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Account of the inhabitants of the Batta country, in the island of Sumatra';'

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Character of Auguftus Hervey, late Earl of Briftol

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Various extracts from Dr. Foart Simmons's Account of the life and Writings
of the late Dr. William Hunter

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Character of Lord Robert Manners, late commander of his Majesty's fhip the
Refolution, of 74 guns

NATURAL HISTORY.

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A letter from William Herfchel, Efq; F. R. S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.
P. R. S. relative to a new ftar, by him called the Georgium Sidus
On the diameter and magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with a defcription
of the dark and lucid difk and periphery micrometers
Obfervations on the light, diameter, and magnitude, of the Georgium Sidus

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Extracts from an account of the earthquakes which happened in Italy, from
February to May, 1783 by Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath,
F. R. S.

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Tranflation of the Count Francefco Ippolito's letter to Sir William Hamilton,
giving an account of the earthquakes which happened in Calabria, March 28,
1783

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Account of the black canker caterpillar, which defroys the turnips in Norfolk

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Some account of the "Defcription of Experiments made with the Aeroflatic
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Machine, &c. by M. Faujas de St. Fond.”
Tranflation of a copy of the certificate dated at the Chateau-de-la-Muette, ncar
Paris, the exft of November, 1783, relative to the aerial excurfion of the
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Marquis D'Arlandes, and M. Pilatre de Rozier,

Account of the aerial excurfion of Meff. Charles and Robert, on the aft of De-
cember, 1783, as given by Monf. Charles; tranflated from the Journal de
Paris of the 12th and 1 4th of the fame month

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Account of the discovery of an island just risen out of the ocean near Iceland, in
the North Seas

USEFUL PROJECTS.

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On the culture and uses of the turnip-rooted cabbage
Difcovery of a fubftitute for verdigris, in dying black

Account of cloth made from the refufe of flax, and backings of tow

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A bort account of the machine lately erected, by command of his majesty, ar
• Windfor, for raising water out of a very deep well, 10 supply the caftle
Obfervations on grown or sprouted corn; the caufe of its sprouting; and the
proper means of remedying the inconveniences thereof

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On the comparative utility of oxen and borfes in bujbandry; from the second
polume

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volume of Letters and Papers addressed to the Society inftituted at Bath, for

the Encouragement of Agriculture, &c.

On planting barren lands with wood; from the same

On watering meadows from the fame

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On the fcab in sheep, and some approved remedies recommended; from the fame

ANTIQUITIES.

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On the office of High Steward of England; from Hearne's curious difcourfes

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Translations of three authentic registers of the monaftry of St. Edmund's Bury, formerly kept by the Sacrifts

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Defcription and account of the caftle of Caernarvon; from Pennant's Tour in Wales

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An account of the ancient British games; from the fame
Extracts out of a manuscript treatise of the Lordships Marchers in Wales; from
Appendix to the fame

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Account of Sir Richard Bulkely; in which is a strong description of the favourite Earl of Leicester; from the fame

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An account of two ancient oil-mills in the kingdom of Naples

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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

Difference between memory and imagination; from Dissertations Moral and Critical, by J. Beattie, L. L. D.

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Of Accent, its nature and ufe; Standard of Pronunciation: from the Theory of Language, in the fame work

Extract from Illuftrations on Sublimity, in the fame work

D. D.

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On Tafle; from Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Letters, by Hugh Blair, 136 Comparative Strictures on Tillotson, Sir William Temple, Addifon, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bolingbroke, in point of ftyle; from the fame work

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Comparative merit of the Ancients and Moderns; from the fame A letter from Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Prior; from vol. ii. of Atterbury's Epif tolary Correfpondence 153

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Reflections on a late fcandalous report about the repeal of the Teft A&t; from the fame

Letter from Bishop Atterbury to Lord Inverness, after that bishop's banishment from England; from vol. iii. of the fame work

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An abftract from the King's books in the Royal Treasury of Goanaxuate, fince the establishment of that office, the 30th of April 1665, to Dec. 31, 1778, fbewing, by accounts, made up every five years, the weight of the gold and filver on which duties have been paid, and the whole amount of thofe duties during the above period of 114 years

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A particular account of an Hindoo woman's burning herself alive with her deceased

ceased husband; from an authentic letter, dated Calcutta, 25th July, 1779

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An extract from the fequel to Emilius and Sophia, by F. J. Rouffeau, found among his papers after his deaib

POETRY.

Ode for the new year 1783, by William Whitehead, Efq.

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Ode for his Majefty's birth-day, June 4, 1783, by the fame

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Extracts from Mafon's Translation of Du Frefnoy's Art of Painting

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An extract from the Village, a poem, by the Rev. G. Crabbe, Chaplain to bis Grace the Duke of 'Rutland, &c.

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On the death of Dr. Robert Levet, by Dr. Johnson

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A farewell to Bath, by Lady M. W. Montagu

"The entertaining and facetious biftory of John Gilpia; fhewing how be went further than be intended, and came home safe at last.”

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On the Marriage of the Honourable Mifs Eliz. Sackville to Colonel Herbert, By Richard Cumberland Efq.

-Races. A Ballad. By the late Sir John Moore, Bart.

A Song

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Lines to Mrs. Montague, on ber happening to fall at St. James's, by Mr.

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An account of the Hiftory of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain; by Robert Watfon, L. L. D. &c. &c.

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An account of Differtations Moral and Critical; by James Beattie, LL. D. &c. &c.

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