Chapter 14. On the Choice of Landscapes, as appropriated to different Parts of the Day.
It is from the contraft of light and shadow that all natural ob- jects derive their varying tints and beauty. The morning fun is in these respects, particularly favourable to the viewing of large maffes of foreft trees, projecting rocks, mountains, and deep vallies. These objects acquire an additional relief by the play of the light upon them, and by the long shadows projected by them.
The brightness of the fun at noon, on the contrary, is suitable to detached objects, and of fmall extent, as to rapid waters, or to ornamental buildings, that the eye may not be fatigued and dazzled by the glare of too wide an expanfe of reflected light.
The calm freshness of the evening, fuch as Claude Lorrain has finely expreffed, is adapted to an extenfive country, to groves through which the light penetrates, to spacious meadows, and still waters which reflect the neighbouring objects; to dif- tant views softened by the intervening air: and these are heightened by the infinite variety of foft tints, which the sky and the diftant parts of the landscape at this time more parti- cularly exhibit.
In the 15th chapter, the Author, with great philofophical skill, fhews the power of landfcapes over our fenfes, and, through their intervention, over the foul; and he particularly exempli- fies his theory by a pleafing and animated defcription of a scene of the romantic caft, applicable to the neighbourhood of the Alps; where this analogy between physical and moral impres- fions is felt in its greateít force.
In the 16th and laft chapter, the Author, who unites the qua- lities of an ufeful and good citizen with thofe of a man of taste, defcribes the means of combining pleafure with utility, in the general difpofition of grounds.
To this end he propofes feveral ideas, the refult of his obser- vation, during many years, in France as well as in other parts of Europe; relative to the improvement of agriculture, to the increafing the breed of cattle, and, above all, to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the country. The principal points here confidered, are the advantage of placing the dwelling of the cultivator in the middle of his grounds; the divifion and ex- change of lands; the price of corn, and of labour; the fize of farms; and the neceffity of inclosing.
The whole of this little treatife is written with fo much knowledge of the fubject, fo much tafte and fenfibility, and breathes fuch a fpirit of humanity; that it will undoubtedly be received by the Public as a most agreeable and instructive work.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
BERDEEN, account of the late great advances of that town, in trade and commerce, 186. AGRICULTURE. See FARMING. not repugnant to the culture of manufactures and commerce, 185.
AIR, nitrous, various obfervations and experiments relative to, 61. See DANIEL.
See DISEASES. AIR-PUMPS, experiments on, 451. ALLUM, the plume fort, natu- rally formed in the subterraneous galleries of Milo, 491. Found alfo in other places, ib. AMERICA, her revolt from Great Britain diffimilar to that of the United Provinces from Spain, 543. ANGINA MUCOSA, account of that difeafe, 234. ANNUITIES, value of, deduced
from general principles, 464. ARENA, Abbé, his differtations
on light, comets, &c. 300. ARSENIC, and other poisons, re- medies againft, 503. ASTRONOMY, fingular monuments of, in the East-Indies, 458. AYIN AKBARY, a defcription of the Indian empire, 342. APP, Rev. Vol. Iviii.
BAGAVADAM, one of the facred books of the Indians, observa- tions concerning, 540. BARKER, Sir Robert, his account of the immenfe obfervatory of the Bramins, at Banares, 458. BAROMETER, applied to the mea- furing the heights of mountains, See and the depth of mines. DE Luc. See SHUCKBURG. See Roy. BASTARD, Mr. his method of
raifing pine apples in water, 463. BEAUTY, of the human face, de-
fined, and analysed, 445. BEES, difcoveries relative to the fex and propagation of, 1. Beft methods of cultivating this ufe- ful infect, 54. Attention to, recommended, 55.
BEWLY, Mr. his experiments re- lative to fixed air, &c. 68. BIBLIOTHECA Critica, 487. BIOGRAPHIE Kayfer Carl. des Sechften, &c. 301. BITAUBE, his memoir on national
BoscovICH, Abbé, his account of a new micrometer and megame- ter, 458. See alfo MASKE-
effays, concerning certain indi genous plants fubitituted in me- dical practice, in the place of exotics, 385.
Bossu's travels into North Ame- COTHENIUS, M. his memoir con-
CASPIPINA, explanation of that word, 165.
