EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR J. SIBBALD:-And SOLD by J. MURRAY,

LONDON.

1790,

Edinburgh Magazine,

O R,

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR JANUARY, 1790.

With a View of ROSLIN CASTLE.

CONTENTS:

Page

Register of the Weather for Jan. 2

Description of the View,

Extract of Lieutenant Watts's

Narrative of the Return of

the Lady Penrhyn Transport;

containing an Account of the

Death of Omaï, and other in-
terefting Particulars, at Ota-
heite.

A Narrative of the Difafter

which happened to the Barge

of his Majefty's Ship the Af-

fiftance of 50 Guns, command-

ed by Sir Charles Douglas, on

the Night of the 30th or 31ft

of December 1783, in the Bay

of New York,

On Fortitude; by Dr Beatie,

A Converfation with Abram, an

Abyffinian, concerning the City

of Gwender and the Sources

of the Nile; by Sir William

Jones, Knt.

Characteristic Differences of the

Male and Female of the Hu-

man Species; by Lavater,

Obfervations on one of the Val-

lies in the Canton of Glarus;

3

5

9

II

from Coxe's Travels in Swit-
zerland,

Remarks on the Conftruction of

the Heavens; by William Her-

fchel, L. L. D. F. R. S.

On the Harmony of the Dead

Languages; from d'Alem-

bert's Thoughts, Maxims, and

Principles,

Obfervations on the Art of

Tranflation; from the fame,

Of Duelling; from Dr Boyd's.

Juftice of Peace,

Life of Sir William Watfon, M. D.

F. R. S.

Miscellaneous Obfervations on

the Origin of Certain Cu-

ftoms and Inventions,

On the Gallantry of the Roman

Ladies, as compared with that

of the Moderns,

12 Abridged Review of remark-

able and interesfting Publica-

15'

Page

tions,

59

The Queft of a Wife; A Tale,

Poetry,

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