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To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

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Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

ABEILLARD, his converfation with
Heloifa, on the fubject of marriage,
105. His retirement from the world,
106. Great number of pupils refort.
ing to him, 109.

Abul Fazel writes the inftitutes of the
Emperor Akber, 615. His noble sen-
timents, 624.

Academy, Royal, in Ireland, its hiftory,
203. Of Arts and Sciences in Ame-
rica, its hiftory, 385. Royal Society
of Edinburgh, its history, 532.
Acid, nitrous, produced from inflammable
and dephlogisticated airs, 327.

tartareous, an excellent remedy in
ardent fevers, 685. Ordinary prefcrip-
tion for making it, ib. Improved,
686.

Aids, experiments on their freezing, 325.
Acidity, obfervations on the principles of,
326.

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Alams, Dr. the American fiatesman, his
comments on Nedham's Excellency of
Free State, 290.
His obferv. relative
to the American Corflitutions, 291-297.
ber, an improved method of making
it, 688.
Air, inflammable, and dephlogifticated,
does not produce water, 327: but ni

trous acid, ib.

phofphoric, defcribed, 587.
fulphureous, described, ib.
-pump, on a new construction, 391.
Akber, Emperor, abftract of his life, 615.
His haram, 617. His library, 618.
His manner of spending his time, 620.
Alembert, M. d' his excellent remarks,
reflections, and anecdotes rel. to many
eminent men of letters, &c. 642-654.
Americans, inquiry into their original de-
fcent, 580.

Anatomy, proper method of ftudying, 303.
Ought not to attempt a defcription of
the foul, 304.

Anderfon, Dr. his experiments on the cul-
ture of potatoes, 473. On feed corn,
480. On cultivated graffes, ib.
Animals, brute, cruelly treated by man-
kind, 315. Children moft apt to be
guilty of this crime, ib. Parents cul-
pable, for not teaching them better,
316. Hunting, an inhuman pastime,
ib. Cruelty of confining birds in cages,
ib. Of angling with live baite, ib.
Of over-driving post-horses, 317.

how their species are difting. 6o1.
Antelope packet, caft away on the Pelew
iflands, 110. Subfequent adventures of
the captain and crew, 111, &c.
Antimonial wine, improved method of
making, 24.

Antiquities of various kinds, defcribed,
298-303.511-515.

Ariftotle's Poetics. See Twining.
Artillery Company, account of, 333.

--, history of, 419.
Arundelian marble. See Parian Chron.
Athens, inquiry concerning, and the man-
ners of its ancient inhabitants, 627.
Population, 629. Manufactures and
commerce,. 630.

BACON, Ld. his Effays modernized,

274. His life, by Dr. Willymote, ib.
His opinion concerning war, 673.
Baillie, Col. narrative of the imprisonment
and fufferings of his detachment, in the
Eaft-Indies, 86.

Baldwin, Mr. his account of a curious
electrical appearance, 389.
Barberini vafe, defcribed, 425.
Barometer, the caufes which produce inac-

curacy in measuring heights with it, 32.
A new formula for barometrical mea-
furements, 33. A portable one def. 206.
Barrington, Mr. his obfervations on card.
playing, 301.

Bath waters, new ideas concerning, 267.
Beauty,

Beauty. See Cyprus."
Beever, Sir Thomas, on the culture of the
turnip-rooted cabbage, 477. Of the
fcarcity-root, 479.

Beings, natural. See De Luc.
Bellarius, his great character, 14.
Belles Lettres not fufficiently encouraged
in England, 532. Reafons why, ib.
Bengal, prefent flourishing ftate of, under
the English establishment, 22.
Benzees, a new way of making its flowers,
687.

Bills of Exchange, great commercial quef.
tion relative to, 559.
Bingham rocks, described, 422.
Bishops formerly ferved in the army, 331.
Curious anecdote of one, 332.

Blegden, Dr. on cooling water below the
freezing point, 323.

Boileau, the poet, anecdotes rel. to, 644.
Of his two brothers, 645. Epigram
by one of them, 64c-6.9.
Boruwlafki, M. the Polish dwarf, acc, of,
63. His progreffive growth at different
periods of his life, ib.

