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fon that the milk maids dance before their customers doors, with their pails dress'd up with plate.

A. It was a custom among the ancient Britains, before converted into Christianity, to erect these May. poles, adorn'd with flowers, in honour of the Goddess Flora; and the dancing of the milk-maids may be only a corruption of that custom, in compliance with the town.

Q. Knowing the distances of three places from each od ther, and knowing the angles which they make at the eye, viewing them from one station; I desire to know, whether their several difances from the eye may be known, and if they may be known, how to measure them?

A. Project the triangle made by the three places, describe upon any two sides of that triangle two segments of circles, capable of the respective angles, under which they are feen, which is perform' by the 33d proposition of the 3d book of Euclid, the inter section of those two circles will determine the position of the eye, and therefore the distances of the eye from each of these places may be measured with the same scale as constructed the triangle.

Q. Gentlemen, In reading over your British Apollo, numb. 1. of the supernumerary, I thought your answer to the subsequent question not altogether satisfactory to my mind.

Whether dogs had any feeling? And you answer, That they doubtless are not destitute of that fense, because they have nerves ? By which you seem to attribute feeling to matter.

Now i humbly defire you to solve these following difficulties :

Is it posible that matter, however configurated, Anou'd be thought, love, hatred, pain or pleasure, Sc.

If matter be uncapable of any of these, it follows, that the fouls of dogs are of an immaterial substance, ergo, immortal.

If their fouls be immortal, how does it agree with the infinite justice, and boundless mercy of God, that those cream tures, that have led an innocent life, fou'd not only be

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made subject to man, who is a great finner, but also be his food

And when beasts die, what becomes of their foul ?

A. Pain (and it is the same with our other senfations ) is incompatible with material substances, inasmuch as it is nothing else than a perception of something disagreeable, and perception is an incommunicable property of immateriality. You therefore miftook our meaning in our answer concerning the feeling of dogs. For since the nerves are the proper mediums to convey tangible objects to the soul, from the certainty of the former, we infer'd a consequence naturally inclusive of an immaterial foul. But fince God may annihilate the souls of dogs at their dissolution, this takes away, the foundation of your other questions.

Q. Pray, Gentlemen, tell me the reafon that one of our news papers is calld the GAZETTE?

A. It may properly be deriv'd from the Greek word Téld, Gaza, a treafure, because the paper so called is a treasure of acws.

Q. From whence rain firft came ?

À. The rain first proceeds from the vapours ata tracted from the earth and waters, which meeting to gether condense into clouds, and becoming at length too pondrous to be fufpended in the air, break, and shower down again upon the earth and waters.

On the art of Writing.
Q. Tell me what genius did the ar invent,
The Lively image of a voice to paint.
who first the secret home to colour found,
And to give shape ta reason wisely found.
With bodies how to cloath ideas taught,
And how draw the picture of a thought.
Who taught the hand to speak, the eye to beat,

A filent language roving far and near,
Whofe softest notes out.strip loud thunder's found,
And /pread their accents through the world's vaft round.
Yet with kind secrefy securely roll
Wbifpers of abfent friends from, pole to pole.

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A speech heard by the deaf, Spoke by the dumb,
Whose echo reaches long, long time to come,
Which dead men speak as well as those that live,
Tell me what genius did this art conirive ?

4. The wise Egyptians by the learn'd are thoughts,
To be the first who use of writing taught.
In hieroglyphicks they express'd their sense,
With niceft skill, and wond'rous eloquence.
Letters unknown, they did this art invent,
To make thought lafting, reason permanent..
Till ISIS of immortal fame arose,
And taught by letters, how they might compose-
A dress to Mew the image of the voice,
And make found lasting, tho' depriv'd of noise.
SHE made the dumb to speak, the deaf to understand,.
And taught the eye to hear the language of the handó.
But had th’Egyptian Queen, by art divine,
Taught how to write fuch beauteous lines as THINE,
Those heavenly honours offer'd to her name
Had fhone with greater lustre, brighter flame.

Q. Apollo, Are not your questions from fools,
More numerous far, than from men of the schools ?.

4. We cannot, Sir querift, aflure we have nonce Of-such, for your comfort, you are not alone..

Q. I love a maid with all beart,

Her body and her mind,
And beauty all men captivates;

To me she's not unkind.
Her humour's airy to extream,

Her mirth is to excefs,
To ferionsnefs my mind doth bend,

I cover thoughtfulness.
Say, wife Apollo, tell me how,

Our temper's to unite ;
Give me advice, and quickly 100,

Before the troth I plight ?:
A. Th' auspicious nuptials ne'er decline,"

You're for each other made,
She you, you her, may much refine,
Wbilæ neither can upbraid..

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For an excess may well excusc,

Excess of different kind,
Extreams, the Virtuofos say, .

An equal temper find,
Shou'd fire with fire chance to engage

Or phlegm with phlegm succeed,
They'd scorch, or. ftupifie the age,

Whilft mixt, they'll mend the breedo
Q. In the last age two mighty bards. did shine..
@f Britim extract both, and both divine, :
When Milton through the empyrean foars,
The reader's Spirit with the poet's towers ;.
As acted by one foul, we're rais'd on high,
His transports Share, and on his pinions

fly.
But Waller, when he tunes his heavenly lyre,
Makes love more pleasing, and improves desire ;;
Whilf every, image, and each tender thought,
80-loaths us, that we act the part he wrote..
Or change and give to each the other's part,
In (weet

, vicissitude they charm the heart.
Tell me, ambitious youths of growing. fame, u
Which of the two deserves the greater name:
It's hard to give the preference, tis confesi’do,
Yet sone, fo equal are, but one's the best.
Nor be inclin'd, in civil modeft lays,
To part the laurel, and divide the bays.
What we might justly fear, you need not floun, ..
Før Phoebus will confess his darling fon.
Then say, fince both ebe nableft pasbs have trod,
Which bears the sovereign stamp, which most refleets the God?:

A. Waller, with all the sweetness of a muse,
His mistress, and his rural shades pursues,
In melting notes, like Philomel, he mourns, ,
And for his dearest Sacharissa burns ;
A sprightly fancy, and bright-genius shine,,
In the smooth cadence of each Aowing line.'.
But Milton do's to nobler Asghts aspire,

With Virgil's beauty, and with Homer's fire.
': In every image, TRUE SUBLIME, appears.is
And every thought the stamp of Phæbus wcars.

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Sprung from the God, divine are all his lays,
And claim, by true defert, the never DYING BAYS.

e. Sweet British Apollo,

This question now follow
So far as to give me an answer,

which if you'll do right,

I'll praise your foresight,
And
your fame mall always advance Sir.

Whence the sympathy grows,

'Twixt corns on my toes,
And the hoars that so damnably fink, Sir;

Wihen foul weather does come,

In fair weather's room,
And then you'll deferve a good drink, Sir ?
A. Wbere nitrous particles,

( The first of your articles)
Are dissolved by moistness of air;

At the mouth taken in,

The blood they begin
T'inflame, and then run ev'ry where;

Their acidity ftrait,

At a violent rate,
Flies into the

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your corn ;
And affecting the root,

It makes it to shoot
With pains, which can hardly be borni.

Moist vapours, likewilé.

Condense in the skies,
And the rising of stenches prevent,

And thence to your nose,

Themselves they expose,
Which in rarify'd'air lose their scenta:

No fympathy here

In the least docs appear "Twixt your corns and the Thoars, as you

think ;

Except you can. Thew,.

( As likely they do )
That your feet too as damnably stink.

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