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part he had in suggesting the plan of New Edinburgh; 

 and other national designs, will fall to be mentioned and 

 described. And lastly, under the article of Robert A- 

 dam, will arrange themselves every circumstance relating 

 to the present state of civil architecture ; as under that 

 of general Roy every circumstance relating to military, 

 wherein general Watson, the reverend Mr Bryce of Kirk- 

 ne\vton, and others, will fall properly to be commemora- 

 ted. 



In the art of engraving, now rendered aa object of 

 commerce to the extent of more than L. 100,000 a-year 

 to Britain, Sir Robert Strange will afford an article not 

 only containing a list of his valuable works, but the pre- 

 sent state of that beautiful art, not only in respect of or- 

 nament, but use, in the advancement of arts and sciences 

 by diagrammatic elucidation. 



The article of George Drummond, lord provost of 

 Edinburgh, may contain almost every thing relating to 

 the state of the flouriihing city of Edinburgh, with its 

 porL of Leith, and call forth the remembrance and men- 

 tion of useful citizens in the same station, who hare fol- 

 lou ed out the laudable designs formed during the magi- 

 stracy of Drummond. 



In the improvement of useful arts, Mefsrs Smitoun 

 and Watt, and above all the worthy Roebuck and Dale, 

 will fall to be celebrated without encomiums, and by on- 

 ly enumerating the good consequences of their zeal and 

 ingenuity. In the sciences, polite literature, and the 

 other departments, which I now forbear to accompany 

 with the desfgnatiou of names, many will fall to be dis- 

 cufsed •, and I (hall only subjoin at present, that without 

 encomium or criticism, it will be best to state matters of 

 ficty connected with the honoyr and prosperity of the. 



