les Thébains avoient des richeffes immenfes, & ne pouvoient guerres être affamés tant qu'il y auroit des vivres chez leurs voifins. A l'exemple des Athéniens, & fur tout par le confeil d'Epaminondas, ils commençoient à Le fermer une marine, & par ce moyen il étoit prefque impoffible de les prendre par la famine. toit. L'étendue de genie, avec laquelle ils l'imaginerent, & la promptitude avec laquelle ils agirent firent voir que les fautes des grands hommes leur procurent fouvent autant de gloire que leur habileté.--Ils laiffent l'armée d'Agefilas marcher tranquillement à Thebes par le vallon, gagnent les hauteurs qui le dominent; en s'avançant en même tems que les Lacédémoniens, ila les accablent de fléches, & defcendent dans la plaine affez-tôt pour fe jetter contre Thébes & leur armée. Ce fut la que combattant pour leurs femmes & leurs enfans, pour leurs temples & leurs dieux, leur valeur acccutumée fe furpaffa encore. (To be continued.) Agefilas ne pouvant les vaincre par la force, eut recours à la rufe.Il feignit de vouloir aller à Thefpies, comme l'année d'auparavant, y fit conduire les provifions, & y marqua les rendez-vous général de l'armée. Les Thébains, fur ces apparances, coururent s'emparer des paffages qui conduifoient à cette ville, & fe compérent aux environs. Pendant qu'ils fe raffembloint encore, Agefilas fit en un jour, par une marche forcée, le chemin qui ne pouvoit vrai-femblablement fe faire qu'en deux, & s'avança avec une diligence extrême du côté de la ville même de Thébes. Pelopidas & Epaminondas s'apperçurent qu'ils avoient pris le change, & qu' Agefilas les avoit fait donner dans le piége Ils revinrent promptement fur leur pas, & fi-tôt qu'ils décovrement l'armée ennemie, ils fe préparerent au combat. Dans ce deffein, ils choifirent un lieu étroit où ils ne puffent pas-être envel- my face, which has continued ever loppées ou accablés par le nombre.-lince, at fome times being red, painful, For the LADY'S MAGAZINE. Another Card to Dr. RICHLEY. A conftant reader of the Lady's Magazine prefents her refpectful compliments to Dr. Richley, and will efteem his advice, in the following cafe, a very great favour. BOUT three years ago an e Aruption appeared gradually in and inflamed; and at others, hardly vifible.--In general, I think it worse in warm weather than cold.-I have always been accustomed to live low; and cannot perceive the leaft alteration in my health fince its appearance: but I was always troubled with indigeftion. - I had intended to have tried the receipt in the Magazine for January 1778, but was apprehenfive there was mistake; because the quantity of farfaparilla root there mentioned, was more than a quart of water can poffibly Ils fe firent dans leurs derniéres un re- cover. Dr. Richley's opinion on this fubject will confer a very great obligatition on L. L. We apprehend the lady is under a miltake, and defire her to make the experiment. A RU Rural Excurfion in September. 9 A RURAL EXCURSION not by art, neither do they enquire or in the MONTH of SEPTEMBER. (Continued from Page 696. Vol. IX.) L deliberate about what they do ;" and yet they perform all their undertakings with unerring judgment and inimitable skill. But to refume-See here is fomeAST night, I remember I heard the confufed din of the buzzing thing new. Efculent roots, fpreading infects; but at this prime of day, they their green foliage over the ground.— are fporting and baking in the fun's Thefe will prove a moft commodious gilded ray-I would gladly enter the provifion for the barrennefs of winter, hady wood where chalte Diana dwel-will fupply with fodder the bleating leth, and Faunus and Sylvanus take up animals, when all the herbage of the their abode; but the nocturnal moif-meads and fields are deflroyed by froft, ture is not yet abforbed.-Yonder are fome bounds that lead into an inclofure, where the fun, I perceive, has exhaled the copious dew: thither let me direct my walk. or buried in fnow. Let us fee!