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INDE X

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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CADEMY, Imperial, at Petersburgh, has a lady for its prefident, 585.

EOLIAN ISLANDS. See LIPARI. AEROSTATIC machine, full acCount of, 551-568. See alfo AIR BALLOON. AIR-BALLOONS, defcription of, with a recital of the various experiments tried with them in France, 551. Critical remarks on the principles and conftruction of these machines, 561. Note relative to, 593. AMERICA, obf. rel. to our trade with, 377- Anecdotes concerning, 378. Future circumftances of, predicted, 379. AMPUTATION of limbs, improved mode of, 521. ANATOMICAL exper. on the preg nant uterus, the tubes, the ovaries, &c. of certain animals, 540. ANATOMY of animals, fchool for the ftudy of, inft. in France, 583. ANDRE, Mr. his microfcopic defcription of the king crab, 396. ANTIQUARY -his refearches highly advantageous to the hiftorian, 289. ANTIQUITIES, advantages refulting from the ftudy of, 14.

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APTENODYTES, a bird fo called, where found, 252. ARLANDES, Marquis d', performs an aerial journey with M. de Rozier, 556. His conduct when arrived at their highest elevation, ib. Note rel. to, 593. ATHANASIUS referred to, in refpect of Unitarianism, 232, 235. ATONEMENT, opinions relative to that doctrine, 91. ATTERBURY, Bishop, anec. rel. to, 6. AUGUSTUS, Emp. review of his reign, 118.

AZAEL, a demon, who prefides over the toilet, 445. His office and character poetically defcribed, ib.

BALLOON. See AIR.

BAPTISM, opinions rel, to, 96. BARNABAS referred to, in the Socinian controverfy, 240. BECKMAN's exper. on dying cotton, 250.

account of the fubftance of which tobacco-pipes are made in the East, &c. 538. BISHOPS, hift. of their introduction into the Chriftian church, 101.

BLAGDEN,

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CESAR, Julius, account of his
death, with the preceding cir-
cumftances, 115.
CAMBRIDGE, univerfity of, vindi-
cated, 88.

CAMELEON defcribed, 531.
CANNAE, battle of defcribed, 108.
, modern appearance of
the fcene of action, 277. Traces
of the town, 278. Obf. on the
face of the country, and the
movements of the armies, 279.
CAPELL, Mr. his notes on Shake-
fpeare characterized, 484. Hift.
of the rife and progrefs of,
through a period of three and
twenty years, to the time of their
publication, ib-487. :
CARTHAGE, a great military
power, 536. Her refources for
war, ib.
CARTHAMUS, (the faf-flower),
experiments on, to prove its ufe.
fulness in dying cotton, 250.
CATHOLICS, Roman, apology for,
in regard to caths, 100..
CHALKE, ftrange ornaments in the
church-porch there, 368.
CHAMOUSSET, M. his great fuc-
cefs in the military hofpitals
under his direction, 424.
CHARACTERS, ancient and mo.
dern, difference between, 122.

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421.

COMUs, the conjuror, his fuccefs in
the cure of diseases by electri-
city, 425:
COPLEY, Sir Godfrey, account of
the affignments of his honorary
medal, 329.
COPPER-MINE, defcription of the
great one in the isle of Anglesey,
469.
CORSICA, mineralogical produc.
tions of, 533.
CROZET, M. his account of what
befel Capt. Marion's crew, after
the tragical death of that enter-
prizing officer, 351.
CUMBRIA, genius of, poetic ad-
drefs to, 258.

CZERNISCHEFF, Count, his letter
concerning the fpontaneous in-
flammation of a mixture of foot
and oil, 584.

DANCING, obf. on, 36.

DASCHOW, Princess, prefident
of the Imperial academy of
Sciences at Petersbugh, 585.

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DINAH, Jacob's daughter, obf. on FIRE, the force of, in the higher

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425.

new experiments in,
Several phænomena of,

459.
explained, 460.
ELECTROMETER, account of a
new one, 394.
ELEPHANT, remarkable inftance
of the fagacity of that animal,

532.
EMANUEL, Charles, D. of Savoy,
his character, 64.
ERYSIPELAS, chirurgical rem.
rel. to, 384.
ESQUIRES of the King's body,
fome account of, 16.

of household, 17.
EULER, Mr. J. A. papers by him,
in the tranfactions of the Impe-
rial academy at Petersburgh,
586-588.

the late Mr. L. feveral
memoirs written by him, inferted
in the tranf, of the Imp. Acad.
at Petersburgh, 586-588.
His character, ib.
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FATAL CURIOSITY, a tragedy,
the true story on which that
play was founded, 79.

