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Blockade, right of, discussed, 479.
Blood, corruption of, in cases

of crime, remarks on, 179.
Both, observations on that word,
278. note.

Bothnia, West, briefly described,
230.

Bournon, Comte de, on the
Laumonite, 133. On Bardig.
lione, 140.

Brain, on the influence of, on
the action of the heart, 255.
Bread, in the north of Sweden,
made of barley, flour, and
chaff, 229.
Britain, political decline of, poeti-

cally foretold and lamented, 429.
Brodie, Mr., his Croonian lecture
on the influence of the brain,
&c., 255. His experiments on
vegetable poisons, 258.
Bullion, Bank paper, and Ex-
changes, tracts and observations
rel. to, 97-101, 212-215,

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Catania, description of, 6.
Catholics, of Ireland, origin and
consequences of animosity be
tween them and the Protestants,
365-372.

Cavern, in the province of Anger-
manland, description of, 229.
Cecil, Lord Burleigh, his charac-

ter variously portrayed, 292.
Chaff, an ingredient in bread,
made in the North of Sweden,

229.

Chariot-race, representation of, in
an antient bas-relief in terra-
cotta, 34.

Charity, proper objects and direc-
tion of, 334.

Cheshire, the district of, described,
which produces rock-salt, 131.
Chester, some account of that
county, 23-26. Of the city,
27, 28.

China, Emperor of, 1100 years
before Christ, determines the
length of the meridian shadows

with accuracy, 471.

Chinese vessels described, 303.
Choiseul, Duke de, character of, as
minister at war, under Louis
XIV., 512.
Christianity, its fitness for univer-
sal prevalence, 391.
Church-Architecture, See Architec-

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Common-place books, hints relative
to, 468.
Contraband, See Neutrals.
Copper, red oxyd of, found in
Cornwall, description of, 131.
Cornwall, on the physical struc-
ture of, 134. Inhabitants of,
characterized, 190. Geogra-
phical particulars of the coun-
ty, 191. Agricultureof, 194—
197.

Cossacks, of the Don, character

and manners of, 425.
Court and kitchen of Elizabeth,
wife of the Protector Crom-
well, 298.
Courtesy, extract from a sermon
on, 204.

Cream, clouted, process for mak-
ing, 197.

Critics, Mr. Bentham's singular

observations on, 311.
Cromwell, Joan, the wife of the
Protector, her court and kit-
chen described, 298.
Cupid and Psyche, antient repre-
sentations of, in terra cotta, 34.

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Ford, John, his merits as a dra-
matist appreciated, and com-
ments on his works, 243-
254, 372-386.
Forests, in Lapland, set on fire
by lightning, 237.
Fowls, salted and dried, kept for

a year by the Laplanders, 230.
France, obs. on its power of creat
ing a navy, 151-153. View
of the comparative military
force of France and of foreign
powers, 463. Army of, view
of its state and progress from
the time of Henry IV. to the
present, 451-455. Account
of the war of the Revolution, in
its early period, 456-464.
Practice of surgery in, 483.
Practice of medicine, and re-
dundant pharmaceutical prepa-
raticus, 489-495. See War.
See Army.

G
Gas, oxymuriatic, and oxygene,
on some of the combinations of,
254-257.

Genius, verses on, in French, 59.
Geology of Madeira, sketch of,

141.

of parts of Hants and
Dorset, sketch of, 138. Of
the vicinity of Dublin, 139.
Goodman, Bp., his Aulicus Coqui-

naria, 297.
Greeks, antient, influence of the
state of society and manners
among them on the arts, 119.
On the progress of sculpture,

120.

Guernsey, description of, 128.

H

Hall, Thomas, a man-boy, ac-
count of, 23.
Hamilton, Lady Ann, beautiful
verses to, 57.
Hampshire, on the geology of, 138.
Harbours, remarkable, of Ireland,
356.

Heat, animal, on the generation
of, 256.

Hedges, the Tamarisk recom
mended for, in some situations,
195.
Heligoland, mineralogical section
of, 140.

Hellins, Rev. J., on the rectifica

tion of the Hyperbola, 259.
Henry IV., Emperor of Germany,
comes to Venice on a pilgrim-
age in 1084, and is the cause
of an extraordinary miracle, 527.
Hernia, memoirs on, 487.
Holland, Mr., on Cheshire rock-
salt, 131.

Home, Mr., his experiments on
the passage of fluids from the
stomach into the blood, &c. 258.
Homilies of the Church, historical
particulars of, 207.

