BERTHOUD, M. his time-keepers tried, at fea, 154. Their ac- curacy and utility, ib. BLACKBURNE, Mr. his noble bo- tanic garden, 240. BOLTON HALL, fome account of, 258.
BONES, how ufed, and with what effect, as a manure, 471. BULL and Mouth Inn, etymology of that fign, 259. BURGUNDY, Duke of, his last converfations, 312. BRAMINS. See SURAT. BRUCE, Robert, King of Scot- land, his fpirited contests with the Pope, 187.
C.
CARVER, Capt. his motives for
travelling to explore the inte- rior of North America, 90. Dif- ficulties in the undertaking, 91. His refolution in purfuing the defign, 93. His papers detain- ed at the Plantation office, 94. CESARIAN fection, in child- birth, reflections on, 60. Cafe of an actual operation, 74. CASTILLON, M. de, his aftrono-
mical and mathematical papers in the memoirs of the Berlin Academy, 519. CASSINI, M. his voyage to New- foundland, 71.
the elder, his great im- provenients in aftronomy, 533. CEMENT, Adam's, the originality of the invention of questioned, 72. CHARITY defined, 435. St. Paul's difplay of poetically paraphrafed, 469.
CHARLEMAGNE, the Great, a bad
character, 145. CHE-HIANG, the Chinese musk animal, fome account of, 552. Method of hunting it, 553. CHEMISTRY. See AFFINITIES.
See SALT-PETRE. CHESTER, obf. on the population and difeafes of that city, 413.
CHINA, calculations of the mud. ber of inhabitants in that em pire, 505, 548. Extraordinary high interest of money in that country, 549. Conjectures re- lative to the caufe of, 550. Pre- fent ftate of medicine there, ib. Musk animal there, account of, 552.
CHINESE, hiftorical account of the feveral dynasties of their Empe- rors, 501. Their high regard to filial piety, 547. Il effects of that predominant principle in China, 548. Other particulars relative to that people, 549. CHOISEUL, Count de, his account of the ifles of Naxos, Tenos, Syra, and Delos, 510. CLERGY, Proteftant, in Ireland, their difagreeable fituation, with refpect to Tythes, 11. CLERGYMAN, his proper charac- ter difplayed, with respect to in- fluence from example, 485. COLLAR, wonderful. See FEAR-
AIDACH.
COLONIES, British, of North A- merica, exhorted to a reconci- liation with Great Britain a's most for their real intereft, 125. Horrors of the present war with poetically and affectingly de- fcribed, 373. COOTE, Col. his generalfhip at the battle of Vandiwash, 48. COPERNICUS, his aftronomical dif-
coveries, 528-529. CORTES, his correfpondence with Charles V. 556. His account of his conquest of Mexico, 557. His defcription of the court of Mentezuma, 558. Of the dread- ful and cruel circumftances of the war, 559. His averfion to the Spanish Bishops, ib. COUGH, catarrhous, remedy for, 62.
Cow, cafe of one nearly killed by eating cabbages, 26. How cu- red, 27.
CRITICISM,
CRITICISM, verbal, utility of af- ferted, 375.
CURFEW, account of, 261. D.
DEBTOR. See POOR.
DELOS, ifland of. See CHOI-
202.
EGYPTIAN language, when firft ftudied in England, 1. Culti- vated at Oxford, 2. Grammar and dictionary of, ib. ELECTRICITY, remarkable cure
EARTH, globe of, new theory of its original formation, 38. Great alterations in the structure and appearances of, 40.
effay and experiments on that which is the bafis of the ve- getable and animal creation,516. EDUCATION, important obf. on,
SEUL.
DE LUC, M. his effay on pyro- metry, &c. 420. DESCARTES, his immenfe know-
FAITH, confidered as a virtue, 43 1. FARMING. See AGRICULTURE. FEARAIDHACH, King of Ireland,
wonderful virtues of his gold collar, 105.
ledge and difcoveries, 532. DIDEROT's effay on Seneca, 313. DIMSDALE, Baron, his remarks on general inoculation of the fmall-pox, 313.
