Joseph Priest discussed many topics including dragons, sea serpents, scorpions, apparitions, ancient giants, salamanders, tarantulas, the Deist confuted, prisoner among the Indians, prophecy, Bartram's travels, the Inquisition, origin of the aborigines, water-finding, account of a Negro sale, and Mexican idol festivals. Priest, although uneducated and a harness-maker by trade, published a number of popular works on the Millennium, on slavery, on the American Revolution, &c., and an hallucinatory epic, "The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga."
Includes: Of Dragons, Sea Serpents, and Flying Serpents; The Horn Nosed Snake; The Anaconda of the East-Indies; The Halcydrus a monstrous serpent of the ocean; History of the Scorpion; Account of a monstrous reptile; Accounts of Apparitions and Dreams; Accounts of Supernatural Phenomena; Accounts of the skeletons of large persons; Wonderful conversion of a wicked sea captain; Of the fiery Simoon of Arabia; Travels and Adventures in the southern hemisphere; Accounts of poisonous Serpents and other Reptiles; History of the Salamander and water Salamander; An account of the bite of the Tarantula; Of the Coya a poisonous insect; An account of the fossil Asbestos; Singular adventure of a Stork; An account of the Polypus; Of the Phenomena of Meteors and other Fires; Of the Phenomena of the Ignus Fatuus; Of the Phenomena of Whirl-winds, and Water Spouts; Of certain products of the Sea; Of the animal Flower of Barbadoes; A remarkable Echo in Germany; A strange phenomenon; Singular accounts of iron found in the earth; A happy Providence Memoirs of the martyr Polycarp; Suicide prevented by a wonderful providence; The Deist confuted; Prisoner among the Indians; Awful fulfilment of an awful prophecy; Adventure of a sailor in the river Congo; The providence of God asserted; Wonderful Visions in various ages; Accounts of bodies found in the earth centuries after their decease; Effects of a thunder storm; Female constancy rewarded; Bartram's travels and adventures; A Jewish tradition; Choice of a prime minister - an Allegory; A dreadful discovery; A copious account of the lives and deaths of Infidels; Account of the inquisition at Goa; Of the inquisition at Spain; Of the inquisition at Italy; Of persecutions in various ages; A great deliverance from a wild beast; A copious account of the phenomena of fire and earthquakes; Origin of the Aborigines; A remarkable narrative; Remarks upon the subject of Giants; Phenomena of the Aeroliths; Accounts of stones fallen from the moon; A grand supernatural phenomenon; Account of a monstrous kind of Eagle; Astronomical observations on comets; A wonderful supernatural phenomenon; The phenomenon of light; The sufferings of Thecla; Of the diamond mines in the East- Indies; A wonderful providence; Hogarth's last painting; Narrative of two Lovers; Locality of the Garden of Eden; Amusement for the Philosopher; Cure of a man possessed of the Devil; Narrative of Aleander and Septimus; Description of a Poison Tree and its effects; Account of the Fountain Tree; Perfidy punished; Murders of a Scottish Chief; Travels and Adventures among Savages; Natural History of the Earth; A great deliverance from an Indian in the woods; God's care for the poor; A wonderful Providence; Detection and punishment of a Murderer; Account of a Wild Man; A great deliverance from Robbers; Miraculous suspension of the Tide; Of a Man who lay in a trance; An extraordinary Account; A wonderful Dream; Of a wonderful Clock and Clock House; A Supernatural Phenomenon; An uncommon Monster; The terrors of the Judgment Day; The Infidel's Chemical mistake detected; Of the faculty of Water-Finding; A survey of the Universe; The Rock of Horeb; Narrative of the sufferings of Ambrose Gwinett; Art of Embalming practised by the Ancients; Account of Asiatic Locusts; Phenomena of Egyptian darkness; An awful Providence; Feats of ten young Men; Barbarous customs of Heathen Nations; The Serpent killer; Conversion of a Jew; Description of the twelve Diamonds of the Jewish Pectoral; Account of a negro sale; A remarkable interposition of Providence; Supernatural Phenomenon; Singular adventure of Count Beaumont; A remarkable story of a Dog; Wonderful sagacity of some Beasts; A terrible Phenomenon; A singular Providence; Account of the Magic Art; The curse of Laura upon her seducer; Remarkable pond of Water; The Brahmin Priests confuted; Balls of Fire bursting from the Ground; Customs of the ancient Mexicans; Mexican Idol festivals; A tragical account of a Human Sacrifice; The Voyage of Life: an Allegory; Marraton and Yaratilda.