the other fubfequent to it. In St. Paul's xith chap. to the Romans, we read, as the fall of the Jews brought falvation to the Gentiles, fo the mercy fhewn to the Gentiles fhall bring mercy to the Jews; and again, the receiving of the Jews into favour fhall bring life to the Gentile world, From comparing this paffage in St. Paul with the paffage in Ifaiah to which he alludes in the two laft verses of chap. x, I am led to make this conclufion, viz. that the following order of things may be understood, from the feven laft chapters of Ifaiah, to be expected to take place upon our Lord's coming. In chap. lx. a call to the Church of Chrift, to arife to her glory and exaltation. In chap. Ixi, a fong of joy and thankfgiving, as well as a proclamation for a day of rejoicing; as alfo, a day of wrath and vengeance. In chap. ixii, the celebration of the first, with the marriage of the Lamb, who brings his recompence with him for his fervants, the prophets, and thofe that fear his name, both fmall and great. In chap. lxiii, the day of wrath and vengeance, in which he deftroys them that deftroy the earth; but, in the latter part of it, we read of the humiliation and contrition of the Jews, which continues to the end of chap. xiv. In chap. lxv, they are provoked to jealoufy by the preference given to the Chriftian church, which I conceive to be the jealoufy alluded to by St. Paul. They are at first rejected and reproved, but a remnant of them is at length (if they are not all) received into favour. In chap. ixvi, there is a call to all na tions and tongues, to come and fee the glory of the Lord, and receive confolation in Jeruflem. All which corresponds with the Rev. of St. John, inatmuch as the kingdom of God (as appears from both,) July 12, 1799. N Sunday, July 7, after a. ride of ten miles. I attended divine fervice in Lichfield cathedral; and though myfelf unknown to any clergyman or others connected with that beautiful church, yet I have many years known Dr. Alcock, Mers. Saville, Birch, Warren, &c. &c. names of celebrity in the mufical world; and with much pleature have often heard them. The Doctor looks as well as he did twenty years ago; and the mufical powers of Mr. Saville feem no way impaired. A fine Te Deum, Jubilate, and Introit, were fung; alfo, part of the 8th Pfalm, old verfion, to a very mufical and pleasant tune. I need not obferve, that there is a very ftriking difference in melody and effect, in the performance of the metrical Pfalms, in cathedrals and country village choirs. The boys, ten in number, fing exceeding well, and two of them in particular. There was an excellent fermon by a clergyman whofe name I do not know. In the afternoon-service, a fine Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis, and a plaintive anthem from the 137th Pfalm; the laft verse of which, the compofer very judici outly omitted fetting to mutic. I have no occafion, to give any defcription of the cathedral, as that is fufficiently done already by others more competent; but I obferved that there has been fome altera *See Low th's notes on Ifaich, and Dr. Whitby's Appendix to the xith of Romans. Nether of which however elucidate these paffages very fatisfactorily. The humble tice of an interceffor is not very eafily reconciled with the abfolute power of a Sovereign and Lord of all in heaven and in earth. It should feem, that when it shall please him to tame up the latter, he will lay down the former. ↑ Mott mobbly the eloquent Sacrift. tions tions made fince I was in it about two years ago; and, in order to be underfood, I muft refer your read ers to the ichnography, or groundplan of the church, in Browne Willis's Cathedrals (1723), printed alfo in Mr. Shaw's Hittory of Staffordshire. The bishop's confiftory and St. Stephen's chapel, in the North-tranfept, marked EE, which were inclofed formerly, are now laid open, and the confiftory is removed to a room marked in the plan P. and there called the prebendaries veftry, but, though fo cal led, was never ufed as fuch fince I knew the church, but ferved as a lumber-room. This is now very elegantly fitted up as a court-room, with a feat, canopy, and bench, for the judge, and a large fquare table covered with green cloth, for the proctors, &c. to fit at; with feats for others who may fave butinefs there. There is alfo a handfome fireplace; and fome new windows have been fet up. This room opens into the South cheral aile, and is neatly floored with oak. The places in the