SCOTS MAGAZINE, A N D Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, FOR MARCH 1809 : ..: ib. ib. 0 208 ZII 212 CONTENTS: Page General Sir John Moore, who was Descriptipu of Smallholm Tower, . .1163 born in that City, * 205 Proceedings of the Wernerian Natur A Dirge on the Hero who felli at ral History Society, . ib. Gorunna, • 206 Monthly Memoranda in Natural His Lines on Wallace;. ib. tory, 164 Ode for the New Year 1809, Particulars of the Siege.of Saragossa, 166 Epitaphs, ib. Memoirs of the Life of the late Sir Euphemia, !. 207 169 176 House of Lords, Account of an Indian woman burn 209 Battle of Corunna, ib, ing herself, 180 House of Commons, A Journey through the Highlands and -The British Army in Spain, ib, Western Isles, in the Summer of -Battle of Vimiera, 1804. By the Ettrick Shepe Increase of the Army, 213 herd, {I81 ib, Sketch of the Life of Dr James An, The Duke of York, derson, 184 Letters to the Editor, occasioned by - HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. Sir John Carr's Caledonian Sketches, 188 India, 217 Discourse by Lord Minto, Governor American States, ib, General of Bengal, to the Mem. West Indies, 218 bers of the College of Fort-Wil Spain, 219 liam, 191 Portugal, Memoirs of the Progress of Manu. Naval Intelligence, 224 factures, Chemistry, Science, and Board of Inquiry, 225 the Fine Arts, 196 ib. : 227 230 Cromek's Reliques of Burns, 198 Drury Lane Theatre destroyed by 231 New Works published in Edinburgh, 203 Fatal Duel, 233 Scottish Literary Intelligence, ib. Literary Intelligence, English and SCOTTISH. CHRONICLE. 234 ib. ib. Lines written on hearing that the Marriages, Births, and Deaths, 237 Inhabitants of Glasgow intended Stocks and Markets, 240 State • 223 1 236 Sa. State of the BAROMETER, in inches and decimals, l High Water at LEITR and of Farenheit's THERMOMETER, in the For APRIL 1809. open air, taken in the morning before sun-rise, Morn. Even, and at noon; and the quantity of rain-water Days. H. M. H. M. fallen, in inches and decimals, from Feb. Sa. 1 2 40 3 3 26. to March 25. 1809, in the vicinity of Su. 2 3 24 3 45 Edinburgh. M. 3 4 5 4 28 Tu. 4 4 51 5 15 Barom. Thermom. Rain. Weather, W. 5 5 40 6 6 Feb. M. N. In. Pts. Th. 6 6 35 7 6 26 | 30. 41 50 Clear Fr. 7 7 40 8 17 27 30.3 40 50 Ditto 8 8 58 9 40 28 30.3 37 45 Ditto Su. 9 10 18 10 53 Bi 30.32 38 43 0.02 Showers M. 10 11 23 11 50 2 30.39 40 45 Clear 0 16 P3 30.2 30 48 Ditto W. 12 040 1 30.15 27 40 Ditto Th. 13 118 1 37 5 30.24 30 41 Ditto Fr. 14 1 54 2 11 6 30.3 30 48 Ditto Sa. 15 2 27 2 44 30.2 40 48 Ditto Su. 16 3 0 3 15 8 30.2 41 49 Ditto M. 17 3 31 3 47 9 30.2 46 62 Ditto Tu. 18 4 3 4 19 10 30.3 44 51 Cloudy 4 55 11 30.32 45 55 Clear Th, 20 5 14 5 36 12 30.32 31 46 Cloudy Fr. 21 5 59 6 24 13 30.35 40 45 Ditto Sa. 22 6 51 7 a 14 30.2 41 Su. 23 7 58 8 35 15 30.15 40 50 Ditto M. 24 9 13 9 51 16 30.1 40 48 Ditto Tu. 25 10 25 10 56 17 30.1 37 51 Ditto W. 26 11 29 - 11 54 18 30.1 36 52 Ditto 0 19 19 30.1 32 52 Ditto Fr. 28 045 1 9 20 30.0937 51 Cloudy Sa. 29 1 32 1 57 30.09 35 55 Clear Su. 30 2 21 2 45 22 29.9 45 55 Ditto 23 29.9 38 53 Ditto MOON'S PHASES 24 29.8 45 45 0.01 Showers For APRIL 1809. 25 29.45 30 47 0.13 Ditto Apparent time at Edinburgh, 21 D. H. M. Last Quar. 7. 7. 56. morn, Quantity of Rain 0.16 April 25. Princess Mary born, (1776.) THE Scots magazine, A N D EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, FOR MARCH 1809. Description of SMALLHOLM TOWER. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural SMALLHOLM Tower lies in a parish History Society. of the same namė, on the road from Edinburgh to Kelso. It is si . AT the meeting of this Society, on the 11th March, Dr Yule read Roxburghshire, about four miles north- an interesting memoir on the natural west of Roxburgh, and nearly the order Gramineæ, with introductory obsame distance from Kelso. It is a servations on moñiocotyledonoùs plants, high square building, surrounded by in which he contrasted these with the an outer wall, now ruinous. A mo- dicotyledonous class, from the period rass and a precipice render it inacces- of germination to the complete evolusible on every side, except the west, tion of their stems. The Doctor is to where it may be approached by a continue the subject in a future paper. steep and rocky path. The apart Captain Laskey laid before the soments are placed one above another, ciety a list of Scottish Testacea, as far communicating by a narrow stair: on as they have fallen under his own obthe roof are two bartizans, or plat, servation, with remarks on the new forms. It has two doors, or gates; the and rare species. Of the genus Chiinner of wood, the outer of iron, se ton he enumerated 4 specičs; of Leparated from each other by the thick- pas, 3 species ; Balanus, 6; Pholas, ness of the wall, which is nine feet:- 4; Mya, 9, including 3 new species; It is built on a cluster of rocks, and of Ligula, (a lately constituted genus) from its elevated situation, is seen at a 7 species; Solen 6; Tellina 15, great distance, and serves even as a with a new species, named by Colonel land-mark to guide vessels into Ber. Montagu, 7. Laskeyi ; Cardium 10 ; wick. It is the property of Hugh Mactra 6; Donax 3; Venus 23, inScott, Esq. of Harden. cluding 9 new species ; Chama, 1 speThis place is rendered interesting cies, Ch. cor, taken alive in the Frith to poetical readers, by its kaving been of Forth; Arca 6; Pecten 6; Osthe residence, in early life, of Mr trea 1; Angmia 4; Mytilus 11; Walter Scott, who has celebrated it in Pinna 1; Nautilus 3; Cypræa 1; his “ Eve of St John.” Border Min- Bulla 13, including 2 new species; strelsy, III. 229. To it he probably Voluta 8, 4 of them new; Buccinum alludes in the introduction to the third 8; Strombus 2; Murex 23, compres canto of Marmion : hending the rare carinatus, and 3 new Thea rise those crags, that mountain ones; Trochus 4; Turbo 32, 5 tower, new; Nerita 7; Haliotis Which charm'd my fancy's wakening 1; Patella 11; Dentalium 2 ; Sethour, & Co pula 7; Vermiculum 3. This is the most |
