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dote, 40. The oratorical abilities of
Murray (afterwards lord Mansfield),
and of Lord Chatham, 40. In 1741.
he marries, Miss Drummond. Ac-
count of his domestic habit 43. The
first among the Scottish gentry who
endeavoured to bring the Fnglish
mode of husbandry into use, 44. In
1752, appointed one of the judges of
the court of session, 45.
In 1757,
published the statute law of Scotland,
abridged, 46. In 1759. his histo-
rical law tracts and his introduction
to the art of thinking, 47. In 1762,
the Elements of Criticism, 48. In-
teresting particulars relative to the
state of the Western Isles in 1764.
Judicious observations on modern Mu-
sic 125, Extract of a letter from Mrs.
Montague, 127. From Lord Kames
to the Duchess of Gordon, 127. Mrs.
Montague's remarks on Ossian, 130.
In 1774, Lord Kames published his
"Sketches of the history of Man,"
131. In 1781, Loose hints on edu-
cation,
Metrical Legends,

214

333

Modern medicine, Uwins,

332

Molitor's indagator,

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Uwins' modern medicine,
Woolcombe on consumption, 425
Medicine, Uwins' modern,
188
Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq.
405. Mr. Brand born in 1719, edu-
cated at Glasgow, sets out on a tour to
the continent in company with Mr. T.
Hollis, 405 who died in 1774, and
left his tortune to Mr. Brand, who
assumes his name, 406. Mr. B.
Hollis convicted of bribery at an elec-
tion, 407. A letter to B. Hollis from
Mr. Adams, afterwards president of
the United States,

411
Memoirs of the earl of Monmouth, vide
Naunton's.
Memoirs of the Life and writings of
lord Kames, 35. Lord Kames born
at Kames in the county of Berwick,
in 1696.-In 1712, placed in the of-
fice of a writer to the signet at Edin-
burgh, 36. Called to the bar in
1723.-In 1732, published essays on
several subjects in law, 39. An anec.
APP. Vol. 16.

Monmouth, Naunton's memoirs of the
Earl of, vide Naunton.

431

Murray's account of the life and writ-
ings of James Bruce, vide Bruce.
Murray's Mentorian Lectures on, sacred
and moral subjects,
217

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Penitentiary, Blair's answers to objec-
tions against the London Female, 332
Physiognomist, Porta's translation of
the, 494
The genuine science of
physiognomy, 494. Remarks on the
size of the head, 495. The man of
probity and his opposite, 496
Phillips s letter to the Livery of London,
270. Freeholder's book, 271. The
practice of committing prisoners for
trial to the Cold-Bath Fields and other
houses of correction, 273. Petition
to parliament on the subject of the
abuses of that prison, 273. On de-
taining prisoners after the grand jury
have thrown out the bills, 275.
count of Newgate, 277. Of Borough
Compter,
278
Philosophical Transactions for 1808,
18. Davy's Lectures on the decom-
position of the fixed alkalies, 18. On
the properties and nature of the basis
of soda, 21. On the structure and use
of the spleen, 24. On oxalic acid,
25. On super-acid, and sub-acid
salts, 28. On the inconvertibility of
bark into alburnum, 29. Account
of Cretinism, 31. On a new pro-
perty of the tangents of three angles of
a plane triangle, and of the tangents of
three arches trisecting the circumfe-
rence of a circle, 32. Account of the
application of the gas from coal to eco-
nomical purposes, 33. Observations of
a comet, made with a view to investi-
gate its magnitude and the nature of its
illumination, 113. Hydraulic inves.
tigations subservient to an intended
Croonian lecture on the motion of
the blood, 115. Richardson's letter
on the alterations that have taken
place in the structure of rocks, on the
surface of the basaltic country in the

counties of Derry and Antrim, 115.
On the difference in the structure of
calculi, which arise from their being
formed in different parts of the urin-
ary passage, and on the effects that
are produced on them by the internal
use of solvent medicines, 118. On
the changes produced in the atmos-
pheric air, and oxygen gas by respi-
ration, 120. Description of an ap.
paratus for the analysis of the com
pound inflammable gases by slow
combustion, 306. Anatomical struc-
ture of the wombat, 309. Origin
and office of the alburnum of trees,
310. Eclipses of the satellites of Ju-
piter, 317. Electro-chemical re-
searches on the decomposition of the
earths,
Picture of Valencia, vide Valencia.
Poems and translations from the minor
Greek Poets,

