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LITERARY ROOMS, CORNER OF BROADWAY AND PINE-STREET.

SOLD BY WELLS & LILLEY, AND CUMMING & HILLIARD, BOSTON; EDWARD EARLE, PHILADELPHIA; COALE & MAXWELL, AND FRANKLIN BETTS, BALTIMORE; W. H. FITZWHYLSONN, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA; WORSLEY & SMITH, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY; JOHN MILL, CHARLESTON; W. T. WILLIAMS, SAVANNAH; AND B. LEVY & Co. JAMES N. HYDE & CO. AND B. HANNA, NEW-ORLEANS.

ABRAHAM PAUL, PRINTER.

CONTENTS TO NO. V.

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On the advancement of Science, as connected with the

Rise and Progress of the Royal Institution

1. An Inquiry into the Origin of our Notion of Distance.

Drawn up from Notes left by the late Thomas Wedg-

wood, Esq.

II. On Pendulums vibrating between Cheeks. By Benja-

min Gompertz, Esq.

III. Medical Jurisprudence. Foderé Médicine legale, 8vo.
6 vols. Paris, 1813. Orfila Toxocologie genérale, con-
sidérée sous les Rapports de la Physiologie, de la Patho-

logie, et de la Médicine légal e, Paris, 1815.

IV. A Descriptive Account of Mr. Thompson's Laboratory

at Cheltenham, for the Preparation of the Cheltenham

Salts; with a Chymical Analysis of the Waters whence

they are produced. By W. T. Brande, Esq. Sec. R. S.

F. R. S. E. M. Geol. Soc. Prof. Chym. R. I. &c.; and

Samuel Parkes, Esq. M. R. I. F. L. S. M. Geol.

Soc. &c.

V. An Account of Euler's method of solving a Problem,

relative to the Move of the Knight at the game of Chess.

From a Correspondent.

VI. Some Experiments and Observations on a new Acid

Substance. By M. Faraday, Chym. Assistant in the

Royal Institution.

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VII. Natural and Statistical View of Cincinnati and the

Miami Country. By Daniel Drake. Cincinnati, 1815. 81