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Register of the Weather for Jan. 2 - Account of Baths at Siout, 42
High Water at Leith for Feb. ib. - Intoxicating quality of Hemp, ib.
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The Gleaner, No. XV.
3 -Miraculous Statue,
43
Description of the View, 5 - Fertility of the Soil in Upper
Causes of the present Distress for Egypt-Its Agriculture, ib.
want of Provisions,
6 A Letter from Dr Guthrie of St
Account of the Quadelim and Lab. Petersburgh to the Right Hoo.
deseba Arabs, &c.
9
the Earl of Buchan, on the
Outline of North Guinea or Ne- Origin of the Name of the Scots, 45
gritia-General Character of Notice of the Character and Writ.
the Country and Inhabitants ings of Philip Stanbope, Earl of
Origin of the Name Guinea- Chesterfield,
'ib.
Kingdom of Gualata or Walet Notice of Robert Lord Clive,
-and of the Slave Trade, 14 Genealogy of the Abercorn Fa-
Account of the Swedish Design mily,
47
of an Agricultural Colony in Remarkable instance of Naiveté
Africa,
21 and Ignorance,
49
Account of the Second Sight, 25 List of Books Printed at Straw-
Anecdotes of the Abbe Sieyes and berry Hill,
ib.
the Cardinal de Rohan, 28 On the subsetting of Land,
50
- The Cardinal de Rolan,, his Character and present Condition
Arrest, and the celebrated Af. of the Tuscans,
52
fair of the Necklace, 36 Original Letter from Lord Hard-
Curious Extracts from Strutt's wicke to James Marquis of An.
View of the Dress, &c. of the nandale,
57
People of England,
37 Books and Pamphlets published
-The Horned Head-Dress of the in London in December 1799, 59
Ladies in the Fifteenth Cen. The Two Cats; a Persian Tale, '62
tury,
ib,
Poetry,
-Cumbersome and Extravagant
Dresses of the Men, Temp.
Advice to a Friend on a Melan..
Hien. IV.
66
choly Occasion,
33
--Trunk Breeches, or Slops-
The Passage of the Mountain of
the Vardingale,
St Gothard,
67
39
-Anecdote of Sir Philip Çal.
Advice to the Ladies of Glasgow, 70
throp and John Drakes,
MONTHLY REGISTER.
40
Minttrels and Players,
41 Interesting Intelligence from the
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, 42
London Gazettes,
72
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