CATTLE, on a farm, directions for managing and feeding, 100. CAVALLO, his new electrical ex- periments, 3. Farther experi- ments, 63. CAYENNE, fome account of the heat, difeafes, and remedies pe- culiar to that climate, 5c6. CHEMISTRY, introduction to, 385. CHINESE, M. De Guignes's ac-
count of their learning and phi lofophy, 535. CHRIST, the time neceffary. for the purpose of his ministry com- puted, ço The circumftances attending his refurrection confi- dered, 91. CLIMATE, Various peculiarities of to be confidered, with regard to the introduction and culture of foreign trees, plants, and ani. mals, 57. CINCHONA Jamaicenfis, Sea Ca- ribbeana defcribed, 459. Me- dical virtues of, ib. COCHIUS, M. his memoir con cerning the analogy between ex- tenfion and duration, 528. COLOURS not diftinguishable by
certain people, inftances of, 8. CORDOVA described, 27. CORNUTUS. See VILLOISON. CORPORIS Hiftoria Byzantine no-
va Appendix, c. 385. COSTE and Willemet's botanical, chemical, and pharmaceutical 6
DANIEL, M. his treatife (in German) on fixed air, 301. DEBRAW, Mr. his difcoveries.on the fex of bees, 1. DELECTUS differtationum medica-
rum argentoratenfium, c. 302. DEL l'Efiftenza di Dio d'á teoremi geometrici dimonftrata, &c. 298. DE LUC, J. A. his letters, phyfi-
cal and moral, concerning moun. tains, &c. 380. - See alfo page 456. his barometrical obfer- vations on the deep mines in the Hartz, 455. DENIS, M. his introduction to the knowledge of books, 387. DENMARK, account of the great revolution in that kingdom, in 1650, 219.
of the catastrophe of the late Queen. 249. De vita et rebus geftis Beffarionis, &c. 298. DICQUEMARE, Abbé, his further discoveries relative to the fea- anemony, 3. DISCORSO filofofio full Iftoria na-
turale dell' anima umana, 299. DISEASES, feveral, cured by the ufe of fixed air, 439.
FALETTI, Father, his differtation
on the human mind, 299. FARMING, various obfervations re- lating to improvements in, 45,
54, 95. FARMS, opinions relative to the fize and rents of, 101. Leafes of, what fort to be preferred, 105. Pernicious confequer.ces of great farmis, 208.
FLUIDS, permanently elaftic, obfer- vations and experiments relating
FLYING mountains. See RUSSIA. FOR MEY, M. his attack on Lava- vater's fyftem of phyfiognomy, 524. His Tungulian romance, $529. FORSTER, Mr. convicted of mif-
representations in his account of Capt. Cook's voyage, 127. FOSTER, Rev. Dr. James, his fame rescued from the illiberal attack of Bishop Warburton, 167. FOUCHER, Abbé, his inquiry into the nature and origin of the Hel- lenifmus, 541.
Fox, Charles, his oratorical abili ties estimated, 392. FRANZIUS's new edition of Pli- ny's Natural History, 387. FUNDING, Origin of that pernicious mode of raising money for pub- lic fervices, 290. Ill effects of, 291.
FYNNEY, Mr. his account of the the extraction of a foreign fub- ftance from an abfcefs in the groin, 459.
GAS. See FLUIDS.
GEBELIN, M. de, his learned etymological dictionaries, 553. GENSSANE. See LANGUEDOC. GERARDIN, Count, his excellent ideas and taste in planning and defigning pleafure grounds, 61. GESCHICTE Gustav. Adolphs, &c. 488.
GUNNERY, principles of, investi- gated, 330.
GLADWIN, Mr. his tranflation of the Ayin Akbary, 343. GLASGOW, ellimate of the trade of, 69. Propofal for the im- provement of, by the introduc- tion of woollen and other manu- factures, 70.
GoD, his existence demonftrated
by geometrical theorems, 298. GOLDSMITH, preferred, as a poet, to Gray and Mason, 140. Pp2 GRASS,
HISTORY of Guflavus Adolphus,
from the MSS. of M. Arken- holtz, &c. 488. HOLLAND, account of the prefent itate of the trade of, 215.
abridgment of the hif
tory of, 225. HOLZSCHUHER's life of Sebaftian Schoertlin van Burtenback, 302. HONEY-GUIDE defcribed, 2. HORACE, his ode to Afterie new tranflation of, 270.
-, his art of poetry restored to its true order, and tranflated into Italian, 300. HUDDART, Mr. his account of perfons who could not diitin- guish colours, 8. HULME, Dr. his methods of ap-
plying fixed air in the cure of the tone, gravel, &c. 441. HUNGARY, general hiftory of, from the first invafion of the Hans to the present time, 384. HUSBANDRY. See FARMING. HYDROPHOBIA, cafes of, in which the Ormskirk medicine failed, 334.
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