CONTENTS. 



Or. Plica PoIoKica - - - - - 403 



Ou /.he Ptnver 'f fixed Alkaline Salti, tg preser've the Fleih of Animals from 



PutrefaBioH ._.-.- 406 



ObsevjalioKi on the NallU'e of Hctiej, particularly on its Saccarine Parts, 



•zvhcu obtained in a solid Form . . . _ 408 



USEFUL PROJECTS. 



First Repirt frdtn the St Jed Committee appointed to take into Consideration 

 the p>est:)it high Price of Corn ' - - - - 413 



Second Report - - - - - -416 



Third Repot t . . - - - -418 



Appendix to the Third Report _ - - . 42a 



Sir jf'jhn Sinclair' s Address to the Board of Agriculture _ 438 



On the Use nf Rice . - - - - 443 



Specification f the Patent granted to Mr. Jones, for his Method of deleting 



Errors in licoh-keepiug _ . _ . . 44 r 



Account rf an Impr-jiernent in Sea-Conipisses - . . 448 



Receipt to cure the Complaint of the Water in Sheep - _ 449 



ANTIQUITIES. 



A shnrt Account cf several Gardens near L'^r.don, luith Remarks on some 

 « Parficuiars, luhenin they excel, or are d-ficient, upon a ,'ii-v of t' an, 



in December, 169 1 - . - . . ^jo 



Sketch of the History f Sugar in the early Times, and through the middle 



Ages ------- 4c5 



Accunt of Poetry in Scotland, during the Sixteenth Century _ 4^0 



Extraa from an Ace ,u,it of the C-dl.giate Ch..pcl of St. Steplei, Wrst.^. 



mi':ster . . . . - - 461 



Of A-icient Sprin, and its Original Inhabitants . . 462 



Of the [iljrinns and Fa>inoniant - - _ - 46 c 



i.hina, t^s Lno-^'n to the Anaents .. - . . aC^ 



Historical Account nf Sculpnire - . ■ . xb% 



Letter from King Charles II. to the Duke cf Orrkond, upon his taking t.e 



Seals from Chancellor Clarendon . _ . 4^1 



MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. 



O'l the Influence of C. Id upon th'- Health of the Inhabitants f L-rid.n ^nz 

 The Domi phobia, or Dread of H<jme - . - 4-6 



On Watering Places . . . . -a^S 



7 he InveHiion of Organs . _ . . - 48 ? 



On the Injustice of the Charges Iriught against the genuine Philosophers 4^6- 

 ^f the Causes of the Increase of Crimes - * _ 4;, 8 