-Is it poffible for me to brush through this extenfive verdure, without dafhing off the morning humidity that twinkles upon every leaf? Yes: I obferve a blind path winda through the midft, and leads to yonder painted gate; I believe I can rush along without wetting my feet. I am now come to the thick furze hedge, that directs its courfe through the middle of this manured incloture.. Ah! there in my juvenile days, when fummer gilded the fkies, how pleafantly did I pry into thefe fpiky bushes, to difcover the painted fongfters, fitting clofe in the fecreted manfion, or elfe, perhaps, with my faff, hurried them precipitately from their downy Truly, this is an eligible fpot: how level the furface! on every fide it is furrounded with a verdant hedge-row, and affords a moft noble, moft extenfive, and exhilarating profpect. "Surprifing! what a clump of grand and majeflic trees are here!" they are afpins-See how gracefully they appear, and with what dignity they fhoot aloft their towering heads one above another. Hark! how the whistling gales attune the trembling leaves. hah! what a curious hole is there in one of them! Amazing! how round it is! Not the most expert mathemati-nefts. In a few moments I arrive at cian, with all his fkill, could make one apparently more exact!-The architect I can readily guefs. 'Tis the operation of the hard and long billed wood pecker. Yes, 'tis fhe that bored that ingenious cavity in the trunk of the alpin: either to rear the callow brood, or to repofe in during the lilent inactivity of the night. Really the curious workmanship of the feathered people are inimitable! The little artists feem endued with such a fund of knowledge and ingenuity, almoft approaching that of human reafon. The God of nature has furnished with wifdom the wild inhabitants of the bough; and I have often wondered at that amazing inftinet, which regulates all their actions, and was first implanted in them by the great confervator of the world. Birds as Ariftotle obferves) act the gate. 'Tis fixt and immoveable: I fee I muft mount it.-Surprising! where am I now?-In the common.Ah! I have left the lonely wood and the verdant plain; but why do I regret? Tis amply recompenfed by this fpacious heath, which extends almost as far as mine eye can fweep. Oh! what a charming view is here! what a noble, variegated, and moft diverified profpe&t fpreads itself before me! nature in all her works, endeavours to appear amiable.-How pleafing is the yellow furze and the lively fern; the wide extended road, and the rifing eminences! Here the furface is quite level, and covered with downy mofs, aromatic thyme, and creeping heath; there, beautified with rifing mounds, and interfperfed with ftragling thickets, bushes, and folita ry trees, which feem to trive to fhun C T each other's fhade. - Toward the North, I obferve an orchard adjoining, and near it a lonely dome: I can just difcover the chimney top, and part of the flanting roof.-Let us fee whether time will permit me to vifit it.- My watch points at eight: 'tis yet an hour to the morning repaft.-I'll just go and peep at it-Yonder wicket gate, I imagine, leads to it. Immediately as I turn myself from the dome, oppofite the front, a smooth level fpacious inclofure attracts my attention. Round its banks I perceive a number of flender trees lately planted by the industrious owner; but alas! few, very few of them furvive the fcorching fummer. See how withered and blafted they appear!-This fpot, though now converted into tillage, was once a delightful green, and o'er its ver Already I perceive the loneliness of the fituation: between the two hedges, here's a moft pleafing and retir'd walk; but it appears to be but little frequented.-See! on one fide the red-berries hang in clusters on thedant furface, the gay gentleman roll'd hawthorn; on the other, the bramble fhoots his luxuriant branches, and offers me the protuberant jetty berry to refresh me in my walk. This is abfolutely a fine, fhady, and agreeable avenue; but here it terminates, and the houfe rifes to my view. the fkipping bowl. Adjoining are feveral other fine enclosures and private walks, which render the whole exceedingly pleafing to a ferious mind; as no place can be better adapted to cherish or to infpire a contemplative fedateness. What is that on my left? at this diftance it has the afpect of fome fylvan scene; but as I approach nearer, I perceive it to be a grove of Pomo It appears to be an antient structure. The tattered windows, and the grafs growing on the threfhold, feem to indicate that 'tis not the delightful abode of human fociety. No, 'tis entirely def-na's.-Ah! now I recollect, this is titute of inhabitant. How folemn! how filent! even the fleeky, agile mouse has forfaken it; and only the folitary red-breaft continues to haunt it. Methinks I am come to the house of tranquility, fuch a deep, undisturbed compofure reigns all around. Efcap'd from man and his bufy walks, and quite fequeftered from fociety, I am ftruck with awe, as if fome auguft perfonage was making his entrance, or fome majestic being was upon the point to fpeak. Awful folitude! How pleafingly horrid is the afpect of thefe filent retreats!