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tter containing a certain and curious account of the Commons of Kent, when affembled at Blackheath under Cade, in 1450, written by J. Payn, whe was taken by them, and threatened to have been beheaded, c.-from the Same work

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tter containing a curious and authentic Account of the Marriage of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, with Margaret, Daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and Sifter of Edward IV. and of the fubfequent Diverfions exhibited at Bruges in Honour of it; written by John Pafton, an Eye Witnefs-from vol. ii. of the fame work

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rious Specimen of the Celebration of Marriages at Court in the Beginning of the Reign of James I. extracted from a Letter from Sir Dudley Carlton to Mr. Winwood-from the Gentleman's Magazine for February 1787 115 the Dress and Ornaments of the ancient Mexicans-from the hiftory of Mexico, tranflated from the Italian of Saverio Clavigero, by Mr. Cullen

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rious Particulars relative to the Religion of the Mexicans-from the fame work

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cerning the Rites obferved by the Mexicans upon the Birth of their Children -from the fame work

the Military Conftitution of the Mamlouks-from M. Volney's Travels in Egypt and Syria 135

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particular account of the Government of the Druzes, a People of Syria -from the fame work

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narkable Speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor "f Virginia-from Mr. Jefferson's Obfervations on Buffon's Remarks on the Indians of North America

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e Story of Angelica-from a philofophical, historical, and moral Effay on Old Maids, by a friend to the Sisterhood 152 10 letters from Sarah Duchefs of Marlborough, copied literally from bs original MS,

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Curious Account of a peculiar race of people in Siberia, called Wodyacks-from
an original Letter from Petersburg, June 14, 1783, in the Gentleman's
Magazine for January 1787
Some Account and Character of the late Robert Lowth, D. D. Lord Bishop
of London-from the Gentleman's Magazine for November 1787

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Obfervations tending to fhew that the Wolf, Jackal, and Dog, are all of the
fame fpecies. By John Hunter, Efq; F. R. S.
Remarkable cafe of numerous Births, with Obfervations. By Maxwell
Garthshore, M. D. F. R. S. and A. S. in a Letter to Sir Jofeph Banks,

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Some account of a motley-coloured, or pye Negro Girl and Mulatto Boy, ex-
hibited before the American Philofophical Society, by Dr. John Morgan,
from the hiftory given of them by their owner, M. Le Vallois, Dentist of
the King of France-from the American Philofophical Tranfactions -53
Defcription of a remarkable Rock and Cafcade near the Western Side of the
Yougbiogeny River, in Fayette County, in Pennsylvania, by Thomas
Hutchins from the fame work
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Account of the Winds in Egypt, and their phænomena; of the Kamfin, or hat
Wind of the Defert-from Travels in Egypt and Syria, by M. Volney 56
Natural hiftory of Syria, including its Mountains, Volcanos, and Earthquakes;
Locufts, Rivers, and Lakes; Climate, Air, Waters, and Winds-from the
Same work
Some account of the productions and peculiarities of the Marratta country—from
the Afiatic Mifcellany

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Experiments on the Culture of Turneps, and a Receipt for preferving the
Turnep Seed from being deftroyed by the Fly, in a Letter from Mr. Winter,
of Charlton, near Bristol-from vol. v. of the Tranfactions of the Society for
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce

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Account of the Racine de Difette, or Root of Scarcity; of its utility, and the
mode of treating it, in a Letter from Thomas Boothby Parkyns, Efq-from
the fame work

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A method of destroying Ants, Spiders, and other Infects, in Hot-houses and
Pineries, in a Letter from Mr. Ailway-from the fame work
Curious Difcovery of the ancient Grecian Method of painting on Wax, by Mifs
Greenland-from the fame work

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Extract of a Letter from Bernard Romans, of Pensacola, dated August 20,
1773, on an improved Sea Compafs-from the American Philofophical
Tranfactions.

