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An account of an artificial spring of water; by Erasmus Darwin, M. D.
F. R.S.

On dibbling wheat

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On the culture, produce, and application of the Howard or clustered potatoe,
and the comparison of them with other forts; by Arthur Young, Efq;
A contrivance for increasing the effect of engines for extinguishing fines
Account of a diffolvent of the human calculi; by B. Colburne, of Bath
On the natures of different kinds of foil, and the grain, pulse, or grasses proper

to each

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ANTIQUITIES.

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Extracts from obfervations on the practice of archery in England; by the
Hon. Daines Barrington

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Some account of the burial places of the ancient Tartars; by the Reverend
W. Tooke, F. R. S.

Obfervations on the language of the gypfies; by Mr. Marfden, F.S.A. 81

Collections on the Zingara, or gypfey-language; by Jacob Bryant, Efq;
Extract from an account of the caves on the Elephanta Islands, near Bombay;
by Lieutenant Colonel Barry

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Account of a curious mode of travelling in Kamischatka, by means of pledges
drawn by dogs; from Captain Cook's laf voyage, vol.

Account of the manner of bear hunting practifed by the Kamifchadales;

from the fame

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the Ruffian prisons-Outlines of the new code of laws established by ber at
her acceffion; from Coxe's Travels into Poland, &c. vol. ii.'
Anecdote of the Dutchess, of Queensberry; from the Life of Mrs. Bellamy
Prayer directed by the Bramins to be offered up to the Supreme being; from
The Inftitutes of the Great Timour, improperly called Tamerlane 128
A defcription of Ruder, as contained in another facred book, called The Ather

bun Bede

POETRY.

Ode for the new year 1784, by W. Whitehead, Efq;

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Ode for his Majesty's birth-day, June 4, 1784, by the fame"
Ode for the new year 1785, by the fame

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Ode for his Majefty's birth-day, June 4, 1785, by the Rev. T. Warton

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The exordium of Jaumi's poem, intitled, "Eufoof and Zoolleikha;" from
The Inftitutes of Timour, &c. by Major Davy

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Tranflation of a hymn to Camdeo, the Hindoo god of love, by Sir W. Jones

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Mrs. Sheridan on ber brother's violin

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Her brother's lyre to Mrs. Sheridan, by Mr. Pratt
L'Amour Timide

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Verfes to the feathered ladies, faid to be written by Earl Nugent
Sonnet to a nightingale, by Charlotte Smith,

-to the South Downs, by the fame

Extract from The News-paper, a poem, by the Rev. G. Grabbe

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On the author of the ballad, called The Children in the Wood, by Mr. Jer
ningham

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Ode to Melpomene, by Anna Seward

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An emblem of the shortness of human pleasure, to the grasshopper, by Mr. Say

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Epitaph, by Voltaire, infcribed on his monument in his own chamber at Ferney,

his heart in a box

ACCOUNT of BOOK S.

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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, performed under the directions of Captain's
Cook, Clerk, and Gore, in his Majesty's fhips the Refolution and Discovery
in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780
Travels into Poland, Ruffia, Sweden, and Denmark, &c, &c. by W. Coxe,
A.M. F.R.S

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Travels in the Two Sicilies, by Henry Swinburne, Efq; in the years 1777,
1778, 1779, and 1780.

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Printed by J. CROWDER, Warwick-square,

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