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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,

279.

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.

D

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,

&c. &c.

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.

E

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.

F

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.

G

Genoa, remarks on, 235. De-

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on, 540.

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.

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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,

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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,

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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.

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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-

piness, 409.

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

on

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.

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Otway's Don Carlos, extract Pomptine marshes, present fer-
from, 266.

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279.

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,

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minated, 408.

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

kill, 14.

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