tive alfo against the mortal effect of colds and rheumatifm.

This is ftrikingly evinced in Cap tain Bligh's most pathetick narrative (publifhed in 1792, 4to.), which he thus concludes:

"With refpect to the prefervation of our health, during a courfe of fixteen days of heavy and almoft continu 4 rain, I would recommend to every one, in a fimilar fituation, the method we practifed; which is, to dip their clothes in the faltwater, and wring them out, as often as they become filled with rain. It was the only refource we had, and I believe was of the greatest service to us, for it felt more like a change of dry clothes than could well he imagined. We had occafion to do this fo often that at length all our clothes were wrung to pieces; for, excepting the few days we paffed on the coaft of Holland, we were continually wet, either with rain or fea."

In a pofthumous treatife, printed about the year 1764, "Upon the dif ti ling of fea-water, and the ufe of Ventilators," fpeaking of diftilled fpirituous liquors, Dr. Hales obferves:

"How much, therefore, does it behove all, who have any concern for the honour and dignity of their own kindred fpecies, any indignation at its being thus debafed and degraded, any bowels of pity for the vaft multitudes,-not lefs perhaps than a Million! that are yearly destroyed all over the world, by the moral, as well as natural, and therefore the worst of all evils that ever befel unhappy man;-to ufe their utmoft endeavours to deliver mankind from the Peft! But, notwithstanding this altonishing ravage and deftruction of the human fpecies, yet the unrelenting nations of the world feem as unconcerned about it, as if only fo many thoufands or millions of caterpillars or locuits were destroyed thereby! Was there ever a more important occafion to roufe the indignation of mankind? Can we be calm and undifturbed, when this Mighty Destroyer rers up its envenomed head ?" "The moft zealous advocates for dramas,"-concludes this true philanthropist, "even the unhappy befotted dramifts themselves, the prolonging of whofe lives, and whofe real, welfare, both here and hereafter, is hereby fincerely intended,-cannot find fault with this well-meant remonttrance, in defence of them, and of all mankind, against this univerfal deftroyer,-from one, who has long been labouring, and that not without fuccess, in finding means to preferve multitudes of lives, by various methods."

In a word, Dr. Hales deferved, as

much as any man ever did, the title of a Chriftian Philofopher. In all his projects, and in all his ftudies and refearches into nature, he delayed a truly beneficent fpiri. They all tended to one important point: Con fervare quamplurimos was the indelible motto of his heart; and with a vigour and alacrity which toil could not damp. noriage diminish, he delighted to promote the honour of his God, by advancing the best welfare of mankind. In this employment, blefied with ferenity of temper, and with an excellent conflitution, he cainly met death, as an acquaintance long fami liarifed to his mind, after a very flight ilinefs! and feemed only, by an ealy tranfition, to exchange his feries of peace on earth for endiefs tranquillity' in Heaven!

Immediately after his death this

good Divine tu characterized.

"If no man might ever be faid to have decored his lifeto e public good of mankind, it was Dr. H. He poffeffed alive nocence and fimplicity of manners, which the characters of other men, and the customs of the world, could never alter; and though he often met with many unworthy objects of his kind and charitable offices, yet they never once leffened his natural and unwearied difpofi tion of doing good and relieving diftrefs. His temper, as well as the powers of his understanding, were happily fitted for the improvement of Natural Philofophy, poffething, as he did, in an uncommon degree, that industry and patient thinking, which Sir Ifaac Newton ufed mod, ftly to declare was his own only fecret by which he was enabled fo fortunately to trace the wonderful analysis of Nature. Dr. Hales began his enquiries into Natural knowledge very early in life, and he continued it uniformly as his darling amusement, being engaged in experiments till within a few weeks of his death. His industry had likewife this farther excellence, that it was always pointed at the general good of his fellow creatures, agreeable to the unlimited benevolence of his heart; and be

ing animated with the fuccefs of fome of his more useful difcoveries, his knowledge appeared to every body near him to feed his mind with a nourishment which gave him, in decline of life, and even in its laft ttages, that vigour and ferenity of underftanding, and clearness of ideas, which fo few poffefs, even in the flower of manhood; and which he ufed often to fay, he valued as the most perfect of all human pleasures.

