mouse; difcriminately to the common mouse, it is the generic name, and applied infield moufe, and dormouse; from which the Italian proverb, Ei dorme come un TOPO, is derived-Anglicè, He fleeps like a top. The following character of Arnaud, drawn by Voltaire, may perhaps ferve as a commentary on the text, that there is nothing new under the fun. "Arnaud, a controverfial writer, ambitious to be the head of a party, published no less than a hundred and four volumes, of which there is hardly one that can be ranked amongit c'affical books. All his works were in ..gh vogue in his own time from the eputation of the author, and that eagernefs for difputes then fo prevalent. People, however, grew more cool by degrees; and thefe books are now entirely forgotten. Of all his writings one is now regarded but thofe upon reafoning; fuch as his Treatife upon Geometry, his Rational Grammar, and his Logic; all which fubjects he very much ftudied. No man had ever perhaps a greater turn for philofophical enquiries; but his philofophy was vitiated by that party-fpirit which hurried him away, and which for fixty years involved a genius, formed to enlighten mankind, in fcholaftic difputes, and all thofe evils fo ftrongly connected with obftinacy of opinion." Yours, &c. E. E. A. ся. 8. HOUGH the following traits were applied in 1744, it is prefumed they are fo far really national, as to be by no means inapplicable to the prefent times, They first appeared in a pamphlet, pub. lifhed on the continent, intituled, "The remarkable Life, Death, and Character, of French Reputation;" and were thus introduced: " Caufæ non caufæ;" that is, the falfe pretences of France formerly made ufe of against Germany, as well as of the prefent unjust war carried on against the allies, reprefented in feveral devices, with their counterparts; Mr. URBAN, THO the the mottos principally borrowed from the verfes of Virgil. I. Religionis amor-magis at regionis amore. II. Imperii leges-legionibus imperitare. III. Publica libertas-peregrini hoc nomine nobis Servitium imponunt. IV. Patriæ tutela falufque-hic labor externæ gentis. V. Miferis fuccurrere-reddantur miseri. VI. Cunétorum jura tueri--ut cumetos perdant. VII. Afflictis rebus addeffe-ut nova regna. parent. VIII. Adfumus auxilio-non defenforibus iftis, Tempus eget. IX. Sufpecta potentia gentis Auftriacæ-sed veftra magis.. X. Sic vifum fatis-contraria fata repono. XI. Non hæc fine numine divum-te faciunt, Fortuna, deam! XII. Sub clypeo-in noftros fabricata eft, machina muros. W. H. R. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, oa. 8. YOUR correfpondent, J. H. p. 800, will find his quotation almost verbatim in Goldfmith's play of "The Good-natured Man." It is fpoken by Croaker in the firft fcene between him and Honeywood. The words are these: "Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls afleep, and then all the care is over." The thought and expreffion are fo nufually fimilar, that I cannot but attribute them to the fame perfon, and agree with you in thinking Dr. Gold. fmith the author of the hiftory. In Sir William Temple's "Heads defigned for an Effay upon the different Conditions of Life and Fortune," is the following fentence, which is probably the true parent of both the other paffages: "After all, life is but a trifle, that should be played with till we lofe it, and then it is not worth regretting." On this fuppofition, Sir Wm. Temple must be the "noble anceftor" with whom Dr. Goldfmith claims relationship in his fictitious character of a nobleman. Of Temple's defcendants I know no more than that he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Peter Ofborne, Governor of Jer, fey for King Charles the Firft, by whom he had a numerous iffue, and yet but one daughter who furvived him. Yours, &c. GLEVENSIS. W H. H. Sept. 13. ITH equal deference to the members of the Humane Society, I would prefume to add to the hint of ther, as to the eligibility of a more geyour correfpondent Q (p. 709) ano neral diftribution of their rules for preducing refufcitation. Not long fince, being in a large company upon a public occafion, in a remote part of the North of England, a perfon coming into the room faid a child had been drowned that day under the fpout of a pump; and, upon enquiry, I found the immerfion had been for only a very few minutes; but too much time had then elapfed, after the body had been taken from the water, to give the leaft profpect of fuccefs to the efforts I fhould otherwife certainly have made towards a recovery of life, from fuch recollection as I had of the me thods prefcribed in thofe