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Rh including Stone-Cutting. The articles on Assaying and Coining were written by Mr Mushet; Carpentry partly, and Road-making by Dr Young; Boring and Cannon-making by Mr Cadell; Cotton-manufacture by Mr Bannatyne; Joinery and Stone-Masonry by Mr Tredgold; and Printing by Mr Stark; to whose promptitude and skill, in his professional connection with this work, the Editor feels himself in no small degree indebted.

The list of articles on the Arts and Manufactures connected with Chemistry, and other branches of General Physics, includes the following: Agriculture, Alum, Ammoniac-Sal, Baking, Bleaching, Brewing, Brick-making, Distillation, Gun-Powder, Horticulture, Lighting (treated under Gas-Lights and Lamps), and Wine-making. The first of these was written by Mr Cleghorn, an extensive Contributor in the departments of Statistics and Topography; the next seven by Dr Thomas Thomson; Horticulture by Mr Neill; and Gun-Powder and Wine-making by Dr Macculloch.

The last general head of the first division of this Outline, is that comprehending the articles relative to the Philosophy of the Mind, and Political Philosophy.

Most of the topics ranging under the first of these branches have been treated in the Encyclopædia; and, though several of them might be recast with advantage in another mould, this could not have been done in the present work, without the exclusion of subjects, in regard to which, greater additions have been made to the stock of positive knowledge. Articles have, however, been given on a few subjects, which seemed to require notice, either on account of the new lights which recent inquiries have reflected upon them, or of their practical utility.

The subject of Beauty, the discussion of which involves much of the theory of Taste, and the analysis of a numerous order of the most delightful emotions of which our nature is susceptible, is examined at considerable length, in an article written by Mr Jeffrey. The analytical part of it is preceded by a rapid, but discriminating survey of the doctrines maintained by preceding inquirers; and, though the theory which it is the author’s object to establish, is substantially the same with that of Mr Alison, it is treated and illustrated in a form and manner so original and so striking, as to entitle this article to be characterized, as one of the most masterly and brilliant disquisitions in the whole compass of our philosophical literature.