volcanos being upon this new region. The volumes of fmoke arifing from one of the chief craters are very confiderable, but nothing of a flame has yet been remarked. This island was first obferved by a Norway trader, on a return from Iceland to Drontheim; the crew of which were fo terrified, that they flood away from it with the atmoft precipitation. Soon after, a Dane from the Sound fell in with it, and at first mistook it for the continent of Iceland. The master, however, did not approach nearer than a league's diftance, but food on for Skal holt, the capital of Iceland, where he made a report of his dif covery to the Danish governor. It was at firft conceived that le had fellin with a monstrous body of ice; but on his perfevering in his account fome officers of the garrifon, with feveral of the moft fkilful feamen of Iceland, went in queft of it; and in about three hours after their departure from Skalholt, came f near it, that a boat was hoifted out, and the island taken poffefion of in his Danish majelty's name. It is faid there is not the leaft appearance of a foil, but that the furface is of a marly deture, with crannies running through it, filled with pumice ftones, which are fuppofed to have been thrown out by the cif ferent volcanoes of the island, at the time it was firft formed; as it, no doubt, was then in a very convulfed and agitated fate. This fingular production, which is fuppofed to have been formed in the fpring of the prefent year, will no doubt induce fach of the learned world as are curious in their investigation of nature's works, to vifit this extraordinary phænomenon. Many conjecture that this island rofe at the time Sicily fuffered fo much by the late eruptions of Etna; but thofe who confider its neighbourhood with Heckla, the fecond volcano in the world, which is much fuperior to Vefuvius, will rather attribute it to fome inteftine commotions of the earth. REFLECTION S. CARCE any fhew themfelves to advantage, who are over folicitous of doing fo. Subdue your reflets temper, that leads you to aim at preeminence in every little circumstance: like many other paffions, it obftructs its own end; instead of gaining respect, it renders you a moft difagreeable companion. Apply yourself more to acquire knowledge, than to fhew it. Men commonly take great pains to put off the little flock they have, but they take little pains to acquire more. ANECDOTES IN g ANECDOTES of the late Dr. KENRICK. 'N general this very ingenious man spent a good income as fast as, and fometimes before, he earned it; but there was one period in his life, in which the management of Mr. Griffiths, the prefent proprietor of the Monthly Review, made him reflect on his fituation, and turn economift. Kenrick who had 200l. due to him for reviewing, for Library, and for magazine writing, was much in debt, when Griffiths explained to a friend of both a plan he had laid for reforming his fpendthrift difpofition, which was, to referve by contrivance 100l. till it would be of real ufe to him. He did it, and foon after Kenrick, as forefeen, was arrested. When in the King's-Bench, Griffiths affembled all his creditors, made a compofition with them, and 8ol. fet the doctor free from all debt, and then giving him the remaining 201. offered much advice. It had a good effect; for the doctor, after that, whenever difficulties threatened, ran into the country and boarded for a year or fo, in a little miferable farm-house, where all forts of expences were only 20l. a year; and this practice recovering him, he has been often heard to fay, that all his afterhappiness in life depended upon it. Dr. Kenrick was a remarkable inftance of facility in writing on different fubjects. He at one time wrote all the articles in the Polite Literature in the Monthly Review; tranflated French poetry for the Library; and compofed the Natural Philofophy for the Grand Magazine. He at the fame time was tranflating Rouffeau for Mr. Becket; wrote politics for the Craftsman, at a guinea a week; affifted in the London Magazine and the Univerfal Mufeum; in Oriental Tales for the latter, and Hiftorics of Europe for the former. It was at that period that he earned 800 guineas a year. ANECDOTE of the BARON DES COUTURES, a French Nobleman. HE baron being informed that fome of his creditors had tered upon for the execution of his goods, took care of having all his furniture removed by night in a clandeftine manner. The bailiffs came the next morning, and hearing nobody at home, broke open the door of the house, when, to their great furprize, they found nothing but the naked walls, with the following lines written on one of them: Creanciers, VOL. II, 44. 