South-trenfept, marked I. K. called the d: an's confittory and vicarsveftry, have alio been laid open fome time; and rionuments of Mr. Garrick and Dr. Johnton let up against the Eaftern wall. On the north fide the church, there was a door which faced a fine walk with trees, and the bishop's palace. This door, which gave admittance to the chapter-house, (an oblong octagon room, over which is the library), is now filled up, and a new window fet in the place; fo that there is no admittance to thote handi me Gothic rooms, but from the infide of the church; and the angles of the North-tranicpt have been alto repaired and firengthened, at the time the above plan was taken, in 1723. The library, marked Sin the plan, was a detached building Hear the North-Wett angle of the North crois; but it has been de GEST. MAG. January, 1800. molished near 50 years. This was not amifs, as it mitft, when handhig, have disfigured the uniformity of the cathedral, which, in general, is the most regular of any I know. Much has been frid for, and against, the alterations nride in it within the last ten years; but one thing is certain, that it wanted repair. This has been thoroughly done within, and in a great meafure without. Before that time the place was beautiful, and it is fo now. One of the alterations, however, was a great improvement; for, previous to them, the congre gation moved from the choir to the have or body of the church, during the finging of the Nicene creed, to hear the fermon, as the pulpit, and many pews, were then there: thefe have been all taketi away, and a new pulpit, and my neat oak-pews, erected in the choir, where the auditory remain undi the whole fervice is over. This, I think, is much for the beft; but I am not fo clear but that the choir might have been lengthened about ten yards, without taking in the whole of St. Mary's chapel, to the Eaft, as it is now certainly too long for the width. But then, if tas addition only had taken place, the effect of a new altar-piece window, of painted glas, could not have been predriced; the fubjeft of which, is the figure of Chrift rifing from the fepulchre. I noticed fome coats of armas on the outfide the church, in fione, over the, clegant Gothie door in the middle of the South-tranfept; one of which, on the right of the arms of the fee, is, a chevron between-3 ducks, each having a final bough in his bill; another on the other fide is, Ermine, on a bend, g annulets. Higher up is another coat, viz. within a lozenge (or woman's) thield, Or, a lion ra pant, double que n'd; and for a creat, over an iquire's helmet, a bear and gea star. As I do not know whe amas thefe were, I taald be much obliged and the propriety of the College enforcing the authority entrufted to them, and which is their duty to do, than your correfpondent Philomathematos, LXIX. 1041; I cannot behold, without the greatest regret, establishments supported by voluntary fubfcription for a particular purpose, and committed to the care of regular phyficians and apothecaries, converted to fcenes of quackery and experiment; and thus the lives of many fubjects trifled with, and very probably new diseases added to the already too numerous diforders unavoidably concomitant with human nature. It has been the general cuftom, when any dangerous experiments were to be made, not to endanger the lives of good fubjects, but to obtain the concurrence of the State, to make the neceflary experiments on thofe, whofe lives were become forfeited to the juftice of the offended laws of their country; and this was not even done, without their own concurrence, and a pardon in cafe of recovery. This has been done, in order to prove the efficacy of ftyptics and aftringents, on the introduction of inoculation, and in other cafes, which do not inmediately occur to my recollection. Yet, fuch is the practice of our times, that regular physicians are not afhamed to boast of having inoculated 600 for the Cow-pox*, in a regular established hospital for having undergone that former fcourge of human nature, and ready to lend their affistance to others afflicted with that disease, which it is not yet ascertained but they may be liable to contract, and may fall a victim to. How far the Court of Confcience will acquit fuch practitioners, who have thus acted without the concurrence of the College, or under authority of the State, must be left to their own feelings, even if they can efcape the breach of the fixth commandment, or what I