"There

rily employed in getting the chalk out of the bed to be burnt into lime. The chalk is dug down, or beat down, from the perpendicular fides of the pit in large masses, and these are broken into lumps the fize of a turkey's egg, fo that nothing of any fize can be expected to elcape whole. The ingularity of this fulfil is the longitudi mal groove, regularly crofs grooved, as if it had adhered to or inciofed a necklace of small beads, or back-bone of a fprat; but nothing remains to justify the fufpicion that it took its hape from this caufe, or that there was a fimilar procefs on the other fide to inclofe any thing of this kind, as marrow or path in bones, or the alve gli in belemnites.

As thefe specimens feem to afford fome little addition to our fma'l knowledge of the Encrinites, Sea-palms, &c. of which there is fo fine an engraving in Rez's Journal, Feb. 1785, p. 113, from a ste found at Dudicy, in Warwickshire (noted for a foff bearing its name), and from Mr. Ellis's perfect engraving of a recent one in the Philofophical Tranfactions, it is boped that this reprefentation and defception might prove agreeable. The fpecimen in Rozier feems formed throughout of round beads, but too big to form the grooves in ours; and Mr. Ellis's representation of the recent fish is not within my reach; fo cannot fay what refemblance they may bear.

If the fingularity of this foffil fhould engage the curious to communicate their thoughts on the fubject, it might difpofe me to fubmit a few more fuch, in my possession, to them,

Mr. URBAN,

G. A.

Jan. 5.

YOUR claffical friended by your

doubtless, much gratified prefeating to them the following very elegant infcriptions from the church of Eastham, in Suffex,

1. On a monument bearing the arms of Hayley and Yates :

Juxta hoc marmor requiefcit cum filio

infante

THOMAS HAYLEY, armiger, vir liberalis admodum et benevolus his, quos in vitâ fidiffimè colebat. In fepulchro iterum adjunéta eft MARFA HAYLEY,

wxor inculpabilis, parens amantiffima. Hoc qualicunque monumentum pauri, quem, parvulys amifit,

et matri, quæ vidua

infantibus foliciti femper invigilans, utriufque parentis officio fungebatur, filius confecravit,

filius, quem folum illa fuperftitem vifceribus totis animoque amplexa fovebat, 1775."

2. On a grave-ftone in the churchyard:

"TO WILLIAM BRYANT, clerk of this parish, aged 91, and ANNE, his wife, aged 92, this ftone was raised by the contribution of their children and grand children, 1779.

By fportive youth and busy manhood bleft, Here thou, meek father of our village, rest. If length of days in toilfome duties spent, With chearful honefty and mild content; If age endur'd with firm and patient mind; If life with willing piety refign'd; If thefe are certain proofs of human worth, Which, dear to Heaven, demands the praife of earth;

Ev'n pride thall venerate this humble fod, That holds a Chriftian worthy of his God.” 3. On a grave-ftone.

"In memory of MARY, late wife of John Bayley, who died July 24, 1772, aged 39 years.

flow.

A pale confumption gave the fatal blow; The stroke was certain, but th' effect was [opprefs'd, With wafting pain Death found me long Pity'd my fighs, and kindly brought me reft." 4. On grave ftone:

"FRANCES KENT, died October 23, 1777, aged 19.

Here youthful innocence, of humble birth, Is funk untimely into filenc earth. This quiet hamlet knew no gentler mind; Thou peaceful villager, whoe'er thou art, In fick.efs patient, and in death refign'd. Now bending o'er her grave with feeling heart, [the date, Learn from her blameless life, tho' fhort

Each modeft virtue that becomes thy ftate.""

The church confifts of a Imall nave and North ailes, uncieled, and a chancel very neatly fitted up, and cieled by Mr. Hayley, whose gardens join the church-yaid. The entrance is by a Saxon arch, fupported on each fide by a pillar of antient mafonry. In a small wooden turret are three bells.

