In tenui labor, al tenis non gloria, si quem
Numina læva sinunt, auditque vocatus Apollo.

Virg.

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THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

OR

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR JANUARY 1802;

With a View of HABBY'S HOUSE, near Pentland Hills.
From a Drawing taken on the Spot.

Remarks on No. VII. Candle-

Light Sketches, Liberty and

Necessity, -

Page

ib.

3

Page

2 A few Notices concerning the New

Planet lately discovered at Pa-

lermo, in Sicily, by M. Piazzi, 46

Account of the Arreftment of

Prince Charles Edward Stu-

art, at Paris, Dec. 10th 1748, in

a Letter to a Lady in Scotland, 48

Frederick Osmond; a Tale,

POETRY.

9

16

Ode for the New Year, 1802,

The New Year,—an Ode

Farewell to the Muse,

Love-an Ode,

19 Song,

50

Night-an Ode,

58

23

The Hour of Love,

ib.

A Song,

59

A Smile and a Tear,

ib.

28

30

A Defence of the Ordinations of
the Epifcopal Church of Scot-
land, in Anfwer to the late Rev.
Dr George Campbell, Profeffor
of Divinity, and Principal of
the Marischal College, in Aber-
deen,

Reflections on the Cuftoms obferv-

ed by the Inhabitants of Edin-

burgh at the commencement of

the Year,

Celestial Phenomena for Feb. ib.

Observations tending to investi-

gate the Nature of the Sun, in

order to find the Caufes or

Symptoms of its variable emif-

fion of Light and Heat, &c.

Account of Mr John Donaldson,

Miniature Painter,

35

try Bay,

Affairs in Scotland,

of Justiciary,

Proceedings of the High Court

Trial of James Begg,

R

66

68

ib.

70

ib.

ib.

ib.

of George Pyper,

of Andrew Lawrie,

High Water at LEITH,

for FEBRUARY 1802.

State of the BAROMETER, in inches and decimals,

and of Farenheit's THERMOMETER in the open

air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and

at noon; and the quantity of rain-water fallen Days.

in inches and decimals, from December 26. to

Jan. 25. 1802, in the vicinity of Edinburgh.

1801. Barom. Thermom. Rain.

M.

T.

W.

Weather. Th. 4.

336

3 52

Fr. 5.

26

29.

3837 0.151

Rain

Sa. 6.

38

5 19

M. 8.

6

96

5 39

2

6 27

Snow

34

Cloudy

W. 10.

29.81

Th. It. 9 9

9 51

Fr. 12.

2345678

29.85

Sa. 13.

11 41

30.

4 30.1

5

Su. 14.

M. 15.

29.651

26 34

29.321 35 36

0.04

Snow

W. 17.

216

232

29.41

36 38

3 5

3 37

4 38

M. 22. 4 54

5 11

T. 23. 5 28

5 46

W. 24.

6 6

Th. 25.

656

6 29

7 27

Fr. 26. 8 4

852

Sa. 27. 9 45

10 31

17

29.611 42 44 0.05

Rain

Su. 28. 11 30

18

Cloudy