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On the first of February, 1803, was published, price One Shilling,
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THE LATE DOCTOR HUNTER,
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taken by M. Denon;
No. 9,
Continued Monthly, of a New Series of
THE MONTHLY VISITOR,
AND
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For JANUARY, 1803.
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A new and interesting Work, entitled
A DICTIONARY OF THE WONDERS OF NATURE.
This day is Published,
Closely and elegantly printed in a Pocket-size, containing
near 500 pages of Letter-press; and enriched with
curious and illustrative Copper Plates,
Price 5s. boards;
A
DICTIONARY
OF THE
WONDERS OF NATURE:
TRANSLATED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE WORKS OF
A. S. S. DELAFOND,
PROFESSOR OF PHYSIC AT BOURGES.
Including extraordinary instances of
Abstinence; Old Age; Curiosities in the Animal Kingdom; Singular Antipathies; Remarkable Attachments; Extraneous Bodies; Phænomena of the Human Bones; Brains; Wonderful Caverns; Forward Children; Extraordinary Conformations; Remarkable Deafness; Apparent Death; Extraordinary Divers; Wonderful Dwarfs; Dreadful Earthquakes which have happened in various parts of the World; Extraordinary Eaters; Curious Structure of the Eye; Instances of Fecundity; Fermentation; Fire-damps; Subterranean Fires; Curious Fish; Wonderful Description of Human Hair; Phænomena of Heat and Cold; Dreadful Hurricanes; Ice, and Ice-houses described; Inundations, and the Properties of the Loadstone; Powers of the Imagination; History of Mutes; Northern Lights Described; Dreadful Maladies; Meteors; Remarkable Instances of Memory; Properties of Mirth; Account of a Curious White Negro; Deviations from Nature; Effects of Phosphorus; Rains; Extraordinary Men; Remarkable Accounts of Monsters; Ventriloquists; Volcanoes; Thunder; Plants; Stones; Rocks; Sleep-walkers; Petrified Bodies; Trees; Vegetation; Water-spouts; &c. &c. including all the remarkable
PHÆNOMENA IN NATURE;
philosophically, and physically explained; forming the most curious and interesting Collection of the Wonders of Nature ever published; the whole alphabetically arranged; with a complete Index.
To me be NATURE'S volume broad display'd,
And to peruse its all-instructive pages, my sole delight.
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Transcriber Note
Minor typos corrected. To accommodate placement a footnote, a paragraph break was added on [page 126].