fort of melons of exquifite flavour is, fays Mr. Coxe, fent from Aftracan to Moscow, though at the distance of 1,000 miles. Thefe fometimes cost £5 a-piece, and at others they may be purchased in the markets of Mofcow for 2s. 6d *. Travels, vol. i. p. 255• What are 49 melons worth at the last mentioned price; Anf. £6 25. Ed. No. 181. Pay for half a hundred weight of Carolina rice at 7d.. a tb, and find the change out of five seven-fhilling pieces. No. 182. Pay for fix weeks and three days' board at half a crown a day, and find the change out of a tenpound note. No. 183. Cider is made from apples. Herefordshire and Devonshire are famous cider counties. Pay for a hogfhead (wine measure) at fixteen-pence a gallon, and find the change out of four guineas. No. 184. What is the expence of travelling from Kenfington to Worcester in a poft-chaife (the diftance being 108 miles) at 15d. a mile, including fix half crowns to the drivers, half a guinea turnpikes, and twice the latter fum in refreshments on the road? No. 185. Artichokes were first introduced into England about the year 1660. Pay for three dozen and a half at 2d. . each, and find the change out of two sevenfhilling pieces. No. 186. Tiles are thin plates of clay, chiefly used in covering houfes. With one of thefe Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was killed, at Argos in the Morea, by a woman. Pay for three dozen and a half, at seven farthings each, and find the change out of an angel. No. 187. Uxbridge, in Middlefex, has been long famous for rolls. Otway, the poet, is faid to have been * Melons, eaten after fupper, caufed the indigestion that proved fatal to George I. who expired in his carriage on the 21st of June 1727, Q. S. at a fhort diftance from Osuaburgh in Germany. WRAXALL'S Memoirs, v. i. p. 39. choked choked by fwallowing a roll too hastily. Pay for twelve dozen at 1d. £. each roll, and find the change out of a one-pound note. No. 188. French prunes are brought from Agen, at no great distance from Bourdeaux. Pay for a box containing 25 b at 16d. a fb, and find the change out of five feven-fhilling pieces. No. 189. Le Mans, in the department of Sarte, France, is noted for wax candles. Pay for three dozen at 35. 6d. a pound, and find the change out of fix guineas. No. 190. Lampreys, a kind of eel, are caught in the Severn, near Gloucefter. Henry I. died in confequence of eating too freely of them. Pay for a dozen and one third of a dozen of potted lampreys at three half crowns a pot, and find the change out of fix onepound notes. No. 191. Pay for a firkin of Cambridge butter at 9d. . a lb, and find the change out of two guineas and a half. No. 192. Veal is the flesh of a calf. Many calves are bred in Effex. Pay for a leg of veal, weighing 162 tb at 11 d. a fb, and find the change out of a guinea. No. 193. Tewkesbury, in Gloucefter fhire, was for. merly noted for mustard; Durham is now famous for that commodity. Pay for a pound at 24. . an ounce, and find the change out of a crown. No. 194. Pay for lodgings through the month of February at eighteen pence a night, and find the change out of two guineas. N. B. Put a receipt to this fum. No. 195. Pay for a ftone of Gloucestershire cheese at 9d. . a lb; a stone of meat at 11d. . a b; and a peck of Droitwich falt at 2d. . a b; and find the change out of two guineas. No. 196. Find the value of a quire of paper (24 fheets) at three farthings a fheet. No. 197 Find the value of a ream of Buckingham fhire paper (20 quires) at 1s. 9d. . a quire. No. 198. Pay for 4 ftone of meat at 9d.. a tb, and find the change out of a guinea and a half. N. B. Make a bill of this fum, and put a receipt to it. No. 199. Horfham, in Suffex, and Dorking, in Surrey, are famous for fowls. If five dozen were bought for 3 guineas, and the expence of bringing them to London was a third of the purchase-money, what would be gained by felling them at the eighth part of a pound fterling each? No. 200. Pay for the eighth part of an hundred weight of fugar at as many pence per pound as there are days in a week, and find the change out of as many fhillings as there are calendar months in a year. No. 201. What is to be paid for the wafhing of a dozen fhirts at 4d. . each, twice the number of pocket handkerchiefs at a halfpenny each, and three times the number of pairs of ftockings at 1d. 1. each. N. B. Make a bill of this fum, and put a receipt to it. No. 202. Dr. Johnson received one