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By Mr JAMES ANDERSON.

216. THE following books written by him, viz. 1ft, Observations on the Means of exciting a Spirit of National Industry, 4to, 1777. 2d, An Inquiry into the Causes that have hitherto retarded the advancement of Agriculture in Europe, 4to, 1779. 3d, Mifcellaneous Obfervations on planting and training Timber Trees, 8vo, 1777. 4th, An inquiry into the Nature of the Corn Laws, with a view to the new Corn Bill propofed for Scotland, 8vo, 1777. 5th, A practical Treatise on Chimnies, containing full Directions for Preventing or Removing Smoke in Houses, illuftrated with copper plates, 12mo, 1776. The Intereft of Great Britain, in regard to her American Colonies, confidered, in a letter to Henry Laurens, Efq; a letter to George Wilfon, Efq; London, on feveral antiquities difcovered in Scotland; a fecond letter to the fame, concerning the vitrified fortifications, and circular dry ftone buildings found in Scotland.

By the Right Honourable the EARL of BUCHAN.

217. A BOOK entitled, Confiderations on Man in his Natural as well as Moral State; being an humble attempt towards a plain, fimple, and orthodox explanation of the nature and manner of animal and vegetable motion, or a demonftrative account of the nature and manner of that fympathy, connection, and intercourfe which fubfifts between the foul and body in an animal, folving all the phaenomena in the animal world; of our moral and phyfical intelligence, &c. hitherto fo much the fubjects of difpute; once intended for the prefs, in three volumes, by a country Gentleman, (Helenus Halkerston of Rathillet, Efq;) A copy of Peter Pineda's method for the learning to speak, read, and write the English and Spanish Languages, from which his Lordship firft learned the rudi

ments

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April 2. ments of the Spanish language, 8vo, London, 1751. Eleven Letters from the late Reverend Mr Hervy, to the Reverend Mr John Wesley, London 1765. And Echard's Gazetteer, London, 1738. A Letter to his Lordship's brother, the Honourable Thomas Erskine, Efq; on the fubject of education, accompanying a Latin addrefs to the Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, and one in English to the boys in the highest class of that school, 1782. An half sheet of brown paper, of a good texture, made of a weed fished out of Duddington Loch, the property of Sir Alexander Dick of Prestonfield, Bart. And a most complete compendium of geography, by Laurence Echard, M. A. the 8th edition, 12mo, London, 1713. To the portfolio of the portraits of the members of the Society, along with his Lordship's portrait, those of the Secretary, Dr John Brown, Mr Smellie, Mr Jeans, Mr Williams, and Mr Deuchar, all done in black lead, as large as life, by the ingenious Mr John Brown painter.

By the Reverend Doctor BLACKLOCK.

218. A COPY of his Poetical and Profe Works, in two volumes, 8vo, third edition, London, 1756. And a copy of a Letter from him to the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the fubject of an Eftablishment for the fubfiftence and improvement of the blind.

By Mr WILLIAM SMELLIE.

219. QUINTUS Curtius de Rebus Geftis Alexandri Magni, folio, Bafileae, 1545, apud Froben.

By FRANCIS KINLOCH, Efq; younger, of Gilmerton.

220. THE head of a hatchet, of polished yellow marble, fharpen

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ed at both ends, in length nine inches and a quarter, in breadth, at one end, two inches and five eighths, and at the other one inch and a half. This inftrument was turned up by the plough in a field near Gilmerton in Eaft Lothian.

By WILLIAM-CHARLES LITTLE of Libberton, Efq.

221. FIVE chairs for the reading room.

By the COUNTESS of BUCHAN.

222. A PAIR of Chinese Lady's fhoes, of crimson fattin, richly embroidered with gold and coloured filks, each measuring in length 4 inches, the breadth at the heel 1 inch; the foles, which are flat, and covered on the bottoms with ftrong leather, are each one inch thick at the heel.

By Mr J. M'OMIE of the Academy at Perth.

223. AN accurate and elaborate drawing of an antient feal of the town of Perth, as appended to a charter of date the 1ft of November 1454, and to several others of latter date; alfo, another of the feal of William, Earl of Errol, and Constable of Scotland, appended to a charter granted by him to the monastery of the Black Friars of Perth, dated the 20th of August 1452, which is the fame with another feal appended to another charter granted by Gilbert de Hay, Lord of Errol, to the said monaftery, the 6th of May 1324.

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1782. April 2.

BY ALEXANDER DUNCAN of Saintford Efq;

224. AN Oriental hookär, or fmoaking pipe, the construction of which is as follows: The fundamental part is a bell formed vase, 6 inches in diameter at bottom, and 64 inches high, of a compound dark grey metal, ftudded with filver Mofaic, thought to communicate the leaft degree of heat; this, being filled with perfumed water, receives a reed pipe, which, at the upper aperture of the vase, divaricates in one direction, communicating with a flexible tube, covered with purple filk, and richly decorated with filver at each end, 13 feet 8 inches in length, and, in another direction, with a tube, communicating with the materials for fmoaking, which confift of a pafte composed of fine tobacco, bethel, ambergrife, and various aromatic and gently narcotic drugs, laid in a chaffed filver annulus, 2 inches of mean diameter, and 1 inch deep, which is placed on the mouth of an inverted vase of baked porcelain, unglazed on the inside, and enamelled with green on the outside, which communicates with the open air in the house, and, without doors, is covered with a filver chassed and perforated top, having a double chain of the fame metal affixed to it, and called a Chillum Daar. The whole of the long flexible tube is fprinkled with perfumed waters, and there is a perfon whofe fole care it is to compound the chillum, and attend the smoaker. The metal vafe is decorated, near the top, with a rich carved filver collar, from which, all round, are fufpended thirty-four chains, at the end of each of which is a finall rose of eight leaves, all of the fame metal: Five of the chains at this collar are broken off. By means of this inftrument, the smoke is taken with the advantage of the inhalation of a balsamic fluid, and gives no smell to the clothes or furniture. These machines, by the wealthy and luxurious Oriental Princes, are often adorned on the chillum daar with pretious stones, to the value of five hundred pounds Sterling.

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By Mr WILLIAM CREECH Bookseller.

225. A CALEDONIAN target, covered with black leather, which is handsomely ftudded with large and small round headed brafs nails, in diameter 19 inches; and a two handed sword, part of the blade towards the point broken off; the remainder, with the handle, meafures in length 4 feet 9 inches.

By Mr JAMES GRAY Writer.

226. A WARRANT under the privy fignet, being a fair impreffion of the Anglo-British arms, as carried by King Charles II. in the name of Charles P. R. directed to George Auld at Roseburn, near Colt Bridge, requiring him to grind all the broad fwords that fhall be brought to him; dated at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the 26th of October 1745, and figned Jo. Murray.

By JOHN RAMSAY of Auchtertyre, Efq;

227. A LARGE round veffel of thin brass, twenty-five inches in diameter, and fixteen inches in height, the diameter of the mouth fixteen inches and a half, dug up, in May 1768, from the bottom of the peat moss of Kinkardine, fome miles weft from Stirling, and found lying upon a ftratum of clay beneath the mofs, which is generally between seven and twelve feet in depth. This appears to be a Roman camp kettle, and was accompanied with an ingenious account of the antient state of that part of the country.

By WALTER WILLIAMSON of Cardrona, Efq;

228. AN antient Greek bronze coin; on one fide a cornuted head, on the other the figure of Pallas armata, in her right hand a figure of Victory.

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