Botargo, how prepared, 641.
Bourdé, M. his philofophical principles
rel. to navigation, manœuvres at fea,
&c. 500.
Browne, John, poetical translations by,

at 12 years old, from various authors,
Greek and Latin, 359
Brunfvic, Duke of, his adminiftration in.
Holland cenfured and defended, 667.
Buccleugh, Duke of, meteorological diary

kept by, at Branxholm, 36.
Buck wheat, experiment on its culture,
481.

Burgess, Mr. Confpectus criticarum Ob-
fervationum, 698.

Burja mucoja described, 497. 578.

CABBAGE, turnip-rooted, its culture,

477.

Calvinism, the principles of, cold, unphi
lofophical, and unpoetical; furnishing
no pleasures to the imagination, 103.
Cancers, method of palliating the pain
which they occafion, 377.

Cannara, &c. the caves there, defcribed,
423.

Cards, origin of the different games of, 301.
Caricatura, in painting, difapproved, 61.
Vindicated, 62.

Carrots, their culture, 478.

Cartwright, Mr. his abftract of the regu-
lations of the East-India Company rela-
tive to the officers, &c. of their hips,
illicit trade, &c. 373.

Cattle, a difeafe in their horns, deferibed,
Cure of, ib.

392.

Caufficon, of the French chemifts, de.
fcribed, 586.

Cavallo, M. on the method of afcertaining

the prefence of small quantities of elec
tricity, 319.

Cavendish, Mr. his experiments on frees-
ing the nitrous and vitriolic acids, 325.
Centripetal forces, theory of, algebraically
demonftrated, 244.

Charlemont, Earl of, on the antiquity of

the woollen manufact. in Ireland, 512.
Charles VI. Emperor, his character, 679.
Chelsea College, history of, 417. Abufes
in its management, 418.
Cheltenham waters, their qualities, 268.
Chem firy, nomenclature of it adapted to
the French fyftem, 74. The different
fyftems of, compared, 163-165. The
prefent ftate of, in France, 590.
Cbrifiiarity, its doctrines incomprehen-
fible by human reafon, 340.
Church, primitive, free remarks on the rife
and progrets of its doctrines, 17.
Churches, oblervations on, 302.
Cicero, obf, on his literary character, 435.
On his oratory, 436. Fine paffage from
one of his orations against Veries,
tranflated, 438.

Cleghorn, Dr. his account of various fub-
ftances found in an ovarium, 206.
Clergy, invective againft, 337, 338-
Clover, obf. on different crops of, 480.
Cold, obferv. on a remarkable degree of,

34. Caufe of, on high mountains, 321.
Collins, Mr. his epifile to Sir Thomas
Hanmer quoted, with respect to Shake-
fpeare's characters, 81. His ode on
the fuperftitions of the Highlanderi,
533. 555

Combe, Dr. his obferv, on some antiquities
found in Lombard-street, 301.

Comet of 1789, hiftory of, 318. Diffi
culties in calculating its return, b.
That of Jan. 1785, 573. Of April
1785, 574.

Condensation of vapours, productive of heat,

321.

Condorcet, Marquis de, on the population
of France, 574.

Confcience, courts of, remarks on, 304.
Confumptions, new obfervations on their
caules, 178. And on the method of
treating them, 179. Cured by external
embrocations, 180.

Cook, Capt. birth and education, 395.
Preferment in the navy, 396. His
fft voyage round the world, 397. Hu
jecond voyage, 398. His third, 399.
Hit character, ib.

Cooke, Mr. his drill plow recommended,
480.

Cours martial, their history, 416.
Crawford, Dr. his theory of heat attacked
by the French chemifs, 588. De-
fended, ib.

Crimea defcribed, 638. Now a Ruffin
province, ib. Its natural curiofities, 639.
Criminal

Criminals under fentence of death, doubts
relative to the expediency of giving the
moft profligate of them too great a por-
tion of religious comfort, 286..
Critical days, not to be neglected in acute
difeafes, 55.

Croonian lecture, account of one by Dr.
Fordyce, 246.

Cruelty to brute animals, horrid nature of,

315.

Crystals, their Atructure, 578.
Curl, a difeafe in potatoes, 475.
Curves, their quadrature, 206.
Cyprus, vifit to, by a gentleman now
living, 519. Account of a moft beau-
tiful woman there, 520.

