Annual Register of World Events

On the Ujes of the Juniper Plant; by S. Alopaus

USEFUL PROJECTS.

336

Lift of Patents for new Inventions, granted during the Year 1800

Account of a Method of defroying Caterpillars in Gooseberry-bushes; from
the Prize Efays of the Highland Society of Scotland

Account of fome Experiments made in France refpecting the Quality of Pero-

ter; by M. Coquebert

387

Receipt for destroying the Fermin which infef Plants; from Bartien's Gar-

dener's Year

390

Alethod of feparating the Grain from the Straw, as practifed in the State of
Firginia; from the Second Volume of Communications to the Board of
Agriculture

Method of making Hay from the Leaves of Carrots, and improving the Size

of the Roots; by the fame

395

ibid.

Eafy and effectual Cure for Wens, in a Letter from William Chisholme, Eff.
to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine

Proposal for a new and less expenfice Mode of employing Convies, fubmitted to

the Lords of the Treasury, by Jeremy Bentham, Efq.

Account of the Improvements on his Majefty's Farm at the Great Park,

Windfor; by N. Kent

Criminal Profecutions of Witches in the Seventeenth Century; from Ni-

cholls's Hiftory of Leicestershire

405

Ancient annual Custom in Hallaton in the County of Leicester; from the

fame

406

Manner in which Cardinal Wolfey entertained the French Ambassador, in

Hampton Court; from Lyfons's Account of the Middlefex Parifhes, not

defcrized in the Environs of London

407

Account of the ancient Palace of Karnac in the Island of Philæ; from Ri-

pand's Report on the Antiquities of Upper Egypt

Account of the Sepulchres of Thebes in Egypt : from the fame

Excavation of the Subterraneous City of Pompeii; from Mariana Starke's

Particulars concerning Tobacco; from Beckman's Introduction to Tech-

nology

417

A hort chronological Account of the religious Fablishments made by Fng-

Lifh Catholics on the Continent of Europe, by the Abbé Man; from tre

Archæologia, vol. 13

419

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

On the Sciente of Phyfiognomy, from Mr. Fufeli's Advertisement to Hunter's

Tranflation of Lavater's Elays on Physiognomy

433

434

Origin and Nature of the Sentiment of Admiration in the human Mind;

from Cogan's Treatife on the Paffions

Nature of Pre-difpofing Caufes, from the fame

435

Medical and Surgical Punishments, in a Letter to the Editor of the Monthly

Magazine

Inquiry into the Origin of the Nerves; from the fame

An Effay on the Origin of the Italian Language

Ode to the New Year; by H.J. Pye, Efq. Poet Laureat

450

Ode for his Majefty's Birth-day, June 4; by H. J. Pyé, Poet Laureat 452

An Infcription; by Mr. Roscoe

Lady Carlie's Answer to Mrs. Greville's Ode for Indifference

A hot Day; written in a hot Night

Mad Pol; from Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy

Contraft between the Post-horfe and Farmer's Ilorfe; from the fame

Suffolk Cheefe; from the fame

The Rhyming Apothecary, a Tale; by George Colman, Efq.

Account of Books for 1800:

An Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, fent by the Governor-

General of India, in the Year 1795; by Michael Symes, Efq. Major in

his Majesty's 76th Regiment

461

470

473

An Account of an Embally to the Court of Teeshoo Lama, in Tibet; contain-

ing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet; by

Captain Samuel Turner. To which are added Views taken on the Spot,

by Lieutenant Samuel Davis; and Obfervations Botanical, Mineralogical,

and Medical; by Mr. Robert Saunders

Ayeen Akbery; or, The Infitutes of the Emperor Akber. Tranflated from

the original Perfian; by Francis Gladnin

The Geographical Suflem of Herodotus examined and explained, by a Comparison

with thofe of other ancient Authors, and with modern Geography. In the

Courfe of the Work, are introduced Dissertations on the itinerary State of the

Greeks, the Expedition of Darius Hylafpes to Scythia, the Pofition and Re-

mains of ancient Babylon, the Alluvions of the Nile, and the Canals of Suez;

the Oafis and Temple of Jupiter Ammon, the ancient Circumnavigation of

Africa, and other Subjects of Hyjlory and Geography. The whole ex-

plained by Eleven Maps, adapted to the different Subjects, and accompa

nied with a complete Index; by James Rennell, F. R.S.

The Hiftory of the Helvetic Confederacy

481

482

CHRONICLE, P. 47, c. 1, 1 2, for Palemeo, read Palermo.

T. Burton, Printer, Little Queen-frect.

« Zurück Weiter »