FEVER, fcarlet, &c. Account of that which lately appeared at Birmingham, &c, 224. Me- thod of treating, 227
DROPSY, cured by a chirurgical FIRE, natural and morbific, of the operation, 541. human body, differtation on, DROWNING. See AMSTERDAM. 540.
E.
ELECTROPHERUS,
experiments
on, 514. ERASTOSTHENES, his aftronomi-
cal discoveries, 526. ESOTERICS and Exoterics, how diftinguished, 86.
ESSAI fur la vie de Seneque, 313 EVELYN'S Terra republished by Dr. A. Hunter, with improve- ments, 471.
EURIPIDIS Orestes ex recenfione J. Barnefii, &c. 312. EXPERIMENTS, in farming, method of regifiring, 29.
performed by, 414. Obf. on electrical conductors, by Mr. Wilfon, 415. Other obf. by
Mr. Swift, 417.
See alfo E-
LECTROPHERUS.
F.
FACIUS, Profeffor, his Latin ver- fion of the Orestes of Euripides,
312.
FAERNO, fome account of that ex- cellent man, 565.
FORTIFICATION, account of fome remains of one in America, 282. anecdotes rela- tive to the kill of the French generals, in the attack of forti- fied places, 545• FURROW, in agriculture, etymo- logy and various fignifications of that term, 255.. G.
GALILEI, his aftronomical disco- veries, 532. GARDENING, fingular tafte in. See M- -E. GARRICK, David, encomium on his character, 58. His pro- logue to Fielding's comedy of The Fathers, ib.. GENESIS. See GRABE. GEOGRAPHISCHE Unterfuchung, &c. 311. GERARDIN, Marquis of, his re- markable friend fhip for Rouf- feau, 140. Erects a monument to his memory, 143. GERHARD, M. his memoir con-
cerning the oculus mundi, with experiments, 519. GERMANS, ancient, cuftoms and manners of, 15. Martial fpirit of their women, 16. GRABE, his collation of an an- cient MS. of Genefis, 76.
Pp 2
GRAN,
GRAN, Archbishop of, his vast opulence and power. 562. GRANGE, M. de la, his papers in the memoirs of the Berlin Aca- demy, 519.
GREEKS, ancient, their philofo- phy generally characterised, 120. their poetry, 123. GUNPOWDER, experiments on the force of, 417. GYPSIES, their origin, 260. H.
HAYGARTH, Dr. See CHESTER. HAY-MAKING, improved me- thods of, 22.
HAZARD of farming, 172. HEAT, animal, opinions relative to the cause of, 385.
animal and vegetable, ac- count of, 418. HEBREWS, their poetry critically explained, 132. HELL, where placed by the an- cients, 496.
HENLY, Mr. See ELECTRICITY. HIPPARCHUS, the ancient aftro- nomer, his discoveries, 525- 527. HISTORY of Ireland, 3. HOEFMAN, Dr. his experiments for the recovery of perfons ap- parently drowned, 566. HOLLAND, obf. on the prefent
ftate of affairs between that country and England, 388. HOLYWELL, town of defcribed,' 194. Account of St. Wini- fred's Well there, ib. HUNGARY, great opulence and power of the fuperior clergy there, 562.
HUNTER, Dr. his reflections on the Cæfarian feЯtion, &c. 60.
on the heat of animals and vegetable, 418. See EVELYN. HUTTON, M. his experiments
on the force of gunpowder, 417. HUSBANDRY, utenfils and ma- chines ufed in, new inventions of and improvements in, 18.
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IRELAND, ancient hiftory of, 3. Early cultivation of learning there, 7. Philofophical furvey of the fouth of, 8. Origin of the White Boys there, 11. Of the Oak Boys, 12. Of the Steel Boys, 13. Far- ther accounts of the ancient hif- tory of that ifland, 95. Invaded by the fons of Milefius, ib. Completely conquered, 99. Po- verty of the pealants, &c. there, 193.
