CONTENTS.
The manner of celebrating harvest home at that time in England, from ditto | 265 | |
Account of the English, from ditto | 266 | |
Henry the Eighth's order for Lady Lucy's table | 266 | |
Petition of Margery the wife of William Beacham to Oliver Cromwell | 267 | |
His letter to his Secretary thereon | 268 | |
Account of Calmucks and Cossacks | 268 | |
Ulan Smolensco Czeraznigorff, the celebrated Laplander conjurer that appeared in Dublin | 275 | |
Extraordinary Adventures. | ||
Sufferings of the persons in the black-hole at Calcutta | 278 | |
An authentic narrative of the loss of the Doddington Indiaman | 287 | |
The wonderful preservation of three persons buried about five weeks in the snow | 297 | |
An English prisoner's escape from a French ship | 300 | |
Robert Eastburn's captivity among the Americans, and his escape | 301 | |
The burning of the Prince George man of war | 306 | |
Literary and Miscellaneous Essays. | ||
Essay on taste, by Montesquieu | 311 | |
Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese, by Chambers | 319 | |
Description of Lough Lane | 323 | |
Natural history of Hartz forest | 331 | |
Account of a remarkable island near Bombay | 335 | |
Essay on the quantity and measure of English verse | 337 | |
Essay on the Roman numerals | 344 | |
Account of same particularities that appeared on the opening of a beehive | 346 | |
Account of a shower of black dust that fell in Zetland | 349 | |
Mr. Miller's method of cultivating Madder in England | 350 | |
The strange effects of some effervescent mixtures | 358 | |
Efficacy of bark in a mortification | 360 | |
Account of the Jesuits establishment in Paraguay | 362 | |
Paper from the Universal weekly chronicle | 367 | |
Another from the Idler | 369 | |
Another | 371 | |
The remonstrance of the Mob of Great Britain against the importation of French words | 373 | |
Petition of P—, E— of C— | 375 |
Petition