-What a profound me. lancholy has taken up its abode in this unfrequented and fequeftered manfion! If I recollect right, this was once the refort of weary Itrangers *; and there, The building alluded to above, is fituated in a very rural and retired fpot, about half a ile from Market Lavington, at fome diftance from a much frequented road, called Brood! way, which leads to Devizes. It was formerly a reputable innf-but at prefent is uniahabited. the very spot I vifited in the month of May, when all the branches were arrayed in a milk-white bloffom: but now the blooming maid is refigned for the useful matron. The trees have drop't their filken gems, and hold out the delicious blufhing fruit;however, nature here hath not been profufely liberal this feafon. The boughs are not charged with fuch a heavy load, as I have fometimes feen upon them. Lo! over the hedge oppofite me is another collection of fruit trees; but, at prefent 1 will not traverfe that spot, for the ground is entangled with nettles and brambles.Let me revifit the dome, and pafs on to the bounds that lead to the furzy heath. Here's a beautiful clump of firs!-How majeftically they rear aloft their towering cones, and fpread their fable branches over this retired walk -A pie, I obferve, has conftructed his fortified manfion in that which looks over the gate. I dare fay, the anxious parent rear'd his little family there in fafety, unmolefted and undif turbed. Rural Excurfion in September, 11 terbed. Indeed the hut is not inac- on each fide, and caft a most refreshceffible; but I believe it efcap'd the ing fhade.-How happy for me that I penetrating eye of the fchool-boy.-an fcreen'd from Sol's burning beams! Farewell ye folemn walks, adieu ma- Was it not for the cooling breeze, jeftic firs, clad in everlafting green-and this fheltered walk, how should 1 I muft now be going. Nature folicits be able to pursue my excurfion in the a reparation. Soon I'll vifit you again, glowing element?-I am naturally of and contemplate under your embower- a tender frame, and the springs of life ed fhade. have been long, long relax'd; but my languid nature revives at the profpect, the charming profpect of this ravishing fcene. How chearing, how animating and exhilarating to the drooping spirits Inftantly I launch into open day, and the wide extended heath bolts on my fight. Mine eye, lately immur'd, (though in pleafurable confinement) now expands her view into a space al-are fuch rural views! Methinks they inmoft boundless, and amidst objects, fpire health and vigour in the heart, and little fhort of innumerable.-Tranf. touch with transport all the movements ported for a while, at the wonderful of the foul. I am never tired, never variety of beauteous images, pour'd in weary of admiring the itupendous work fweet confufion all around, the hardly of the creation. Never more delightknows where to fix, or which to purfue.ed than when ftolen away from fociRecovering at length from the pleafingety, and liftening to the murmurs of perplexity, fhe glances quick and infome filver ftream, or contemplating Aantaneous across the intermediate in the filent fhade, amid the umbrage plain, and marks the diftant hills which run from the eat to the west, and feem to wrap their diminish'd fummits in the clouds. of clustering trees.-How inelegant, or how infenfible is the mind, which has no awakened lively relish for these fweet recefles, and their exquifite fuperlative beauties ? As I ftrole along this fhady walk, I am entertained with the moit delightful melody. The little birds perched on the adjacent bough, and fluttering over the heath, play a thousand airs, wildly, yet fweetly harmonious. While the plains low, the hills bleat, and the woods refound with the univerfal fong. My attention is particularly attracted by a number of pretty chorifters that frequent this barren Next, with delight, fhe furveys the cultured fields and adjacent meadows, where cattle of every graceful form, and every valuable quality, crop the tender herb, or drink the crystal rills. Soon my excurfive eye quits these diftant objects, and ranges the ruffet heath. This, methinks, wild and uncultivated as it is, is exceedingly pleafing, and like well difpofed fhapes in painting, throws an additional Juftre on the more ornamented part of the landscape. Nor is its usefulness rela-heath, and fport about me among the tive only, but real. Here fpring a furze.