containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ...

in which is shewn an easy and expeditious method of making them, superior to the best natural ones, and also, a way of improving the natural ones and of changing or converting their poles. Diretions are likewise given for making the mariner's needles in the best form, and for touching them most advantageously, etc

containing not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated experiments : as also, plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees, to the height of thirty feet and upwards, with certain success; and, on the same principles, (with as certain success) for transplanting hedges of sundry kinds, which will at once resist cattle : to which are added, directions for the disposition, planting, and culture of hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger fences in five years, than they now usually are in ten

wherein is containded the Natural History of those Insects : with the various methods of cultivating them, both Antient and Modern and the improved Treatment of them : to which are added the Natural History of Wasps and Hornets, and the Means of destroying them

written in the year 1714

in a series of letters to his guardian, chevalier Gherardo Compagni

composed from the journals and communications of Capitain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the antelope, a packet belonging to the honourable East India Company

being a treatise on lands in general: shewing the best methods of cultivating and improving the different soils, for the raising of wheat, barley, oats, pease, beans, vetches, lentils, turnips, &c. &c

containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage: hints on the improvement of balloons and mode of inflation by steam; means to prevent their descent over water; occasional enquiries into the state of the atmosphere, favouring their direction; with various philosophical observations and conjectures, to which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables, the whole serving as an introduction to aerial navigation

written with a view to fix the fluctuating ideas of taste