CONTENTS. 



State of Agriculture in the Canary Islands ; from the Memoirs of the 



National Institute of France . . . 369 



On the successful Cultivation of the true Rhubarb in England ; by Mr. 



T.Jones , . . . .371 



Researches respecting the Duration of the Time of Gestation in the 



Females of different Animals ; by M. Tessier . . 374 



Experiments respecting the Circulation of the Sap in Trees; by M. 



Coulomb . . . - . 376 



On the Uses of the Juniper Plant ; by S. Alopceus . 377 



USEFUL PROJECTS. 



List of Patents for new Inventions, granted during the Fear 1800 379 



Account of a Method of destroy ijig Caterpillars in Gooseberry -bushes ; 

 from the Prize Essays of the_ Highland Society of Scotland 386 



Account of some Experiments made in France respecting the Quality 

 of Pewter ; by M. Coquebert . . . 387 



Receipt for destroying the Vermin which infest Plants ; from Bas- 

 tien's Gardener's Year .... 390 



Method of Separating the Grain from the Straw, as practised in the 

 State of Virginia ; from the Second Volume of Commxmications to 

 the Board of Agriculture . . . . ibid 



Communications in Gardening by Mr. Weston . , 391 



Method of making Hay from the Leaves of Carrots, and improving the 

 Size of the Roots ; by the same . . . 395 



Easy and effectual Cure for Wens, in a Letter from William Chis- 

 holme, Esq. to the Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine ibid. 



Proposal for a new and less expensive Mode of employing Convicts, sub- 

 mitted to the Lords of the Treasury, by Jeremy Bentham, Esq. 396 



Account of the Improvements on his Majesty's Farm at the Great 

 Park, Windsor ; by N. Kent. . . . 398' 



ANTIQUITIES. 



Criminal Prosecutions of Witches in the Seventeenth Century ; from 

 NichoU's History of Leicestershire. . . . 405 



Ancient annual Custom in Hallaton in the County of Leicester ; from 

 the same ..... 406 



Manner in which Cardinal Wolsey, entertained the French Ambassa- 

 dor, in Hampton Court ; from Ly sons' s Account of the Middlesex 

 Parishes, not described in the Environs of London . 407 



Account of the ancient Palace of Karnac in the Island of Philoe ; from 

 Ripauds Report on the Antiquities of Upper Egypt. . 410 



Account of the Sepulchres of Thebes in Egypt ; from the same 412 



Excavation of the Subterraneous City of Pompeii ; from Mariana 

 Starke's Letters from Italy . . .414 



Particulars concerning Tobacco ; from Beckmans Introduction to 

 Technology . . . . .417 



Ashort chronological Account of the religious Establishments made by 

 English Catholics on the Continent of Europe, by the Abbe Man ; 

 from the Archmologia, vol. 13. . . . 419 



