on 31 288 362 416 274 387 Education National, Plan of 26 Italians, Account of eminent ones living 206 Literature, on 241 Italy-Jee Public Affairs. 332 186 463 Stage-coach Anecdote of him 81 247 Apothesis of Milton 479 Robt. Sonnet on the Death of 283 195 9 James the sixth of Scotland, to Queen 280 484 Langhanse, Mrs. on her Monument 166 of Natural History, on the IJO 354 499 190 403 107 34 271 Lewis, Father, on the c'ure of the Plague 253 146,68 409 Linwood, Miss, Verses on her Needle-work 2.6 512,522 51, 131: 210, 289, 370, 493, 928 399 286 282 Literature, German, Half-yearly Retrospect of 512 Domestic, 483. 512 274 Fo-eign, 50 512, 528 Russian, Danish, and German, Ace count of 441, 512 on the Irish and Scots 412 124 214, 522 the Revival of 99 Lottery. Evils from a Prize in the 163 *69 141 March 225 306 387 461 401 Mai hematics and Astronomy, Account of Books 322 473 428, 35 Medicine and Physiology, Account of Books on 500, 519 29 505 19 Milton's Imitations of the Ancients --84 446 31 510 Monument of Mrs. Langhan's, on the 166 17, 346, 430 Montague, Lady Wortley, on the Publication of her Letters 326 243 426 I 2 438 T2 Feruary - April 483, 513 on 497, 518 338 65 382 149 220 406 Moon, Opinion of the Ancients respecting the Philosophical Lectures in Glasgow 267 Pinkerton, Mr. on the Iconographia Scotica 82 Moor, Profefior, his Effay on the Greek Prepo- Pelletier, Biographical Notice of 148 414 Personification, of Abstract Ideas on Mountjoy, Lord, Account of 479 Perouse, La, his Voyage published 445 Peru, Physical Geography of 119 62, 136, 218, 295, 375, 451 Plague, on Oil, as a Cure for National Institute in Paris, Account of its Pro- Plagiarism against Mr, Leslie considered National Debt, on the 285 of a Man of Literature, extracts from Portraits of Illustrious Persons in Scotland, ac- Nicolas, Anegdotes of 282 Priestley, Dr. on the new Theory of Chemistry Nitrous Acid, on 241 its Efects in the Venereal Dif. Printing, unnecessary Expence in eale Problem, a Philosophical one proposed 17 195 19 Public Affairs, State of in January Novels and Romances, Review of new 508 Occurrences, Provincial, with Marriages and 229 Publications, new, Lifts of, in January 1798 59 Qil, a Cyre for the Plague 253 -Мау 377 -June 453 412 attend, attacked by the English Pantheons, Observations on Publications so Pyrophori, on the Inflammation of 9 Quakers, th.ir Tenets explained Parliamentary Proceedings-sce Public Affairs. Ravenna, John of, Account of 100, 104 Patiport, from King James 6th of Scotland 363 Rebolledo, Anecdotes of 196 410 Pasl Jones, original Letter of 216 Robi on, Profeffor, Miftatements by him Plato, Incredulity of his Atlantic Hisory 265 Rockingham, Marquis, a Busto of him 432 229 Poets, compared with Discoveries in Philosophy Helmet found 117 Rome, taken by the French--fee Public Affairs 224 46 Sacrament, the, an ancient Jewish Rite 406 122 Saltpetre, extraordinary Collection of, in France 287 Saunders, Sir Edmund, Anecdote of 442 Schilier, on the Writings of Poland, Anecdotes of the late King of 200 School, an Establishment of a Country one 256 Scots and Irish Literature, on the Political Economy, Review of Books on 485 Ships, Mode of ventilating of Poniatowski, King of Poland, Account of 200 Siddons, Mrs. Verses on Philotechnical Society, Account of its fitting Siliçcous Incruitations, on 133 Similes, from Homer, Virgil, &c. Philosophers, compared with Poets 117 Snail, an Animal of Prey 483, 512 496, 514 176 DIZ 134, 269 438 161, 257 287 126 IN DE X. 135 Venus (the Planet) seen at Noon 83 364 Verlification, on the English Song-writing, on 443 327 Virginian Opossum, described Spain, on the Poetry of 11, 195,275 Volney's Statistical Queries Anecdotes relative to 96 Voyages and Travels, Review of Books on 490 Spanish Literature, Retrospect of 522, 528 Walpole, Horace, his Letter on Grace in Com- Stirn, a young German, Account of Switzerland, Coxe's, a Remark on 285 278 Tobacco, King James on the Use of Tennant, Mr. his Defence of his bleaching Lin Washington, Prediction relative to 263 405 Water, Patent Apparatus for raising 294 Theology and Morals, Account of Books on 503 Waterpipes, a Pxent Machine for boring 444 Thompson, Dr. of Naples, on Siliceous Incrusta- Weather in London, Obfervations on, in 1797 r 334 Webber, Mrs. on Mrs. Langham's Monument Thunderstorm, a remarkable one on the Probability of - 258 Welsh Indians, Inquiries relative to found in Stones, Doubt's as to Tombuctoo, a Letter from a merchant of 242 Whiston, Wm. an Account of Tontine, a Correction in the Account of 174 Wieland, Translation of a Poem of 87 Wife, Lines on the Death of a Toplady, Mr. on his Pofthumous Works 172 Wilkes, Jehn, Efq. Sketch of his Life Topography, Review of Books on 57, 545 Wilbech, Female Society Tradesmen, defended against Mr. Godwin 