Natural History
- Natural History of the different serpents in the East Indies; from Mons. F. d'Obfonville’s essays on the nature of various foreign animals, translated by Mr. T. Holcroft (p. 45).

Antiquities
- Description of Thebes; state of that city under the Persian, Roman, and Turkish emperors; the portices, &c. of the great temple near Carnas; the plain of Carnac, leading to Luxor; remains of the temple at Luxor; the magnificent obelisks, &c. described. From the translation of Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt (p. 97).
- A visit to the tombs of the kings of Thebes; sarcophagi &c. described; observations on the grand temple; parts of a prodigious colossal figure found among these ruins; the ruins of Memnonium, denoted by heaps of marble, &c. either mutilated or sunk in the earth; from the same work [Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt] (p. 102).
Miscellaneous Essays
- The hot baths used all over Egypt, and the manner of bathing described, with observations on the benefits arising from them, on the women who bathe once or twice a week; and comparisons between these baths and those of the ancient Greeks. From Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt (p. 118).
- An account of the Almai, or Egyptian Improvisatore, their education, dancing, music, and the passionate delight the natives take in these actresses; from the same work [Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt] (p. 121).
- Some account of the private life of the Egyptian women, their inclinations, &c.; the manner in which they educate their children; and their custom of weeping over their kindred; from the same work [Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt] (p. 124).
- Curious account of the chicken-ovens in Egypt: from the same work [Mons. Savary’s Letters on Egypt] (p. 128).
- Taciturnity, an apologue, translated from the French of Abbé Blanchet (p. 134).

Poetry
- Epigram on the phrase “Killing Time;” by Voltaire (p. 151).

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