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on the mode of travelling in, 327 Agriculture, great perfection of, in China, 13 Alexander's attack of a Sogdian hill fortress, 176
Alexandria defcribed, 321
Alphabets and language of Divine origin, 352 America, obfervations on, 28 American landfcapes, 6
Andaman islands defcribed, 14
uncivilized fate of the inhabitants
of, 15 Antioch, city of, defeription of, 80
rude manners of the inhabitants, 81 their diflike to Chriftians, ibid.
a difeafe peculiar to that city, 82 Antiparos, grotto of, defcribed, 127 Anturia, 365
Apartments, mode of warming, in China, 12 Apiary at Grove Hill, 185
Arab robbers, fingular fcenes with a troop of, 369
Arcadian Academy, origin of, 104 Architectural folecifm, 422 Armorial bearings, origin of, 360
Art, works of, taken from Rome by the French, 56
Arthur, Prince, anecdote of, 48
probable hiftory of, 425
Arts, fine, danger of an exceffive cultivation
Athol, Black Jock of, 136
Bantam, king of, vifit to, 39
Baths, hot and cold, in Ruffia, 282
at Siout in Egypt, 450
Bear, fea, defcription of, 326 Beggar Girl, a fong, 18
Bengal, of the inhabitants, 43
Bengalefe woman, ceremony of burning, 45 Berwick formed by Edward J. 372 befieged by Edward III. 373
Bird, a remarkable, 399 Blow gun, use of, 8
Boyd, Mark Alexander, account of, 344 Brantome, extract from, 422
Breeches, trunk, or flops, 448
Bridge, a celebrated rock, described, 5 Bristol Newgate, Verfes on the wall of, 349 Britain, a poetical sketch of, 20 Britons, ancient, drefs and appearance of, 179 fuppofed origin of, 220 Brown, Dr. John, life of, 107, 132 Browne, Mr. villany of his agent, 290 converfation with the Melek
Cairo and its inhabitants defcribed, 406 ---, perfecution of foreigners at, 408 ladies taking an airing at, 409. ---, manners of the Dervifes at, 130 Calthrop, Sir Philip, anecdote of, 448 Catacombs, ancient, 244 Catherine de Medicis, anecdote of, 50
relict of Henry V. anecdote of, 220 Caves, hiding, in Scotland, &c. 175 Cellini's bell, 422
Ceylon, pearl fishery at, 304
Charles Stuart, Prince, 137 Chinese, fuperftition of, 11 Cibber, anecdote of, 147
Clarendon's Hiftory, MS. copy of, 52 Climate, effects of, on the English character,
Clove trade, and burning of cloves, 84 Coal, pit, 62
Cold, effects of, in Ruffia, 281
Colonists in the Isle of France, immorality of, 402
Condé, Prince, sketch of his life, 345 Conflagration in the woods in America, 414 Conftantinople, ftate of learning in, 365 Conful, French, affaffinated at Alexandria, 322 Convent of Copts in the defert, Egypt, 369 Coromandel, feafons on the coaft of, 398 Courtship of the Welsh, 90
Crabs poisonous in October and November, 400 Crifpe, Henry, anecdotes of, 405 Crofs, ancient, near Bun-Awe, 63 Cruden, Alexander, anecdotes of, 29 Curiofity, prying, of the Highlanders, 139 Custom, peculiar, 269
Dervises at Cairo, manners of, 130
Dilipation of fathionable life, 94
Handel, principal occurrences of his life, 336 Harems, Turkish, defcribed, 128
Drawings, rules for aftertaining their origina Hartop, Jonathan, account of, 416
Haftings, old Mr. account of, 415 Head-drefs, horned, of the ladies, 446 Hedge-heg, fea, defcribed, 400 Hemp, intoxicating quality of, 450
Horned head-drefs of the ladies in fifteenth
Jaloffs, remarkable conduct of the King of, Minifters, two, scene between, 421
James I. anecdote of, 222 Jaspar, 96
Jefferies, Judge, anecdote of, 223
Jezzar, Palha of Damafcus, anecdotes of, 364 Joan, Princefs, fplendid cavalcade at her mar- riage, 373
Jock, Black, of Athol, 136
Johnfon's, Mr. Narrative, taken prifoner by the Indians, 332
Jones, Sir William, fketch of his literary character, 199
Journals of the Miffionary Voyage, extracts from, 167
Jubilee in 1775, celebration of, 381
Jupiter Ammon, Mr. Bowne attempts to pe- netrate to the temple of, 242
Minnikin, John, account of, 416 Minstrels and players retained by the nobility,
Negro woman, hofpitality of, 209 Necker, anecdote refpecting, 433
Karfa Tauro, Mr. Park's kind reception by, Neva, freezing of the, 280
Niagara, falls of, defcrited, 7
Niger, the river feen by Mr. Park, 208
----- ancient and modern ideas refpecting the course of, 284
Ninos, account of a portrait of, 423
Norfolk Town, America, account of, 412
Parifian electors, feditious affemblies of, 440 Park, Mr. his fufferings in his journey through the Wilderness, 205
Pearl fishery at Ceylon, 304
fith, natural hiftory of, 306
Perfians, ancient, rettrained from engaging in maritime expeditions, 360
Peter the Great, anecdote of, 50 Petrarch, anecdote of, 47
Phenomenon, a remarkable, 414 Philofophers, the modern tippling, 427 Philofopher's tone, 169
Phyfic, practice of, in Egypt, 409 Pictures, plan for a gallery of, 27 Pius VI. character of, 377
his taste for fplendid enterprifes, 378
Pius VI. his oftentation in the performance of Simms, Anne, account of, 415
Ralph, Archbishop, account of, 406
Ramus, Profeffor, anecdote of, 48
Slave, female, miferable fate of a, 255 Smith, Dr. Adam, account of, 65 J. C. anecdotes of, 340 Snakes, remarkable, 401 Sogdian hill fortrefs, attack of, 176 Solitude, the difadvantages of, 429 Solomon's throne defcribed, 142 Souls, raufmigration of, 400 Speed, Mary, account of, 415 Spider, to a, 348
Spirit, the, a tale founded on fact, 347 Squirrels, emigration of, 6 hunting, 8
Star, fea, described, 400 Stephens, Henry, anecdote qf, 49 Sterne, Archbishop, account of, 201 Stone circles, various ufes o,, 181 Storm, violent, described, 63 Sundon, Lady, account of, 262 Surgeon's Warning, 93
Swift, Rev. Tho. anecdotes of, 269
T. Tamarisks, when imported, 406 Tarantula, of the dance, 105 Target, anecdotes of, 441
Telegraph feen from Grove Hill, 184
Rates, increase of, adds to the number of the Tenga fruit, ufeful properties of, 399
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