426 Wolverhampton, described Tuke, Mr. on-Cowing Grass Seeds, &c. 272 Works in Hand, Notices offee Varieties 421 51,131, 210, &c. 197 343 York, an Account of a Girl's Charity-schoot 51, 131, 210, 289, 370, 445 there Living Authors, & c. whose Names occur in the following Volume : 139 Burning 494 Adelung 513 Beddoes, Dr. 85, 161 Burton Amory, Thos. 365 Benjoin So3 Campbell 505 Billingsley 498 Carrick, Dr. 496. Currie, Dr. 1.31 Carlisle, Earl of 488 Dallaway Auckland, Lord 488 Boettiger 527 Churton 375 500 Clare, Earl uf 222 Donovån 518 Borkhausen, Dr. 516 Clay on, Sir R. 484 Dotn, Dr. S'S 52.4 Bourguet, Dr., 379 D'Oyley 455 379 Bure 139 Cross 451 Dervis 506 139 298,503 519 Smee 400 210 210 221 446 62 Kratter 219 221 Hinckley 222, 487 Moreton 220 Schrader, Dr. 378 Houper, Dr. 503 Murphy 59, 131, 493 Smith, Dr. 377, 496 381 Hunter 139, 210, 507 Nitsch 295, 451 Huntingford, Dr. 505 Northmore 456, 508 Jackson 123, 511 Pallos, Dr. Fordyce, Dr. 210, 297 Jourdan, C. 140, 488 Park, Mungo, Mr. 489 Kingsbury, 298, 487 Peacock 493 Laborie, Dr. 486 Pitt, Morton 370 Landaff 339, 486 Plumptree, Mifs 509 Trebeck 484 Priestley,Dr. 160, 496 Vega 519 Mallet, du Pan 488 Robinson, Mrs. Harrington, Dr. Mesurier, Le 488 Ruffel, Dr. 138 Saunders, Mrs. Sio Winchelsea, Lord 499 494 Monboddo, Lord 505 Schlozer For Remarkable Perfons deceafed, see the laft Page of the Volume. bed for A few days fince was published (price One Shilling) the SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER, completing the FOURTH VOLUME of this work. The Articles contained in it are con ceived to be highly valuable andinteresting; among them are the following :---1. The half With the Title and Indexes to the Volume. Pound Nine Shillings, neatly half bound. For the Monthly Magazine. May began with much rain; but beOBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER came fine, with a high degree of heat, in IN LONDON IN 1797. its advance; and strong lightning was an "HE thermometer, hung out of the earlier occurrence than usual in it. June window of a room in the first floor, was very variable: it had a sufficient with a north-west expofure, gave the fol- number of fine days to engage the farmer lowing averages at nine in the morning : in cutting down all the grass, which the January 381 July 66 preceding month had brought to unusual February 351 August 631 rankness of growth, but had also such alMarch 393 September 566 terations of heavy rain, that hay-making April 48 O&tober 481 was a very difficult and uncertain bufia May 52 November 413 ness. July had great heats and some treJune 59 December 421 mendous thunder : it was, on the whole, Average of the year, 495 a tolerably fair month; but was liable to That of the year 1796 was 4912: so that occasional storms of wind and rain, which the difference of heat in the two years con-, did much damage in beating down the filted almost folely in the distribution, not corn, which from the length and thick. in the fun. In 1796, the first months were ness of its stalk, was generally unable to warmer, the middle of summer cooler, recover itself. Augult afforded very unand the end of the year more frosty, than favourable weather for getting in the hare in 1797. With respect to heat, the year veft. Its nights were for the most part 1797 offers little remarkable, except that rainy, and prevented the benefit of many February was colder than March, almost drying days. September began pretty as cold as January; and that December fair, but ended rainy. One perfectly fair was warmer than November. The excess week in the beginning of October was the of July above June is also somewhat un- whole of the usual Michaelmas jummer. The wetness of 1797 has been The rest of the month was warm, and the most observable circumstance attend- variable. Cold and wet, and warm and ing it, in which it has surpafled all the wet, were the respective characters of Noa years for a confiderable period. As november and December, with occasional actual meafurement of rain has been taken tempestuous weather, fog, and an uncomby the present writer, he can only give mon moisture in the atmosphere, even the loose result of his daily observations when it did not rain. The prevalent on the state of the weather. From these winds in the whole latter part of the years it appears, that the four first months of the were from the south and west quarters. year were hy no means unusually wet. If a northerly wind one day gave an apFebruary, on the contrary, was uncom- pearance of the setting in of winter, a monly dry; but fog was considerably pre- change on the next, raised the temperature valent in it and the other cold months. of the air to autumnal warnth, and coMONTHLY MAG, No, XXV. B vercd common. |
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