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LAMA, Grand, of Tartary, cu-
rious account of, 460.
LAMBERT, M. his obfervations
on flutes, 516. On mills, ib.
LANCASTER, Dr. fome account
of, 193.

LANDEN, Mr. propofes a new
theory of the rotatory motion of
bodies affected by forces difturb-
ing fuch motion, 7.
LANGUEDOC, natural hiftory of
the province of, 227.
LAND-TAX, juft remark on the in-
equality of, 172.
LEBENSEESCRIEBUNG des berühm-
ten Ritters Sebaftian Schoertlin
von Burtenback, 302.
LE ROY, M. his account of the
marine of the ancients, 227.
LETTRES phyfiques et morales fur
les montagnes, et fur l'histoire de
la terre, &c. 380.
LEX bominum communis fecundum
mentem HUGONIS GROTII pro-
pofita et dijudicata, 488.
LEXICON et commentarius fermoni-
bus Hebraici et Chaldaici, &c.
386.

LIFE of the Emperor Charles VI.
301.

of Diogenes the Cynic, 385.
LIGHTHOUSES, remarks on the
construction of, 431.
LISBON defcribed, 36,
LYSIAS, his oration in praife of the
Athenians who fell in affitting
the Corinthians, 274.
M.
MACKENZIE, Dr. bis account of

a woman who lived four years
without fwallowing any food, 7.
MACPHERSON, Mr. his Offian
cenfured, 140,

MADRID, city and court of, de-
fcribed, 30.

MAGNETISM, Cures of difeafes per-
formed by, 513.

MARINE des anciens peuples, expli-

quée et confiderée, &c. 227.
MARSHAM, Mr. See TREES.
MASERES, Mr. his method of find-
ing the value of an infinite feries
of decreafing quantities of a cer-
tain form, &c. 7.
MASKELYNE, Neville, his account
of the prifmatic micrometer,
458.

MASON, Mr. ftricture on the style
of his poetry, 140.
MATTER, enquiry into the nature
and effential properties of, 347-
MEMOIRE. See THOURRY.
MEMOIRS, ufeful and inft uctive,
relative to agriculture, commerce,
chemistry, natural history, &c.
385.

MEMORIAS inftructivas, &c. 385.
MERIAN, M. his elay on curiofi-
ty, 515. On the problem of
Molyneux, 530.

MICHAELIS. Dr. his controverfy
with Dr. Kennicott, 80.
MILO, or Melos, fubterraneous gal-
leries there, 49'.

MIND, human, philofophical dif-
fertations on, 299.
MUDGE, Mr. his difcovery of an

excellent compofition for the me-
tals of reflecting telescopes, &c.

8.
MURDER, Voltaire's cenfure of the
laws against, 547.
Music, Grecian, fate of, about
the middle of the fourth century
before the Christian æra, 384.

N.

NAIRNE, Mr. his experiments on
air-pumps, 450.
NAVARRE. Queen of, her ftory of
the two Cordeliers, 466.
NECESSITY, philofophical, dif-
cuffed, 354.
NEGRO (of the Plantations) lefs a
flave, with respect to work, than
a Lon-

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PERJURY, punishment provided
for, in the Border-laws, 170.
PERNETY, Abbé, his memoir on
making boats fail against the cur-
rents of rivers, 513.
PERRON, M. Du, his memoir,
proving that the ancient books
called Zeuda, are the works of
Zoroafter, 535.
PERSFIELD defcribed, 194.
PHENICIANS, memoirs concern-
ing, in the laft volume of the
Royal Acad. of Infcriptions, 534.
-, Theophanies of, 541.
PHYSICA quæftiones præcipuè novis
experimentis et obfervationibus
refolutæ, &c. 301.
-PHYSICIAN. See KSNET.
PHYSIOGNOMY. See FOR MEY.
PLEASURE philofophically invefti-
gated, 406.

PLINY.

See FRANZIUS.

. See REZZONICO.
PLOUGHING, in ridges, obferva.
tions relative to the best manner
of performing, 97.
PIGOT, Lord, his conduct with re-

gard to the Nabob of Arcor, &c.
defended, 12-22.
PINE-APPLES raised in water, 463.
POETICA di 2 Orazio Flacco ne-

flituita, &c. 300.
POISONS, of arfenic, corrofive-
fublimate, verdegris, &c. reme-
dies against, 504.

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RECUEIL hiftorique et chronolo-
gique des faits memorables, poár
fervir à l'hiftoire generale de la
marine, 383.

REPERTORIUM fur Biblische und
Morgenlandifche litteratur, &c.

302.
REVOLUTION, one of the grand
æras in our history, 114. Gave
a new spirit to the conftitution,
115. The advantages prefent-
ed by it, for the extenfion and
fecurity of liberty, neglected by
the people, 116.

REZZONICO, Count, his Italian
tranflation of Pliny commend-
ed, 388.

ROCCHI, Antonio, his theoretico-

practical inftitutes of mufic, 299.
Roy, Colonel, his experiments in
order to obtain a rule for mea-
furing heights by the barometer,
457.
RUSSIA, curious account of the
cold there, 378. Of the diver-
fion of the flying mountains,
379.

S.

SACRILEGE, Voltaire's fentiments
relating to, 548.

