Page

-

The Soil round Lisbon,

32

The Aqueduct,

ib.

-3

Extracts from White's Egyptiaca;

or, Obfervations on certain An-

tiquities of Egypt,

-Police of Lisbon-Manners of

the Inhabitants,

33

4

-Hiftory of Pompey's Pillar, near

Alexandria, -

ib.

7

On the burning of the Alexan-

drian Library,

Celeftial Phenomena for August, 46

The Bandeau of Love, or the

Blindnefs of Dulilot; a Tale, 47

POETRY.

Cantata :-from Ossian,

7. N.'s Anfwer to Aliena,

The Cottage,

- ib.

ib.

On an unfortunate young Woman, 54

Love Elegy,

Lines written on the Night of the

22d of June, 1801,

ib.

20

55

The Adieu,

56

22

-Tumuli opened — burning the

dead-a Lunatic,

ib.

Proceedings of the Firft Seffion

of the Imperial Parliament,

Interefting Intelligence from the

London Gazettes,

61

65

72

74

ib

Edwards

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THE

HE Cathedral at Icolmkill has a very handfome choir, and a tower in the middle, with two fide aifles, the whole forming a crofs. The tower, which is three ftories high, is fupported by four arches, adorned with figures in basso relievo: thefe arches are fupported by pillars about ten feet high, and eight and a half in circumference. The capitals of thefe pillars are ornamented with feveral grotefque figures, among which is an angel with a pair of fcales weighing fouls, and the devil keeping down the fcale, in which the ftandard is, with his paw. The tower afcends by a narrow winding flair, is almost entire, and fome of the roof timbers ftill remaining. A few years ago, a part of the east end of the tranfverfe fell down.

The length of the cathedral from eaftto w eft, is 114 feet, the breadth 34, and the length of the tranfept about 72 feet. The large eaft window has been a beautiful fpecimen of the Gothic ftyle, but its light and elegant workmanship is much injured. One thing remarkable in this building is, that the windows are almoft all of different forms, and in different ftyles of architecture. In the upper part of the tower is a circular window of peculiar conftruction, and fo well contrived, as to admit plenty of light, yet exclude the wind and rain, fo that it probably ferved the purpose of a ventilator to the building, as well as a window.

On the north fide of the choir is

a tombstone of black marble quite entire, on which is a very fine recumbent figure of the Abbot Macfingone, as large as life, in his facred robes, with a crofier in one hand and the other lifted up to his chin; elbowing two lions at one end, and fpurning two at the other: this elegant tomb - ftone is fupported by four pedeftals about a foot high, and round the margin is this inscription:

:

HIC: JACET: JOHANNES MACFINGON ABBAS DE Ij: Qui Obiit. Altiflimis. Amen. Anno MD. Cujus Animo propicietur

Oppofite this tomb, on the other fide, is one of freeftone, executed in the fame manner: this is the tombstone of Abbot Kenneth, but is much defaced.

On the floor is the figure of an armed knight, rudely sculptured, with an animal fprawling at his feet.

On the right of the Cathedral, but contiguous to it, are the remains of the college; fome of the cloifters are ftill vifible, and the common hall is nearly entire, containing fome feats, in niches, for the difputants.

The ftyles of architecture in this cathedral are different; the arches of one part being circular fegments, which is the Saxon or Roman, and the others pointed, or Gothic.

A little to the north of the cathe dral are the remains of the Bishop's houfe, with his grounds and garden ftill inclofed.

THE

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History of Pompey's Pillar near Alexandria.

HAT magnificent pillar, which is the chief fubject of the following inquiry, may be ranked with the most illuftrious remains of ancient art. It has excited the attention of the traveller, employed the pen of the hiftorian, and exercised the skill of the antiquary; and all these have united in holding it forth to the notice and admiration of mankind. But while the object of curiofity is admitted to be interefting, the attempt to write after fo much has been written, may be deemed an idle prefump tion; and the fceptical inquirer, who has in vain fought for fatisfactory information from thofe witneffes who have vifited the fpot, will perhaps difdain that which is offered him from the receifes of án univerfity. To obviate fuch a prejudice (if any fuch fhould be entertained,) let me here explicitly inform the reader, that in the enfuing pages he will fee no paradox advanced to contradict and perplex the concurrent teftimony of ages; but he will find that the commonly received accounts have fome material defects to be supplied, and fome grofs errors to be corrected, and that fuch corrections have been made, it is hoped, upon the authority of unexceptionable evidence,

nitude, feem almoft to exceed the ability of human agents? And, lastly, where fhall we find a degeneracy like that of the prefent race of Egyptians; or where an ancient inheritance of greatnefs and glory, which has been fo totally wasted and loft?

But an attempt has been made of late to raise this country from its degraded and fallen condition, to reftore it to liberty and independence, and replace it in its ftation among the kingdoms of the earth. ther, let us fay, that, under the pretence of conferring these unsolicited benefits, a people, regardless of every principle of moral propriety, and every law of civilized nations, has carried thither, without provocation, all the miferies and horrors of war. It is not improbable, that their hopes of fuccefs in this atrocious and daring enterprise were encouraged. by the reports of certain travellers of their own nation. Thefe men had gone through the land with the fentiments of robbers and fpies. They faw in its wealth an object of plunder, and in its weakness and divifions the opportunities of eafy acquifition. To minds occupied with fuch profpects, the face of a country would appear little interesting; the most intelligent of them looked with disgust on the fairest features of Egypt. Volney afcended the river from Rofetto to Cairo, and thus he defcribes the Delta: "The scenery of the

It

country offers little variety. "has ftill a few palm-trees, which "stand thinner as you advance; villages built with mud walls, and of 66 a ruinous appearance; a boundless flat, which, according to the dif"ferent feafons, is a fresh-water sea,

pours,"