Volume 2

A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker].

Date:
1811
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's Magazine / [By John Walker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page XVIII. Fire from the Bowels of a Beast - - 445 XIX. Earthquakes, how produced - - 446 XX. Account of a moving Hill ... 443 XXI. History of Northern Lights in England - 450 XXII. Curious Discoveries in making new Roads in Northamptonshire - 454 XXIII. Places in England where natural curiosities abound - 457 XXIV. Discoveries of Fossil Bones in several Counties 460 XXV. Fossils in the Vicinity of Oxford - - 468 XXVI. On the Coluber of Virgil ... 471 XXVII. On the Phenomenon of Dew - - 472 XXVIII. Observations on the Gossamer - - 476 XXIX. On the Influx of Water into the Mediterranean 479 XXX. Immense Chesnut Tree at Tannvorth - 4S7 XXXI. Remarkable Phenomenon of the Bath Waters 48S XXXII. Account of Fires kindled of themselves - 489 XXXIII. On the prodigious Growth of Trees - - 492 XXXIV. On Archbishop Secker’s Death, and the Brit- tleness of human Bones in Frosts - - 494, XXXV. Whether Oily Substances are hurtful to the Bones ? - - - . 497 XXXVI. Curious Account of the Dissection of Old Parr, from a Manuscript of Dr. Harvey _ 499 XXXVII. Description of a Stone Eater - . $qq XXXVIII. On the Stature and Figure of Old Persons - 502 XXXIX. The Cruelty of Collectors of Insects censured 504 XL. On the Process of Vegetation in Trees - 595 XLI. Extraordinary Effects of Pestilential Winds - 506 XLII. On the Leviathan - 503 XLIII. Stones not hurtful to Land - - - 5io XLIV. On the Serpent destroyed by Regulus - 5 ] l XLV. On the Growth of Cedars in England - 5]o XL\I. Harmless Nature of Hedge-Hogs - . XLVII. Account of the Free Martin . - 517 XLVIII. Account of a Gigantic Child . . 519
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