State of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THER MOMETER in the open air, taken in the morning before fun-rife, and at noon; and the quantity of fain-water fallen, in inches and decimals, from the 30th of April 1788, to the 30th of May, near the foot of Arthur's Seat.

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CHURCH and TOWER at BRECHIN.

T Brechin, in the county of Angus, ftands one of those fingu lar monuments, the ufe of which, notwithstanding the refearches of the Antiquary, has ftill remained unknown. The Round Tower Is in height about 85 feet exclufive of the roof, and nearly 47 feet in external circumference: The roof is of ftone, with three or four windows; the height of the whole, including the vane, is 100 feet. It was formerly a detached building, but is now joined to the Church by a small aile. The only other monument of this kind is at Abernethy near Perth. There are, however, feveral of them in Ireland. The Cathedral Church, which forms part of this View, 'was founded about the 1150 by King David I. The choir has only the two fide-walls, with four windows of the Sanet form, their arches adorned with the nail-head quatrefoil, and supported by a cluster of three fender pillars. The Nave, which now ferves as a parish church, has two ailes, and a handfome fquare Tower at the West end of the North aile. The length of this church is 166 feet, its breadth 61.

Grant of Athens and Thebes, together with the Vale of Tempe in Theffaly, to Gafpar Scioppio, by the Sultan Iachia.

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HE following curious article has been lately found among the archives of the family of the Picrucci of Florence. It is an inftrument executed in favour of the celebrated Scioppius, by the Sultan Iachia, fon to Mahomet Emperor of the Turks, and the Sultana Elparé, a native of the island of Cyprus, and a defcendent of the royal family of the Palæologi.

Duke of Tufcany. From Cofmo he obtained a fum of money and other confiderable prefents. But thefe fupplies proving infufficient to enable him to dethrone his brother, or even to obtain any refpectable fettlement in Afia, he had recourse, a second time, to the fovereigns of Europe, in the hope of obtaining more effectual affistance. As Scioppius had confiderable credit with many of the European princes, and particularly with the Pope, in whofe fervice he had often employed his pen; the Sultan Iachia, in order to engage him in his intereft, granted him, in the abovementioned deed, the fovereignty of Attica, Baotia, and the town of Gonna in Theffaly. He alfo, in the fame deed, entered into the most flattering obligations in behalf of Chriftianity and the clergy of the Romish church. Though the name and works of Scioppius are now Rr2

This Prince, who had been brought up in the belief and profeffion of Chriftianity by fome Greek Monks, to whom his mother had fecretly intrufted the care of his education, endeavoured to avail himself of his right to the fovereignty of the Turkish empire, at the time when his younger brother, Achmet, mounted the throne. He applied for fupport against his brother to most of the Princes of Chriftendom, and among others to Cofmo II. Grand

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