SACT,

SACY, M. his history of Hunga

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ry, 384.
SAILING, and failors, obfervations
on, 428. Sailing against the
currents of rivers, 513.
SALAMANCA, city and univerfity
of, defcribed, 33.
SCHILLINGII de lepra commenta-
tiones, 488.

SCHIRACH'S life of the Emperor
Charles VI. 301.

SCHULZ, M. his new edition of
Cocceius's Hebrew and Chal-
daic dictionary, 386.
SCHUYLER, the American gene-
ra, his generofity to Mr. Bur-
goyne, 476.
SCOTLAND, friking profpects in,
194. Emigrations from account-
ed for, 254. Fisheries of, pro-
pofals for improving, 369.
SEA Anemonies, their fingular man-
ner of multiplying, 3.1
SEA, luminous appearance of, con-
jectures concerning, 508.
SEEDS, of trees, beft methods of
managing, for propagation, 48.
SHENSTONE, Mr. his opinion of
parties of pleasure, 197.
SHUCKBURG, Sir George, his exa-

mination of De Luc's rules for
measuring the heights of moun-
tains by the barometer, 456.
SOMERSET, Duchefs of, her let-
ters to Lady Luxborough, 191
-193.

SPA, in Germany, qualities of its

medicinal waters, 467.
SPAIN, defcription of various parts
of, 27. Formerly happy in a
numerous and active peafantry,
180. By what means fo much
altered for the worse, ib.

, literary hiftory of, 386.
SPARRMAN, Dr. his account of a
journey into Africa, from the
Cape of Good Hope, 2.
STAG, story of the peculiar attach-
ment of one to an heifer, 75.
-, tame, a fable, tranflated from
Gay into Latin, 110.
STORY of the butcher and two.
Cordeliers, 465.

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TEALDO, Abbé, his account of
the tides in the Adriatic, 6.
TEETH, difeafes of, and remedies
for, 439. Transplantation of,
curious experiment on, 440.
TELESCOPES. See MUDGE.
THEFT, Voltaire's cenfure of the
laws againft, 546.

THIBET, kingdom of, new ac-
count of, 460.
THOURRY, M. de, his prize dif-
fertation on the influence of elec-
tricity on the human body, 228.
TIDES, in the Adriatic, obf. on,

tending to confirm the Newto-
nian theory on that fubject, 6.
TIMBER, remarks on the prepa-
ration and prefervation of, for
building, 433.

TORIES, of King William's reign,

their character and condu&, 117.
TRAVELS through Greece, repre-

fented in a set of engravings, by
a young nobléman, 490.
TREES, me hod of promo.ing their
annual increafe, by washing,
rubbing, &c.

methods of propagating by
feeds, 48.
TURNIPS, beft feafons for fowing,
98. Directions relative to the
confumption of, on the field, in
winter, 100.

V.

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V.

VERSUCH einer theorie, &c. 301.
VILLOISON, M. de, his in-
tended new edition and tranfla-
tion of Cornutus on the nature
of the gods, 512. Alfo of Lon-
gus, 513. His inquiries con-
cerning the Nemean games,
533. Concerning the modern
Greek, ib.

VITA de Diegene Cynico, &c. 385.
UNION of England with Scotland,
remarks on that measure, 294.
VOLCANOS, extinct, fome account
of, 510.
VOLTA, Sig. his difcoveries rela-
tive to inflammable air, 68.
VOLTAIRE, his death lamented as
an irreparable lofs to the literary
journals, 545. Account of his
laft book, ib. Sketch of his

character, 5519

W.

WALES, Mr. his obf. on Had-

ley's fextants, in a voyage to-
ward the South Pole, 9. On
.the azimuth compaffes for ob-
ferving the variation, 10. His
refutation of feveral particulars
afferted in Forfter's account of
Cook's voyage, 127.
WALTER, M. his account of a
woman who carried a child in
the abdomen, for the space of
20 years, 519.
WARGENTEIN, Mr. his obf. tend-
ing to explain, with precifion,
the difference of longitude of the
royal obfervatories of Paris and
Greenwich, refulting from the
ecliples of Jupiter's first fatellite,
.6.

WEEDS, best methods of clearing

ground from, 47.

WEST, Mr. his account of a vol-
canic hill near Inverness, 463.
WHARTON, Sir Thomas, his ex-
traordinary victory over the Scots,
170.

Philip, Duke of, anec-
dotes concerning, 176.
WHIGS, of King William's time,
their character and conduct, 117.
Their principles totally corrupt-
ed, 119.
WHITTWER, Dr. his collection of

medical differtations, &c. 302.
WICKERS, Hen. Lewis, his exa-
mination of Grotius, 488.
WILLIAM III. his character and
policy fcrutinized, 120.
WILLIAMS, Dr. fome account of
his writings, 250.
WOLFEMBUTTLE, Princefs of, her
extraordinary flory, 382.
WOMAN, cafe of one who lived
feveral years without food, 7.

extraordinary cafe of
one who had swallowed a wooden
peg, 459. Of another, from
whom were extracted a great
number of needles, 517.

history of one who bore
a child in the abdomen during
20 years, 519.
WOMEN, the condition of, among
the ancient Greeks, 278.
WOOL, curious account of the re-
fpective value and fineness of
that of different countries, and
the probable caufes of the dif-
ference, 256.

WRIGHT, Dr. his account of the
Jefuit's bark-tree of Jamaica,
459. Of the cabbage bark-
tree, ib.

Z.

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