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the courfe of a few days. 
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by their extenfion beyond the ee 
orginally propofed, The completion of 
Dr. Gregory's Cyclopedia within the 
period ofa year, deferves to be recorded 
as a phoenomenou in literature. Other 
works, not. duperior in ufeful bulk, have 
been as many years as this was months 
i progrets, and will probably not be 
comple eted in the lifetime of thofe who 
have been ther purchafers ! 
The ninth edition of Mr. 
Winter in London, 
his Owrnson’s Wild Infh Gil, are 
ip the prets. 
_ Avery interefting work, by a member 
of the Univerlity of “Ostord, will Pes edily 
appear in three volumes, under the title 
of “ Oxoniana,” conitting of anecdotes 
aud facis relative tothe colle ves, libra- 
nies, and efiablidhiments, of Oxford: with 
extratts from, and accounts of, the curi- 
ous unpublithed manu! ‘cripts with which 
that univerfity abounds ; accounts of 
celebrated members, profeffors, &e. fo 
as to comprile a hiftory of the rife and 
progrefs of that ancieut feat of learning. 
Mr. StowreR has in the prefs, and 
will fpeedily publilh, a new edition of the 
. Printers’ Grammar, which will contain 
the improvements of the laft fifty years in 
the theery and practice of printing; alfo 
many ufeful tables and feales of prices 
at er befure publ fhed. 
Sketch of the Black Empire of Hayti, 
rt Communications with the feat of its 
prefent government, will foon appear in 
an octavo volume. ; 
The truftees of the Linen Manufacture, 
have voted the fum of one hundred 
guineas to Mr. Josepn Harpy, of Bel- 
taft, for his invention of a machime, for 
the better and more eafy meaiurement 
of lmen cloth. 
The Biographical Index to the prefent 
Houfe of Commons, will be publithed in 
it contains: 
—1. A differtation on the antiquity, 
dignity, and utility of parlarornis, a 
-An account of the lives, characters, at bil 
_purfuits, of all the members of the Heute 
of Commons, arranged im al; ee | 
order ;—And 8: An ‘appendix, including 
SURR’S 
Jitts ae the divifions that. have taken 
place fince the mecting of the new par- 
hament, of the confiitutions of all. the 
counties, cities, and borouglis, in the 
kingdom. The whole exhibits at one 
view, the hiftory both of parties and 
of the virtues, the talents, and the elo- 
“quence, of a large portion of the empire. 
An excellent tanning principle has 
been difcovered by Dn. ifowison, in 
Literary and Philo yfophical £. ntelligence. 
and the fourth of 
Latin, 
hibiting, at one view in their refpective 
(April 1, 
the Mangrove Bark.—Forty pound of 
bark is infufed im one hundred gallons of 
rain-water, which, after fianding avout 
forty hours, is expofed to the fun until 
the liquid is concentrated by evaporation 
to the conlilience of tre acle, and then 
redu ced by-boiling to eight eallons, ic 
it fas tl ie » appearance of cee 
Mr. Buntine, - of Belfait, has an- 
nounced, that dhortly ali be publithed, 
the fecond part of the Collection of the 
Ancient Mutic of Ireland. 
An algebraical proof of Sir Haac New- 
ton’s Binomia! ‘Theorem, which has been 
litherto a delideratum in mathematics, 
has been lately difeovered by Francis 
Burxr, A. B. a Student im the Univer- 
fity of Dublin. The difcovery has been 
honoured with a_diftinguifhed premium 
from the board of Trinity College. 
Mr. P., BRowNE “1s engaged in an 
Account and Defeription of the Cathe- 
Gral Church of the Holy Trinity, ‘and its 
Precinéts, Norwieh 
About the middle of April will ST EPRY, 
in two volumes, fmall o¢tavo, a leseudi da 
tale, entitled “ Reading Abbey,” by Ne, 
T. Gueep. 
Mr. Breneno has in the prefs, a {e- 
~ cond edition of his Beftoration of the 
Jews,.to which he has prefixed a brief 
Hiftory of that fingular People. He is 
alfo about to pablith a Suppiement te 
his Signs of the Times, with an Anfwer to 
Mr. -Faber’s Objections in the fecond 
edition of his “ Difler tations on the Pro~= 
phecies. 
Mr. Bounen, of Greenwich, has put 
to prefs a work of incredible labour, 
which, embraces, in alphabetical order, 
the most general idiomatical expreflions. 
of fix languas .¢s, viz» Enghth, German, 
Spanifh, French, anid Tralian; ex- 
columns, the fynonymous phrates, or 
icptences, in each, 
Mr. Cust ANCE, of Kiddérmitiftet, 
is preparing for the prefs a Concife, 
View ef the Conftitution and Laws of ~ 
England. 4 
Propofals 
publithing by fubferiptign, an Atchi- 
‘teciural and Scientific Inveftigation of ~ 
the Cathedral Church of St. Paul; “Lon- 
don; illatirated by ‘plans, elevations, 
feétions, and parts at large, from aétual 
meafurements ; with an ellay on the life, 
JamMES ELMES » architect. 
Mr. Ci rt0Ew s edition of Be Jonion 
is ready for the prefs; he has been affiit-_ 
ed greatly bys. fome manufcripts of the 
late Mr. W1 hailey. 
, 
have been publithed, orld 
The ¥ 
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“writings, and defigns, of Sir Chriftopher i) 
individuals, and includes a deferivtion, Wren, by Mr... 
