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PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, NO 17, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH ; AND BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
1817.
Oliver & Boyd, Printers, Edinburgh.
On the Sculpture of the Greeks..................9
Present State of the City of Venice...16
On the Constitution and Moral Effects of Banks for the Savings of Industry
Tales and Anecdotes of the Pastoral Life,
No I
17
22
25
Observations on the Culture of the Sugar
Cane in the United States, and on our
System of Colonial Policy
Memorandums of a View-Hunter27
Account of the American Steam Frigate.....30
On Sitting below the Salt~~33
The Craniological Controversy. Some
Observations on the late Pamphlets of
Dr Gordon and Dr Spurzheim35
On the proposed Establishment of a
Foundling Hospital in Edinburgh.38
Remarks on Greek Tragedy, No I. (Es-
chyli Prometheus)~~~~~
39
• Notices concerning the Scottish Gypsies.....43
SELECT EXTRACTS.
Account of Colonel Beaufoy's Journey to
the Summit of Mount Blanc59
Account of the remarkable Case of Mar-
garet Lyall, who continued in a state
of sleep nearly six weeks~~~~~~~61
ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY.
Grant of the Lands of Kyrkenes to the
Culdees of Lochleven, by Macbeth son
of Finlach, and Gruoch daughter of
Bodhe, King and Queen of Scotland.....65
Writ of Privy Seal in Favour of 'Johnne
Faw, Lord and Erle of Litill Egipt,'
granted by King James the Fifth,
Feb. 15th 1540
Act of Privy Council' anent some Egyp-
tianis
ib.
66
[VOL. I.
The Wyfe of Auchtermuchtie........................67
Account of the Highland Host (1678)....68
Extract from A Mock Poem upon the
Expedition of the Highland Host;' by
Col. Cleland......
69
71
ORIGINAL POETRY.
The Desolate Village-a Reverie70
Italy..
Verses recited by the Author, in a Party
of his Countrymen, on the day that
the news arrived of our final victory
over the French
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A Series of Discourses on the Christian
Revelation, viewed in connexion with
the Modern Astronomy. By Thomas
Chalmers, D.D
Harold the Dauntless; a Poem, in six 13
cantos. By the Author of "The Bridal
of Triermain"...
Armata. A Fragment
Stories for Children; selected from the
History of England, from the Con-
quest to the Revolution
76
78
79
PERIODICAL WORKS.
Edinburgh Review, No 5481
Quarterly Review, No 31~~~~~-03
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
INTELLIGENCE
~85
WORKS PREPARING for PUBLICATION 88
MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICA-
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