Viper, &c. ; also to Recovering Persons apparently Dead from Drown- 

 ing ; the mode of Escape from Houses on Fire, and Shipwreck ; and the 

 treatment of Persons accidentally Frozen. 



The Science of CHEMISTRY, which has done so much for our conve- 

 nience and our wants, has not been neglected. The Author has endea- 

 voured to embody, in different articles, all that is essential in this impor- 

 tant branch of knowledge. This science is intimately connected with 

 DOMESTIC ECONOMY, and the ARTS of LIFE: and,- under the articles 

 Bread, Brewing, Malt, ft'ine$, &c. he has given such directions, founded 

 on scientific principles, as cannot fail, he presumes, greatly to remove 

 the obscurity and ignorance under which the different processes are at 

 present conducted. 



The Arts of AGRICULTURE and GARDENING, including the Culture 

 of Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, &c. have obtained his careful attention, and 

 will be found to combine the most practical, economical, and the latest 

 Improvements ; with an Account of the various Processes and Implements 

 necessary to these important branches of DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 



On the ARTS generally, will also be found a variety of Practical 

 Instructions. On Colour-making, Dyeing, Leather, Paper, Scowering, 

 Tanning, &c. he has endeavoured to collect all that is practicable and 

 useful. 



The principal Diseases to which HORSES and CATTLE are liable are 

 also described ; with Directions for their Mode of Cure, according to the 

 most approved modern practice. 



To NATURAL HISTORY, viz. Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology, includ- 

 ing, under this last head, an Account of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Ser- 

 pents, and Insects, he has paid considerable attention, and, therefore, 

 can confidently recommend his Work, as containing an epitome of all 

 that is known of importance or interest in these departments. 



ttt This original and valuable Work it printed in double columns, on good paper, 

 and rontaim vptrarttt of 1500 Pafti of Information, immediately connnected wi'/A 

 Ihf pursuits of Domsttic Ufe. Btt meant ofrlotc printing, and a large, page, it 

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 size ; and cannot, it it pretumed, fail of being contidered a mott niluablc addition 

 to the FAMILY I.IMRARY. 



" As a Bonk nf Daily Reference in Families, and to such person* as rccide at A 

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 and contain!) a great variety of information not to be found in other work? of 

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" The FAMILY Cv< LOP.FDIA contains a large mass of information on subject* con- 

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