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CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.

SIMPLE EARTHS USED IN MEDICINE-Magnesia, alumin,
lime; nitre, &c.

MINERAL WATERS-Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Tun-
bridge, Malvern, Islington, &c.

PART SECOND.

ARTICLES OF COMMERCE OR MANUFACTURE DERIVED FROM
THE THREE KINGDOMS OF NATURE.

METALS, MINERALS, WOODS, &c. USED IN THE ARTS
OR TRADE-Platina, gold, silver, lead, copper, zinc, tin,
iron, magnet, ochre, black lead, mercury, arsenic, nickel,
cobalt, manganese, antimony, bismuth, &c.
ALKALIES-Potash, soda, ammonia, &c.

MIXED EARTHS OR CLAYS-Fuller's earth, marl, chalk,
clay, bole, &c.

BITUMINOUS AND INFLAMMABLE SUBSTANCES-Naphtha,
mineral tallow, caoutchouc; pitcoal, sulphur, vitriol,
&c.

GEMS AND PRECIOUS STONES-Diamond, crystal, ruby,
emerald, topaz, sapphire, garnet, amethyst, beryl, agat,
onyx, opal, carnelian, hyacinth, pearls, &c.

STONES-Marble, porphyry, serpentine, granite, flint, mill-
stones, free stone, slate, hone, &c.

COLOURS AND PAINTS-Cinnabar, vermillion, red lead,
white lead; massicot, blue, woad, indigo, smalt; red,
madder, cochineal, carmine, lake, lac, rose pink, red
chalk, kermes; yellow, turmeric, sumac, fustic, quer-
citron, bark, weld, annotto, saffron, gamboge; Spanish
brown, ruddle; blacks, Indian ink; India rubber, &c.
FINE WOODS-Ebony, box, logwood, Brazil wood, cedar,
mahogany, sandal, guaiacum, aloes, &c.

CURIOUS TREES-Bread fruit tree, sago, paper-mulberry,
salop, cork and tallow trees; liquorice shrub, sugar
maple; fossil wood, &c.

TIMBER TREES--Oak, elm, ash, beech, walnut, chesnut,
poplar, alder, birch, larch, pine, osier, fir, holly; bird
lime, charcoal, coke, &c.

CORAL AND SPONGE FISHERY-Coral, Sponge, &c.
CLOTH MANUFACTURES-Wool, English, Spanish; wool-
len manufacture, cloth, baize, worsted, flannel, calamanco,
tapestry, camblet, mohair, carpet, &c.

SILK-Eastern, Spanish, French, Sicilian and Turkey;
spider silk, satin, velvet, taffety, gauze, tabby, brocade,

&c.

COTTON-Muslin, calico, fustian, &c.

FLAX-Cambric, lace; hemp, canvass, &c.

SKINS-Tanning, currying, tan, parchment, vellum, sham-
my, shagreen, Morocco, ermine, &c.

GLUE-Whalebone, horn, tortoise-shell, ivory, bones, &c.
HATS AND FELTING-Manufacture of hats; fur, &c.
BUTTONS-Glass, pearl, &c.

GOLD ORES AND MANUFACTURES-Refining gold, gold
wire, thread, leaf, &c. gilding;. silvering, coining, New
MINT, and improved methods of coining, &c.

PLUMBERY-Casting lead in sheets; tin plates; bronzing,

FOUNDERY-Casting in sand, statues, bells, guns, &c.
LETTER FOUNDERY-Matrices, font; printing, &c. his
tory of, stereotype, presses, copper-plate printing, &c.
JAPANNING-Varnishing, lacquering, encaustic painting,
enameling, &c.

POTTERY Earthenware, stone ware, glazing, potter's lathe,
&c. bricks, tiles; tobacco pipes; PORCELAIN, materials
and manufacture of, painting and baking porcelain; Eng-
lish porcelains, &c.

GLASS Composition and history of, blowing bottles, &c.
POT ASHES-Barilla, soda water, putty, &c.
PINS-Manufacture of, and needles, &c.
BLEACHING-Silk, woollen, linen, &c.

DYEING-Fixing colours, colouring materials, salts used in
dyeing, general process, dyeing scarlet, and other colours;
leather, skins, &c, staining wood, &c.

SOAP-Hard, white, soft, green, balls, soap earth, &c.

CANDLES-Tallow, wax, spermaceti, mould, &c.

WAX-Honey, sealing wax, &c.

STARCH-Hair powder, &c.

PAPER-Egyptian paper, paper rush, pounce, &c.

TITLES AND DISTINCTIONS-Emperor, king, stadtholder,
sultan, czar, doge, dey, prince, viceroy, nobility, duke,
marquis, earl, count, viscount, baron, lord, thane,
baronet, knight, knights-errant; knights of the garter,
bath, thistle, St. Patrick, &c. esquire, gentleman, mon-
sieur, sire, &c.

GREAT OFFICES-Lord lieutenant, ambassador, minister of

state, treasurer, lords of the treasury, lord high chancellor,

chancellor of the exchequer, privy council, lord president,

&c. lord chamberlain, speaker of the house of commons,

earl marshal, &c.

PARLIAMENTS Passing bills, acts of parliament, house of

lords, &c.

COURTS of chancery, king's bench, common pleas, exche-
quer, admiralty, &c.

