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,
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,
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-
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.
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,
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,
Guernsey, description of, 128.
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
India, our trade to, erroneously represented as enormously lu- crative, 87.
Industry, and commere, obs. on encouragements relative to,
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
Mexico, some account of, 36. Mineralogy of the Malvern hills, 139. Of Heligoland, 140. Minerva, antient figures of, ia terra-cotta, described, 33.
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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