to, tranflated by Dr. S.
Johnfon, 59.
Achard, M. on the expansion of
fluid by heat, 550. Method of
afcertaining the quantity of
phlogiston in a given fort of
air, 551
On the falubrity
of atmospheric air, 552. On
the heat of boiling water, 554.
Acid, nitrous, analyfed, 209.
, vitriolic,
ib.
, faccharine, how formed,

210.

, marine, analysed, ib.
Acids, the compofition of, 209.
Lavoifier's doctrine concerning
them refuted, ib.

Addifon, his ftyle of writing at-

tacked, and defended, 68.
Agriculture, benefited by inclo-
fures of waftes, &c. 74. That
of the county of Norfolk ex-
plained and recommended, 90.
memoirs of, and of
rural and domeftic economy,
published by the Royal Society
of Paris, for the years 1785
and 1786, 581.
Abaz, Ifaiah's prophecy to, as a
fign, &c. appealed to, as one
great argument of the truth of
Christianity, 267.
Air, temperature of, in different
latitudes, 45. How eftimated,
ib. Component parts of, 121.
Producible from water, 126.
Specific gravity of nine differ-
ent kinds of, 209.

, dephlogifticated, produced
from water, 337.
From raw
filk, 335.

the bladder, 360.

nature of different kinds
of air, 528.

the quantity of phlogiston
in it, how ascertained, 551.
--, atmospheric, its component
parts, 531. Salubrity of, in
different places, 552.

Air-pump, a new one, without
valves, 558.

America, antiquities found there,
329. Travels in, 39. Tarle-
ton's hiftory of his campaigns
there, 75. First bishops ap-
pointed there, 86. Plan of a
new conftitution for the United
States of, 489. Impolicy of
France in affifting the Ameri-
cans in their revolt from Great
Britain, 562.

Anchor, a nautical machine, call
ed the fwimming anchor, in-
vention of, not to be afcribed
to Dr. Franklin, 256.
Animals, their difcriminating cha-
racteristics, obfcurity of, 469.
Antiquities in North America, ac-
count of, 329.

Apologue, high antiquity of that
fpecies of writing, 568. Eaft-
ern, fome account of, 570.
Aqua Regia, its compofition, 210.
Arianifm attacked on philofophi-

cal principles, 151.
Ariftotle. See Cooke.
Arteaga, his hiftory of the Italian
opera, 545.

Arts, fine, their chief object, 204.
Atmosphere, the heat of, at dif
ferent heights, 45. Caused by
the quantity of vapour, 123.

the moisture of, how observed,
116. The component parts of,
121. Electricity of, 126.
Atterbury, bishop, his connexion
with Father Courayer, 356.
Noticed by the lieutenant of
police, ib.

Attraction of cohefion, remark-
able inftance of, 381.

1

Balloons, Air, remarks on, 449.

Bards, and Druids, Irish, va-
rious particulars relative to,
426-438.
Bardeffes, filence of hiftory with
regard to them, ib.
Barometer, objections to its ufe in
measuring heights, 537.
Baskerville's types employed in
printing the works of the late
King of Pruffia, 585.
Baxter, Mr. defcribes a fet of ha-
los and parahelia, 347.
Beccher, Mr. firft defcribed phlo-
gifton, 207.
Bellenden, William, a Scotch
writer, fome account of him, and
of his writings, 504. Extraor-
dinary preface to the new edi-
tion of fome of his Tracts, 505.
Bennet, Mr. defcribes a new elec-
trometer, 339.

Black Eagle, a fong, by Dr. James

Fordyce, 377-

Blind People, method of teaching
them to write and read mufic,
465.

Blood, obfervations on the circu-

lation of, 327.

his ftyle and diction reflected in
the writings of Dr. S. Johnfon,
69.

Bruning, M. on the depth of ca-
nals, 527.
Bryant, J. F. pipe-maker and
poet, fome account of, 159.
Specimen of his poetry, ib.
Brydone, Mr. his account of a re-
markable thunder-storm, 344.
Buchanan, the hiftorian, influ-
enced by Q Elizabeth, to mif-
reprefent Mary Q. of Scots,
473.

