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.
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-
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.
. 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.
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.
SACRILEGE, Voltaire's fentiments relating to, 548.
SACY, M. his history of Hunga
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.
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.
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
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.
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