Of plunder flowly failing in the deep. Beneath the fhadowing canopy the ground Glitters with flowery dies; the primrose, first In mofly dell returning Spring to greet; Pilewort, with varnish'd bloom, and spotted leaf; And hooded arum, with its purple club; Anemone, now robed in virgin white,
Now blufhing with faint crimson; changeful spurgets On redden'd ftem turgid with milky fap, And circled with dark foliage, rearing high Its golden head; forrelt, whofe modeft cups Midft verdure wan their ftreaky veins conceal; The pendent harebell; and the fcentless plant §, That with the violet's borrowed form and hue The unfkilful wanderer in the fhade deceives. Flutter with wings the branches, and refound With notes that fuit a foreft. Hoarsely screams The jay. With fhrill and oft repeated cry Her angular course, alternate rife and fall, The woodpecker pursues; then to the trunk Clofe clinging, with inceffant knockings shakes The hollow bark; through every cell the stroke Echoes; hope glistens on her verdant plumes, And brighter fcarlet sparkles on her creft. Chatters the reftlefs Pie. In fober brown Dreft, but with nature's tendereft pencil touch'd The wryneck her monotonous complaint Continues; harbinger of her, who doom'd Never the sympathetic joy to know
That warms the mother cowering o'er her young Some stranger robs, and to that stranger's love Her egg commits unnatural; the nurfe Deluded the voracious neftling feeds With toil unceafing, and amaz'd beholds Its form gigantic and difcordant hue.
Meanwhile the tuneful race their brooding mates Cheer, perch'd at hand; or with parental care From twig to twig their timid offspring lead; Teach them to feize the unwary gnat, to poife Their pinions, in fhort flights their ftrength to prove, And venturous truft the bofom of the air."
This author, notwithstanding the defects which we have pointed out, is unquestionably entitled to confiderable distinction among defcriptive poets.
† Wood Wood forrel. Oxalis
Wood anemone. Anemone nemorofa Linn. fpurge. Euphorbia amygdaloides Linn. § Dog's violet. Viola canina Linn.' acetofa Linn.
The Welsh confider this bird as the forerunner or fervant of the cuckoo, and call it gwàs y gog, or the cuckoo's attendant. The Swedes regard it in the fame light. Pennant's Brit. Zool. 4th edit. vol. i. p. 238. In the midland counties of England the common people call it the cuckoo's maiden.'
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
Armstrong, Dr. account of, and of his writings, 71:
AIR, carbonic acid, fuccesfully Arrowsmith, Mr. his geographical
applied in the cure of ulcerated
cancer, 308. Airs, factitious, directions for pro- curing, 220. Nature and pro- perties of different kinds of airs, 221.
Allies, their impolicy during the
prefent war, 542. Alps, Pennine, picturefque tour to, 63. Defcription of fome remarkable ice-mountains, &c. 64. America, first peopled from the N. E. of Afia, 194.
North, the present con- ftitution of the United States of,
highly extolled, 551. The perfection of liberty, 553. Anacharfis, Travels of, that work depreciated by an uncandid critic, 537.
Anderfon, Dr. his obfervations on peat-mofs, 39. His account of the different kinds of fheep found in the Ruffian dominions, '40.
Anian, Streights of, inquiry into
the origin of that name, 22. Antelopes, in Ruffia, manner of hunting them, 486. Ariftocracy, dreadful tyranny of, over the French, under the Princes of the Carlovingian line, $78.
labours commended, 22. Atwood, Mr. G. on the theory of motions, for determining the vibration of watch-balances, 62.
Bank-notes, and bills of exchange, commercial analyzation of, 379. Bark, Peruvian, new fpecies of, its medical efficacy, 181. Barton, Benj. Smith, on the queftion whether the true honey-bee is a native of Ame- rica, 196.
Bartram, Dr. extraordinary cafe of conftipation, &c. 532. Beaumont, M. his picturesque tra- vels in the Pennine Alps, tranf lation of, 63. Defence of the tranflation, 360. Answered, 478.
