Caffres, account of, 345. Calendar, analysis of the con- tents of, 32-38. Camera Obscura, periscopic, ac- count of, 391.
Cannon, observations on, 509. Cape of Good Hope, travels in, 339-350. Carpenter, Dr., See Manning. Cartwright, Major, his efforts re- Jative to Parliamentary Re- form, his correspondence with eminent political characters, and estimate of their conduct, 293-301. Carus lethargus, and hydrocepha- lus, list of medical writers on those diseases, 186. Cassius, account of the death of,
Cataract, new mode of operating
for that disease, 328. Centuries, of the Christian era, summary of the character of, 157. Chalybeate preparations, account of, 404.
Charles I., character of, by Sir P. Warwick, 50. Essay on the character of, 223. Charles the Bald, curious oath taken by him, 487. Child-murder, remarks on the le- gal question of, 332 Chili, poetic delineation of its na- tural beauties, 367 Cholic, bilious, in infants, obser-
vations on, 404. Christiana, description of, 130. Chronology, See Auchinleck. Clarke, Dr, on bilious cholic in infancy, 404.
Classics, Greek and Latin, ac-
count of German translations and editions of, 353, 354. Clergy, on the incomes of, 445. Climate, observations on the change of, 108.
Colymbus, See Diver. Comet of 1811, observations on, 378. Of the result of a Comet's perihelion passage, 381. On the Comet of 1812, 382. On the Comets of 1762, 1770, 1784, 501.505- Condamine, M., his account of the Convulsionaries, 518. Continents, on the formation of, 307.
Contreras, Marshal, governor of
Tarragona, his capture, bad treatment, and escape, 54, 55- Convulsionaries, account of those extraordinary enthusiasts, 518. Copper, and iron, observations on
the yellow sulphurets of, 24. Cossacks, description of, 72. Cumberland, Mr., observations on his life and writings, 393—403. Curate, poor, poetic description of, 103.
Curwen, Mr., observations on his political conduct, 299. Cylinders, See Knight.
Deferrer, M., on an eclipse, 507. Delambre, M., his History of the Class of Sciences, 508. Diver, Northern, remarks con- cerning that bird, 140. Red- throated diver, its attachment to its mate, ib. Dogs, trained to hunt sheep, 137. Don Carlos, a tragedy, by Otway,
extract from, 266. Dramatists of Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and England, See Greece, Italy,
Drivers of Waggons, at the Cape,
Cape, more skilful than those of Europe, 340. Drontheim, description of, 132. Dropsy, attempt to distinguish the various forms of that dis- ease, and on its cure, 418- 424.
Earth, See Globe. Eclipse, See Lalande, See Deferrer. Education, public and private,
observations on, 395. Ellenborough, Lord, his just re- marks and distinctions on the law of libel, 171. England, observations on the poets of, 474.
Euripides, remarks on, 453. 480.
Fables and Tales, in old French,
account of, 497• . Fever, theory of, and cases of the practice of blood-letting in, 309-313. Fire-works, grand, in Persia, 15. Flax, quantity of, imported into Belfast, 259.
Florence, remarks on, and on its gallery, &c., 232. Fox, Mr, his letter to Major Cartwright on Parliamentary Reform, 293. France, observations on the prose
and verse, the arts of industry, and the fashions, of that coun- try, 469-472. On the French poets, dramatists, and novelists, 474. 482. 485. Its language connected with the Latin, 486. 496. Its Museum of monu- ments, 537. See also Paris. Frederick II. of Prussia, cha racter of, 66. Friendship, definition of, 409.
Genoa, remarks on, 235. De-
Glauberite, obscrvations on that salt, 22.
Globe, population of, 160. Di- mensions of, 161. Heights of its largest mountains, ib. Goethe, characterized as a writer, 361.
Gospels, Four, observations on the dissonance of, 215. Gottenburgh, account of, 129. Grasses, memoir on, 405. Greece, view of the literature of, at different periods, 451-462. 478. 485. On the construc- tion of the Greek theatre, 478. Grey, Mr., now Earl, his corres- pondence with Major Cart- wright on Reform, and his con- duct examined, 294—297. Griesbach, Professor, tribute to, 450. Guldbrandal-valley, in Norway, described, 131. Gull, See Skua. Guyton, M., observations on can- non, 509.
