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Of the Inhabitants of New Zealand.

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Some Account of the Inhabitants of Batavia and the adjacent Country, ther Manners, Customs, Sc.

Some Particulars' relative to the Arabs.

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Hofpitality and Politeness of Choudar Aga, the Governor of Hilla, a Turkij

Town on the Euphrates.

Of Nadir Shah.

Of the Sicilian Banditti.

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Of the Florentines, by the late Earl of Corke and Orrery.
Character of Lewis XIV. by the fame

of Metaftafio

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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.

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Some Account of Mac Murchard, an Irish Chieftain in the Reign of Richard the Second.

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Of the Cuftoms, Manners, and Language of the Northern Indians of America.

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An Account of the Cavern of Dunmore Park, near Kilkenny, in Ireland. 94
Of the dreadful Effects of Cold in the Streights of Le Maire.
Some Particulars of the Natural History of New Zealand.
Surprizing Sea Weed in the Neighbourhood of the Streights of Le Maire. 104
Some Account of the Peak of Teneriffe.

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Of an extraordinary Fog-Bank on the Paffage from Rio de Janeiro, to Pert Defire.

Of an extraordinary Squall of Wind.

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Obfervations on the milky Appearance of fome Spots of Water in the Sea. ibid. Account of a new Species of Oak.

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On the Digeftion of the Stomach after Death.

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Of the Climate of Naples, and of the Siroce, or South caft Wind.

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Of the prodigious Chejnut Trees on Mount Etna, with fome other curious Particulars.

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Obfervations with the Barometer, to afcertain the Height of Mount Etna. 118 Account of a furprizing Diver at Melina.

USEFUL PROJECTS.

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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.

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Abstract of a Memoir on the Causes of fudden and violent Death, wherein
it is proved, that those who fall Victims to it may be recovered. 132
Of the Effects of Elder, in preferving growing Plants from Infects and
Flies.

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An approved Method of wajhing old Paintings, and giving them a good
Glofs.

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ANTIQUITIES.

Of the Saxon and Norman Architecture; from Groffe's Antiquities of Eng-
land and Wales.

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On the Suppreffion of Religious Houfes; from the fame.

Of Doom/day Book; from the fame.

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Obfervations on Bolton Castle, in Yorkshire; from the fame.

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The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfftan; from the Anglo-Saxon Verfion of
Orofius, by Alfred the Great.

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Ancient Epitaph on Sir John Mafon, who lies buried under St. Paul's.

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Extracts from a Difcourfe delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on
the Distribution of Prizes, Dec. 10, 1772, by the Prefident.
Curious Extracts from Mr. Burney's Journal of his Voyage down the Ifer
and the Danube, from Munich to Vienna.

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Of the Carillons, or Chimes, in the Low Countries; from the fame.

Of the popular diverfions in Vienna; from the fame.

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Incidents relative to the Roads and Manner of Travelling in Germany

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Sane Inflances of the inordinate Pafion for Mufic which prevails in the
German Courts; from the fame.

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

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Of three extraordinary Pieces of Wax-work at Florence; from the fame. 196
Letter from the Countess of Pomfret to the Countess of Hertford, afterwards
Dutchess of Somerset.

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Letter from the late Dutchess-Dowager of Somerset to Mrs.
Account of two Journies into Wales, in two Letters from Bishop Herring to
Mr. Duncombe.

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Curious Letter from the Lord Mountnorris to the Earl of Stafford, the Day
before his Execution; from the Second Volume of Clarendon's State-Pa-

pers.

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Letter from Mr. Edward Hyde to his Majefty, from the fame.
Letter from Lord Paget to the Honourable House of Parliament.

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A Letter to Sir Ralph Hopton, Suppojed to have been written by the Earl of Effix.

Letter from Sir Edward Hyde to Lady Dalkeith.

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Extracts from a Letter of Sir Edward Hyde to Mr. Secretary Nicholas, which ftrongly mark the Writer's Principles and Love for bis Country.

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Extract from another Letter, which fhews Lord Clarendon's Opinion of the Political Religion of Princes and States.

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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.
-from Sir Edward Hyde to Lady Hyde.

Singular Anecdote relative to Ventriloquifm.

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A Letter faid to have been written by M. de Voltaire, laft Year, to the late

Earl of Chesterfield.

POETRY.

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Verfes written in an Alcove; by the fame.

Night; by the fame.

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The Groans of the Tankard; by the fame.

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The Moufe's Petition; found in the Trap where he had been confined all

Tranflation from Dante, Canto xxxiii. by the Earl of Carlisle.
Extracts from the Academic Sportsmen, or a Winter's Day, a Poem.

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Three Pieces taken from a Paftoral Drama, written by Mifs More, of Bristol, viz.

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Ode for the New Year, 1773; written by William Whitehead, Efq.
The Withered Roje.

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The Nymph of Tauris, an Elogy, on the Death of Mifs Anne Trelawney, who died in Jamaica.

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Prologue to the New Comedy, called "She Stoops to Conquer, or the Miftakes of a Night," written by David Garrick, Efq.

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Epilogue to the jame, by Dr. Goldsmith.

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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.
An humble Prayer.

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Epitaph on Mr. Thomas Hammond, Parish-Clerk of Ashford in Kent. 246
Verfes prefented by Sir Henry Lea, the brave Ancestor of the prefent Litchfield
Family, to Queen Elizabeth.

Ode for his Majefty's Birth-Day, June 4, 1773.
Lines written by Mr. Garrick on the Back of his own Picture.
Epigram occafioned by Mr. Walpole's Impromptu on the Dutchess
bury.

Epilogue, written by R. Cumberland, Efq; and spoken after the

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the Jealous Wife, performed for the Ufe of the Society for the Relief and Difcharge of Perfons imprisoned for small Debts.

of Queenf

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Comedy of

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To the Parret, a Rivulet near Sherborne.

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The Triumph of Ceres, or the Harvest Home.

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On feeing the Figure of Death in a Dream. By Dr. Harrington.
Verfes written in the Pump-room at Bath.

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ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1773.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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