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.
CHARD, M. his curious in- vention to remedy the im- perfection of Meteorology, 544. his electrical exper. 545. On the vitrification of calcareous earths, 546.
ACIDS, confiderations on the nature and element. principles of, 501. ADANSON, M. his meteorological obf. 496. His mem. on the white gumtree of Senegal, 499. ESCHYLUS, his fublimity, 245. AIR, experiments relative to, and fome curious difcoveries, 369. various properties of the dif- ferent kinds of, 515. -fixed, philofophical researches concerning, 512. inflammable, new hypothefis of, 513.
dephlogifticated, ingenious difcuffions concerning, 514. ALEXANDER the Great, his me- morable victory over Darius, particulars of, 425. His exem-- plary modefty aft, the battle,427. ALUM, hiftorical account of, 482. AMERICA, curious particulars rela- tive to rural life in the British colonies there, 140-146.
a fpeedy peace with, ear- neftly recommended, 321. The ruin of England prognofticated from a continuance of the War, App. REV. Vol. LXVII.
323. The independence of A- merica a neceffary preliminary of peace, 325. See alfo Con. GRESS, and COLONIES. AMERICANS, North, pleasing ex- hibition of them, in a focial view, 143. See also NEGROES, and SOUTH CAROLINA. ANATOMICAL obfervations, from the Gottingen Memoirs, 488- from the Paris Memoirs, 496. ANDRY, M. his method of curing the bite of mad animals, 559. ANIMALCULÆ, production of, cu- rious experiments rel. to, 362. ARGONAUTS, remarks on the fa- mous expedition of, 59. ASPHALTITES, lake, analyfis of the water of, 500. ATUATUCA. See TONGRES. ArwOOD, Mr. his general theory for aftronom. menfurations, 444. AURORA Borealis, a very extraor- dinary one defcribed, 542.
BAGGERS, M. his acc. of a dropfy
discharged by the tongue, 517. BANYANS, barbarous cuftom a- mong, of wives burning them- felves on the funeral pile of their hufbands, 418. Inftance of, with the circumstances, ib. BARBAULD, Mrs, poetical compli ment to, 32.
BARK, Peruvian, fuperior efficacy of the red tort, 297. BAUR, General, anecdote of his remarkable difcovery of his fa- mily connections, 411. BECKMAN, M. his hiftorical acc.
of allum, 482. Of a lacca com- pofed from madder, &c. 488. BEES, curious acc, of the manage-
ment of, in America, 140. BEGUELIN, M. his mem. on the limits that ought to be affigned to metaphyfical fpeculations, 547. BEHMEN, Jacob, fpecimen of his Pantheistic doctrine, 347. Bax- ter's opinion of his writings, 3 48. BENGAL, an Englishman's. day. how commonly fspent there, 252. Different acc. of the fame, 257. BENSON, Auditor, his Life, 337. BERGER, Dr. his invention of a
univerfal language, .542. BERGMAN, Mr. his differtation. on crystals, 458.--On filiceous earths, 459.-On the earth of gems, 462.-On the tourmalin, 464.-On fulminating gold, ib. BEUDON, M. his method of curing
the bite of mad animals, 560. BEWLY, Mr. his hypothefis rel. to fixed air controverted, 512. BIRDS, anatomy of, explanatory difcourfe of, 498. BLACKSTONE, Sir William, me- moirs of his life and writings, 1. His profeffional character, 10. BLAGDEN, Dr. his acc. of the heat of the water in the Gulf-ftream, 129. BLAND, Dr. his calculations rel. to accidents attending the births of children, 130. BLETON, the Diviner, farther acc. of his natural faculty of difco- vering fprings of water, 553- BOECKMAN, M. his acc. of a fur- prifing and glorious Aurora Bo- realis 542.
BORDENAVE, M. his remarks on the motion of the ribs in refpira- tion, 497.
BossUT, M. his exper. rel. to the refitance of fluids, 506. BowYER, Mr. the learned printer, anecdotes of his life and publi- cations, 271. BURGUNDY, Duke of, his excel- lent character, 286. His ad- mirable obfervation on the un- juflifiable nature, and horrid con- fequences of war, ib.
CANCER, chirurgical obf. rel, to,
CASSINI, M. his mem. on deter- mining the obliquity of the eclip- tic by obf. made at the Royal Obfervatory at Paris, 505. CASTILLON, M. his differtation, which obtained the gold medal given by the Theological Society at Haarlem, 532.
his memoir on the divifion of geometrical and aftro- nomical intruments, 547. CATTLE, acc. of the fuccessful in-
oculation of, for the murrain, 553. Acc. of a mortality among, owing to the difufe of falt, 559. CAVALLO, Mr. his thermometri- cal experiments, 128. CHARIES, Emperor, his warm pa- tronage of Titian, the celebrated painter, 50. Anec. rel. to, 51. CLITHEROW, Mr. his life of Judge Blackstone, and edition of his Reports, 1-11. COAL, analysis of, 501. COLD. See WILSON.-
-See CRAWFORD.-See CAVALLO. COLONIES, American, confequen- ces of the unnatural war between them and their mother country, 247.