GOVERNMENT AND LAW-Civil society, government, demo
cracy, aristocracy, monarchy, British constitution; laws,
municipal and civil; law of nature and of nations, com-
ymon and written law of England.

LAWYERS Judge, justice, lord chief justices, &c. justices
of the peace, &c. inns of court, juror, grand and petit
juries, &c.

CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CAUSES-Oath, assizes, felony,
perjury, larceny; treason, high and petit; jurisprudence,
benefit of clergy, burglary, manslaughter, habeas corpus,
sumptuary laws, plaintiff, titles, mortmain, mortgage,
freehold, copyhold, lease, subpoena, executor, heptarchy,
feudal system, vassal; magna charta, ordeal, domesday
book, diet, shire, county, city, borough, fairs, markets,
parish, hundreds, mayor, sheriff, coroner, bailiff, scep-
tre, &c.

OLD TERMS-Wold, riding, &c.
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS-Hamburgh, Russia, Levant, &c.
companies; exports and imports, fund, bank of England,
agio, bankrupt, bullion, trade, coin, bills of exchange,
usance, par, sterling, polity; broker, factor, underwriters,
stock brokers, policy of insurance, customs, sales, &c.
MILITARY AFFAIRS-Discipline, rank, generalissimo, .CO
lonels, major-general, brigadier, captain, adjutant, quar-
ter-master, chaplain, serjeant-major, drum-major, soldier,
guards, dragoons, cavalry, squadron, light horse, grena-
diers, infantry, artillery, troop, brigade, company, batta-
lion, military regiment, engineers, &c.

NAVY-Lord high admiral, admirals vice and rear, captains,
pilot, midshipman, purser, steward, clerk, marines, navy
bills, &c.

SHIPS-Merchant, of war, &c. frigate, yacht, brig, sloop,
cartel, galley, convoy, privateer, canoe, &c.

IMPLEMENTS OF WAR-Ordnance, office of; cannon,
mortar, musket, halbert, bayonet, grenado, bullet, shot,
gunpowder, bow, archery, &c.

PART FOURTH.

ARTS, SCIENCES, RELIGION, AND LITERATURE.

ARTS, LIBERAL AND MECHANICAL-Occult sciences, mo
ral and physical causes, pneumatics, mechanics, optics,
acoustics, phonics, cataphonics, hydrostatics, chronology,
geography, history, natural philosophy; architecture,
doric, ionic, corinthian, tuscan, and composite orders; he-

raldry, ethics, physics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, geo-
metry, philology, algebra, fluxions, mathematics, tactics
gunnery, fortification, physiognomy, anatomy, antiquary,
pharmacy, chemistry, astrology, palmistry, theology,
mythology, biography, natural history, botany, zoology,
mineralogy, meteorology, hydrology, manage, sculpture,
statuary, painting in oil and fresco; engraving, etching,
mezzotinto; casting, bust, basso-relievo, &c.
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS-Air pump, camera-obscu-
ra, quadrant, sextant and octant; barometer, thermometer,
orrery, telescope, microscope, micrometer, burning glass,
prism, observatory, theodolite, &c.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS-Organ, harp, harpsichord, piano
forte, trumpet, serpent, æolian harp, violin, flute, oboe,
&c. &c.

TELEGRAPH.

PHILOSOPHY-Ancient, speculative, practical, corpuscular,
mechanical, natural, and moral; Pythagorean, Aristotelian,
Peripatetic, Socratic, Platonic, Cyrenaic and Epicurean
philosophy; Academics, stoics, cynics, scepticism, &c.
Cartesian, Newtonian, and Melebranchean philosophy, &c.
RELIGIOUS OFFICERS, &c.-Druids, caliph, dervise, brah-
mans, pope, cardinal, archbishop, bishop, archdeacon,
dean, canon, rector, vicar, curate, advowson, abbot, abbe',
monk, friar, capuchin, nun, Jesuit, apostle; chapel,
church, catholic church, abbey, monastery, synagogue,
cathedral, college, university; graduate, bachelor, doctor,
Sorbonne, consistory, conclave, sanhedrim, synod, apo-
crypha, septuagint, talmud, liturgy, rubric, simony, alco-
ran, elysium, catacomb, &c.

RELIGIOUS SECTS-Mohammedanism, atheist, deist, pagan.
ism, Judaism, Christianity, Trinitarian, Baxterian, Sa-
bellian, Arian, Socinian, Brownists, anabaptists, anti-
trinitarians, Calvinism, arminians, methodists, huguo-
nots, episcopalian, dissenters, puritans, presbyterians,
seceders, independents, baptists, Muggletonians, quakers,
antinomians, papists, Greek or Russian church, protes-
tants, Moravians, universalists, sabbatarians, dunkers,
shakers, mystics, millenarians, Swedenborgians, &c.
CHRONOLOGICAL DIVISIONS-Era, epoch, cycles of the
sun and moon, dominical letter, leap year, Julian and
Gregorian years, epacts, ides, calends, nones, olympiad,
Roman era, hegira, calendar, Whitsuntide, Ash Wed-
nesday, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, Christmas, Candle-
mas, Ember Week, vespers, vigils, &c.

ANCIENT PEOPLE AND COUNTRIES, &C.

MONTHS AND DAYS, solar and lunar year, new style, &c.

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