The British palladium: or annual miscellany of literature and science: for the year 1775. The twenty-seventh number published. In two parts. The First containing new, general, and select, Subjects: With an Alphabetical Chronicle (number IV.) of original Customs, useful Discoveries, Arts, and Inventions. Another (number V.) of the first Discovery of Countries. Another (number VI.) of the Beginning of States, Cities, Towns, &c. Also an Alphabetical List of the States of Europe, and of the Religions of each State. For the Information of young Historians and Youth at School. - This historical Chronology to be continued yearly in a Variety of different Classes; with the Geography, Produce, Customs, and Curiosities, of each Country. The Second comprehending Answers to former Enquiries; and a Variety of new and entertaining Things proposed. With which may be had, The Practical Arithmetician, or Art of Numbers improved: Being a Set of new, short, practical, and mechanical, Rules, in all the Branches of Arithmetic, on an entirely new Plan; exercising all Parts of the numerical Art with Readiness and Facility. For the Use of Schools and private Tutors. Also The Seaman's Guide, or a Key to the Nautical Ephemerides, for keeping a Reckoning of Longitude of Ships at Sea, from Observation, as near as is practical. - The Whole serving both for Land and Sea. By the author of the Improved Royal astronomer and navigator.

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[1775]