Yours, &c. M. GREEN.

meate little citty. The cheife reuenue of the rearstory is your Lucca olliues, fmall, and in branches. The citty is very an ́cient, C. Sempronius retiring hither when

Hannibal had rowted him at Trebbia and

Piacenza; this being not onely a colony, but a municipal citty of the Romans, Jnlius Cæfar wintring here, together with whome Pompey and Craffus made the first triumvirat in this citty. The Volto Santo,, that is, Our Saviour's face on a linnen cloath, Randeth with magnificence in the cathedral!. In the church St Fridianis is the tomb of one of our English kings, being one of the Richards, as the epitaph Fadely fpeaketh thus:

Hic ex Richardus requiefcit fceptifer alRex fuit Anglorum,' &c. [mus, When I went one time to Lucca this epitaph was fo couered with the ornaments of the alter that I cold not finde it, neither cold they tell vs of any fuch king buried there whice thewed vs the church; but I, being confident it thold be theare, caufed fome of the obitacles to be remoued, and fo found out the epitaph which I had formeily reade; and I defired them to take care that that king's memory might not be forgotten amongst them. Dr. John Bargraue, canon of X ch. Canterb.

"J. TODD."

Luffels, in 1670, fays, "in the church of St. Frediano, belonging to the canons regulars, in a chappel on the left hand, is the tombe of St. Richard, king of England, who dyed here in his pilgrimage to Rome." Travels, Part I. p. 227.

Mon, who was in Italy about 1668, defcribes, in the middle of the church of St. Fredian, a fit tomb, in forbed, Hic iacet corpus San&i Ricardi regis Arghe; whom he cannot make out; Richard I. being, as he oblerves, buried at Font Evraud, Richard II. at Weftaunter, and Richard III. at Leitefter; and there was no king of that name under the Heptarchy. (Nouv. Voy. d'Ilie, II. 312, 323, ed. a la Haye, 1702, 12mo). He has engraved the Vulio Sanio.

Mr. Wright, who faw this tomb about 1719-20, fays, p. 389, that this Richd, a king of England unknown to our Chronicles, was father to St. Valburga, to St. Villebald, and St. Vinebald, as fome monkih veries there fet forth, which he forbears troubling the reader with,"

M. Bieval fays, I. 140, "The fuppofed English king, who lies buried in one of thefe cl.urches, and has puzzled most of our travellers, is no cther than the fon of a Knuth Saxon

monarch, whom the calamities of his houfe forced into a monaffic ftate, the dernier vejart, in that fuperftitious age, of unfortunate princes. The igno. rance of the Lucquefe themselves in

this point has kept travellers in the dark with regard to this pretended king of England, who was no other than the fon of Lothaire, king of Kent, joined in the government of that branch of the Heptarchy with his father. Both of them being difpoffeffed by their coufin Edric, Richard fled over feas to Mentz, where there was an English bishop, by whofe interest he is faid to have obtained the crown of Suabia. He retired from the world at laft, and came and ended his days at Lucca, where they fhew his stone Coffin under the great altar at the Canonici regolari. This happened in the 8th century."

This monument feems to have attracted the attention of our country. men only; for, I have not found it in defcriptions of Italy by foreigners.

Lothaire ufurped the crown of Kent from his nephew Edric, 673. and affociated with him this his fon Richard; but, after holding it 12 years, being defeated by his nephew allifted by Adelwalch, king of Suflex, he died of his wounds 685, and his fon fled into Germany, where he married a daughter of Boniface, archbishop of Mentz, became king of Suabia, and died, and was buried at Lucca. His mother was daughter of Siger, king of Effex, and fifter to Offa. Hatted, I. xxxiv. vg. R. G. et autores ibi citati.

Mr. URBAN,

Jan. 4.

As yours with lofa account of S you have lately favoured your places and families in Berkshire, viz. Ockwells farm, and the families of Day and Powney; and, in fome for. mer Magazines, the late Rev. Dr. Berkeley, his fon; and widow, and, I think, the Cherrys and Vanfiitart family form a part of your entertaining Mifcellany; if fome account could be given of a neighbouring parish, fuch as Cookham or Bray, in that county, of which Dr. Berkeley was vicar, at different periods, and fo on, from time to time, an account of other parishes in the fame county, with fome paruculars of the relpective churches and families, or houles, and monumental inferiptions, it would be an additional entertainment, tend to revive in many

of