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ftages, how measured by a new.
invented thermometer, 386.
Defcription of the inftrument,
387. Exper. made with, 388.
FISH, account of their
hearing, 395.
FORSTER'S hiftory of the Apte-
nodytes, 252.

organs

of

acc, of the fucceffors of
Ptolemy VII. &c. 257.
Fox, Charles, his journey to the
moon, 405.
FRANKLAND's annals, tragical
ftory extracted from, 80.
FRIENDSHIP, the filence of the
gospel with respect to, explain-
ed, 401.

GATTERER, prof. on the funda-
mental meteorolɔg. year, 251.
on the Teutonic lan-
guage, 253. His geographical
differtation relative to Thrace,
525.

GENIUS, caufes of the diverfity

of, 37.

GEORGE III. his reign poetically
celebrated, for its benignity to
the arts, &c. 283.

GEORGI, M. his experiments re-
lative to the fpontaneous in-
flammation of foot mixed
with different oils, 585. His
description of a two-horned rhi-
noceros, 586; and of a certain
refinous ib.
gum,
GESNER, prof. his memoir con-
cerning Silenus, 546.
GLASSE, Mr. his Greek translation
of Mafon's Caractacus critically
investigated, 500. A wonderful
performance for fo young a
man, 505.
Additions to the
Review of, 593.

GMELIN, M.

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on argillaceous
earths, 251. His experiments
on mummies, 537.
GRACE, &c. origin of the doctrine
of, 94.
GUETTARD, M. his notes to
Pliny, 170,

HANNIBAL,

HANNIBAL, his conduct at the

battle of Cannæ, 108.
HARRIS, Mr. his comment on
Lillo's fatal curiosity, 79.
HEAT, memoir concerning a new
method of measuring, read at
the Royal Academy of Sciences
at Paris, 568.
HECKINGHAM. See BLAGDEN.
HEEMSKIRK, the Dutch Admiral,
his memorable engagement with
the Spanish fleer, 60.
HEGESIPPUS, his teftimony refer-
red to, in the difpute rel. to the
Ebionites, 223-240.
HELLINS, M. his new method of
finding the equal roots of an
equation by divifion, 457.
HERCULES, Mufagetes, memoir
concerning, 248.
HERNHUTTERS, their amiable
character, 581.
HERSCHEL On the parallax of the
fixed ftars, 211.

214.

on a lamp micrometer,

on magnifying powers, ib.
HEYNE, prof. his confiderations on
the ufe of allegory, 78.

his difquifition rel, to
Hercules Mufagetes, 248.

on mummies, 254.his
farther acc. of the K. of Den-
mark's mummy, 542.-His me-
moir rel. to ancient coins, 546.
HINCKLEY, fome acc. of, 369. Of
the flocking manufac, there, ib.
HORACE, his real defign in the
Epiftola ad Pifones, 145. Speci-
mens of Mr. Colman's tranf.
201. Critical notes on, 204.
HORSE ACADEMY founded in
France, 584.
HOSPITALS, propofal for improve-
ments in the construction of, 421.
HOWARD,Gorges Edmond, anec. of,

478. Character of his writ. 483.
HUMANSTATURE not diminished
fince the days of the antedilu-
vians, 286.
HUNTER, Mr. his acc, of the organ
of hearing in fifh, 395.

JAM

AMBLICHUS. See MEINERS.
JEROM, his epistle to Austin,
concerning the Ebionites, 216.
Paffage from, 217.
IGNATIUS, St, controverfy rel. to
a paffage in, concerning the di-
vinity of Chrift, 321.
INDIES, Eaft, remarks rel. to the
ftate of our poffeffions there, 27.
INFLAMMATION, chirurgical obf.
rel. to, 383.

INGENHOUSZ, M. his confidera-
tions on the influence of the
vegetable on the animal crea-
tion, 391.