thousand five hundred and feventy-five pounds fterling for his adinirable Dictionary: deduct a farthing from this fum, and multiply the remainder by as many years as all the kings of the illuftrious Houfe of Brunswick have reigned years ⚫ over England to the year 1810. RULE III. When the number of articles whofe price is required, cannot be obtained by the multiplication. of any two figures into each other, as in the following queftions, find the nearest to it, which can be fo produced, and multiply the given price by the component parts, as before; then multiply the top line of the sum (which is the value of one yard, &c) by the deficiency, which, added to the preceding part of the operation, will give the value of the whole. The 4, 1, and 4, muft be taken as fo many parts of the top line, or price of one yard, pound, &c. and added to the last line of the fum. No. 203. MILLET. An efculent grain, chiefly ufed among us in puddings; but the Italians make loaves and cakes of it, which, when eaten hot, are much esteemed for their fweetnefs. It grows naturally in India, whence whence we are furnished with it annually; but it is cultivated in many parts of Europe. Millet is refrigerating and drying, difficult of digeftion, and generates flatulencies. It has, however, fome good qualities. A decoction of this grain, with figs and raifins, is faid to be an excellent fudorific and diuretic; and millet feeds are of extraordinary fervice in difeafes of the lungs *. What are 58 pounds and of millet worth at 6d. ž. per pound? Anf. £1 12s. 9d. No. 204. VIRTUE ALONE IS TRUE NOBILITY. -It was well obferved by the emperor Maximilian, toa man who requested to be ennobled, "that though he could give riches and a title, he could not make him noble." The genuine idea of nobility contains in it, fays Dr. Knox, generofity, courage, fpirit, and benevolence, the qualities of a warm and open heart, totally unconnected with the accidental advantages of riches and honour; and according to this definition, there is many a nobleman even at the loom, at the plough, and in the fhop; and many more in the middle ranks of mixed fociety. "The pride of family is all a cheat, "The virtuous only are the truly great." Whoe'er amidst the fons Of reafon, valour, liberty, and virtue, THOMSON. Of all the effects of man's capricious admiration, continues our ingenious author, there are few lefs rational, than the preference of illuftrious defcent to perfonal merit; of difeafed and degenerate nobility, to health, to The Sarmatians made a pap of millet, mingled with mare's milk, or blood. In the wealth of modern husbandry, our millet feeds poultry, and not heroes. GIBBON'S Decline, &c. vol. iv. p. 219. Sarmatia was an extenfive country in the north of Europe and Afia. See Exer. on the Globes, courage, courage, to learning, and to virtue. It may, therefore, be rationally concluded, that in proportion as the world becomes more enlightened, the exorbitant value, which has been placed on things not really valuable, will decreafe, and that mankind will at length bear their willing teftimony to the truth of Pope's well-known lines, that Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; Prunello is a kind of ftuff, of which the gowns of clergymen are made. What is the value of 65 yards of prunello at 55. 3d. 4. per yard? Anf. £17 5s. 2d. 4. No. 205. MITHRIDATE.-This is an antidote, in form of an electuary; ferving either as a remedy, or a prefervative against poifons. It is one of the capital medicines of the fhops, confifting of a vaft number of ingredients, and is accounted a cordial, opiate, fudorific, and alexipharmic. It takes its name from its inventor, Mithridates, king of Pontus, who is reported to have fo fortified his body against poifons, with antidotes and prefervatives, that when he had a mind to dispatch himself, he could not find any poison that would take effect. The recipe for making it was found in his cabinet, written with his own hand, and was carried to Rome by Pompey. See Cherries, Index. What are 74 ounces of mithridate worth at 4d. ž. per ounce? Anf. £1 63. 5d. . No. 206. MOHAIR.-Mohair, in commerce, is thread or stuff made of the hair of the Angora goat. See Camlet, Quef. 148, p. 78. What is the value of 894 dozen of mohair buttons at 15. 1d. . per dozen? Anf. £5 os. 4d. 2. No. 207. MUSK.-A dry, light, and friable subftance, of a dark blackish colour, feeling fomewhat * See Potatoes, Index; fmooth, |