confider the injured laws of their country. I am, farther, much diffatisfied in feeing Metallic Tractors introduced into the practice of a member of the College. I will, however, venture to be fo far of a quack, as to recommend a practice, from which I should expect fupe-, rior efficacy:-for the afflicted perfon to touch and count every metallic tractor round Bloomsbury fquare; and, if not sufficiently fatigued thereby, to proceed round Bedford, Queen, and the Foundling, fquares, until they find a good appetite for their dinner. Mr. URBAN, B S. A. Jan. 2. EING amongst the English Lakes part of the winter of 1797-8, I felt an irrefiftible with to re-vifit Buttermere; that I might fee, what I formerly called "the incomparable Scale Force water-fall,' Brit. Chit, vol XIII. p. 79. It appears, that the disease was unknown to the cow. keepers near London. May we not fuppofe it to have been introduced by the experiments made of it? as in the Reports, reviewed vol. XIV. 632, it appears to have broke out in Gray's-Inn Lane. See Reports on Inoculation, Brit. Crit. vol. XIV. p. 432. From this it appears, that the Cow-pox is femetimes a fevere and even dangerous difeafe. 85 of 400 patients had from 100 to 1:00 puftules; in one, the pocks were confluent, and one child died convulfed during the erup in fever; and, Ditto, p. 456, declared to be Sr-only to the chicken-pex; and, in Dr. Beddoes' Medical and Phyfical Contriptions, Ipeaking of the Cow-pox, he endeavours to difprove the opinion, that perfons who have at any time been infected with the Cow-pox are fecured from reCe ring the infection of the fmail pox. bound bound up in icicles; but my grand intention was, to fettle an account with my own mind; and do away any falfe pride, which the handfome things faid of a young creature at Buttermere might have difordered her with. vantage of this very fine day. There cannot be a better road, and the varieties in view are fuperb, or pleafing; I had never walked farther than Grafmere that way. The returning look from the top of the road into the valley, overpowered me with delight; the icy gems that ftudded the oppofite hills, on which the fun had influence, were innumerable; this quiet vale, thus bedecked, was fuperior to whatever the frongeft fancy could conceive; and I am certain, as we faw it, must always live in my companion's remembrance. I have a ftronger proof than any thing I can fay, of the indelible appearance of this valley, and fhall go afide from my prefent walk to make it known. On Jan. 8, 1798, I left the Salutation-inn, at Amblefide, where I always feel myself at home; there, "A Fortnight's Ramble" originated, and a great part of the poem on Windermere was written. We had an exhilarating clear atmosphere, and not a breath of air. Grafmere valley and lake were in the fweeteft view; the reflection in the water of the sheep grazing on the island was most famous, and the tones of the wetherbes as they nibbled along, delightful mufic. Besides, the furface they-my-Jeturn from this excurfion, I ed, what I never obferved before, a fugar-loaf top of fnow peeping amongst other hills, apparently to the naked eye all of the Game height; but the leffer hills were green or rough as Nature formed them. No one could have paffed this fcene, without half an hour's admiration, and particular attention to the chafte fummit; which proves it to be a mountain, on the highest part of which only there was then fnow. A rock on the top of Helm Crag exactly resembles a thirteeninch fea-mortar, ready to burst forth her formidable thell at 45 degrees elevation; military men would be much ftruck with it; and yet it had formerly escaped my notice, till a gentleman defired me to obferve it. I then went to Robert Newton's, and took care to order a cup of his "good woman's preferved goofeberries" at breakfast, and was made a great deal of. Í had no fooner breakfafted, but was fhewn by Robert a near path to the high road; and feeing a perfon bruthing up it, I made fuch expedition I overtook a clergyman of the county before he had furmounted it; like myself, he was on foot to Kefwick to take ad had topped at the Cherry-tree, the halfway houfe, and learnt that the chearful old woman, spoken of in the Ramble, was dead; the other, now 84, was nurfing a ficklylooking infant, which fe held in her withered arms with much affection, and bitterly lamented that colds had been very prevalent, and fatal to the children about them. The houfe looked fo gloomy