Of the Inhabitants of New Zealand. 27 Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia and the adjacent Country, ther Manners, Customs, Sc. Some Particulars' relative to the Arabs. = 45 55 Hofpitality and Politeness of Choudar Aga, the Governor of Hilla, a Turkij Town on the Euphrates. Of Nadir Shah. Of the Sicilian Banditti. - Of the Florentines, by the late Earl of Corke and Orrery. of Metaftafio 57 60 62 67 68 Some Particulars relating to the famous Lord Fairfax, extracted from an original MS. 75 Character of Mrs. Bridget Bendifh, Grand-daughter to Oliver Cromwell. 77 Character of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord High Chancellor of England, by Monfieur d'Alembert. Some Account of the celebrated Sir John Tradefcant. Some Account of Mac Murchard, an Irish Chieftain in the Reign of Richard the Second. Of the Cuftoms, Manners, and Language of the Northern Indians of America. An Account of the Cavern of Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny, in Ireland. 94 105 Of an extraordinary Fog-Bank on the Paffage from Rio de Janeiro, to Pert Defire. Of an extraordinary Squall of Wind. ibid. 106 Obfervations on the milky Appearance of fome Spots of Water in the Sea. ibid. Account of a new Species of Oak. 107 On the Digeftion of the Stomach after Death. 108 Of the Climate of Naples, and of the Siroce, or South caft Wind. 112 Of the prodigious Chejnut Trees on Mount Etna, with fome other curious Particulars. 114 Obfervations with the Barometer, to afcertain the Height of Mount Etna. 118 Account of a furprizing Diver at Melina. USEFUL PROJECTS. 120 An Account of the Difcovery of the Manner of making Ifinglafs in Ruffia; with a particular Defcription of its Manufacture in England from the Produce of British Fiferies. Of the Freparation, Culture, and Uje of the Orchis-Root. 122 128 Abstrac Abstract of a Memoir on the Causes of fudden and violent Death, wherein 134 An approved Method of wajhing old Paintings, and giving them a good 136 ANTIQUITIES. Of the Saxon and Norman Architecture; from Groffe's Antiquities of Eng- - - On the Suppreffion of Religious Houfes; from the fame. Of Doom/day Book; from the fame. -- Obfervations on Bolton Castle, in Yorkshire; from the fame. 151 The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfftan; from the Anglo-Saxon Verfion of - Ancient Epitaph on Sir John Mafon, who lies buried under St. Paul's. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 152 158 160 Extracts from a Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on - Of the Carillons, or Chimes, in the Low Countries; from the fame. Of the popular diverfions in Vienna; from the fame. 166 173 177 ibid. 180 181 Incidents relative to the Roads and Manner of Travelling in Germany Sane Inflances of the inordinate Pafion for Mufic which prevails in the Of the present State of Drefden, and of Saxony; from the fame. Some curious Particulars of the Iland of Malia Rebuke to an English Gentleman, by a Sicilian Nobleman. Inftances of the Oppretiveness of the prefent Government in Sicily. Of the Italian Language; by the late Earl of Corke and Orrery 183 186 188 192 193 Of three extraordinary Pieces of Wax-work at Florence; from the fame. 196 ibid. 198 Letter from the late Dutchess-Dowager of Somerset to Mrs. -- 200 Curious Letter from the Lord Mountnorris to the Earl of Stafford, the Day pers. 203 Letter Letter from Mr. Edward Hyde to his Majefty, from the fame. 204 205 A Letter to Sir Ralph Hopton, Suppojed to have been written by the Earl of Effix. Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to Lady Dalkeith. 206 ibid. Extracts from a Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Mr. Secretary Nicholas, which ftrongly mark the Writer's Principles and Love for bis Country. 207 Extract from another Letter, which fhews Lord Clarendon's Opinion of the Political Religion of Princes and States. 209 Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to the Lord Digby, which places the Writer in a very exalted Point of View. from Sir Edward Hyde to the Duke of Richmond. from Sir Edward Hyde to the Earl of Southampton. Singular Anecdote relative to Ventriloquifm. 210 211 212 213 214 A Letter faid to have been written by M. de Voltaire, laft Year, to the late Earl of Chesterfield. POETRY. 217 Verfes written in an Alcove; by the fame. Night; by the fame. The Groans of the Tankard; by the fame. 219 223 225 The Moufe's Petition; found in the Trap where he had been confined all Tranflation from Dante, Canto xxxiii. by the Earl of Carlisle. 227 228 230 232 Three Pieces taken from a Paftoral Drama, written by Mifs More, of Bristol, viz. Ode for the New Year, 1773; written by William Whitehead, Efq. 238 239 The Nymph of Tauris, an Elogy, on the Death of Mifs Anne Trelawney, who died in Jamaica. 240 Prologue to the New Comedy, called "She Stoops to Conquer, or the Miftakes of a Night," written by David Garrick, Efq. 241 Epilogue to the jame, by Dr. Goldsmith. 242 New Year Ode, to his most excellent Majefty King Bladud, of Bath. Song, written about 250 Years ago. The Traveller and Statue of Opportunity, a Dialogue. Character of the late Mr. Robert Lloyd, when a Prijoner in the Fleet. Epitaph on Mr. Thomas Hammond, Parish-Clerk of Ashford in Kent. 246 Ode for his Majefty's Birth-Day, June 4, 1773. Epilogue, written by R. Cumberland, Efq; and spoken after the 247 ibid. 248 the Jealous Wife, performed for the Ufe of the Society for the Relief and Difcharge of Perfons imprisoned for small Debts. of Queenf 249 Comedy of ibid. To the Parret, a Rivulet near Sherborne. 251 The Triumph of Ceres, or the Harvest Home. 252 On feeing the Figure of Death in a Dream. By Dr. Harrington. 253 ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1773. 254 The Hiftory of Ireland from the Invafion of Henry the Second. With a Preliminary Difcourfe on the ancient State of that Kingdom. By Thomas Leland, D. D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College, and Prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 3 vols. quarto. 255 An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of his prefent Majefty for making Difcoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and fucceffively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cooke, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the feveral Commanders, and from the Papers of Jofeph Banks, Efq; By John Hawkefworth, LL.D. vols. quarto. 3 266 The prefent State of Mufic in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces; or the Journal of a Tour through thofe Countries, undertaken to collect Materials for a general Hiftory of Mufic. By Charles Burney, Muf. D. 2 vols. octavo. 274 |