An Account of the Nyl-ghau, an Indian animal, not bitherto defcribed
84

Experiments on Snails, contradicting the Abbé Spalanzani's Account

of the Reproduction of new Heads after the old ones have been cut

89

off

Some Account of the Aquatic Spider; from a French Work lately

published

Of the Bombardier; from the fame

Of the Sea-Bear; from the fame

Account of the Fafting Woman of Rofshire

91

92

93

93

The Cafe of Thomas Wood, a Miller of Billericay in Effex- 94

Inftances related of an aftonishing Faculty in fome Perfons, who are

faid to be able to difcover Water under ground
96

Wonderful Contrivance of Nature for the Prefervation of a Plant

that grows in the River Rhone

98

Dr. Lettfom's Account of the Tea-tree, and its Medicinal Qualities

USEFUL PROJECTS.

99

A Method of dying Wool and Silk of a Yellow Colour with Indigo,

and alfo with feveral other Blue and Red colouring Substances 106

Receipt for making the Yellow Dye

Method of making folid and comby Pot-afh

ibid.

107

Method of ripening any quantity of Wort, and of effectually raising

a bufhel of Flour with a tea-fpoonful of Barm

108

Receipt for making the Powder of Fumigation, to prevent the In-

fection of the Plague

An eafy Method of preferving Subjects in Spirits

The proper Method of raifing a White-thorn Hedge

110

III

112

Secret of recovering the Writing upon Parchments decayed by time,

and of making it legible

ANTIQUITIES.

115

Sketch of the State of Literature in England, particularly at Oxford,

about the period of the Reformation

116

An Account of the burning and Rebuilding of the Church of Canter

bury, in the year 1174

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Improvements in Architecture by the Normans

122

130

Some Extracts from an Enquiry into the Value of the ancient Greek

and Roman Money

133

Curious Extracts from the Lives of Lelande, Hearne, and Wood 139

Gertayne

Certagne Queflyons, wyth Anfweres to the fame, concernynge the
Mystery of Maconrye; wrytenne by the hande of Kynge Henrye
the Sixthe of the name, and faithfullye copyed by John Leylande,
Antiquarius

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

141

144

Extracts from a Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal
Academy, on the Distribution of the Prizes, Dec. 10, 1771, by
the Prefident
Extracts from Whitelocke's Journal of the Swedish Ambaffy; con-
taining fome Particulars of the meeting of the Swedish Diet,
affembled to confent to the Refignation of Queen Chriftina; with
an Account of the Marshal of the Boors, and the Speech he made
to the Queen on that occafion
Of the Ruffian Envoy's Audience at the Swedish Court; from the
Jame
Anecdotes of Queen Chriftina, and of her favourite Grave Magnus
de la Garde; from the fame

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147

150

151

An Account of a May-day Collation, given by Whitelocke, in the
English manner, to the Queen and fome of her favourite ladies
and courtiers
154

Some Account of the Diamond and Gold Mines in the Brafils 155

Some Extracts and Anecdotes from Großsley's Obfervations on Eng-

land

157

Account of the Siege of Syracufe; from Hampton's Tranflation of

Polybius

164

Account of the Fens in Lincolnshire, and their produce

167

Singular Gratitude and Generofity of Sentiment between two Ara-

bian Lords

Extract from a little work, called Something New

172

Analogy from the fame

174

The Defects of Modern Education

176

Effay on Montefquieu's Spirit of Laws; by Voltaire

178

On Flattery; by the fame

179

Derivation of the word Bleffed, and of other old words

181

Mr. Ferguson's Defcription of the Devil's Cave at Caftletown, in

On Converfation; from the Town and Country Magazine

On New Wards; from the fame

POETRY...

Extracts from Youth, a Poem; by Hall Hartfon

192

Salima, an Arabian Eclogue; from poems confifting chiefly of transla-

tions from the Afiatic languages, by the very ingenious and learned

Mr. Jones

A Perfian Song of Hafiz; from the fame

A Turkish Ode of Mefibi; from the fame

An Elegy upon Laura, in imitation of Petrarch

196

198

200

201

Ode for the New Year, 1772, by William Whitehead, Efq. 205

The Ode performed at the opening of the New Exhibition Room of

the Royal Incorporated Society of Artifts of Great Britain 206

Infcription for the neglected Column in the Palace of St. Mark, at

Florence; written in 1740, by the Hon. Horace Walpole, Efq. 208

The Entail, a Fable, by the fame

Epilogue to the Fashionable Lover

The Downfall of Rome; from the celebrated Van Aaron

200

210

211

Verfes by a young African Negro Woman at Bofton in New Eng-

land

To a Lady who greatly admired the Spanish Poetry

Upon the Earl of Chatham's Verfes to Mr. Garrick

On the Royal Marriage Att

217.

Barreaux's celebrated Sonnet, Grand Dieu! tes jugemens, &c.

tranflated

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A Fragment of Milton; from the Italian

Ode for his Majefty's Birth day, June 4, 1772

Against Life; from the Greek of Profidippus

For Life; from the Greek of Metrodorus

218

ibid.

ibid.

219

220

The Mifer and the Moufe; an Epigram from the Greek ibid.
Impromptu, by Mr. Horace Walpole, on feeing the Duchess of
Queensbury walk at the Princess Dowager of Wales's Funeral

ibid.
An Epitaph on the Monument of the late worthy and Rev. Mr.
Beighton, Vicar of Egham; by Mr. Garrick

ibid.

Epitaph on Mrs. Taylor, in Patricksbourn church-yard, Kent 221

Infcription upon the Monument of Mrs. Pritchard, lately put up at
the Weft-end of Westminster-Abbey

Imitation of Buchanan

A Stanza on Death, by Voiture, tranflated

The Pelican and the Spider, a Fable

The Progrefs of Poetry

ibid.

222

ibid.

ibid.

225

On feeing Mr. Barry's Picture of Venus rifing out of the Sea, at

the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, May 8, 1772

231

ACCOUNT

AccouRT of BOOKS for 1772.

The Hiftory of the prefent State of Discoveries relating to Vifion,

Light, and Colours; by Jofeph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. 232

Lectures on the Feudal and English Laws; by the late Francis

Stoughton Sullivan, LL.D.

Travels by Jofeph Marshall, Efq. 3 vols. 8vo.

235

241

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