COMPASS, a new one, acc. of, 506. CONGRESS, of N. America, their earliest proceedings for redrefs of
COPPER, a red mine of. See SAGE. CORINTH, deftruction of, by the
Romans, 430. CORINTHIAN brass, what, 430. COURNAND, Abbé, his French tranf
tranflation of Freire's Life of Don Henry of Portugal, 491. CORNETTE, M. his mem. on the decompofition of feveral neutral falts, with bafis of fixed and vo- latile alkalies, by the mar. acid,
503. CRAWFORD, Dr. his exper. on the refrigerating power of animals,
CRUELTY of man to inferior ani-
mals, ftriking picture of, 83. CRYSTALS. See BERGMAN. CURVES defcribed by cannon balls, and bombs, the determination of, as a prize queftion, 543, CZAR, Peter the Great, feveral anecdotes rel. to, 412-415.
DARNLEY, Lord, his death, Dr.
Robertfon's acc. of that tranfac- tion, 210. Dr. Stuart's account
of the fame, 212. DEMOURS, M. his obf. on the ob- ftetrical functions of the male toad, 499.
DESPOTISM characterized, 13. Doc, remarkable story of, 18. Docs, an acc. of three, which were whelp'd with the head and beak of a parrot, 552. DREAMS, explained and diftin- guished, 343. DROPSY cured by a discharge from the tongue, 518. DRUM, poetic, invect. against, 190.
ELECTRICITY, new inveftiga-
tions and difcoveries rel. to, 493. See alfo ACHARD. ERCILLA, the Spanish Poet, fome account of, 435. His Auracan, an Epic poem, praifed, 436. Specimen of, ib. ETERNITY, Our ufual manner of fpeaking of it ridiculed, 91. EUGENE, Prince, anecdote of an attempt to poison him, 410. EULER, M. his attempt toward a theory of the resistance which a ship encounters in her motion, 506.
EURIPIDES, his excellence as a tragic writer, 245.
FIG-tree, barren, critical investi- gation of, 114. FISTULA Lachrymalis, inquiries into the cause or causes of, 482. FONTANA, Abbé, his difcoveries rel. to air and distillation, 369. FRANCE, fouthern parts of, their natural hift. 521. Extinguished Inhabitants of volcanoes of, 523.
the mountains, their good and manly character, 525.
GARDEIL, M. his acc. of the fuc
cefs of inoculation, and other remedies, for the mortality a- mong the horned cattle, 553. GARRICK, Mr. poetic encomium
GOLD. See PRICE. GREEKS, their tragic writers vin- dicated, 245.
GREENLAND, poetic encomium on the miffionaries there, 265. GULF-ftream, fome acc. of, 129. GUN-powder, new exper. on the force of, 123. How augmented by the admixture of other fub- ftances, 126. GUN-POWDER, and GUNNERY. See RANGE. See CURVES.
HAIR, account of an unnatural appetite for, 558.
HAMMOND, the poet, vindicated, against Dr. Johnson, 145. HAMSTER, or German Marmot, natural hiftory of, 365. HARPIES, fupposed to have been pirates, 62.
HAYLEY, Mr. his pathetic conclu- fion of the 4th Epistle of his Ef fay on Epic poetry, in which he fpeaks of himself, 355. HENRY, Don, Prince of Portugal, his early application to the arts and fciences, 492. His great qualities and extenfive views, 493.
HERCULES, labours of, how to be interpreted, 62. HERMAPHRODITES. See HEYNE. HERODOTUS, his acc. of the An- droguni confider'd, 484. HERSCHEL, Mr. his acc. of a co. met, discovered March 13, 1781,
INSTRUMENTS, mathematical, acc. of the different methods of di- viding, 547.
Issus, battle of defcribed, 425.
KALMUCKS, defcription of,
HESIOD, his Theogony expounded, LANDE, M. de la, his 2d mem.
490. HEYNE, Prof. his mem. concern- ing thofe men who, in confe- quence of a fingular diforder, confidered themselves as women, 484.-On the Theogony of He- fiod, 490. HINDOSTAN, politic. circumftanees of that country, with refpect to British claims and intrigues, 250. HIPPOCRATES, his acc. of the An- droguni, or men who, from a cer- tain disorder, confidered them- felves as women, 484. HORNE, Mr. his plan for a more
equal parliamentary reprefenta- tion, 137.
HORNETS, of N. America, curi- ous acc. of, 142. HOVENS, Mr. his prize differta-
tion, obtained from the Theolo- gical Society at Haarlem, 527. HUNTING, pleasures of difplayed, 19. Vindicated from the charge of cruelty, 21.