Hops, planted at Dingersjö, in

the north of Sweden, 229.
Horner, Mr., on the mineralogy
of the Malvern-hills, 139.
Hospitals, French military, eulogy

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India, our trade to, erroneously
represented as enormously lu-
crative, 87.

Industry, and commere, obs. on
encouragements relative to,

312.

Ireland, summary of its natural
advantages, the obstacles to its
improvement, &c., 355-372.
Iron, sulphate of, on the decom-
position of, 141.

Italy, picture of its general state
of culture in the sixteenth cen-
tury, 531.

K

King, Lord, his justification for
demanding his rents in cash, 97.
Kleber, General, his good conduct

at the battle of Fleurus, 460.
Knight, Mr. T., on multinomials,
261.

Kremlin, a part of Moscow, des
scribed, 412.

L

Lapland, Alps of, obs. on their
height, 238.

Norwegian, passage over
one of its ridges described,
234-5.

Laplanders, various particulars re-
lative to the manners and cus-
toms of, 231-237.
Laumonile, account of that mi-
neral, 133.

Laws, criminal, of England, ob-
servations on the necessity for
revising them, 183.

Le Brun, M., eulogy on, 533.
Comments on and specimens of
his works, 534-544.
Lichens, various, used in medicine
by the French, 491.
Lightning burns forests in Lap-
land, 237.

Lime, sulphate of, memoir on, 140.
Linné, his Swedish MSS. trans-
lated by Mr. Troilius, and pub-
lished by Dr. Smith, 225-5.
Simple equipment of Linné for

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his Lapland journey, 227.
Particulars of, 228-240.
London, temperature of, compared
with that of several parts of
Russia, 424.

, See Parkinson.
Louis XV., character and anec
dotes of, 143-149. Totally
inattentive to, and ignorant of,
the duties of his station, 513
His saying with respect to the
formation of a French navy, ib.
Loungers, in the reign of James I.,
described, 295.

M

McCulloch, Dr., his account of
Guernsey, &c., 128.
On a
section of Heligoland, 140.
Madeira, sketch of the geology
of, 141.

Magdalen College, Oxford, des-
cription of, 69.

Maguey, a species of anana, cul-
tivated in New Spain for the
manufacture of a spirituous
liquor, 42.

Maize, its great fecundity and

utility in Spanish America, 41.
Malay-village,description of, 302.
Malvern hills, on the mineralogy
of, 139.

Marcet, Dr., on a chalybeate
spring in the Isle of Wight,
137. On diabetes mellitus, 527.
Marshes and mosses, obs. on the
distinction between, 53.
Materia Medica, in France, much
more copious than in England,

490.
Meridian shadows, length of, de-
termined by a Chinese Emperor,
1100 years before Christ, 471.
Mermaid, supposed verses by one
of those fabulous animals, III,

I12.

Mexico, some account of, 36.
Mineralogy of the Malvern hills,
139. Of Heligoland, 140.
Minerva, antient figures of, ia
terra-cotta, described, 33.

Miracle,

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Pay, of the French Troops, 456.
Pembroke, Earl of, lines on his

death, by Bishop Earle, 222.
Pepys, Mr., on the decomposition
of sulphate of iron, 141.
Peter-house, Cambridge, account
of, 21.

Peyton, Sir Edward, his "Divine
catastrophe of the house of
Stuart," 297.

Phillipps, Mr., on the red oxyd
of copper, 131.

Pilez, or Pillas, on the culture
and uses of that grain, 195.
Pills, enormous list of, in the
French materia medica, 494.
Pitch-lake in Trinidad, account of,
132.

Places, abolition of, good remarks
on, 3c9.

Plants, rare, assemblage of, on a
mountain in Lapland, 234. On
the Lapland-Alps, 238.
Poisons, vegetable, experiments on
their mode of producing death,
258.

Political economy, remarks on, 313.
Pompadour, Marchioness de, cha-
racter and anecdotes of, 143-
149.

Population of Messina, 11. Of
Palermo, iz. Of Mexico and
Queretaro, 39. Of Iceland,
339. Of Moscow, 411.
Portugal, the best line of posi-
tions for the defence of, 399.
Superstition of the people,

400.
Potatoes, early, mode of cultivat-
ing, in Cheshire, 26. Cultiva-
tion of in Ireland, 360.
Prize-Courts, obs. on, 480.
Punishment, corporeal, remarks
on, 73. By solitary imprison-
ment, its good effects, 77. By
death, observations on, 180.

R
Recruiting, military, obs. on, 102.
Reform, parliamentary, hints rel.
to, 328.

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