cafes; and I found that no idea of the fort had been entertained by any perfon in the village a confiderable one), and that, of the where the accident happened (which is chiefly of refpectable farmers and yeocompany 1 was in (which confifted manry), very few had ever heard of the Humane Society, or of its very excellent directions which I allude to. I am therefore difpofed to think, that it would not be unworthy the attention of this ROYAL SOCIETY, if they were to fupply the minister of each parish and chapelry (at leaft in the more remote parts of the kingdom) with one or more copies of thofe directions, requesting bim, in the first place, to publish thei in his church, and afterwards to place then fo as to lie eafy of access in cafe of their being wanted. W. W. Two MONTHS TOUR IN SCOTLAND. (Continued from p. 810.) T HE afpiring fummit of Benevish began now to attract our eyes, perpetually crowned with fnow, and generally veiled in clouds. To-day, how ever, 1793-1 Continuation of Two Months Tour in Scotland. ever, it was entirely clear; and, though fill at the distance of feveral miles, feemed, from its vaft height (rifing nearly fifteen hundred yards in perpendicular elevation above the level of the fea) to be already near at hand. In advancing towards it we paffed through a fort of village confifting of a few miferable hovels, before which a pretty large groupe of children were basking in the funshine on the ground, incrufted almoft with difeafe and dirt, and nearly in a state of nature; whilft their parents, who came out to gaze, were scarcely cleaner or more decently apparelled yet the poor fouls ftill retained a fenfe of pleafure; and their eyes glistened with it as their offspring fcrambled for the few pieces which Whether were thrown amongst them. the penury and wretchednefs, which, as it were perfonified, fat brooding here, ought to be attributed to the barrenness of the foil, the rigour of the climate, the aufterity of the land-owners, the indolence of the inhabitants, or to all thefe caufes in conjunction, I cannot undertake to decide; but no where, furely, were they ever more ob:rufively or affectingly apparent. At the foot of Benevifh we at length perceived Fort William, the laft of the fortreffes in thefe regions, and built, in a Triangular form, upon an inlet of the Western ocean as Fort George is upon an inlet of the Eastern. The officers on this ftation, who were walking, or otherwife amuling themselves, on the road towards the fide whence we came, perceiving that travellers were approaching, advanced in a body to receive us; and, with a eivility too neceffary to us, as well as too agreeable to be withstood, infifted upon entertaining us in the fort. The men were ordered out, and the band played for our amufement; and, whilft fupper was preparing, we were conducted to the garden belonging to the fort, which afforded the best proof pollible of what industry may effect even against circumstances the moft difcouraging. That we had fared both coarfely and fcantily for the laft two days might give, perhaps, an additional relish to our entertainment here; but there was no need of contraft to heighten the fatisfaction which my two companions felt in meeting, each of them, with an eld fchoolfellow in a fituation fo unlikely and remote, Should this recital have the fortune to meet the eye, or re 895 vive the recollection, of any gentleman of that polite and hofpitable corps, it is hoped he will be perfectly affured, that our afternoon and evening at Fort William were amongst the pleasantest we have ever paffed on either fide the Tweed. The fort is fomewhat more refpe&table than Fort Auguftus, but much less fo than Fort George; it feems, however, to be adequate to all the purpofes for which it is kept up, having been of fufficient ftrength to withstand the attacks made upon it both in the years fifteen and forty fix. The vale, extending hence to Invernefs, though fixty miles in length, is perfectly straight, whilft three-fourths of it, at leaft, are occupied by lochs, or rivers; it would therefore be a matter neither of MASON. expence unfumm'd, Nor fcience doating, fhould it be thought useful to the country, to open an intercourfe through this channel betwixt the Eaftern and Weftern feas, fo great a portion of the work having already been performed by Na ture. In coming hither from Loch-lochy, on whose beautiful border we had made a fort of dinner on a small bowl of goat's milk and three eggs, divided amongst ourfelves and fervants, we paffed firft over a mean bridge, and next a bold one of three arches, thrown across