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 K4 made 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. A filent language roving far and near, 4.speech A speech heard by the deaf, Spoke by the dumb, 4. The wise Egyptians by the learn'd are thoughts, Q. Apollo, Are not your questions from fools, 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, To me she's not unkind. Her mirth is to excefs, I cover thoughtfulness. Our temper's to unite ; Before the troth I plight ?: You're for each other made, KS ту For an excess may well excusc, Excess of different kind, An equal temper find, Or phlegm with phlegm succeed, Whilft mixt, they'll mend the breedo fly. , vicissitude they charm the heart. A. Waller, with all the sweetness of a muse, With Virgil's beauty, and with Homer's fire. så Sprung a Sprung from the God, divine are all his lays, e. Sweet British Apollo, This question now follow which if you'll do right, I'll praise your foresight, Whence the sympathy grows, 'Twixt corns on my toes, Wihen foul weather does come, In fair weather's room, ( The first of your articles) At the mouth taken in, The blood they begin Their acidity ftrait, At a violent rate, pores of your corn ; It makes it to shoot Moist vapours, likewilé. Condense in the skies, And thence to your nose, Themselves they expose, 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 ) , , KO |