Poem on astronomy,

312

101

103

Porta's translation of the physiognomist,

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326

Subsistence, Comber's inquiry into the
state of national, vide Comber.
Southey's Chronicle of the Cid, 1. Of
the Chronica del famoso Cavallero
Cid Ruydiez Campeador, 2. Of the
Poema del Cid, 3. Of Cilicio, 5.
Detail of the account on which Cor-
neille's tragedy of the Cid was founded,
7. A signal instance of the reward of
charity, 9. Death of Ferdinand, 10.
Consequences thereof, 11. Banish-
ment of the Cid, 16. Parting of the
Cid from Donna Ximena his wife,
16. Conduct of the Cid towards
Count Ramon Berenguer his prisoner,
156. Recall of the Cid, 157. Is
again banished, ibid. Poem of la.
mentations composed by a noble
Moor residing in the city of Valencia,
158. Second return of the Cid to the
court of Castile, 160. Marriage of
the Cid's daughters with the infants of
Carrion, 161. Extraordinary fondness
of the Cid for his beard, 163. Extracts
from the Poem del Cid, 163.et passim.

TESTAMENT, Paulus' commentary on
the New, 449. The correct apprecia-
tion of what are the real historical
contents of the New Testament, 450.
The preface to Luke's gospel, 451.
Who Theophilus was considered,452.
Of Zacharias, 453. Substance of a
paraphrase of the 1st Chapter of Luke
from ver. 26 to 38,on the Holy Ghost,

455. On the taxation mentioned
in Luke, 458. Of the appearance of
angels on the birth of Christ, 459. Of
the genealogies of Matthew and Luke,
462. Of the religious sects founded
by Judas of Gamala and a Pharisee
named Saddok, 463. Phenomena
at the baptism of Jesus, 466. The
practice of medicine a part of the
office of a priest, according to the
Mosaic institution, 469. The storm
described in Matthew, 471. Of the
Gerasene maniac, 472. The cure of
the paralytic analysed,472. The case of
the hemorrhoidal woman explained,
473. On the police of leprosy, 474.
On the widow's son at Nain, ibid.
Of the dinner given by Simon the
Pharisee, 476. The doctrine of for-
giving sins discussed, 476. Original-
ity and authenticity ascribed to the
Gospel of Mark,
Theodore and Blanche,
Thomas's observations on Ophthalmia,

478

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VALENCIA, Fischer's picture of, 50.

Glowing description of the first aspect
of the country, 51. Account of the
city of Valencia, 52. Cheapness of
provisions, 53. Division of lands
into huestas and secanos, 54. De-
scription of the shoe called alpargates,
55. Putrid disorders prevalent in
some of the districts of Valencia,
55.
Cultivation of silk, 56. Sin-
gular salt rock of Pinoso, 56. Of the
esparto, a species of feather-grass, 56.
Of the almond-tree, 57. Of water-
thieves, ibid. Of the trobadores
or itinerant bards, 57. Slinging a
favourite exercise of the Valencians,
58. Account of the puppet showinen
and directors of dancing dogs and
monkies, 59. Division of the imposts
into royal and manorial, 59. Climate
of Valencia favourable to longevity,
60. Specific for the bite of vipers, 60.
Vasseur's French student's vade mecum,

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WARM and vapour baths, Kentish on,
439

Washington, Bancroft's life of General,
412. His early bent for a military
life, 413. In 1753, is sent on a mis-
sion to warn the French against a
further prosecution of the plan they
had formed of uniting Canada with
Louisiana by a chain of posts, 413.
Is appointed in 1755, to defend the
frontiers with an inadequate force,
414. In 1759, marries Mrs Custis,
417. In 1775, appointed by congress
commander in chief of the American
force., 418. The American lines

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Woman, a novel,
Woodhouselee's memoirs of the life and

writings of lord Kames, vide Memoirs.
Woodley's Church-yard and other poems

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END OF VOL. XVI.

W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey, London.

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