Bugge, Profeffor, determines the
place of Saturn's defcending
node, 177.

Bunbury, Mr. his humorous aca-

demy for grown horsemen, 389.
Button, Sir Thomas, his voyage
for finding a north-weft paffage,
291. His Journal loft, 292.

CAGLIOSTRO, Count, ob-

fervations on his adventures,
and fufpicious character, 247.
Calonne, M. de, his address to the
King of France, 363.
Camphor-tree, natural hiftory of,
554.

Canals, the depth of, increased
by ftreams, 527.
Cafaux, Marquis de, his corre-
fpondence with the Monthly
Reviewers, 88.

Caffini, M. refuted by Dr. Maf-
kelyne with respect to the
longitude and latitude of
Greenwich, 180.

Caftillon, M. on gnomonics, 555.
Caftricom, Captain, and Brefkes,

their voyage to examine the
N. E. coaft of Tartary, 297.
Cavallo, Mr. his magnetical ex-
periments, 341.

Celfus, a fcholar of Sextius, 60c.
Chaftellux, Marquis de, his ac-

commodations, &c. in his
American travels, 39.
Cheefe, Mr. his machine for
teaching blind people to write
mufic, 465.
17

Chemistry,

Chronology, remarks on, 319.
Cicero, obfervations on his firft
Tufculan, 556.

Clergy, fermon preached against
fuch of them as are of blame-
able conduct, 421.
Glouds, formation of, 126.
Collins, Mr. his Oriental Eclogues
praised, 29.
Colman, Mr. his thoughts on
public education, 275. Pro-
feffedly written in answer to
Mr. Locke, ib. Extracts from,
ib. His ode relative to Dr.

Johnson, 279. His imitation

of Pfalm xxxix. 281.
Comet, a new one, see Herfchel.
Commons, British Houfe of, a
fchool for eloquence, 233.
Not an adequate reprefenta-
tion of the people, 234.
Compass, variation of, confidered,
343.

Commerce, internal, increases po-
pulation, 130.

, external, diminishes
national induftry, ib.

of England, eftima-
tion of, 237.
Conftitution of the English go-
vernment, a medley of other
forms, 34. Comparative view
of its advantages and difad-
vantages, 235. Juft idea form-
ed of it, by a French authorefs,
565.

APP. Rev. Vol. LXXVII.

Cook, Captain, vindicated against
Dr. Forster, 293.

Cooke, Mr. his new edition of
Ariftotle's Poetics, 1. His
Greek tranflation of Gray's
Elegy, 9.

Counties, English, utility of their
divifion into tythings and hun-
dreds, 113.
Courayer, Father, his intimacy
with Bishop Atterbury, 356.
Craffitius, a famous teacher at
Rome, 599.

Criminals, the public punish-
ments of, their defign, 153.
Effects of, inefficacious, 154.
Plan for reforming, ib.
Crokat, James, a great literary
projector, 31.

Crown lands, two kinds of, 259-
At prefent confounded, ib.
Cullum, Sir Thos. on a remark-
able exfoliation, 360.
Curfe of the earth, on the fall,
hypothefis concerning, 182.

DAVY, Major, his tranflation

of the Inftitutes of Tamer-
lane, compared with that of
M. Langlès, 578.
Deafness. See Sims.
Debt, national, method for dif-
charging, 302. Its magnitude
at the beginning of 1786,
304.

Dedications, how they ought to
be written, 461.

De Foe, Daniel, sketch of his
life, 459. His character as a
writer, 460.

Denham, Sir John, his claim to
reputation as a poet questioned,
26.

Dieman, Dr. on the nature of dif-
ferent aeriform fluids, 528.
Discoveries, made in the northern
feas, 290.
The Dutch ac-

counts deemed inconfiftent with
each other, 297. That hypo-
thefis groundless, 298. See
Voyages.
Diversions of the field, as prac
Tt
tifed