Oil, mountain, near Baku, 275. Ornithology, Wilson's American, review- ed, 48. Blue jay, 50. Baltimore bird, 51. Wood thrush, ib. Robin, 52. Woodpecker, 52. Blue bird, 110. Or- chard oriole, 111. The great American shrike, or butcher bird, 111. The wren, 112. Woodpeckers, 114. Osborn's method of proving swords, 71. Otaheite, letters from the king of, 417. Owenson, Miss, her Woman, or Ida of Athens reviewed, 304. Rapidity of her composition, 396.
Ode of Jami, in the Persian form and measure, 430.
Parry C. H. his essay on Merino sheep reviewed, 387.
Paley's Sermons reviewed, 47.
Paris, state of during the levy of the con- scripts of 1807, 379.
Pasley, the priest of Gretna Green, ac- count of, 117. His ability in drinking, 118.
Peters Richard, his outlines of a plan for establishing the Philadelphia Agri- cultural Society, 259.
Pigeons, remarkable instinct of, 278. Picture of the coronation of Napoleon, by David, 418.
Pitt, William opposes the slave trade, 323.
Platina, its superiority for making the
pendulum spring of watches, 355. Poetry, 70, 136, 209, 285, 354, 429. Poland, travels through by a Livonian, re- viewed, 361. Account of a noble fa- mily of Warsaw, 361. Account of Dres- den, 363. Description of the salt mines of Saltzburgh, 363.
Pomare, king of Otaheite, letters from, 417.
Pombal, Marquis de, Memoirs of, 201. His studies, ib. Sent on a secret mission to Vienna, ib. Appointed se- cretary of foreign affairs, ib. His pow- er and influence, ib. His avarice and wealth, 203. His disgrace and retire- ment, 205. Death and character, ib. Pollock's patent stove, description of, 123.
Pollen, Colonel death of, 138.
Porson, Memoirs of, 264. Progress in learning, 265. Elected Greek profes- sor at Cambridge, 266. Marriage, ib. Uncommon memory, 268. Method of acquiring it, 269, Anecdote of, 353. Pretender the, anecdote of, 132. Pully M. discovered a new mephitick grotto near Naples, 284.
Sabbath, not a day of rest to the Author of nature, or a curious experiment by Le Sage, 242.
Salt mines of Saltzburgh, described, 363. School for Authors, a new drama, 422. Scripture, investigation of certain pas- sages of, 198, 279.
Sellacia, battle of, 176.
Semple, major, the noted swindler, re- lieved by lord Nelson, 405. Shakspeare, Douce's illustrations of, 105. Sheep, diseases of, 159. Instinct of, 195. Sheep Merino, an essay on the nature of,
produce, &c. reviewed, 387. Quantity of Spanish wool imported into England, ib. Description of the Merino sheep, 388. Spanish mode of treating the flocks, 389. Different kinds of wool, 390. Origin of the breed, 391. Breed improved in France, 392. Mixture of the Merino with the English Ryeland, 392.
Sheridan, anecdote of, 354. Ships, built of fir, 356.
the art of discovering at a great distance, 410.
Simile for reviewers, a poem by Sterne,
Skarlotz, anecdote of, 352.
Slave trade, history of the abolition of the, reviewed, 315. Character of, 315, et seq. Abolitionists, 320. Character of the work, 332.
Smith, Charlotte, a poem by, 137. Poet- ry by, 285.
Soap, manufacture of, 357. Sporting Tour, reviewed, 99.
Stair, lord, singular account of, 408. Steel, remarkable property of, 357. Steele, sir Richard, anecdote of, 133. Steevens, George, his memoir of Robert Levett the inmate of Dr. Johnson, 413.- Stings cured by salt, 432
Stove, Pollock's patent, description of,
Strafford, lord, character of, 307.
Strutt, Joseph, his Queen-Hoo Hall and Ancient Times, 185.
Sulphur, its use as a vermifuge, 355. Suworoff, first enrolled in the Russian army as a fusileer, 60. Simplicity of his life, 61. Encomium on him by Co- bourg, 62. Campaign in Italy, 63. In Switzerland, 66. Ordered to St. Peters- burgh, 67. His death, 68.
Swallow, a poem by Charlotte Smith, 137. Observations on the Brumal retreat of, reviewed, 407.
Swiss Military System, 273.
Swords, British improvement in the ma- nufacture of, 271. Method of proving, 272.
Tamahama, king of Whahoo, character of, 338.
Tea tree in blossom, 350.
Teleology, or doctrine of final causes, 251. Thames Police, originated by Harriott, 9. Thompson, Miss Horatia Nelson, 402. Thornton, colonel, review of his Sporting Tour, general character of, 100. Ac- count of fishing, 102.
Tippoo Saib, his palace, 83. His military character, 84. Turnbull's Voyage round the World, re- viewed, 332. Purpose of it, 333. Leaves England, ib. Touches at Ma- deira, ib. St. Salvadore, ib. Cape of
Natives of, ib. Otaheite, 335. Ulitea, and his dangers there, ib. Sandwich islands, 338. Return to Otaheite, 339. Their manners and customs, ib. Re- turn to Port Jackson, 340. And to England, 341. Character of the work, ib.
Typographical Errours, 349.
Venoni, a new drama by Lewis, 419. Vic, Dominique de, anecdote of, 132. Vienna, Sketches of, 119. Population, 120. Climate, ib. Water, ib. Costume, 121. Institution of the deaf and dumb, 122. Oriental academy, ib. Edict for burying without coffins, 123.
Wade, Marshal, anecdote of, 134. Warburton, misrepresentation of, 179. Warsaw, a noble family of, 361. Wheat, experiments as to the diseases of, 257.
extraordinary produce of, 432. Whistle for it, a comick opera, 185. White, Henry Kirke, poetry by, 285. Wilberforce opposes the slave trade, 320. Wilkinson's account of the city of Baku and Place of Fire, 275.
Wilson's American Ornithology, 48, 110. Woman, or Ida of Athens, reviewed, 394. Wool, Spanish, quantity of, imported into England, 387.
Good Hope, 334. Port Jackson, ib. Young, Dr. Edward, anecdote of, 133.
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