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periods ; moral philosophy , whose sublime and awful p ; ecepts they incessantly inculcated on their dhcip les ; music , whose solciun melody , breathed froininnu'nerable harps during the public worship , roused to transports of enthusiasm the votaries of that animated superstition j mechanics , which enabled them to elevate to such surprising heights the immense masses of stone discaur-ed of above , ( Slone-henge , & c . ) and botany , to which a race , constantly residing in woods , and accustomed to use plants and herbs of a supposed
mysterious efficacy in the rites of divination , could be no strangers . What ; sciences , I say , besides these they might have cultivated , the impenetrable darkness 'n which they delighted to bury themselves , and their pursuits , must ever prevent our knowing . An acquaintance wnh geography is indeed allowed them by Cjesar , but to a race so entirely secluded from the rest of the . habitable globe , little more of that science could be known , than what they might le ^ rn from the Phoenician anil Grecian navigators , who successively visited the coast of Britain . Ignorant of its external surface , however , the deep and productive mines with which the island abounded , afforded that inquisitive race a noble opportunity of coutemplatin ? its internal wonders ; and
advancing far in the knowledge of minerals , metals , gems , and other productions of the subterraneous world . Of geometrical knowledge , also , no inconsiderable portion may fairl y be assigned them , as being so intimately connected with astronomy and the mechanical arts , in which they had evidently made so great a proficiency . Dr . Borlase , indeed , from his own-personal investigation , greatly confirms this latter position ; for on one of the rocks on the famous Kambre-Hitt in Cornwall he discovered a very regular elliptical
bason , ten inches by fourteen , which , he observes , could hardly be so exactly delineated . without stationing the tvao focusses of the ellipsis mathematically ; a strong evidence , that not onl y the said bason was made by the Druids , but that they understood the principles of geometry . ' In the second dissertation , many curious and entertaining enquiries arc persued . The commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and Greeks , with the British Islands for tin , is amply and minuteldescribed .
y In the account of the ancient navigation we are told , that the Greeks used to fortify the outside of their vessels with pitch , mixed with rosin , which gave them a dark appearance , and hence , in Homer , they are uniformly denominated black . The Romans in succeeding periods improved on this practice ^ and set the first example to posterity of sbeatbine vessels vaith metal .
c Trajan ' s ship having been weighed out of the lake of Riccio , where it had Iain sunk above thirteen hundred years , it was observed that the pine ami cypress of it had lasted most remarkably . On the outside it was built with double planks , daubed over with Greek pitch , caulked with linen rags , and over all a sheet of lead , fastened on with little copper nails . This ship was weighed up by the order of Cardinal Prospero Colonna . Thus it appears , that caulking and sheathing were in use sixteen hundred years ago . '
We are extremely sorry to End from Mr . Maurice ' s complaints , that his learned labours have not received that encouragement to which they are most undoubtedly entitled . This is , indeed , a national reiiection , which v > e sincerely hope will be soon done away . An Attempt to account for the Infidelity of Edward Gibbon , Esq . founded on his own Memoirs , published by John Lord Shield . BJohn EvansA . hi . % va .
y , is . 6 d . Longman . THERE can be no doubt but that the credit of Mr . Gibbon as an historian hath been injurious to the interests of reli gion . And certainly his character is considerably sunk as a writer of integrity in this view of his prejudices . An addition to the evil of his example has been made by Lord Sheffield , in the publication of his friend ' s memoirs and posthumous pieces .
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Review Of New Publications.
periods ; moral philosophy , whose sublime and awful p ; ecepts they incessantly inculcated on their dhcip les ; music , whose solciun melody , breathed froininnu'nerable harps during the public worship , roused to transports of enthusiasm the votaries of that animated superstition j mechanics , which enabled them to elevate to such surprising heights the immense masses of stone discaur-ed of above , ( Slone-henge , & c . ) and botany , to which a race , constantly residing in woods , and accustomed to use plants and herbs of a supposed
mysterious efficacy in the rites of divination , could be no strangers . What ; sciences , I say , besides these they might have cultivated , the impenetrable darkness 'n which they delighted to bury themselves , and their pursuits , must ever prevent our knowing . An acquaintance wnh geography is indeed allowed them by Cjesar , but to a race so entirely secluded from the rest of the . habitable globe , little more of that science could be known , than what they might le ^ rn from the Phoenician anil Grecian navigators , who successively visited the coast of Britain . Ignorant of its external surface , however , the deep and productive mines with which the island abounded , afforded that inquisitive race a noble opportunity of coutemplatin ? its internal wonders ; and
advancing far in the knowledge of minerals , metals , gems , and other productions of the subterraneous world . Of geometrical knowledge , also , no inconsiderable portion may fairl y be assigned them , as being so intimately connected with astronomy and the mechanical arts , in which they had evidently made so great a proficiency . Dr . Borlase , indeed , from his own-personal investigation , greatly confirms this latter position ; for on one of the rocks on the famous Kambre-Hitt in Cornwall he discovered a very regular elliptical
bason , ten inches by fourteen , which , he observes , could hardly be so exactly delineated . without stationing the tvao focusses of the ellipsis mathematically ; a strong evidence , that not onl y the said bason was made by the Druids , but that they understood the principles of geometry . ' In the second dissertation , many curious and entertaining enquiries arc persued . The commerce of the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , and Greeks , with the British Islands for tin , is amply and minuteldescribed .
y In the account of the ancient navigation we are told , that the Greeks used to fortify the outside of their vessels with pitch , mixed with rosin , which gave them a dark appearance , and hence , in Homer , they are uniformly denominated black . The Romans in succeeding periods improved on this practice ^ and set the first example to posterity of sbeatbine vessels vaith metal .
c Trajan ' s ship having been weighed out of the lake of Riccio , where it had Iain sunk above thirteen hundred years , it was observed that the pine ami cypress of it had lasted most remarkably . On the outside it was built with double planks , daubed over with Greek pitch , caulked with linen rags , and over all a sheet of lead , fastened on with little copper nails . This ship was weighed up by the order of Cardinal Prospero Colonna . Thus it appears , that caulking and sheathing were in use sixteen hundred years ago . '
We are extremely sorry to End from Mr . Maurice ' s complaints , that his learned labours have not received that encouragement to which they are most undoubtedly entitled . This is , indeed , a national reiiection , which v > e sincerely hope will be soon done away . An Attempt to account for the Infidelity of Edward Gibbon , Esq . founded on his own Memoirs , published by John Lord Shield . BJohn EvansA . hi . % va .
y , is . 6 d . Longman . THERE can be no doubt but that the credit of Mr . Gibbon as an historian hath been injurious to the interests of reli gion . And certainly his character is considerably sunk as a writer of integrity in this view of his prejudices . An addition to the evil of his example has been made by Lord Sheffield , in the publication of his friend ' s memoirs and posthumous pieces .