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Account of the inhabitants of the Batta country, in the island of Sumatra ;

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Character of Luther, by Bibop Atterbury

Character of Auguftus Hervey, late Earl of Bristol

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Various extracts from Dr. Foart Simmons's Account of the life and Writings of the late Dr. William Hunter

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Character of Lord Robert Manners, late commander of his Majefty's ship the Refolution, of 74 guns

NATURAL HISTORY.

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A letter from William Herfchel, Efq; F. R. S. to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart.
P. R. S. relative to a new flar, by him called the Georgium Sidus
On the diameter and magnitude of the Georgium Sidus; with a defeription
of the dark and lucid disk and periphery micrometers

Obfervations on the light, diameter, and magnitude, of the Georgium Sidus

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Extracts from an account of the earthquakes which happened in Italy, from February to May, 1783 by. Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, F. R. S.

48 Tranflation of the Count Francefco Ippolito's letter to Sir William Hamilton, giving an account of the earthquakes which happened in Calabria, March 28, 1783 58

Account of the black canker caterpillar, which deftroys the turnips in Norfolk

Some account of the "Defcription of Experiments made with the Aeroflatic
Machine, &c. by M. Faujas de St. Fond.”
Tranflation of a copy of the certificate dated at the Chateau-de-la-Muette, near
Paris, the 21ft of November, 1783, relative to the aerial excurfion of the
Marquis D'Arlandes, and M. Pilatre de Rozier

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70 Account of the aerial excurfion of Me. Charles and Robert, on the 1ft of December, 1783, as given by Monf. Charles; tranflated from the Journal de Paris of the eth and 14th of the fame month Account of the difcovery of an island just rifen out of the ocean near Iceland, in the North Seas

USEFUL PROJECT S.

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On the culture and uses of the turnip-rooted cabbage
Difcovery of a fubftitute for verdigris, in dying black

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Account of cloth made from the refuse of flax, and backings of tow
Abort account of the machine lately erected, by command of bis majefty, a
Windfor, for raifing water cut of a very deep well, to supply the caftle 87
Obfervations on grown or fprouted corn; the cause of its sprouting; and the
proper means of remedying the inconveniences thereof

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On the comparative utility of oxen and borfes in husbandry; from the fecond volume

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volume of Letters and Papers addressed to the Society inftituted at Bath, for

the Encouragement of Agriculture, &c.

On planting barren lands with wood; from the fame

On watering meadows from the fame

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On the fcab in sheep, and fɔme approved remedies recommended; from the fame

ANTIQUITIES.

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On the office of High Steward of England; from Hearne's curious difcourfes

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Tranflations of three authentic regifters of the monaftry of St. Edmund's Bury, formerly kept by the Sacrifts

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Defcription and account of the caftle of Caernarvon; from Pennant's Tour in Wales

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An account of the ancient British games; from the fame
Extracts out of a manuscript treatise of the Lordships Marchers in Wales; from
Appendix to the fame

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Account of Sir Richard Bulkely; in which is a strong description of the favourite Earl of Leicester; from the fame

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An account of two ancient oil-mills in the kingdom of Naples,

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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

Difference between memory and imagination; from Differtations Moral and Critical, by J. Beattie, L. L. D.

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Of Accent, its nature and use; Standard of Pronunciation: from the Theory of Language, in the fame work

Extract from Illuftrations on Sublimity, in the fame work

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On Tafle; from Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Letters, by Hugh Blair, D. D. 136 Comparative Strictures-on Tillotson, Sir William Temple, Addison, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bolingbroke, in point of style; from the fame work

Comparative merit of the Ancients and Moderns; from the fame

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A letter from Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Prior; from vol. ii. of Atterbury's Epif. tolary Correfpondence

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Reflections on a late fcandalous report about the repeal of the Teft Act; from the fame

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Letter from Bishop Atterbury to Lord Inverness, after that bifbop's banishment from England; from vol. iii. of the fame work

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An abfra& from the King's books in the Royal Treafury of Goanaxuate, fince. the establishment of that office, the 34th of April 1665, 10 Dec. 31, 1778, fhe wing, by accounts, made up every five years, the weight of the gold and filver on which duties have been paid, and the whole amount of thofe duties during the above period of 114 years 165 A particular account of an Hindoo woman's burning herself alive with her de

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ceafed bufband; from an authentic letter, dated Calcutta, 25th July, 1779

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An extract from the sequel to Emilius and Sophia, by J. J. Rousseau, found among his papers after his death

POETRY.

Ode for the new year 1783, by William Whitehead, Efq.

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Ode for his Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1783, by the fame

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Extracts from Major's Tranflation of Du Frefnoy's Art of Painting

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An extract from the Village, a poem, by the Rev. G. Crabbe, Chaplain to bis Grace the Duke of Rutland, &c.

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On the death of Dr. Robert Levet, by Dr. Johnson

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A farewell to Bath, by Lady M. W. Montagu

"The entertaining and facetious history of John Gilpin; fhewing bow be went further than be intended, and came home fafe at last."

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On the Marriage of the Honourable Mifs Eliz. Sackville to Colonel Herbert, By Richard Cumberland Efq.

A Song

-Races. A Ballad. By the late Sir John Moore, Bart.

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Lines to Mrs. Montague, on her bappening to fall at St. James's, by Mr.

Rondeau

Fermingham

An expoftulation

Epitaph

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ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1783.

An account of the Hiftory of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain; by Robert Watson, L. L. D. &c. &c.

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An account of Differtations Moral and Critical; by James Beattie, LL. D. St. St.

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