CONTENTS. 



Vii 



VI. Jn Account of certain Motions which fmall lighted 

 Wicks acquire, when Jwimming on a Bafon of Oil. 

 By Patrick Wilfon, F. R. S. Edin. and Frofejfor of 

 Praaical Aponomy in the Univerfity of Glafgoiv,V^g& 163. 



Vri. Account of a Singular Halo of the Moon. 5)/ William 



Hall, Efq; of Whitehall, F. R. S. Edin. ^ - 174- 



VIII. A New Series for the Reaification of the Elllpfts, with 

 Obfervations on the Evolution of a certain Algebraic 

 Formula. 5/ James Ivory, A. M. - I77- 



IX. Mineralogical Defcription of the Mountain of Gibral- 

 tar. £/ Major Imrie. - - ^9'* 

 X. Defcription of a thermometer, which marks the great- 

 ejl Degree of Heat and Cold from one Time of Ob- 

 fervation to another. By Alexander Keith, Efq; 

 F. R. S. & F. A. S. Edin. - - 203. 

 XL Defcription of a Barometer which marks the Rife and 

 Fall of the Mercury from two different Times of Ob- 

 fervation. By Alexander Keith, Efq; F. R. S. & 

 F. A. S. Edin. - - - 209. 

 Xll.' Meteorological AbJiraB for the Tears 1794, 1795, 



1796, - - - 2^3- 



II. 



Papers of the Literary Class. 



I. On the Origin and Principles of Gothic ArchiteBure. By 



Sir James Hall, Bart. F. R. & A. S. S. Edin. - 3- 



XL M. Chevalier's Tableau de la Plaine de Troye illu- 



Jlrated and confirmed from the Obfervations of fub- 



fequent Travellers and others. By Andrew Dalzel, 



M. A. F. R. S. Edin. Profeffor of Greek in the 



Univerfity of Edinburgh, 7 - 29. 



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