-Thefe are what the naturalists bundance of ufeful herbs, which af- call Birds of Pafage, for they visit us fwage the fmart of our wounds, and only in the fummer. Hark! how allay the fiery tumults of the fever; they chant their fweet notes! Did ever which impart floridity to our circu-mufic exceed their untaught sprightly lating fluids, and add a more vigorous warblings? or can any colours outvie zone to our active folids. their gay and gloffy plumage? Amazing how the fun is come forth in his ftrength, fince I have been contemplating in yon filent retreats! his rays are become troublefome, and beat fiercely on my throbbing pulfe. Fortunately here's a fhady walk leads directly towards my dwelling. A beautiful row of graceful trees extend Ah! I am now arrived at the extremity: am emerged from the embowered fhade and fully expired.-Sol intermit thy burning beams, and withdraw thy fiery glare, elfe I mult quickly retire to yonder fhady thicket, and proftrate my weary limbs under its bowery recefs-How profufely I ❤ 2 per perfpire-How impetuoufly the blood rushes through my veins ! In vain I figh, And reftlefs turn, and look around for night; Unfatisfy'd and fick toffes in non- But yonder agreeable fight! -A fleecy cloud is wafted from the weft, and will quickly fpread itself over Sol's aufpicious orb.-Hail! welcome meffenger! come agreeable ftranger, I falute thy arrival.-Now my blood ceafes to boil, my finews are new flrung, and life bounds brifker through all her crimfon channels. I fee the broad, thick, dufky meteor, floats but flowly, and will favour me with a welcome fhade, till I arrive at yonder dome. Now I am enabled to trip faft along the dufty road, and fhall foon reach the gate before me, and the rifing eminence called Spin-hill.-Really this is a delightful mound, and affords a moft extenfive and animating profpect. Here the cooling zephyrs fweep along over the plains, and inhale ftrength and vigour to the drooping heart. But, Oh dear! what a precipice is here on my right hand! Let me approach the margin: tremendous! How deep it is! I shudder at the fight! On one fide it is fhagged with tangling briers and pendent bushes; on the other, the we ry trees that grow on the margin, fhew their naked roots, and hang, dreadfully, vifible, aver the fubterraneous road. What fhould be the cause of this ghaftly charm! 'Tis fupposed to be the havock of the primeval flood.→ There no doubt the boisterous waves roared and foamed; there the liquid element rushed with violent impetu fity, with irrefiftible fury, down the rifing precipices, and growled along the fand, till it formed the dizzy dreadful canal. See the relics of the deluge are very confpicuous: what mountains of fand are there mixed with aquatic fhells, probably hurled from the fhores of the Atlantic ocean*, or other adjacent feas. (To be continued.) Of the POWERS and PROGRESS of Music. From Sr JOHN HAWKINS's preliminary Difcourfe to the HISTORY of MU. SIC. Vol. I. B (Continued from Suf. f. 711.) EFORE this time mulic had ceafed to be a fubject of fpeculation: Ptolemy was the last that had written profeffedly on it. To thefe caufes, and the zeal of the fathers above mentioned, and more efpecially of St. Gregory, to diffeminate its precepts, it is to be afscribed that the cultivation of mufic became the peculiar care of the clergy. But here a diftinction is to be made between the ftudy and the practice of the science, for we find that at the time of the inftitution of the feaft of St. Ambrofe, an order of clergy was alfo established, whofe employment it was to perform fuch parts of the fervice as was required to be fung; thefe were called Pfalmiftæ, pfalm fingers: and though Almoft every part of the earth, even the highest eminences, produce the spoils of the ocean, depofited there at the general deluge. The Alps, the Appennines, the Pyrennes, the Andes, Atlas and Ararat; every mountain of every region under heaven, from Japan to Mexico, all confpire in one uniform univerfal proof, that they all had the fea fpread ove their higheft fummits. Search the earth, and you will find the moofe deer, natives of America, buried in Ireland; elephants, natives of Aliz and Afiica, buried in the midst of England; croco iles, natives of the Nie, in the heart of Germany; fhell-fish, never known but in the American feas; together with entire skeletons of whales, in divers other counries; alfo trees and plants of various kinds, which are not known to grow in any region under heaven. All which are a perf & demonftration, that Mofes's account of the deJuge is inconteftibly true, 270 by |