to what it formerly did to me, I haftened out of it, although I was feebly afked if I chose to have a bed; and foon overtook a weary old foldier, that feemed to toddle on, overcome by fatigue. He told me he had walked that morning from Whitehaven, that he was haftening to Liverpool, to chaftife a captain of a fhip, with the crab-ftick in his hand, for cruelly treating his fon when at fea. I foon drew him from that difagreeable fubject, "to fhoulder his ftaffe," and talk the fights he had been in. As we advanced, and I pointed to the mortar on the crag," he was quite delighted with the remark, and faid," that bull-dog looks as if it was going to open upon us, to hinder our pafing the Gaut;" and of himself, when he came to a full command of Grafmere, he thus fpoke—“ Forty years ag9 ago I first came this road, a recruit from Whitehaven-I thought this fight at the bottom of the hill very beautiful-I have paffed it fe veral times fince, and have been all over the world, it is fixteen years Since I laft faw it, and I have never feen any thing fo pretty." The unadulterated tale of an uneducated yeteran is my excufe for the digreftion; and the trueft compliment Grafmere ever received. I was entertained with many anecdotes, by the clergyman, of particular people, in the different valleys we crofled; and his information would have been very ufeful, had I ever thought of publifhing this. On my expreffing a wifl to avoid the town of Kefwick, he led me by the head of Derwentwater, by that part which had been fo cruelly difpoiled of its venerable oaks by the Greenwich-hofpital commiflioners, and which robbed that beautiful lake of a grand and irreparable feature; the boughs were wont to be fo thick and entwined, boys could pars from one branch to another, through an immenfe wood. My companion went with me to the bridge, purpofely to point out a path to the parfonage-houfe; that common fration of lake-fanciers, and by which I was to proceed. We had paled the foot of gigantic HELVELLYN, and I was now beneath the giant Sheddaw." The bafe was much decorated with furze-bufkes, in fummer-like bloom. The froft occafioned this part of the read to be uneven, and difagreeable. I pafed Little Crofthwaite, and was directed to the border of Baffenthwaite-water, at this time feen to greater difadvantage than any other lake, having beep Iately fo overflowed: many tres were torn from their beds, and it was very fwampy; I had confequently a moft uncomfortable walk to the inn at Oufe bridge, near the outlet of the lake; where I clofed the day in a good room, over a Christmas goofe-pye, and by-a blaz-, ing fire. In the morning I hugged my bed, thinking, from the roaring of the lake, there was aftorm; and was aftonifhed, when I drew myfelf out, to find the day as calm as the preceding: this effect was occafioned by a “bottom wind," of which fo much has been faid, and whofe turbulent powers require to be feen to form an idea of, and cannot be contemplated upon without emphatic admiration towards the invifible Creator of wonders. The land here is much better than about Amblefide, or Hawkefhead, but not fo rich in wood: the hills and the mountains were in fuch new fhapes, and varied cloathing, I was gratified; and many houfes about the lake muft in funmer have fome fumptuous views, that are now in diforder; and pleafing ones, which are now fwampy, and defiled with coarse reeds. The dirt on the highway is deep, but the bottom found. In fhort, there is nothing to induce us to pay Baffenthwaite-water a fecond winter visit. On starting I hurried on to Cockermouth, and walked up to the caftle to admire the view from it; thence, towards Lorton, and went through a beautiful funmer valley, which the river Cocker waters in his paffage from Crummack-lake. patfed Lowes Chapel, and had many formidable ftrides to take, over rugged and unbeaten ground, I before I could be within a certain compals of my firft object, Scale Force Water-fall. Not that I fuppofed the effect could be fo, enchanting as in the ftate I had-defcribed it, in; for motion is the very life of cafcades: but I conceived its then Gothic ftyle would be a new kind of beauty to me. I fat fome time upon a flone, very much pleafed with my folitary fituation, and the manly thoughts which crowded upon me. The time of the day would not allow me to reft long.. I made very many efforts to overcome the glaffy hill; and although I had fharp nails in the balls of my hoes, and large ftubbs to the |