3 H A Creanciers, maudite canaille, TRANSLATED. Ye lawyers, bailiffs, creditors, and all A CAUTIO N. Perfon in the character of a gentleman's fervant lately went to a tradesman in London, and faid he wanted a pair of breeches, and that he must go to lord Molefworth of Lincoln's Inn, who was his mafter, to measure him for a pair alío. Ac cordingly the tradefman fitted a pair on the pretended fervant, who liked them extremely well; this done, they both fet out to go to his mafter; and, on their arrival at the inn, the fervant defired the tradefman to wait at the bottom of the ftair-cafe to fee whether his master was ready for him; after waiting about two minutes, the fervant returned, and faid his mafter had got fame gentlemen with him, bat, with his leave, he would take the breeches up to fee whether his mafter approved of them, and de fired the tradefman to wait a little longer; he presently returned, and told the tradefman that his mafter was looking at the breeches, and that he liked them exceedingly, and defired him to walk up two pair of stairs and knock at the door, and he would gain admittance to his mafter, and in the mean time he would go into Chancery-lane of an errand, and would be back again in a few minutes; accordingly the tradefman went up flairs, knocked at the door, and afked of a clerk, who came to give anfwer, if lord Molefworth was within, the clerk told him that no fuch perfon lived there, nor in any other chamber in the inn; upon which the poor tradefman returned to his home, after being fwindled out of a pair of breeches worth a guinea and half. Anfwer, by M. Nofworthy, of Plymouth-Dock, to Tafso's Quefiion, inferted September 22. PUT JT x and y the two required numbers, a=84.25 and b 44 Firft find the value of y in the fecand given equation; fquared, &c. it becomes yy-b2-2bx+ xx÷÷xx=a—xx, or xxxx-83.25xx — 2bx + bb = 0. Hence, by converging feries, x is found=8, and y=45, as was required. Anfwer, by J. Quant, of Hinton St. George, to Taffe's Queftion, inferted September 15. FIRST extract the fquare root of 3,0625=1,75-1=75, which taken from 1,25. Whereas 75 and ,25 are the two required numbers; for, as per queftion, 75x4 =3, which added to the fquare of ,25=3,0625, as was required. tst We have received the like anfwer from M. Nofworthy, of Plymouth-Dock. GIV A QUESTION, by Tasso, of Bristol. IVEN 56x2+1=z2, to find x and z, in whole numbers. EUROPEAN RIVERS enigmatically expressed, by J. H. of T Shaftesbury. HREE-TENTHS of the queen of the Amazons, twofifths of her who had the power of taking any shape, and a ferpentine letter. 2. Three-eighths of a drunkard, two-fixths of the priests of Ifis, an adverb, and the fecond perfon fingular of the verb fum. 3. Two-fevenths of a fhell-fish, half of a lover of Penelope, and a vowel. 4. Three-eighths of him who firft found out the ufe of honey, a negative trani pofed, and a Latin conjunction. 5. Half of a title of the goddefs Cybele, and three-fifths of ufelefs. 6. Half of a prophet, a vowel, and to exift. 7. Two-fixths of hateful, and half of a name of Cupid. 3 H 2 8. Two-fifths 8. Two-fifths of him whofe fons warred against heaven, and three-fifths of a precious ftone. A A REBUS, by Tasso, of Bristol. Fruit from which a pleafant liquor's preft; An ENIGMA, by Tyro, of Cerne. 【OTHING I am, nor real being have N But what quick thought, and lab'ring fancy gave; Thus with swift pace my conftant course I run, Our Correfpondents who fend us queftions, anagrams, rebufjes, paradoxes, enigmas, answers, &c. are defired to pay the postage of their letters; and those who do not, mußt not expeɛ to fee squat they fend inferted, POETRY, |