THE

Edinburgh Magazine

or

LITERARY MISCELLANY.

VOL. VI

NEW SERIES

In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria, si quem
Numina lova sinunt, auditque vocatus Apollo.

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

OR

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

FOR JULY 1795;

With a View of Braid-Houfe, the feat of Charles Gordon, Efq. *

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New and Curious Particulars of

the Cuftoms and Manners of the

Chinese,

Of the Several Steps of the Hu-

man Progreffion from the Brute

to the Man, with fome new in-

formation concerning the Ourang

Outang,

Extracts from Lord Gardenftone's

Travelling Memorandums on the

Continent of Europe, in the years

1786, 87, 88. Vol. III. (conti-
nued,)

Candid Review of Tranfactions of

the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 23

Character of the Inhabitants of an

Indian Village in Louisiana, 31

Anecdotes of Voltaire during his

vifit to the late King of Pruffia;

tranflated from the French,

Account of the City of London be-

fore the Year 1574,

Character of Cofmo de Medicis,

Grand Duke of Tufcany, and

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the State of that Dukedom at

his decease,

General Review of Germany, 42

Style of Drefs in the Fifteenth

Century,

State of the City of Mentz, and

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its Environs, after the Siege, 46

Story of Androclus and the Lion, 47

Anecdotes of Sabbattai Sevi, a falle

Prophet,

A Dinner Bill in Edinburgh, in

January 1703,

Literary News,

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The Cornish Curate; a Tale,

POETRY.

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56

ib.

Ode; by Peter Pindar, Efq. - 62

Azid, or the Song of the Captive

Negro; by the fame,

Ode, to the Lion Ship of War, on

her Return with the Embaffy

from China,

Sonnet, to the Moon,

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*BRAID-HOUSE, the feat of Charles Gordon, Efq. of Braid, is pleafantly fitua
ted about two miles and a quarter fouth-weft from Edinburgh, on the north bank
of Braid-Burn, a little to the left of the road to Weft-Linton.

[The View to be given with Next Magazine.]