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CHARACTER S.

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NATURAL HISTORY.

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An Account of the Gymnotus Electricus, or Electrical Eel.

Some Account of a Tree growing in Spain, called the Algarroba, Garofero,
Carrobe, or Locuft-Tree, which produces vaft Quantities of Fruit.

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PROJECTS.

Generous and humane Advertisement of fome eminent Brewers, offering the

Afiftance of their Engines and Servants for extinguishing Fires.

Recipe for an excellent Cofmetic, as well as Preventative and Remedy for
the Scald-Head and Itch, and other Disorders procee ing from Worms.

ibid.

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Method of preferving, c. all Sorts of Plants and Roots, for affording
plenty, cheap, wholefome, and palatable Food for the Ufe of Man.
Simple and eafy Method of making Hay.

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Eafy Procefs for making Ice, without the Affiftance of Snow, Nitre, or any
other Kind of Salt, even close to the Tropics, and in low Grounds.

ANTIQUITIES.

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Certain Objections to the Veracity of the Mofaic Hiftory, with regard to the
Age of the Earth, drawn from the Appearances of fome Parts of Mount
Etna, refuted, from the Changes allowed to have happened in other Parts
of the fame Mountain.

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Of the little Dependence to be placed on the Defcription of Eclipfes left us in
Ancient Hiftory, towards afcertaining their Dates, &c.
Objections to the Authority of an Apamean Medal, produced by Mr. Bryant,
to prove that the Accounts in the Old Teftament of the ancient Patriarchs,
gave rise to a great Part of the Heathen Mythology; with Mr. Bryant's
Refutation of thefe Objections; and an Illuftration of another Coin struck
at the fame Place.
Some Account of a Latin Dissertation, entitled, " An Essay in which it is
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proved that the Shipwreck of St. Paul happened on the Coaft of the Ifland
of Méléda in Dalmatia, and not on the Coast of the Isle of Malta."
Account of the Origin of Wakes and Fairs.
Defcription of an ancient Picture in Windfor Cafle, reprefenting an Inter-
view between King Henry VIII. and the French King Francis 1.
Orders for Household Servantes, first deuifed by John Haryngton, in the
Yeare 1566; with a Letter from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir John Harrington.

State of the English Peerage, from 1603 to 1775.

On the Expiration of the Cornish Language.

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

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Thoughts on Free-thinking, and on Free-thinkers, particularly the late Earl
of Sheftefoury, and the late Lord Bolingbroke; with Objervations on theje
Thoughts.

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An Efay on Indifference in Religion; by Mrs. Chapone.
The great Difference in the State of Morals, &c. and Tafte for the fine Arts,
&c. in different Countries at the fame Period, and at different Periods in
the fame Country, accounted for from the Difference in the State of Edu-
cation and Religion in thofe Countries, and in thofe Periods, without any
recourfe to the concomitant Circumftances of Soil or Climate.
Letter from Ignatius Sancho, a free Black in London, to the late Rev. Mr.
Sterne, befeeching him to beflow a little of bis Attention on Slavery; with
Mr. Sterne's Anwer,

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Arguments

Of the prefent Rage for Lotteries.

A Differtation on Almanacks; with the Plan of a New One, for the Ufe of

POETRY.

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On a Gentleman's faying he would dance with none but fair Ladies.

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Attraction and Repulfion; a Fable.

ibid.

A Burlesque of the fame Lines; by Dr. Arbuthnot.

Lines fung by Duraftanti, when she took Leave of the English Stage

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ibid.

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