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Literary and Phikfophical IntelUgente, 



[Aug. TJ 



Dr. Mavor 18 engaged In a tour of 

 "Wales, and is colleiRing materials for an 

 Account of its Agriculture, Manners of 

 the People, their Cuftoms, Habits, &c. 

 bic. A draftfman of tafte and accuracy 

 makes one of his party ; and the whole 

 )ourney will have for its objedl fcience 

 and fcenery, pleafure and information. 

 The principality has been often trod, but 

 it is by no means beaten ; ever affording 

 new (ourcesof remark for ufe and beauty. 

 Mrs. Temple, mother of the young 

 }ady whole poetry has fo frequently gra- 

 tified the leaders of the Monthly Maga- 

 zine, has finiflieda novel, under the title 

 of Ferdinand Fitz-Ormond, which will 

 Ipeedily make its appearance, in four vo- 

 lunws. 



Mr. Chock ER, an eminent land for- 

 veyor, of Frome, in Someilisifhire, is en- 

 gaged upona Sydematic Tieatifeon Land 

 Surveying, This important praftical 

 art, faid to hsve given rife to Geometry, 

 )ias never been treated in a manner wor- 

 thy of its importance, and the authors who 

 have treated of it have either been defici- 

 ent in mathematical knowledge, or with- 

 out experience in praflice. Mr. Crocker. 

 unites both thefe rcquifites in a fuper- 

 eminent degree. 



The new edition of Dr. Watkins's 

 Biographical Di6lionary, in the improve- 

 ment of which he has been employed 

 nearly two years, is almoin completed, and 

 will be ready for publication in the month 

 of September. It will include upwards 

 cf ten thoufand pirfons, with the autho- 

 rity annexed to each article. 



Mr. Young has commenced the new 

 ferles of his Annals of Agriculture, and 

 the firfl quarterly number appeared on the 

 firft day of Julv. In future, a volume of 

 four quatterly Numbers will be completed 

 annually. 



A fele(nionof all the beft epigrams in 

 the Englifh language will fpeedily appear, 

 under the title of the Britifh Martial. 



Mr. Beloe is printing Anecdotes of 

 Literature, from raie books in the Britifli 

 Mnfeum and other valuable libraries. 



Mr. Roberts, autlior of a Treatife 

 on Voluntary and Fraudulent Convey- 

 ances, is preparing a Treatife on the 

 great Statute of Frauds and Perjuries; in 

 which the influence of that ftatute upon 

 contrafts for Tales, wills, judgments, and 

 executions, will be the fubjeft principally 

 conHdcred. 



Dr. Trotter, of Newcsffle, Is pre- 

 paring for the ptefs An Inquiry into the 

 increaling PrevaJence, Prevention, znA 

 Treatment of Difeales comnionly called 

 Nervous, Bilious, Indigtftiw, &c. 



The Life of the late Mr. Gborcb 

 MoRLAND is printing, in folio. 



Mr. Cruise it preparing for the prefii 

 the fifth and fixth volumes of his Digefl 

 of the Laws of England refpeff ing real 

 Property. 



Mr. Biol AND, author of Letters on 

 Hillory, has announced a CoUeflion of 

 Eflays to be publifhed by fubfcription. 



Mr. Leslie has circulated Propofals 

 for publifliing by fubfcription a Didlion- 

 ary of the fynonymous Words and tech- 

 nical Terms in the Englifh Language. 



Mr. W. Hooker, a pupil of Mr. 

 Bauer, botanic painter to his Majefty, 

 has commenced the publication of a work, 

 under the title of Paradifus Londinenlis; 

 cor.taining coloured figures of new and 

 rare plants cultivated in the vicinity of 

 London. 



The fecond Volume of Bell's Surgery» 

 containing operaJons of furgtry, may be 

 expefitil m a fhort time. 



Dr. Edwaru Goodman Clarke, 

 author of Medicintt Praxeos Compendiumf 

 has in the preis a new work on the Prac* 

 tice of Ph) lie. 



Dr. MuNKHOUSE, of Queens Col- 

 lege, Oxford, has in the prels three vo- 

 lumes of Sermons. 



Mr. Louis Jonson has commenced 

 the publication of a work entitled Devo- 

 tional Harmony. The words are fele£\ed 

 from various pfalms and hymns in com- 

 mon ufe, and the mufic from the moft 

 eminent compofcrs. No new tune will 

 be inlerted that will not (land the ttftof 

 mufical criticifm. 



Mr. Swinburne is engaged in a Pic- 

 turelque Tour through Spain; which will 

 be illuftrated with twenty two plates, 

 and will be finifhed early in 1806. 



The Complete Graxier ; or Farmer and 

 Cattle Dealer's AfTilfant, by a Lincoln- 

 fliire Grazier, is printing. 



In Novemlser next will be publifhed, in 

 quarto, the firlf volumeof Mr.LvsONs's 

 Magna Britannia lllujlrata. 



Dr. R. Jackson has nearly ready for 

 publication A Syftem of medical Ar- 

 rangement for Armies. 



A new work, under the liilebf London 

 Cries, or Pifhires of Riot and Dilfrefj, 

 a Ppem, by a gentleman of Lincoln's Inu» 

 will loon appear. 



Mr. David Booth, of Newburgh, 

 in Fifefliirs, has ifiucd Propofals for pub- 

 lifhing an Analytical Dictionary of the 

 Englifh Language. 



Mr, Jonas, author of An Abridg- 

 msiit of the Excife Laws, intends fljortly 

 to publifh _A nsw and coir.plete Art of 

 Gauging. 



Mr, 



