NATURAL HISTORY. Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious, by authors 74 A letter from James Parfons, M. D. F. R. S. to the right honourable the earl of Morton, prefident of the royal fociety, on the double horns of the rhinoceros. 79 A letter to the prefident of the royal fociety; containing a new manner of measuring the velocity of wind, and an experiment to afcertain to what quantity of water a fall of fnow is equal root 1 81 Some curious particulars relative to the growth of rhubarb; how an animal --called the marmot contributes to its propagation, and how the natives dry the 84 Some account of the horns, called mammon's horns; and the ftrange opinions the Tartars hold of the kind of animal to which they imagine they belonged Extract from the Theatrico Critico Univerfal. Para Defenganno De Errores Communes, the voluminous work of the famous Spanish Benedictine Monk, Father Feyjoo 85 86 88 Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding againft, and remedying the noxious vapours of charcoal, Sc. On the effect of the imagination on a different body 92 Of the common fenfory affected by poisons 96 Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneons wood, and subterra 99 103 neous waters. Obfervations on the cicada, or locuft of America, which appears periodically once in 16 or 17 years Experiments on a bog's bladder 106 Obfervations on fome extraordinary symptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in tog great a quantity. 107 108 An account of a dwarf, kept in the palace of the late King of Poland New experiments concerning the putrefaction of the juices and humours of animal bodies 109 Experiment on the heat that may be caused by the rays of the fun reflected from the moon 115 116 On a fingular bone, found in the lower belly Account of a petrified bee-hive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's differtation on the ofteocolla 117 118 120 121 122 On a fish of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects Obfervations on cures performed by burning 124 126 ANTI, ANTIQUITIES. A letter from Edward Wortley Montague, Efq. F. R. S. to William Watfon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey to Cairo, in Egypt, to the written mountains in the defert of Sinai 128 Some account of the ruins of Poeftum, or Paffidonia, an ancient city of Magna Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately difcovered 137 A fport account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces; a remarkable building and veftage of antiquity, ftill remaining on the banks of the river Irtif, in the country of the Kalmucks, being in the wilds of the great or eaftern Tartary Of fome ancient monuments in the fame country 139 140 Some account of a remarkable monument in the isle of Purbec, known by the names of Agglefton, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Cap, Sc. 141 A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old English of that time, with a tranflation of it into modern English, by Mr. Somner Hiftorical remarks on ancient architecture 143 144 An account of the cruel facrifices of the Canaanites, Phenicians, and other nations 150 159 ibid. Of the Chaldeans, and their original Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural son of King Richard III.) who died 22 Dec. 1550 (4 Edward VI.) The teftimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry IV. was thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury -- 162 Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the week ibid. LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Thoughts on the causes and confequences of the present high price of provi frons An effay upon theatrical imitation 165 173 Some account of a nation in South America, of a moft extraordinary and gigantic fize Catherine Vade's preface to the tales of William Vade 185 190 194 201 The history of nonfenfe Copy of Emen's first letter to the then E. now D. of Nd, with a translation from the Armenian of his letter to Prince Heraclius A letter from the Abbe Metaftafio on the musical drama, addressed to the author of an effay on the union of mufic and poetry An effay on elegies 218 220 Tava letters from Mr. Everard, F. S. M. containing an adventures of which he was a witness, at the quickfilvermines of Idra 222 POETRY POETRY. The remains of the twenty-fifth Idyllium of Theotricus. Tranflated from the Greek, by Francis Fawkes, M. A. 4 225 The Story of Godiva. From Edge-hill, a poèm; by Richard Jago, A. M. 232 Of Birmingham-its manufactures-iron ore-procefs of it.—Panegyric upon iron. From the fame 235 Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal, in Edinburgh. Written by James On the much-lamented death of the marquis of Tavistock Tranflation of a Greek epigram on a Grecian beauty 238 239 241 242 Letter to Dean Swift, when in England, in 1726. An original ibid. An ode to Spring, Supposed to have been written by the celebrated Vanessa, in confequence of her passion for Dean Swift An ode to Wifdom. By the fame A reflection on the death of the marquis of Tavistock The rookery Epitaph Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King 244 ibid. 245 ibid. 246 ibid. To Sir Godfrey Kneller. By the late D. Geakie On the Circus at Bath. By a perfon of quality On Mr. Garrick's picture by a buft of Shakespeare. By Dr. H-rr-gt-n The Lover and the Friend. Taken from the Bagatelles The Acceptable Sacrifice; a fragment of Meander: tranflated by Francis Fawkes, M. A. - 251 A tranflation of a little fonnet wrote by Plato in his younger time of life, and preferved by Digenes Laertius 252 ibid. Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By Dr. Johnfen Verfes infcribed on a small cottage, in ruftic tafte, intended as a place of retirement, built by Powis, Efq. in a grove by the river Severn 253 An occafional prologue Spoken by Mr. Powel, at the opening of the theatre royal in Covent Garden, on Monday the 14th of September ibid. On the right hon. the earl of Chesterfield's recovery from a late indifpofition. By Michael Clancy, M. D. 254 Prologue to the Oxonian in Town. Spoken by Mr. Woodward, in the character of a gentleman commoner, dreffed in his academical habit 256 Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Mattocks 257 Prologue to a Peep behind the Curtain; or, the new Rehearsal · 258 Epilogue 259 Pre Prologue to the new comedy of the Widow'd Wife. Spoken by Mr. Holland Epilogue. Spoken by Mr. Clive 259 260 A paftoral. In the modern ftyle 261 An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire. land The Winter's Walk. By Samuel Johnson, L. L. D. ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1767. The History of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed, a hiftory of the revolution of England, from the death of Edward the Confeffor to the birth of Henry the Second Commentaries on the laws of England An effay on the hiftory of civil fociety 266 286 307 An effay on crimes and punishments; tranflated from the Italian: with a commentary attributed to Monf. de Voltaire; tranflated from the French 316 FINIS. Printed by J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand. |