•
IRISH, ancient, connected with the Carthaginians, 102.
prefent poverty of the lower ranks of, 193. IRISH-HOWL, whence derived, 10. ISAIAH, his prophecies originally written in verfe, 131. Critical remarks and explications of,
215.
Isus, the orator, fome account of, 455. Compared with Ly- fius, 456.
JUSTICIARY, Courts of, in Scot- MENTELLE's treatife on the sphere,
land, 355.
K.
KANG-HI, Emperor of China, his literary works, 552. KEPLER, the great aftronomer, account of him and his discove- ries, 530.
L.
LAMBERT, M. his papers in the
the Berlin memoirs, 513. LAW, William, his enmity toward Reason, 241.
LEIBNITZ, M. his letters to F. Orban, 542. His littleness in foliciting profitable appoint- ments from the Emperor of Ger- many, 543.
Le Rox, M. his clocks, for the discovery of the longitude, tried in a voyage to Newfoundland, 71. Other trials in various parts of the globe, 154.
Dr. his account of the fection of the fymphyfis of the pubes, as a fubftitute for the Cæfarian fection, 74. LEVELLERS, or White Boys, of Ireland, pleasant ftory of, 11, the note.
LIARDET. See ADAM. LIGHT. See BEGUELEN. LONGINUS, Mr. Toup's edition of his works commended, 377. Strictures on the ftyle and fenti- ments of Longinus, 380. LOWENDHAL, Count, anecdote
M.
MACBRIDE, DE his account of an improved method of tan- ning leather, 419. MARGRAFF, M. his memoir of the Saxon topaz, 513.
M-
his fupplement to the above account, 517. -E, M. his fingular tafte in gardening, 9. Cuts his park into the form of a thistle, ib. MELIORATIONS of foil, remarks
on, 27.
313.
MESSIER, M. his aftronomical papers in the Berlin memoirs, 520.
METTAM, Mr. his letter to Mr. Tiffington, concerning a remark able phenomenon in the Derby- fhire mines, 46.
MIDDLETON, Capt. his uncom- mon bravery, 260.
MILLER, Mr. his account of Su- matra, 420.
MILNER, Rev. Mr. his reflections on the communication of motion by impact and gravity, 418. MINES, in Derbyshire, curious accounts of, 45• MOHAMMEDANS, various fects of in Arabia and the Eaft Indies defcribed, 305. MORAY, Earl of, his negociations at the papal court, 186. MORE, Sir Thomas, remarks on his character, 196. MOUNTAINS in Swifferland de- fcribed, 343.
MULLER, John, the inventor of the Ephemerides, 529. Music, French, observations on, 151. -Italian ib: MUSICAL eftablishments in Wales, 35. Degrees and diftinctions in, 36.
MUSK-ANIMAL. See CHE
HIANG.
relative to, 545.
LYSIUS, the orator, compared NABOB. See TANJORE. with Ifæus, 456.
NAXOS, ancient and present ftate of, 509. NECESSITY, philofophical, re-
marks relative to, 208. NEWS-PAPERS, apology for their licentioufnefs, 464. Benefits, to the public, refulting from and over-balancing this evil, 465. NEWTON, Sir Ifaac, panegyrical difplay of his immenfe difcove- ries in philofophy, &c. 533. NINEVEH, remains of, 310.
O.
1
OCULUS MUNDI, properties of, and where found, 517. ORATOR, Cicero's opinion of the powers of, contraverted, 457. ORIGEN, his Hexaplar edition of the LXX. translated into Syriac, 79.
ORLEANS, Philip, Duke of, his
character, 151. OSSA, PUBIS, reflections on the divifion of, as a fubftitute for the Cæfarian fection, 60. In- ftance of an operation, 74. P.
PAINTING, fketches of the an- cient history of, 365. PALLISER, Sir Hugh, fentence paffed on him by the court-mar- tial, 400. Remarkable differ- ences in the printed accounts of,
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