DAIRIES, obfervations on, 481.

Darkness, uncommon, described, 388.
Darwin, Dr. his frigorific experiments on
the expanfion of the air, 321.
Dearborn, Mr. his defcription of two
pumps, 391.

Debtors, intolvent, rem. on the impolicy
& injuftice of their imprisonment, 467.
Denne, Mr. his obfervations on dome's-
day book, 423.

Diaphragm, wound in, not always mortal,

393-

Dickson, Dr. on the pemphigus, 206.
Diftillery, in Scotland, review of the laws
refpecting, 265.

De Luc, M. his theorem for barometrical
measurements confirmed, 33.

-, on the gradations fuppofed to
exist among natural beings, 691.
Drefs, proposals for preventing waste, and
unnetellary expence, in that of men,
273-

Drill culture, experiments on, 479.
Druidical temple found in Jersey, 428.
Durbam, city of, and cathedral, defcribed,
522.

EARTH, a new theory of, 36. Shewn

to be defective, 37. he ratio of its
two diameters, 73.
Earthquakes, conjectures concerning, 389.
Eaft-India Company, orders and regulations
of, in regard to illicit trade, &c. 373.
Eclipfe, a lunar one obferved by Dr.Usther,
206.

Electricity, methods of difcovering fmall
quantities of it, 319. 690. The mane
ner in which glafs is charged with it,
320. Its effects on the human body,
613. See Baldwin. See Cavallo.
Elements, natural, fhewn to be only three,
because earch is demonftrated to be a
compound, 591.

Elephanta, acc. of the caves there, 423.
Elephants, particulars of their natural hif-
tory, 619.

Elixir fætidum, an excellent prefcription
for making it, 687.

Elizabeth Q. of Spain, her character, 680.
Elliot, Mr. his improved method of cor-
recting the obferved diftance of the
moon from the fun or a fixed ftar, 35.
England, ftate and character of, by the late
King of Pruffia, 680.

Equations, the method of reducing them
when they have two equal roots, 144.
Analyfis of indeterminate, 570.
Ether, of Sir Ifaac Newton, adopted by the
modern chemifts, 585. Different mo-
difications of it the caufe of light and
heat, ib.

Euftatius, St. capture of, in the late war,
not yet beneficial to the captors, 378.
Plan for a divifion of the prize-money,

ib.

FENELON, Archbishop, anecdotes re-
lative to,
650.
Fermentation, theory of different fpecies of,
589.

Fire arms, when firft ufed, 333. Realons
why not earlier introduced, 334.
Fisher, Mr. his cafe of an abdominal tu-
mour, 392.

Flattery, ftriking inftances of its being
ufed with fuccefs, 647. La Fontaine's
verfes in recommendation of, ib.
Fleming, Mr. on the agitation of the
waters of Loch Tay, 35.

Fluents, found by infinite feries, how cor-
rected, 145.

Freezing, experiments on, 321-326.
Fourcrey, M. de, on the imoking oil of
vitriol, 576. On the mucous capfulæ,
578.

Fulda, a fhort account of the town and
country of, 684.

GANNET, Mr. on the Aurora Borealis,

390.
Gendre, M. le, on the analysis of indeter-
minate equations, 570.
Ge-organon defcribed, 459.
George II. his character, 680.
Georgium Sidus, its motion, orbit, and ele-

ments determined, 38. Tables of its
places, ib. Its oppofition in 1785, 573.
German ode, without rhyme or metre,
tranflated, 656.

Gibben, Mr. his mode of historical compo-
fition, 1121 His account of the By-
zantine empire, 123. Of the establish
ment of the Popes, 125. Of the Cru❤
fades, 223. Defects of his work, 233.
His ftyle commended and criticited,
235237.

Gibraltar, good policy of reftoring that
fortrefs to Spain, for an equivalent,
154.

Glafs,

Glass, Dr. on the affinity of certain words
in the language of the Friendly iflands,
with the Hebrew, 299.

Giches, useful in illuftrating the theory of
afronomy and geography, but not in
folving nice problems, 459.
Glover, Mr. his poetry glanced at, $15.
Specimen of his Athenaid, ib.
Gout, new theory of, 404.
Gradation among natural beings. See De
Luc.

