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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,

See Ruiz.

or

R

Balfam tree.

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.

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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.

Y

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.


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.

END OF VOL. XII, OF THE NEW SERIES.

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