ASON. See ARGONAUTS. JESUITS, College of, at Tournay, remarkable ftory of an affair there, 411.
INDIES, Eaft, hiftorical and politi- cal sketches rel, to English tranf actions there, 101.
poetical difplay of the horrid famine there, artificially produced by the English, 185. See all HINDOSTAN. See BEN-
INSANITY, different kinds of, 25. INSECTS, remarks on their powers of hearing, smelling &c. 65.
concerning the fpots in the fun,
LANGUAGE, Univerfal. See BER-
LAPEIROUSE, M. his mem. con-
cerning a mine of native Man- ganese, 553.
LAUDER, William, his life, 337. His villanous attack on Milton; his detection; and his obscure end, ib. LAURAGUAIS, Count, his exper. rel. to the obtaining gold from vegetable earths and afhes, 504. LAVOISIER, M. his confiderations
on the nature of acids, 501. LE GRANGE, M. his theory of the
libration of the moon, &c. 546. LETTRES de Cachet. See STATE PRISONS.
LIBRARY of the K. of France, acc. of the numb, and value of books and MSS. in, 508. LICHTENBERG, M. his new meth of investigating the motion and nature of the electrical fluid, 483. LIGHT, new exper. and difcoveries rel. to, in oppofition to Newton, &c. 293. LINNEUS, anecdotes rel. to, and encomiums on that great natu- ralift, 557.
Locke, Mr. his political principles defended, against Dean Tucker,
MADAN, Mr.his controverfy with his opponents, rel. to Thelyph-
thora, 104. MADNESS, from the bite of a mad animal, extraordinary inftance of the communication of, 559, 560. MADNESS, canine, cured by vine- gar, 560.
MALPLAQUET, battle of, ludicrous story rel. to, 410.
MAN, naturally malignant, 83. Pre-existence of, 84. MAN, the firft, his original fenfa- tions and ideas, on his coming into existence, 358. MANGANESE. See LAPEIROUSE. MARAT, M. an opposer of the
Newtonian doctr. of light, 293. MARKLAND, Dr. his critical illuf- tration of St. Mark's acc, of the barren fig-tree, 114. Of the fpices brought to embalm the body of Jefus, 117. MARTIAL, two of his epigrams tranflated, 379.
MARY, Q of Scots, lively and in- terefting portrait of, 282. MAZIERE, M. de la, his obf. on the poison. of Darnel, 559. MEINERS, M. his mem. concern- ing Zoroafter, 486, 489. MEISTER, M. his acc. of the me- chanical effects of oil, poured on water, 483. MENZIKOFF, prince, his extraor- dinary rife, from the loweft ori- gin, 412.
MERIAN, M. his 9th mem. on the
fam. problem of Molyneux, 50. METAPHYSICS, the incompatibi- lity of, with common fente, 547. MEXICAN prophecy, 189. MICROSCOPICAL obf. on the femen mafculinum of animals, 361. MIRABEAU, marquis of, faid to be the author of the Lettres de Ca-
chet, 539 MONGEZ, Abbé, his inquiries con- cerning Bleton's faculty of dif covering water-fprings, 554. MONNIER, M. le, his mem on the conftruct. of a new compals, 506.
Moox. See LE GRANGE. MORALES, the celebrated painter, anecdotes, rel. to, 53.
MULES, exper. in regard to the production of, and procuring a progeny from the intermixture, 363. Various inftances of mules that produced young mules, 364. MUMMIUS, the Roman General, his conduct at the burning of Co- rinth, 430. His honest, soldierly want of taste, 431.
MURRAY, M. his botanical re-
fearches, 482, 487.
MURRAY, Earl of, his death and
character, well defcribed, 280. Music, its first introduct. into the church, and progrefs there, bef. the time of Guido the Monk, 179. Modern mufic how much indebted to Guido, 181.
NEEDLES, a confiderable manu-
factory of in Worcestershire, 339. Amazing number of hands employ. in mak. one needle,340. NEGRO-SLAVES, feverity of their treatment in South Carolina, 274. Their happier lot in Pen- fylvania, particularly among the Quakers, 276.
NEW TESTAMENT, crit, conject. on various paffages in, 113, 122,
OIL, its mechanical effect of calming the agitation of water denied, That it illuminates 483. the water afferted, ib.
PAP de FAGRAS, M.his prize dif-
fertation, relative to the doctrines of a general and a particular pro- vidence, 536.
PHILOSOPHERS, modern, their ufu- al purfaits cenfured, 254. PIGEONS, Wonderful account of the
plenty of in N. America, 142. PIGOT, Mr. his aftron. obf. tending to fhew the lat. and long. of POETRY, origin of, poetically de- particular places, 441. tailed, 350. POOR
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