S.
SABBATH, how to be regarded in farming affairs, 249. SAINT Peter's church, at Rome, defcribed, 338. SALT, wonderful mountain of, in Spain, 564 SALT-PETRE, remarks on the de- compofition of, by means of the fal gemma of Cordova, 555. SAPHANDRE, a machine to pre- vent drowning, 567. SCARLATINA Anginofa defcribed, 225. How treated, 227. SCOTLAND, obfcurity of its an- cient history, 270. Dr. Stu- art's refearches into commend- ed, 271. Kings of Scotland hot unlimited in their power, 275. Their great officers of ftate, 278. Courts of justiciary, 355.
SELF-ATTENDANCE, its import- ance, particularly in the bufinefs of a farm, 169.
SURAT, account of the inhabis tants of, 305. SWISSERLAND, sketches of, 3435 Prices of provifions in that coun- try, 346.
SYRA, formerly Syros. See CHOI-
SEUL.
44.
STUCCO. See APPEAL. SULZER, M. his philofophical me- moir on the immortality of the foul, 520. SUMATRA, island of, account of,
420.
T.
the water poet, his
TANJORE, particulars relating to the late conqueft and restora- tion of, 293-300. TANNING of leather, new method of, 419. TAYLOR, quaint account of Nicolas Wood, the great eater, 261. THALES, fome account of his philofophy, 122. THICKNESSE, Mr. letter to from one of the Monks of Montfer- rat, 70.
SELWYN, John, his extraordinary ftrength and agility, 258. SENECA, effay on the life and wri- tings of, 313. SERVANTS, management of, in the farming business, 180. SHIRAS, in Perfia, obf. made there by a modern traveller, 306. SOCRATES, brief account of his
philofophy, 122. SOUCHOT, Mrs. her remarkable cafe of delivery in childbirth,
74. SOUL, human, philofophical opi- nions relative to its immortality, 521.
SPAIN, wonderful mountain of falt there, 554
STRATA of the earth, curious ac- Twiss, Mr. how rendered obno- counts of, 42. xious to the Irish, 191. V.
of the Derbyshire mines,
TENERIFFE, pike of, curious ex- periment on liquors carried to the fummit of, 154. TICHO-BRAHE, his aftronomical difcoveries, 529. TIME-KEEPERS. See LE ROY. TINE, or Tenos, pleafing defcrip- tion of the women of that island, 511. TINTERN Abbey, fome account of, 263. TOPAZ. See MARGRAFF. TOURNAMENTS, &c, curious ac- count of royal ordinances rela tive to, 257.
TRAITE de la fphere, &c. 313. TRELAWNEY, Rev. Sir Harry, his
change of religious fentiments, 79. Witticisms on, ib. TRINITY, Mr. Search's explica- tion of, 431. Dr. Scott's no tion of, 486.
VANDIWASH, battle of, defcrib-
ed, 47. VENICE, eminent artists of that city, 564.
VERBAL criticifm vindicated, 375. VIRTUE, poetic encomium on, 475.
VITET'S
VITET's difpenfatory of Lyons, WINEFREDE's Well, defcription of, 32. Qualities of the waters, 195.
313.
VOLTAIRE, M. de, celebrated by the King of Pruffia, 67. His life and conduct generally ami- able, 68. Vaft diverfity of his talents, 69, 144. His merit as an hitorian, 269. W.
WINKLEHAAK, M. his account of methods to recover perfons ap- parently drowned, 566. WHITE, Dr. his experiments on air, and the different kinds of effluvia upon it, 409, WOMEN, highly reverenced by the ancient Germans, 16.
their cruel vaffalage in ancient Greece, 454. Their rights of inheritance among the Greeks, Arabs, and Romans, 455. Women of Naxos defcribed, 510. Of Tenos, 511. WOOD, Nicolas, the great eater,
2618
P. 4, 1. penult, del. generally.
17, 1. 6 from bottom, for raisoneé, r. raisonné. 55, 1. 21, for
years, r. reasons.
104, par. 2, 1. 13, for other opportunities are embraced, s. opportunities are likewife embraced.
WORCESTER, Marquis of, his extraordinary retirement in Wenf ley Dale, 258.
-148, 1. 4, for perfectionement, T. perfectionnement.
Ibid. Art. XI. 1. 1, for Morale, r. Moral.
Ibid. 1. penult, for Moise, r. Moise.
149, 1. penult, for Precis, r. Précis.
150, Art. XVI. 1. ult. for Modern times, r. Modern Naturalifts.
153, par. 2, 1. 4, for Phillippiques, r. Philippiques.
1.
and
del. the Viaticum.
342,
3
4,
355, par. 3, 1.9, for he advances, r, he produces. -365, par. 2, for practice of ftatuary, 1. practice of the art of
ftatuary.
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