CONTENTS. 



Of the Mikkias, or Nilometer ; and the Rising of the Nile,J}om Nieiuhr. sgS 



Of Egyptian Agriculture, from the same 3^8 



Account of some new Discoveries in the interior Farts of Africa 400 



USEFUL PROJECTS. 

 SirB.Thompsons Experiments on Causes of the Warmth of fVartn Clothing AOi ' 



Ward's Patent for changing Smoke, Sj-c. into useful Materials 415 



Campbell's Do. fur destroying the Colouring Particles in Rags, Sfc. used for 



Paper 41 6 



Idea of a Map of the World on a larger Scale from Forest's Voyage. . . .419 

 On the Scab in Sheep, by P. T. Trehy, Esq.—fnnn Annalsof Agriculture. 420 

 Method of curing Butter, practised in Udny, and its Neighbourhood . . 421; 



ANTIQUITIES, 

 Order of Council to the L. Mayor of London in the Reign of Elizabeth, 422 



The Earl of Nitsdale's Escape out of the Tower in 17 10 424 



Obsenatiuns on the late Continuance of the Use of Torture in England, from. 



the ArchcEohgia 433 



On the Of CCS of Thane and Abthane, from the Scots Antiq. Soc. Trans. 4-35 

 An Account of a Combat betxvcen the Mac/hersons and the Davidsons, from 



the same. 436 



Of Egyptian Antiquities in General, from Niebuhr's Travels 438 



Of the Pyramids, from the same 439 



Of the Hieroglyphics, from the same 441 



MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 

 Thoughts on Physic and Physicians, from the European Magazine. . . . 415 

 Friendly hints on tlie Modeiyi Practice of Phymians, by an old Patient. 448 

 Detraction : a Vision, — from Cotton's Pieces, in Prose and Verse. . . . 4oO 

 Observations on the Passage from India, commonly called over Itand, from 



Howell's Journey 452 



Obelisk of Sesostris at Rome, from Wilcox's Roman Conversations .... 455 

 On the prevailing 0/ inion of a Sexual Character in Men, xvith Strictures on 



Dr. Gregori/'s Legacy to his Daugltter 457 



Madame de Warens,from Young's Travels, in 1/87-88-89 466' 



POETRY. 



Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day, by H. J. Pye, E'iq 467 



Papyra, from Darwin's Botanic Garden 468 



Air Balloons, from the same 470 



Eliza, from the same 47 1 



Ode to the Poppy, from Desmond, a Novel by Mrs. C. Smith 473 



Prologue and Ejiilogueto Ci>lu),d)us, an Historical Play 474 



Isolero foiled and nearly kilted by Bayardo. Battle between Rinaldo and 



Bai/ardo, from Hoale's Tasso 476 



Stanzas written in a blank leaf in the Pleasures of Memory 479 



ACCOUNT OF BOOKS for 1792. 

 A Journal of Transactions and Events, during a Residence of nearly sixteen 

 Years on the Coast of Labrador, SfC. by George Cartwright, Esq. in 3 



vols. 4-to. 1792 480 



The Origin and Progress of Language, by Lord Monboddo, vol. 6, l79-' '^9^ 



Calvary, a Poem, in eight Books, by Richard Cumberland, Ato. 1792 . . j9'i 



Travels during the Year 1787, 1788, ««(/ 178,9, undertaken xvith a Viexo 



of ascertaining the Cidtivation, Wealth, SjC. of France, bij Arthur Young, 



Esq. F.R.S. ^c. 2 vols. 4/y. 1792 ,.^.4r95 



