Dr Douglas’s Text-Book of Geography Not Thorough
A critical review finds Dr Douglas’s geography for upper classes flawed by omissions and dubious etymologies. It praises arrangement and accent marking but notes missing coalfields, key towns, and accurate province details, urging a more complete British geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas
France
Europe
Spain
Greece
Cyclades
Sporades
Ruesa
Persia
China
Mexico
Mountain
Moore, &c
Palestine
Paul
England
Scotland
Ireland
Great Britain
Alnwick
Berwick
Tynemouth
Lowestoft
Lewes
Salsbury
Wednesbury
Loughborough
Snowion
Snout Hill
Rhine
Rhone
Rhenus
Keno
Riyn
Penryn
Cesar
Tacitus
Chevy Chase
Cevermnes
Humber
Severn
Lake Windermere
Iske
Yorkshire
Mid-lesborough
Beverley
Captain Cook
Whitey
Marton
Middlesboroug
Lancashre
St Helen's
Barrow-in-Furness
Darwen
Accrington
Southport
Camondgeshire
Newmarket
Kent
Hythe
Surrey
Kew
Royal Palace
Dorking
Epsom
Wimbledon
Reading
Berkshire
Cricklade
Wiltshire
Dorsetthie
Weymouth
Guernsey
Cheshire
Stalybadge
Dukinfield
Hyde
Runcorn
Crewe
Staffordshire
Newcastle- Under-Lyme
Newcastle Under
Forest of Lyme
Lochfield
Johnson
Dourhs
Sir Isaac Newton
Wolsey
Henry
Edward T
Paver Cromwell
Warwickshire
Shakpecare
Ossop
Derbyshire
Aldbury
Great Malvern
Worcester
London
Three Kingdoms
Leith
Glasgow
John O’ Groat
Blairgowrie
Bo'ness
Rutherglen
Coatbridge
Wishaw
Saltcoats
Beith
Dalry
Greatritain
Germmany
Germany
Pressta
Atstria
Peusta
Abyssinia
Magdala
Auckland
New Zealand
Wellington
Satirist on an Old General Assembly and a Poem Babell
The piece surveys Dr Pitcairne’s satirical Babell and the 1692 General Assembly scene. It notes Pitcairne’s literary skill, the assembly's quarrels, debates on prayer and moderation, bishops, and the commissioner’s dissolution of the meeting, ending with a chorus on unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Edinburgh
Pitcairne
Commonwealth
Scotland
Charles II
Charles
Archibald Pitcairne
Babell
John Drummond
Harvey
Fr Drummond
Wodrow
Pitcastrne
Buchanan
Maitland Club
George R. Kinloch
Thom
Assembly
A. P
Lucanus
Merton
Bavdrick, the King of the Reign A Lay of South Devon
Mrs Potts widow of a late Conservative MP presents a narrative poem from Ancient Britain set in South Devon. Bardack and Algar clash on Dart and Bardrick’s son avenges his father, ending with Algar slain. The piece is noted for its style and helpful etymological notes. London Provost & Co. 1809.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algar
Bardrick
Potts
Panathal
Ryal
Hill
Hell
Coombe
Tor
Becky
Lador
Brielu
Dartmoor
Bavdrick
South
Devon
Ly LE
London
Provost & Co
Asher's Model Books of Foreign Commercial Correspondence
A critical notice of Dr H E Skelton's Asher & Co. publication set as the first in a series teaching English German French Spanish and Italian commercial letters. The review notes misprints and slang, credits the letters to actual business use, and calls the book useful for offices and commercial academies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asher
Dr Skelton
Germany
Revolutionary water-raising machine praised by correspondents
A correspondent shares a circular describing a machine claimed to lift water to great altitudes with no ongoing cost beyond initial setup. It promises constant running water and potential replacement for pumps, while noting limitations and rights ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atheneum
Bouron
Héberville
Seiné-Inferieure
France
Immunity From Consumption In The Hebrides
