An account of the marquis de Fratteaux.

Epitaph on the late Doctor King, of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Account of the sheep and sheep walks of Spain.

77

Extract from M. l'Abbé Chappe d' Auteroche's journey to Siberia, for obServing the late tranfit of Venus over the Sun.

89

An account of the journey up Mount Etna. From the Latin of the late M. D'Orville.

96

Obfervations on the fingular phænomena of disappearing and re-appearing rivers: with a defcription of feveral such rivers in Normandy, and other parts of Europe.

An account of the plague at Aleppo.

of giants:

of the extraordinary and fudden growth of a child.

Remarks on Swallows on the Rhine.

An account of the infect called the vegetable fly.

of a remarkable fish, taken in King Road, near Bristol.

Nature the best mistress in bufbandry

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102

106

107

109

110

112

The existence of the fountain tree in the Canary islands afcertained, and its

effects accounted for.

Account of a plant's diftilling quickfilver.

Hiftory of a new metal, known by the name of White gold or Platina.
Inftance of the regeneration of metals.

PROJECTS.

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118

119

123

124

An account of the Spanish fishery (hitherto unnoticed by other nations) on the coaft of Barbary. Fresh wort, or the infufion of malt, recommended to trial as a powerful antifcorbutic in long voyages.

Eafy method of bindering water from growing putrid.

128

130

of Sweetening putrid water, with a hint for remedying fome inconveniencies attending fire ventilators.

131

General rules to preferve the health of foldiers and failors in hot cli

mates.

132

Tranflation of a letter from the avoyer, or chief magiftrate, at Berne, in relative to the magazines for corn and wine

Switzerland, to

there.

An account of the progress of grain from the market to the mouth.

ibid.

135

On the benefit of falt to cattle, with the method of ufing it.

136

138

Encouragement for planting palm-trees in high latitudes.

A method of making all kinds of wood more durable than they naturally are, fuccefsfully tried upon beech wood.

ibid.

Extract of a letter from Vevai in Switzerland, containing an eafy method of making wood less combustible.

VOL. VII.

140

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Directions for difcovering coal-mines.

Procefs for making fal mirabile.

On ftaining elm boards of a mahogany colour, with a bint towards ftaining

wood whilst growing.

Memoirs concerning the method of making salt-petre in Podolia.

An account of a very remarkable bridge in Wales.

140

141

142

146

147

Method of deftroying great numbers of rats in a small time.
Cheap, eafy, and clean mixture for effectually deftroying bugs,

148

151

ANTIQUITIES.

A letter from the learned Father Jacquier, profeffor of mathematics in the
college of Sapienza at Rome, concerning the juppojed Egyptian buft at

Turin.

Defcription of Syracufe, Palermo, and Enna.

153

An account of fome fubterraneous apartments, with Etrufcan infcriptions
and paintings, difcovered at Civita Turchino in Italy.

On the true derivation of fome modern English words.

154

157

158

166

167

173

A table exhibiting the ftandard, weight, value, and a comparative view
of English filver money from King William I. Ann. 1066, to K. George
III. Ann. 1763.

Of furnames.

174

176
ibid.

Of ancient palaces, their gardens, and embellishments.
Abstract of the Atatutes relating to the brewery at Paris, made in the
year 1268, in the reign of St. Louis, and remaining in force to this
day.
177
A defcription of the most honourable city of London, written originally
in Latin by William Fitzftephen, a monk of Canterbury, who flourished
in the reign of Henry II.

178

A declaration, or briefe collection, of one year's expence for all the ordinarie
dinners and fuppers, with her majefty (queen Elizabeth's) breakefaft, and
breakefaft for the guard, c.

184

ESSAY S.

Remarks on fimplicity in writing.

185

A differtation on the gods of the ancient heathens, and the ufe which He-
fiod and Homer have made of them.

187

Elays on the importance of an inquiry into the human mind.

190

Thoughts on felf-preservation, in regard to fuicide.
Reflections on different fubjects of morality, by Stanislaus, King of Poland,
Duke of Lorrain and Bar.

194
Dialogue

194

Dialogue between a king and his favourite, on the apparent happiness of human conditions, by Stanislaus, King of Poland, Duke of Lorrain and Bar.

On friendship and pity.

200

204

Reflections on the influence of language on opinions and of opinions on language.

207

A difcourfe addreffed to the Welches (i. e. French) by Anthony Vadee, brother to William.

On decency in converfation.

Unconnected thoughts on gardening.

An original letter from Mr. Pope to the duchefs of Hamilton.

POETRY.

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222

The way to be wife.

245

A Madame De La Condamine, le lendemain de fes noces.

ibid.

246

Imitated.

Sir William Young to his lady, on having one of his eyes beat out.

ibid.

Epitaphe de Regnier. Faite par lui mefme.

247

Regnier's epitaph. Made by himself.

ibid.

ibid.

Lines ftuck on the Temple gate.

248

Epigram on the new pavement.

ibid.

The candle and fnuffers. A fable.

An Account of Books published in 1764.

An hiftorical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce, from the earliest accounts to the prefent time, c.

250

A hiftory of the military tranfactions of the British nation in Indoftan, from