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THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

O. R

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

For NOVEMBER 1785.

[With a VIEW of ALLOA TOWER, and a Plate of Antiquities.]

CONTENTS.

Register of the Weather for Novem. ber, p. 266. Description of the Tower of Alloa, p. 207.

Drinkwater's Account of the burning

of the Spanish Batteries, p. 268. Succeffion of the Lords of Seffion,

P. 273.

Some Account of the Commiffion of

Chastity at Vienna, p. 275. Peyfonnel's Remarks on the Baron de Tott's Memoirs, p. 276. On the perceptive Power of Vegetables, p. 279.

Letter defcribing the Lake of Killarney, p. 284.

On Homer. Tranflated from the
French, p. 289.
Defects of the Iliad, p. 290.
Probability of its having been writ-

ten in different Ages, p. 291. And that the Text has been changed

and mutilated, p. 293. The Landlord, or Man of Nature, p. 296.

History of Delia Drama, p. 299.. On certain Arrangements in Civil Policy, &c. in a Letter to the Gentlemen of a Northern County, P. 302.

Of the Eloquence of Cicero, p. 306. Biographical Sketches of celebrated Muficians, p. 311.

Miscellaneous Obfervations on Holland, p. 312.

Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great, p. 315.

A remarkable Incident from Savary's Letters, p. 319.

Life and Character of the late Colo

nel Humberstone, p. 321. Account of the Standing Stanes of Lundy, p. 324.

Propofal for fecuring Cities from Earthquakes, p. 325.

Anecdotes of Leonardo da Vinci, Pi 328.

Bolton's Account of English Ferns, P. 332.

Scott's Critical Effays on English
Poems, p. 333.

Tour to Ermenonville, p. 353.
Account of the Death of Rouffeau,
P. 336.
National Prejudices overcome; or,
The History of Sir George O
P. 338.
POETRY, P. 341.
Account of the New Opera called
the Choleric Fathers, p. 344.

A STATE of the BAROMETER in inches and decimals, and of Farenheit's THERMOMETER, in the open air, taken before funrife, and the quantity of rain-water fallen, in inches and deci mals, from the 31st of Oct. to the 29th of Nov. 1785, near the foot of Arthur's Seat.

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