INSECTS, exotic, curious circum-
ftances rel. to the nat. hift. of, 44-
JONES, Sir William, author of the
pretended libel for which the
Dean of St. Asaph was profe-
cuted, 349.

JUSTIN Martyr, referred to, in
the difpute concerning the hu-
manity of Christ, 229.

controverfy rel. to, farther
profecuted, 309-319..

KAESTNER, M. on the lunar

disk, 253.
wheels, 542.

On the teeth of

LAND CRAB, the breed of, culti

vated in the Weft-Indies for
provifion, 47.

LAPIS Ollaris, found in Corfica,
532.

LAVATER, M. his effay on phyfi-

ognomy, acc. of continued, 588.
LAVOISIER and De La Place, their
memoir concerning a new method
of meafuring heat, 568.
LEDRU, fee COMUS.
LEE, Mr. Solicitor-general, his
fpeech on Atkinfon's trial, 348.
LIGHT confidered as the transpa-
rence of space, 332.

different effects of, in a
landscape, 362.

LIGHTNING, fee BLAGDEN.
LILLO, his ufe of the Cornish flory
on which his Fatal Curiofity is
founded, 79.

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LUTON, or Luton-Ho, fome ac-

count of, 371.
LUXURY, definition of, 139.
LYSIUS, the Greek orator, his pe-
culiar excellencies, 335.

MABLY, Abbé, account of his
writings, 69.
MADNESS, canine, efficacious re-
medy for, 584.
MADURA, kings and nobility of,
derive their defcent from a lupe-
rior breed of affes, 529.
MARET, M. his memoir on the
conftruction of an hospital, 421.
On the air yielded by cream of
lime, and minium, 423. His
meteorogical hift, of the first fix
months of the year 1782, ib.
MARION du Frefne, his voyage to
the South Sea, 549. His tragi
cal death, fimilar to the fate of
Capt. Cooke, 550.
MATT. X. 34. Think not that I
am come to fend peace, &c. ex-
plained, 400.
MEINERS, M. on the changes in
the Perfian religion, 255.

his memoir on the
judgment that ought to be form-
ed of the book upon the Egyptian
myfteries attributed to Jambli-

chus, 544
MEISTER, M. on Fortification and

gunnery, 253. On compen-
dious methods of plowing, 542.
MONSOONS philofophically ex-
plained, 128.

MONTGOLFIER, Meffrs. invent
the aerostatic machine, 552.
Their exper, at Annonay, 553.
Second exper, at Paris, 555
Third exper. 556.
MOONSHINE, the notion of its pu-.
trefactive quality, 28.1.
MORAVIANS, fee BRETHREN.

MORVEAUX, M. his improvement
of painters colours, 421.
MOTION, beauty and awkwardness
of, confidered, 33.
MUMMIES, Chriftian, enquiry
concerning, 253. On the an-
cient Egyptian mummies, 254-
experiments on, 537.
MURRAY, profeffor, his explica-
tions of rare plants in the King's
botannic garden at Gottingen,

250.

his account of
fome plants little known, 538.

NABOBS, real and reputed, 27. .
-, mushroom, 30.

NAPLES, acc. of the popular mufic
there, 274. Dancing, 275-
Women very riotous, ib., Fisher-
men remarkably handsome, 276.
Other particulars, ib.
NATURAIST, difficulties encoun-
tered by, when travelling in
fearch of curiofities, 44—47.
NERVES, fyftem of, analysed, 464
-467.

NORBERG, M. on the religion of
the Sabæans, 257, 544.

ODEs, in Greek, by Hunting-
ford, strictures on, 154.
ORIGINAL fin, rife and progrefs
of that doctrine, 94.

PARIS described, 183.

PAW, Mr. his treatife on
poisoned arrows, 71.
PEASANT, wretched condition of,
through life, poetically deli
neated, 418.

PERSIANS, ancient, account of the
changes in their religion, 255.
PETERSBURG, transactions of the
Imperial Academy of Sciences
there, 585. Lift of memoirs in
their new publication, 586-
588.

PHYSIOGNOMY, fee LAVATER.
PITT, W. (late Earl of Chatham)
facrificed his popular principles
to the prejudices of his fove-
reign, 475.

PLACE,

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