volume, viz. from Richards's Modern France, 78.-Peter Pin- dar's Pathetic Odes, 80.-Mrs. Robinson's Monody to the Me- mory of the Queen of France, 116. -Hampfon's tranflation of Vi- da's Poetics, 188.-Peter Pin- dar's Celebration, 235- Hoole's Poems, 236.-Holmes's Ode for the Encania at Oxford, 237.- -Prefton's Democratic Rage, 308.-Jerningham's Siege of Berwick, 332.- Liver- pool Odes, 352.-Williams's Poems,406.-Imitations of Mar- tial, 444-O'Keeffe's London Hermit, 459. Caernarvon
Caftle, 470.-Afiatic Researches, by Sir William Jones, 572. Poetry inferior to painting, 153. Poland, important facts rel. to the
late difmemberment of, 341. Poor's rates, and Poor-Houtes, in- teresting obf. rel.to, 75. Rea- fons for abolishing, ib. No Poor's rates in America, ib. Plan for a national charity, 77. Portugal, hiftorical collections re- lative to, 581. Priestley, Dr. farewell difcourfe,
on his departure for America, 356. His experiments relative to the ufe of vital air in difeafes, 557. Printing, in Spain, impolitic mo-
nopoly of, 579. Prodigal Son, expofition of the pa- rable of, 271. Q Quakers advised to encourage painting, and why. 30. Quina-quina,
Reform of the British parliament- ary reprefentation, unfuccefs- fully attempted in the reign of Geo. II. 148. Neceffity of, at the prefent time, 223. Plan of a reform, on the principles of Mr. Pitt, 224. Scheme for connecting the alteration in the conftitution of the Houfe of Commons with an equalization of the land-tax, 313. Subject
continued, 436. Farther con tinued, 452.
Rheims, anecdotes rel. to, 529. Robertfon, Mr. account of an an- cient obelisk in Berwick (hire, 21. Of the ancient breed of Horfes in Scotland, ib. Rocks, in Stromnefs, remarkable, as rifing from the fea marked with all fhapes, 21. Roland, M. teftimony to the worth of his character, 60. His cha- racter impeached, 231. Raffi, M. de, new edition of his Hebrew Bible, 576.
Rouffeau, M. his tranflation of a
paffage in Tacitus, contrafted with Mr. Murphy's tranf. 36. Roy, Rev. Dr. on the manner of fupporting the poor in Scot- land, 119.
Ruiz, Don, his botanical re- fearches in Peru, 581. S
Scheele, M. difcoveries relative to vital air, 557 Schroeter, M. obfervat. of Saturn and of the moon, with a telef cope 13 feet in length, 513. Schubert, M. folution of a pro- blem in fpherics, 482. On the geographical projection of an elliptic fpheroid, 433, 498. Two aftronom. problems, 497. Scottish nation, inquiry into the
origin of the name of, 17.
Ancient cuftoms of, ib. Seneca, criticifm on his lyle, 42. Sewerguine, M. on Schoerl, 495.
On the volcanic mountains in the neighbourhood of Gottin- gen, 501. Shakspeare, illuftrations of, 241. et jeq. Malone's ed. of, praifed, 267. His poems cenfured, ib. Shenstone, a paffage in his paftoral ballad compared with a fimilar paffage in Shakspeare, 267. Short, James, an ingenious op- tician, fome account of, 200. Silks. See Baumé. Silver, rich mines of, in Spanish America, 580. Simpson, Thomas, an ingenious mathematician, monument in memory
memory of, 162. Socolow, M. on a preparation for killing worms that are deftruc- tive to herbage, &c. 489. Soldiers, confequences of quarter- ing them in a metropolis, 38. Souza, M. Arabic papers, rel. to the hiftory of Portugal, 582. Spain, economical mein. concern- ing the product. and manufact. of, 579. State of the brewery of beer in that kingdom, ib. Of the printing bufinefs, zb. Other arts, &c. ib. Atlas of, 580. Statues, impropriety of placing them on columns, 542.
antique, capital ones in the Pope's collection, lately difcovered, 577:
Sted, made from iron ore, 496. Struve, Dr. anal. of the medicinal waters of Y verdun, 304. Sugar cane, botanical and inedical account of that plant, 140. Sugar, fubftitute for, by a prepa- ration of honey, 577. T
Tacitus, Mr. Murphy's tranflation
of commended, 36. Appendix to, 40. Specimen of his com- mentary, 42. Tails, incredible account of men formed with that fuppofed ap- pendage, 569. Thaarup, M. his account of Den- mark, 329: Townley, Col. the tranflator of
Hudibras into French, 415. Tychfen, M. defcription of Ori- ental coins in the royal li brary of Gettingen, 50s. On the religion of Zoroaster, 516. On Samaritan coins, ib. Typhus, thoughts on the nature and cure of, 394. Tytler, M. differt on the Scottish mufic, 197. On the marriage of Queen Mary with Bothwell, 198. Obf. on The Vifion,' a poem, 199. V
Vingar. See Lowitz.
Wapfbote, Farmer, the family of, faid to have rented the fame farm for 1000 years, 161. Warburton, Bp. faid to have written his annotations on Shakspeare with a view rather to display his own ingenuity than to illuftrate his author, 243. Wattier, Mifs, a Dutch actress, high encomium on, 544. Williams, Mr. plan fora royal fo- reft of oak in the highlands of Scotland, 199..
Willis, Mr. on blue colours pro- duced from the mother-water of foda phofphorata, 68. Wine, manufacture of, in Spain, injured by enorm. taxes, 579. Wolf, M. on the muscular fibres. of the heart, 483.488. 494. On an aorta, extended to an uncfual fize, ruptured and partially of- fified, 489. On the cellular membrane, 495. 501.
Teoft ufed, fuccefsfully, in the cure
of putrid fevers, 302. Young, Dr.demonftration of New- ton's theorem for correcting fpherical errors in the object glaffes of telescopes, 389. Yverdun, account of the medical waters and baths there, 304.
Ꮓ Zocatecas, city of, furrounded by rich filver mines, 580. Zach, M. de, obf. on Herschel's planet, 508.
Zoologia Adriatica, 578. Zoroaster, difquifition concerning the religion of, 516. Zalero, M. defcription of the Charax Leucometofon, 485. Of a new ip cies of the Echeneis, ib. On a new species of Gym- notus, 490.
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