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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