Beauvois, M. De, observations on the plants cryptogamic, 193. Benyowski, Count, particulars re- lative to his plan for colonizing Madagascar, 380. His death and character, 382. St. Bernard, monaftery of, on the Alps, curious account of, 370. Extraordinary benevolence of the monks, 371. Sagacity and ufefulness of their dogs, ib.
Bible, neceffity of improving the verfion of, 242. Answers to the common objections against the improvement of, 243. Bidlake, Mr. his characteristic de- fcriptions of Homer, Pindar, and Horace, contrafted with the fame by Mr. Pope, 259. Blackman, Mr. his liberal dif- clofure of his method of making oil-colour cakes, 53. Bligh, Capt. account of the plants brought by him from the South Sea, 54
Bramieri, Don, his account of the Leit methods of cultivating the vine, from the Tranfac- tions of the Milan Patriotic So- ciety, 503.
Breafts, general caution with re- gard to the cure of the difeafes of, 559
Bridge, at Pont-y-prid, verfes on, 166.
Brothers, Richard, his prophecies
of the most dreadful events, 344. His character and mif- fion attacked and defended, 345.
Browne, Mr. his invention of an
evaporator, 52. Bucknal, Mr. his fuccefs in prun- ing orchards, 51. Bugge, Mr. on the latitude and longitude of feveral places in Denmark, 60. Bulam, accounts of the new fet-
tlement there, 103, 104. Burrell, Lady, her Thymbriad,
Butler, Mr. his improvement of the well-bucket, 53.
Cancer, two cafes of, efficacy of the carbonic acid air in the treatment of, 308. Charette, M. takes the lead of the Royalifts in La Vendée, 508. His great fucceffes, 509. Ex-
periences a reverse of fortune, 511. Recovers his fuperiori- ty, for a confiderable time, 512.
Choiseul Gouffier, Comte de, his travels in Greece highly va- lued, 536.
Chouans, a clafs of Royalifts in La Vendée, account of their origin, formation, and various fucceffes against the Repub- licans, 513.
Clergy, of France, bitter invec- tive against them, 523. Colman, Mr. particulars of his life, &c. 352.
Condorcet, M. his writings under- valued, 553.
Confumption, mucous, remarks on
the nature and cure of, 560. Corbet, Mr. his profitable re- claiming of marih-lands from the tide, 52. CORRESPONDENCE with the Monthly Reviewers, viz. Cle- ricus, relative to Morell's The.
faurus, &c. 239. H. C. con- cerning Teyler's Theological So- ciety, ib. The Editor of the Lounger's Common-place Book, concerning a mistake in the re- view of that work, 240. A Conftant Reader, relative to a paffage in our last Appendix refpecting Profeffor Schultens,
ib. Mr. Halhed, in defence of his writings concerning M." Brothers, 358. O. P. in de- fence of Dr. Priestley, ib. R. P. refpeding Mr. Edwards's Hift." of the West Indies, 360. T.G. the Tranflator of Mr. Beau- mont's Hiftory of the Pennine Alps, ib. E. 5. relative to the fource of the Thames, ib. S S. Toms, on the Marquis de Cafaux's Bock on Taxes, 477. Mr. Beaumont, complaining of his Tranflator, 478. Mr. An- fice on mechanic force, ib. Corfica, fuperior advantages of that ifland, compared with G. Britain,
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Britain, in refpect of parlia- mentary reprefentation, 311.
D'Alembert, M. his literary cha- racter flightly appreciated, 535. De Pauw, M. his Recherches Phi- lofophiques fur les Americains pronounced to be defpicable dreams, 551.
Dies, red, yellow, &c. ufed by the American Indians, mate- rials of, 194: Drennan, Dr. his well-written let-
ter to Lord Fitzwilliam, 450. Dropy, doubts relative to, 560. Diggelei, an extraordinary ani-
mai in Rufia, described, 488. Dysentery, method of treating, 559.
