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CONTENTS:

On the Habits of the Domestic Rat, and on a Method of De.
straying it.—ll. On the Manure required for a Course of Crops.
BY Di. Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of
Edinburgh.—lll. On the Agriculture of the Romans—Concluded.
IV. On the Origin and Natural History of the Sheep and Goat.
Ily James Wilson, Esq. F.R.S.E., &A—V. On the Uses'
to which certain Indigenous Plants have from time immemorial been
cmployed in the Outer Hebrides.—Vl. On the Agriculture of France,
and on the Effects of a Division of Property in Land. In a letter
tram Tours.—Vll. On the Accidental Injuries of the Foot of
the Horse arising from Shoeing, with their Effects and Treat-
iiient. By Mr. William Dick, Veterinary Surgeon, Edinburgh.—
VI U. (hi the Cure of Hydatids, or Sturdy, in Sheep, by Tre-
panning.—lX. On die Tala Plant, as a substitute for Thorn in
Communicited by the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair,
Ott Economy in Planting. The Practical Planter;
containing Directions for the Planting of Waste Lands and Manage-
ment of Wood. By Thomas Cruickshank, Forester at Careston.—
NI. Parliamentary Proceedings—Reduction of Taxes.—Xl I. M is.
cellancous Notices.—Xl 11. Quarterly Agricultural Report, &c.

I. Reports on 11:e Improvement of Waste Land for Tillage.—ll.
On the Improvement of the Syphon for Draining Quarries. By J.
Stewart Hepburn, Esq. of Colquhalzie.—lll. Essays on Thatching
with Heath and Fern.—lV. Report on the Effects of Nitre as a Ma-
nure. By Robert Bruce, Esq. of Kennet.—V. Reports on Laying
Down Land as a Permanent Posture—Vl. Description of a Ma-
chine for Sowing Turnips with Bone Manure. By Mr. Alexander
Nichol.—Vll. Description of a Subsoil Plough. By Mr. Smith,
of Verngon, &C. &C.

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Mr. BLACKWOOD has in the Press,

fn 2 vols.Bvo. with Portrait of the Author, engraved by Hodgetts
from an original Picture, by John Watson Gordon, Esq.
THE LIFE of ALEXANDER ALEXANDER,
Written by Himself,

And Edited by JOHN HOWELL,
Author of "Journal of a &knee," " Life of Juhn &c.

This singular piece of autibiography exhibits, most minutely and
faithfully, the real adventures of Alexander Alexander, the dis-
owned son of a gentleman in the West of Scotland. It commences
sith infancy, trilV (I'M three quarters of the globe, and comprehends
a period of nearly fifty years of the life of a man who has been
plod in many trying situations, as a se:diet, an Overseer in the
Wat Indies, and an Officer in the Patriot Armies of South Ame-
rica:—it is, in short, the complete, unreserved history of a human
being.

In foolscap Bvo,
SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.
By FELICIA HEMANS.
HI.
In octavo.
THE PRACTICAL PLANTER;
Containing Directions for the planting of Waste Lands,
and Management of Wood.
By THOMAS CRUICKSHANK, Forester at Careston.
IV.
In octavo, with Plates, front original drawings,
THE BOSCOBEL TRACTS:
i.;.;:-;.\4rratives relating to the Escape of Charles IL after the
Battle of Worcester, with Notes by the Editor,
J. HUGHES, Esq. A.M.
V.
In one large volume. octavo
THE GREEK GRAMMAR
OF DR. FREDERICK TIIIERSCH.
Translated from the German, with brief Remarks
By Professor SANDFORD.

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