Graffes, their culture, 480.

Gratitude, a noble inflance of, 441.
Gravel, and tone, new theory of, 404.
Graves, Mr. author of anecdotes of Shen-
ftone, 261.

Gras, Dr. on the manner in which glafs

is charged with electrical fluid, 320.
Gregory VII. Pepe, account of his ufurped

domination and tyranny over the po-
tentates of Europe, 2c8. Reflexions
'on his character and conduct, ib.
Greek fire, ufed in war, 129. Its terrible

effects, ib. Compofition unknown, 419.
Greenfield, Mr. on negative quantities, 33.
Grimwood, Mr. on the degeneracy of fruit-
trees, 482.

Gulfonian lecture, read at the College of
Phyficians, by Dr. Riollay, 267.
Gunpowder, its invention, 420. Compo-
pofition of, ib.

HASTINGS, Mr. inadvertency in the

conduct of his trial, 267. Patronizes
the ftudy of Eastern literature, 616.
Heat, mutability of it in the atmosphere,
321. Experiments on it, 323. Of ani-
mals, new theory of, 376. Dr. Craw
ford's theory of, attacked by the French,
588, defended, ib.

Heberden, Dr. his table of the mean heat

at London, for 10 years, 249.
Heloifa, her fpeeches to Abeillard, declin.
ing his offer of marriage, 105.
Hepatitis particularly defcribed as it ap-
pears in India, 181; Its method of cure,
182.

Hernia, incarcerated, an improvement in
the operation for its cure, 499.
Hernia, practical obfervations on, 269.
Hewett, rev. Mr. his excellent character
and death, 441.

Hindoos, account of their books, 618.
Worship only one God, 623. Are in-
telligent people, 625.
Hear froft, oblervations on, 34.
Hegarib, his merit as a painter appreci-

ated, 61.

Hollanders, their character by the K. of
Pruffia, 681.

Horace's ode to føring, trandated by a boy
only 12 years old, 360.

Hunter, Dr. his obf. on the heat of wells
in Jamaica, 248.

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JAMES, Dr. a curious anecdote con-
cerning his method of adminiftering
his fever powder, 508.

Feaurat, M. on the paffage of the moon
over the meridian, 570.

Jews, their first introduction into Eng-
land, 428.

Indian religion, abstract account of that of

the Bramins, 596. Duties of the Bra
mins, 597. Their abhorrence of idol-
atry, 598. Their ideas of future pa-
nishments, 599.

Indies, Eaft. See Bengal; fee Baillie; fee
Matthews; fee Cartwright; see Akber,
Emperor.

Infcription, a curious one in a rock et Na.
raganfet Bay, in North America, 424.
On a Roman altar at Tinmouth, 426.
Of an Irish chief, 511.

Jones, Mr. his account of Weft-river
Mountain, 390.

Ireland, controverfy in that country, rela-
tive to tithes, 455. The question rel. to
the violation of tbe articles of Limerick
reviewed, 545,

Irish academy, its history, 203.

Iron, a mass of it found, native, in Ame-
rica, 248.

Irritability in vegetables, 248.

Jupiter, the theory of that planet, 575-
Juftinian, emperor, celebrated as a great
legiflator, 16. His example recommend◄
ed to imitation, ib.

KEATE, Mr. editor of capt. Wilfon's
acc. of the Pelew iflands, his refpect-
able character, 202.

Kings, rarely distinguished as Authors,
6-6. The late K. of Pruffia's pre-
eminence in that respect, 677.
Kits Corry-boufe defcribed, 514.
Knight's-fee explained, 330.
Koumifs, a Tartarian wine, method of
making, 35.

LACE DEMONIANS, said to have con-

tributed more toward the ruin of
Greece, than any other nation, 631.
Their moral character unfavourably re-
prefented, 633.

La Fontaine, his verfes on adulation, 647.
La Morte, anecdotes rel. to, 652. Veries
of, tranflated, 652, 654.