Education, cuftomary modes of, in fchools, inveftigated, 126. Proper fchool-books pointed
Electricity, yet in its infantine ftate,
28. Existence of an electric fluid difcuffed, 30. Repulfion confidered, 33. The conduct- ing qualities of different fub- ftances investigated, 34. Far- ther remarks on this head, 160. The theory of electricity ap- plied to explain the phenomena of our atmosphere, 161. Ori- gin of natural electricity, 162. Beautiful phenomena of, 164. Improvement on metallic con- ductors, 197. Elphington, Mr. his literary cor- refpondence, 152. Specimen of his remarkable reform of the English language, ib. Embankment of marfh-lands. Corbet. Evaporator for the ufe of chemifts, ingenious invention of, 52.
Fancy and Genius poetically de- fcribed, 256.
Ferns, raised from feed by Mr. Lindfay, of jamaica, 267. Fevers, bilious, 560. Fidler, repartee of one, to Philip of Macedon, 581.
Filtration of water, new method of, by afcent, 179. Fishery, of Great Britain, ob- fervations one errors and mismanagement of, 45. Fordyce, Dr. George, account of a new pendulum, which fhall be always of the fame length, in whatever exposure to cold or heat, 58. His differtation on fimple fever analyzed, 280. Foreft-fcenery, poetically de- fcribed, 583.
France, tracts relative to the re- volution in, and the war with, 98. 201. 206. 287. 393. 429. 472 507 53. 520. 534. 538. 540. Horrid tyranny of the nobleffe of France over the common people, under the Car- lovingian race, 578-580.
Genius, poetically depicted, 257. Gentleness, its moral quality, 78. Gentoos. See Hindoos. German literature, advantageous account of, 231. Gefcon, the Carthaginian, his ge- nerofity to the enemies of his family, 374.
Gold and filver, obfervations on
their precife worth, as commo- dities in commercial fpecula- tion, 378. Goodenough, Dr.obfervations on the British fpecies of carex, 268. Goofe, Solan, that fpecies ex- tremely pernicious to the Bri-
tifh herring and mackarel fifh- ery, 46. Astonishing calcula- tion relative to, ib. Grammarian, a title of honour, 417.
Grammont, Count, the Memoirs
of, commended, 544: Greenway, Dr. on the beneficial effects of the caffia chamachrista in enriching poor or worn-out lands, 195. On the fuppofed remains of a volcano in North Carolina, ib. On a poisonous plant in Virginia, ib. Gutta Serena, cafes of, 560.
Halbed, Mr. his teftimony in fa- vour of the character of Rich- ard Brothers, and his belief in the divine miffion of that
pro- phet, 345. Controverfy with Mr. H. on that account, 348. His letter to the Monthly Re- viewers, 358. Farther con- troverfy with Mr. H. 469. Hannibal, his courfe over the Alps afcertained, 363. His ftratagems to circumvent the inhabitants of the mountains who oppofed his march, 366. His perilous fituation, 369. The famous ftory of his open- ing a paffage through the rock, by the aid of fire and vinegar, afferted, 370. the note.
Hart, Major, observations on an- tient work of art, &c. near the
Herschel, Mifs, her discovery of a comet, in October 1793,
Dr. obfervations on a quintuple belt on Saturn, ib. -on the rotation of the fame planet on his axis, ib. On the late eclipfe of the sun, 57. Hindoos, character of, 26. Style their country the " Paradife of Nations," ib. Their mytho- logy, 563. Excellent moral precepts, 567.
Hip joint, obfervations on the dif- eafe of, and white-fwellings of the knee, 421. The difeafe defcribed, ib. Modes of treat- ment, 423.
Holland, Rev. Philip, account of him and of his fermons, 77. Home, Everard, facts relative to Hunter's preparations for the Croonian lectures, 144. Homer poetically characterized, 259, 260.
Hopkinfon, Mr. defcription of a machine for measuring a ship's way, 196.
Horace poetically characterized,
Hospitals, on a fmall fcale, pre-
ferred to thofe on a larger fcale, 558.
Humming-bird, the ruff-necked fpecies of, defcribed, 49. Hunter, John, his preparations for the Croonian lectures, 144. His curious difcoveries relating to the eye, 145. His celebrated mufeum in danger of being loft to this country, 354. Hurd, Bishop, publishes his pro- mifed account of Bishop War- burton, 322. His declaration of the fatisfaction derived to him from his edition of the works of that great man, 329. Hydrocele, obfervations on the treatment of, 220.
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