CONTENTS. 



VII. Effay on the Natural Advantages of Ireland, the Mamifac- 

 iurcs to which they are adapted, and the bcjl Means of 

 improving thofc Manufa£lures, a Prize Ejjay, by William 

 Prcjlcn, Efq. Page 16 1 



VIII. Inquiry into the Confijlency of Dr. Hutton's Theory of the 

 ^ Earth, with the Arrangement of the Strata and other Phe- 

 nomenon on the Bafaltic Coq/i of Antrim. By the Rev. 

 William Richardfon, D. D. 429 



POLITE LITERATURE. 



L EJfuy on the Rife and Progrefs of Rhyme, by Theophilus 



Swift, Efq. a Prize Effay, 3 



II. Notices relative to fome of the Native Tribes of North 

 America, by John Dutine, Efq. loi 



III. Some Confiderations on the Hi/lory of antient amatory 

 Writers, and the comparative Merits of the three great 

 Roman Elegiac Poets, Ovid, Tibullus, and Propertins, by 

 William Prefion, Efq. 139 



ANTIQ^UITIES. 



An Infcription on an antient Sepulchral Stone, or Monu- 

 ment, in the Church-Tard of Kilcummin, with fome Re- 

 marks on the fame, by the Rev. fames Little. 