Hellespont, poetical address to, 59. Hemisphere, See Knight. Henri, Abbé, and Professor, a prisoner in Silberberg, 78. Herschel, Dr., on the Comet of 1811, 378. On that of 1812, 382.
Historians, of Greece, account of, 454.
Homer, various editions of, 451. Honey-moon, origin of that term, 32.
Horace, imitation of, 101. Horses, at the Cape of Good Hope, account of, 340. Hospitals of Naples, highly praised,
James I. of England, remarks on his character, 49, 50. His ty- rannical conduct, 207. Japan, notice of a curious MS. work relative to, 466. Javan, the minstrel, his love for Zillah poetically related, 147, 148. Idolatry, on the origin of, 413. Imagination, its province defined, 408. Infants, on diseases of, 404. Johnson, Dr., eulogy on the style of his Rambler, 396. Iron, hydro-oxyd of, observations on the crystals of, 25. See Copper.
Israelites, on the state and chro-
nology of, 415-418. Italians, modern, their character vindicated, 113.
Italy, most desirable route for en- tering that famed region, 225,
226. On the antient languages of, 233. View of the poets
of, 473. History of its the- atre, 481.
Ivory, Mr., on La Place's me- thod of computing the attrac- tion of spheroids, and on the attractions of a class of sphe- roids, 374.
Judges of Israel, on the chrono- logy of, 414.
Jupiter and Saturn, new ta- bles of, 508.
Macbeth, Lady, a tragedy, ac- count of, 268. Maddalen, a tragedy, account of, 264.
Malia, particulars respecting, 47 Mankind, different states of, ex- amined, as productive of hap-
Manning, Mr., and Dr. Carpen- ter, their selection of hymns, 326. Manuscripts, historical essay on, 464. On the collection of, at Lyons, ib.-468. Maupertuis, his doctrine of the predominance of evil in life, controverted, 413. Medicine, list of authors on that science, 185.
Meridian, on the measurement of degrees of, 385.
Messala, Marcus Valerius, his life and character discussed, 277-281.
Messiah, extract from that work of Klopstock, 358. Messier, M., his astronomical observations, 507, 508. Milton, remarks on, and
Delille's translation of, 475. Minerals, account of a curious collection of, 18-31. Molybdenum, account of the sul- phuret of, 30. Monuments of France, account of the Museum of, 537.
Moravians, successful labours of the missionaries of, at the Cape, 347.
More, Lord-chancellor, anecdote of, 36.
Mosaic, on the art of working in, 540.
Moscow, sketch of Bonaparte's retreat from, 78, 79: Mountains, largest, of this globe, comparative heights of, 161. Mudge, Col. observations on his measurement of degrees of the meridian, 385.
Music, much cultivated at the Cape of Good Hope, 343.
Otway's Don Carlos, extract Pomptine marshes, present fer- from, 266.
Pilgrim's Progress, origin of, 466. Pirates, the life of, poetically re- presented, 190. Character of à leader of, 191. Pisa, observations on, 234. Pitt, Mr., strictures on his conduct respecting Parliamen- tary Reform, 297. Plague, MS. memoir on, 467. Planet, new, notes on, 505.
Poets of Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Eng- land. See Greece, Italy, &c.
&c. Political Discussion, observations on the rights and extent of, 173.
Polytheism, on the origin of, 413. Pompey's Pillar, account of, 93.
tility and salubrity of, 127. Poor, facts relative to the ma- nagement of the poor at Nor- wich, 314
Population of the United States of America, 159. Of the Globe, 160. Of the county of Antrim, 262. Of Belfast,
Richardson, Dr., on grasses, 405, Rockingham, Marquis of, his ex-
traordinary forgetfulness, while in administration, respecting Mr. Pitt's motion on Reform, 297.
Rodriguez, Don Joseph, on the measurement of degrees of the meridian, 385. Romanse language, origin and ap- plication of, 486. Specimen of a Glossary of, 492. Rome, modern, observations on, 124. 226. 231. The govern ment of, not favourable to the happiness of the people, 230. Rope-dancers, Persian, their great
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