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Letter from Thomas Rufton to Benjamin Franklin, Efq; LL. D. concerning
Smoky Chimnies-from the fame work

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Letter from the Reverend Jeremy Belknap, on the preferving of Parsnips by
drying-from the fame work

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Letter from Dr. Franklin to Mr. Nairne of London, propofing a slowly fenfible Hygrometer for certain Purposes-from the fame work Some Obfervations on ancient Inks, with the Proposal of a new Method of recovering the Legibility of decayed writings, by Charles Blagden, M. Ď: Sec. R. S. and F. A. S.-from the Philofophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

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Copy of a notable Letter, written by the Duke of Suffolk to his Son-from original Letters, written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and Richard III. by various Perfons of Rank or Confequence 96 Letter to the Right Worshipful John Pafton, at Norwich, giving an account of the Death of the Duke of Suffolk-from the fame work To the fame, on the fame fubject-from the fame work Some Obfervations on the two preceding Letters Letter containing a certain and curious account of the Commons of Kent, when affembled at Blackheath under Cade, in 1450, written by J. Payn, whe was taken by them, and threatened to have been beheaded, c.-from the Same work Letter containing a curious and authentic Account of the Marriage of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, with Margaret, Daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and Sifter of Edward IV. and of the fubfequent Diverfions exhibited at Bruges in Honour of it; written by John Pafton, an Eye Witnefs-from vol. ii. of the fame work Curious Specimen of the Celebration of Marriages at Court in the Beginning of the Reign of James I. extracted from a Letter from Sir Dudley Carlton to Mr. Winwood-from the Gentleman's Magazine for February 1787 115 On the Drefs and Ornaments of the ancient Mexicans from the history of Mexico, tranflated from the Italian of Saverio Clavigero, by Mr, Cullen

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Various Particulars relative to the Religion of the Mexicans from the fame avork

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Concerning the Rites obferved by the Mexicans upon the Birth of their Children -from the fame work

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Of the Military Conftitution of the Mamlouks-from M. Volney's Travels in

Egypt and Syria

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A particular account of the Government of the Druzes, a People of Syria -from the fame work

143

Remarkable Speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of Virginia-from Mr. Jefferson's Obfervations on Buffon's Remarks on the Indians of North America

151

The Story of Angelica-from a philofophical, historical, and moral Effay on Old Maids, by a friend to the Sifterhood

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Two letters from Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, copied literally from the original MS,

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POETRY.

POETRY.

Ode for the new year 1787, by T. Warton, Efq; Poet Laureat
Ode on his Majefty's birth-day, June 4, 1787, by the fame
Ode to a Lady going abroad, from vol. iii. of the Lounger

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On the late improvements at Nuneham, the Seat of the Earl of Harcourt, by the late W. Whitehead, Efq.

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Verfes on the Duchefs of Rutland; fuppofed to be written by Sir H. Languish

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The Three Vernons, by the Honourable Horace Walpole
Prologue to the Tragedy of Julia, by Edmond Malone, Efq;
Epilogue to the fame, by John Courtenay, Esq;

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Addrefs to the Deil-from Poems chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns

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A Dedication to G**** H*******, Efq-from the fame
Song, from Poems on various fubjects, by Ann Yearsley

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Ode, tranflated from the Perfian of the Poet Hafez, by Sir William Jones

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Softly, an Ode from the fame, by Captain Thomas Ford
Epigram on this Question: "Which is the more eligible for a Wife, a Widow
or an Old Maid?"-from the Efay on Old Maids
Impromptu on the preceding Epigram

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Reply to the two Epigrammatifts

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Written at Nice, Auguft, 1743, by the Right Honourable Henry Fox, late Lord Holland

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Impromptu, by a Gentleman of the Temple, on the Sight of one of the Croydon Belles in the Court at Kingston during the Affizes

Song, by Captain Morris

ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1787.

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Mary Queen of Scots vindicated; by John Whitaker, B. D. Author of the
Hiftory of Manchefter, and Rector of Ruan-Langhorne, Cornwall, in three
Volumes, 8vo.
Travels through Egypt and Syria, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785; by
M. C. F. Volney

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