Obfervations upon animals, commonly called amphibious, by authors 74 - - 79 81 A letter to the prefident of the royal fociety; containing a new manner of root - -- 84 85 86 Of Spirits prepared by the force of fire, with fome obfervations for guarding On the effect of the imagination on a different body Of the common fenfory affected by poisons 88 Of the effect of rains, of marshes and bogs, fubterraneons wood, and fubterra- neous waters. 92 96 99 103 Obfervations on the cicada, or locuft of America, which appears periodically Experiments on a bog's bladder - 106 Obfervations on fome extraordinary Symptoms occafioned by nutmeg taken in too 107 An account of a dwarf, kept in the palace of the late King of Poland 108 bodies 109 Experiment on the heat that may be caused by the rays of the fun reflected from the moon On a fingular bone, found in the lower belly 115 116 Account of a petrified bee-hive, difcovered on the mountains of Siout, in the An extract from Ambrofe Beurer's differtation on the offeocolla 117 118 120 121 122 On a fifb of the river of Surinam, which produces very fingular effects Obfervations on cures performed by burning 124 ANTIQUITIES. A letter from Edward Wortley Montague, Efq. F. R. S. to William Wat fon, M. D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey to Cairo, in Græcia, in the kingdom of Naples, which have been lately difcovered 137 A short account of the Sedmy Palaty, or Seven Palaces; a remarkable building and weftage of antiquity, ftill remaining on the banks of the river Irtifb, in the country of the Kalmucks, being in the wilds of the great or eaftern Offome ancient monuments in the fame country Some account of a remarkable monument in the isle of Purbec, known by the names of Agglefton, Stone Barrow, the Devil's Night-Cap, &c. 141 A charter of King Henry the Third, in the old English of that time; with a - ibid. Of the Chaldeans, and their original Memoirs of Richard Plantagenet, (a natural fon of King Richard III.) whe died 22 Dec. 1550 ( 4 Edward VI.) The teftimony of Clement Maydeftone, that the body of King Henry IV. was thrown into the Thames, and not buried at Canterbury Of mufical founds; and of the origin of the names of the days of the week ibid. LITERARY and MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Thoughts on the causes and confequences of the prefent high price of provi- POETRY. Prologue at the opening of the theatre royal, in Edinburgh. Written by James Letter to Dean Swift, when in England, in 1726. An original Prologue to the English Merchant. Spoken by Mr. King ibid. The Lover and the Friend. Taken from the Bagatelles Prologue to the Taylors. Spoken by Samuel Foote, Efq. and fuppofed to be Epitaph on Claudius Phillips. By Dr. Johnson Verfes inferibed on a small cottage, in ruftic taste, intended as a place of retirement, built by Powis, Efq. in a grove by the river Severn 253 An occafional prologue Spoken by Mr. Powel, at the opening of the theatre ibid. Prologue to the new comedy of the Widow'd Wife. Spoken by Mr. Holland Epilogue. Spoken by Mr. Clive A paftoral. In the modern flyle 259 260 261 An ironical eulogium on Ignorance. By Dr. Clancy, of Durrow in Ire land ACCOUNT OF --- BOOKS for 1767. 263 265 The Hiftory of the life of king Henry the Second, and of the age in which he Commentaries on the laws of England An effay on the history of civil society 266 286 307 316 An effay on crimes and punishments; tranflated from the Italian: with a com FINI S. Printed by J. WRIGHT, Denmark Court, Strand, |