Learned

Learned men, danger of their being wife
in their own conceits, 529.
Lee Boo, fon to the Pelew king, accompa-
nies capt. Wilfon to England, and dies
of the fmall pox, 191.
Ligbe, objections to the Newtonian doc-
trine of, refuted, 387.
Lightning, its effects, 389. On a Dutch
Eaft India fhip, 614. A ready conduc-
tor applicable to fhips, ib.

Limerick, articles of, whether violated or
not, 547.

Lincoln, Mr. his mifcellaneous obferva-

tions on natural hiftory, 390. On in-
grafting fruit trees and vegetation, ib.
Lions, how caught in Hindostan, 621.
Loch Tay, a remarkable agitation in its

waters, 35.

Logarithms, compendious method of cal-

culating them, 144.
Ludlam, the late rev. Mr. his respectable
character, 185.

MACARONI, that character defined,
and poetically displayed, 157,
Macgowan, Mr. his regifter of the wea-
ther, 39

Macguire, Mr. defcribes a new portable
barometer, 206.

Macneil, Mr. his acc, of the caves of Can-

nara, Ambola, and Elephanta, 423.
Madness, method of preventing it after
the bite of a mad dog, 180.
Mal del fole, a difeafe endemial in Milan,
636. Cure of, 638.

Marines, origin of that corps, 334.
Marum, Dr. Van, on noxious vapours,
and the methods of preventing their
pernicious effects, 612.

Mafters, Mr. on an ancient painting on
glafs, 426.

Mafts of hips, curious remarks rel. to,
502.

Mathews, general, vindicated, with regard
te his military conduct in Hindoftan,

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Mayer's tables, an error in them correct-
ed, 571.

Meafures, Ruffian, of length, reduced to

English feet, 641.
Medicines, the most active of them taken
from the mineral kingdom, 684.
Mercury, its operation on the human bo-
dy, 269.

Meffier, M. his obf. on the occultations
of the Pleiades by the moon, 571. Of
Venus, 573. Obfervations on the comet
of 1785, ib. On another comet, 574.
Metaftafio, beautiful lines of his tranf-
lated, 660. Elegant complimentary
verses to, 664. His happy manner of
treating the paffion of love, 665. A

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great mafter of the eloquence of the
heart, 665.
Meteorological Diary at Bransholm, 36.
At Hawkhill, 39. In London, 249.
Obfervations on the mode of keeping,
328.
Microcofm, a periodical work, written by
fome Eaton scholars, 211. Specimens
of their profe, 213. Of their poetry,
214. Laft will and teftament of the
fuppofed author, Gregory Griffin, 216.
Real names of the writers, ib.
Militia, when first established, 331.
Milton, the most learned of all our poets,
1. His juvenile poems appreciated, 2.
Mr. Warton's edit. of, its defign and
conduct, 4. His Lycidas criticifed, 5.
Obf. on his other pieces, 9-12. Cri-
ticifms continued, 97. His imitations
difcuffed, 99. Vindicated against the
charge of Puritanism, 101. His Latin
poems commended, 343. Story of his
flagellation at the univerfity controvert-
ed, 348. His Lycidas farther illuftrat-
ed, 350.

Monnier, M. le, on the conjunction of
the moon with the Pleiades, 571. On
the oppofition of the 7th planet, 573-
Conjunction of the moon with Venus,
ib.

Montagu, Ed. Wortley, not the author of
the book on ancient republics, published
under his name, 469. The rev. Mr.
Fofter faid to have been the real au-
thor, ib.

Moon, a new method of correcting its ob
ferved distance from the fun or a fixed
ftar, 35.
Its conjunction with the
Pleiades, 571. Occultation of Venus
by it, 573.

Motion, mufcular, faid to be independent
on the nerves, 246. This doctrine re-
futed, 247.

Mountains, formula for measuring their
height, 33.

Mulberry, a propofal for propagating it by
feed, 484.

Muller, its natural hiftory, and migra-
tions, 641. Manner of catching, 642.
Mushrooms, difficulty of defcribing them,
460.

NARSES, the eunuch, diftinguished as
a statesman, and warrior, 15.
Navigation. See Bourdé.
Nedham, Marchamont, his "excellency of
a free flate" controverted, 290.
Negative quantities, their use in Algebra,
33.

Negroes, their flavery in the W. Indies
extenuated, 69. Their liberation not
advisable, 75. Laws lately made by

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