XIV CONTENTS. 



USEFUL PROJECTS AND IMPROVEMENTS. 



On the Management of the Onion ,i».»>f,v 5^1 



On the cultivation of the Red Beet 502 



Remarks on pruning and graining standard Apple and Pear 



Trees 504 



Herrings cured in the Dutch Mode on British Vessels .... 505 



MISCELLANIES. 



Some Particulars respecting the Arithmetical Powers ofZerah 



Colburn 507 



Account of Selden^s Mare Clausum 512 



Description of Teheran 516 



Description of Arz-Roum 520 



inhabitants of Buenos Ayres 522 



Description of St. Paul's 526 



Description of Rio de Janeiro 528 



Villa Rica 532 



Diamond Mine • 535 



State of Society among the middling Classes employed in 



Mining and Agriculture 541 



Original Letter from Sir James Stuart to the Rigid Honour- 

 able Sir David Dundas 543 



POETRY. 



Farewell Address, spoken by Mrs. Siddons, on leaving the 

 Stage 29th of June, 1812, and written by Horace 



TwisSf Esq 545 



Address on the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre. Written 



by Lord Byron 546 



IProm Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Lord Byron.^....-^.. 548 



To Thyrza, bythesame .............. ....'..;;..'.. .Iv. 530 



The Patron, from Crabbe's Tales 551 



GENERAL 