the Spean by General Wade, under whole eye and direction the admirable roads in these parts were formed. After a while, the way runs along the bank of the river Lochy, the outlet of the loch abovementioned, by which it empties itfelf into that arm of the Weftern Ocean on which Fort William is erected; on whofe hither fhore ftands Inver lochy cafile, a ruin of confiderable extent, confifting of four towers, but of an appearance much lefs grand than gloomy. A fmall circular loch in this neighbourhood, encompafling a low and level ifland, confers the name of Lochaber upon all this district, which, in theeleventh century, was the domain of Banquo; of whole pofterity it had been foretold that they should reign in Scotland. Macbeth, at the expence of every virtue, having obtained the regal power, fought to fruftrate this prediction by cutting off both Banquo and his only fon. Against the father he fuc ceeded, ceeded, in the manner nearly that our immortal Poet reprefents; but Fleance, having efcaped the fnare, and flying into North Wales, found there an afylum in the family of Griffith ap Llewellin; and, marrying with the daughter of that prince, his fon Walter went afterwards to Scotland, where, gaining an establishment, chiefly by his integrity of conduct, he became the founder of the family of Stuart, in which the antient prophecy was finally fulfilled, and out of which arofe that lucklefs line of princes, who feem to have inherited the evil deftiny of their forefather Banquo without the better fortunes of his fon. The feenery and circumstances of that chef-d'oeuvre of dramatic genius, the tragedy of Macbeth, having occafionally been referred to, it was prefumed that this epitome of the future fates of Banquo's progeny might be gratifying to fome readers, and, for the fake of at leaft its elegant and claffical original, be acquitted of impertinence by all. (To be continued.) CURI Mr. URBAN, Sept. 17. URIOSITY led me a few days fince to the cloifters of Westminster abbey, with a view of examining the little memorial placed there to that admirable artift Mr. Woollett. It is near the door which leads from the nave of the church into the cloifters. A good buft, as large as the life, and like all the pictures I have seen of him, forms the top of the monument. There are two infcriptions; the one, "The Genius of Engraving whilft Fame is diftributing them The above is defcriptive of a bas-relief where Woollert is feated at work, furrounded by Parning Sculpture, &c. It must gratify the locus of fine engraving that this attention has been paid to the memory of fan who has afforded them fo much del, ht, In walking round the cloifters, the following lingular epi api att acted my * See Buchanan's Bul. scot, lib. VII, attention. I never met with it in print, though, perhaps it may have been publithed: "With diligence and trust most exemplary Did WILLIAM LAVRENCE ferve a preben. dary, And for his paines now past, before not loft, And hafty death fhort-hand of him bath made. Your correfpondent P. P. p. 817, fays, the bas-relief at Stepney "is more like the Salutation than any thing else." This is pretty pofitive, Mr. Urban; yet I cannot but think your Editor is nearer right in his conjecture, leaving my furmifes out of the question. I would ask P. P. where the angelic attributes are to be found? where the wings, the light drapery, &c. &c.? Befides, if this fi gure of the Virgin had, as I fuppofe probable, an infant on the knee, the Salutation would be rather ill-timed. Would it not have been for the credit of P. P's future observations if he had not faid, "I never heard that St. John (the Baptift must be meant here) was reprefented naked, though often in a garment of hair." Now, Mr. Urban, that this gentleman's affertion may not remain in full force against me, permit me to cite one teftimony in fupport of St. John (the Baptift I mean) fometimes being reprefented naked. Guercino, whole authority is at least refpectable, has painted him feated on a bank in a contemplative, pofture, with the little crofs in his left hand, the label held loofely across his knees. He is totally naked; a mantle fpread under him is all the drapery introduced. This inftance is fufficient to convince your readers, I did not advance what I could not fupport. P. P's "garment of hair" muft not be miftaken for the hair fhirt worn by fome pious Chriftians to mortify the fleth. Poor innocent St. John's was fimply the skin of a camel, the foft hair next the body. Titian has reprefented him thus. Indulge me a little longer, Mr. Urban, just to defcribe two Salutations, or |