A long discussion notes Dr M N ab and others proposing that Hebrides and north western Scotland enjoy immunity from tuberculosis due to abundant marine vegetation and resulting oxygenating atmosphere. The piece cites algae fields, airy purity, and possible other substances from aquatic plants contributing to health, urging further study and referencing a pamphlet. It also briefly mentions a legal case on entail and irritant clauses, with judges and counsel named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrides
Scotland
The
M‘nab
Isles
Great Britain
Ireland
Law Entelligence Court Hears Slander Case Expenses Rule
In Edinburgh the Court of Session first division rules on slander damages actions. After a first trial verdict for the pursuer was set aside for lack of evidence and a second trial verdict for the defenders the court awards the defenders expenses from both trials. The court holds malice evidence from the pursuer justified the first verdict being overturned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court OF Session
Thoms
Lindsay & Paterson
W.S
Bettie
Gregor
S.sc
Edinburgh
Clephane
House of Lords
J. M.laren
W. Millar
S.S.C
Debated Entail Validity Over Prohibitions at Glencrook
In a May 20 declarator suit James M Turk or Mark Gibson challenges a tailzie deed for Glencrook Dumfriesshire arguing it lacks irritant clauses to enforce prohibitions on alienation debt and succession. The case discusses the Entail Amendment Act section 43, the 1890s tailzie deed executed 1898 and recorded 1810 1838, and Lord Ordinary Ormidale’s ruling that the irritant provisions may be insufficient to fence the prohibitions against sales and debt contraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Cowan
Tailzie
Gordon
Q.C
M'Kie
J. Milligan
S.S.C
Clark
Lee
Mackenzie
James Robert M‘turk
Mark Gibson
Tailzic
Glencrook
Glencairn
Dumfriesshire
Tailzies
Ormidale
Sabbath Alliance meeting in Craigie Hall endorses observance
Public breakfast of the Sabbath Alliance of Scotland in St An Square with Sheriff Barclay presiding. Delegates from the United States and Scotland urged Lord's Day observance, praised Anglo-Saxon religious heritage, cited New York laws closing Sunday liquor shops, and announced a Christian conference in New York in 1870.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sabbath Alliance of Scotland
Craigie Hall
United States
American Evangelical Alliance
Diamaan
United States of America
America
Scropp
England
Alabama
Scotland
John Knox
Presbyteriana
Bere
Sabbath Committee of
New York
Gilfillan
Brooklyn
State of
Forbes Mackenzie
Concord
Schopp
Bisnop
Dr Bean
Evangelical Alliance of
Grasey
Sheriff Barclay
Graham
Newhaven
Edinburgh
Barracks for Recruits Built by Duke of Buccleuch in Edinburgh High Street
The Duke of Buccleuch converted Hunt Close buildings into barracks for 120 men with two staff sergeants, aiming to improve discipline over billets. The premises are ready and will be occupied as recruits muster today. The Glasgow Herald notes an antique drum linked to Prince Charles's 1745 march in Sanquhar, with its armorial device intact and owner inviting inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalereith
Eprnecreu
Mimiria
Duke of
Glasgow Herald
Wm. Henderson
Sanquhar
Chevalier
Prince Charles Stuart
Nithsdale
Sanquhbar
Thomson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr i the
Douglass
Ceoprashy
Wlas
Jnburgh
Oliver & Boyd
Burne
Susie
Crashaw Johnson
Jamie
James Smith
William Blackwood & Sons
Babel
Thomas Foster
Alloa
Stirling
St Andrews
Braes
Culross
Kirk
Calvin
Knox
Rutherford
James Durhame
Andrew Gray
Wilie
Bedlam
Pitcairno
Solomon
Church of England
Bern
Robin Hood
Little John
Venice
Gillies
Asquebaugh
Gregory Goost
H. £. Skelton
Asher & Co
J. Mnab
M.D. F.r.cs.e
Law
the Sabbath Alliance OF Scotland
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