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.
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